Rumblings out of Apple’s East Asian supply chain this week offer fresh insight into this year’s iPhone release cycle, with a report on Monday claiming the company’s 2020 handsets will be similar in design to the iPhone 11 lineup albeit with a few sizing tweaks. iPhone 11 and iPhone 11 Pro. Citing an unnamed
How light do you need your laptop to be, and how much are you willing to sacrifice to reduce weight? Acer has decided to test where the answers to those questions like with its new Swift 7, a 14-inch laptop that weighs just 890g and is only 9.95mm thick. Yes, that’s thinner and lighter than
The last few years have seen the television segment transform significantly, and there have been some big improvements in the televisions themselves. A big factor when it comes to TV sales in India is smart connectivity, and more people are looking beyond traditional means of watching TV to adopt online streaming. According to an Amazon
Instagram has dropped the IGTV icon from the home screen of the app because not many users were using it. The standalone IGTV app was launched by the company in June 2018. The decision to remove the IGTV button from the main app is being seen as an acknowledgement of the poor reception of the
Affiliate Disclosure: By buying the products we recommend, you help keep the lights on at MakeUseOf. Read more. Spotify lets you share songs to Facebook Stories. You can also share albums, playlists, and your profile, but if you share single tracks, they come with 15-second previews. Allowing people viewing your Facebook Story to hear a
A US judge on Monday gave his nod to Apple’s lawsuit against former iPhone chip designer Gerard Williams III. The lawsuit, filed in Santa Clara County Superior Court, claimed that the iPhone chip designer founded a silicon design company called Nuvia while still working for Apple. “It accuses Williams of going against the anti-competitive clauses
Amazon Great Indian Sale 2020 and Flipkart Republic Day Sale 2020 sales are ongoing. Both the sales will be live until January 22, midnight. As is usual with such sales, both Amazon and Flipkart are offering hundreds of deals across all major product categories. With two sales going on simultaneously, it can be quite difficult
Microsoft has embraced Chromium engine for its Edge browser. But inclining towards Chromium doesn’t mean that it would only enhance the Web browsing experience on Microsoft’s offering, it’s likely to bring some improvements to Google’s Chrome as well. One of those appears to be the development to address ongoing battery usage concerns on Chrome browser.
Apple’s iPhone 11, 11 Pro and 11 Pro Max were the most popular models sold in the United States in the holiday quarter, according to Consumer Intelligence Research Partners, with research also indicating the 2019 launches sold in higher proportions than the 2018 models in their launch quarter. For the three months ending December
South Korean flat-screen maker Samsung Display plans to set up a factory in India with a $500 million (roughly Rs. 3,500 crores) investment as parent Samsung Electronics seeks to expand smartphone production here, a regulatory filing showed. The move would be a boon for India which is vying with nearby rivals such as Vietnam to
Everyone knows that the global corporate tax system needs to be overhauled, Apple Chief Executive Tim Cook said on Monday, backing changes to global rules that are currently under consideration. The growth of Internet giants such as Apple has pushed international tax rules to the limit, prompting the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)
Consumer appliance giant Samsung has announced exclusive offers for its consumers on account of Republic Day. The South Korean company is offering different offers on its televisions, washing machines, refrigerators, and microwave ovens. Additionally, it is also offering 15 percent cash back and Easy EMI schemes valid till January 31, 2020. Samsung is offering assured
With founder and CEO Jeff Bezos in India last week, Amazon Prime Video took the opportunity to make a bunch of announcements. Chief among those were the cricket-themed drama Inside Edge being renewed for season 3, a new series about the 2008 Mumbai attacks from director Nikkhil Advani and starring Konkana Sen Sharma called Mumbai
Microsoft on Thursday set a new ambition among Fortune 500 companies in addressing climate change, pledging to remove as much carbon as it has emitted in its 45-year history. The focus on clearing carbon from the atmosphere sets Microsoft’s climate goals apart from other corporate pledges which have focused on cutting ongoing emissions or preventing
OnePlus 7 Pro, OnePlus 7T, OnePlus 7T Pro, OnePlus TV 55Q1, and OnePlus TV 55Q1 Pro are set to receive cashbacks and offers through both online and offline channels including the OnePlus online store, Amazon India, as well as OnePlus Experience Stores and offline partner stores, the Chinese company announced on Friday. The new deals
