WhatsApp will soon stop working on millions of older smartphones, UK Sun said in a report. More than 40 different smartphone models are expected to be affected, according to the report by the UK tabloid.
Last year, Huawei sold its smartphone subsidiary – Honor to a business consortium in China and reports online emerged that suggest that Huawei is planning to exit from its smartphone business by selling the top-end flagship lineup.
Today, a new Nokia smartphone with the name of yet another Marvel character called ‘Quicksilver’ appeared on Geekbench. The device was tested for a crazy amount of times, i.e, about twelve times, with Android 11 and 6 GB RAM. It is powered by an octa-core Qualcomm ARMv8 processor with a base frequency of 1.8 GHz. Among the twelve tests, Nokia Quicksilver scored 1500 in multi-core and 471 in single-core tests at its best.
LG is considering exiting the smartphone business entirely amid declining shipments and accrued losses of $4.5 billion over the past five years. LG CEO Kwon Bong-Seok cautioned staff earlier today that the company is re-evaluating its presence in the smartphone industry:
It’s natural to see some smartphone makers discontinuing old smartphone models when a sequel reaches the market. Of course, this isn’t the case for every company. When a device is successful, it tends to be kept in the market for a long time until the sales decrease exponentially, or when users “accept” the newer model. Apple is known for keeping old smartphones in the market for a long time. In fact, the brand tends to decrease the price of the old models. Therefore users can still pick it if they…
Acton, the head of Signal Foundation and the co-founder of WhatsApp, on the swirling debate on privacy and the future of messaging platforms.
Huawei’s operating system HongmengOS for China and HarmonyOS for the rest of the world is not a copy of either Android or iOS. One of Huawei’s top managers, Wang Chenglu, president of Huawei’s consumer software division, spoke about this in a speech to reporters. HarmonyOS for smartphones is being considered as an alternative to Android. Earlier, there were information on the network that the first release of HarmonyOS 2.0 for smartphones will be based on Android.
Huawei P20 Pro smartphone initially launched with EMUI 8.0 and currently running EMUI 10.0 version. However, Huawei is now moving towards EMUI 11 but this device not even got EMUI 10.1.
TikTok routinely introduces new filters allowing its users to transform faces and add fun effects to videos. And the latest addition takes advantage of one of the marquee features introduced with the iPhone 12 Pro and iPhone 12 Pro Max last fall.
Several devices operating on the Android and iOS mobile operating systems are to stop running WhatsApp messaging applications from January 1, 2021.