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Image Credit: Samsung Recently Samsung introduced their Galaxy Home Smart Speakers powered by Bixby Assistant from Samsung and it is yet to hit the market, but rumours about them planning an affordable version of the speakers which will also be powered by their voice assistant Bixby. Although the full specification of the speaker is not yet known it is expected to have less features being the affordable one than the pricier one i.e. the Galaxy Home Smart Speakers. This could most likely be their strategy as the Galaxy Home Speaker may compete with the Apple HomePod which cost somewhere around 349 USD but for Samsung to compete with more affordable speakers available in the market like Google Home and Amazon Echo which are available at less than 200 USD or so they had to take this approach. Even though the launch Is not yet confirmed, for Samsung to be able to compete in this niche they will have to focus on the potential customers who opt for more affordable kind of appro...

Image Credit: 91Mobiles/On Leaks The Lenovo owned smartphone manufacturer Motorola is burning night hour to provide its users with wide range of smartphone in 2019. It has been just couple of days about the news of Moto G7 Power and yet news about another flagship from Motorola has been seen on the internet. According to the leaks and rumours Motorola is planning on revealing Motorola P40 smartphone in 2019. The new smartphone may be the successor of the previous build Motorola P30 which was only available in select markets thus not everyone was able to enjoy it. The render leaks reveal some of the key specification of the smartphone. The screen of the P40 will have higher screen to body ratio well no surprise there as it seems to be in trend nowadays and will be sporting an in-display front facing camera. The device will not have any kind of notch like in the Moto G7 series. As can be seen in the leaks the P40 has somewhat premium look and feel to it and the screen size o...

Its been a week hearing rumours about Foxconn making deals with Apple to move production of their handset from china to India. It has now been finally confirmed by Reuters that the Taiwanese supplier will be using it’s Sriperumbudur plant in the southern state of Tamil Nadu. According to the statement made by Industries Minister M. C. Sampath, the plant is currently being used to make Xiaomi Phones in India. The Foxconn said that to full the product requirements for apple they will be expanding their product line-up and will be investing $365 million. The investment may prove a good for the region as it is expected to create as many as 25,000 job vacancies in the region. According to the sources who spoke to the Reuters up till now the Cupertino based company has been manufacturing the iPhone SE and iPhone 6S in the country, and Foxconn will be focusing on the higher end and premium models like iPhone X Family. According to GSMArena Apple is slowly preparing for any long-ter...

Image Credit: HotHardware.com “Setup for Amazon Alexa” is an app which was available on Apple App Store. But the twist here is that it was a fake it seems that the tech giant Apple has been deceived by the company named One World Software. Apple has been very diligent and conscious over the privacy issues of its user but this time around something got through. According to the Description provided on the app store this app help user understand how to setup properly setup their Amazon Alexa Personal Assistant. When the app starts it will ask for the IP address of the user, the name of the device to be paired and the serial number of the device. The Knockoff app manged to reach No. 6 in the app store’s Utility category and also managed to become the 60 th most installed app on the Apple App Store. The company did have other two apps on the App store named “Marketplace – Buy/Sell” and a paid app named “Any Font for Instagram” which costed around 99cents. All of the three apps have ...

Android 9.0 Pie has been gaining market popularity very fast and smartphone manufacturers have been actively adopting this new operating system. The Smartphone Manufacturer Huawei is also not far behind in this race of adapting to the new technology. As we all know Huawei offers its users with a custom user interface for their smartphones with EMUI, and recently they have announced an open beta program for their Huawei and Honor device users. The open Beta Program allows its users to experience the features and UI of EMUI 9 which is based on Android Pie. The Android Pie for Huawei and Honor devices has already been rolled out major Huawei and Honor devices in China. The Company is planning to release he EMUI 9 globally hence the beta program to make it as seamless for the user as possible. The Smartphones users who will be able to apply for this Beta Program are: Huawei Mate 9 Huawei Mate 9 Porsche Edition Huawei Mate 9 Pro Huawei P10 Huawei P10 Plus Honor V9 Honor 9 ...

