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What's new • An all-new set of smart, dynamic filters to enhance photos in one tap. • Advanced editing controls to tweak lighting, color, and more, including an innovative Deep Blue slider that adds color to sky and water. • More movies, made for you: your child's first months, holiday traditions over time, highlights from the year, and more – all easily editable. As teased about a week ago in Google blog, the new update brings some changes to the editing tools to the app. And now has more control over Various aspects of a photos. This ensures more control to adjust exposure, white balance, saturation, and many more things easily. The update is live in PlayStore

Qualcomm has created the Qualcomm® Design in India Challenge in collaboration with The National Association of Software and Services Companies (NASSCOM). This initiative is aligned with Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ‘Make in India’ vision to bring about a paradigm shift from a services-driven model to a manufacturing model for indigenous products that will cater to the needs of India and the rest of the world. The goal is to catalyze creation of a product and hardware design ecosystem in India in the domains of smartphones, tablets and Internet of Everything (IoT) products for Healthcare, Education, Banking, Automotive, Wearables and Smart Cities. The Qualcomm Design in India Challenge was first announced on December 1, 2015 with an aim to scale India to a design hub by leveraging India’s vast pool of engineering talent. We are now ushering into the second phase of the challenge with the announcement of our Top 10 shortlists that will receive $10,000 each and will now pr...

Dash charge was one biggest usp of one plus three and now it makes it way on one plus 3T. Dash charge currently is the fastest charging standard and one plus is proud of it. It manages to juice up the phone with 4amp without overheating it. In this video, they show how fast the phone charges as compared to pixel while both devices having almost identical battery capacity. One plus crushes it From the OnePlus : With Dash Charge, charging overnight is a thing of the past. Just how much faster than the competition can Dash Charge recharge the OnePlus 3T’s 3400 mAh battery? The Google Pixel XL and the OnePlus 3T went head to head in our latest charge comparison

Sometimes it’s just easier to say it with an emoji. Following the update, it’s going to be even simpler to find the perfect emojis and stickers in Allo. We only use a handful (less than 3%!) of all emojis. The new feature on Google Allo to make it easier to find and send the perfect emoji or sticker.  Just tap the Smart Smiley button as you’re typing a message, we’ll suggest relevant emojis and stickers to help you finish your thought (reminds me of hike) THEMES To help you match your conversation to your mood, there are background themes for your chats. Whether you’re feeling more “Watermelon” or “Sorbet,” choose from a range of backgrounds to compliment your style. Source : Google blog

Now lemme explain Why audio via lightning / USB type C is better than aux Source - yt.com/MKBHD So Media is stored in phone as digital ones and zeros. But your earphones need analogue signal. That is varying electric current. This is done by DAC (digital to analog convertor) inside a phone. Now these are very tiny But if you use lightning connector. The earpods can use external DAC. That is inside the earphones, which gives you better dynamic range more powerful sound (specially in high impedance earphones) that require more power to amp up Plus you can also have RGB lighting because these earphones can draw power from connector Disadvantages : you can't charge your phone while listening to music Solution : manufacturers can implement to route audio via USB (most android flagships can) and they can use the marketing techniques to advertise that their device is capable to use both aux and audio via USB. Apple just wanted to get rid of it so as to save as...

These pictures or fyuses as they are calling it, are kind of like photospheres but inverted and can be viewed by tilting the phone or by touch. It captures photos in 3D space that makes pictures more immersive. You can share these fyuses on other platforms, websites or texts etc by using share link. Here is an example of how it looks https://www.fyu.se/v/smytlv3rjn Fyuse is developed by Fyusion, Inc and is available for free on iOS and Android

PhotoScan is a new scanner app from Google Photos that lets you scan and save your favorite printed photos using your phone’s camera. We all have weird childhood pictures of us. Now u can save them digitally with PhotoScan. It enhances the photo, straightens it, and removes glare.  Then you can apply filter (updated) or adjust white balance and color with the new updated photos app (coming soon) Get glare-free scans with an easy step-by-step capture flow Automatic cropping based on edge detection Straight, rectangular scans with perspective correction Smart rotation, so your photos stay right-side-up no matter which way you scan them Source : PlayStore , Google blog

Just few days back one plus teased a new phone which will have a snapdragon 821 chip. Now they have made it official. The phone is one plus 3T. OnePlus 3 and OnePlus 3T are two versions of the same phone so it's an incremental update like iPhone 6s was for iPhone 6. Now for the specs, it has Snapdragon 821 - 2.35Ghz (which is very efficient as compared to 820) 5.5 inch 1080p AMOLED panel with gorilla glass 4 New improved oxygenOS (faster, cleaner and more customizable) 3400mAh battery with Dash charging (a day's charge in ½ hr as they claim) 6GB LPDDR4 ram 16MP front as well as 16MP front camera (damn) NFC and aux jack The OnePlus 3T comes in a bold Gunmetal color, with two options for storage: 64GB and 128GB. Purchase yours on OnePlus.net starting on November 22 (US) and November 28 (EU), starting from USD 439 / EUR 439 / GBP 399. You'll also be able to buy the 64GB Soft Gold edition of the OnePlus 3T shortly after launch. Source: one ...

