Twitter now lets you pin lists as tabs, tests “Fleets”, and starts rolling out threaded replies for Android

If you’re an avid Twitter user, you’d already know that the platform’s Lists feature can really help you streamline your feed and make it easier for you to follow specific topics or people. In a bid to make accessing these lists even easier, Twitter is now rolling out a new feature that will allow users to pin lists as tabs right next to the main timeline. According to a recent tweet from the official Twitter Support handle, this new feature has already started rolling out to Twitter on Android and it lets you easily swipe over to your custom lists directly from the home tab.

On Android? Now you can pin Lists to swipe over to them from your Home tab too!

We’re rolling this out starting today. https://t.co/jbLZpi4joG

— Twitter Support (@TwitterSupport) March 3, 2020

As Android Police explains, the feature can be found within the Lists option in the side menu on the Twitter app. To pin any list as a tab, all you need to do is tap on the new pin icon next to the list and it’ll instantly appear right next to the main timeline on the app’s home screen. However, before you can access the tabbed list, you’ll need to close the Twitter app and launch it again to trigger the tabbed interface. The feature allows you to pin up to five of your favorite lists for quick access.

We’ve been listening to this feedback and working to create new capabilities that address some of the anxieties that hold people back from talking on Twitter. Today, in Brazil only, we’re starting a test (on Android and iOS) for one of those new capabilities. It’s called Fleets. pic.twitter.com/6MLs8irb0c

— Kayvon Beykpour (@kayvz) March 4, 2020

Along with the aforementioned tabbed lists feature, Twitter is also testing a new feature called “Fleets” which will allow users to share temporary tweets that disappear after 24 hours. According to a recent string of tweets from Kayvon Beykpour, product lead at Twitter, these new Fleets won’t crowd your timeline and can only be viewed by tapping on your avatar. He further reveals that the only way users can interact with Fleets is by sending a DM to the poster, with no option to Retweet, Like or post a public reply. As of now, the new Fleets feature is only being rolled out to Twitter users in Brazil, with no information from the company regarding a wider rollout.

Furthermore, Twitter is also rolling out threaded replies on Android, which was previously being tested on iOS. Our Editor-in-Chief, Mishaal Rahman, has already received the feature on his device and, just as you’d expect, it makes browsing through replies a whole lot easier. The attached screenshot above shows how the threaded replies should appear on your device once the feature finally rolls out to more users.

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Source: Twitter Support, Kayvon Beykpour

Via: Android Police

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Realme Band launched in India alongisde the Realme 6 series

At the recently concluded Realme 6 series launch event in Delhi, the company finally lifted the covers off the Realme 6 and the Realme 6 Pro. The new devices are a major step up from the Realme 5 series from last year and offer some features that were previously limited to flagship devices, including 90Hz high refresh rate displays with hole-punch cutouts for the selfie cameras and support for 30W fast charging. Along with the Realme 6 series, the company also launched its first fitness tracker — the Realme Band.

Much like other fitness trackers in the market today, the Realme Band offers features that cover all your basic fitness tracking needs, including step tracking, automatic heart rate measurement, sleep detection, a water reminder, and a sedentary reminder. For these functions, the band packs in a 3-axis accelerometer and a heart rate sensor (HX3600). Along with the aforementioned fitness features, the Realme Band also includes 9 sports functions to track your activity while playing cricket, cycling, hiking, etc.

In terms of design, the Realme Band looks a lot like other fitness trackers in the market and it has a rectangular polycarbonate body with a 0.96-inch TFT-LCD color display that has a resolution of 80×160 pixels. Sadly though, it isn’t a touch screen like most other fitness bands in the market and features a single capacitive button underneath to allow users to cycle through all the settings.

On the bright side, the Realme Band has an integrated USB Type-A connector hidden underneath one of the removable TPU straps that you can use for charging and data syncing, which is a much better alternative to the proprietary charging docks that come with most other fitness trackers. Powering the Realme Band is a 90mAh battery that is rated for 6-9 days of battery life, depending on whether you use the automatic heart rate measurement or not. The band comes with IP68 rating for dust and water resistance and it connects to your smartphone using the new Realme Link app over Bluetooth 4.2LE.

Speaking of Realme Link, not only will the app allow you to keep a track of the fitness data collected by the Realme Band, but it will also serve as an interface for all upcoming IoT products from the company. It will also let you manage your Realme Buds Air, with options to customize its gestures, update the firmware, and keep a track of the battery life.