Image Credit: GSMArena & Weibo (via Waqar Khan) The race for performing the best in smartphone has been going on for quite some time now and there is a new candidate in the race. Lenovo owned Motorola has been working on its next gen smartphone line up i.e. Moto G7. The specs and images of the flagship has been on the internet for quite some time now. Recently the Moto G7 Power has been spotted on Geekbench. The device will be officially available to the customers and fans next year. The company is going to release four devices in the Moto G7 line-up.  The Geekbench spotting of Moto G7 Power has revealed some of the main specs of the device. According to the listing the device will feature a Snapdragon 625 SoC with 4GB of Memory. the listing also mentions that the device will come with Android 9.0 Pie out of the box. Previous Leaks of the device suggests that the device will feature a wide display notch up front, a rear mounted fingerprint sensor, a single ...

According to the rumours up till now the Samsung Galaxy S10 was supposed to have three distinctive models i.e. S10, S10 Lite, and S10+. But according to the new reports the Samsung is bringing back the Edge moniker which they introduced with their Samsung Galaxy S7 flagship back in Feb of 2016. The reports also suggest that Samsung Galaxy S10 will have a preinstalled screen protector with it. Although Samsung uses top notch and premium glass protection tech on their flagships like corning gorilla glass protection, the smartphones nowadays are becoming more and more fragile and prone to get damaged. The most recent developments also suggest that Samsung may reserve the Galaxy S10 name for their 10 th anniversary release which will be featuring 5G support. Everything about the Samsung Galaxy S10 Edge and preinstalled Screen Protectors are yet to be confirmed by the manufacturer and the news may very well be not true. Having said that the Samsung galaxy S10 will come wit...

Samsung has been continuously adapting to the growing smartphone market by their innovative ideas. The most popular ones among them are the rear mounted quad camera in Galaxy A9 (2018) and new Samsung Galaxy A8s that has Infinity-O display featuring a hole in the display for front facing camera.  The Samsung has come up with another great idea to ramp up the game. Although it is not official but according to the leaks from a very popular Chinese tipster Samsung is working on a new flagship Samsung Galaxy A10 that is going to feature an in-display Fingerprint Scanner. But with this comes up a question, what is new? We have already smartphones like Vivo X21, OnePlus 6T, Xiaomi Mi8 etc. that provide their user with in-display finger print scanner. Well The flagship manufacturer Samsung is going to introduce a new technology of in-display fingerprint scanners which are more accurate that optical in-display finger print readers. Even though the full specification of t...

Google has been persistent in improving user experience of the Google Maps app. They gradually moved the Explore tab from sandwich menu to a new tab on the home screen of the app. This tab used to give the user a detailed info on the nearby places according to internal rating system of the google. Now they have tried something new to further improve the experience. In the new update Google has introduced a new tab ‘For You’ right next to the Explore and Commute listing all the item based on the personal taste and of end user. Rolling out with the regular update the new feature continuously gives you update on nearby Bars, Cafes, Restaurants and many more based on the location you have set as your home or work. This feature gives user an option to bookmark the places and they will automatically be available in ‘Want to go’ list. This feature can be used as an alternative to the Google Trips app as it has already begun rolling out to almost 40 countries for iOS and 130 or mor...

HMD Global the manufacturer of Nokia smartphones is among the very few Handset makers who provide continuous and latest updates to their smartphone users across every price range be it top shelf or mid-range handsets. They have already rolled out the latest version of Android i.e. 9.0 Pie to three of their flagships. Way back in October HMD global announced the rollout of Android 9.0 to their flagship Nokia 7 Plus, and with this announcement they also made public a list of flagships which will soon be getting this update. The users of Nokia 6.1 have already started receiving the update for their handsets but the rollout for Nokia 8 was expected to begin in November.  According to tweet from the chief product officer of HMD Global, Juho Sarvikas, it may take couple of more days for the roll out to begin since there are some issues and difficulties that they are facing and working day and night to fix them. He also ensures that the update will begin rolling out as soon ...

According to post on amazon’s blog on 17 th December Friday Apple Music will be available to its Amazon Echo Smart Speaker Users. This is the result of increased collaboration between the tech giants. It’s a very good news to those apple music users who own an Amazon Echo Smart speaker as they will now be able to access the Apple Inc’s 50 million songs library on their Alexa Device. Amazon also said that they will stack more apple products in their store for shopping this holiday season. They have made a statement that they will be selling latest version of apple device on their shopping portals. Apple is also offering HomePod Smart speakers which uses Apple Inc’s voice assistant Siri, helping them compete against similar offering from tech giants like Amazon and Alphabet Inc’s Google.

