A great source of chatter and news, the OnePlus community forums play a crucial role in the OnePlus marketing and development process. This is especially evident when you see that OnePlus is now seeking beta testers for its exclusive OxygenOS mindfulness Zen Mode app.
For those that are unaware, Zen Mode helps curb your smartphone usage by allowing you to put timed blocks on everything but a…
Despite only having a few months between their respective launches and having some distinct similarities, the Samsung Galaxy S10 and Note 10 do differ in many ways. Samsung has decided to close that gap a little by giving the Galaxy S10 some of the Note 10’s enhanced…
The pitfalls of a ‘retrofit human’ in AI systems
November 11, 2019
Stanislav Petrov is not a famous name in the computer science space, like Ada Lovelace or Grace Hopper, but his story serves as a critical lesson for developers of AI systems. Petrov, who passed away on May 19, 2017, was a lieutenant colonel in the Soviet Union’s Air…
AI in patent law: Enabler or hindrance?
November 11, 2019
Filing a patent is the clerical equivalent of pulling teeth — at least in the U.S. It first requires inventors to determine the type of intellectual property (IP) protection they require (i.e., utility, design, or plant). Then they’re on the hook to conduct a United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) database search for similar inventions. If and only if the novelty of their idea…
Huawei P30 Pro starts receiving EMUI 10 update based on Android 10
November 11, 2019
Less than a week after it released its latest roadmap, Huawei is now pushing the latest stable EMUI 10 update based on Android 10 to its Huawei P30 and P30 Pro smartphones. To be honest, though, the company did say it should land the OTA update sometime around…
Samsung Galaxy S10 update allows you to search images by keywords
November 11, 2019
Samsung has pushed another monthly update to the Galaxy S10 users and has brought some features that have been exclusive to Galaxy Note10 owners. Now, the Gallery app supports keyword search, and there are more Wi-Fi and content creation enhancements.
The Gallery app update…
We’ve already seen one set of iPhone 12 renders, though we noted at the time that the notch-free design shown isn’t feasible for next year’s models.
Today, though, new iPhone 12 concept images give us a more realistic idea of how next year’s flagship iPhone design might look, based on reports from noted Apple supply-chain analyst Ming-Chi Kuo…
After posting its Q3 global smartphone report last week, IDC went ahead and released the India specific report for the July-September period.
As a whole, the market saw 46.6 million smartphone shipments which is well up from the 42.6 million seen in the prior year. All…
Realme takes chunk of India mobile market as Samsung slides
November 11, 2019
Realme keeps on increasing its share of the Indian smartphone market, growing shipments more than 400 percent year-on-year to grab 14.3 percent in the third quarter of 2019, according to figures from IDC. That’s a huge increase on the 3.1 percent recorded a year ago when…
Samsung patents SAMOLED brand for screens ahead of Galaxy S11 launch
November 11, 2019
Samsung is already working on the Galaxy S11 lineup, and the latest reports give us more info about the front and the back of the smartphones. According to the Korean Intellectual Property Office, the manufacturer has trademarked the SAMOLED moniker in the Smartphone Displays category, meaning the panel of the S flagship will once again change its name.
In a separate leak, a well-trusted leakster…
