Teaser Hints At Gaming-Centric Nokia Smartphone For India With the global smartphone market slowing down, gaming is the new niche that Android manufacturers hope will improve sales and increase profit margins. The trend that was started last year by theRazer Phone, and has since been picked up by Xiaomi, Asus, ZTE and others with devices such as theBlackShark,ROG Phone,Honor PlayandNubia Red Magic. Now, it is the turn of HMD Global to be prepping the launch of a gaming-centric phone of its own....

Telegram for iOS Built Entirely On Apple’s Swift Language Coming Soon Telegram founder Pavel Durov has announced that the company will soon have a new version of the iOS app, which is built from scratch using Apple’s Swift programming language. Durov made the announcement onhis Telegram channel, adding that Swift is a faster alternative to Objective C and that the new iOS app would be much faster and more battery friendly than the current Telegram app for iOS....

Tim Cook Is Pretty Certain the iPhone XS Is Not Too Expensive Last year, Apple launched theiPhone X, and for the first time ever, we had an iPhone that was priced at a whopping $999 for the base model. While it was expected that Apple’s sales will take a hit due to the pricing, the iPhone X still sold pretty well. This year, Apple launched theiPhone XS,iPhone XS Max, and theiPhone XR, and the iPhone XS Max starts at $1,099 and goes up to a mind-numbing $1,449 orRs 1,44,900 in India!...

WhatsApp Will Stop Working on These Phones and Platforms From 2020 WhatsApp Inc., the Facebook-owned company behind the eponymous direct messaging app, willstop supporting iOS 7(and older versions) from February 1, 2020. While Android users are relatively safe for now, people stuck on Android 2.3.7 Gingerbread (and older versions) will also lose support from February 2020, as announced earlier. Of course, if you’re still using Android Gingerbread in 2020, you probably have more things to worry about than WhatsApp messages....

Xiaomi Says It Will Let Users Turn Off Ads in MIUI After Mass Outcry Xiaomi is known for selling products at unbelievably low price points and has even decided tocapthe profit margin for its hardware business at 5 percent, however, the company makes up for it by seeding ads at nearly every opportunity. But Xiaomi’s ads have recently become quite intrusive, to the extent that even the Settings app has started showing ads....

Xiaomi Unveils Mi A2 Red Edition in India and You Can Get One For Free Earlier this year in August, Xiaomi launched its second-gen Android One device, theMi A2, in India. At launch, the device was made available in three color variants – Black, Blue and Gold – packing in a Snapdragon 660 processor coupled with 4GB of RAM and 64GB of internal storage. Priced atRs. 16,999, the Mi A2 seemed to be a formidable mid-range device and it would’ve been so had Xiaomi properly optimized the Android One OS running on the unit....

You Can Now Use Siri Shortcuts On These Third-Party Apps Apple recently started rolling outiOS 12to a bunch of iOS devices, which also meant theShortcuts app was finally made availableon theApp Store. The app, which works quite a lot like IFTTT on Android, allows users to create custom shortcuts for apps and actions that they use the most. The Shortcuts app naturally works with a number of native iOS apps like Contacts, Calendar, Maps, Music, Photos, Camera, Reminders, Safari and Health, but that’s not all....