Honor smartphone with in-screen camera to be announced on January 22 in Paris, Honor View 20 expected

Huawei recently announced an event in China to unveil a smartphone with in-display camera on December 17. Now the company's Honor brand has scheduled an event in Paris, France on January 22nd, 2019 to unveil a new smartphone with in-screen camera. This could be Honor View 20, successor of Honor View 10 that was introduced at an event in London a year back.  #SeeTheUnseen 🗓️ 22 janvier 2019 🌍 Paris, France pic.twitter.com/T1DD4jj4Bf — Honor France ⭐⭐ (@Honor_FR) December 5, 2018 The new naming scheme should be in-line with Huawei's P20 and Mate 20 series that were introduced earlier this year. The phone is also expected to feature improved rear cameras, possible triple rear cameras, Full HD+ screen with a screen-to-body ratio of over 92%, powered by the latest Kirin 980 processor with Dual NPU and up to 6GB RAM. There are also possiblities of an in-display fingerprint sensor. We should know more details about the smartphone in the coming weeks since we have over a month for the official launch. We can also expect the phone to launch in India soon after the global announcement, similar to the View 10.

Bose FRAMES AR sunglasses with open-ear design, 9-axis head motion announced

Bose has announced Frames which is a combination of premium sunglasses and protection and it also brings micro-acoustics and voice control to an entirely new level. Thanks to the proprietary open-ear design, Frames can stream music and information, take and make calls, and access virtual assistants. It can keep playlists, entertainment, and conversations private. The Bose Frames come in two timeless styles; square and angled, or round and slightly smaller. Both block up to 99% of UVA/UVB rays and feature uniformly tinted lenses and distinct accents including gold-plated steel hinges and charging pins. They’re scratch and shatter resistant, and weigh just 45 grams. Bose Frames function like truly wireless headphones and a minuscule, wafer-thin acoustic package is set seamlessly in each arm’s interior to produce discreet sound for the user. It comes with an ultra-small microphone and multi-function button on the right temple for power and pairing, Siri and Google Assistant, calls and commands, or to pause and skip songs. The Bose Connect app provides additional features. Bose Frames are Bose AR compatible. Unlike other augmented reality glasses and platforms, Bose AR doesn’t change what you see or use a lens or phone camera to superimpose objects in your sightline. Instead, it knows where you are and ...

Huawei Enjoy 9 with 6.26-inch waterdrop notch display, dual rear cameras, 4000mAh battery gets certified

After Enjoy 9 Plus announcement in October, Huawei is all set to introduce the Enjoy 9 (DUB-TL00 /  DUB-AL00) smartphone in China soon. The phone has been certified by TENAA revealing a 6.26-inch HD+ display with Waterdrop notch Screen. powered by Octa-Core Snapdragon 450 SoC with 4GB of RAM,  13MP rear camera with LED flash, secondary 2MP camera and a 8-megapixel front camera. It doesn't reveal a fingerprint sensor, but it will likely come with support for face unlock. Huawei Enjoy 9 rumored specifications 6.26-inch (1520 × 720 pixels) Full HD+ 19:5:9 2.5D curved glass display 1.8GHz Octa-Core Snapdragon 450 14nm Mobile Platform with Adreno 506 GPU 3GB RAM with 32GB storage / 4GB RAM with 64GB internal storage, expandable memory up to 512GB with microSD Android 8.1 (Oreo) with EMUI 8.2 Dual SIM (nano + nano + microSD) 13MP rear camera with LED flash, 2MP secondary camera 8MP front-facing camera Dimensions: 158.92×76.91×8.1mm; Weight: 168g 4G VoLTE, Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n, Bluetooth 4.2, GPS + GLONASS 4000mAh (Typical) / 3900mAh (Minimum) battery The Huawei Enjoy 9 is expected to come in Black and Red colors and could go official in the coming weeks. Source 1, 2

Google Chrome 71 brings Duet UI improvements, auto-play changes, new API’s and more

Google Chrome 71 is rolling out to desktop and Android, it is a minor release which particularly brings changes to the 'Duet' interface and autoplay. Part of the Google Chrome button address bar redesign which the company shut down in the last minute turned into 'Chrome Duplex,' which is now called 'Chrome Duet.' Duet is still in works and there are a few changes visible in Chrome 71. A share button has been added to the bottom bar, and the search button has a new gray outline. Also, the buttons have moved around in the tabs view, with the New Tab button on the left side and the overflow menu on the right. Duet is being rolled out to users on the Beta, Dev, and Canary channels, but at this moment it is hard to say when it will be available for everyone. It could also end up being canceled, just like the bottom address bar UI. To try out the Duet interface, you'll need to switch the #enable-chrome-duet option in chrome://flags to 'Enabled' and restart the browser. With Chrome 66, Google made major changes to how auto-playing video and audio worked. Pages could no longer play video and audio automatically. Autoplay was also possible only if the user ...

