Thursday, May 5, 2016

Xiaomi Mi Max Appears at TENAA with 6.4-inch FHD display

As Xiaomi is all set to launch its new Android Phone Mi Max on May 10. We already know the specs of Xiaomi Mi Max from some leaks recently. Now device has appeared at the China’s TENAA regulatory authority for certification.


Xiaomi Mi MaxAccording to listings at TENNA Xiaomi Mi Max features a 6.4-inch full HD (1920×1080) display, a 1.4 GHz Snapdragon 650 hexa-core processor and 2GB/3GB RAM and device having 16 GB and 32 GB internal storage respectively and you can also expand the storage through MicroSD. It runs on Android 6.0.1 Marshmallow based latest MIUI 8 out-of-the-box. The device is backed by a 4,000mAh non-removable battery. Now days fingerprint sensors for a standard smatphone is must very essential thing, so Mi Max is having a fingerprint sensor.


Also Read: Xiaomi Mi Band 2 Met With Production Glitch


Now coming to camera Phone is powered by 16 Megapixel rear camera and a 5 megapixel camera at the front.  Connectivity options of the smartphone include 4G-LTE, Bluetooth, WiFi, GPS/A-GPS and a micro USB port.


The base variant of the Mi Max with 2GB RAM is expected to be priced at 1299 Yuan($200,INR 13,200) approximately.



Xiaomi Mi Max Appears at TENAA with 6.4-inch FHD display

Google Collaborated with Idea to offer direct carrier billing in India

Google is collaborating with Idea to offer direct carrier billing in India. With this now you can pay for your favorite apps in Play Store with your Idea account and no credit card is required.


carrier billing in IndiaIn Detail if you are Idea User than you can Buy any app from the play store  and charge the cost directly to your existing phone credit. No matter if you are on a Prepaid or Postpaid plan, your Google Play purchases are just deducted from your monthly bill or prepaid balance with Idea Cellular. Moreover, there is no need to install any additional app on your phone or tablet. When you make a purchase, just choose “bill my Idea Cellular Account” on the prompt in the store and enjoy the new way to buy digital content on your Smartphone.


Also Read:Google Brings HTTPS to all Blogspot Blogs


Idea has become the first carrier to offer such feature to its users. Carrier billing is a very easy mode of payment for Play store purchases. This step taken by Google may increase its Play Store Purchases in India.



Google Collaborated with Idea to offer direct carrier billing in India

SoundCloud Go Subscription live in UK

SoundCloud Go Subscription is now live in the UK and Ireland at just £9.99/month. Earlier few months ago company has launched its service in US.


soundcloud subscription in UKSince its launch SoundCloud is the best platform for the musicians that enables its users to upload, record, promote, and share their originally-created sounds.But now, Soundcloud introduces the SoundCloud Go Subscription service in which you can have an ad-free listening experience, the ability to listen to music offline.


Eric Wahlfross, SoundCloud co-founder and Chief Technology Officer



Subscription scheme isn’t profitable at this point, but that is deliberate as they are investing in growth. “We are in this for the long haul,” he said. While they have 175 million users worldwide, they can’t give figures yet as to what percentage the paying subscribers are.



He also says that “We are planning to roll out to multiple territories this year. We are looking at a couple of years to really take this to the whole world,” But declined to give further details about the next countries it intends to roll out. So we can have SounldCloud GO Subscription in some other countires also.



SoundCloud Go Subscription live in UK

Wednesday, May 4, 2016

Google I/O Android App Updated with 2016 Event

google io 2016The Google I/O Android App has been updated with new content on-board. Google has rolled the update with all the details, events, locations and all needed stuff. There would be details of all keynotes and live streaming of some events would be present. It is a similar app update that Google always gives before the IO event every year.


Some of the additional features of the app include:


  • Explore the conference agenda, with details on themes, topics and speakers

  • Add events to a personalized schedule

  • Get reminders before the events in your schedule start

  • Watch the keynote and sessions live stream

  • Sync your schedule between all of your devices and the I/O website

  • Guide yourself using the vector-based conference map

  • Follow public social I/O related conversations

  • See I/O content from previous years in the Videos

Google IO 2016 updated app is available for download from the Play Store.



Google I/O Android App Updated with 2016 Event

Google Brings HTTPS to all Blogspot Blogs

Google today enables HTTPS to all the Blogspot blogs. Earlier in last September Google made HTTPS available as an option in the Blogspot account. But from today onwards encrypted connections (HTTPS) are enabled by default.



