Huawei Unveiled its VR Headset in China

As all the major smartphone manufacturers trying their luck in Virtual Reality industry,So, Now Huawei the world’s 3rd largest smartphone manufacturer also jumps into the Virtual Reality industry by unveiling its VR Headset in China simply named “Huawei VR” and it works much like Samsung Gear VR.

The report on Engadget quotes that the Huawei VR is the first mobile VR headset to support “360-degree sound field” (with headphones). Moreover content wise Huawei will give 4000 free movies for the device, though it’s unclear exactly how many of those are VR videos. You will also get 40 free games and 350 panoramic images and 150 panoramic tours.

Also Read:Youtube may gives 360 degree Live videos for VR users

Huawei VR is compatible with its flagship devices namely Huawei P9, P9 Plus and Mate 8. Huawei VR will be limited to its home country China. However the price and exact availability of this device is not out yet.

What do you people think about the Huawei VR? can this VR headset by Huawei compete with Samsung’s Gear VR. Do tell us via comments below.

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HTC One M7, One M8 and One M9 Set To Get Apple Airplay

HTC has already started to rollout the Apple Airplay features as like of HTC 10 in its predecessors like HTC One M7, One M8 and One M9. Apple Airplay will let you beam audio and video to devices like Apple TV or an AirPlay speaker system.

The company is updating the HTC Connect app with that functionality. So, guys now there’s an option for those to move to Android if they want to control the Apple devices from the Android phone as like of Apple phone.

This incorporation of the Apple Airplay in Android devices is welcomed that Apple too going to integrate their stuff into the Android.

Additionally, HTC 10 is recently announced with some superb features which you can check over here.

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Get 2GB Free Data on Verizon by using Android Pay

Verizon announced a new Promo in which company is giving 2GB of free data to subscribers with relatively new Android smartphones. You have to do a purchase via Android Pay to get the free data, for first purchase via Android pay you will get 1 GB of data then for another 1 GB you have to make two more purchases via Android Pay after the third one you will get and Free Data.

Also Read: Verizons Moto X 2014 gets the Latest Security Patch

This offer is to encourage the peoples to use Android Pay. This offer from Verizon is available till June 14th and the rewards can redeemed by July 13. Moreover, this offer is available only on Verizon postpaid consumer subscribers with The Verizon Plan or The MORE Everything Plan. So you have to be involved in one of those tiers of plans, otherwise you shouldn’t waste your time looking for free data.

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HTC 10 64 GB variant will not Come to US

HTC has launched its flagship device HTC 10 on April 12th with two storage variants one will have 32 GB and other will have 64 GB internal storage. Jeff Gordon Senior PR manager at HTC tweets that HTC 10 with 32GB (with expandable Flex Storage) in Carbon Gray or Glacier Silver (with black front).

https://twitter.com/urbanstrata/status/719875924775321600

For a reminder HTC 10 is packed with 5.2-inch Super LCD 5 display with curved-edge Gorilla Glass and display has a 2560 x 1440 resolution, it is powered with 2.2GHz quad-core 64-bit Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 processor with 4 GB of RAM, 32/64GB of on-board storage which can be upgraded upto 2TB via microSD. HTC 10 have 12MP HTC UltraPixel 2 (1.55µm pixel size) with laser autofocus, OIS and f/1.8 aperture at the back and 5MP (1.34µm pixel size) with OIS and f/1.8 aperture on the front.

Also Read: HTC 10 Launched Officially with USB Type-c and JBL high-res earbuds

Now we comes to connectivity phone has USB Type-C, 3.5mm stereo audio jack,Bluetooth 4.2, Wi-Fi: 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac (2.4 & 5GHz),NFC,etc. It has a 3000 mAh Battery which is Quick Charge 3.0 compatible to charge quickly. HTC 10 runs on Android 6.0 Marshmallowout of the Box.

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Google Photos Brings Manual Backup Option

After introducing Goals in Google calendar, they have introduced a new feature in Google Photos Android App. They have brought manual backup option which was required since the launch of Google Photos app.

Google Photos update has also brought some new changes along with bug fixes and other enhancements. So, now if you are on a data plan then also you can sync and share your photos. If you have a plan with a strict data cap, you’re probably using the former — but sometimes, just sometimes, you’ll want to break that rule in order to quickly sync and share your smartphone snaps.

You can select “backup now” and voila — those images are being synced with your Photos library. The version 1.18 of the Photos app, is rolling out now in the Play Store.

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Android Developer Preview 2 is Rolling out Today

Its been a month now when Google launched its first developer preview for Android N. Every time Google announces a new developer preview, they include additional changes that don’t make it into their blog posts or changelogs. Like little changes in user interface and some changes in some icons.

Today’s Android N Developer Preview 2 includes Launcher shortcuts which includes users can then add to their launcher to get stuff done quicker, Emoji Unicode 9 Support  and some other Bug fixes. The Full Changelog of Android N Developer Preview is posted below.

