Qualcomm may announce Snapdragon 660 SoC on May 9th

 By Vaibhav Jain on May 03, 2017       

According to the latest reports out from China, Qualcomm could announce the rumored Snapdragon 660 SoC on May 9th. 

If the reports are believed to be true, the chip will power the upcoming Samsung Galaxy C Smartphone, Xiaomi Redmi Pro 2, Xiaomi Mi Max 2, Oppo R11, Vivo X9s Plus and the Nokia 7 and Nokia 8.

Going with earlier leaks, Qualcomm's mid-range chipset Snapdragon 660 is said to be come with similar specifications as the Snapdragon 820. The chipset appears to be built up on Samsung’s 14nm FinFet LPP manufacturing process, with four 2.2 GHz cores and four 1.9 GHz cores. The chip employs an Adreno 512 GPU, X10 baseband, and two channel LPDDR4X-1866 memory with UFS 2.1 flash memory. It also supports Quick Charge 4.0.

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Google Wallpapers gets new update with lots of new wallpapers

 By Vaibhav Jain on May 03, 2017       

Google Wallpapers app recently got a new update which includes tons of high resolution wallpapers in several categories, few UI changes and bug fixes. 

For those who don't know, the Wallpapers app from Google comes with tons of beautiful Cityscapes, Life, Textures, Landscapes and Earth wallpapers. You also get an option to choose a favorite category, which automatically changes your wallpaper each day.
Grab the new Wallpapers update: Play Store

APK Teardown of Google Play Store v7.8 Shows We're Inching Towards the Public Roll Out of Instant Apps

 By Unknown on May 03, 2017       

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Make a U-turn for a year to the Google I/O 2016, one thing that will immediately strike to your mind the ambiguous Instant Apps feature, which is touted to be one of the biggest features to be added to Google Play Store in recent times. 

It's been a year, but Google is yet to roll out the feature to the public. And yeah, we have seen some apps in the recent past which popped online with support for Instant Apps, but nothing is official from the search giant. 

However, we're drawing close to the roll out of Instant Apps feature. Earlier today, Google has pushed an update to Google Play Store that takes it to version number 6.8 and folks at Android Police managed to teardown the latest APK. 

The teardown apparently revealed that Google has setup the code internally and we might taste the much-awaited feature in the next update. That said, we're not sure about the official roll out though. 

In the same APK teardown, it is revealed that Google is removing the 'Add to Home Screen' button from the Play Store settings and also planning to give some pre-registration rewards for users who pre-register for a future application. 

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Meet Jelly, The Smallest 4G Smartphone by Unihertz, a Chinese Company

 By Unknown on May 03, 2017       

These days, big-screen smartphones are loved by most of the people across the globe. While some feel nostalgic when they hear about a small screen smartphone, same as the Nokia 3310 (2017). Well if you're one among them, here's a nostalgic moment for you. 

Jelly is the world's tiny smartphone with 4G support. It has a 2.45-inch screen with a resolution of 240 * 432 pixels, which nowhere comes near to most handsets out there in the market currently. 

Although it bears a small screen, the phone packs a punch internally. It boots Android 7.0 Nougat, and you can use almost every app which is present in the Google Play Store. The device packs a 1.1GHz quad-core chipset and comes in two variants- one with 1GB of RAM/8GB of native storage and the other one with 2GB of RAM/16GB of internal storage. 

It comes with connectivity options such as 4G LTE, VoLTE, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and GPS. Both the variants come with 8MP of primary camera and 2MP front-facing camera. Finally, the phone has a 950mAh battery fuelling the entire package. 

Unihertz is a China-based company, but being a Kickstarter project, the device will be shipped internationally. For now, the estimated date of shipping is August 2017 with a price of $59. 

Micromax to Shutdown YU Mobiles Brand

 By Vaibhav Jain on May 03, 2017       

With Micromax falling down, you will likely not be shocked to learn that YU Mobiles is now dead. Company's insiders reportedly confirmed teleanalysis that the sub-brand is being discontinued by Micromax, as the parent company failed to find any differentiating value for YU Mobiles.

Last year, Cyanogen dropped Software support and stopped offering anymore services to the YU devices. Despite of having Cyanogen at their back, YU failed to provide regular and bug-free software update to their devices.

YU Mobile brand was introduced back in December 2014 as a joint venture between Cyanogen Inc and Micromax Informatics Limited. The last smartphone from YU Mobiles was Yunicorn, launched in late May 2016.

Micromax has not officially announced the discontinuation of the smartphone brand, but according to the source, Micromax has already discontinued YU Mobiles. The manpower and other units of YU have been merged to the parent company.

Source: Teleanalysis | Via: Techupdate3