Bringing HTTPS to all blogspot domain blogs“We’re also adding a new setting called HTTPS Redirect that allows you to opt-in to redirect HTTP requests to HTTPS. While all blogspot blogs will have an HTTPS version enabled, if you turn on this new setting, all visitors will be redirected to the HTTPS version of your blog at https://<your-blog>.blogspot.com even if they go to http://<your-blog>.blogspot.com. If you choose to turn off this setting, visitors will have two options for viewing your blog: the unencrypted version at http://<your-blog>.blogspot.com or the encrypted version at https://<your-blog>.blogspot.com.”  – said by, Milinda Perera, Software Engineer, Security



However, Blogspot will still offer both access over HTTP and HTTPS. Because many blogspot templates and widgets may not work correctly over HTTPS, it’s probably worth testing both versions before making the full switch to HTTPS. On the other hand WordPress has been offering the same feature to all the websites on network since 2014. Moreover, recently wordpess has introduced this support to custom domains.



Google Brings HTTPS to all Blogspot Blogs

Xiaomi Mi Band 2 Met With Production Glitch

As we all know, from the past few weeks we have heard rumors about the Mi Max and Mi band 2 from Xiaomi. Yesterday, we reported that Mi Band 2 will have an LED Display rather than 3 leds on the front.


Xiaomi-Mi-Band-2But some sources are now saying that the Mi band 2 production has met some problems. Now, the production of the second generation of the band has been stalled for the time being. CEO Lei Jun shared on Weibo that issues with mass production of the wearable have led to a delay of one month.


Recent leaks suggest that the Mi Band 2 will feature a display as well as a physical button, with the overall design similar to what we’ve seen from the first-generation Mi Band.



Xiaomi Mi Band 2 Met With Production Glitch

Wordpress 5.4 Beta for Android Introduces Visual Editor

Guys over the WordPress have developed a WordPress 5.4 Beta Android App. The new version of the app is packed with much needed features in the app i.e a Visual Editor.


The existing app has already semi working Visual Editor but a full fledged Visual EDitor was missing. The latest editor will not only bring the tools like bolding, underlining, styling, etc options but it will also show the written text in Visual in the editor. Earlier, while editing or drafting a post the text area showed all the html markup of the post. Like, we were able to see the html markings from the above mentioned features. Here’s the actual changelog:


5.4-rc-1:


  • New visual editor.

  • You can now update your Gravatar by tapping your profile picture on the Me screen.

  • Enabling Smart Lock for Password, to pre-fill username and password fields on the Sign In screen.

  • Minor fixes in the Reader.

Now to remove that code clutter, WordPress has introduced fully fledged clean and visual interface.


Additionally, WordPress has received v4.5.1 update with some beautiful changes.


Source: APK Mirror



Wordpress 5.4 Beta for Android Introduces Visual Editor

Tuesday, May 3, 2016

T-Mobile LG G3 Starts Getting Android Marshmallow

T-Mobile finally starts rolling out Android Marshmallow for LG G3. Almost all the major carriers rolled out the marshmallow update to LG G3 and now T-mobile joins the party and made the Marshmallow OTA official.


LG G3 marshmallowThe update changelog includes all the basic features of Marshmallow i.e. Doze, enhanced permission controls and Google Now on Tap with these features this update makes some WiFi calling improvements.


Now the software version is updated to “H63120b”. If you did not get the OTA notification yet, than go through the Phone’s Setting>>About Phone and finally check for the update. Just to inform you this is the last major update for LG G3.



T-Mobile LG G3 Starts Getting Android Marshmallow

HTC unveils its Mid-range Phone Desire 830 in Taiwan

HTC today unveils its latest mid-range android smartphone Desire 830 in Taiwan. The Device will be available to purchase in Taiwan, TWD 9,990 which is equivalent to US $310, £210, or INR 20,560.


HTC Desire 830HTC Desire 830 features a 5.5-inch Full HD display, 1.5 GHz Octa-Core MediaTek MT6753 processor with 3 GB of RAM, Mali-T720 graphics processing unit, dual front-facing speakers with Boom Sound and Dolby Audio, smartphone comes with a 13 megapixel rear camera with LED flash and autofocus and at the front there’s an UltraPixel camera with f/2.0 aperture.


Also Read:HTC 10 Availability: Verizon Pre Orders Up, Sprint Starting to Sell from May 19th and Bell Has Made it Available


Now Coming to the connectivity 4G, LTE, WiFi 802.11 b/g/n, Bluetooth 4.0, and GPS, phone measures 157.5 x 78.9 x 7.79 mm and weighs around 156 grams and Moreover, phone is pre-loaded with Android 6.0 Marshmallow.


There is not any information when this one will come to the other markets of the world. We will update you as soon as the information out about the availability of desire 830 in other markets stay tuned!



HTC unveils its Mid-range Phone Desire 830 in Taiwan