Samsung Galaxy S10 and S10+ with in-display front-camera, triple rear cameras, in-screen fingerprint sensor surface in renders

Samsung is set to introduce the Galaxy S10 series flagships later this month and with the launch inching closer, rumors and leaks continue to grow. This time around, we are getting to see the S10 and S10+ flagships in their full glory. Despite the relatively narrow bezels, there's still a sizeable chin at the bottom of the display.  With Samsung placing the front-camera within the display, there's more screen real-estate on the top side. The Galaxy S10 will have a single sensor on the front camera, while the more expensive and larger Galaxy S10 + has two cameras in a pill-shaped cutout. However, on the back, all the models are identical with three-rear cameras arranged horizontally. There's no fingerprint sensor on the back as they are now moved to within the display. Samsung continued to install a Bixby button, which is again located below the volume rocker. The flagships are expected to come with 2960 x 1440 displays and depending on the region, it will be powered either by Exynos 9820 or Qualcomm Snapdragon 855. There will also be a lite version of the S10, whose pictures are scarce at the moment. It is rumored to sport a 6.1-inch display and the fingerprint sensor is placed on the ...

Amazon India pulls products from Cloudtail, Appario as new FDI norms come into effect

India's new E-commerce FDI norms comes into effect today, February 1st and this will impact Amazon's pricing, product selection, and convenience for both customers and sellers. Amazon's growth has slowed down internationally in the December quarter, comprising of Diwali sales and holiday sales across international markets.  The company's International net sales grew by 15% to $20.83 billion during the quarter, as compared to a 29% growth in the year-ago period. The company's international sales had only seen a growth of 13% in the September quarter. However, the company was able to narrow its International losses by 30% to $642 million for the quarter, from $919 million in the corresponding quarter last year. The company forecasts an overall net sales of between $56 billion and $60 billion for the first quarter for India. The company's revenues from its subscription services; the Amazon Prime subscription service, grew by 25% to $3.96 billion while Amazon's "other" category, that includes its advertising business, increased by 95% to $3.4 billion. With the new FDI norms, Amazon has also started removing a range of products including its Echo range of smart speakers and its private label products ranging from batteries, electronic accessories, travel accessories, and apparel among others from its India marketplace that ...

Nintendo, LINE partner to launch Dr Mario World for Android and iOS later this year

Nintendo and LINE Corporation have signed a partnership where both the companies will jointly develop a new game for smart devices. Nintendo and LINE will co-develop and jointly operate a new action puzzle game featuring Dr. Mario titled Dr. Mario.  Both the companies are targeting an early summer 2019 global release including markets like Japan, United States. Along with Nintendo and LINE, NHN Entertainment, which has released and operated various online and mobile games, will also take part in the development and operation of Dr. Mario World. The game would be free-to-download, but with in-app purchases and would be released for both iOS and Android. Initially, the game would be launched in approximately 60 regions including Japan and the United States Nintendo in a blog post said: Nintendo continues to introduce unique entertainment products and characters like Mario to the world, establishing itself as a globally recognized brand that represents video game culture in the home entertainment industry. In 2016, Nintendo entered the mobile games business, creating even more opportunities for consumers to engage with Nintendo IP and reaching audiences beyond its dedicated video game platform business. Source

Telegram V5.3 update brings motion and blur effects to backgrounds

Telegram is gaining a new update bringing with it chat background where you can now search the web for wallpapers, add effects and then share your backgrounds with friends via links. Telegram backgrounds now support motion and blur effects. You can also set any color as your background, apply a pattern and more.  Just like before, you can set any photo from your gallery as your chat background. On Android, you can add some extra effects to the built-in photo editor. As said, you can also share the custom designed background via a link with your friends. Telegram has also added a new background to already existing collection. There's a new background search option where you can find your wallpaper based on keywords or color and then set it in just a few taps. In a blog post Telegram said: No chat can be dull if you have a really cool chat background. Today's update will ensure you get one. You can now search the web for wallpapers, add effects and then share your backgrounds with friends via links. Source

Twitter revokes API access of three notification spammer apps that sell fake followers

Twitter has announced that it is stepping up its fight against notification spammer as the functionality of three of these services — ManageFlitter, Statusbrew, Crowdfire stopped functioning. Twitter has confirmed its actions and said that these three apps for having repeatedly violated the API rules.  A Twitter spokesperson in a statement said: "As a part of our commitment to building a healthy service, we remain focused on rapidly curbing spam and abuse originating from the use of Twitter’s APIs.” These apps will cease to function since they’ll no longer be able to programmatically interact with Twitter to follow or unfollow people or take other actions. Twitter’s policies specify that “Aggressive following (Accounts who follow or unfollow Twitter accounts in bulk, aggressive, or indiscriminate manner) is a violation of the Twitter Rules.” ManageFlitter‘s site promotes how “Following relevant people on Twitter is a great way to gain new followers. Find people who are interested in similar topics, follow them and often they will follow you back.” While another feature lets them check back a few days later and rapidly unfollow everyone who didn’t follow them back. Many a time when you follow users, they do not follow back . . . thereby, you might want to disconnect with such ...