There have been talks of Reliance’s JioMusic and Saavn Music app merger. Reliance Jio acquired majority stake of Saavn in March of this year. The launch of JioSaavn is basically a rebranding of Saavn app on iOS and JioMusic app on Android Google Play Store. The new JioSaavn app does not look that much different from previous Saavn. The Jio user are being offered complimentary 90-day pro service of the new JioSaavn app in which they get fully ad-free unlimited audio streaming. Jio’s big move of launching JioSaavn is not too far ahead from the expected launch of Spotify the biggest paid music streaming service in India. According to some reports Spotify is finally deciding on officially launching their services in India sometime soon. Though globally Spotify is the biggest music streaming service provider its services are limited to North America, Europe, and Latin America. On iOS app store Saavn app was rebranded to JioSaavn and the existing user of the app will be able to use all ...

Google is reportedly developing and testing a new king of voice assistant codenamed “Duplex”. It is Google’s new Natural language voice assistant. They are expecting it to replace call centres and answer customer service question to the Realtime users. According to the statement made by a google Spokesperson to The Information currently they not actively testing it and are taking a slow and steady approach in incorporating the results that they are getting from their intense testing. Google is not testing the tech with the business right now but the business world itself could be looking for the ways to use this impressive tech.  The statement made by the spokesperson was “ It’s important that we get the experience right both for the people and for businesses and we’re taking a slow and measured approach as we incorporate learnings and feedback from our tests – Google spokesperson ”. If Google’s plans are successful they we may be looking at world wide disruption in call centr...

Amazon and Google have both been trying their best to expand their market share in India but the task is not as simple as it seems. It was difficult enough for their AI powered Google assistant Amazon Alexa to understand Indian English but the main challenge in front of the tech giants is to make assistant able to decipher the many local languages as well as the combination of Indian English and those local slangs. According to the statement made by the head scientist of Alexa AI, amazon, Mr. Rohit Prasad India is said to be the most technically challenging countries among all the countries Alexa was launched in. according to him the main problem is that Indian user tends to interact with Alexa in mashup of languages in the same sentence. So, to make Google Assistant and Amazon Alexa more efficient in Indian market they need to be able to decode sentences like “Ok Google, Aj Kaa Weather Kaisa Hai?” or something like “Is week ka top song play karo.”. To reach this goal Am...

One Plus 6T which is going to be released globally on 30 th of October is about to get a refresh in its UI design. As the smartphone is just a minor update to the previous versions there won’t be any notable difference and major feature release. The noteworthy update in the smartphone is its in display optical fingerprint scanner and its waterdrop notch style. As confirmed by the executives of OnePlus the device is going to get an overhaul in the UI section an advanced Do not Disturb Mode and may be redesigned Navigation gestures. The device may also feature some major camera improvements over the previous ones. According to the statement made by OnePlus in one of their forums they said that their main focus has always have been providing their users with a quick and responsive experience. The post made it clear that end users will be getting something new in the UI section to explore and the post also stated about some substantial improvements in the camera performance of ...

According to the reports from various sources there are some news floating around about Apple to ditch for its mobile radio chips in its 2020 iPhones. According to the internal communications Apple was described by Intel as their key customer for mobile Wi-Fi Chips, Bluetooth and 5G technology chips. Although both the parties refuse to give any type of comments on the matter. Apple has history with Qualcomm, the iPhone used to have Qualcomm chips in them but after the dispute between both the companies for patent infringements, Apple was forced to look for the alternatives.  It may most probably be possible that Apple is planning to make its own chips, that way they wouldn’t have to buy them from Qualcomm. But making it in the house will result in Apple paying a fee to the other company which depends completely on the outcome of the legal fight between both the companies. Some other reports also suggest that Apple may reach chip supplier, MediaTek for its Future iPh...

With all this new technology there comes a question how much secure It really is? With seeing so much advertisements about security in devices we completely overlook the fact that these things only work when user uses them and some of them are so complicated that normal user generally don’t use them. Being worried about the security of your device is normal because it may be containing sensitive data regarding your work or personal life. Even though the devices now days are very secured and safe for private data, there are still some things one can do to make it more secure for peace of mind. Find My Device (Formerly Known as Android Device Manager) This is best app for you if you are worried about the safety of your device, this is also the most ignored app and most of the time people don’t even know about its usefulness. It is a service provided by google for every android device and its completely free and available on Playstore . What this app does is it sets up your ...