Pricing and Availability

The Realme Band will be available on Realme’s website starting today and it will soon be available on Amazon as well. The band has been priced at ₹1,499 and will be available in three color variants — Ink Black, Olive Green, and Light Yellow.

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Realme 6 and 6 Pro launched in India with 90Hz hole-punch displays and 30W fast charging

Realme has had a great start this year with the launch of the budget-friendly Realme C3 and its first 5G flagship, the Realme X50 Pro. In my review of the Realme C3, I found the MediaTek Helio G70 powered device to be a great option for mobile gamers on a budget, while Adam from our team described the Realme X50 Pro as a “well-thought-out package with good features and great performance“‘. So when the company announced that it will be launching the Realme 6 series in India late last month, I had high hopes for the upcoming devices. At the time, the company had revealed that the Realme 6 series, will feature a 64MP main camera, 90Hz display, and support for 30W fast charging. Realme has now finally launched the Realme 6 series in India and both the devices in the series look to be compelling options, especially at their respective price points.

Realme 6

To kick things off, let’s first take a look at the Realme 6, which is a direct successor to the Realme 5 from last year. In terms of specifications alone, Realme has taken a big leap from Realme 5 to Realme 6 and the new device has a lot more to offer. The Realme 6 features a 6.5-inch FHD+ LCD display with a 90Hz refresh rate and a single circular hole-punch cutout for the selfie camera. The display has a touch sampling rate of 120Hz and a maximum brightness of 480 nits, which is a major step up from the Realme 5’s 720p display with a notch.

On the inside, the Realme 6 is powered by MediaTek’s Helio G90T (MT6785) SoC, coupled with up to 8GB of LPDDR4X RAM and up to 128GB of UFS 2.1 storage. In comparison, the Realme 5 from last year packed in a Snapdragon 665 chip, coupled with up to 4GB RAM and up to 128GB of eMMC storage. Once again, the Realme 6 is a significant upgrade. Even in the camera department, the Realme 6 offers much more. The device has a 64MP primary camera, an 8MP ultra wide camera, a 2MP dedicated macro camera, and a 2MP mono sensor, presumably, for depth perception. On the front, the device has a single 16MP selfie shooter. Powering the Realme 6 is a respectable 4,300 mAh battery with support for 30W fast charging.

Both the devices feature a similar design, with an aluminum alloy frame, a polycarbonate back with a vertical camera module, a capacitive fingerprint scanner embedded in the power button on the right edge and volume buttons on the left edge. Both the devices also include a 3.5mm headphone jack, and a USB Type-C port for charging and data syncing. Potential buyers will also be glad to know that both the Realme 6 and 6 Pro feature a triple-slot SIM tray, which will allow you to use two nano-SIM cards and a microSD card for expansion at the same time. Now that we’ve addressed all the common features in the two devices, let’s take a look at what makes the more premium Realme 6 Pro tick.

Specifications	Realme 6
Dimensions & Weight	162.1 x 74.8 x 8.9 mm 191g
Display	6.5-inch LCD 1080 x 2400 20:9 aspect ratio Gorilla Glass 3 90Hz refresh rate 120Hz touch sampling rate
SoC	MediaTek Helio G90T (12nm) 2 x Arm Cortex-A76 @ 2.05GHz 6 x Arm Cortex-A55 @ 2.0GHz Mali G76 GPU
RAM	4GB/6GB/8GB
Storage	64GB/128GB UFS 2.1 Dedicated microSD slot
Battery	4,300mAh, 30W charging via USB Type-C
Fingerprint Sensor	Capacitive
Rear Camera	64MP, f/1.8 8MP ultra-wide, 119°, f/2.3 2MP macro sensor, f/2.4 2MP mono, f/2.4 1080p video recording at 60fps 4K video recording at 30fps
Front Camera	16MP, f/2.0 1080p video recording at 30fps
Android Version	Realme UI based on Android 10
Colors	Comet Blue, Comet White

Realme 6 Pro

As with the Realme 6, the Realme 6 Pro offers a major spec bump over the Realme 5 Pro from last year, especially in a couple of key areas. The device packs in a 6.6-inch FHD+ LCD display with a 90Hz refresh rate, 120Hz touch sampling rate, and 480 nits of peak brightness. In comparison, the Realme 5 Pro featured a 6.3-inch FHD+ display with a 60Hz refresh rate and 450 nits of peak brightness.

