‘Tangi’ short video platform focussed on DIY and creativity released by Google’s Area 120

Area 120, which is a workshop for Google's experiment projects in the past has tested many services like a hyper-local experiment app, podcast app, and more. On similar lines now, Google's Area 120 has launched its new short video platform - Tangi which focusses on DIY and creativity. This short video platform includes 1-minute videos that aim to help people learn, unlike other short video platforms like TikTok, Byte which focuses on entertainment. Using Tangi, users can learn to craft, cook and in short, the platform houses an array of 'How-to' videos that help people learn. Similar to other platforms that offer vertical video content, Tangi also offers vertical videos that can last up to 1 minute and the average video length on this platform is around 45 seconds. Furthermore, users can interact with members of other communities through the 'Try it' feature that lets users create photos of their re-creation. Unlike YouTube where there are long-duration videos with more details, users might not find detailed tutorial videos in Tangi. But, creators can leave a detailed tutorial in the comment section, which might be helpful for users looking for a detailed tutorial. Tangi is available on iOS and web for now, and creators need ...

Worldwide Tablet shipments sees 0.6% YoY decline for Q4 2019; Apple continues lead with 36.5% market share: IDC

The tablet market continues to suffer as the global shipments in Q4 2019 dropped to 43.5 million units, marking a decline of 0.6% compared to Q4 last year. Apple continues to lead the market with its highly successful iPad series with Samsung, HUAWEI, Amazon.com and Lenovo taking the next 4 spots in global shipments and market share. The iPad continues to be the world most popular tablet, with Apple seeing a growth of about 22.7% YoY and a market share over double the next company, at 36.5%. With the release of iPadOS, Apple has seated itself as the best tablet maker for the conceivable future. At second position, even though it saw a decline of 7.4% YoY, Samsung saw a comeback to the spot with 7 million units sold. Although the Tab S product lineup saw a growth during this quarter, it could not offset the overall decline. Shipping 4 million units, HUAWEI took up the third spot in Q4 2019, calculating a YoY decline of 2.8%. Though the company saw record growth in the Asia/Chine market, the ban from USA is still affecting the company, causing its global shipments to fall. At 4th and 5th place, we have Amazon.com and Lenovo with 3.3 ...

HMD Global MWC 2020 event set for February 23, Nokia 8.2, 9.2 and more expected

Mobile World Congress (MWC) is set to begin starting February 24 and many brands have announced their MWC presence. Recently, vivo and Sony announced an event on February 24th, and on similar lines, HMD Global has now announced an event on February 23rd where the company is expected to unveil mid-range smartphones and feature phones. HMD Global has sent out press invites and the invite just reads "SAVE THE DATE" along with the date and time. The invite doesn't reveal much information, but going by rumors, HMD Global could announce mid-range smartphones and Android-based featured phones including the Nokia 8.2, Nokia 400 4G, and among others. While the company announced the Nokia 9 PureView at MWC 2019, the chances are minimal that the company will announce its successor i.e., Nokia 9.2 at MWC 2020 and instead it could be unveiled later this year. It is to be seen what HMD Global will announce at MWC 2020, and we should know more information in the coming days. The event will start at 4 PM CST (7:30 PM IST) and HMD Global will offer live streaming.

OnePlus joins Wireless Power Consortium, OnePlus 8 series could support Qi wireless charging

OnePlus is the latest company to join Wireless Power Consortium, a group of companies for developing and promoting the Qi wireless charging standard. This indicates that future OnePlus will have Qi wireless charging, and this should be the OnePlus 8 series expected to launch in mid-2020. OnePlus is now listed on the WPC’s member list, however, it is not clear when they joined. Joining the consortium is a requirement for creating devices that use Qi wireless charging. OnePlus' current or past phones only had support for wired fast charging with the latest fast charging tech being Warp Charge 30T, and the company even denied wireless charging during the OnePlus 7 launch. “OnePlus charging is one of the best. Wireless charging is far inferior,” said the company's CEO Pete Lau last year. OnePlus recently introduced Quad HD+ OLED ‘Fluid Display’ with a refresh rate of 120Hz, 240Hz touch sampling rate, 10-bit HDR support, and is expected to be used in the OnePlus 8 Pro. Source