Facebook-owned messaging app WhatsApp for Android has now notched up a staggering five billion downloads, making it only the second non-Google app to achieve this milestone. As with most Android applications that reach large amounts of installs, this number does not just include downloads from the Play Store, but also pre-installed copies like Samsung and
A new patent has surfaced online that hints at a touchscreen Apple MacBook could be in the making. The patent is filed under the US Patent No 20200019367 titled “Cross-Device Interactions.” In one of the descriptions, Apple explicitly mentions touchscreen laptops. It stated that “in some embodiments, display 5012 is also a touch-sensitive display,” moreover,
Huawei P40 and Huawei P40 Pro phones are the Chinese giant’s next-gen flagship P-series phones set to launch in 2020. The phones should see upgrades in their cameras, processors, and displays at the least. The Huawei P-series phones have developed a reputation for its superior camera performance, and the Huawei P30 series launched this year
Apple premiered two new iPhone 11 ads on Sunday, showing off the Slofie feature in the hands of a pro snowboarder. iPhone 11 capturing a Slofie on a snowboard Slow motion Selfies, or Slofies, are one of Apple’s newest features on the iPhone 11 and iPhone 11 Pro. Capable of capturing slow motion video
An Israeli court on Thursday ordered closed-door hearings in Amnesty International’s legal bid to stop NSO Group exporting surveillance software, which rights groups say is used to spy on journalists and dissidents worldwide. A Tel Aviv District Court judge cited national security concerns when she banned the public and the media from court sessions, drawing
The likes of Lev Parnas, Harvey Weinstein and George Nader all got into trouble with the iPhones this week, plus one man tried to cover his tracks by selling stolen Apple Watches on his mother’s Facebook page. The White House The latest in an occasional AppleInsider series, looking at the world of Apple-related crime.
Elon Musk’s SpaceX is gearing up to destroy one of its own rockets on Saturday to test a crucial emergency abort system on an unmanned astronaut capsule, the company’s final milestone test before flying NASA astronauts from US soil. Less than two minutes after liftoff from a launchpad in Florida, SpaceX’s Crew Dragon capsule will fire
The Flipkart Republic Day Sale is now open for everyone. The Flipkart sale kicked off yesterday for Flipkart Plus members, and has finally gone live for all prospective buyers. The Flipkart Republic Day Sale introduces limited time price cuts and discounts on mobiles, wearables, and a wide array of other devices across different price brackets.
Honor 9X and Oppo F15 India launches as well as the Republic Day sales from Amazon and Flipkart dominated the news this week. Both Amazon sale and Flipkart sale will continue next week to offer discounts and offers to the consumers. Additionally, Realme started rolling out Android 10 with Realme UI update for Realme 3
Flipkart’s Republic Day Sale 2020 is now live for Plus members. Flipkart’s first big sale of the year will go live for everyone else at midnight tonight. The four-day sale will bring hundreds of discounts and offers on popular mobile phones, laptops, TVs, and other electronics. Flipkart Republic Day Sale 2020 will also offer 10
WhatsApp has been working on Dark Theme integration since a while now, and its latest beta for Android users show a slight improvement in the ‘system event bubble’. This change was also spotted to be under development, and hasn’t been enabled in the latest beta for the users to see. Separately, sticker packs have reportedly
Amazon Great Indian Sale 2020 is now open for all consumers out there. The sale went live yesterday exclusively for Amazon Prime members, giving them early access to all the deals that are now up for grabs. As a part of the sale, Amazon is offering a 10 percent discount on purchases made using SBI
Honor 9X has finally made its way to India, packing triple rear cameras and a pop-up selfie snapper. The latest Honor offering is powered by the in-house HiSilicon Kirin 710F SoC paired with up to 6GB of RAM and 128GB of internal storage. The Honor 9X packs a 48-megapixel camera at the back, while selfies
Services revenue, anticipation of a 5g “iPhone 12” in 2020, coupled with surveys demonstrating strong current iPhone 11 demand has led Canaccord Genuity to set a $355 price target on Apple stock. In a research note to investors seen by AppleInsider Canaccord Genuity analyst T. Michael Walkley is seeing strong demand for the iPhone
Facebook-owned WhatsApp’s latest beta update for its Android app has arrived and it indicates that the service might be bringing support for animated sticker packs soon. WABetaInfo, a website that tracks WhatsApp updates, spotted tracks hinting at the animated stickers in the latest WhatsApp beta for Android. The feature is not available right now but