LG G7 ThinQ pre-order offer includes free 43-inch 4K UHD Smart TV in Canada

LG today has announced that its latest flagship; the G7 ThinQ will be up for pre-orders from May 18th until May 31st and will go on sale from June 1st. The phone will be available across major carriers and retailers.  The company is also offering a free 43” LG 4K UHD Smart TV for those who are pre-ordering the G7 ThinQ between May 18th to May 31st. LG has introduced the G7 ThinQ earlier this month. It has a 6.1-inch QHD+ 19.5:9 FullVision LCD Super Bright display and it is powered by Snapdragon 845 with up to 6GB RAM (G7+ ThinQ). The G7 ThinQ also has a dedicated Google Assistant button and the Super Far-Field Voice Recognition lets you hear your voice anywhere in the room. It also has AI CAM that now offers 19 shooting modes. It features Stickers that uses face recognition to generate fun 2D and 3D overlays similar to what we have seen on the Galaxy S9. LG G7 ThinQ specifications 6.1-inch  (3120 x 1440 pixels) 19.5:9 FullVision Super Bright IPS Display with Corning Gorilla Glass 5 protection, 100% DCI-P3 color gamut Octa-Core Qualcomm Snapdragon 845 Mobile Platform with Adreno 630 GPU LG G7 ThinQ – 4GB LPDDR4x RAM with 64GB (UFS 3.1) storage / LG G7+ ThinQ – 6GB LPDDR4x ...

HP Elitebook 1000, Envy series laptops and 34-inch curved All-in-One PCs announced

HP today has announced Elite 1000 series, HP EliteBook x360 1030, HP Elite x2 1013 laptops, HP EliteOne 1000 All-in-One, and more. These laptops are designed to suit your work style with amazing battery life, security, and entertainment tools and more. The HP Elite 100 series is ideal for users who seek sleek design and durability. It is powered by the Windows 10 with digital personal assistant Cortana . This series also packs world’s most secure and manageable PCs including the HP Endpoint Security Controller, HP Sure Start Gen4, and HP Sure Run which is announced earlier this year. The Elite 1000 series includes: HP EliteBook x360 1030 G3, HP Elite x2 1013 G3, HP EliteBook 1050 G1, HP EliteOne 1000 AiO G2, HP EliteDisplay S14. The HP EliteBook x360 1030 G3 is said to the world’s smallest business convertible. The company claims up to 18 hours of battery life and features 4G Cat9 LTE for connectivity, world’s first active pen with proximity alert for business PCs to notify a user when the pen is left behind and an optional, first of its kind, outdoor viewable display. The HP Elite x2 1013 G3 sports a 13-inch display into a 12-inch chassis. It is the world’s first detachable and tablet with an integrated privacy screen and is powered by theIntel Quad Core vPro processors and ...

Realme 1 Unboxing and First Impressions

OPPO's Realme just launched the new Realme 1 smartphone in India, as it had promised, in partnership with Amazon India. The first phone in this new series, the Realme 1 is meant to take on the smartphones like Xiaomi Redmi Note 5, Note 5 Pro, Asus Zenfone Max Pro M1 and others in the price range. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOOnIqQ4GW0 Box Contents Realme 1 in Diamond Black color 2-pin charger (5V-2A) Micro USB cable SIM ejector tool Screen protector Silicon back case User manual and warranty information The Realme 1 comes with a glossy back and a symmetrical design that makes the phone look like a diamond with each angle reflecting and shinning different black colors. The symmetrical-artwork and spatial effect is created by compressing 12 layers including optical filming and so on, plus nanoscale metallic coating. There are 15 tangent planes carved on the back body, and each plane has different colors. These colors differ as the density and dip angle changes. The build quality of the device looks premium, and on the other hand, bit slippery as well. It is brittle and prone to fingerprint. So we suggest you to use the phone with the case given inside the box. The phone is powered by ...

OPPO Realme 1 with 6-inch FHD+ display, up to 6GB RAM, Android 8.1, Face unlock launched in India starting at Rs. 8990

Earlier this month OPPO and Amazon India partnered to introduce the Realme smartphone brand, and it had promised it has launched the Realme 1 smartphone in the country. It packs a 6-inch FHD+ display with 1.98mm slim bezels on the sides and 84.8% screen-to-body ratio, but it doesn't have a notch like the OPPO A3 that was introduced recently. It is powered by the MediaTek Helio P60 12nm SoC with up to 6GB of RAM and runs on Android 8.1 (Oreo) with ColorOS 5.0 on top. It has a 13-megapixel rear camera with LED and an 8-megapixel camera on the front. It has face unlock, but doesn't have a fingerprint sensor. The camera has AI stickers, AI beauty mode that learns and improves the beautification based on user preference and  AI real selfie that can recognize 296 recognition points based on sex, age, skin color, skin tone/condition and precisely get your face information. It features a glossy back and a symmetrical design that makes the phone look like a diamond with each angle reflecting and shinning different black colors. It has dedicated dual SIM and microSD card slots with dual VoLTE support that lets you use 4G and VoLTE on both the SIMs and switch between them easily. It packs a 3410mAh battery that ...

