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In Summary Lava International has announced four new smartphones in India: Lava Z1, Z2, Z4, and Z6. Alongside these smartphones, the company has also announced a whole new custom smartphone service, called MyZ, which allows consumers to customize their smartphones. Consumers get the option to pick elements such as storage, RAM, cameras, and color based on their preferrence. This is the first time ever that a company is letting users to upgrade phone internals for a nominal cost....

The Galaxy S10 series has leaked left, right, and center over the last few weeks. Today, things get even better as official press renders of the Galaxy S10 and S10+ have been leaked showing the different shades of colors they are going to be available in. The renders show that the different color combinations the three devices are going to be available in. Below are the different color shades that Samsung intends to offer the trio of Galaxy S10 devices in....

Leather ‘Leather’? Oh yes. Or at least when LG has made enough of them. You see, one of the headline features of the G4 at the launch, reported on here, was the availability of real leather back covers, high quality exteriors that really impressed, especially in a range of colours. That these aren’t all available at launch is perhaps not surprising, but I will say right now that if you’re considering a G4 then you should definitely budget for the extra £20 for a leather back rather than the plastic on the review device here....

In Summary Every app, including the Play Store app, need updates in order to receive new features and bug fixes. Recently, there have been instances of the Play Store app not updating automatically. There are two simple methods to update Play Store app on your phone, both of which have been covered in this article. Moreover, the app is designed to update itself on all Android phones, so you do not need to update the Play Store manually....

Even if you don’t want to modify the system files, you may still want to view them to clean out the junk from your smartphone. You can easily view the hidden files on Android to clean up the app leftovers. Best Ways to View Hidden Files and Folders on Android Hence, if you are interested in viewing hidden files & folders on Android, you may find this guide very useful....

It’s no secret that HTC is going through a tough time. The company’s market share keeps dwindling with every passing quarter, even though the company has come up with an excellent handset in the One. In a bid to focus more on upcoming products and the company’s future, Peter Chou, CEO of HTC, has off-loaded some of his operational duties to the company’s co-founder and chairwoman, Cher Wang. In a statement issued to Financial Times, Peter Chou said “I took on too many things....

HTC’s President of Smartphone and Connected Devices, Chialin Chang, confirmed in an interview with Engadget that the Taiwanese company plans on launching only six to seven handsets this year. This would be a drastic reduction from over a dozen handsets that HTC launched last year. Chang says that by releasing fewer smartphones, HTC would be able to focus on their core features better thereby allowing it to better compete with other phones in the market....

Google officially announced Android 8.0 Oreo just a few days ago. Naturally, the updates will first make their way to the Pixel and Nexus smartphones. Many were wondering as to which OEM will be the first to offer the update. Well, it seems like HTC will be the first, as the company has just announced that the HTC U11, U Ultra, and the HTC 10 will get the update shortly....

HTC today unveiled its latest flagship handset: the HTC U11. Featuring a design similar to that of the HTC U Ultra, the 11 also comes with a 3D liquid surface rear that gives it a very premium and glossy look. While the build quality of the U11 is the same as U Ultra, HTC has made the phone IP67 certified which makes it dust and water resistant. The front of the phone features a 5....

The upcoming Huawei Mate 40E has surfaced on the Wireless Power Consortium bearing a model number OCE-AN00. Furthermore, the device has also been certified by FCC, signaling an imminent launch. The listing is accompanied by a picture that shows off Huawei Mate 40E in its full glory. Huawei recently released the Mate 40, Mate 40 Pro, Mate 40 Pro+, and the Mate 30E Pro. The Huawei Mate 40E resembles Mate 40, and the same is registered on December 9....

Ever wondered how Xiaomi has been able to survive after selling nearly 60 million smartphones last year at nearly their manufacturing cost? The company’s VP of International, Hugo Barra, has revealed the reason behind how Xiaomi is able to achieve this in an interview with Techcrunch. As explained by Barra, Xiaomi is able to offer devices at lower prices than their competitors because of a fewer number of products in their portfolio and the longer average selling time of their devices....

The Huawei Mate 20 Pro is an absolute beast of a device. Featuring a massive 6.39-inch AMOLED display, a Kirin 980 chipset, and a 4,200mAh battery, the Mate 20 Pro is easily the most powerful Android device out there in the market. But that has not stopped the iFixit team from tearing the device open. The Mate 20 Pro teardown reveals quite a few interesting tidbits about the device. Firstly, it is remarkable just how small the motherboard on the Mate 20 Pro is....

For the last few weeks, I’ve been putting the iLife A11 to the test in my home against a super-shedding German Shepherd, a German Shorthaired Pointer, and our cat. So if you’re curious how this robot stacks up against some serious dirt and debris, my home has it and I’ve tried it. The iLife A11 is a decent robot vacuum, but it has its shortcomings. It has different vacuuming modes, which I enjoyed using, a mop built right in, and uses Lidar technology....

What is Information Gathering? Information gathering is the first phase of security assessment. In this process, a penetration tester and security experts try to collect as much information as possible about the target application. It is the first and most critical phase of application security testing. Gathered information is further used in breaking the security of the web application. In this process, we use manual methods and a few tools....

It is common for mobile applications to communicate with web servers over HTTP and HTTPS as a part of apps’ functionality. Windows Mobile Applications are no different. Assuming that you have a Windows Phone 8.1/UWP application to be tested, this article will describe how to intercept its traffic using Burp Proxy. Note: The screenshots in the next few sections are taken from a Windows Phone 8.1 device, but these concepts are same with Windows 10 mobile too....

In the previous article, we learnt how to setup Cycript on your idevice, hook into a running process and obtain information about its properties in runtime. In this article, we will look at some advanced runtime analysis techniques. We will look at how we can obtain information about a particular class (methods, instance variables) and modify them at runtime. Finding methods for a particular class Let’s say we are analyzing the flow of an app during its runtime....

The look of the phone should repeat, which we already know from the iPhone 5S. The difference would be on the side of the product, which should get a matte finish rather than the shiny metal once and colors can be the same as 6S: gold, silver, space gray and gold rose. Remember that the iPhone 6S, announced last year, which offers a display of 4.7inch while the Plus has 5....

From Wiki, iSkysoft DVD Ripper is a powerful DVD ripping software for Windows that can rip DVD to hard drive in a wide variety of video & audio formats. Interestingly, iSkysoft DVD Ripper not only strips commercial DVDs of their copy protection, but additionally converts the resulting videos to other formats. The various supported video formats include AVI, WMV, MP4, MOV, M4V, 3GP, MPG, MPEG, FLV, and VOB. The audio formats include MP3, M4A, AC3, AAC, WMA, WAV, GG, APE and MPA....

Jio TV Plus Curation Platform Announced With 12 OTT Platforms Together The single Sign-in process in Jio TV+ reduces the stress of login separately for different apps. The single-click login process will allow the users to play any content from any apps which are mentioned. It will be an easy process as the user don’t need to log-in each time in a different app. Showing the content is also made easier with Jio TV+ as there is a menu at the top which is divided into sections like Movies, Shows, Live TV, Kids, and Music....

A couple of years back, Google added Pixel 3A to the Pixel lineup. Now it looks like the company will add yet another model to its Pixel lineup. The latest leak reveals a new Pixel XE in the making. In all likelihood, the device in the picture is an early engineering sample. The leaked Pixel XE seems to sport a relatively thick bezel alongside a front-facing camera housed in a centered punch hole....