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Nokia 8.1’s Chinese brother, the Nokia X7, starts getting a stable Android Pie update in China. As we all know, the Nokia X7 didn’t come with Android One. Instead, it has a customized OS aimed at Chinese users who never use Google services. The OS looks kind of similar to stock Android but has features that are available for the global variants. The 248B.B01 update is large at 1767MB and came with new features based on Android Pie. It also intends to solve current issues from the previous Pie update, as well as upgrade the device’s security level to December…

Just a month before the Samsung held its annual Unpacked event in San Francisco, an alleged Galaxy S10+ was spotted in a position of one Samsung Employee. And it’s nothing we’ve ever seen before. We’ve been hearing news about Samsung Galaxy S10 since last year, following Samsung’s annual developer’s conference in November. During the event, the company showcased its all-new punch-hole camera solution, hence sparking rumors of the possible design for the Galaxy S10. Furthermore, before the event, in October, Samsung announced the Samsung Galaxy A9. The world’s first phone with four cameras on its rear. This leads fans to…

It’s been a while since the Realme 2 Pro became available in the market. And with Realme’s rather confusing line-up, the Realme 2 Pro is seen by many as an upgrade to the Realme 1, rather than the Realme 2 which has an entry-level chipset. The Realme 2 Pro is an almost perfect mid-range, with just a few bummers. First of all, it still uses the old micro USB port, when everyone starts transitioning to the much newer USB-C. This also means there’s no fast charge for the device, and data transfer is relatively slower. For the software, well, it…

Despite LGE’s promise last year to deliver timely updates via its new Software Upgrade Center in South Korea, we are yet to see the company’s performance in terms of software roll-out. So it comes as no surprise that it nearly is at the bottom of AOSMark’s top vendor’s list for Android OS upgrade, just above ASUS which has the poorest performance in the list. Most of LGE’s phones are still running the first version of Android Oreo, with Android Pie expected to arrive Q1/Q2 this year. One of those devices is the LG G6 which is the company’s 2017 flagship…

OnePlus’s old flagships, OnePlus 5 and OnePlus 5T, is now receiving its second Android Pie update. This time though, there are no new features added. The new update aims to fix the bugs that came along with its first Android Pie roll-out. The new OxygenOS 9.0.1 promises more stable Wi-Fi connectivity for the OnePlus 5/5T users. Users have been complaining of poor Wi-Fi connection on their OnePlus device after the first Android Pie update. This new roll-out will be able to fix that problem. The changelog also mentioned about the optimized sRGB mode. The sRGB mode has been a common…

Night mode has become a common feature for smartphones ever since the PureView era. Not that it didn’t exist prior to PureView (I actually remember playing with Night Mode on my mom’s old Nokia 7200 back in 2003), but low-light photography for a smartphone wasn’t taken seriously until Nokia launched the Lumia 920 back in 2012. Download: Night Sight camera APK port [Pixel 3 feature on your device] The advent of the optical image stabilization (OIS) and compact but faster lenses have given way to the advancement of the low-light imaging. This is probably one of the features we didn’t…

When almost every Nokia smartphones are slowly upgrading to the latest Android 9.0 Pie, HMD’s last year budget device, the Nokia 3, is just about to receive its taste of Oreo. Nokiamob reports that their Nokia 3 (TA-1020) unit with the build number 00WW-3_310_SP04 has been notified for an Android 8.1 Oreo system upgrade. The new update is large at 1818.3 MB and adds several features from the Android 8.1 Oreo. The V4.42D brings in a revamped Power Menu, New Settings Menu, Bluetooth Battery Percentage, improved System Stability, and December 2018 security patch. However, some users commented that the new…

OnePlus Global Product Operations Manager, Manu J, announced on the OnePlus forum the availability of a new OxygenOS Open Beta build for the OnePlus 6 and OnePlus 6T users. This is the first Open Beta for the OnePlus 6T, while this is already the 9th for the OnePlus 6. The two phone gets the same changelog for their beta releases with security patch update for December 2018. The new update adds toast message, call history for unknown numbers, and a new UI for Spam messages and call. This will also bring the data migration app for iPhone users called OnePlus…