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Image Credit: Android Police Tired of lots of messages and SMS spam don’t fret google is here for rescue. Recently Google Messaging App users has been reporting seeing a new feature in the app called spam protection. The feature has been a topic of talk for a long time and was expected to launch sooner or later. The development completed a while ago, almost around six months ago but it took some time for rolling out to begin. The roll-out has been server side and is selective roll-out you may or may not get it soon depending on your luck and region. If you are lucky enough and has received the update then after the update as soon as you open the app you will be notified about. The notification can be seen in the below image. A user can disable/enable the spam protection based on the choice and the setting can be accessed by going to Settings>Advanced Menu>Spam Protection .

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Google’s Gboard was already at its best because of the direct link to Google Search all the company’s artificial intelligence-powered predictive and natural language capabilities. But with the current update rolling out to the users it became much smarter than before. Google’s Gboard now recognizes hand drawn emoticons and is now able to predict full phrase instead of just next word. These advanced features, improvement in image recognition department and Gboard’s Natural Language Understanding are the result of Google’s ongoing Artificial Intelligence Research, and the tool like “Quick, Draw!” which is a web game which guessed what you doodled on the screen even if it was very terribly drawn. The new google Gboard app can now suggest the complete phrase like when you type “be there” it will first try to understand the context and then try to suggest you with possible suggestion like “on time”, “as soon as possible”. Previous versions were only able to suggest up to next words usin...

Nokia 6, Nokia 5 and Nokia 3 Now in India It has been some time since the Nokia 6 Smartphone from HMD Global has been released in China. The flagship comes with price tag $233 and has been launched alongside Nokia 3 with price tag $148 and Nokia 5 with price tag $200 . The Nokia 6 device comes packed with a full HD 403ppi 5.5-inch display, a 1.4 GHz octa-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 430 CPU, 3GB RAM, 32GB of storage, a 16MP rear camera and all of it draining juice from a massive 3,000 mAh battery. Whereas the Nokia 5 comes with a little lower specification that is 5.2-inch 720p display with 282ppi display density, 2GB of RAM, and 16 GB of storage capacity. The Nokia 3 comes with 5-inch 294ppi display density 720p screen, a Mediatek MT6737 Quad-core 1.4GHz CPU, 2GB of RAM, 16 GB of Storage Capacity, 8 MP rear camera and all of it draining juice from a 2650 mAh battery. Each of them comes with latest technologies like 4G Vo-LTE, Bluetooth 4.1, NFC (Near Field Communication) an...

Google Project Treble: Under the hood update you didn't knew about. Google’s project treble will reduce time it generally takes for an android update to reach your smartphone. Whenever some buys a phone that is not made by google there is always a risk that the updates may take a lot of time to reach their devices. To reduce the waiting time for every android smartphone user Google is going to launch a project named Treble with its latest operating system for mobile devices Android O. With the introduction of Google’s Project Treble everything changes. Google says that Treble is their biggest change yet to their low level system architecture. With project Treble what google is trying to do is that they are trying to make it easier for the manufacturers to push the new software to their devices, by cutting down on time and money required in doing so. According to Google’s Android Developer Blog Thing that will help the manufacturers in pushing updates faster is Sta...

Installing Android O on Google Nexus Devices and Google Pixel Devices. Google is almost all set to introduce its new Operating System for mobile phone i.e. Android O. According to the expectation and some rumours the said update is supposed to be released in August/September 2017.Google gave a closer look at the newest version of their mobile operating system during their Google I/O Developer Conference which was held at Mountain view, California and started on 17 th May 2017 (You Can Watch The Keynote For The Event Here .) Google has already launched three developer preview till now of the four which were to be released. This Step by Step instruction will show you how you can get the taste of the Google’s Newest Mobile Operating System Android O on your Google Phones. Note: Please do note two things The developer preview is available for google branded phone only. The OS is in developer phase so it may or may not be stable and may have lots of Bugs so continue on you...

Confirmed Samsung Galaxy Note 7R with lowered battery capacity and Packed with Nougat According to   Phonearena.com   Samsung Galaxy Note 7R has been certified by FCC. Samsung devices code-named SM-N935S, SM-N935K and SM-N935L, understood to be the variants of the redesigned Galaxy Note 7, have received approval from FCC (Federal Communication Certification), reported   Blog of Mobile   , citing the official document in its custody. While this generally means that the handset will be launched in U.S., that may or may not be the case every time.The image (see below) looks believable, but Samsung has confirmed that the refurbished Galaxy Note 7 will be not be making its debut in the US. However, going by the model numbers displayed on the FCC document, it is expected to be made available in Samsung's home region South Korea and select Asian markets, including China and India. With Samsung Galaxy S8 and S8+, and the upcoming Galaxy Note 8 there might not...