Google rolls out ‘voice remote’ for YouTube TV

Google is now rolling out  'voice remote' for YouTube TV app and since it is a server side roll out, it is not available to everyone. The voice remote' in YouTube TV shows up as a floating action button in the app. The Voice Remote feature will allow users to control YouTube TV by issuing commands like skip around in recorded programs and control the volume by voice. Though this feature popped up a while ago, it never really appeared in the app. If at all you get the feature, you will see a popup in the app alerting you about the presence of voice remote when it's available on your account. As we mentioned above, it is only available to limited users for now, but should roll out in the coming days. Source

Opera 46 for Android brings themes, night mode, private tabs notifications and more

Opera has rolled out a new update to its Android app bringing the version number to 46. This update brings features like themes, night mode, private tabs notifications and more.  With Themes, users can now browse with the personalized look, tweak the color theme and join the dark side or the light. These new themes are found in the settings menu. It also brings the much-needed night mode making it even more convenient to read late at night. The experience is less eyestrain and more comfortable reading in the dark with the new night mode. Most importantly, if you are using our private tabs, there will now be a small ghost as a reminder of these open private tabs in the notification tray. Tapping this notification will close all your private tabs, the functionality is similar to Chrome's incognito mode. Now you can copy, paste and QR-code scanning and is now available with one tap from the address bar. There is now also a QR code scanner. Just tap the icon found on the right side of the address bar instead of manually entering the address. Now you can now turn off trending searches suggestions if you don’t like seeing them. The new update is gradually rolling ...

Facebook suspends 200 apps over data and privacy violations

Facebook today has announced that it has suspended 200 apps over data and privacy violations. It had investigated all the apps that had access to large amounts of information before Facebook changed its policies in 2014 significantly reducing the data apps could access. As the company had mentioned earlier, any app that either refused or failed an audit would be banned from Facebook. The investigation is currently two-phased; the first step in the comprehensive review is to identify every app that had access to this amount of Facebook data. And second, it said that it would conduct interviews where it has concerns and conduct on-site investigations. Facebook said that it has dedicated teams and till date it has reviewed thousands of apps and around 200 have been suspended. It again ensured that it would ban the apps that are found misusing the data and will notify people. It will also show if users have installed an app that misused data before 2015. Since the investigation is on-going, Facebook says that it will update the progress gradually. Source

Google introduces cheaper paid storage plans under ‘Google One’ brand

Google today has announced new changes to its storage plans including a new low-cost storage plan under a new 'Google One' brand. It is also converting all Google Drive paid storage plans to Google One. All paid consumer Google Drive storage plans will be upgraded to Google One and this change doesn’t affect G Suite business customers. Google One has upgraded the paid storage plans and it now has a lots of options, ranging from 100GB to 30TB for you to pick the right option that suits you. Google One will also give you one-tap access to experts for help with our consumer products and services. It will also gain you access to extras from other Google products, like credits on Google Play or deals on select hotels found in Google Search. Google One is also adding storage plans that are sharable within a family, you can add up to five family members to your plan and simplify storage under one bill. Everyone gets their own private storage space as well as the additional benefits of Google One. All the paid Google Drive users will be upgraded to Google One automatically over the coming months. It will be starting in the U.S and will expand globally. ...

Nokia X6 with 5.8-inch FHD+ 19:9 display, Snapdragon 636, dual rear cameras price, detailed specifications surface

HMD Global is all set to introduce Nokia X6, a new mid-range smartphone in the new 'X series' in China tomorrow, May 16th. Name of the smartphone was confirmed  recently, and the specifications of the smartphone were revealed by TENAA certification. Now the price and complete specifications of the phone have been revealed by early listing by online retailer Suning. This also confirms 16-megapixel rear camera along with a 5-megapixel secondary rear camera, and it even has EIS. It has a 16-megapixel front camera with AI selfies with background blur, stickers and a 3060mAh battery with support for Qualcomm Quick Charge 3.0 fast charging that can charge from 0 to 50% in 30 minutes. Nokia X6 rumored specifications 5.8-inch (2280 × 1080 pixels) Full HD+ display with 19:9 aspect ratio 1.8GHz Octa-Core Snapdragon 636 14nm Mobile Platform with Adreno 509 GPU 3GB LPDDR4 RAM with 32GB internal storage, 4GB / 6GB LPDDR4 RAM with 64GB internal storage, expandable memory up to 128GB with microSD Hybrid Dual SIM (nano + nano / microSD) Android 8.1 (Oreo) 16MP rear camera with LED flash, EIS, 5MP secondary rear camera 16MP front-facing camera Fingerprint sensor 3.5 mm headphone jack Dimensions:  147.2×70.98×7.99; Weight: 151g 4G VoLTE, WiFi 802.11 ac ...

Google revamps Gmail with Smart Replies, confidential mode, priority notifications and more [Update: ‘Nudge’ respond reminders now rolling out]

Update: Google has started rolling out respond reminder feature that will 'nudge' users to reply to emails they may have missed and to follow up on emails for which they haven’t received a response. This is enabled by default for users with the new Gmail enabled, but you can can turn it off from the Gmail settings menu. Google was spotted testing new improved Gmail feature like smart replies a few days ago and today the company started pushing the revamped Gmail for the web. The improved Gmail web brings the ability to click on attachments like photos without opening or scrolling through large conversations, new snooze button to put off emails, and more. Gmail also nudges you to follow up and respond to messages with quick reminders that appear next to your email messages so that you don't miss out on anything. Much like Gmail for iOS and Android, Web also gets Smart Replies that help you reply to messages faster. it also notifies you of high-priority notifications, can notify you of important messages to help you stay focused. Additionally, Gmail will start suggesting when to unsubscribe from newsletters or offers you no longer care about. it also pushes out warnings when a potentially risky ...