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It's only a few weeks till pixel 2 launch and there's already a lots of leaks which tells pretty much everything about phone's hardware. And it doesn't look impressive at all ( as compared to iPhone 8's hardware ) We'll see better camera, OIS maybe, or dual cameras however it's very unlikely it will have 4k 60fps. So nothing new to get excited. The pixel 2 will use Snapdragon 835 chipset from Qualcomm which is pretty good but really weak ( 2 times ) in front of Apple's A11 bionic chip. Sadly Google doesn't make their own CPUs and Qualcomm doesn't have anything faster to offer untill a long time. It will have the same ufs 2.1 storage as Galaxy S8 which is very slow as compared to Apple's nVMe based storage. Just give up on UFS already sigh . It will improve on many design flaws that original pixel had, but there's nothing it will offer that Galaxy S8 doesn't ( talking about hardware purely ). And software isn...

The Flagship Killer Is Back Android Authority Website The much awaited One Plus 5 is almost here and there are already multiple leaks and rumors around the phone. Now an actual picture of the prototype has been revealed and submitted to Android Authority . This photo shows phone having a same metal unibody design from one plus 3/3T but now sports a dual camera setup which has been confirmed by the AnTuTu benchmarks. Lets talk about that now. Multiple rumors regarding the phone's specifications are coming up and this screenshot of the Benchmark by AnTuTu posted on Weibo negates a lots of those rumors .  This screenshot shows one plus 5 will have Full HD (1080p) display where as multiple rumours suggest it to have a Quad HD display. It also creates a confusion on cameras. As Multiple sources reveal, that it will have a dual camera setup but the screenshot shows a 16MP primary camera with a 16MP selfie camera. According to screensh...

https://madeby.google.com/intl/en_in/phone/ Google's home baked phone Pixel was the made to compete directly with iPhone. But upon release in 2016, it got mixed reviews. Despite having top of the line hardware and camera quality, it lacked on a few basic features that made it difficult to suggest to anyone and its high price didn't seem justifiable. Google has already started working on pixel 2 and a prototype phone code named Taimen, has been benchmarked on PrimateLabs website . Its running Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 @ 1.90 GHz 1 processor, 8 cores with 4Gb RAM which is standard for a 2017 smartphone. The phone scored pretty impressive scores. But still gets beaten by iPhone 7 in single core tests. Scores are some what similar to Samsung's Galaxy S8 in both single core and multi core. Pixel's vanilla android would make it snappier than Galaxy S8. The phone's specifications are still unknown and wont be launched anytime soon. keep in mind this was te...

Windows is all set to get a major overhaul to its UI with the upcoming fall update.All the buzz is about Fluent design (previously called project neon) its basically updates current design of elements which is very flat and opaque and adds a depth and transparency to it.. Here is a video showing five key elements that would be like guidelines for the developers to make their apps on There are five elements that will build the whole UI and framework of the apps and the OS itself. to summarize : Light Adds a pointer to elements just below the cursor / pointer. It also illuminates elements on which the focus is. this will be used widely in hololens and surface pen interface rather than a mouse interface. Depth Adds shadow elements which creates a depth and parallax effect. which is similar to material design in android. This will also change depth depending on apps and with correct animations, it can look a lot less boring as compared to current flat design. Motio...

Ever wondered how it takes milli-seconds to display million results when you search on Google, When it takes your PC minutes to search a single document you saved 10 minutes ago?? Thats because google uses crawling. Crawlers like Googlebot, look at webpages and follow links on those pages. They bring data about those webpages back to Google’s servers. The crawl process begins with a list of web addresses from past crawls and sitemaps provided by website owners.  With the robots.txt file, site owners can choose not to be crawled by Googlebot, or they can provide instructions about how to process pages on their sites. This is known as Crawling . It scans for every word, its location, metadata, links in a webpage. This is a continious process and takes a lot of computational power. Now that google all this data that it mined, Next step is to organize that data by indexing those webpages. It uses Algorithms to index that data based on different fa...