Worldwide smartphone shipments decline 2.3% YoY in 2019, Samsung leads with 21.6% share, HUAWEI surpasses Apple: Reports

Worldwide smartphone shipments decreased 1.1% year over year in Q4 2019, and it was down 2.3% YoY for the whole 2019, according to preliminary data from the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker. In total, companies shipped a 368.8 million smartphones during Q4 2019, and the total shipments for 2019 was 1371 million. This is third consecutive year of falling shipments despite the launch of 5G and foldable phones. The overall decline was partly due to weak shipment growth in China, where consumers are still waiting for cheaper 5G handsets to hit the market alongside increased network coverage and 5G speeds, according to IDC. Apple tops with 20% share, up 7.9% YoY in Q4 2019, thanks to strong performance in the holiday quarter, similar to 2018. Samsung grabbed 18.8% share and saw 1.2% YoY decline, and HUAWEI grabbed the third spot with 15.2%. Xiaomi grabbed 8.9% share which is a 31.1% increase YoY with strong sales of Redmi 8/Note 8 series in the Indian market, and OPPO saw 4.2% increase with 8.3% market share. Coming to full 2019 share, Samsung leads with 21.6% share, which is a 1.2% increase compared to 2018. HUAWEI grabbed the second spot with 17.6% share, ...

Apple said to launch UWB Airtags, new MacBooks, Powerbeats 4 and more in 2020

Popular Apple Analyst Ming-Chi Kuo has released a report that has some interesting plans for Apple in the first half of 2020. The report claims Apple will release several new products including Ultra Wideband tags, high-end wireless headphones, a 4.7-inch iPhone SE successor, refreshed iPad Pro models, and refreshed MacBook Pro and/or MacBook Air models. The first half of 2020 looks to be exciting for Apple fans as the rumours point to a whole host of products being released. The heavily rumoured budget iPhone SE 2 is said to launching soon with a screen size of 4.7 inches. It will also likely be running the A13 Bionic chip, 3GB of RAM and TouchID for biometric authentication. The next interesting product that may be called "Airtags" will utilise Apple's new U1 chip to create Tile-like item tracking device. The use of Wide band technology would make it possible to locate attached devices with much greater accuracy than Bluetooth LE and Wi-Fi. The iPad Pro was last updated back in 2018 with its third generation. The rumours point to a triple-lens rear camera system on the new models that support 3D sensing for augmented reality, to be released sometime in March. Another device that will be ...

Realme 3 Pro realme UI Software Update Tracker [Update: Android 10 based realme UI 1.0 download link]

realme launched the realme 3 Pro in the country back in April running ColorOS 6.0 based on Android 9.0 (Pie). realme doesn’t follow a fixed update frequency but the company rolls out updates frequently. This post will help our readers in keeping track of realme UI updates for realme 3 Pro. Updates rolled out for the realme 3 Pro so far, [gallery columns="2" size="large" ids="302854,302855"] [Jan 30, 2020]: realme has started rolling out Android 10 based realme UI 1.0 vRMX1851EX_11.C.02 to realme 3 Pro widely. [Download Link] [Jan 20, 2020]: realme has started rolling out a new RMX1851EX_11.C.02 update. The update weighs 541 MBs in size and fixes camera crash issue along with other minor bug fixes to improve the system stability. [Jab 17, 2020]: realme has started rolling out Android 10 based realme UI 1.0 to realme 3 Pro. The update comes as RMX1851EX_11.C.01, weighs 3.52 GBs in size and brings all the new features such as dual earphone connection, animated wallpapers, customizable icon shape, new charging animation, realme Share (cross-brand file-sharing technology) and more. Check out this post to learn about new features that realme UI brings to realme 3 Pro. [Dec 13, 2019]: realme has started rolling out ...

