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The company is none other than Oppo, a relatively unknown hardware vendor outside China. However, Oppo is known and has been appreciated for releasing Find 5 earlier this year, that packed high-end hardware in mid-range prices, along with its strong custom ROM/community backing. The revelation comes from the just released trailer from Oppo for its upcoming handset – the N1. The trailer only shows Steve Kondik, wearing Google Glass, saying that he is looking forward to attending Oppo’s event in Beijing next week....

Now that your kids are home all day, they’re likely online most of the time as well. Tap or click here for an app to help manage your kids’ screen time. But other than managing how long they’re connected to the internet, it’s also important to ensure they’re being safe on it. Although it can be a chore to keep up with everything your children do, especially online, you can help protect them by setting parental controls....

While many of us have the tragic events of the day fresh in our minds like it was yesterday, some are too young to remember or weren’t born yet. Tap or click here for some sites and interactive tours detailing the events. This Saturday marks the 20th anniversary of 9/11, and major TV networks are broadcasting commemorative events from around the country live. Keep reading to find out how to catch the coverage as it happens live....

According to a report in The Information, held meetings with various hardware partners this fall showed off some concepts it was interested in building for future versions of Android. ile has partnered annually with a hardware maker for its Nexus phones (there were two this year: Huawei), such a step would be a new level of involvement. According to the report, much of the discussion stemmed from the company’s hope to build an “enterprise connectivity device” created almost exclusively in-house....

No, there aren’t many of those, are there? But employees understand, especially after working in several companies, that bosses can have varying styles and varying personality types. The suspicion often remains, however, that the boss is up to something and the employees haven’t quite found out what it is. This suspicion has been exacerbated during the COVID-19 pandemic. Bosses are spying on employees, but no one is spying on the bosses....

And you are by no means the only one. It has been estimated that 22 billion robocalls were logged in the first five months of this year alone. That is a lot of time and resources that go into something so intrusive. It’s estimated that 52 billion robocalls will have been made in the U.S. before the year is over. But if you are tired of the constant badgering, there is some good news on the horizon....

Samsung today formally announced the results of its in-depth investigations into the Galaxy Note 7 explosions. The company conducted its investigation on over 200,000 units of the Galaxy Note 7 and tested every single aspect of the device like water resistance, USB-C port, fast charging, iris scanner, software, and more. However, in its internal tests, Samsung did not find any issue with the internals of the handset. So, it also examined the production process and hired third-party investigators UL, Exponent and TUV Rheinland AG to conduct their own independent investigations....

OnePlus is prepping up its lineup for 2021. The OnePlus 9 has already been leaked multiple times and we are yet to know the official details. OnePlus is expected to launch three models, namely, the OnePlus 9, 9 Pro, and a 9 Lite/9E. The latest round of leaked live images reveals a punch-hole camera and a reverse wireless charging feature. All the models in the OnePlus 9 series are likely to support reverse wireless charging....

On Thursday, Oppo launched the new Reno 7 series in China, comprising three different models, namely the Oppo Reno 7 5G, Oppo Reno 7 Pro 5G, and the Oppo Reno 7 SE 5G. Oppo Reno 7 5G Specifications, Internals, and Camera Details The new 185-gram Oppo Reno 7 5G measures 156.8×72.1×7.59mm. It sports a Qualcomm Snapdragon 778G chip paired with up to 12GB of LPDDR4x RAM and up to 256 GB of UFS 2....

The conservative half is fed up with Twitter and moving on. These users are tired of Twitter’s algorithms and corporate management regulating speech on its platform. A 2-year-old Twitter-Facebook alternative has suddenly exploded to become America’s No. 1 downloaded news app. Parler, which is French for “to talk,” was set up to be a nonbiased, free speech-driven platform. While it’s supposed to be pronounced “par-lay,” the world has settled on “par-lour....

