OPPO F15 and OPPO A91 are getting the ColorOS 7 stable update with Android 10

After rolling out the ColorOS 7 flavored Android 10 update for the OPPO R15 earlier this month, OPPO is now doing the same for two more phones: the OPPO F15 and the OPPO A91. Don’t let the naming convention confuse you, though, as this is yet another example of OPPO’s rebranding strategy. The company initially launched the OPPO A91 in China back in December 2019, and decided to release the exact same phone in India as the OPPO F15 a month later. To make things further complicated, there exists a global variant of the OPPO A91 as well. The non-Chinese models share a common firmware, thus the new ColorOS 7/Android build is compatible with both these phones.

ColorOS 7 brings in all the new features that Google rolled out with Android 10, such as the system-wide dark mode, and full-screen gestures. OPPO thoroughly revised their custom skin while integrating it on top of Android 10, thus the owners of the phone duo can now enjoy a much cleaner UI, redesigned iconography, optimized Game Space, and much more. The current stable Android 10 build for the OPPO F15/A91 is tagged as CPH2001PUEX_11.C.11, and it is now available for download in India and several other Asian countries.

Thanks to Twitter user @Sanjeev90488373 for the screenshot!

Expand the following section to take a look at the complete changelog of this update:

ColorOS 7 (Android 10) update changelog for the OPPO F15 and the OPPO A91

• Visuals
  • Brand new borderless design makes visuals more attractive and operation more efficient.
  • Added OPPO Sans as the default font. The new font delivers a refreshing feel and fits well with OPPO’s pursuit of blending beauty and technology.
• Smart Sidebar
  • Optimised user interfaces and improved one-handed operation.
  • Drag an app out of Smart Sidebar to open it in Split-screen mode.
  • Added two settings: Assistive Ball Opacity and Hide Assistive Ball on Fullscreen App.
  • Optimised the Floating Window feature for more apps.
  • Added a bubble: A bubble is displayed when you open an app in a floating window from the Smart Sidebar. Tap the bubble to collapse and open the app.
• Screenshot
  • Optimised 3-Finger Screenshot: Use 3 fingers to touch and hold the screen and swipe your fingers to adjust the screenshot size. Use 3 fingers to touch and hold the screen and swipe your fingers outwards to capture a long screenshot.
  • Added screenshot settings: You can adjust the position of the screenshot preview floating window and set the screenshot sound.
  • Optimised screenshot preview floating window: After taking a screenshot, drag it up and release to share it, or drag it down and release to take a long screenshot.
• Navigation Gestures 3.0
  • New gesture: Swipe inward from both sides of the screen and then hold to switch to the previous app.
  • Optimised gestures: All gestures are supported in landscape mode.
• System
  • Added Dark Mode: Protects your eyes while reducing power consumption.
  • Added Focus Mode: Shields you from outside distractions when you are learning or working.
  • Added all new charging animation.
  • Optimised the Quick Settings user interface for easier one-handed operation.
  • Swipe left or right to ignore banner notifications.
  • Added a pause function for screen recording.
  • Added a floating window and settings for screen recording.
  • New sounds added for file deletion, calculator key touches, and compass pointer.
  • Optimised system pre-loaded ringtones.
  • Added TalkBack floating prompts for Accessibility.
  • Colour Accessibility Mode added to improve the user experience for visually impaired users.
  • New management function for recent tasks: You can view memory information about recent tasks and lock apps.
• Games
  • Optimised visual interaction for Game Space.
  • Optimised the startup animation for Game Space.
• Home Screen
  • More live wallpapers.
  • Added Art+ static wallpapers.
  • Customise whether to open Global Search or the notification drawer when swiping down on the Home screen.
  • Customise the size, shape, and style of app icons on the Home screen.
  • Swipe up on the Lock screen to switch unlock methods.
  • Optimised the graphic design of password unlocks to facilitate one-handed operations.
  • Supported live wallpapers on the Lock screen.
  • More screen-off clock styles.
  • Added a simple Home screen mode, featuring larger fonts and icons and a clearer layout.
• Security
  • Connect your phone to Wi-Fi networks using a random MAC address to avoid targeted ads and protect your privacy.
• Tools
  • In Quick Settings or Smart Sidebar, you can open Calculator in a floating
  • Added the trim feature in Recordings.
  • Added the Weather (dynamic) ringtone, which automatically adapts to the current weather.
  • Added weather-adaptive animations in Weather.
• Camera
  • Optimised the Camera UI for better user experience.
  • Optimised the Timer UI and sound.
• Photos
  • Optimised the Album UI for a clear hierarchy and quick lookup of photos.
  • Added Album Recommendations that recognises more than 80 different scenes.
• Communications
  • OPPO Share now supports sharing files with vivo and Xiaomi devices.
  • Optimised the Contacts UI for a more efficient experience.
• Settings
  • Search Settings now supports fuzzy match and contains a search history.
• Applications
  • Soloop Video Editor: Create your video with one tap.
  • Added DocVault, an app for easy management and use of your digital ID cards (available only on phones sold in India).