On the inside, the 6 Pro is powered by a Snapdragon 720G (SM7125) chip, with up to 8GB of LPDDR4X RAM and up to 128GB of UFS 2.1 storage. Qualcomm announced the new Snapdragon 720G chip earlier this year in January and the Realme 6 Pro is the first smartphone to make use of this chip. It’ll be interesting to see how it compares with some of the other upper mid-range chips in the market today, so make sure you stick around for our full review of the Realme 6 Pro.

 

In the camera department, the 6 Pro also offers a quad-camera setup with a 64MP primary shooter, an 8MP ultra-wide camera, a 12MP telephoto camera, and a 2MP macro camera. Up on the front, the device features two selfie shooters, with a 16MP camera that has a 79.3° FoV and an 8MP ultra-wide camera with a 105° FoV. Both the cameras are housed within a pill-shaped hole punch cutout in the top left corner. As with the Realme 6, the Realme 6 Pro also packs in a 4,300mAh battery with support for 30W fast charging. As far as the software is concerned, both the Realme 6 and the 6 Pro run Realme UI v1.0 based on Android 10 which is slowly rolling out to more Realme devices.

Specifications	Realme 6 Pro
Dimensions & Weight	163.9 x 75.8 x 9.4 mm 195g
Display	6.6-inch LCD 1080 x 2400 20:9 aspect ratio Gorilla Glass 5 90Hz refresh rate 120Hz touch sampling rate
SoC	Qualcomm Snapdragon 720G (8nm) 2 x Arm Cortex-A76 @ 2.3GHz 6 x Arm Cortex-A55 @ 1.8GHz Adreno 618 GPU
RAM	6GB/8GB
Storage	64GB/128GB UFS 2.1 Dedicated microSD slot
Battery	4,300mAh, 30W charging via USB Type-C
Fingerprint Sensor	Capacitive
Rear Camera	64MP, f/1.8 8MP ultra-wide, 119°, f/2.3 12MP telephoto sensor, f/2.5 2MP macro, f/2.4 1080p video recording at 60fps 4K video recording at 30fps
Front Camera	16MP, f/2.2 8MP ultra-wide, 105°, f/2.2 1080p video recording at 30fps
Android Version	Realme UI based on Android 10
Colors	Lightning Blue, Lightning Orange

Pricing and Availability

The Realme 6 and 6 Pro will be available for purchase on Flipkart starting from March 11th and March 13th, respectively. Realme is offering both the devices in two color variants each, with the Realme 6 available in a Comet Blue and Comet White finish and the Realme 6 Pro available in a Lightning Blue and Lightning Orange finish. The Realme 6 will be available at a starting price of ₹12,999 for the 4/64GB variant, while the 6/128GB and 8/128GB variants have been priced at ₹14,999 and ₹15,999, respectively. The more premium 6 Pro will be available for ₹16,999 for the 6/64GB variant, going up to ₹17,999 and ₹18,999, for the 6/128GB and 8/128GB variants, respectively.

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Project Sandcastle brings Android to the iPhone 7 using checkra1n

Apple makes some interesting consumer hardware in the form of the iPhone. Apple exercises complete control over the hardware and software of the iPhone and its other devices, enabling it to deliver an arguably unparalleled experience. This experience lets them charge heavy markups on their products, and several consumers are fine with this cost for the luxury of “it just works“. But all of this control from Apple has given its products and their underlying experiences the analogy of a “walled garden” — you can only enjoy the experiences that Apple wants you to enjoy, and experience nothing else, good or bad. So even after you pay exorbitant amounts of money for exciting hardware, you don’t truly own the hardware — you merely have the license to use it within the boundaries set by Apple. Several developers disagree with these boundaries, and they set out to remedy the situation with Project Sandcastle, allowing you to run Android on your Apple iPhone 7.

Project Sandcastle is the work of the team at Corellium, which consists of the same people who were credited for booting Android on the original iPhone more than ten years ago. As Project Sandcastle notes in its product philosophy:

Where sandboxes set limits and boundaries, sandcastles provide an opportunity to create something new from the limitless bounds of your imagination. Project Sandcastle is about building something new on the silicon of your hardware.

The iPhone restricts users to operate inside a sandbox. But when you buy an iPhone, you own the iPhone hardware. Android for the iPhone gives you the freedom to run a different operating system on that hardware.