Realme XT realme UI Software Update Tracker [Update: Android 10 based realme UI 1.0 download link]

realme launched the realme XT smartphone running ColorOS 6.0 realme edition on top of Android 9.0 (Pie). realme doesn’t follow a fixed update frequency but the company rolls out updates frequently. This post will help our readers in keeping track of realme UI updates for realme XT, also check out our realme XT content, realme XT Pearl Blue Unboxing and First Impressions realme XT Pearl White Unboxing and Photo Gallery realme XT Review: Between Midrange and a Flagship realme UI updates rolled out for the realme XT so far, [gallery size="large" ids="302721,302722,302723"] [Jan 30, 2020]: realme has started rolling out Android 10 based realme UI 1.0 vRMX1921EX_11.C.01 to realme XT widely. [Download Link] [Jan 18, 2020]: realme has started rolling out Android 10 based realme UI 1.0 to realme XT. The update comes as RMX1921EX_11.C.01, weighs 3.52GB in size and brings all the new features such as dual earphone connection, animated wallpapers, screen-off display, customizable icon shape, new charging animation, realme Share (cross-brand file-sharing technology) and more. realme says it is a staged rollout and will be randomly pushed to a limited number of users and will have a broader rollout in coming days after the company makes sure there are no critical bugs.  [Dec 18, 2019]: ...

Caltech wins patent infringement lawsuit as Apple and Broadcom ordered to pay $1.1 Billion

In this years biggest jury verdict from this year, Apple Inc. and Broadcom Inc. have been ordered by a California Court to pay a collective $1.1 billion in damages for patent infringement. The plaintiff in this case is California Institute of Technology (Cal Tech.) who claimed that Apple broke patent laws by using Broadcom WiFi chips in their devices. Apple has been ordered to pay $837.8 million while Broadcom was hit with a $270.2 million verdict to pay Cal Tech. The case was based on Cal Tech claiming that the companies violated over a range of patents related to wireless data transmissions. The lawsuit was filed back in 2016 and it claimed that Apple devices like iPhones, iPads, iPods, Apple Watches, Mac computers, HomePod smart speakers, and the since-discontinued AirPort wireless routers have been using patent infringing Broadcom components. Apple and Broadcom did confirm that they will appeal the verdict, denying the infringement of the patents at all. Their lawyers also do not agree with how much significant damages CalTech is entitled to even if they were using the inventions. A spokesperson from Caltech, upon hearing the verdict, said that Caltech is, "pleased the jury found that Apple and Broadcom infringed Caltech patent," and ...

Unicode 13.0 to bring 117 new emoji including Polar bear, Ninja, Mammoth and more

Unicode, which is the international consortium that dictates computing industry standards has released its Emoji 13.0 standard for the year 2020. It includes 117 new emoji such as a smiling face with tear, Polar bear, a pinched finger, including 55 gender and skin-tone variants. Typically, the new emoji's appear in smartphones sometime around September/October with some manufacturers releasing it earlier. Some of the notable ones include a Santa Claus, transgender flags, people hugging, Pinata and more. For a complete list of the new emoji's, check below: Smiling Face with Tear Disguised Face Pinched Fingers (With Skin Tones) Anatomical Heart Lungs Ninja (With Skin Tones) Person in Tuxedo (With Skin Tones) Woman in Tuxedo (With Skin Tones) Person with Veil (With Skin Tones) Man with Veil (With Skin Tones) Woman Feeding Baby (With Skin Tones) Person Feeding Baby (With Skin Tones) Man Feeding Baby (With Skin Tones) Mx Claus (With Skin Tones) People Hugging Black Cat Bison Mammoth Beaver Polar Bear Dodo Feather Seal Beetle Cockroach Fly Worm Potted Plant Blueberries Olive Bell Pepper Flatbread Tamale Fondue Teapot Bubble Tea Rock Wood Hut Pickup Truck Roller Skate Magic Wand Piñata Nesting Dolls Sewing Needle Knot Thong Sandal Military Helmet Accordion Long Drum Coin ...