OnePlus Nord N10 and N100 specs leak ahead of rumored launch

OnePlus has two more entries into its new mid-range Nord range on the horizon, and some fairly plausible specs have leaked about them both, courtesy of two separate posts on Voice by tipster Steve Hemmerstoffer (better known as OnLeaks), ahead of a rumored announcement on Monday.

The OnePlus Nord N10 5G is said to have a 6.49-inch FHD+ display with a 90Hz refresh rate. It’ll be powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon 690 5G SoC, backed up by a not insubstantial 6GB of RAM and 128GB of storage.

The battery clocks in at 4300mAh, which, if combined with OnePlus’s ‘Warp Charge’ fast-charging could be more than enough for most users. The main camera array is a four-lens offering with a 64MP camera flanked by an 8MP Ultra-Wide lens, and two 2MP lenses, presumably for macro and monochrome. The whole lot is rounded out with a USB-C port and 3.5mm headphone jack.

According to tipster Max J., the OnePlus Nord 10 5G will look something like this:

/ pic.twitter.com/RnFOB239y8

— Max J. (@MaxJmb) October 21, 2020

If that’s not whetted your appetite, there’s also the OnePlus Nord N100, which seems to be an unabashed budget offering, and the only recent release from OnePlus that doesn’t support 5G. It boasts a 6.52-inch HD+ screen, backed up by a fairly shonky sounding Qualcomm Snapdragon 460, with 4GB of RAM and 64GB of storage. The rear camera is said to be 13MP with a 2MP Macro and 2MP Bokeh lens, while the front camera is listed at 8MP. There’s a 5000mAh battery, dual-sim slot, USB-C port, and 3.5mm headphone jack.

The more keen-eyed might have spotted that the specs for the Nord N100 are pretty similar to the Oppo A33 we told you about yesterday. The OnePlus equivalent adds an extra gigabyte of RAM over the Oppo, which might yield better performance from the underpowered Snapdragon 460. There’s no indication that the A33’s 90Hz refresh rate will appear on the Nord N100, which, depending on pricing, will make for a much more even-handed set of specifications for a budget device.

All these specs are incomplete and subject to change, and the real proof-of-the-pudding will only come when OnePlus reveals pricing.

The post OnePlus Nord N10 and N100 specs leak ahead of rumored launch appeared first on xda-developers.

from xda-developers https://ift.tt/3ksb9YE
via IFTTT

Qualcomm partners with Jacoti to bring hearing enhancement tech to true wireless earbuds

Qualcomm Technologies today announced a partnership with audio technology company Jacoti to bring the latter’s hearing enhancement software to the Qualcomm QCC5100 Series Ultra-Low Power Bluetooth SoCs. The integration will result in next-gen TWS earphones and Bluetooth headsets that provide accurate personalized hearing assistance to users with mild hearing impairments.

Talking about the partnership, Qualcomm’s Vice President and General Manager for Voice, Music & Wearables, James Chapman, said, “By working with Jacoti, we’re making hearing enhancement and personalization technology more accessible to consumers than ever before. For our customers, who are competing in a rapidly changing and crowded market, exciting technologies like this will provide a really interesting way to differentiate and enrich the end user experience.”

Thanks to Jacoti’s technology, upcoming TWS earphones and Bluetooth headsets featuring QCC5100 Bluetooth SoCs will give users access to a self-administered hearing test that will help them establish volume thresholds for their level of hearing. Jacoti’s companion app will also generate two audiograms, one for each ear, tailored specifically to the user. These audiograms will act as the user’s individual hearing prescription and they can be shared with audiologists for a more accurate diagnosis.

Earbuds featuring Jacoti’s software will be able to intercept incoming sound before it reaches the user’s ears and adjust the volume of the appropriate frequencies to compensate for the user’s individual hearing deficiencies. The software will also protect the user from sounds that can cause further damage. The algorithms and correction parameters will be stored on the earbuds, which will allow users to pair with any source device without any additional calibration.

