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According to Google+, Shahriar Hossain is a Samsung employee. And according to the Dutch website TechTastic, he posted a photo to Google+ using a device known as the SM-C101, which is better known as the Galaxy S4 Zoom. The photo has already been taken down, but don’t worry, you’re not missing much. It’s of a white building on a clear day. For those who don’t know what the GS4 Zoom is, here’s the best way to think about it: Take the GS4, give it a smaller screen, downgrade the processor, and with the money saved bump up the camera to 16 megapixels and also throw in a 10x optical zoom lens....

In Summary Launched alongside the Galaxy A52, the Galaxy A72 shares its carbonate-backed design and is even powered by the same processor. While it does come with a better camera set up, a slightly bigger display and a bigger battery, the A72 does look more like a beefed up A52 rather than a device in its own right. It faces some major competition from the new budget flagships such as the Mi 11X and the Vivo X60, which boast much better processors....

With its 2019 Galaxy S10 and Galaxy Note 10 series of devices, Samsung plans on covering every possible display size and form factor possible. Reliable leaker @UniverseIce has leaked the display sizes of all four variants of the Galaxy S10 along with the Galaxy Note 10. Samsung will be launching three different variants of the Galaxy S10 initially — S10 Lite, S10, and S10+. The ‘lite’ version will feature a flat OLED display panel measuring 5....

To further strengthen this need for change, it will soon close its own application store to older operating systems, starting with Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8. Basically, in the Microsoft Store, every Windows users can search or look for the applications they are looking for. But, now if we talk about the Windows Phone 8, then let me clear that Microsoft app store for Windows Phone 8 is the only way to get apps, hence, this new change will deeply impact all the Windows Phone 8 users....

While using an antenna is free, it’s not free from maintenance. TV stations sometimes move around to different frequencies and that means the settings on your television may no longer be accurate. You could be missing out on stations or losing access to ones you thought you had dialed in. This is an especially big deal right now since a whole host of stations are moving around over the next couple of years....

However, professional real estate managers and security authorities continuously report about online rental scams in which criminals target potential victims by offering fictitious property for rent and later requesting deposit money through a wire transfer service. Eventually, the victim remains without a property and experiences a financial loss. Such scams affect holiday as well as long-term rental markets. In 2014, the FBI received about 10,000 complains from real estate scam victims, and losses of more than $19 million were reported....

OPPO makes some great smartphones, and it has a taste for good design and can make excellent smartphone cameras. Now, it is being reported that the company wants more vertical integration by designing its own smartphones, but there’s more to that than just vertical integration. The Chinese smartphone firm wants to design its own lineup of processors so that it won’t have to depend on the likes of MediaTek, Qualcomm, and Samsung in the future, at least for smartphone smartphones....

They say Android is an open source software project, but let’s cut the crap, it’s not. Google doesn’t work with open source community, they publish Android’s source code only a handful of times per year, and most importantly, if you download Android from Google’s servers, it doesn’t come with any of the things that make Android actually useful. No Gmail app, no Google Maps, no Google Play Store, none of that....

The Oppo R11 comes equipped with a 5.5-inch FHD AMOLED display with a color gamut of up to 98.50%. In the meanwhile, the Oppo R11 Plus settles for a bigger 6-inch FHD display. The bezels on both the variants are now slimmer and on the Oppo R11, the screen-to-body ratio is 77%. Oppo R11 and the R11 Plus both come equipped with a similar camera module i.e 16-Megapixel primary sensor with a wide angle lens and an additional 20-Megapixel sensor....

thout this, otos would keep the original a new version of the picture every time you saved an edit. This would create a scattered collection of edited images that you probably didn’t want to hold onto. Now when you make an edit, otos will only show the most updated image. However, you’re able to revert to the previous photo at anytime. The otos team describes the process as, “fully reversible non-destructive....

