Tag: Android
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CES 2017: LeEco launches Android bike
LeEco has launched two smart bicycles, the Smart Road Bike and Smart Mountain Bike, ahead of CES 2017 on Tuesday. The bicycles run LeEco’s own Android 6.0 Marshmallow-based ‘BikeOS’ and come with a touchscreen display that provides users with turn-by-turn navigation with the help of integration with Here maps. The 4-inch touchscreen display on the…
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LOOKING AHEAD: Smartphones to launch 2017
2017 is upon us, bringing with it a flurry of new top-end smartphones to get excited about. The tenth anniversary of the original iPhone means Apple may have something special in store for us this year, while Samsung will probably come out all guns blazing in order to soundly recover from the Galaxy Note 7…
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WhatsApp stops working on older Android, iPhone, Windows Phone 7 models
Popular instant messaging app WhatsApp has stopped working in older smartphones. Anyone using a smartphone running Android 2.2 Froyo or older versions of Android, apart from an iPhone 3GS or iOS 6 and lower versions of iOS, will find that WhatsApp has stopped working on their smartphones. Notably, the market share of these devices is…
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Samsung launches Focus all-in-one app
Samsung has launched Focus, a utility app that offers a unified experience for mails, contacts and calendars. Focus is already available for download on Google Play and it provides a unified view for users’ mails, calendar, and contacts for a more organized user experience. Samsung Focus, which comes with multi-account support, enables “Exchange ActiveSync (EAS),…
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Mobile OS that rocked 2016
Mobile phone technology is evolving daily, weekly and yearly; while the story of 2016 is not different, the major driving force behind mobile phones are the various mobile operation systems (OS). A mobile operating system or just mobile OS, is an operating system for smartphones, tablets, personal digital assistants (PDAs), or other mobile devices. While…
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Facebook Messenger adds group video chat
Facebook Messenger is pushing out whole new features in rapid succession as 2016 comes to a close. A week after releasing a new, Snapchat-style camera, the wildly popular messaging app is introducing group video chat, its most requested feature. Group video chat on Messenger will be available globally, both on iOS and Android, and will…
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WhatsApp soon to let you edit or revoke messages after sending them
WhatsApp is set to let users of the messaging platform to edit or revoke messages after they have been sent. The feature, which is available in WhatsApp’s iPhone beta version, WhatsApp said it is disabled by default, meaning users have to turn it on manually. Aside the edit option, iPhone users of WhatsApp now have…
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Twitter launches ‘Live Video’ with Periscope integration in-app
Twitter has launched the ability to create live videos via its Android and iOS apps with the help of Periscope. Just like Facebook, Twitter will also allow users to live stream video through the platform via a single tweet. The latest updates of Android and iOS bring this feature to Twitter, and it is already…
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Samsung to release software update to end Galaxy Note 7 tale
Samsung decided at the weekend to render a software update to stop the remaining Galaxy Note 7 phones from working for safety concerns. The update will start on Dec. 19 to prevent batteries of Note 7 from charging and actually turn the electronic products into bricks. According to Samsung, 93 percent of Note 7 owners…
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Google rolls out ‘wow’ updates on newly launched Android OS
After releasing Android 7.1 Nougat Developer Preview 2 for Nexus and Pixel devices, Google has started rolling out the final Android 7.1.1 Nougat update for compatible devices, with ‘wow’ features, to also include the company’s monthly security update for December. The new Android 7.1.1 is being touted as “an update to Nougat” by Google. This…