While Jacoti’s software will be supported on all Bluetooth earphones with the aforementioned Qualcomm chip, vendors will have to purchase a license from Jacoti to enable the feature on their devices. TWS earphones and Bluetooth headsets featuring this technology are expected to make it to the market in the first half of 2021.

The post Qualcomm partners with Jacoti to bring hearing enhancement tech to true wireless earbuds appeared first on xda-developers.

from xda-developers https://ift.tt/3ojIvLl
via IFTTT

The new 2020 Apple iPad Air models are now up for pre-order at Amazon

This month has flown by, and that means it’s time for Apple’s latest generation of devices to be released into the world. To that effect, Apple iPad Air models are now available for pre-order at Amazon, with the release date set for tomorrow (October 23). Yes, the new iPad Air releases tomorrow but as with most

Yes, you read that right–the new iPad Air releases tomorrow, so a pre-order feels a bit silly. But wouldn’t you feel more silly if you didn’t pre-order it and it sold out? Don’t play games with Apple products… if you’re interested, get that pre-order in today!

The 64GB model of the Apple iPad Pro is $600 and is available in four colors on Amazon: Silver, Sky Blue, Rose Gold, and Space Grey. The Green color is currently sold out! Featuring a 10.9-inch Liquid Retina display and an A14 Bionic chip provide plenty of power, while the 12MP back camera and 7MP front camera are good for video calls and FaceTime with the family! This particular model is Wi-Fi only, but if you want to attach it to your carrier plan for mobile data, the Wi-Fi and Cellular model is available for $730.

Another benefit to the iPad Air is the ability to hook up and charge via a USB-C connector, as opposed to Apple’s proprietary Lightning connector. It might feel like a small thing, but USB-C is definitely the more common connector for most devices. Less extra wires are always welcome!

Apple iPad Air (2020, 64GB)

Don't let these sell out on you! The Apple iPad Air is available for pre-order on Amazon, and that means you can buy this device a day early with all of the Amazon benefits. From Prime Shipping to an 18-month payment plan with the Prime Rewards Visa, this is the easiest way to secure your new tablet.

Buy from Amazon

If you need more space, you can pick up the 256GB Apple iPad Air for $749.

The post The new 2020 Apple iPad Air models are now up for pre-order at Amazon appeared first on xda-developers.

from xda-developers https://ift.tt/3dWeSLy
via IFTTT

Huawei launches Petal Maps and transforms Petal Search into a Google Lens alternative

Huawei has been doubling down on its own app ecosystem alternatives to Google’s GMS, with its solutions taking the form of HMS and HMS Core, AppGallery, and Petal Search. Of these, Petal Search is relatively the newest addition, with an initial goal of serving as a search engine and augmenting the Huawei AppGallery for app distribution and discovery. Now, Huawei is pivoting Petal Search into a more focused Google Lens alternative, and the company is also launching Petal Maps as an alternative to other map solutions such as Google Maps.

Petal Search

Petal Search began its journey as an app distribution aggregator or a search engine that focused on finding Android apps. The experience for Petal Search revolved around a search widget that users could tap on their home screen to open the search bar to find apps and games online.

Search with Petal Search

Now, Petal Search is also gaining more search functionality that attempts to recognize content based on presented imagery. For instance, you can now tap the image recognition icon on a screenshot, and figure out what the app is, as well as locate a reliable source to download it on your Huawei phone. Similar functionality extends onto other physical items too — you can point your camera at it and the phone will recognize what the item is, and attempt to show you a product listing for it. Further, it can also surface Wikipedia Excerpts, news articles, and even music when images or artwork are surfaced. The functionality appears to be very similar to Google Lens.

Petal Maps

Further, Huawei is also launching Petal Maps, as an alternative to Google Maps. AppGallery already has a few options for online maps, but this is Huawei offering its own product in case you did not like the other options.

