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“The reverse wireless charging feature on iPhone 11 would help users to charge other devices, such as Apple Watch or AirPods 2, while away from a charger” Apple just done with a spree of hardware launches, with the next big devices – the 2019 iPhones – not expected till September. Now, Japanese blog  Macotakara  has shared some information about the upcoming iPhone models, claiming the Apple smartphones will arrive with reverse wireless charging. The site also states that the forthcoming iPhones might ship with a new charging cable and support 18W charging. The reverse wireless charging feature is not really new as Huawei and Samsung have used it on their respective handsets in the past, namely the Mate 20 and Galaxy S10 series. The new report claims the reverse wireless charging feature will be available on all 2019 iPhone models and will be used to charge products such as Apple Watch and the new AirPods. This is not the first time word of reverse wireless charging on iPhone

Expert Rating 4/5 Design ★★★★★ ★★★★★ Display ★★★★★ ★★★★★ Software ★★★★★ ★★★★★ Camera ★★★★★ ★★★★★ Performance ★★★★★ ★★★★★ Battery ★★★★★ ★★★★★ Pros Pop-up selfie camera works well Rear cameras output consistently good images In-display fingerprint sensor is fast and accurate Good overall performance Cons FunTouch OS is cluttered and filled with bloatware Too many ports and buttons No USB Type-C Last July, when  91mobiles  reviewed  the  Vivo NEX  flagship, we called the phone “a monumental leap in smartphone innovation”, thanks to ground-breaking features like an in-display fingerprint sensor and pop-up selfie camera. Fast-forward to 8 months later, and we now have the same features on another Vivo phone, this one with a more affordable price tag to boot. The  Vivo V15 Pro  is a testament to how quickly smartphone technology becomes mainstream, and I’m not just taking about the aforementioned features here. It also packs in a 48MP rear c

“The Xiaomi Mi Band 4 will be available in NFC-enabled variants in certain markets and is confirmed to have support for Bluetooth 5.0” Xiaomi’s upcoming Mi Band 4 fitness tracker has been spotted on Bluetooth SIG certification website. As per the source, two models codenamed XMSH08HM and XMSH07HM have passed the certification and were listed as ‘Mi Smart Band 4 NFC’. Prior to this, David Cui, CFO at Huami, the Xiaomi-backed smartwatch and fitness tracker brand, said in an interview that the fourth generation smart band will surely be launched in 2019, but at least not in the next couple of months. As per the Bluetooth SIG website, the Mi Band 4 will have support for Bluetooth 5.0 Low Energy standard; its predecessor, the Mi Band 3 supports Bluetooth 4.2 LE. Apart from the Bluetooth version, the upcoming fitness tracker will have NFC support, but not in all markets. As for the other specifications Cui previously said  “each generation teaches us something new, and the later gen

“In terms of design and hardware, the Huawei Enjoy 9S is nearly similar to the Huawei P Smart+ 2019, which was launched earlier this month” Ahead of Huawei Enjoy 9S’s official launch event, its specifications as well as images have surfaced online. The smartphone will go official at a launch event scheduled to take place in China on March 25th. Apart from Enjoy 9S, there will be two more devices, namely Enjoy 9e and MediaPad M5 Youth Edition tablet,  Huawei  has confirmed via teasers on Weibo. 1 of 4     As per the images, published by  MySmartPrice , the Huawei Enjoy 9S appears identical to the  Huawei P Smart+ 2019 , which was launched earlier this month. The Enjoy 9S flaunts a U-shaped notch, home to a single front camera. At the bottom of the screen, there is a relatively thick chin. Moreover, the display is surrounded by small bezels on the top as well as left and right sides. Moving to the back, the device has a triple-camera setup in a vertical alignment; AI Camera

“The new WhatsApp beta update for Android users brings Forwarding Info and Frequently Forwarded label for messages” The latest version of WhatsApp for Android beta is now available for beta testers and brings in a few new features. Thanks to the folks at  WABetaInfo  for taking time to dig through the beta update to find out these new inclusions, we now know that WhatsApp will let users track how many times their message has been forwarded and even add a ‘Frequently forwarded’ label on messages that are sent to others more than four times. These features have been discovered in the latest Android beta build v2.19.80 of the app. Of course, you will have to manually enable these features for them to work, otherwise you won’t be able to see them. The beta update brings two new features called Forwarding Info and Frequently Forwarded. As mentioned earlier, these aren’t available yet and WhatsApp is just testing them at the moment. A future stable release should include them though.