Those running ColorOS 6 based CPH2001PUEX_11.A.33/A.35 builds should get the OTA prompt on their phones right away. OPPO has yet to publish the sideload-friendly package on their download portal, but users can force the update by visiting Settings > Software Updates and clicking on Trial Version from the gear menu.

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Source: ColorOS Community

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Microsoft’s Eye Contact feature goes live on the Surface Pro X to keep your gaze focused in video calls

At the Surface event late last year, Microsoft unveiled the new Surface Pro X — an ARM version of the Surface Pro 7 powered by a custom Qualcomm Snapdragon 8cx processor (AKA Microsoft SQ1). During the Surface Pro X presentation, the company also showcased a new technology exclusive to the notebook, which utilized the power of AI to automatically focus a user’s gaze at the camera during video calls. However, the feature wasn’t available on the Surface Pro X when it first went on sale late last year in November. Now, almost a year after the original announcement, Microsoft has finally started rolling out the Eye Contact feature in the latest Windows 10 Insider Preview build 20175.

The all-new feature relies on the artificial intelligence capabilities offered by Microsoft’s custom SQ1 processor and automatically adjusts the user’s gaze during video calls. According to a recent blog post from the company, Surface Pro X users who are enrolled in the Windows Insider program can now enable the Eye Contact feature from within the Surface app on their devices.

Since the new Eye Contact feature makes use of Microsoft’s SQ1 processor, it will only be available on the Surface Pro X and won’t be released for other devices running the latest Windows 10 Insider Preview build. Along with the new Eye Contact feature, the latest Windows 10 Insider Preview build brings improvements to pinned sites in Microsoft Edge, new icons for stock apps like Sticky Notes and Snip & Sketch, and several dev-focused changes.

It’s worth noting that Microsoft isn’t the only company to offer such a feature. Apple has also been working a similar technology called FaceTime Attention Correction, which was briefly available in beta releases of iOS 13 last year. While the technology was pulled from the final iOS 13 release, it should make it to users with iOS 14 later this year.

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Source: Windows blog

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[Update: Coming to Chrome 86] Going back and forward in Google Chrome will get a lot faster with bfcache

Update 1 (07/24/2020 @ 08:28 AM ET): . Scroll to the bottom for more information. The article as published on February 28, 2019, is preserved below.

Google Chrome is the world’s most popular web browser, both on mobile and on the desktop. Over the years, it has faced its fair share of criticism for being more memory-intensive than it needs to be and getting bloated in terms of size and features, but it has also received praise for its real-world speed and usability. Now, Google has announced that it is working on a new feature to improve back-forward navigation in the web browser, using bfcache (backward-forward cache).

Google states that a back/forward cache (bfcache) caches whole pages, including the JavaScript heap, when navigating away from a page. This is done so that the full state of the page can be restored when the user navigates back. The company gives an analogy of pausing a page when the user leaves it and playing it when the user returns. It will work when navigating back as well as when navigating forward to a previously accessed page.

Google notes that this feature won’t help when visiting new websites. That doesn’t mean it won’t be useful, though. According to the company, going back accounts for 19% of pages viewed on Google Chrome for Android and 10% on Chrome for PC. bfcache will make that navigation “extremely fast,” according to Google. It’s definitely not a trivial endeavor to implement, the company notes.

Mozilla Firefox and Apple Safari have subtly different implementations of this caching technology, Google notes. Chrome, however, is opting not to use WebKit’s implementation of bfcache due to incompatibility with Chrome’s multi-process architecture.

Addy Osmani, an engineering manager on the Chrome team, told CNET that the tricky part for Chrome is rewriting some parts of the browser to protect privacy and security. Google’s web browser has to make sure that it stops web-based JavaScript programs from running even though it’s hanging on to them in memory. He acknowledged that running JavaScript on pages which are not there from a user’s perspective is “a big potential privacy problem,” and therefore, the company is going to change Chrome’s architecture to ensure that the privacy problem won’t occur.

The downside? bfcache won’t be available on Chrome anytime soon. Google hopes to test bfcache in 2019 and build it into Chrome in 2020, according to Mr. Osmani.

