Android
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Official OnePlus 6T Images Reveal Waterdrop-Notch, On-screen Fingerprint Scanner And More
The OnePlus 6T is a highly anticipated device as OnePlus is known to introduce flagship killer phones and the same seems to be the case for the OnePlus 6T. According to most recent reports from Winfuture.mobi, the upcoming OnePlus 6T is going to feature a waterdrop-notch, so you will have more screen to use.…
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Google Takes The Leap Into Wireless Charging With The New Pixel Stand
Google’s next flagship phone, the Pixel 3 is coming. There’s a lot of hype for this phone because the Pixel devices are generally known for their excellent camera quality. So much so that the Pixel 2’s camera still manage to beat many flagship devices in 2018. Then there’s the stock…
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Google Pixel 3 To Have DXO Rating Of 107, Higher Than iPhone XS
Google Pixel 3 is a device that has yet to be released and while we have been getting plenty of leaks and speculations regarding what the upcoming smartphone is going to offer, there is no confirmation regarding the Google Pixel 3 until it has been unveiled and confirmed by Google.…
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Google Pay Will Implement A QR Code Payment System Soon According To New Leak
With the growth of digital payment services across the globe, Google has been pushing it’s very own service, Google Pay originally known as Android Pay, which lets you transfer and receive money from users as well as pay for goods and services purchased in stores using the NFC module. Google…
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Facebook Brings More functionality To WhatsApp – New Sticker Feature Showed Off In Recent Leak
Whatsapp has been around for as long as the trend of “Internet Messengers” has begun, even kickstarting the trend at the largest scale and capitalizing on the business first. It has inspired a lot of different knockoffs since the starting days and very honestly a lot of those knockoffs had…
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Privacy Focused Android Rom Without Google Functionality Based On LineageOS Enters Beta
A few years back there were a lot of mobile OS systems, we had Symbian, Blackberry OS and IOS among many others. Google entered the market with Android, although it wasn’t an instant hit, they gained huge momentum overtime. Part of Android’s success was definitely due to its open source…
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One Plus 6 Android Pie Beta Patch 3 Brings Gestures, Google Assistant and 5th September Security Patch
One Plus 6 has been one of the first devices to bring Android 9 Pie at a consumer level with their Open Beta for the platform. One Plus just released a new patch for the Open Beta, and as you’d expect from a new patch the Build Number A6003_22_180915 Beta 3…
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Samsung Health 6.0 offers updated health and fitness tools with a more personalized digital health forum
Samsung Electronics today announced the release of a new version of its Samsung Health app, Samsung Health 6.0 which includes various improvements and new features. The app is currently in use by more than 65 million people worldwide. The latest version of Samsung Health includes updated tools of health and…
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Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Scores 103 points in DXOMark Shows Better Auto-Focus Performance Than The S9
DxOMark is a website which rates cameras’ image qualities. This measure was initially only for standalone cameras such as DSLRs, but as smartphones started coming out with decent cameras post 2010, DXOMark started rating and reviewing these as well. The Samsung galaxy note 9 comes equipped with a 12MP (f/1.5-2.4,…
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Huawei Caught Manipulating Benchmarks, Issues Statements Blaming Chinese Market
A few weeks ago we covered Huawei using a professional DSLR camera in a commercial about their selfie capabilities, and it seems they just can’t stop finding ways to try and trick consumers – this time, its benchmarks they’re manipulating. Benchmarks are a popular and (until now?) legitimate way of…
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Unofficial LineageOS 16 Build Brings Android Pie On The One Plus 6
One Plus 6 was received quite well by critics this year and like every year, OnePlus packed the best hardware available for Android phones and priced the OP6 nominally, undercutting many flagship phones. Delivering flagship performance at not so flagship prices. Given that the One Plus 6 is very well…
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Rumors Hint At Samsung’s Upcoming Flagship Flip-Phone With Snapdragon 845
All of Samsung’s premium smartphone releases for 2018 have been done, they had a phenomenal lineup this year including the Galaxy S9 series and the Note series. But not a lot of people know about this, Samsung actually has a premium flip-phone lineup exclusively for China. Samsung released their first…
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Samsung W2019 Flagship Rumours, Project Code-Name Lykan Confirmed Via Leaks
