Pre-book the OnePlus 6T and get free Type-C Bullet earphones

OnePlus has a deal for potential 6T buyers - pre-book the phone now and you'll get a free pair of Type-C Bullets earphones. You need to purchase a INR1,000 (€12) Amazon Pay gift card, use it towards the purchase of a OnePlus 6T on November 2 or 3, get INR500 cashback and a coupon to buy the Type-C Bullet earphones for free. All the details on the deal can be found in the Source link below. The OnePlus 6T will become official on October 30 and will go on sale on the same day. It will have a 3,700mAh battery, in-display fingerprint scanner, no 3.5mm headphone jack and a 6.41-inch...

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Apple releases iOS 12.0.1 to fix XS charging issue

Apple has released iOS 12.0.1, which fixes one of the issues users had reported. It fixes the problem where connecting the charger cable to the iPhone XS would occasionally not start the charging until the display was turned on. iOS 12.1 change log Apart from that, the update also fixes a couple of other issues, including a Wi-Fi issue where the iPhone XS would apparently connect to 2.4GHz instead of 5GHz band when rejoining. The position of the .?123 key has also been switched back in this update on the iPad. iOS 12 swapped the position of the .?123 key and the...

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Lenovo teases one of Z5 Pro's four cameras - 2x telephoto confirmed

The Lenovo Z5 Pro was officially teased with a quad camera and the details keep trickling in. The latest to come out of Lenovo HQ are four photos taken with the 2x telephoto camera. So, one of the four cameras will be a telephoto one and another is going to have a regular Field of View. That leaves two more cameras with unknown function (wide-angle, B&W, depth sensor, even 3x tele, there are many possibilities). Lenovo S5 Pro camera samples from the 2x telephoto cam Note that the official name of the phone is Lenovo S5 Pro. Perhaps this is to distance the flagship from the...

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Google shuts down Google+ following massive security flaw

Google exposed the data of hundreds thousands of Google+ users due to a faulty API, according to a report by The Wall Street Journal. As part of reparations, the company is permanently shutting down Google+. The API in question, allowed developers access to the public data of the users who signed up to use the app that used that API. The bug in the API allowed the developers to not just access the private, non-public data of the users who signed up as well as people they are connected to. Google found up to 438 apps that used this API and 496,951 users may have been affected by this...

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Tickets for the OnePlus 6T event in New York and New Delhi now available

As is tradition, OnePlus is selling tickets for its launch event. For $20/€17/£16/₹999 you can get a ticket and a gift - a pair of Bullets Wireless headphones as well as "exclusive memorabilia". Plus, you'll get to experience the OnePlus 6T reveal live. There will be two concurrent events held on October 30. One is in New York at Pier 36 (1,300 spots), the other in New Delhi inside the Indira Gandhi Stadium Complex (1,500 spots). There will be a livestream (on YouTube) for those who can't attend plus a launch megathread for those who want to chat. It goes without saying that...

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Google Pixel 3 and Pixel 3 XL screen specs and colors leak

At this point most of the details regarding the Google Pixel 3 and Pixel 3 XL have been revealed through the plethora of leaks, but today we have some new information to share. The screen sizes, screen resolution and the colors of the phones have bee detailed in a pair of leaked official-looking pamphlets. The Pixel 3 and Pixel 3 XL will both have 1080p screens, 5.5-inch and 6.3-inch respectively, and will come in three colors - Clearly White, Just Black and Not Pink. We cannot verify if the information is correct but Google will clear it all up tomorrow at the official launch...

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Facebook wants to put a mic and camera in your home with the Portal

Facebook has announced Portal, a series of devices that let you do voice or video calls to other Facebook and Messenger users. Two different models were announced today, the Portal and the larger Portal+. The smaller Portal is an Amazon Echo Show style device, which is basically a giant display with a speaker. The 10.1-inch display has a resolution of 1280x800 and has 10W dual speakers. The Portal uses an array of four far-field microphones that records your conversations picks up your voice commands and a 12MP wide-angle camera that watches you sleep lets you make video...

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Oppo to launch Hyper Boost for hardware acceleration

Huawei introduced hardware acceleration feature called GPU Turbo that optimizes system utilization for heavy usage like games. The fellow Chinese manufacturer Oppo decided to follow suit and scheduled an event for October 11 in Shanghai called Hyper Boost Tech Meeting, according to an invite sent out to Chinese media. The poster contains a teaser, saying "Towards an era of acceleration", suggesting it will indeed be a feature that will boost GPU and/or CPU performance. Since the launch is just a day after the official announcement of the Oppo K1, sources suggest the two might ...