Another constraint is that saving the state of web pages for possible later use will consume memory, which is already one of the major issues that Chrome faces. Mr. Osmani stated that Google is still trying to figure out the best rules for deciding which pages to keep around when to dump them from memory. He also said that the feature could help with other situations, such as better performance for tabs that need to be paused while they are on the background, particularly on mobile. Such a situation usually leads to saved memory, but it also has a major downside as pages have to be reloaded after returning to them.

bfcache on Chrome definitely sounds promising, but it’s in the early stages so far. We expect to learn more it in the coming months.

Source: Google Developers
Story Via: CNET

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Update: Google’s ‘Back Forward Cache’ feature is coming to Chrome for Android v86

Information on the Back Forward Cache feature on Google Chrome had last made the news over a year ago, and the upcoming feature was mostly forgotten in the meantime. As it turns out, the feature has become closer to seeing the light of the day in the stable release channel, as it will be rolling out with Chrome for Android v86. This may make navigating back and forward between websites much faster.

Source: Chromium
Story Via: Techdows

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NVIDIA GeForce NOW adds 9 games including FTL, Subnautica: Below Zero, and SUPERHOT: MIND CONTROL DELETE

NVIDIA opened up its GeForce NOW game-streaming service for all users earlier this year in February. Since then, the company has been adding new titles to the list of games available for subscribers each week. NVIDIA has already added new games to the list thrice this month, with the previous update bringing titles like Hyper Scape beta, Death Stranding, Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Breakpoint, Far Cry Primal, and more. This week, NVIDIA is adding nine new titles to the streaming service, including FTL: Faster Than Light, Subnautica: Below Zero, SUPERHOT: MIND CONTROL DELETE, and more.

There are the nine titles that have made their way to NVIDIA GeForce NOW this week:

• Steam:
  • Rock of Ages 3: Make & Break
  • SUPERHOT: MIND CONTROL DELETE
  • Supreme Commander 2
  • The Wind Road
• Epic Game Store:
  • Rogue Company
  • Tacoma
  • FTL: Faster Than Light
  • Steep (also available on Uplay)
  • Subnautica: Below Zero

Out of the aforementioned titles, Rock of Ages 3: Make & Break and Rogue Company are new titles that have just been released on Steam and the Epic Games Store, respectively. It’s also worth noting that Tacoma, an adventure title from 2017, is available for free on the Epic Games Store until July 30th. Along with the addition of new titles, NVIDIA has also added highlights support for popular MOBA Dota 2, which will let users easily capture highlights from the game. Follow this link for a full list of titles that support NVIDIA Highlights.

Here are all the previous title additions to NVIDIA GeForce NOW:

• March 26, 2020
• April 24, 2020
• May 1, 2020
• May 7, 2020
• May 14, 2020
• May 21, 2020
• May 28, 2020
• June 11, 2020
• June 18, 2020
• June 25, 2020
• July 2, 2020
• July 9, 2020
• July 16, 2020

NVIDIA GeForce NOW incorporates technology that utilizes AI and RTX GPUs to enable “the next generation of performance and visuals.” It’s NVIDIA’s improved deep learning neural network that “boosts frame rates while generating beautiful, sharp images for games”. Since the base technology is game streaming, games begin playing instantly when you fire them up. They also include an experience that has been optimized for cloud gaming and includes Game Ready Driver performance improvements, managed directly by NVIDIA.

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OxygenOS hints at a new “Gray Ash” color for the OnePlus Nord

Just in case you’ve been living under a rock these past few days, the OnePlus Nord is finally here. The Snapdragon 765G laden smartphone features a 90Hz AMOLED display panel with an in-display fingerprint scanner, 30W fast Warp Charge technology, 5G support – basically a bunch of good attributes under a very attractive price tag. At launch, the company decided to offer the Nord only in two color variants, namely “Blue Marble” and “Gray Onyx”. As it turns out, OnePlus may have another color in the works, although we are not sure whether they have any plan to release it soon or reserve it for a special occasion.

OnePlus Nord XDA Forums

XDA Senior Member and our trusted OnePlus tipster Some_Random_Username has discovered the hint about a third color variant of the OnePlus Nord while analyzing the Engineering Mode app. For those not familiar with this particular app, it’s pre-installed on every OnePlus phone running OxygenOS. The Qualcomm-made app got massive attention from the Android community back in 2017 due to a privilege escalation backdoor, albeit the sole purpose of it is to assist OEM engineers in hardware testing.

