Huawei Mate 20 Pro 6.39-inch QHD+ OLED HDR display, Leica Triple rear cameras, in-display fingerprint sensor launching in India in November exclusively on Amazon

Huawei introduced its flagship Mate 20 Pro smartphone at an event in London earlier this week. Now the company has announced that the phone will be launched in India exclusively on Amazon.in. It has a 6.39-inch QHD+ OLED DCI-P3 HDR display with 86.90 screen-to-body ratio,  powered by Kirin 980 7nm SoC with Dual NPU, runs Android 9.0 (Pie) with EMUI 9.0 on top, has an in-display fingerprint scanner with 10-level Dynamic Pressure Sensing (DPS) technology and 3D Face Unlock as well as 3D Live Emoji and AI live model. It has triple rear Matrix camera system with OIS. It is equipped with a 40MP main camera, a 20MP ultra wide-angle camera, and an 8MP telephoto camera. Together, the trio of lenses supports a wide range of focal lengths (equivalent to the performance of a 16-270mm zoom lens). The AI Portrait Color video mode uses AI to isolate human subjects and desaturate the colors around them to dramatically highlight the person. AI Spotlight Reel identifies clips with a shared theme and auto-generates a montage, made entirely of highlights. It has NM Card slot, that lets you use replace the second SIM with a NM Card, making these first phones with the feature, features a glass back with unique Hyper Optical ...

Microsoft ‘Spend’ expense management app for iOS released

The Microsoft-owned team behind the creation of MileIQ has introduced an iOS app to simplify expense management; Spend. It is a Microsoft Garage project which launched dozens of projects since its creation in 2014 and now 'Spend' joins a host of Garage projects. Microsoft says that 'Spend' is mobile-first and built with the user in mind, making it simple to track expenses for reimbursements or taxes. It lets you quickly manage all your purchases for your expense reports with automatically tracked expenses from a connected credit card, debit card or bank account. You can also see purchases in a feed and easily classify expenses as business or personal with a single swipe. You can create accurate reports with only a few clicks for the week, month, or another customer period. Fully customize reports which are available in either spreadsheet or PDF. Furthermore, you can also snap pictures of receipts and attach them to purchase with additional features for easy cash purchase management. Spend uses 256-bit encryption, bank-level security, with Microsoft certifications. You can download the Spend: Easy Automatic Expenses app for your iOS device from the App Store. Heman Chawda, Product Manager for Spend said: Keeping, sorting, and tracking paper receipts is annoying and inefficient. Spend uses ...

Google integrates Gmail Compose Actions with Dropbox, Atlassian, more

Google has introduced Compose Actions which is a new channel for integrating your other tools with Gmail. This feature makes it easy to add links and attachments from apps like Box, Dropbox, Atlassian’s Jira, and Egnyte to any Gmail message while you are drafting it.  Gmail Add-ons with compose actions can be installed from the G Suite Marketplace. Like all other Gmail Add-ons, G Suite admins can install them for their entire domain or add them to their whitelist. Google introduced this feature at the 'Google Cloud Next ‘18' and is now making it generally available to everyone. The integration allows the users to save valuable time by letting them quickly attach files to emails and save email attachments to their preferred service, all within Gmail. The moment you authorize action with the feature, they will work in Gmail across mobile and web. While Google is bringing this with four services at launch, it said that it will soon expand with more. Source

Apple integrates top apps within Siri Shortcuts to make them easier to use

Apple has announced that top apps are integrated within the Siri Shortcuts making apps even easier to use with a simple tap or by asking Siri. Apple announced Siri Shortcuts at the WWDC event and uses powerful on-device intelligence to help users get things done faster. Apple says that Siri Shortcuts help users tackle daily tasks in an instant With just a tap on the Lock screen or by asking Siri, users quickly gain access to apps like Evernote, create audio and camera notes and print and much more. At work and at home, users can streamline projects, boards and cards with shortcuts in Trello, Omnifocus 3 and Things. Based on how customers use their devices, Siri will suggest simple, useful shortcuts right when needed on the Lock screen or in Search. There will be a “Add to Siri” button in apps, or go to Settings > Siri & Search to find all shortcuts available from your apps and to set a personal phrase to run them with. Source

Google Titan M chip for Pixel 3 offers bootloader security, lock screen protection and on-device disk encryption

Google with this year's Pixel 3 is advancing the level of security it offers for its users. It introduced a new Titan M which is an enterprise-grade security chip custom built for Pixel 3 to secure your most sensitive on-device data and operating system. Google says that it took the best features from the Titan chip used in Google Cloud data centers and tailored it for mobile. To protect Android from outside tampering, Google has integrated the Titan M into Verified Boot. Titan M helps the bootloader to make sure that you’re running the right version of Android. Specifically, Titan M stores the last known safe Android version and prevents “bad actors” from moving your device back to run on an older, potentially vulnerable, version of Android behind your back. Titan M also prevents attackers from attempting to unlock the bootloader. Pixel 3 also uses Titan M to verify your lock screen passcode. It makes the process of guessing multiple password combinations harder by limiting the number of login attempts. Only upon successful verification of your passcode will Titan M allow for decryption. Additionally, the secure flash and fully independent computation of Titan M makes it harder for an attacker to tamper to gain the ...