Google Hummingbird project to bring Flutter applications to the web

At the Flutter Live Google announced it is experimenting Flutter on the web which it is calling Hummingbird project. It also debuted the Flutter Live which is Google’s first ever major standalone event for their Flutter app development SDK. Flutter is Google’s cross-platform application SDK which is no longer restricted to mobile. At the current state, Flutter can create native apps for Android and iOS, which also opens them to those two platforms and Chrome OS. Flutter team is working on two projects; one being the work-in-progress project called Flutter Desktop Embedding that aims to bring Windows, OS X, and Linux support for Flutter. The second is Hummingbird which is a radical new project to bring entire Flutter apps to the “modern, standards-based web”. Because Hummingbird runs on standard web technologies like “HTML, DOM, Canvas, JavaScript” and has “no blackbox,” the resulting apps will not be limited to Google Chrome, but will also run on other platforms. The company said that the Hummingbird project will also have interoperability with your web page’s JavaScript code. The company demonstrated that Flutter code running on the web will be exactly the same as what currently runs on mobile devices. With these two projects in hand, Google aims to make Flutter a ...

Meizu EP52 Lite water-resistant wireless earphones and POP water-resistant wireless earbuds launched in India starting at Rs. 1999

Meizu, along with three smartphones, also launched the EP52 Lite water-resistant Bluetooth Earphones and Halo headset, which is a Bluetooth in-ear headset. The EP52 Lite earphones targeted at runners and outdoor users under the EP series. Since EP52 works over Bluetooth, it is completely wireless and at a mere 16 grams, these headphones are fairly lightweight as well. Considering these earphones are waterproof (IPX5), the earbuds feature a nano-coating that makes it sweat and waterproof. The EP52 Lite  earphones use Bluetooth 4.2 with aptX, have an impedance of 32ohms, sensitivity of 106dB @ 1kHz, with a maximum power output of 10mW. It promises 8 hours of continuous music playback with a single charge, while they can function for 150 hours on standby while being hooked up to your phone via Bluetooth (Bluetooth 4.2 with aptX). The POP really wireless water-resistant earbuds that has a 5.8g light-weight design. It has touch interaction and comes with a case for charging, and that case has wireless charging. It has an ergonomic in-ear design so that it doesn’t fall off easily even during strenuous exercise such as running and other fitness activities, says the company. Highlights of Meizu POP Graphene diaphragm offers balanced high-frequency and optimized low-frequency  sound Touch control, double-click and long-press for ...

Meizu C9 with 5.45-inch 18:9 display, Face unlock, 4G VoLTE launched in India for Rs. 4999

Meizu, along with the 16th and M6T, also launched its  budget C9 smartphone in the country, as it had promised. It has a 5.45-inch HD+ 18:9 aspect ratio display, is powered by  Quad-core UNISOC SC9832E processor with 2GB of RAM, runs Android Oreo, has a 13-megapixel rear camera and an 8-megapixel camera on the front. It doesn't have a fingerprint sensor, but it comes with face unlock. It has 4G VoLTE support, dedicated dual SIM and microSD slots and packs a 3000mAh battery. Meizu C9 specifications 5.45-inch (1400 x 720 pixels) HD+ 2.5D curved glass display with 350cd/m² brightness, 1000: 1 contrast ratio 1.3GHz Quad-core SC9832E processor with Mali-T720 GPU 2GB RAM, 16GB internal storage, expandable memory up to 128GB with microSD Dual SIM Android 8.0 (Oreo) 13MP rear camera with LED Flash, f/2.2 aperture, 1.12um pixel size 8MP front-facing camera with f/2.2 aperture, Face Unlock Dimensions: 146.4x 70x 8.5mm; Weight: 140g 4G VoLTE, Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n, Bluetooth 4.1, GPS + GLONASS 3000mAh battery The Meizu C9 comes in Black and White colors, is priced at Rs. 4999, which is limited-period pricing for a week, after that it will cost Rs. 5999. IT will be available exclusively from Amazon.in starting today. It comes with Rs. 2200 cashback (in the form of vouchers) and 50GB ...