Hands-on with the OnePlus Nord: The true OnePlus X successor

Upon dissecting the latest version of the Engineering Mode app present in the newer OxygenOS builds, Some_Random_Username has spotted the following strings:

<string name="str_sm7250_color0_title">Gray Onyx</string>
<string name="str_sm7250_color1_title">Blue Marble</string>
<string name="str_sm7250_color2_title">Gray Ash</string>

The sm7250 portion corresponds to the model name for the Qualcomm Snapdragon 765/765G/768 SoCs, but we are more interested in the color names. As we mentioned earlier, the first 2 colors in this list have been released, but the “Gray Ash” one has certainly not. What’s more interesting is that the existence of the third color does line up with details from a leaked slide that notable leaker Evan Blass published before the Nord’s launch.

Notice “Gray Ash” as one of the color options

Unlike the flagship OnePlus 8 series, the OnePlus Nord has no carrier-exclusive model as of now. It’s possible that “Gray Ash” may be the exclusive color for an upcoming carrier launch, but that’s just our speculation at this moment.

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OnePlus Camera 5.4.23 hints at 64MP photo support, possibly for the OnePlus 8T

Now that OnePlus is done with the launch of the OnePlus Nord, the company seems to have started prepping up for the launch of its next-gen flagships — the OnePlus 8T and OnePlus 8T Pro. The upcoming devices are expected to launch sometime later this year and, according to new strings discovered in the latest update for the OnePlus Camera app, they might feature a 64MP primary sensor.

A teardown of the OnePlus Camera app (v5.4.23) has unearthed new strings of code that hint at 64MP photo support. Since both OnePlus flagships from earlier this year feature a 48MP primary sensor, we believe that the company might be prepping up OxygenOS‘s stock camera app for its next-gen flagships.

<string name="full_size_picutre_disabled_burst_shot_64mp">Burst is disabled while using 64MP</string>
<string name="full_size_picutre_disabled_hint_64mp">16MP offers better dynamic range (Recommend)</string>
<string name="full_size_picutre_enabled_hint_64mp">64MP offers higher resolution and captures details in well lit scenes</string>
<string name="action_item_picture_format_jpg_64MP">JPG 64MP</string>
<string name="content_description_64mp">64MP</string>

The strings reveal that the OnePlus Camera app has received support for a new 64MP camera mode, which “offers higher resolution and captured details in well lit scenes.” The code further reveals that burst capture will be disabled while using the 64MP mode and that the camera app will recommend using the lower resolution 16MP mode for better dynamic range. The 16MP default mode further confirms that the new feature has been added in preparation for an upcoming device, as the OnePlus 8 and OnePlus 8 Pro capture 12MP photos by default.

As of now, we’ve not seen any leaks or rumors about OnePlus’ next-gen flagship devices. The company typically launches its T-series devices towards the end of the third quarter or early in the fourth quarter each year, and we should start seeing more details about the OnePlus 8T and 8T Pro in the coming weeks.

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Thanks to XDA Senior Member Some_Random_Username for the tip!

Featured image: OnePlus 8 Pro

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OxygenOS 10.5.2 for the OnePlus Nord adds OnePlus Buds support

Just a day after OnePlus hosted its AR launch event and unveiled the highly anticipated OnePlus Nord and OnePlus Buds, the company has started rolling out the second software update for its new mid-ranger. The update, OxygenOS v10.5.2, measures 143MB in size and brings official support for the OnePlus Buds to the device, Android security patches for July 2020, minor improvements for the camera, and more.

OnePlus Nord XDA Forums

Here’s the complete changelog for OxygenOS 10.5.2 for the OnePlus Nord:

• System
  • Newly adapted OnePlus Buds firmware, easier to take advantage of wireless connection
  • Newly adapted Dailyhunt with 90Hz refresh rate (IN only)
  • Optimized the process of starting camera with gestures
  • Optimized video calling performance
  • Improved system stability and fixed general issues
  • Updated Android security patch to 2020.07
• Camera
  • Optimized power efficiency for front camera video shooting at 4K 60fps
  • Improved camera experience and system stability

Just like all previous OxygenOS updates, the latest OTA for the OnePlus Nord is only being rolled out to a small percentage of users today. Once the company confirms that there aren’t any bugs in the release, the update should roll out to more users. As mentioned earlier, this is the second software update for the OnePlus Nord since its launch. The first update, OxygenOS v10.5.1, included optimizations for the video calling performance and a few camera improvements.

 

We currently don’t have access to download links for the latest OxygenOS OTA update for the OnePlus Nord. We will update the post as soon as the download links are available. It’s also worth noting that since the OnePlus Nord hasn’t gone on sale in India, buyers should receive both the OTA updates right after they set up their new device. The OnePlus Nord goes on open sale in India on August 4th via OnePlus’s website and Amazon.in.

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Source: OnePlus Forums

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