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New Weather Apps - Sep'20 (Week - 01)

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This week we have brought brand new weather apps worth trying. 1.  CliMate Released date: 25Jul2020 Downloads:  50+ Size: 2.37 MB Version: 1.15.2  Climate is surely a new entrant to the play store but not just another basic weather app since it offers all the features of a weather app without any ads and in-app purchases with a clean and simlple UI along with loads of customization options. Features: Themes support. Complete weather report for a week. Customizable units Parameters such as temperature, wind speed, Humidity, Pressure, UV Index available. Sunrise and Sunset. Widget support. Graphical representation of the data. Mostly shows accurate data.

Older iphones performance have been reduced after updates : Apple Explains

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Apple's latest software updates causing the slowdown in certain older phones. According to Apple, there's a good reason to do this, by nature the Lithium-ion batteries degrade over time, stores less and less of a charge. This happens very quickly on a device as the devices being used quite often every day.  Hence it's not a bad idea to limit the speeds on the older phones. According to a Reddit post, People who owned iPhone 6, 6s, and 6s Plus devices reported   earlier this year that they were spontaneously shutting down, even though they had sufficient battery. This was usually happening during “peak current demands,” when you’d be doing something on your phone that required a burst of power — like in the middle of a game, or downloading an app. Those users had to plug in and recharge their phones in order to be back online. Apple acknowledged this bug and introduced a fix in an update to its operating system software, iOS 10.2.1. Phones no longer shut do...

Qualcomm had announced Snapdragon 845 - Features and comparison with SD 835

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Qualcomm had announced its latest smartphone flagship SoC " Snapdragon 845 (SD 845) ". This chip is said to be 30%  faster than the Snapdragon 835 which is equipped with 2017 Android flagships. This SoC has improvements across the board, from a new processing technology to an improved modem. The press release mainly emphasized on multimedia, Virtual Reality (VR), and security. SD 845 is built on Samsung's 10nm LPP FinFET with a new Kyro 385 CPU architecture and comes with an upgraded Adreno 630 GPU . This SoC is built on ARM's Cortex technology like the SD 835 and this is capable of delivering 25-30% performance uplift compared to SD 835. As expected, this new design is based on ARM' s DynamIQ Technology and latest Cortex-A75 and A55 CPU designs . The bonus is the newly introduced 2MB shared L3 cache which improves memory sharing capabilities between different core types in the shared cluster. The all-new Adreno  630 GPU supports displays up to...

Smartphone Buying Guide

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The Smartphone Industry is rapidly growing every year, an industry report identifies that likes of Apple, Samsung, Huawei, OPPO, Xiaomi, Lenovo, Vivo, LG Electronics, Sony, and ZTE are the key OEMs in the Global Smartphone market. Global Smartphone Unit Shipments from 2012 to 2017: (Data Source: Statista) Choosing an Android Smartphone is quite a difficult task as this platform provides a wide variety of options, this ranges from Low-end to High-end Smartphones. Key Points to remember while buying an Android Smartphone: Choosing a right phone with a right SoC or CPU is an important decision. The current smartphone industry is mainly dominated by Qualcomm (Snapdragon Processors). Samsung's Exynos, MediaTek and Huawei's Kirin are other key players. Snapdragon Processors are the quite efficient chipsets which provide great performance, power efficient. SD 400 series is used in entry-level smartphones, SD 600 Series is used in Mid-Range Smartphones and the SD 800 se...

App Review (02): SMS Organizer

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If you don't like the stock Android messaging app, this App Review should help you out! App Name: SMS Organizer Version: 1.0.45 (Beta Version) Platform: Android Developer: Microsoft Corporation (Microsoft Garage Project) SMS Organizer is a simplistic messaging app and more importantly its AD free. This app automatically categorizes all the messages viz., Personal, Transactional, and Promotional, thus this app cleans up all the spam quite effectively. Apart from this it has two more tabs namely Archive and Block. All the unread messages are just one tap away, with the SMS swipe feature is customization. This app supports Dark theme also.   SMART REMINDERS is another feature makes this app quite useful. It reminds all the bills, Bus or Train Tickets, Flight Tickets and Movie tickets as well. SMS Organizer comes with a smart OTP feature, shows only OTP with copy and delete option. This is pretty useful while doing transactions. The Backup and Restore of the mess...

App Review (01): SpaceUp (Never Uninstall Apps)

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App Name: SpaceUp Version: 1.12 Platform: Android Have you ever frustrated with a Low Internal storage? or Unable to install new exiting apps? There is an interesting and quite useful solution to save internal storage of a device. SpaceUp compresses all the selected apps and creates a backup, this allows the increase in a phone's internal storage. Due to this device feels smoother and pretty responsive. It is easier to reuse those compressed apps whenever needed, no need of internet. This app makes the uninstallation process of an app a step longer as it prompts a compress option before uninstall. Features: Quick Compression (saves up to 80% space) Creates smart folder for a quick access Advanced Compression (saves up to 90-95% space) Uncompression Smart Listing of unused apps 1 Tap Spaceup   Benefits: NO lag  Performance Boost Increased Battery Life Data Saving Lesse heating issues Note: The previous version was so bug...

One Plus 5T - One Plus's First Phone with 18:9 ratio dispaly

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One Plus has unveiled its second smartphone of the year 2017, Its ONEPLUS 5T.   Unlike OnePlus 3T, the 5T is an excellent upgrade over its predecessor OnePlus 5 though the internal are same. The obvious upgrade is the display which sports 18:9 aspect ratio with edge-to-edge display. This device is price should start at Rs.32,999. Just like OnePlus5, 5T comes with Aluminium unibody construction and has Dual camera bump. Since the display covers all the front portion, the fingerprint sensor has been shifted to the back and located at a very convenient place. On the front, The 5T has 6inch 18:9 display with Full HD+ (1080 x 2160) resolution and its an AMOLED panel. The display is protected by Corning Gorilla 5. This device has face unlock support which is said to be quite fast.    5T has an upgraded dual camera set up compared to OnePlus 5, this dual camera set up consists of a 16MP main camera and a 20MP secondary camera along with a Dual LED f...

Samsung's new flagship SoC unveiled - Exynos 9810 (Based on 10nm FinFET Process)

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SAMSUNG has unveiled its new flash-ship mobile SoC in the 9 Series ( 9810 ) built on the 10nm FionFET process.  This launch implies that the Samsung's upcoming flagship smartphones viz Galaxy S9 series and Note 8 would be powered by this 9810 SoC. The Exynos 9 series is said to be the Samsung's first SoC built on 10nm FinFET process technology.  The Exynos 9810 is the second-generation SoC in the Exynos 9 series  and the first with 3rd-generation custom CPU cores. This SoC will have a Gigabit LTE Cat, 18 modems with support for 6CA aggregation (This SoC is capable of combining six carrier signals for speeds up to 1.2Gbps), and will be manufactured on a 2nd generation 10nm process. The Exynos 9810 SoC will also have an upgraded GPU, expected to use Mali GPU much like previous processors. Presumably, Samsung will be upgrading to the Mali-G72 GPU.  Although Samsung has not furnished complete details about this third-gen SoC, the company is still sticking with ...