Honor is slowly expanding its portfolio beyond smartphones, and recently launched its second generation smartwatch, the Honor Magic Watch 2, in India. Honor’s latest wearable device is priced aggressively and boasts of some notable features such as the ability to make and receive calls, 14-day battery life, support for a tonne of workouts, music playback
Month: March 2020
PUBG Mobile has received a new update – 0.17.0 – that adds a host of new features and improvements to the highly popular multiplayer game. It adds a 2nd Year Anniversary: Amusement Park Mode in Classic Erangel, an Arctic Mode, new weapon, Hardcore Mode, Death Replay, and Colorblind Mode. The update will take 1.69GB on
WhatsApp Dark mode is finally official for both Android and iPhone devices, nearly a year after testing its presence in beta. Unlike offering a pure black and white colour scheme, the Facebook-owned company has designed a dark grey background along with elements in an off-white colour to cut down the glare and improve contrast and
A foldable iPhone or iPad from Apple could include a flexible casing, one that can keep the mobile device’s screen and hardware protected while also coping with the rigors of opening and closing. The Samsung Galaxy Z Flip, a new model recently launched by the company featuring a flexible display. Major device producers like
The new coronavirus (COVID-19) has derailed more flagship tech summits as Google and Microsoft on Tuesday announced the cancellation of their upcoming US events. Google’s Cloud Next in San Francisco in April and Microsoft’s MVP Summit in Seattle in March now stand cancelled and both companies have made those events ‘digital-first’. “We are transforming the
I was honestly a surprised to find out from Sensel that the company is only just recently raising its Series A. The Sunnyvale-based hardware startup has been around since 2013, bringing its first product, the modular music and computing Morph peripheral, to market a few years back. Over the past few years, however, the company’s
Oppo has posted a teaser for its upcoming smartwatch simply called the Oppo Watch on its Weibo account. The company shared three images showing off some of the specifications of the Oppo Watch. It will have a 1.91-inch screen, 326ppi, and 100 percent coverage of the DCI-P3 colour gamut. The watch will have a curved
Valve has released three new gameplay videos for Half-Life: Alyx which will be released on March 23 for PC. The virtual reality (VR) only game is set between the events of Half-Life and Half-Life 2. The videos shared by Valve on Twitter show off some of the mechanics present in the game. Valve states in
Samsung Galaxy A21, touted to be a budget to mid-range smartphone, is said to come with four rear cameras, a hole-punch front panel, and a rear-mounted fingerprint scanner, a new report suggests. The Samsung Galaxy A21 will also sport an Infinity-O display up front, with the camera cutout on the top left of the screen.
Twitter has told its 5,000-strong workforce globally to work from home – making it mandatory for employees based in Hong Kong, Japan and South Korea offices – as new coronavirus (COVID-19) spread in new territories. The micro-blogging platform which has already put restrictions on non-essential travel, said that US offices would still be open for
Apple supplier Foxconn said it would resume normal production in China by the end of March and that more than half its seasonal workforce in the country had restarted work following the coronavirus outbreak. The flu-like virus, which originated in China late last year and can be transmitted from person to person, has spread to
Global sales of smartphones to end users contracted in the fourth quarter of 2019, declining by 0.4 percent year-over-year, and for the full year 2019, smartphones sales declined by one percent, Gartner said on Tuesday. Apple and Xiaomi were the only vendors in the top five to achieve growth in the fourth quarter of 2019.
