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Business App from WhatsApp: WhatsApp launched a new WhatsApp Business application for small business owners to communicate with their customers. Many companies are already using WhatsApp and with this, they can be more efficient and provide better information. Companies can download the new application and set up their account. The business application will allow adding a business description, the email address or the store location and website, which will help customers reach to them. The Business application will also have messaging tools that will let users send quick replies to provide fast answers to frequently asked questions, greeting messages to introduce themselves to customers, and away messages when you are not available. Users will also be able to see simple statistics for reading messages. The account will be marked as a Business account so customers can identify them and WhatsApp will also verify some accounts over time so customers know they have reached the officia...

Huawei Mate 10 hitting US for $799 with Mate 10 Pro: As informed earlier, Huawei is planning to launch officially in the United States. Huawei has now confirmed that Mate 10 and Mate 10 Pro unlocked will hit the US market. The phone won't have any carrier logo.  Check out Mate 10 Live Stream here! Huawei has confirmed that Mate 10 Pro will be available in the US in three different colors which includes Brown, Black and Midnight Blue. Other than Mate 10 Pro, Mate 10 Porsche Design is also hitting the US soon. In case you don’t know, Mate 10 Pro and the Mate 10 Porsche design are same in features but Porsche Design brings a more premium hardware and unboxing experience. Porsche Design includes two charger cables, a home and car Super Charger, a pair of earbuds, and Huawei's flip cover case. More details about pricing here.

Honor 7X to get Face unlocking feature through an update: At the CES 2018, Honor announced that their latest smartphone "Honor 7X" that was launched in December 2017 will receive an update in the first quarter of 2018 to get a facial recognition feature. Also check Huawei P10 Oreo Beta Program Started in Europe In the framework of CES 2018, the young Chinese brand announced that their "flagship model" would receive an update allowing it to benefit from a system of unlocking by facial recognition. The exact date of deployment is not yet revealed, but this update is already scheduled for the first quarter of 2018. When presenting the Honor V10, the brand had introduced a facial recognition system using the same principle as Apple's Face ID, and even its Animojis. Unfortunately, this technology requires a hardware module consisting of a standard RGB camera, an infrared camera and a VCSEL laser projector. However, the Honor 7X is not equipped with such s...

The new iPhone SE 2 could be presented at WWDC 2018 by Apple: According to new sources, Apple would work well on an iPhone SE 2, with a glass back for wireless charging. The iPhone SE gain its fame due to its competitive selling price and good hardware. This small 4.0" smartphone is one of the only ones in the market with Apple logo, integrated with the same components as the iPhone 6S, for a price under € 370. For several months, rumors around Apple speak of a smartphone renewal planned for 2018 that could integrate components of the iPhone 7. As every year, Apple held a conference in June which is dedicated to developers, the WWDC. According to several sources gathered by Gizmochina, it is at this event that the manufacturer had planned to unveil a new version of the iPhone SE. It is also at this event that Apple could unveil its ambition to create universal applications both compatible with iOS and MacOS. The iPhone 8, iPhone 8 Plus and iPhone X use a glass back to ...

QCC5100 Bluetooth chip by Qualcomm: Qualcomm took advantage of the CES 2018  and present its new QCC5100 chip which is dedicated to Bluetooth audio. The company already presented  Snapdragon 845  and Snapdragon 636 at the end of 2017. Qualcomm QCC5100, a low-power Bluetooth audio chip: Qualcomm QCC5100 chip is designed to equip tomorrow's Bluetooth audio accessories, such as headsets or speakers. It is equipped with a Bluetooth radio a class D headphone driver which is 192 kHZ / 24-bit codec with active noise reduction technology and aptX HD technologies. But the big news about this chip is its energy consumption. The QC5100 promises to consume up to 65% less energy than the previous generations. These numbers are almost third times more than the regular Bluetooth devices. One thing is for sure, Bluetooth headsets like the Bose QC35 or the Sony WH-1000XM2 should love this new chip. Qualcomm says that this new chip has twice the processing compared to its pred...

Android Oreo 8.0 in Huawei P10 roll out in Europe: Huawei has launched Android Oreo 8.0 beta program for the P10 and P10 Plus in Europe. Previously it was only available in Romania. P10 smartphones with software versions VTR-L09C432B180, VTR-L29C432B180, VKY-L09C432B181, and VKY-L29C432B181 reportedly getting the updates now. To join the program, P10 users must download an app from their website and sign in with their Huawei ID. In this way they can join the beta test program by downloading Oreo in their devices. They can leave beta program at any time they want if they want to get stable version in their daily driver. If everything goes as per the plan, the Huawei P10 handsets in Europe could get the stable version of Android Oreo by the end of February 2018. The Oreo update will add tons of new features in their devices including picture-in-picture mode, smart text selection, improved notification settings etc. The P10 smartphones were the second series of devise who’re ...

Samsung launched Exynos 9810 officially:  Samsung is introducing its new home made Exynos 9810 next week during CES 2018. Exynos 9810 is capable of AI Applications and Richer Multimedia Content. This Samsung processor will power the upcoming Samsung flagship Galaxy S9 and Galaxy S9+ in several markets around the world (other than US). Built on Samsung’s 2 nd generation 10nm FinFET process, Exynos 9810 has eight-core CPU, four of them are third-generation custom cores that can reach max 2.9GHz, the other four cores are optimized for efficiency. In this way the performance increased by around 40% compared to old Exynos predecessor. For benchmark results, we have to wait and see if this processor can go head to head with Apple's A11 Bionic. Also check out Snapdragon 670, 640 and 460. In connectivity, the Exynos 9810 features 1.2Gbps LTE modem which supports 6x carrier aggregation (CA) for 1.2Gbps download speed and 200 Mbps upload speed. In addition to the above sp...

Xiaomi Mijia MADV Mini: Xiaomi has just released a small smartphone accessory: It’s a Xiaomi 360 spherical camera capable of photographing a 5K spherical image. In the Xiaomi family of connected objects, Mijia MADV Mini has just been presented by the Chinese company. Mijia is a 360 degree spherical camera capable of photographing a spherical image in 5K. It has two 13 megapixel sensors. It is not extraordinary but in the price of € 50 its worth a lot. Xiaomi also launched Yeelight speaker powered by Alexa Mijia by Xiaomi films in Full HD equivalent (1920 x 960 pixels) at 30 frames per second. Of course, there are much better options in the market like the GoPro Fusion or the Ricoh Theta V. It has two sensors (13 megapixels) with wide-angle lenses like fish-eye (210 degrees). Beyond its small price, what is special about this camera is its size and weight. It’s (4.25 cm x 3.55 cm x 2.52 cm) for 22 grams only. It plugs into the USB Type-C connector and best this about thi...