Currently, the talk of the town is the Chinese smartphone vendor, OnePlus's upcoming phone, the OnePlus 5. While the Company yesterday officially confirmed the name of the phone, it is now spotted on benchmarking site Geekbench. As you can see in the image below, it clearly states that the phone will bear a model number A5000, which was rumoured earlier as well. The device has a single core score of 1963, which is below the scores of Apple iPhone 7 Plus and Samsung Galaxy S8+.
However, the phone achieved a multi-core score of 6687, higher than any other smartphone released till date. The device was running Android 7.1.1 Nougat while running the benchmark test. Until now, no phone has achieved the scores as the OnePlus 5. In fact, the other Snapdragon 835 powered smartphones such as the Galaxy S8 duo, Xiaomi Mi 6, and Sony Xperia XZ Premium all have fewer benchmark scores.
From the past few years, it was regularly rumoured that Google is building its own operating system that is not based on Linux called as Fuchsia. Instead, the Fuchsia OS will be based on the search giant's own kernel 'Magenta.' Back in August 2016, the Fuchsia OS was just a command line, and now, it has a wild user interface with a card-based design, claims Ars Technica. The UI was first spotted by Kyle Bradshaw at Hotfix, and the interface servicing the default system UI for Fuchsia will be called as Armadillo.
Armadillo and other Fuchsia apps are built on Google Flutter SDK, and the apps can be used on any platform- Android or iOS or Fuchsia OS. As you can see in the video above, the Fuchsia OS may support both smartphones and tablets. The OS might be an entire card-based UI.
The video also shows that the cards can be aligned with each other to use it as a multi-window mode and yeah, there are Google Now suggestions as well. There's no info on why the Fuchsia even exist? Is Google planning to replace Android and Chrome OS with Fuchsia? There might be something about the new OS at the Google I/O 2017 event due to commence next week.
Chip maker Qualcomm at its tech event in Singapore has announced two new mobile platforms- Qualcomm Snapdragon 630 and 660. Both the chipsets are mid-range chips, which will replace the Snapdragon 653 and Snapdragon 625 respectively. Both the new platforms bring noticeable changes on paper. Both the chips are built on 14nm manufacturing process and can support up to 8GB of RAM. The Snapdragon 630 can support two dual cameras up to 13MP+13MP, and the Snapdragon 660 has the capability of two 16MP+16MP. Both the chips has X12 LTE modem, which was earlier seen on Verizon and Sprint devices and even in the Snapdragon 820 SoC. The Snapdragon 660 and Snapdragon 630 now supports machine learning and advanced camera processing. That said, these chips are 20 percent and 10 percent faster than the previous generations. Qualcomm said that the Snapdragon 660 would be seen on devices from June and the Snapdragon 630 will be released in Q3 2017.
Following its tradition, Google has released a dedicated app for its Google I/O 2017 app on Google Play Store. The application is available for free to download and has all the events which are lined up at the event. However, the major purpose of the application is that it reserves your seat for the event. Also, the application has all the events already completed in the recordings form, which you can watch later after missing the event.
Also, you can set reminders for the events if you're attending the show. There are various other features which make the application a must downloaded one if you're attending the show. And for others, you can download it later to watch all the missed events. That said, if you have the Google I/O 2016 app installed on your phone, an update will appear in the Google Play Store. Just update it and you'll be on the Google I/O 2017.
Samsung has already rolled out the Android Nougat update to its Samsung Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge in most of the regions. However, the unlocked units in the US were left out carriers started pushing the update. Nonetheless, the unlocked Galaxy S7 Edge started receiving the update some days ago and again, the unlocked was left out. And now, several users of the unlocked Galaxy S7 started receiving the update, which means that the South Korean giant is finally rolling the upgrade.
The update is rolling out to unlocked Galaxy S7 with model number SM-G930U, and it weighs 1.226GB in size. Do make a note that you should have at least 2.5GB free space left on your phone. The update rollout is yet to be stated by Samsung, and it may reach all the unlocked Galax S7's in the US in coming days. Via: Reddit