Myriad class action suits against Apple’s battery OS update that could have resulted in a device with a depleted battery performing tasks slower may be coming to an end. Apple’s iPhone 7 lineup Apple has agreed to pay about $25 per iPhone 6 through iPhone 7 Plus, inclusive of the iPhone SE, that ran
One of the benefits of owning a Pixel smartphone is that it improves over time as Pixels are first to receive updates that deliver the latest fixes and improvements. The first round of new features arrived in December, including a filter for robocalls, more photo controls, improved Duo calls, and more. Today Google says Pixel
Days after Oppo confirmed the release of its new smartphone, the Find X2, the company has now announced the launch of its smartwatch, Oppo Watch alongside. The announcement was confirmed by the Chinese tech company on Weibo, where photos of the watch were unveiled. The launch will take place on March 6 at an event
Call of Duty Mobile season 4 named Disavowed is now live. It brings a bunch of new features, new map, and a new Battle Pass for players. The new multiplayer map called Cage has been added to the game, along with the new HIVE Operator Skill, and a new free Battle Pass that brings new
US printer maker Xerox Holdings took its $35 billion bid for HP to the US personal computer maker’s shareholders on Monday, with a formal tender offer and a rebuttal to HP’s account of why they could not negotiate a deal. HP adopted a “poison pill” last month to neutralise Xerox’s tender offer. Unless the companies
The COVID-19 outbreak has made it clear just how dependent Apple is on its supply chain in China, despite efforts to diversify where its products are made. Apple is reportedly unlikely to shift flagship iPhone production outside of China despite COVID-19 concerns. Last Friday, Apple CEO Tim Cook said that the company remains “fundamentally
Apple Inc. has agreed to pay a settlement of up to $500 million, following a lawsuit accusing the company of intentionally slowing down the performance of older phones to encourage customers to buy newer models or fresh batteries. The preliminary proposed class action lawsuit was disclosed Friday night and would see Apple pay consumers $25
There’s no better way to explore a new location than with advice from people who have lived or traveled there before. Social media apps are fast becoming the best way to connect travelers with these experienced insiders. While existing social media apps may inspire jealousy in your followers, or enable you to share experiences with
Tens of thousands of ethnic Uighurs were moved to work in conditions suggestive of “forced labour” in factories across China supplying 83 global brands, an Australian think tank said in a report released on Sunday. The Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI) report, which cited government documents and local media reports, identified a network of at least
Nubia Red Magic 5G, as we know by now, has an active fan cooling solution and Nubia CEO Ni Fei has given some more information on it. In his post on Weibo, Fei shared that the Red Magic 5G uses a combination of air and liquid cooling that enhances the cooling capacity or heat dissipation
Samsung has launched its latest Galaxy laptops in China, the Samsung Galaxy Book Ion. First announced last year, the laptops are currently up for pre-orders in the country, and will go on sale from March 18. The Samsung Galaxy Book Ion is the company’s premium laptop, and its 13.3-inch model weighs just 970 grams. Samsung
mParticle, which helps companies like Spotify, Paypal and Starbucks umanage their customer data, is announcing that it has raised $45 million in Series D funding. Co-founder and CEO Michael Katz told me that the company has benefited from broader shifts — like new privacy regulation and the shift away from cookie-based browser tracking — that
While the coronavirus impact on Apple varies a great deal across the iPhone supply chain, Ming-Chi Kuo says that the company is proactively maneuvering to diversify camera lens suppliers for the “iPhone 12.” Like other areas of the Apple supply chain enduring problems caused by the coronavirus outbreak, Yujingguang will be affected by the
Huawei sub-brand Honor has announced that its recently launched fitness band, the Honor Band 5i, has started receiving the much-awaited SpO2 feature update in India. SpO2, which stands for peripheral capillary oxygen saturation, is an estimate that helps in tracking oxygen saturation levels in the bloodstream. The SpO2 feature has started rolling out via a
Final Fantasy VII Remake demo has been released by Square Enix, and it is now playable on the Sony PlayStation 4. It can be downloaded for free from the PlayStation Network Store. It is a single-player demo that will take up 7.59GB on your console’s hard drive. Since it is a demo, the progress that
Samsung Galaxy A31 has been in the works for some time now. We have seen multiple leaks and rumours around the smartphone, which have so far given us a fair idea of how the device will be. We have already seen a leaked image of the 5,000mAh battery the Galaxy A31 is rumoured to pack.
Steven Seagal, the star of action movies including Above the Law and Out for Justice, has agreed to pay $314,000 to resolve charges of “unlawfully touting” a cryptocurrency offering, the US securities regulator said on Thursday. Seagal, 67, agreed to give up $157,000 in ill-gotten gains and to pay another $157,000 as a penalty for failing to
The Cupertino-based tech giant Apple has sent gift packages that include an iPad, face masks, hand sanitizer and more, to its employees stranded in Wenzhou and Hubei due to the coronavirus. According to details shared on Chinese social network Weibo, the care packages also enclosed with a letter from the iPhone maker to the employee