Vivo V15 Pro with 32MP pop-up selfie camera and V15 promo images revealed ahead of India launch on February 20

Earlier this week Vivo teased the launch of a mid-range smartphone with a pop-up selfie camera in India on February 20th. Now the promo images of the V15 Pro with 32-megapixel pop-up selfie camera and triple rear cameras with dual-LED flash have surfaced. As expected, the phone will come with an in-display fingerprint sensor and a FullView display with minimal bezels Earlier rumors said that it will be priced under Rs. 30,000, similar to the V11 Pro. It is rumored to launch as X25 in China around the same time or in early March. Vivo will also launch the V15 smartphone in a later date. We should know the complete specifications soon, as the phone is said to go on pre-bookings starting February 15th. Source 1, 2

Apple restores Google’s internal iOS apps after certificate misuse

Apple has shut down Google's ability to distribute its internal iOS apps, following a similar shutdown that was issued to Facebook earlier this week.  According to reports, the early versions of Google Maps, Hangouts, Gmail, and other pre-release beta apps stopped working alongside employee-only apps like a Gbus app for transportation and Google’s internal cafe app. The company then later has restored Google’s Enterprise Certificate hours later so its internal apps will now function. Apple has worked closely with Google to fix the situation. This move comes just a day after Google disabled its Screenwise meter app; a private app was designed to monitor how people use their iPhones, similar to Facebook’s research app. Google’s app also relied on Apple’s enterprise program, which enables the distribution of internal apps within a company. In an earlier statement over Facebook’s certificate removal, Apple did warn that “any developer using their enterprise certificates to distribute apps to consumers will have their certificates revoked.” The company is sticking to its rules and applying them equally to Facebook, Google and other companies that break the policies. Facebook’s internal iOS apps have also resumed functioning, as the social network confirmed that Apple had restored its enterprise certificate. While all sounds ...

Xiaomi Redmi Go Android Oreo (Go Edition) smartphone with 5-inch HD display announced officially, price revealed

After a leak last week, Xiaomi has officially announced the Redmi Go, the company's first Android Oreo (Go Edition) smartphone in Phillipines officially. It has a 5-inch HD screen, Snapdragon 425 SoC with 1GB of RAM, 8-megapixel rear camera with LED flash, 5-megapixel front camera, 4G LTE with dedicated SIM slots and a 3000mAh battery. Xiaomi Redmi Go specifications 5-inch (1280 x 720pixels) HD 16:9 display with 380 nits brightness, 1000:1 contrast ratio, 72% NTSC Color Gamut 1.4GHz Quad-Core Snapdragon 425 Mobile Platform with Adreno 308 GPU 1GB RAM, 8GB internal storage, expandable memory up to 128GB with microSD Android 8.1 (Oreo Go Edition) Dual SIM 8MP rear camera with LED Flash, f/2.0 aperture, 1.12μm pixel size 5MP front-facing camera with f/2.2 aperture, 1.12μm pixel size Dimensions:140.4x 70.1 x 8.35mm; Weight: 137g 4G VoLTE, WiFi 802.11 b/g/n, Bluetooth 4.1, GPS 3000mAh battery The Xiaomi Redmi Go comes in Black and Blue colors, is priced at 3,990 Philippine Piso ($ 76 / ₹ 5,422 approx.) and is available for order from Lazada.

OPPO K1 with Snapdragon 660, in-display fingerprint sensor launching in India on February 6

After teasers, Flipkart has confirmed the launch of OPPO K1 , a mid-range smartphone with in-display fingerprint scanner in India on February 6th. It was announced in China back in October last year, packs a 6.4-inch Full HD+ AMOLED Waterdrop notch display, is powered by Octa-Core Snapdragon 660 AIE with up to 6GB RAM, ColorOS 5.2 based on Android 8.1 (Oreo), 16MP rear camera with LED flash, secondary 2MP camera and a 25MP front-facing camera. OPPO K1 specifications 6.4-inch (2340 x 1080 pixels) Full HD+ AMOLED 19.5:9 2.5D curved glass display Octa Core Snapdragon 660 14nm Mobile Platform (Quad 2.2GHz Kryo 260 + Quad 1.8GHz Kryo 260 CPUs) with Adreno 512 GPU 6GB / 4GB RAM, 64GB internal memory, expandable memory up to 256GB with microSD Android 8.1 (Oreo) with ColorOS 5.2  Dual SIM 16MP rear camera with LED Flash, secondary 2MP camera 25MP front-facing camera In-display fingerprint sensor Dual 4G VoLTE, WiFi 802.11 ac (2.4GHz + 5GHz), Bluetooth 5, GPS + GLONASS 3600mAh battery The OPPO K1 comes in Van Gogh Blue and Mocha Red colors, and the company already said that it will cost less than Rs. 20,000. We will know the exact price when the phone is launched next Wednesday.

Nokia 8.1 6GB RAM, 128GB storage version launched in India for Rs. 29999

HMD Global launched Nokia 8.1, successor of Nokia 7 Plus in India in 4GB RAM with 64GB storage version in India for Rs. 26,999 last month. Now it has launched the 6GB RAM with 128GB storage version in the country finally. Other specifications are similar, including the 6.18-inch Full HD+ 18.7:9 aspect ratio Puredisplay, Snapdragon 710 10nm Mobile Platform, Android 9.0 (Pie), 12-megapixel rear camera rear camera with ZEISS optics, Sony IMX363 sensor, f/1.8 aperture, OIS along with a 13-megapixel secondary camera for portrait shots and zoom. The camera has AI scene detection to automatically detect 18 scenes. There is a 20-megapixel front camera with f/2.0 aperture and pixel binding that can combine four pixels to form 1.8μm large pixel. It also has AI beauty and AI portrait Mode, 6 AI studio lights, AI expressions and new dual-view mode. It has a 6 series aluminum-magnesium alloy frame, glass back, rear-mounted fingerprint sensor, and packs a 3500mAh battery with support for 18W fast charging. Nokia 8.1 specifications 6.18-inch (2246 × 1080 pixels) Full HD+ Puredisplay with 18.7:9 aspect ratio, 500 nits brightness, 96% NTSC Color gamut, DCI-P3, 1500:1 Contrast ratio, Corning Gorilla Glass 3 protection Octa Core Snapdragon 710 10nm Mobile Platform (Dual 2.2GHz Kryo 360 + Hexa 1.7GHz ...