What's new in O? Android O introduces a number of new features and APIs. Here's are just a few new things for you to try Background limits:  Android now has additional automatic limits on what apps can do in the background, in three main areas:  implicit broadcasts, background services,  and location updates.  These changes will make it easier to create apps that have minimal impact on a user's device and battery. Background limits represent a significant change in Android. Notification channels:  Android O also introduces notification channels, which are new app-defined categories for notification content. Channels let developers give users fine-grained control over different kinds of notifications — users can block or change the behavior of each channel individually, rather than managing all of the app's notifications together. Android O also adds new visuals and grouping to notifications that make it easie...

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcm0Ozbkbxg   Display probably the best part about this device. it's a LCD IPS 5.7 inch display with 2880x1440 resolution. Being a ultra wide 2:1 aspect  ratio will bring letter boxing in 16:9 videos . But that narrow bezels gives it a 80% screen to body ratio. Not only that the display supports HDR video and Dolby vision. Also protected by corning gorilla glass 5. Hardware It has snapdragon 821 which has Adreno 530 GPU. paired with 6GB ram. should be more than enough to provide power for pretty much anything. However its not the latest chip from Qualcomm. Camera it keeps the Dual 13MP camera setup from LG G5 one having wider aperture other one being standard. It has dual tone LED and laser autofocus. Along with a 5MP front facing camera. Battery It gets rid of removable battery but has 3300mAh battery with wireless charging and fast charging via USB type C. Other specs   It is now is IP67 water resistant ...

VLC has revamped its UI and added a lot of new features. It looks more material and much cleaner. Some major changes include: -Support for 360 ° videos (cardboard not supported YET ) -Improved video cards - file info is now displayed on the thumbnail instead of below which makes more room. -Audio player and media list has received a major UI change and now has blurred UI seen in iOS. -Album view looks more material and has dynamic animations. -Animations when changing sorting mode. -Changes to TV interface. -Search interface received major face-lift which not only cosmetic but a lot more functional. -Support for android auto. -Action mode which lets you select multiple items. -DayNight mode integration. SOURCE

Google's communications vice president tweeted a sneak peak of Allo working on desktop. This is still in development phase. So far there are millions of users of this app. but it still lacks a lot of features which are available in WhatsApp. Google doesn't seem to like the idea of a unified messaging app. They also renamed Google messenger app (SMS only) which is now android messages. it will also support RTF. and will be default messaging app for android. Combining Allo and messenger would've made more sense, as more people will use it because it will come pre-installed. Still in early development, but coming to a desktop near you... #GoogleAllo #SneakPeek pic.twitter.com/f7QNFH7IHO — Nick Fox (@RealNickFox) February 24, 2017

Inspired by instagram stories. New WhatsApp statuses will show more info than just text. This is what the blogpost said It was just eight years ago, in February 2009, when we started writing the first lines of code for what would eventually become WhatsApp. The original idea behind the project was to build an application that lets your friends and other contacts know what you're up to. This was months before we added messaging. The first version of our app looked like this: Even after we added messaging in the summer of 2009, we kept the basic "text only" status functionality in WhatsApp. Every year, when Brian and I would plan projects to work on, we always talked about improving and evolving this original "text only" status feature. We are excited to announce that, coinciding with WhatsApp's 8th birthday on February 24, we are reinventing the status feature. Starting today, we are rolling out an update to status, which allows you to share photos and vi...

Created for power user, It is based on 10nm transistors, thats three billion ultra-efficient transistors. CPU is an octa-core (kyro cores) 64bit chip which can be clocked at 2.45Ghz. To power the graphics side, it has an Adreno 540 GPU  with support for OpenGL_ES 3.2 , OpenCL 2.0 full , Vulkan , DX12 It supports Qualcomm quick charge 4.0 with Qualcomm WiPOwer wireless charging It supports UFS 2.1 and SD 3.0 (UHS-I). Would be exciting to see if it holds up against iphone which uses nVMe. Improved DSP and audio capabilities with 3D positional audio, superior SNR (Signal-to-Noise ratio), and native DSD format support for true high fidelity playback On the connectivity side of thing, They have updated all their modems and radios. It uses Super fast Snapdragon X16 Gigabit LTE modem and support for 802.11ad multi-gigabit, as well as integrated 2x2 11ac MU-MIMO WI-Fi, which can read peak speeds of 4.6Gbps. Also supports bluetooth 5.0. the video shows native support for Iris ...