Google Maps for iOS gets real-time ETA sharing

Google is rolling out the ability to share ETA in real-time when you are about to step out so you can focus more on the road and less on the phone. This feature is rolling out iOS. Once you start the navigation to your destination, you will see a new option; “Share trip progress.” From here you’ll be able to share your live location, route, and ETA with all your contacts. It allows for sharing across 3rd party apps like Facebook Messenger, Line, WhatsApp, and more. Once your journey ends, you’ll automatically stop sharing your location. Improved journey sharing is now available for driving, walking, and cycling navigation on Android and iOS. The update is rolling out to iOS and is also available for Android. Source

Amazon Alexa Whisper Mode now rolling to Echo devices

Amazon's Alexa is getting a new Whisper mode feature which is rolling to users in the USA and works in U.S English language. As the name suggests, it is particularly useful during bedtime or nighttime scenarios, when you want to keep the room as quiet as possible.  Amazon seems to be constantly working on bringing new features to Alexa and at the Amazon's September event, the company showcased a smart- home feature for Echo devices called “Alexa Guard.” This sound-detection technology will allow Alexa to recognize smoke alarm, carbon monoxide alarms, and the sounds of glass breaking. Both the Alexa guard and Whisper Mode use a machine-learning network known as a long short-term memory. The incoming audio signals are broken into ultrashort snippets, and the long short-term memory network processes them in order. The key factor here would the judgment about preceding snippets as to whether the new snippet is a whisper or alarm. In this way, it can learn systematic relationships between segments of an audio signal that are separated in time. Amazon recently patented tech that would allow Alexa to tell if you’re sick, then offer to sell you meds – like cough drops. The system could also detect emotion, like joy, anger or sorrow. As for ...

Samsung Galaxy Book2 always connected 2-in-1 PC with 12-inch sAMOLED FHD+ display, Snapdragon 850, 4G LTE announced

Samsung has announced the Galaxy Book2 its new always-connected PC that comes with Gigabit LTE, keyboard, S Pen. It is powered by the Qualcomm Snapdragon 850 mobile compute platform and runs on Windows.  The Samsung Galaxy Book2 sports a 12-inch sAMOLED FHD+ (2160x1440) display and is powered by the Qualcomm Snapdragon 850SoC clocked at 2.96GHZ Octa-Core processor. It also has support for Snapdragon X20 LTE Modem Cat.18 5CA, up to 4X4 MIMO. There is 4GB RAM and 128GB storage. It also has support for Dolby Atmos and speakers tuned by AKG for true-to-life audio quality. Since it also has Windows Hello support, you can log in instantly with the touch of a fingerprint sensor. There is an 8MP primary camera and 5MP front camera for video chats. It comes with 2 USB Type-C port, microSD, 3.5mm jack. Connectivity features include 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac 2.4+5GHz, VHT80 MIMO and can offer up to 20 hours in S Mode. The Samsung Galaxy Book2 will be available online from November 2nd, 2018 and will go on sale in stores at AT&T, Sprint and Verizon later this month. The Samsung Galaxy Book2 is priced at $999.99 (Rs. 73,504.26 approx.) Alanna Cotton, Senior Vice President and General Manager at Samsung Electronics America The way the world works is undergoing an ...

Xiaomi Black Shark 2 Gaming smartphone with Snapdragon 845, 8GB RAM, dual rear cameras to be announced on October 23

Xiaomi-backed Black Shark has announced that the Black Shark 2 smartphone succcessor of the Black Shark Gaming Phone that was introduced  in China  back in April this year, will go official on October 23rd. The phone already got certified by TENAA with model number AWM-A0, revealing a veritical dual rear camera arrangement and rear mounted fingerprint sensor. It also revealed RGB logo on the back. There is a large speaker grill on the front. Geekbench listing revealed Snapdragon 845 SoC, 8GB of RAM and Android 8.1 (Oreo). TENAA listing revealed a 5.99-inch display, so the company could retain the FHD+ display and it has a 4000mAh battery, same as the predecessor. The dimensions of the phone is 160 × 75.26 × 8.7mm, which is almost same as the predecessor, but this is slightly thinner. It will likely retain the liquid cooling tech, Dual Speakers and Gamepad support. We should know all the details when the phone goes official next week. Source 1, 2

YouTube Miniplayer for the web now rolling out widely [Update: Official]

Update - YouTube has announced the Miniplayer button on desktop officially. This lets you keep watching your video while you browse. Check out the changelog and fixes below. Pause, seek, and play the previous/next video using controls on the Miniplayer Dismiss the Miniplayer by hitting the “X” button or ESC on your keyboard Go back to the regular video, by clicking on the Miniplayer title or on the Miniplayer video player (outside of the controls) Also supports Playlists, Livestreams, and more! Fixes: Some upcoming live videos were showing the "upcoming" time in the wrong timezone, fixed that! Added a "SAVE" label to the save to playlist button on video pages. Now everything’s more consistent across web and our mobile apps! The text in some pop-up windows (for example, the window that appears when you click Share > Embed) would run over the edge of the window, fixed that! Some three-dot menu items were showing up blank with no info, fixed that! When you click ‘Share’ and use the ‘Start At’ checkbox, the time would sometimes be out of sync with the URL, fixed that! Have you seen it??🔎 👩‍💻 ‍ The new Miniplayer button on desktop lets you keep watching your video while you browse! Learn ...