One of the biggest deals being offered right now is on Alexa-enabled devices. These smart speakers can do it all, and they’re great for keeping in touch with loved ones near and far away. In fact, Kim just bought six Echo Shows so everyone in the family can drop in to say hi to her Mom. They’re $80 off right now, so she saved an insane $480! If you’ve been eyeballing a smart speakers, now is the time to make your move....

Qualcomm today unveiled its new premium mid-range chipset, the Snapdragon 712 Mobile Platform. It is the successor to the Snapdragon 710 chip unveiled by Qualcomm last year. The Snapdragon 712 is based on a 10nm FinFET processor and features Qualcomm’s Kyro 360 CPU, Adreno 616 GPU, and a Hexagon 685 DSP. When compared to the Snapdragon 710, the newer Snapdragon chip offers up to a 10 percent performance improvement. This performance improvement primarily comes from a small bump in clock speed — 2....

Gmail 4.7 now lets you set up an away message with the Vacation Responder. st as in the web client, you can set a start end date for when the service should send out an automatic message that you’re out enjoying yourself. en you’re done having fun, you can easily toggle the messages on off from within the app. also added the ability to send attachments from the mobile client, such as documents, Fs, ....

Here’s what they wrote: “I have thousands (approx 8,000) photos scanned and saved and I plan to add more. Is there a device or app that can turn my TV screen into a digital photo album to scroll through all those photos like a digital frame would do? I have used a jump drive, but it doesn’t scroll through all the pictures on the jump drive and they are very small on the TV....

Technical Specifications The new Realme C30 comes with a Unisoc SoC. It is an octa-core chip clocked at 1.82GHz. Realme has paired the processor with 3GB of RAM. The phone comes with 32GB of UFS 2.2 internal storage. A dedicated microSD card slot allows you to increase storage up to 1TB. The Realme C30 comes with 4G LTE cellular, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth v5.0, and GPS/A-GPS for connectivity. The phone can be charged using the micro USB port, although it would have been nice to have a USB-C port for better compatibility....

On the outside, the RealMe Buds seem like any other pair of wired earphones with a black overall and a three-button remote for controlling the volume, playback, you get the idea. The ear tips are said to be bent ever so slightly at 45-degrees for producing a more comfortable fit, especially for prolonged periods. Speaking of the tips, they’re magnetic, a perk usually reserved for more higher-end Bluetooth earphones. The cable itself is made out of kevlar fiber which prevents it from getting tangled quickly and is break-resistant....

Well, now the company aims to change the broadband landscape too. In September 2016, the company had tested FTTH (fibre-to-the-home) that promises broadband speeds of up to 1Gbps. Well, the good news is now the company had started to roll outs its Jio Fiber FTTH service in Mumbai. According to the reports from India Today, there are some buildings in Mumbai where people can subscribe to the service, following the finishing of the cable installation for the Jio Fibre, which began in November last year....

How much room is there to grow? ll, the entire phone market (including both smartphones dumbphones) shipped 448.6 million phones over the quarter, almost the same number of phones shipped last year. Because smartphone shipments grew total phone shipments stayed relatively flat, we can safely infer that the “convert all those dumbphones to smartphones” transition is continuing on pace. Smartphones were almost 63% of all phone shipments last quarter, while they were about 51% of all phones a year ago....

The entry states that Asus had convened board of directors meeting and had adopted three motions, one of which was a change of its mobile phone strategy. As per the new strategy, Asus will henceforth, focus on the high profit, high return professional and e-sports mobile game market, targeting gamers and power users in the smartphone segment. This effectively means the end of the value for money Zenfone era. The change in strategy is evidently a consequence of the favorable reviews received by Asus’ ROG phone, even as its other devices find the going tougher against Chinese brands like Xiaomi, Oppo and Vivo....

It is known that the LG G3 could break cover later this year, as LG follows a yearly update cycle, but the exact launch date wasn’t known. However, a new rumor claims that the smartphone could be launched as early as June this year, rather than in August like its predecessor. This could be a move to make it stand out from the Nexus smartphone which usually launches in November....