“ZenFone Max Pro Pro M1, ZenFone Max Pro M2, and ZenFone Max M2 were previously slated to receive the update by February” ASUS  promised  to roll out the Android 9.0 Pie stable update to  ZenFone Max Pro M2  and  ZenFone Max M2  in January and  ZenFone Max Pro M1  by the end of February 2019. However, it could only roll out the beta update so far, thus delaying the stable release. Now, the company has finally announced that it will push out the Pie stable update to the ZenFone Max Pro M1, ZenFone Max Pro M2, and ZenFone Max M2 by April 15th. The Android 9.0 Pie update for Max Pro M2 and M2 was scheduled to arrive in January which is just a month after their launch in December. Despite the general availability of Android 9.0 Pie, both the Max Pro M2 and M2 were launched running Android 8.1 Oreo out of the box, which was disappointing. Owing to the delay in Pie rollout, the brand said that it is working round the clock to make the Android 9.0 a much better experience for users a

“The upcoming OnePlus 7 flagship phone could be announced either in May or June this year” OnePlus 7  leaks have been everywhere and we have pretty much seen it all. If the leaks are true, then the next  OnePlus  flagship will sport a full-screen display without any notch. To do this, the selfie camera is placed on a pop-up system, similar to the OPPO F11 Pro and the  Vivo V15 Pro  ( review ). Now, there’s a new leaked image that shows that the phone would also feature new colour options. The image shows the OnePlus 7 in three gradient finishes.  OnePlus has always used single colours for its flagship phones, except for the  OnePlus 6T  ( review ). It is possible that the Chinese manufacturer is moving to gradient finishes, which honestly, look quite appealing. The OnePlus 6T was the first device from the company to feature such a finish. Remember the  OnePlus 6T Thunder Purple Edition , and the 10GB RAM carrying  McLaren Edition  ( review ). Both these phones featured gradient f

“ColorOS 6.0 brings a new borderless, lightweight design, AI-features, TouchBoost, FrameBoost to improve gaming experience, and more” OPPO  introduced  the new version of its ColorOS skin back in November 2018 and has been testing it internally since then. Now, months after testing and developing the custom skin,  OPPO  has finally released the ColosOS 6.0 in China. OPPO’s new Android-based custom skin primarily aims to deliver a borderless and lightweight design on the bezel-less smartphones. ColorOS 6.0 gets a new OPPO Sans font, icons, and animations. The white and gradient system colours are more appealing to the eyes. Its Game Space feature intelligently allocates system resources for smooth gaming and network priority gets a revamped UI and better system optimisation. TouchBoost increases the touch response by improving the CPU scheduling and output rendering, thus reducing the touch delay by nearly 40ms. The FrameBoost feature improves the frame rate stability by nearly 38 pe

“Samsung Galaxy A90 has been spotted multiple times on certification websites and rumoured to feature a pop-up camera” Samsung  on Twitter has announced that it will launch a new Galaxy phone on April 10th. While the teaser doesn’t reveal anything about the phone as it just shows a person skateboarding through the phone screen and “A Galaxy Event” text. Going by the numerous leaks and the phone being listed on the company’s  website  numerous times, there is a possibility it could be the  Galaxy A90 that Samsung might launch at the event.  Samsung Mobile ✔ @SamsungMobile Enter the era of live. April 10, 2019 - Live on http://www.samsung.com  #SamsungEvent 612 1:35 PM - Mar 18, 2019 120 people are talking about this Twitter Ads info and privacy Samsung has launched quite a number of A series phones this year and the Galaxy A90 is now expected to join the list soon. The teaser shows three smartphone screens, so it is also possible that Samsung might launch three new ph

The first Android Q Beta 1 has revealed several new features that are being tested by Google” Google dropped the first beta for  Android Q  just a week ago and developers have already discovered several new and hidden  features  in the new OS. For example, Android Q Beta 1 enables  dual-SIM, dual standby mode  on the Pixel 2 and Pixel 3 devices. The beta also allows users to  remap Active Edge  to launch other assistants or trigger other actions. The latest discovery reveals that Google is testing chat head bubbles for system wide notifications on Android Q.  According to  9to5Google , who first discovered this, you can enable chat head bubbles for all notifications on beta 1. This is a hidden feature of course, which means that you will have to use a few lines of code to activate it via ADB. Once you have enabled it, all your notifications will appear as chat head bubbles. This is similar to the chat heads used by the Facebook Messenger app. Credit – XDA Developers Google alre