Android Auto was launched to better integrate phones and cars, and give drivers a seamless and safe way to access music, navigation etc. Now there are tons of manufacturers that have android auto in their car. But there are older cars that are not compatible with Android Auto. https://blog.google/ From the Google blog We’re excited to introduce a whole new way to use Android Auto: right on your phone screen! This update allows anyone with an Android phone (running 5.0 or later) to use a driver friendly interface to access the key stuff you need on the road ― directions, music, communications ― without the distraction of things that aren't essential while driving. So all you need would be an AUX cord (sorry Apple/Moto) and the android auto app will display UI same as android auto display mount. The new update will be rolling in the upcoming weeks (where android auto is available). But pretty sure apk file would allow installation to any region

Don't you wish you can run your mrsuicidesheep playlist on YouTube, lock the phone and relax? Ofcourse you do. But due to ads, YouTube won’t allow. Now sure there is xposed plug-in that lets you run YouTube in background but it’s not for average user. It’s fairly easy, here's how it’s done first you need to download Firefox browser from playstore (free)  then go to youtube.com webpage  sign in to via Google account  play it  press home button step 3  : profit Now remember don't kill the app from recents menu

Google play music is gonna go a UI overhaul in the coming week. Not only the design but there are some functional changes too. It will now give better suggestions about albums and songs. This will be done by machine learning which will learn which artists and genres you listen to most. The app will also use contextual and location to recommend tailored music. Like power music for gym and relaxing eden music for home etc. It will also change the genres according to the time of the day This personalised recommendation will be displayed in the new redesigned home screen. https://blog.google/ Not only that your playlist will be saved offline so you can twerk to DJ Khaled anytime, anywhere. We the best Google blog : a fresh take on our music streaming service that is smarter, easier to use, and much more assistive. The app will roll out globally (where play music is available). That is 62 countries as mentioned in the blog. And changes will be applied across iOS, androi...

Finding free open wifi networks feels like a jackpot. but little that you know your data can be monitored real time. Your dank memes can seen by anyone on network easily. Maybe You want to access websites that are blocked by government (IYKWIM) and want to access facebook in your university Or You want to listen to hot mixtapes on spotify but you live in a third world country and its not available. Solution ?? CyberGhost, an app which aims to tackle all your privacy needs There are tons of VPN apps in PlayStore but most of them are free. From the developer •Protects your online privacy •Automatically secures all public WiFi hotspots you connect to •Allows unlimited anonymous and secure web browsing •Protects passwords and other sensitive information from hackers and online snoopers, e.g. for safe online banking transactions •Bypasses web-blocking by government and business oriented censors •Bypasses country locks by website operators, employers, uni...

Sometimes when you accidentally click "always" on Android popup asking for which app to choose for to run a file. But you regret it afterwards.  When you need to run the file on different app. No need to panic you can reset the behavior of it in simple steps Go to settings Click on apps Then scroll down to search of the app that is your default (For eg : when you click a video file it automatically plays it in VLC media player) You'll find a tab called "app defaults" Click on it Then click clear defaults So next time when you open a video file from file manager or gallery app. It will ask which app to use to play it

THIS METHOD SHOULD WORK ON MOST APPLOCK APPS AND YOU WILL ALSO LEARN HOW TO MAKE IT MORE SECURE FOR YOURSELF first you need to go to settings then find the all apps tab scroll down to see your Applock app click force stop This should give you temporary access to all locked apps if you want to get rid of it completely, just uninstall it (it won't delete your "hidden files" and you can install again with a new passsword) Now, how to make it more secure?? lock your settings tab too. DONE!!! If the user has enabled advanced protection, you can force stop the app using Titanium Backup but that requires root OR you can hibernate the app using greenify

Now that we have the best from both major players in tech world. Let's compare and see which one is worth [Note - worth ≠ cost of a device] madebygoogle.com Build First let's see build quality. Both phones are flagship with a hefty price tag. Build quality is expected to be top of the line. iPhones are known for their premium build this time Google or rather HTC nailed it too. Both phones are build from premium materials. But iPhone looks and feels more sturdy in hand and looks pretty. Not to mention iPhone is now water resistant. Which should be standard for flagships now. And it's a shame Google couldn't achieve this. Both the phones have big ugly top and bottom bezels but iPhone has touch ID home button with 3D touch built in while in case of pixel, its just a waste of space. Hardware Now this is subjective both phones run different OSes, with different needs. Android is more demanding while iOS is easy on resources. On paper pixel looks like a...

OnePlus just announced in a Google plus  post  that a new phone will be announced With a countdown saying T - 7 . That's a week from now The video shows a comparison with the snapdragon 820 that is standard in current gen flagships This might be one plus four. But that's very unlikely, there's 90% chance this will be an update to the OnePlus 3 and could be called OnePlus 3T. This is like the iPhone rolling out new phone with a suffix 's' The phone will rock the latest snapdragon chip and we might see 2K screen. But the design is most likely to be stayed same (not that it's bad). Don't expect a big spec bump though Brave yourselves for 15th November

With newer version of windows, it doesn't completely shuts down and it rather hibernates it. It allows it to boots faster. But it creates problem with dual boot systems. because the partition is still being used by windows, it gives error when accessing in linux FIX? Boot into windows and got to your settings hardware & sound energy option define power button behaviour uncheck fastboot shutdown pc start into Linux this is disable fast boot in windows Alternatively you can hold shift when clicking shutdown it does the same thing but above method is preferable as you don't have to do it every time