During Q3 2019, the Indian premium smartphone market reached record-high shipments with the leading brands still being OnePlus, Samsung and Apple.
The price segment above INR 30,000 ($493) grew a staggering 66% compared to Q3 2018. Counterpoint outlines the early offers ahead of the festive season in the country and the aggressive offers through various channels to be the main reason for the…
Watch the Xiaomi Mi Note 10 announcement live
November 6, 2019
Yesterday we witnessed the launch of the Xiaomi Mi CC9 Pro and today Xiaomi is gearing to unveil its international doppelganger – the Mi Note 10. The launch event will be held in Madrid and Xiaomi is hosting a watch party on their Twitter profile. The keynote starts at…
Motorola One Zoom and Moto Z4 to get Android 10 soon
November 6, 2019
Motorola currently has two phones with Snapdragon 675 chipset – the One Zoom with a huge rectangle on the back and the Moto Z4 that still works with Moto Mods. Both devices arrived with Android Pie out of the box, but now they appeared at the Wi-Fi Alliance website…
Minecraft Earth‘s early access release is finally rolling out to countries around the world, although it’s not necessarily available where you might expect it. Mojang and Microsoft have confirmed that the augmented reality game is now available on Android and iOS in nine countries. The UK is the most recent addition, but it’s also been available for a few days in Australia…
Twitter is rolling out a fix for the 'auto-scrolling' bug on iOS
November 6, 2019
Has the Twitter timeline been extra jumpy on your iPhone or iPad? Yesterday Twitter acknowledged the “frustrating” issue, and now an update to address it is rolling out via the App Store. It’s unclear if it was supposed to be a seamless addition of new…
Over the weekend, Twitter for iPhone users started experiencing buggy auto-refresh behavior following an app update. Essentially, the timeline would refresh randomly, causing people to lose track of what they were reading. Now, Twitter says that it is rolling out a fix for…
Chrome 78 rolled out last month and was a relatively quiet release for Android. A server-side update for the browser today introduces a new long press menu that provides previews alongside actions for links and images.
The old menu that popped up after long pressing simply noted the URL up top and listed six to nine options depending on whether you were interacting with a link, photo, or video.
Apple rumors are perennially popular for two major reasons: First, the company’s actual announcements are so few and far between that only “what’s next?” speculation keeps its fans excited year-round. Second, the company is famously iterative, rarely entering a new…
AI holds enormous promise for the public sector — at least theoretically. But in practice, integrating AI components into public sector apps is limited by the fragility of those components and by mismatches among them. For example, if a machine learning model is trained on…
Android Auto standalone app now available for Android 10 users
November 5, 2019
Google recently integrated Android Auto with the Android 10 operating system, removing the need for a separate app. But this meant that Android 10 users who own a car with a non-compatible head unit would no longer be able to use Android Auto just on their phone, which was possible in the past. So in September, Google promised it would release a new standalone Android Auto app specifically for…
