Abid Shaik

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Google Home app to finally get search bar, Material You support

Last year, Google released a redesigned Google Home app for Android, which offered massive improvements. While the company focused on offering big things, it forgot to add two very basic things to the app, a search bar in the Devices tab, and support for Material You theming. Well, Google is finally fixing that. According to […]

By Abid Iqbal Shaik
2 months ago

Samsung’s QD-OLED makes its way into Acer’s 49-inch gaming monitor

Up until now, Acer has launched many gaming monitors with Samsung Display’s QD-OLED display panels. Now, the company has brought another one to the market. Acer has launched the Acer Predator X49 V gaming monitor. It features Samsung Display’s 48.9-inch QD-OLED panel with 1800R curvature, 5,120 x 1,440 pixels resolution, 144Hz refresh rate with support […]

By Abid Iqbal Shaik
2 months ago

iPhone 16 charges faster than Galaxy S24, Z Fold 6

Earlier this week, Apple launched the iPhone 16 series. One of the new features these devices offer that the company is highlighting is support for 25W wireless charging over MagSafe, which is 10W higher than the iPhone 15 series models. What the tech giant isn’t highlighting is that these phones also support 45W wired charging, […]

By Abid Iqbal Shaik
2 months ago

Samsung removes ‘Auto rotate widgets’ with One UI 6.1.1

Last week, Samsung started rolling out One UI 6.1.1 to eligible devices. While it brings many new features, it also lacks some of the features that One UI 6.1 offers. One of them is ‘Auto rotate widgets’ in Smart Widgets. When you stacked widgets and enabled that option, it automatically rotated widgets to show you […]

By Abid Iqbal Shaik
2 months ago

Samsung to cut down up to 30% workforce globally in some divisions

Earlier today, we learned that Samsung India is going to lay off more than 10% of its managerial workforce amid a workers’ strike as consumer demand is going down. Unfortunately, there’s some bad news for Samsung employees in other regions as well. According to a new report from Reuters, Samsung Electronics has directed its subsidiaries […]

By Abid Iqbal Shaik
2 months ago

Samsung India to lay off 10% workforce amid workers’ strike

On Monday, Samsung’s employees working at the company’s manufacturing plant in Sriperumbudur went on an indefinite strike demanding a pay rise and equal pay. Now, more bad news is coming out about Samsung India. According to a new report from The Economic Times, Samsung India is going to lay off more than 200 employees. That’s […]

By Abid Iqbal Shaik
2 months ago

Galaxy A16 leak shows Samsung’s familiar design

Samsung is developing many phones and tablets at the moment which it will launch in the next few months. Among them is the Galaxy A16, a successor to the Galaxy A15 from last year. The company is expected to launch it by the end of this year. Leaks have already revealed the phone’s processing hardware […]

By Abid Iqbal Shaik
2 months ago

Galaxy Tab S10 lineup could feature game-changing anti-reflective displays

We have already seen how Samsung’s upcoming flagship tablets, the Galaxy Tab S10+ and the Galaxy Tab S10 Ultra look, thanks to leaked renders. Going by those images, their design seems to be similar to the previous generation tablets. However, one of their exterior elements features something very cool that we learning about just now. […]

By Abid Iqbal Shaik
2 months ago

OnePlus 13 benchmark hints at the power of the Galaxy S25 series

There has been a lot of controversy around which chipset Samsung will use for the Galaxy S25 series. A report from South Korea claimed that the brand will exclusively go with Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 for the lineup. Then a leak yesterday suggested that the company could also use the in-house developed Exynos 2500. […]

By Abid Iqbal Shaik
2 months ago

Another Galaxy S25 Ultra leak confirms satellite connectivity

When it rains, it pours. A couple of hours ago, we got the first leak about the Galaxy S25 Ultra from an established authority, which revealed that it has satellite connectivity and a different charging specification than its predecessor. Now, we have another leak about Samsung’s upcoming non-foldable flagship smartphone, which confirms what the previous […]

By Abid Iqbal Shaik
2 months ago

Galaxy S25 Ultra certification reveals satellite connectivity

We have been having leaks and rumors about the Galaxy S25 lineup form even before Samsung launched the Galaxy S24 series. However, none of them came from an official source or an established authority. In other words, we didn’t have a single proof of the existence of those devices. Well, that’s changing today. Now, we […]

By Abid Iqbal Shaik
2 months ago

Samsung India workers go on a strike for pay rise

In July, Samsung’s employees working at its manufacturing plants in South Korea went on an indefinite strike demanding a wage rise. While there’s no information if the company was able to solve that issue, it is now facing a similar situation in India. On Monday, Samsung’s employees working at its manufacturing plant in Sriperumbudur, Tamil […]

By Abid Iqbal Shaik
2 months ago

Galaxy S25 leak says phone uses Exynos 2500, but there’s a catch

Earlier this month, a report from South Korea claimed that Samsung was planning to use Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 chipset for all the devices in the Galaxy S25 series. It was contrary to previous leaks which said that the company would exclusively use Qualcomm’s chipset for the Galaxy S25 Ultra globally. As for the […]

By Abid Iqbal Shaik
2 months ago

One UI 6.1.1 fixes Material You theming issues in Google apps

While Samsung’s Android 14-based One UI 6.0 brought many new features, it also introduced an issue where the software couldn’t apply the Material You theming to Google apps. For example, in Color Palette, if you chose a color, or if One UI 6.0 selected one automatically that matches the wallpaper, it applied that to all […]

By Abid Iqbal Shaik
2 months ago

Galaxy S24’s One UI 6.1.1 brings new ways to pick up, attend calls

Last week, Samsung released One UI 6.1.1 for the Galaxy S24 series. The changelog mentions a long list of new features that make the company’s flagship smartphones even better. However, as people are using the new software, they are discovering new features that the brand hasn’t talked about but are very useful. Today, two such […]

By Abid Iqbal Shaik
2 months ago

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