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The  ASUS  ZenFone 5 series of smartphones was made official at the Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2018 tech trade show that was held in February this year.  The Taiwanese company could be working on ZenFone 6 series that may go official at the upcoming MWC event in February 2019. Fresh photos of the ZenFone 6 smartphone have appeared today reveal that it will be arriving with an in-display camera and a rear-mounted triple camera unit. In the first image, the ZenFone 6 prototype is placed beside the  ZenFone 5Z . Compared to the ZenFone 5Z, the ZenFone 6 appears to be sporting a notch-less display surrounded by slimmer bezels. An in-screen camera is situated on the top-left corner of its display. The bottom edge of the ZenFone 6 protype has a 3.5mm audio jack, a USB-C and an external speaker grille. In the second image, the in-display camera can be seen at the top-right corner of the screen of the ZenFone 6 prototype. There is another image showing another p...

OnePlus 6T is said to come with Corning Gorilla Glass 6 protection. According to the tipster Ishan Agarwal, the upcoming OnePlus flagship will have a screen-to-body ratio of 86 percent and Corning Gorilla Glass 6 protection on top of the display. OnePlus 6T will mark its debut globally on October 29. OnePlus has already confirmed that its new flagship model will come with an in-display fingerprint sensor. The company had also mentioned that OnePlus 6T will come with an improved user interface and feature advanced gestures. The smartphone will feature a waterdrop notch display and ditch 3.5mm audio jack. Previous reports have suggested that OnePlus 6T will come with a 6.41-inch full HD+ AMOLED display with a 19.5:9 aspect ratio. The phone is expected to run Qualcomm Snapdragon 845 processor. While several reports have indicated OnePlus 6T to ship with Android 9.0 Pie, a recent report by German retailer,   Otto  revealed that the phone could instead com...

Samsung has announced its new Galaxy A6s midrange smartphone which will be added to the companies A series. The handset will be available in Blue, Black and Red color options and is priced at 1799 Yuan (approx Rs. 19,000, $258) for the base 64GB storage variant while the 128GB storage option will be available for 2199 Yuan (approx Rs. 23,200, $316). The handset is already available in China for pre-order and will go for sale starting next week. Nothing about the global pricing or global launch is known for now. Galaxy A6s will be sporting 6-inch (1080×2220 pixels) FHD+ Infinity display and will come out of the box with Android 8.0 Oreo Operating system which might also get further updates in the future. Under the hood, we can find an Octa-core Snapdragon 660 SoC with quad 2.2GHz Kryo 260 + quad 1.8GHz Kyro 240 CPUs coupled with 6GB of RAM and Adreno 512 GPU. The onboard storage can be either 64GB or 128GB depending on the users choice and this can also be further extended up t...

Xiaomi has revealed a list of smartphones that will get Android 9.0 Pie or Android Oreo update in Q4 this year. The list first spotted by Gsmarena was posted by the company in its "Chinese-language" forum. Xiaomi has published a list of devices that will receive the beta version of Android Oreo or Android Pie and the stable version in Q4, 2018. As per the list, Xiaomi Redmi Note 5, Redmi 5A, Redmi 5 Plus and Redmi 5X will get Android Oreo update in the fourth quarter. Meanwhile, the devices that will get Android Pie-based update including Mi 8 SE, Mi 8 Screen Fingerprint Edition, and the recently launched Mi Mix 3 as well. Xiaomi in the forum mentioned that the devices that have received two major updates or have been updated recently will not get Android Pie. The listing also cited that Xiaomi Mi 5S Plus Oreo update was suspended due to unspecified software issue. While Xiaomi has revealed the list of smartphones running on MIUI China ROM eligible for ...

According to an APK teardown performed by  9to5google , the option to “Unlock with Voice Match” is slowly being depreciated. The first indication of this was the omission of the aforementioned option on the  Google Pixel 3  duo. The Google App version 8.39 for Android has a string of text that reveals the upcoming change. This feature has been around for a while now. The idea is that Google learns your voiceprint and youdy be able to talk to Google Assistant without needing to unlock device. Unlocking with Voice Matcj is the feature that lets you ask Google Assistant to perform something like open Google Maps while bypassing a secure lockscreen. Upon enabling this, Google warned that unlock with Voice Match is less secure since a similar sounding voice or voice recording could fool the Voice Match. On the Pixel 3, this option was replaced with “Lock screen personal results” which is ultimately going to replace Unlock with Voice Match in...

US-based computer hardware maker Western Digital on Thursday announced the launch of its latest Ultrastar DC HC620 host-managed SMR HDD which boasts of a 15TB storage capacity. This latest 15TB HDD joins the ranks of WD's current 14TB SMR HDD lineup with a 1TB increase in the same 3.5mm form factor. This is the biggest capacity hard drive available in the commercial market majorly targeted towards 24x7 video surveillance and other tasks that require high amounts of storage as well as fast read and write speeds. Western Digital has also announced the launch of its 400GB SanDisk Extreme UHS-I microSDXC card in the Indian market. Western Digital 15TB SMR HDD specifications Much like the previously available 14TB SMR HDDs, the newer 15TB model offers the same rotational speed of 7200RPM and average latency of 4.16ms. The SATA variant has a maximum interface transfer rate of 600MBps, while the SAS models get a maximum rate of 1200MBps. Apart from s...

Google is said to be working on an app subscription service for Google Play. According to compelling evidence discovered in a report, Google Play may soon introduce a subscription service called 'Play Pass' that offers users paid apps and games for a monthly fee. As per the latest information, the new service may let Android users subscribe to paid apps on Google Play by paying a monthly fee. The potential feature was reportedly first spotted in a Play Store APK teardown back in June, while this week a Google survey about a subscription service for apps was also discovered. Notably, Google is yet to confirm its plans for the Play Pass subscription service. Folks at XDA Developers had the  first sign  of the service when they discovered the potential feature called 'Play Pass' in a Play Store APK teardown in June this year. At the time, noted developer Kieron Quinn of MightyQuinnApps had suggested that the feature could be a subscription service. He ...