Since we’ve just begun a new year, you’re probably looking for ways to become a better you. There are plenty of tech items out there that can help you keep your resolutions and kick those bad practices you’ve wanted to get rid of. Tap or click here for 15 things to help kick bad habits. Peering into a technological crystal ball for 2021 can be a daunting task. But at least there are some indicators as to which direction the industry is moving towards....

Today, the team took to their Google Plus page to post a teaser video of the new Immersive mode in Paranoid Android. In KitKat, Google has introduced a new Immersive mode that allows apps to hide the status bar and navigation bar for better experience. In the v4.0 of their ROM, the PA team will be introducing a system wide Immersive mode that will allow users to permanently hide the status and navigation bars....

AMD had released three series of Ryzen 7 processors, AMD Ryzen 7 1800X, AMD Ryzen 7 1700X, AMD Ryzen 7 1700. The best part of the processors is that it costs almost 35%-50% lesser compared to the Intel’s. Previously, we have seen AMD Ryzen 7 1800x breaking the world record in Cinebench R15 benchmark test. Overclockers have managed to push the AMD Ryzen 7 1800X to 5.2 GHz across all eight cores and scored 2449 Cinebench points, beating out the previous world record of 2410 on eight core processors....

Flipkart Bot Support will Start Notifying Flipkart Stock. The IT professional Shantanu Goel had developed a bot, and earlier, he said support for Flipkart is in the works. Now, the Flipkart support bot is ready to notify the Flipkart stock whenever the stock is back. Shantanu Goel said, The users need to add this bot to your Telegram app, and you will be notified when the console is back in stock....

It’s no doubt that PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds (PUBG) has become one of the most popular games in no time. The game is available on almost every platform, including PS4, PC, Android, iOS, etc. It’s a battle royale game in which you will be dropped with 99 other players on an island. To win this game, the player needs to survive until the very end. So, the last man standing can get the Chicken dinner title....

Qualcomm’s “Snapdragon 400” brand is a bit confusing. Until now, we’ve known that the Snapdragon 400 featured two Qualcomm Krait cores. Today, that changes. The company has introduced a new chip with the same Snapdragon 400 name that has four ARM Cortex A7 processors and built-in 4G LTE. This new chip has all the same features as the “old” Snapdragon 400, but this new quad core configuration is obviously beneficial form a marketing perspective....

The Galaxy Note 9 leaks cannot catch a break ahead of the handset’s official announcement later this month. Previous leaks have detailed almost every feature and specs of the handset, and now the promo video of the Galaxy Note 9 has leaked straight from Samsung. The 30-second promo video gives a clear look at the rear of the Note 9, the location of the USB-C port and the headphone jack at the bottom....

POCO will introduce a competitor of the OnePlus Nord soon, reveals PMM of POCO Global The tweet says OnePlus Nord or…. wait for the new POCO? This means that the new phone will be coming to the market. Moreover, the official Poco Global account also gave a reply to this tweet and confirmed the news of the upcoming OnePlus Nord Competitor. — Angus Kai Ho Ng (@anguskhng) August 4, 2020 According to the tweet, we can say that the new Poco smartphone will directly target the OnePlus Nord device....

One year ago the Snapdragon X50 was announced, worth remembering. At the time, Qualcomm explained that the modem supports millimeter wave frequency (mmWave) at 28GHz. Of course, this was the frequency applied to the experimental network. So, with it, the tested smartphone reached more than 1Gb/s, but the giant chip maker Qualcomm claims that when the specifications of the 5G are set, the Snapdragon X50 will reach the rate of 5Gb/s....

According to different sources, winners of the Smash the Past competition, who have agreed to either smash their current smartphone or donate it to charity in exchange for a OnePlus One for $1, have started receiving their units with a small addition and two important omissions. Gizchina posted the image above from the OnePlus One forums, where a winner in Germany shared the picture of his OnePlus One unit, which he received with a signed thank you card from Pete Lau....