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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…
HMD releases a new update for the Nokia 7 Plus. The new update contains the November security patch, which for some reason, was pulled back last month. The new update will not only advance the security path to November 2018 but will also bring in new features on HMD’s premium midranger. The update weighs 462.8 MB, and carry improvements on the existing Pie features. This includes new system navigation, settings menu, and notifications. It also adds in Adaptive Battery power prioritization for commonly used apps and services, and much more functionalities. But what makes the new update exciting are the…