This time around, Project Sandcastle lets you boot Android 10 on the Apple iPhone 7, iPhone 7 Plus and the iPod Touch. The project makes extensive use of the checkra1n jailbreak to launch, the same one that you use to jailbreak your iPhone via a rooted Android. Work is on to expand the project to the other iPhones included in the checkra1n jailbreak, but for now, you are restricted to just these three devices. The silver lining is that the vulnerabilities that have been used to make the checkra1n jailbreak, and consequently Project Sandcastle, possible are extremely unlikely to be fixed.  So the methods will theoretically work in perpetuity on the entire range of vulnerable iPhones, removing the “what’s the point? Apple will fix it with an update” dissuasion from the efforts.

Here is an iPhone 7 booting Android ! pic.twitter.com/cfCdSEzTbo

— matteyeux (@matteyeux) March 4, 2020

There are a fair few major caveats with installing and using Android on your iPhone. For one, major functions like Bluetooth, Audio, Cellular connectivity, and Camera do not work. From our understanding, Project Sandcastle also cannot ship a build of Android with GMS (Google Mobile Services) included, and there appears no way like a custom recovery to flash it separately either — so you can’t access any Google apps like the Play Store or use apps that rely on GMS functions. The Android installation itself is not permanent either, so you lose your data and your Android OS when you reboot. On the plus side, you can simply reboot back into iOS when you need your phone to be a phone (with the caveat that the space claimed for the Android OS will still be reserved). The beta disclaimer still applies: this is in beta, so do not try it on hardware that you cannot risk losing.

Working features for Android on iPhone/iPod. Support is currently limited to iPhone 7, 7 Plus and iPod Touch 7th Gen

To download and install the Android build under Project Sandcastle, head on over to the official website. Instructions for installation are present inside the Readme within the downloaded file. Keep in mind that you do need to have checkra1n installed on your iDevice already, and you need either a Mac or Linux for further installation. Scripts take care of the process, for the most part, so the overall process is surprisingly not difficult for what it is trying to achieve: actual freaking Android on an iPhone.

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Source: Project Sandcastle
Story Via: Forbes

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iFixit’s Galaxy S20 Ultra teardown shows off Samsung’s 100X Space Zoom camera

The Galaxy S20 Ultra is Samsung’s most expensive smartphone in the new Galaxy S line, and it features a variety of top-tier hardware features that Samsung hopes will justify that price. The biggest selling point of the phone is its camera setup. The S20 Ultra has a huge 108MP primary sensor that supports 3×3 pixel binning, a 48MP ~4x optical zoom camera, a 12MP ultra-wide-angle camera, and a 0.2MP time-of-flight sensor. iFixit just published a teardown of this beast of a smartphone to reveal the hardware magic behind the Galaxy S20 Ultra’s 100X Space Zoom camera.

The first and most important part of the Galaxy S20 Ultra’s camera setup is the main 108MP sensor. It’s a massive sensor. The dimensions of the sensor measure 9.5mm x 7.3mm. The surface area of this sensor is actually double that of the iPhone 11 Pro’s 12MP main sensor, according to iFixit. In order to compensate for the fact that packing 108 million pixels into such a small area makes for very tiny pixels (which results in noisy images in low-lighting conditions), the Galaxy S20 Ultra uses a “new material” that separates each pixel to “[minimize] optical loss and light reflection.” Samsung’s “nona-binning” basically involves taking a set of 3×3 pixels and combining them into one ultra-detailed pixel. That’s why shots from the 108MP camera, by default, outputs at 12MP resolution.

iPhone 11 Pro 12MP vs Galaxy S20 Ultra 108MP

The ~4x optical zoom camera is a more interesting camera. It uses a 48MP Sony IMX 586 sensor but has a few forms of stabilization. Samsung is using a rail connected to the box that houses the lens array to move the sensor back and forth for focus. The prism used to reflect light 90° into the sensor is also optically stabilized. This means that pictures captured from this lens are stabilized on multiple different levels. It’s an insanely cool way Samsung is setting up this camera, and it’s a system we have yet to see from any other OEM.

The internal silicon is just as impressive. Below is a list of chips that iFixit was able to find inside the Galaxy S20 Ultra. One impressive chip to note of is the 12GB of LPDDR5 RAM layered on top of the Qualcomm Snapdragon 865 chip. This is one of the first widely available devices with LPDDR5 RAM. You even have the option of getting an S20 Ultra in up to 16GB of LPDDR5 RAM.