There are rumours surfacing that a brand new Samsung flagship device which could feature the Qualcomm Snapdragon 845 (likely the W2019 version) could be released in China. This is after Samsung has already released two flagship devices this year – the Samsung Galaxy S9, and the Samsung Galaxy Note 9.…
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Huawei Update that Breaks Magisk Likely Isn’t Intentional, Easy Way to Fix Inside
A recent update to Huawei devices has apparently broken Magisk installations and caused those devices to no longer boot, unless the stock ramdisk image is flashed. After Huawei and Honor stopped offering bootloader unlock codes for the development community, some saw this as an attempt to force rooted users into…
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Several Android Games Including Fortnite Now Running On Rooted Devices Thanks To A New Version Of Magisk
Rooting a smartphone can be very rewarding, it opens a ton of possibilities that have been restricted in locked phones. You can install custom roms, uninstall bloatware and run utility apps that require root access among other things. But many apps, due to safety concerns actually don’t work on rooted…
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Xiaomi Poco F1 and Mi 8 Receive Unofficial TWRP Builds
The latest sub-brand under the Xiaomi umbrella, called Poco, has been received enthusiastically by the Android community, particularly the flagship Xiaomi Pocophone F1. The Pocophone F1 features 6GB/64GB RAM and internal memory, a 20MP front camera and 12MP + 5MP dual rear cameras, it is running Android 8.1 Oreo, and…
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Samsung Galaxy S10 Might Be Priced Higher Than $1000 With Multiple Models Featuring 5G
After an extremely successful launch of the Samsung Galaxy Note 9, the Korean Manufacturer has probably reached far into the development of its S9 successor, which could be one of the first ever smartphones to have 5G. But the new telecommunication standard won’t come without a cost of its own.…
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Razer Phone 2 GeekBench Scores Leaked To Come With 8GBs Of Ram And Snapdragon 845
In 2017 Razer surprised everyone by launching a new phone. Back then, gaming phones weren’t really a thing, specially coming from companies who make gaming peripherals. The original Razer Phone was a great product, it had a good 5.7 inch 2K IPS LCD display, Snapdragon 835 and 8GBs of ram.…
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Official Open GApps Packages Now Available for Android Pie ROMs
Earlier in August we covered an unofficial OpenGApps release for Android Pie ROMs, but now custom ROMs have an official OpenGApps package to flash. This is great for Android Pie custom ROM developers and users of third party ROMs who need to include the latest Google Apps in their ROMs…
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Updated Android Bionic Commit Suggests API Level 29 will be Android Q
Android Framework versions are presented by API Levels. It is just an integer number which represents the versions. For example, Android 8.0 Oreo has an API Level of 26, Android 8.1 Oreo has an API Level of 27, and Android 9 Pie has an API Level of 28. Starting right…
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Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 GeekBench Scores Leaked Comes Close To Apple’s A11 Bionic
With every flagship phone having a Snapdragon 800 series chip, there’s a lot of pressure on Qualcomm to keep increasing performance every year. Snapdragon processors have always seen good gains with their releases every year, beating a lot of chip makers in the process. We recently saw the Kirin 980…
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Honor Brings Back Bootloader Unlock Codes for XDA Devs Only
Back in July we wrote about how Huawei / Honor decided to stop honoring (pun intended) bootloader unlock requests, officially ceasing the bootloader unlock program for all Huawei and Honor devices. It seems that they’re slightly compromising with the development community, however, as Honor has decided to provide bootloader unlock…
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TWRP 3.2.3-1 Now Supports Data Decryption on Google Pixel Devices
Owners of Google Pixel devices on Android Pie most likely have a PIN / password setup to secure your device, and if you want to create a Nandroid backup (or flash a file from the internal storage), you would typically need to remove the protection method before booting into TWRP…
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Xiaomi Bootloader Unlock Times Seemingly Increased to 2 Months
For some strange reason, users of Xiaomi phones that want to unlock their bootloaders are reporting waiting times of up to two months for their official bootloader unlock code from Xiaomi. While some manufacturers like to lock down the bootloaders of their devices to prevent device tampering, a further subsection…
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Magisk 17.1 Introduces Tons of Fixes Including OTA Updates With A/B Partition Devices
For quite a while now, Magisk has been the top rooting method (or at least the most preferred method) in the Android rooting community, due to the advantages of having a systemless root versus a system root. Magisk Modules have also helped bridge the gap of pros vs cons, by…