• Vulkan: Vulkan is a new 3D rendering API which we’ve helped to develop as a member of Khronos, geared at providing explicit, low-overhead GPU (Graphics Processor Unit) control to developers and offers a significant boost in performance for draw-call heavy applications. Vulkan’s reduction of CPU overhead allows some synthetic benchmarks to see as much as 10 times the draw-call throughput on a single core as compared to OpenGL ES. Combined with a threading-friendly API design which allows multiple cores to be used in parallel with high efficiency, this offers a significant boost in performance for draw-call heavy applications. With Android N, we’ve made Vulkan a part of the platform; you can try it out on supported devices running Developer Preview 2.


• Launcher shortcuts: Now, apps can define shortcuts which users can expose in the launcher to help them perform actions quicker. These shortcuts contain an Intent into specific points within your app (like sending a message to your best friend, navigating home in a mapping app, or playing the next episode of a TV show in a media app).An application can publish shortcuts with ShortcutManager.setDynamicShortcuts(List) andShortcutManager.addDynamicShortcut(ShortcutInfo), and launchers can be expected to show 3-5 shortcuts for a given app.


• Emoji Unicode 9 support: We are introducing a new emoji design for people emoji that moves away from our generic look in favor of a more human-looking design. If you’re a keyboard or messaging app developer, you should start incorporating these emoji into your apps. The update also introduces support for skin tone variations and Unicode 9 glyphs, like the bacon, selfie and face palm. You can dynamically check for the new emoji characters using Paint.hasGlyph().


• API changes: This update includes API changes as we continue to refine features such as multi-window support (you can now specify a separate minimum height and minimum width for an activity), notifications, and others. For details, take a look at the diff reports available in the downloadable API reference package.


• Bug fixes: We’ve resolved a number of issues throughout the system, including these fixes for issues that you’ve reported through the public issue tracker. Please continue to let us know what you find and follow along with the known issues.

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Blackberry Priv Android Marshmallow Beta Roll out Begins

BlackBerry starts rolling out Android Marshmallow Beta for “Priv” users who registered to take part in the Beta program started by the company on April 4th. Moreover registration period will last for Two week and the testing will be done in next 4-5 weeks after that some time in May company says the Official Stable Marshmallow rollout will hit the devices.

Some participants will start to receive Marshmallow software tomorrow (Wednesday, EST). We will take a similar approach to how we brought people into the program when rolling out the software update: start with a small group, monitor for any critical issues, then expand to larger and larger groups. We expect to have everyone updated by the end of the week (and for clarity this time, weeks end on Sunday in Waterloo! :] ) – Said by Blackberry

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• Blackberry Priv Beta Access For Marshmallow Testing


• Blackberry Priv gets the March Android security patch


• BlackBerry PRIV Now Available Via Verizon

If you own a PRIV and haven’t signed up to test yet, head on over to the BlackBerry Beta Zone and see if the Android OS beta program is available to you. If you already signed up for the Beta Program than check it at the Beta Zone and follow the instructions over there.

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India Startup CREO launched its First phone

Indian Startup company CREO launched its first smartphone named Mark 1. The main highlight of this phone is New mobile operating system Fuel OS which is based on Android. CREO Mark 1 was launched at an event in New Delhi by CREO CEO Sai Srinivas and will be available at a price of Rs 19,999.

CREO’s Mark 1 features a 5.5-inch quarter HD resolution with a pixel density of 534 pixels per inch, the phone is powered with MediaTek true-oct processor clocked at 1.95GHz married with 3GB RAM, it comes with 32 GB of on-board space that which can be expandable up to 128 GB, it haves a 21 MP camera at the back and 8-megapixel snapper for the front, 3100 mAh battery.

Also Read:

• BlackBerry is Coming with Two New Android Mid-range Smartphones


• Lenovo PHAB Android Mid range phone Launched in India

The phone will be sold exclusively on Flipkart. The phone is expected to release on May 18. Moreover,The company will offer a service called Sense for which it has 106 services centers in 91 cities for phone repair and pick-up and drop services at the doorstep of the user.  It plans to expand this to 300 service centers in over 150 cities. The Official Photos of CREO Mark 1 are in the gallery below.

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Verizon's Moto X 2014 gets the Latest Security Patch

Verizon is currently rolling out the an update to Moto X 2014 which includes the latest Android Security Patch. The update does not include anything else than the latest security patch.

The update will have the latest batch of vulnerability fixes from the folks at Google. Since the update is just rolling out so it may take some time to land on every device. If you did not get the Notification than check it manually by going through Settings > About Phone > System Update.

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• Deal: Get Moto X Pure Edition 32GB for Just $350 at Amazon


• Moto 360 (2014) for Free with the Purchase of a 64GB


• Shatterproof Moto X Force Lands in Hits India for Rs. 49999

Moto X Pure Edition is a powerful phone for a reminder here are the specs of phone which includesa large 5.7 inch LCD display big enough to enjoy photos taken with the 21MP rear facing camera, is powered with a Snapdragon 808 chipset paired with 3GB of RAM and Adreno 418 graphics. The Moto X is also compatible with all GSM and CDMA networks in the US including Sprint and Verizon.

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