Future Samsung flagship phones may be badly affected after Samsung announced that it will be closing its custom CPU division. The division was responsible for developing the Mongoose cores used in the SoCs found in flagship devices such as Galaxy S10 or the Note 10 Plus. This means that a group of around 300 will be let go by end of December. “Based upon a thorough assessment of our System LSI business and the need to stay competitive in the global market, Samsung has decided to transition part of our U.S.-based R&D teams in Austin and San Jose,” the statement said. From the…
Author: John Nyabuto
The tablet market is not as competitive as it used to be in the past and we are not getting a feel of commitment from tech companies to make them even better as we do on flagship phones or phones in general. Pro tablet models are the few ones which have been making tremendous progress and it seems like Huawei has dived right into it with a rumoured Pro slate of its own. Images of the Huawei tablet have been posted by 91mobiles. The images apparently show this new tablet, along with a magnetic keyboard case and stylus. It’s believed…
I bet there is no phone which has been leaked a lot like the Google Pixel 4. We’ve seen very many leaks this week in addition to a variety of leaks in previous weeks, and we’ve got even more leaks dropping today. While there wasn’t a lot of new information to learn since the 2019 Pixels have leaked so much already, those marketing images did provide us with our highest quality look at the Google Pixel 4 features so far. Here are new details from the updated version of the “Pixel Tips” app. The Tips app debuted on Pixel 3 as a way…
App shortcuts have been around since 2016 with Android 7.1 Nougat. Depending on how you use your device, you will realize that app shortcuts are either absolutely crucial or just unheard of because you rarely use them. If you use them a lot, you will, however, realize that Instagram doesn’t have an app shortcut. Instagram originally added support for iOS’s app shortcut equivalent with the launch of 3D Touch on the iPhone 6S in 2015. Now, hot on the heels of dark mode support for Android 10, it seems some people may also be getting app shortcuts. Just like the current…
WhatsApp updates have given us a few new features this year, including better Google Assistant support and fingerprint authentication. Whatsapp is now working on disappearing messages which is a Snapchat inspired feature. This feature according to WABetaInfo will be available for group chats but private chats might be getting it later as well. The screenshots suggest that WhatsApp’s disappearing messages functionality takes an all-or-nothing approach. That is, either all messages in the chat disappear or none of them. In other words, it doesn’t seem like you can send just one disappearing message to someone. The user can mark the chat as “disappeared” enabling…
Realme, after introducing the Realme X2 last week, have revealed again that they are soon launching a flagshig smartphone featuring Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 855+ chipset. The device was codenamed Super Samurai by Realme’s Chief Marketing Officer Xu Qi Chase on Weibo. In the post, Chase used a device called ‘Realme X2 Pro Super Samurai’ to share the message which has left many thinking that the phone to be launched will be called Realme X2 Pro. Realme first hinted at an upcoming flagship smartphone powered by the Snapdragon 855+ chipset back in July when it reposted Qualcomm China’s Weibo post detailing the chipset. Realme is…
Following the release of iOS 13 last week, read-it-later service, Instapaper for iOS, has been updated to take advantage of the new features. Today it launched Instapaper 7.8 for iOS 13 and in the new version, dark mode will automatically turn on when you enable dark mode at the system level through iOS Settings > Display & Brightness > Dark mode. Disabling dark mode will return Instapaper to your normal non-dark mode theme. If you set your device to automatically go into dark mode, Instapaper will mirror the transition. Additionally, they rewrote the article list to improve scroll performance, especially during large…
Yesterday, Apple confirmed the launch date for iPadOS when it announced the new iPhone 11, iPhone 11 Pro and even the iPhone 11 Pro Max. iPadOS is out but you will have to wait a little bit longer to download it. It will come up as iPadOS 13.1 when you are ready to download it. It also means that the new iPad Pro which will be launched in mid-October will likely come with the iPadOS pre-installed. Not all iPads are getting the new update though, some, like the original iPad Air, iPad Mini 3 and the iPad Mini 2, are nearing the end of…
Xiaomi just announced its Mi Full Screen TV Pro series which comes in 43-inch, 55-inch and 65-inches at an event in China. These MI Full Screen TV Pro runs on a new Amologic 12nm T972 chip and have a quad-core processor architecture. Its processor can hit 1.9GHZ speeds which means better performance and up to 55% power efficiency. Storage-wise, MI Fullscreen comes with 32GB of storage and 2GB RAM. This TV also supports 8K video playback, thanks to the 9th gen image processing engine. They also have narrow bezels, a high screen-to-body ratio at 97%. In addition, it has an…