Meizu M6T with 5.7-inch 18:9 full-screen display, dual rear cameras launched in India for Rs. 7999

Meizu just launched M6T, its latest smartphone in India. It packs a 5.7-inch HD+ 2.5D curved glass screen with 18:9 aspect ratio, is powered by a 1.5 GHz Octa-Core 64-bit MediaTek MT6750 processor and runs on Android 8.1 (Oreo). It has a 13-megapixel rear camera with Sony IMX278 RGBW sensor, LED flash, along with a 2-megapixel secondary rear camera to capture depth information for portrait shots and a 8-megapixel front-facing camera. It has a hybrid SIM slot that lets you use the second slot as a microSD slot when required, comes with 4G VoLTE, fingerprint sensor on the back, polycarbonate body and packs a 3300mAh battery. Meizu M6T specifications 5.7-inch (1440 × 720 pixels) HD+ 18:9 2.5D curved glass display, 450 nits brightness Octa-Core MediaTek MT6750 (4 x 1.5GHz A53 + 4 x 1.0GHz A53) processor with Mali T860 GPU 3GB RAM, 32GB storage, expandable memory up to 128GB with microSD Android with Flyme OS Hybrid Dual SIM (nano + nano / microSD) 13-megapixel rear camera with LED flash, OV13855 sensor, f/2.2 aperture, 1.12um pixel size, 2MP secondary camera with f/2.4 aperture 8-megapixel front-facing camera with f/2.0 aperture Fingerprint sensor Dimensions:152.3×73×8.4mm; Weight: 145g 4G VoLTE, Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n (2.4GHz + 5GHz), Bluetooth 4.1 LE, ...

Meizu 16th with 6-inch FHD+ AMOLED display, Snapdragon 845, 8GB RAM, in-display fingerprint sensor launched in India for Rs. 39999

Meizu just launched its flagship Meizu 16th smartphone in India as it had proimsed. It packs a 6-inch Full HD+ 18:9 aspect ratio display from Samsung with 91.18% screen-to-body ratio, thanks to 1.43mm side bezels and 5.74mm chin, is powered by Snapdragon 845 with 8GB of RAM, has custom copper cooling tube and feature an in-display fingerprint sensor that has 99.12% high recognition rate that can unlock the phone in 0.25 seconds. It has a 12-megapixel rear camera with Sony IMX380 sensor, 1.55μm pixel size, f/1.8 aperture along with a 20-megapixel secondary telephoto lens with Sony IMX350 sensor for portrait shots and 3x loss-less zoom and a 20-megapixel front facing camera with AI beauty recognition and Face unlock.  It has a 3D glass back with ceramic texture, and pack a 3010mAh with 24W mCharge flash charge that can charge the phone from 0 to 67% in 30 minutes. Meizu 16th specifications 6-inch ( 1080 × 2160 pixels) Full HD+ Super AMOLED display with 10000 : 1 contrast ratio, 430cd/m2 (typical) brightness, 402 PPI Octa-Core Qualcomm Snapdragon 845 Mobile Platform with Adreno 630 GPU 8GB RAM, 128GB (UFS 2.1) internal storage Dual SIM Android 8.1 (Oreo) with Flyme OS 12MP rear camera with wide-angle lens, 1/2.3″ Sony IMX380 sensor, 1.55μm pixel size, ...

Apple iOS 12 is on 72% of devices from last four years

Apple has announced that 70% of eligible iPhones, iPod touch devices are running on iOS 12 as of December 3rd, 2018. The adoption rate is up 10% in just five weeks; as of October 29th, iOS 12 was installed on 63% on all eligible devices. Apple also says 72% percent of devices sold in the last four years are running iOS 12. In comparison, the iOS 12 adoption is outpacing iOS 11, which was installed on 59 percent of eligible devices as of December 4, 2017, according to Apple. However, this shouldn't come as a surprise, as iOS 11 suffered from quite a few bugs over its lifespan. Apple was quick to rectify this and has focused more on performance and stability in iOS 12. At the moment, Apple says 21% of all devices remain on iOS 11 and 9% still run an older iOS version. The iOS installation rates are being broken down in a new way. The 70% statistic applies only to devices released in the last four years.  The company recently announced the iPhone XR is its best-selling phone and this likely explains the jump in active devices using the new operating system Source