As expected, Petal Maps comes with navigation with 2D and 3D views, dynamic step-by-step navigation, with routing options including fastest route, as well as the ability to display real-time traffic. It provides data for over 140 countries and regions, and support multiple languages, with voice notifications in English, French, Spanish, German, Italian, and Mandarin.

---

Source: PRNewswire

The post Huawei launches Petal Maps and transforms Petal Search into a Google Lens alternative appeared first on xda-developers.

from xda-developers https://ift.tt/3kpaNBR
via IFTTT

Huawei announces the Porsche Design Watch GT 2, FreeBuds Studio headphones, and EyeWear II smart glasses

In a launch event today, Huawei announced a bunch of new accessories alongside the launch of the flagship Huawei Mate 40 series. These products include the new Porsche Edition Watch GT 2, the FreeBuds Studio over-ear headphones, and Huawei x Gentle Monster Eyewear II smart glasses.

Porsche Design Huawei Watch GT 2

The Porsche Design Huawei Watch GT 2 is a special edition of the existing Huawei Watch GT 2 Pro, developed in close collaboration with Porsche Design. The watch has the same internals as the regular Watch GT 2 but sports a Titanium bracelet and body. The watch also comes with a unique Porche Design watch face to match the design aesthetics.

In terms of hardware and features, the Porsche Design Huawei Watch GT 2 offers a 1.39-inch AMOLED display with 454 x 454 resolution, 4GB of RAM, Bluetooth 5.1, GPS, real-time heart rate monitoring, SpO2 monitoring, and 14 days of battery life with wireless charging support. Other highlights of the smartwatch include Golf Mode that can analyze your swing and posture and provide tips for improvements, 100+ workout modes, sleep and stress level monitoring, and a built-in altitude barometer to detect sudden air pressure change and provide real-time weather warnings.

The Huawei Watch GT 2 Porsche Design will be available for €695 in Europe.

Huawei FreeBuds Studio

The Huawei FreeBuds Studio marks an official entry of Huawei in the over-ear Bluetooth headphones space. Priced at €400, the FreeBuds Studio is a premium pair of headphones, pitching itself against the offerings of Sony, Bose, and Sennheiser. The headphones weigh just 265g and use 7mm slim stainless steel arm and a soft cushion on the headband and earcups for a comfortable listening experience. The audio is handled by a 40mm dynamic driver, 4-layer diaphragm, and the Kirin A1 audio chip.

The headphones also boast the Active Noise Cancelling (ANC) feature, backed by dual hybrid noise-canceling microphones, which Huawei claims can reduce the ambient noise level by up to 40db. Huawei has fitted a total of six microphones on the FreeBuds Studio for better voice calls. The headphones support multi-point connectivity for seamless switching between two paired devices. The two 410mAh batteries provide up to 24 hours of music playback (without ANC) or up to 20 hours with ANC. Huawei claims a 10-minute top-up can keep the FreeBuds Studio going for 8 hours, with the full charge taking up to 70 minutes.

The Huawei FreeBuds Studio will be available for €299 in Europe.

Huawei x Gentle Monster Eyewear II

Huawei x Gentle Monster Eyewear II or Huawei Eyewear II are a follow-up to the last year’s Huawei EyeWear smart glasses launched alongside the Huawei P30 series. Huawei announced these new glasses in China back in August, but it’s only now that the Chinese company is bringing them to the international market. Made in partnership with South Korea’s leading fashion brand Gentle Monster, the Huawei Eyewear II features a slimmer, more lightweight design and comes in a redesigned carrying case.

 

The glasses continue to use the same semi-open design with dual speakers for music and calls but now include two noise reduction microphones on each slim temple along with a 100% larger diaphragm for improved audio clarity. The glasses offer touch-sensitive controls to receive/end calls, summon voice assistant, and control media playback. The battery life is rated for 5 hours of continuous music playback and 42 hours of connected standby time.