Google Could Implement Facial Recognition In Android Pay For Loyalty Programs. Acceding to 9to5Google in their close look at the code of new Android Pay app, Google could be looking to implement facial recognition. In the apk teardown of Android Pay version 1.22 they found a feature called Visual ID, which was described as “a secure way to verify your identity at various participating stores which would make things like earning loyalty points and redeeming rewards easier.” The site also clarifies that this sort of teardown does not mean that they will actually be implementing this feature. Android police also conducted their own examination of the apk teardown code, and found out that when a person confirms his/her identity by using Visual ID any rewards point or loyalty perks are automatically applied to his/her purchase. With the help of Bluetooth, the system detects the location of the customer and would also presumable require camera in the store to take pictures of t...

A very long wait for android wear 2.0 for Asus Zenwatch 3 users is finally over. Asus on their official twitter account has confirmed that the Android Wear 2.0 update for Zenwatch 3 has been rolling out since yesterday. This is really a very good news for all Zenwatch 3 users, but we really hope Asus's social media manager knows what he or she is talking about because so far, we've seen absolutely no screenshots shared online by Zenwatch 3 owners confirming the rollout. This could really mean that the update has not started yet since there are no screenshots till now or it may have reached only limited devices and has yet to reach widely. Any way, it’s almost about time Asus’s latest smartwatches get its own taste of the newest Android Wear 2.0 iteration. The OS has been under development since its launch in May, so it would be very nice if it hits more watches.

Android Wear 2.0 Rolling Out To Huawei Watch Preview Users, Full Release Coming Soon A lot of smartwatches has been rarely getting updates to Android Wear 2.0, and among them all Huawei is one of the devices lacking the update. Even though it was part of the preview program from the start it didn’t receive the update. But now it looks like the update is being finally pushed. According to some of the users of Huawei watch on Reddit, The first Android wear device of Huawei is getting the upgrade to Android Wear 2.0. the update arrives as any other would but there is one condition. It seems like the update is arriving to only those persons who already have Android Wear 2.0 Developer Preview Installed on the Device. The user who are on the stable release on Android Wear 1.5 are not reporting any updates. But there is no need to worry the4 update to the preview user means the update will be rolling to the stable user too in coming days or weeks, we just have to wait a bit more f...

Tech Giant Google finally killed the beta programme for Android Nougat so there will be no more beta-test version of the software available. Instead we all are waiting eagerly for the full release for the new android version that is Android O. the developer preview version of the OS is already available and was released on March 21. Developers that are subscribed are currently in Preview 1 which one can call an alpha version. Beta version of the OS cannot be expected until after the official launch of Android O on May 17 at Google’s annual I/O Developer conference. Google most likely would be announcing all the new and great features we could expect in the upcoming android version. The official name for the new version of Android O/ Android 8.0 probably would be announced too. But according to the rumours and the fact that Google names the android version on the name of some delicious treats the most expected name is “Android Oreo” but who knows the new name could be a surpris...

Security and privacy matters the most in the present world. So today i am going to talk about one of the feature that today’s modern world provides for our privacy and security. We all use mobile devices in our everyday life. One of the leading brand Samsung has introduced a new cool feature to their galaxy smartphone user’s named Samsung Secure Folder . We all know to basically protect our smartphones we use lock screen security but what if one wants to go further and protect specific things on his/her phone. Well, for them Samsung has introduced Samsung Secure Folder, which allows the user to create a private encrypted space and store any kind of sensitive data inside. The idea for the secure folder and the Secure Folder itself is derived from Knox, the company’s secure platform for business uses. You may or may not have heard about the term sandbox, the Secure Folder acts as a sand box for apps and data and works with the already provided user authentication data to keep it s...

So today I am going to tell you about googles plan to take Apple iMessage head on by introducing its own enhanced SMS app. The Tech giant’s plan to bring SMS text messaging into the modern internet age is finally taking shape and who knows their other plan to take on Apple’s iMessaging app may be a success. On Feb The 24th i.e. on Friday the company confirmed that 27 more wireless operators and device makers around the world will soon roll out support for Rich Communication Services, or RCS. RCS adds enhanced and advanced features to text messaging such as picture sharing, read receipts, and group chat. Mobile carriers, including Orange, Deutsche Telekom and Globe, will join Sprint, Rogers and Telenor, in preloading Android with the newly named Android Messages as the standard messaging app on phones their subscribers use. Amir Sarhangi, Head of RCS at google also confirmed that several manufactures like Sony, LG, Motorola and ZTE has said that they will embed this technology in t...

We all know that recently google has released a software update for the chrome books which made them to run android apps on them and now Google has released the list of compatible Chromebooks that will be getting this feature. Google chrome page states that “Chromebooks have always been about making computing more accessible for everyone, and by bringing together the best of Android and Chrome OS, we are taking a big leap forward.” As we know the first chrome book to get this feature was Asus Chromebook R11/ C738T Asus Chromebook Flip and Google’s Chromebook Pixel (2015). From these three android apps are available on M53 Developer channel for Asus Chromebook Flip right now. The other two devices will be able to access soon. The main companies to get this feature are listed below these are: Acer, Asus, Google, Dell, Samsung, HP, Lenovo, AOpen, Bob...