File system in computing means how a storage devices stores and reads data. To put that in perspective, Library would represent a storage device (say a hard drive) in that case, book shelfs will represent file system and individual books will represent data. So its easier to find data in if u know where to find it. Now lets see some most common file systems and where they are used FAT 8 bit (file allocation table) one of the oldest file systems designed for floppy disks and was adopted for use in hard drives and other storage devices. but has many limitations and not used today. FAT12/FAT16/FAT 32 (improved versions of file allocation system) It had many advantages over original one. each one is progressively improved on previous one, FAT32 being the latest one. it is widely used in flash drives but cannot accept file sizes more than 32MB for FAT 12, 2GB for FAT16 and 4GB for FAT32. This file system is soon going to be outdated as file sizes are increasing because of high resoluti...

A beta update (v10.xxx) to the iOS and android overhauls the UI completely and now looks more functional and somewhat snappier few noticeable changes are different colors for stories tab (purple) and chats (blue) repositioned discover icon a new persistent search bar which lets you search chats and groups you can tap on your bitmoji to access settings (swipe down action still works) also a quick share menu appears next to it however it still sucks as compared to iOS app

HTC's latest premium offering is HTC U ultra which has curved glass back (very Samsung like) which they are calling "liquid surface" these look drop dead gorgeous The phone runs latest hardware as expected from a 2017 flagship snapdragon 821 RAM: 4GB storage: 64GB, expandable upto up to 2TB 3000mAh battery with quick charge 3.0 USB 3.1 Gen 1 Type-C It has a 5.7" 1440p screen. It also adopts the best feature from LG V10, which is a secondary screen and displays info like your top contacts, app shortcuts, event notifications etc. IT has improved camera module from HTC 10 ( DXOmark 88) which has super-fast laser focus and new Phase Detection Auto Focus (PDAF)the phone also has four omni directional mics that lets you capture 360 degree audio camera specs - 12 MP with 1.55 micron pixel f1.8 lens and OIS They also include USonic earphone which scans your ear canal with a sonic boom and mods its sound. But they removed the 3.5mm audio jack.

version 2.17.6 beta makes sending gifs easier by integrating Giphy in it. The process is fairly simple, there's another tab in the emoji drawer that lets you search gifs. Another change which is a useful, the limit for sending maximum images us now increased to 30 images (which was first only 10). To get this update sign up for beta program or grab the apk from apkmirror

Cerberus is the most robust anti-theft app, with lots of features. It's your best chance to get your phone back. Once installed and setup on phone it can -List call details, network and WiFi information. -Record audio, take pictures and videos. -wipe internal storage and SD card. -hide the app from app drawer. -Get the location history. -send photo of the thief when wrong unlock code is entered (via email). -send notification when sim is changed (via sms). But to get into full Skynet mode. There's an advanced option which needs root access. With advanced protection enabled, -it can install the app as a system application so it can't be uninstalled even with a factory reset. -enabling GPS remotely. -it will also work without internet connection (with sms commands -it can send information when a new sim is inserted. The app can send commands via sms or via web interface ( https://www.cerberusapp.com ). It can also send automatic commands via preset...

Microsoft teased a video featuring a high quality speaker with cortana in it. Everyone is getting into PA game. Microsoft partnered with Harmon kardon to build the speaker. So better audio is expected. Also the build quality seems to be better than plastic build Google home atleast. There's a halo ring at the top of the speaker like Google's four dots. There's no more information available about the product other than the fact that it's gonna be released in 2017. Look at the video yourself:

G board was released for iOS a long time ago and lots of people praised it. But android users felt left out. Now Google updated finally made it available for Android You can search for emojis or anything right from keyboard and send it directly. The update 6.0 also renames the app to well, G board. Also gesture typing is now called glide typing. Emojis themselves looks somewhat different. There's also a new icon and option to toggle number row for keyboard You can wait for the update to hit play store or download the apk

Assistant was probably one of the biggest and most unique features of pixel phones. But you don't need to be feel left out, as you can install it on any phone running nougat phone Here's how to do it First you need to download a build prop editor Then search for ro.product.model Change it to "Pixel" or "Pixel XL" Again search for ro.opa.eligible_device Change it to "true" Then click save and reboot your phone Now goto settings > apps > Google App Clear app cache Click manage space Clear all data And you've got yourself working assistant on your phone just by long pressing