Oppo A9, or the mid-ranger that just came out

– Full HD+ display, 6.53 inches, waterdrop notch,– 16 mpx x 2 mpx main camera, LED flash,– Helio P70 CPU, 8 core. Mali-G72 MP3 GPU,– 6GB RAM, 128GB flash space, SD card up to 256GB,– 4020mAh battery, quick charge,– Android 9.0 Pie with ColorOS 6.0 overlay,– blue, violet and green colour variants,– price – 1799 juan,– available in China starting April 30th. Tweet Vote on HN ...

Vivo Y17 is out in India. Specs and availability

Phone’s price is not yet officially known, but is expected to reach between ₹15,000 and ₹17,990. Its price seems to be more or less just, sinve Y17 is a smartphone with premium looks and pretty good specifications:– 12mpx x 8mpx x 2mpx main camera– 20mpx selfie shooter– 6.35-inch LCD display, 1544 x 720 resolution– MediaTek Helio P35 SoC– 4GB RAM, 128GB storage– 5,000mAh battery with 18W quick charge– Funtouch OS 9. Tweet Vote on ...

OnePlus 7, complete specifications leak

Samsung News has released a tweet in which it shares what is supposed to be complete specs of the upcoming OnePlus 7 smartphone. According to the leak, the phone will come out with:”OnePlus 7 Pro / Pro 5G:6.7″ 3120x1440p – 19,5:9 – 90Hz48MP F1.6 OIS+EIS, 8MP 3x Zoom F2.4, 16MP 117° F2.2, Selfie: 16MP F2.0Snapdragon855, 6+128GB, 8/12+256GBUFS 3.0,4000mAh 30W Warp ChargeIn-Display FPBlue/Grey/Brown (colour variants, I assume)”OnePlus 7 will be released on May ...

India unbanned TikTok

Last week, Indian government has decided to ban the newly popular TikTok app over the ”child safety concerns”, which basically meant ”kids are sharing porn on TikTok and we cannot have that”. Today, after receiving a plea from Bytedance, the creators of the app, India has decided to reverse the ban: the app will soon be reinstated into Indian Apple and Google stores.That is definitely good news for Bytedance. Every dan of the ban costs the company roughly 500 thousand dollars, and puts 250 job posts at ...

Austria has an idea for an… original new law. Their government wants people to put their personal data into every online comment

Austrian government has seemingly come to the conclusion – largely a correct one, too, but still – that most of the Internet hate comes from the fact that people online are anonymous. Thus, in order to get rid of the hate, they need to get rid of the anonymity. Therefore, Austrian gov’ is working to bring in a law that will make it so that everyone who wants to write a comment online has to put their personal data – name, surname and address – into the comment.Brilliant. Nothing like taking away our privacy for the sake of goodfeels, no? The warrant will be put ...

Xiaomi Redmi Y3 and 7 coming out in India soon

Devices will hit Hindu retailer stores, as well as Mi.com, Mi stores and Amazon India, on April 29th and 30th. Redmi 7 will cost 7,999 or 8,999 rupees, depending on the memory variant (2GB/32GB or 3GB/32GB). It will be available in black, red, and blue colour versions. As for Redmi Y3, it will cost either 9,999 or 11,999 rupees (3GB/32GB or 4GB/64GB options), and will be painted in either Prime Black, Bold Red, and Elegant Blue. Tweet Vote on HN ...

Samsung Galaxy A70 is now available in Vietnam

After coming out in India and China, Galaxy A70 is now up for grabs in Vietnam. You can get it at every major mobile retailer in the country for the price of VND 9,290,000. Phone is available in three colour variants: Ocean Blue, Meteorite Black and Pearl White. Its specs include 4500mAh battery, 8-core CPU, 6GB RAM and 128GB storage, 6.7′ FHD+ Super AMOLED Infinity-U display with fingerprint sensor, 32mpx x 8mpx x 5mpx main camera and 32mpx selfie shooter. Tweet Vote on ...

Turns out that Samsung is working on the Galaxy M40 smartphone

Smartphone model number SM-M405F, expected to be the Galaxy M40, has just been certified by the Wi-Fi Alliance. The document does not tell us much about this phone’s specifications: it will be run by Android 9 Pie and… that is pretty much it. Other sources suggest that the device will have 128GB of storage, Super AMOLED display, 5000mAh battery, 3x camera and Exynos 9610 CPU, but nothing is known for certain. Galaxy M40 has yet to be officially announced. Tweet Vote on ...

Almost fifty Huawei devices will now receive EMUI 9.1

For now, EMUI 9.1 is only available on the Huawei P30 smartphone, with its beta version available on a few other devices, but that will soon change. According to Huawei’s post on Weibo, the firm wants to update 49 of its devices with the EMUI 9.1 interface. The list of devices that will receive the update is:Huawei Mate 20 Lite,Huawei Mate 10,Huawei Mate 10 Pro,Huawei Mate RS Porsche Design,Huawei Mate 9,Huawei Mate 9 Pro,Huawei Mate 9 Porsche Design,Huawei P20,Huawei P20 Pro,Huawei P10,Huawei P10 Plus,Huawei Nova 4,Huawei Nova 3,Huawei Nova 3i,Huawei Nova 2S,Honor Play,Honor 10,Honor ...

Instagram’s leaked design prototype hides likes count

”We want your followers to focus on what you share, not how many likes your posts get. During this test, only the person who share a post will see the total number of likes it gets”. This, in the words of Instagram’s creators, is the reason for this changed being tested. They hope that removing the count of likes will make it so that people concentrate more on the quality of their content and saying things that are actually important to them rather than ”herding” large numbers of ego-boosting followers in whatever way possible. The likes count will NOT be ...