 

The Huawei Eyewear II x Gentle Monster will go on sale across Europe starting from €299.

The post Huawei announces the Porsche Design Watch GT 2, FreeBuds Studio headphones, and EyeWear II smart glasses appeared first on xda-developers.

from xda-developers https://ift.tt/2HnZ08G
via IFTTT

Google Play Music app begins inevitable global shutdown of service

Google Play Music has finally begun its long, slow death, with many users reporting that the app has become inaccessible. Although Google did say that the service would be closed by the end of the year, it appears that an earlier shutdown is already in progress.

Google has been trying to push users onto its successor service, YouTube Music, but has been repeatedly been scuppered by its own inaction on creating feature parity. This has now largely been redressed with options to upload your own music and migrate existing purchases, but there are still occasional minor inequities even today.

Earlier this month, we saw the closure of the Music section of the Google Play Store, effectively ending the sale of mp3s by the company in favor of an all-streaming model. Now it seems that the warnings of imminent closure have now been replaced by two options – transfer to YouTube Music (which migrates your data) or Manage Data, which gives you the opportunity to download your library and delete your settings. Doing so will trigger Google Play Music to be removed from your system for the last time.

If you’re in this boat, there are a few things to remember:`

1.  You can download all your purchases from Google Takeout until the end of the year if you want to keep a hard copy or migrate elsewhere
2. From next year, you’ll lose everything you haven’t saved
3. If you have transferred to YouTube Music and made subsequent purchases since, before the store closed, you’ll need to do it again to get those last few tracks through to their new home.

Google Play Music has had a death almost as messy as its life. Launched 9 years ago, it has been two years since we were first informed that it would eventually be replaced by YouTube Music, but it took until August of this year before we were given a clear timeline.

Now, we have to sit back and watch the service slowly shut down, node by node, as we head towards Christmas. If you’re using the app now, enjoy it, because each time could be the last.

---

Thanks to /u/lifeandtimesofkw for the screenshot!

The post Google Play Music app begins inevitable global shutdown of service appeared first on xda-developers.

from xda-developers https://ift.tt/31y8rZX
via IFTTT

Chrome 86 will block notification permission requests for sites that send abusive notification content

Google started rolling out Chrome 86 on the stable channel earlier this month. The update introduced security improvements to alert users if any of their saved passwords had been compromised, new menu icons to help users easily navigate large menus, a Native File Sytem API, Enhanced Safe Browsing for Android, and several developer-facing technical changes. According to a recent post on the Chromium blog, Chrome 86 also includes changes to the notification permission requests to prevent websites from sending abusive notification content.

For the unaware, Google introduced the quiet Notification permission UI in Chrome 80. With the Chrome 84 update, the company released auto-enrolment in quiet notification UI for websites that used deceptive patterns to request notification access. Now, with Chrome 86, the company has started blocking notification permission requests for websites that push abusive notification content.

The updated UI now actively discourages users from granting notification access to websites that use web notifications to send malware or mimic system messages to obtain user credentials. To effectively detect websites that indulge in such behavior, Google’s automated web crawling service will occasionally subscribe to website push notifications if the push notification permission is requested. Notifications that are sent to the automated Chrome instances will be evaluated for abusive content, and sites sending abusive notifications will be flagged for enforcement if the issue is unresolved.

In case the crawler identifies a website for any type of notification abuse, Search Console will alert the registered site owners and users in the site’s Search Console at least 30 days before the new UI is enforced. During this period, offending websites can address the issue and request another review. In an attempt to further reduce notification permission abuse in Chrome, Google is now working on a feature that will automatically revert notification access for offending websites. The feature will be released in a future update.

---

Source: Chromium blog

The post Chrome 86 will block notification permission requests for sites that send abusive notification content appeared first on xda-developers.

from xda-developers https://ift.tt/2Hokn9t
via IFTTT