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Oppo’s Reno 5 Pro brings the MediaTek Dimensity 1000 Plus chipset to India. The phone launches in India on January 22 for Rs 35,990.
The Oppo Reno 5 Pro is launching in India, and it is the first phone to be powered by the MediaTek Dimensity 1000 Plus in the country.
Oppo is striking a middle ground with the spec sheet here, and while the phone brings high-end performance with the Dimensity 1000 Plus chipset and 8GB of RAM, it balances it out with a 6.
There’s a misnomer about VPN networks and what they really do. Claims that they can make you “completely anonymous” online are almost always inaccurate, even if they may increase your privacy to some degree. Unfortunately, the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), in partnership with the University of New South Wales and UC Berkley, have learned of greater issues than that.
In CSIRO’s research paper ‘An Analysis of the Privacy and Security Risks of Android VPN Permission-enabled Apps,’ the team investigated 283 Android VPN apps to explore their impact on user privacy and security.
The internet can be a frightening place, especially when dealing with personal information. If you’re worried about falling victim to data breaches or identity theft, you may want to try out a subscription to Blur Premium Privacy Protection – now available for 74% off in the AA Deals Store.
Blur Premium Privacy Protection allows you to easily mask your personal information online by creating temporary addresses, credit card numbers and phone numbers, so you don’t have to give any sensitive information out to online merchants.
What makes a Nexus a “Nexus”? Some of the answers that come to mind include quick updates, the lack of carrier bloat, stock Android, lack of carrier branding and less control from the carriers. It seems that the Nexus 6 is challenging at least some of these assumptions, however.
Just the other day it was suggested that the AT&T Nexus 6 features carrier branding on the back and on the boot screen.
The main component of the new campaign is the upcoming 30-day challenge. Starting January 1, the challenge nets you Heart Points from activities that you log or actively track with Google Fit. The app offers encouragement over the course of the month.
Google also teamed up with 36 influencers from nine countries to show how they get their Heart Points. You can use the hashtag #GetFitWithGoogle on Instagram and YouTube to see how others approach the 30-day challenge and offer your own tips.
The new “next big thing” for carriers to crow about is going to be Gigabit LTE service. Verizon has already announced plans to launch it later this year, while T-Mobile, AT&T, and Sprint have all announced or tested version as well. Gigabit LTE should bring unbelievably fast speeds, with download speeds reaching around 1 Gb/s and upload speeds up to 150 Mbps. To get those kinds of speeds, Verizon will use four carrier aggregation and leverage both licensed and unlicensed spectrum.
Qualcomm has just announced four new SoCs in its mid-tier Snapdragon 600 and 400 ranges, which aim to bring high-end performance and functionality to lower cost products.
Cortex-A72 powered Snapdragon 618 & 620 We’ll start with the biggest news. The new Snapdragon 618 and 620 are the first SoC’s to use ARM’s latest Cortex-A72 CPU core. The Cortex-A72 offers up to 3.5 times the peak performance of the last generation Cortex-A15 CPU and a 50 percent performance boost over the Cortex-A53.
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A new poster allegedly showcasing the Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra has leaked. Believed to be official marketing material, the poster details the phone’s revised camera design and S Pen. The Galaxy S22 Plus is also seemingly visible on the poster. We’ve seen plenty of renders relating to the Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra, seemingly packing a different design. Now, a new poster believed to be an official piece of marketing material from Samsung has leaked.
With Apple’s iPhone 5 just hours away from being unveiled, Steve Jobs: Resurrection takes a look at what would surely be a much more interesting event. With lines like “we switched the dock up arbitrarily, so I hope you like buying new accessories,” this parody is bound to hit fairly close to home for some.
Please note that while this video is meant to be all in good fun, it could be considered offensive to some, and it is probably not the safest video for viewing at work.
While we await the official reveal of the LG G6 in less than two weeks at the MWC 2017 trade show in Barcelona, Spain, you can get the older LG G5 for an excellent price on eBay. A retailer called QualityCellz is offering the unlocked 32GB version of the phone right now for $299.99.
While it turned out not to be a big sales success, we though the LG G5 was an excellent phone when we reviewed it in April 2016.