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The nubia X dual screen phone will be unveiled on October 31

Ni Fei, CEO of ZTE's nubia sub-brand, has officially confirmed that the nubia X will be unveiled on October 31. The teaser doesn't offer much beyond the date and a stylized X, but the most recent leaks lead us to believe that this is the dual screen nubia we've been seeing lately. The nubia X will be unveiled on October 31 We've been calling this phone the "nubia Z18s", but clearly a new name is in order (it's quite different from the regular Z18, an "s" is not enough). Going by TENAA, the screen on the front is a 6.26" LCD panel (1,080 x 2,280px). It doesn't have a notch as there's...

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Headphone jack check: Huawei Mate 20 will have it, Mate 20 Pro will not

The "will they, won't they" saga regarding the Huawei Mate 20 and Mate 20 Pro's 3.5mm headphone jacks will not be officially resolved until October 16. Still, the rumor mill seems to have settled on an answer, and it's that things remain the same - the base Mate will have a headphone jack, the Mate Pro will not (just like the Mate 10 duo last year). You can see this in these leaked renders of a Mate 10. The round hole on the left (second image) is pretty clearly for the jack. The hole on the right could be for an IR blaster, while the holes on the bottom side are loudspeaker, USB-C and...

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BlackBerry KEY2 LE arrives in India as Amazon Exclusive

BlackBerry took the stage at IFA 2018 and introduced the KEY2 LE as a toned-down version of the KEY2. The device appeared for pre-order in Europe immediately after the launch, but the US arrival happened only last Friday. The next big market to get the phone is India, where the KEY2 LE will be an Amazon Exclusive and pre-orders begin on October 12. The KEY2 LE offered in India is the Space Blue version with 4 GB RAM and 64 GB storage. It is expected to arrive tomorrow on the online retailer's website with its own landing page, but availability is reserved for the Friday...

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Leaked Pixel 3 XL press image shows stock wallpaper

Evleaks has leaked the latest press image of perhaps the most leaked device in smartphone history, the Pixel 3 XL. In this image we can see one of the color options of the phone, called Clearly White. The image shows both the front and back of the phone, including what seems to be the official default wallpaper of the phone. Interestingly, it's just a giant 3 on a white background that matches the phone. We assume there will be a different version for each of the three color options to match the phone's color. This is not the first time we have seen a wallpaper from this...

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Nokia 5.1 Plus review

The Nokia 7.1 may have a dual camera and a tall-aspect screen like the Nokia 7 Plus, but otherwise, the new phone is a thorough update of its predecessor. It adds a faster processor, a bigger HDR-capable PureDisplay, better cameras, better build, modern design while retaining the reasonable price, the wide availability, and the Android One experience.

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Apple Watch Series 4 bootloops due to Daylight Savings Time

Daylight Saving Time is tricky for most and Apple is no exception - the latest Apple gadget to be hit by a time bug is the Watch Series 4. This is an issue more serious than most, the watch can spend a whole day stuck in a bootloop. This is caused by the Activity complication, which fails when the time changes by an hour. You can attempt to remove it from the app on your phone, if successful this will resolve the issue. If not, the problem should go away by itself tomorrow. Daylight savings has bitten Apple before. On iOS 7, the Calendar app displayed the wrong time (that was...

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Samsung details Android Pie features ahead of January 2019 rollout

Samsung is usually late on the OS upgrade and it appears the trend will continue with Android Pie as well. Samsung France asked the Samsung Members community to share the issues that they want fixed and features they'd like to see in the package. The post about the changes also clarified that updates will be issued in January 2019. General UI changes Some features that are already available on Galaxy S9 and Galaxy Note9 devices like adding an interval after typing a dot with the native keyboard. There will also be support for VoLTE and VoWiFi for older devices since the...

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Oppo K1 appears in hands-on image

A phone that looked like a mixture of Oppo R17 Pro and the Oppo R15 appeared on TENAA and later on Geekbench with a Snapdragon 660 chipset. It has a tall 19.5:9 screen ratio with Full HD+ resolution, and now, thanks to a leaked live photo we can add a waterdrop notch to the picture. The picture of the phone, allegedly called Oppo K1, is in an industrial case to protect the phone from spy shots. Obviously, it works only slightly since we can see it will come with a huge screen and the latest Color OS. The picture does not reveal much, but looking at all the gathered images so far,...

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