Author: Samuel Sunday
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Nokia 8 Now Available in Amazon: Price, Specifications, and More
Nokia 8, the flagship smartphone from Nokia licensee HMD Global, will go on sale in India at 12:01am IST on Saturday, October 14 via Amazon – at the start of the online marketplace’s Great Indian Festival sale. The smartphone will also be made available to buy via offline retailers across the country on the same…
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WhatsApp Lets Anyone With Your Phone Number See How Often You’re Online
There is a potential design flaw in WhatsApp that lets anyone with a WhatsApp account and access to your phone number (the one tied to your WhatsApp account) know just how much time you spend on WhatsApp. The flaw, depending on how avid a WhatsApp user you are, could also let someone estimate fairly accurately…
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OnePlus 5 Now Receiving OxygenOS 4.5.12 Update With Fix for Display Issues
OnePlus 5, the latest flagship smartphone from the Chinese company, is now receiving a firmware update that bumps the version to OxygenOS 4.5.12 and brings new fixes. The latest update OxygenOS 4.5.12 started rolling out to users over the weekend, and is being made available to users over-the-air in an ‘incremental’ fashion, i.e., rolling out…
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Android Wear 2.0 Features Can Now Be Delivered via Google Play
Google is making some changes to how it delivers new features and improvements to Android Wear-powered smartwatches, an executive said. Hoi Lam, who oversees IoT and wearable categories for Google, said this week that users will soon be able to receive some of these new features to their smartwatches via Google Play store. Until now,…
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Samsung Unveils Two ISOCELL Image Sensors for Smartphones
Samsung on Wednesday introduced two new ISOCELL image sensors for smartphones. The two new ISOCELL image sensors: 1.28-micron 12-megapixel ISOCELL Fast 2L9 with Dual Pixel technology, and ultra-small 24-megapixel ISOCELL Slim 2X7 with Tetracell technology are targeted at smartphones available across different price categories, and with slimmer profile. The South Korean company’s new image sensors…
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Apple Says Some App Store, Apple Music, iTunes Users Are Facing Issues
You are not alone. There are several Apple services that are experiencing problems at the moment, the company’s System Status dashboard reveals. Some users of the App Store, Apple Music, Apple TV, iTunes in the Cloud, iTunes Store, iTunes U, Mac App Store, and Volume Purchase Program services are experiencing “intermittent issues”. Update 6 October…
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Samsung Galaxy J5 Prime Reportedly Receiving Android 7.0 Nougat Update
Samsung’s Galaxy J5 Prime appears to be receiving its Android 7.0 Nougat in India. The smartphone is receiving an over-the-air (OTA) update which bumps the OS from Android 6.0 Marshmallow to Android 7.0 Nougat, users report. Users in India should start noticing the update notification on their Samsung Galaxy J5 Prime. You can manually check…
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Firefox Will No Longer Be Supported on Windows XP, Vista After June 2018.
Mozilla has announced just how long Firefox users stuck with a Windows XP or a Windows Vista machine have before it stops pushing security patches to the browser. The “final end of life date” for Firefox support on either of the operating systems is June 2018, the company said this week. As planned, Mozilla said…