Author: Alvin Wanjala

Oppo F11 and F11 Pro users will soon have a chance to use Google’s latest Android version, splashed on top with Oppo’s custom UI, ColorOS 7. According to the company, owners of the two devices can now be able to test out the early version of the software before the official rollout. The beta group is currently open to few users using either of Oppo’s F11 series devices, including the Oppo F11, F11 Pro, and F11 Pro Marvel’s Avengers Limited Edition. The company says it will only allow 2000 users into the beta program in the first trial phase. To…

MediaTek has big plans for 2020. Part of the new plans was to re-enter the flagship market, which they did, and to bring 5G to the midrange segment. The company announced its new line of chipset dubbed Dimensity that will help it achieve this goal. Dimensity 1000 was the first chipset in line with integrated 5G. On top of that, the Taiwanese semiconductor company has recently announced a new chipset in the series to power budget-friendly mid-range phones. It, therefore, has less computational power than the Dimensity 1000 and 1000L. Targeting the mid-range category, Dimensity 800 SoC is a direct…

Oppo has officially unveiled Reno 3 series devices. The first in line are two different devices – the Reno 3 and Reno 3 Pro. Oppo Reno 3 The Oppo Reno 3 sports a quite familiar design that is similar to most devices on the market. You get a dewdrop notch and gradient colors, a common feature to Reno devices. It comes with a 6.4-inch FHD+ AMOLED display and is the first phone shipping with MediaTek’s Dimensity 1000L chipset, under the hood. You have two variants to choose from here. Either an 8GB model or a 12GB model paired with 128GB…

Google has started testing floating conversations, a feature that is part of a new API for “Bubbles.” What this API does is it enables you to have messages and other functions floating on top of your display inside a bubble. This works similarly to Facebook Messenger Chat heads. Google had announced this feature at Google I/O 2019 and was supposed to ship inside Android 10. That changed later when the company decided to only include the API in Android 10 for developers to start working on it to bring full support in Android 11. According to recent reports, the company…

Android devices cannot record videos larger than 4GB in size, which is funny. The worst part is that it has been the case for quite some time. This is one of the areas where the Android OS has failed terribly in keeping up with the hardware developments in the industry. Google introduced this 4GB file size limit for video recordings back in 2014. For that time, this was effective given the hardware capabilities of devices at the time. But since the camera hardware on phones has significantly revolutionized over the years, plus stock enough on-board storage, this limit is ridiculous,…

Since the US ban kicked in, Huawei has stayed strong, and the company has shown no sign of weakness when it comes to its mobile business. The company is still having a good time with sales, and they even want to be fully independent of Google soon. They even made their OS, but that is far from ready being used as a driver to their mobile devices. Huawei has been keen on developing its own Google Mobile Services alternatives in recent months. Dubbed Huawei Mobile Services (HMS), this is what is coming to replace Google’s essential apps. Straight from the…

Xiaomi’s Redmi K20 or Mi 9T depending on the markets is receiving a new MIUI 11 update that is based on Android 10. Xiaomi already seeded out the first version of MIUI 11 to Redmi K20 phones, but it was solely based on Android 9.0 Pie. This is because Xiaomi, unlike other Android OEMs who develop their skins based on the Android version, the Chinese company does so independently. That explains why you will find phones running MIUI 11 but based on old Android versions like Pie, as well as new versions. MIUI 11 based on Android 10 for the…

The YouTube Creator community is no longer just doing things independently – we have seen collaborations become a common thing now and then. To make it easy for users to find featured creators in a single video, YouTube is testing a new feature on its Android app. The new feature is a section named ‘featured in this video.’ Under this section, YouTube will show all the list of participant YouTube creators along with links to their channels and also a one-click button to subscribe. This will make it better to showcase participants other than the usual way creators have resolved…

2020 is here, and before we receive a successor of the Huawei P30 series, which is coming at the end of March, Huawei wants to launch a new version of the P30 Lite. Huawei P30 Lite 2020 will follow up on the P30 Lite initially launched in March this year. Keep in mind that the company has not been silent about the series all year long to date. They have already introduced an upgrade to the P30 Lite, which was known as the P30 Lite New Edition. Huawei P30 Lite New Edition featured small upgrades from the camera systems to…

Twitter is finally stepping up its game to ensure your images look nice even after you post them on the platform. For long, the company has been aggressively compressing images to save on space, thus resulting in poor image quality. That does not only apply to twitter. Other platforms like Facebook do compress images, too. This practice is common because it helps the platforms save on space and bandwidth. But on Twitter, things are about to change for the better. The company has stated that it will loosen up their image size restrictions. Twitter’s engineer Nolan O’Brien announced that the company from…