• Samsung K3LK4K40BM-BGCN 12 GB LPDDR5 RAM layered over Qualcomm 865 SoC
• Samsung KLUDG4UHDB-B2D1 128 GB UFS 3.0 flash storage
• Qualcomm SDX55M 2nd-gen 5G modem
• Skyworks SKY58210-11 RF Front-End Module
• Qorvo QM78092 Front-End Module
• Maxim MAX77705C power management IC
• Qualcomm QPM5677 and QPM6585 5G power amplification modules
• Qualcomm SDR865 RF Transceiver
• Murata KM9D19075 Wi-Fi & Bluetooth Module
• Qualcomm PM8250 power management IC
• Qualcomm PMX55 power management IC
• Qualcomm PM8150C power management IC
• Qualcomm QDM4870 front-end module
• Qualcomm QBT2000 000 5R90777 HK940 07
• Samsung 1951 A S6SY79AX 6877DW3

The Samsung Galaxy S20 Ultra is an insanely powerful (and expensive) smartphone, but it isn’t very repairable, sadly. iFixit only gave it a repairability score of 3 out of 10, which makes this “Ultra” phone feel a lot less ultra. iFixit gave the phone bad marks for the fragile glass rear cover, the difficulty in replacing the glued-down battery, and the difficulty in getting access to the display for repairs. If you’re interested in the full teardown, check out the post on iFixit.

Galaxy S20 Forums ||| Galaxy S20+ Forums ||| Galaxy S20 Ultra Forums

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Google releases Android 11 Developer Preview 1.1 to fix some bugs

Google released the first developer preview for Android 11 exactly 2 weeks ago. The company plans to release two more developer previews and three public betas before the stable release in Q3. However, today Google is releasing Developer Preview 1.1 to address a few bugs that were present in the initial release. Check out the changelog below.

Privacy

• Apps targeting Android 11 no longer receive an erroneous security exception if they try to request a foreground location permission, such as ACCESS_COARSE_LOCATION or ACCESS_FINE_LOCATION, and any other permission at the same time.

Android Studio and tools

• armeabi-v7a apps no longer cause x86 Emulator images to crash.
  NDK apps targeting Android 11 are no longer blocked from building because of an issue with the Android Gradle Plugin. This fix is included in both Android Studio 4.0 Beta 2 (or higher) and Android Studio 4.1 Canary 1 (or higher).

Non-SDK interface restrictions

• Greylist restrictions have been temporarily relaxed on a small number of methods used by OkHTTP and related SDKs that are in widespread use. This should provide app developers with more time to test and update their libraries before these restrictions are reinstated later in the Developer Preview.

Apps

• Fixed an issue where a fatal exception was being thrown by com.android.phone.

GSI

• Fixed an issue where using the gsi_gms_arm64-userdebug build failed to boot on Pixel 3 devices.
• Fixed an issue where the Setup Wizard would crash when running on Pixel 4 XL devices.

The updated Android 11 DP system images are available now for the Pixel 4, Pixel 4 XL, Pixel 3a, Pixel 3a XL, Pixel 3, Pixel 3 XL, Pixel 2, Pixel 2 XL, and GSIs. These builds must be flashed manually. You can find the list of known issues here.

Download Android 11 Developer Preview 1.1 System Images for Pixel Phones

Download Android 11 Developer Preview 1.1 GSI Images for Project Treble devices

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Google Assistant can now read web pages out loud in 42 languages

Earlier this year, Google announced some upcoming features for Assistant. One of those features was the ability to ask Google Assistant to read a web page out loud. The company is now ready to roll out this feature and it works with 42 languages at launch.

Using Google Assistant to read a long web page couldn’t be easier. It can be used whenever you’re looking at an article in your browser on your Android phone (Google doesn’t mention Chrome specifically, so it should work with others as well). All you have to do is trigger Google Assistant and say “read it” or “read this page.”

A page reader UI will open and the browser will automatically scroll the page while Google Assistant reads it out loud. You can use the buttons on the screen to pause the reading or skip back/forward. If the original article isn’t in your native language, Assistant can read aloud in 42 languages. You can use the translation menu to select the language you would like to hear and Assistant will always use this language.

This feature should basically work on any website with no setup. However, if webmasters would like to exclude their websites from this feature, they can use the nopagereadaloud tag. Google also wants to remind app developers that they can support this feature using Actions on Google.

Google appears to be rolling out this feature to Assistant right now. It’s already working on some of our devices here at XDA, including non-Pixel devices without the new Google Assistant. Give it a try on your phone today!

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