News & Reviews:   Android

The agreement is done. Nokia has announced that the talks between HMD Global, FIH Mobile and Microsoft is done. What this means is that the brand is officially off and running, and we will be seeing products from the company in the second half of 2017.

We have talked about the Helio X25 SoC before, which was used in the Meizu Pro 6 smartphone. Today MediaTek has announced two new models that sits in the same family line – the deca-core Helio X23 and Helio X27 mobile processors.

If you are currently subscribing to Netflix, and wished you can bring your favourite show or movie along with you while you are travelling – good news. Netflix now allows users to download shows onto your smart devices for offline viewing. This feature is now live for both the Android and iOS apps, and regardless of the subscription tier.

You should check your account, as a new bug has made headlines with Android accounts across the world. Thanks to the Gooligan bug, several malicious apps have been downloaded by Android users allowing the malware inside them to wreak havoc with as many as 1.3 million Google accounts.

While most people uses the Facebook Messenger as a chat service to talk with friends, Facebook thinks that it can be more than just for words. They have now rolled out an update for Android and iOS that will allow users to play a number of classic and current games directly in Messenger.

As the latest Android now supports Adoptable storage – external storage that can extend the size of the internal storage – and even some integration SD cards into the phone itself – the Secure Digital Association, the body that governs the SD Card standard, has announced a new specification called SD 5.1 that introduces the Application Performance Class.

If you are a constant user of Waze – this will be a treat for you. Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May are now on Waze as a voice pack that you can download to give you navigation on the road.

After announcing their free data allocation for video streaming services, u Mobile now introduces Music Onz, their free data service for music streaming for u Mobile customers. Just like Video Onz, Music Onz provides free unlimited music streaming on both prepaid and postpaid plans.

We have talked about the various patents that Samsung has garnered over the past year or so for flexible displays for their future smartphones. Now a new patent has been granted to Samsung that seems to incorporate their previous patents into a single design.

As part of their next wave of product announcement, MediaTek is currently designing a new mid-tier processor for its helio range. The new Helio P35 is said to have a deca-core CPU, with two Cortex-A73 64-bit cores clocked to 2.2GHz for heavy processing work.