News and notes on the latest from Google.
Amid the U.S. trade restrictions placed on Huawei, the Chinese tech giant must find an alternative to the Google Play Store. Huawei’s Android skin, EMUI, does come with their pre-installed AppGallery app store. However, if they really do plan on going for that alleged Android replacement, they’re going to need developers to port their apps to AppGallery.
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Earlier last week, the US-based tech giant Google revoked Huawei’s license to use the Android operating system as the base for its EMUI skin. That came after President Trump signed an executive order to put Huawei on what’s known as the “Entity List.” This means that all American companies are forbidden from doing any kind of business with the Chinese tech giant without explicit government approval.
Continue reading “Google silently adds Huawei back to the Android Q Beta program”
Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’ve probably heard that the United States Government added Huawei to its “Entity List.” This prevents American companies from doing any type of business with Huawei without explicit government approval. To comply with this order, Google has to stop providing Huawei with Google services like the Play Store, Gmail, and anything else that requires the Play Services Framework.
Continue reading “The Huawei and Google dilemma: A complete rundown of everything”
Huawei and its sister company Honor have been having a choppy time with the custom ROM community lately. A while ago, they completely stopped users from unlocking their bootloaders. Now, they are disabling rooted devices from booting up.
The smartphone market has never been as competitive as it is today. Whenever you decide to buy a new phone, you start by looking at the specs and then reading some reviews on how they stand out from the herd. However, the question always remains: “How will this phone perform after 2-3 years?”
That is why we have decided to revisit one of the best phones of its year: the Nexus 6P. Continue reading “Using a Nexus 6P in 2018 is a surprisingly okay experience”
Motorola had a different approach to design. It was unique and set itself apart from the competition. However, it still lagged behind its competitors. Now, at an event in China, Motorola launched the iPhone X P30, with a color variant that it copied from Huawei.
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There’s no denying the fact that standing out from the crowd is getting increasingly difficult for phone manufacturers. With cheap flagships becoming more mainstream and mid-range phones becoming powerful enough for your day-to-day needs, there isn’t much point in shelling out the extra hundred bucks or so of your hard-earned money on premium devices. However, there is one particular group that will simply not settle for cheap: hardcore gamers. Until recently, hardcore gamers were forced to spend 700 bucks on the glorious Razer Phone to fulfill their insatiable desire of endless gaming. But the Razer monopoly on “gaming” phones might end soon. There’s a new kid on the block to watch out for…
Continue reading “Nubia Red Magic Review Part 1: Gaming phone for those on a budget”
The battle-royale game, Fortnite by Epic Games has been a hit with gamers. It made its way to iOS, even passing 100 million downloads. However, Android users were left out, but now, the Android beta is out and here’s everything you need to know.
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Every now and then Google pushes an update for its AR platform to add more features, improve the platform’s stability, or add support for new devices. Today, one of the most unexpected devices was added to the list: the recently released Acer Chromebook Tab 10.
Huawei has cleverly implemented a feature called Face Tracking. In short, the phone will keep tracking your face to ensure the phone doesn’t turn off the screen or even dim it as long as you (or any other user) are looking at it. Basically, if it detects a face looking at the phone, the screen remains bright. So if you are reading something like an e-book or a lengthy article, the screen will be lit the whole time overriding the configured screen timeout. Pretty cool. But, it turns out that it might drain more juice than desired under certain conditions.
Continue reading “Honor Face Tracking is allegedly causing battery drain for some users”
