Huawei launches the Honor 7X on October 11

Huawei's subsidiary is bringing a follow-up of its Honor 6X mid-ranger. The new device will be called Honor 7X and will arrive on October 11, the company announced on Weibo. The image comes with a slogan, roughly translated as "Want to see farther than ordinary people? Higher? Wider? Everywhere is your world." This most likely means the phone will have an 18:9 ratio EntireView display, as is the trend lately. Specs-wise, rumors speculate that the Honor 7X will have 5.5" screen and a Kirin 670 chipset. The memory will be 4 GB RAM + 64 GB storage. Huawei is yet to launch a new...

Source: http://www.gsmarena.com/huawei_launches_honor_7x_october_11-news-27468.php

Twitter increases character count for the first time in eleven years

For the first time since the service debuted back in 2006, Twitter is increasing the character count of its posts (called tweets) from the original 140 characters to 280 characters. The change is being rolled out to a small group of users right now and will be available to everyone soon. 140 characters on left and 280 characters on right In its blog post, Twitter explained how most users were frequently running into the 140 character limit. This was especially common to English speaking users, who would eventually have to split their thoughts into two or more tweets chained together...

Source: http://www.gsmarena.com/twitter_increases_character_count_for_the_first_time_in_eleven_years-news-27467.php

Samsung's upcoming Windows Mixed Reality headset leaks

Samsung is getting ready to jump into the Windows Mixed Reality (WMR) space. The Korean company is working on a WMR headset of its own, which will compete in the market with offerings such as Asus' and Lenovo's - both of which are already official. The Samsung WMR headset comes with AKG-branded built-in headphones, and one picture shows it alongside Microsoft's motion controllers. This product might get unveiled at Microsoft's event on October 3, which is all about the future of the WMR platform. Unfortunately no other details about Samsung's WMR headset have been outed - so we...

Source: http://www.gsmarena.com/samsungs_upcoming_windows_mixed_reality_headset_leaks-news-27466.php

Apple releases iOS 11.0.1 update for the iPhone and iPad

Just a week after release, iOS 11 is getting a minor point update in the form of iOS 11.0.1. The update is about 280MB in size and is now available to all compatible iPhone, iPad and iPod touch models. Being a point update, this will only really include bug fixes, security patches and minor performance improvements to the initial release, based on the feedback. Apple's update log also pretty much says the same, with no additional information on what exactly has been fixed or improved. If you are running iOS 11 or had not updated until now, this would be a good time to update.

Source: http://www.gsmarena.com/apple_releases_ios_1101_update_for_the_iphone_and_ipad-news-27465.php

Truecaller adds SMS spam filtering functionality on iOS

Truecaller has updated its iOS app to add support for SMS filtering. After updating to the latest version the app will attempt to filter spam messages and separate it into a second folder. The addition of this feature is courtesy a new feature in iOS 11 that enables third party applications to filter incoming messages and sort them into a separate SMS Junk tab that appears in the Messages app when you use an app that lets you filter messages. These applications can use keyword detection or machine learning algorithms to figure out if incoming messages are spam or useful and then...

Source: http://www.gsmarena.com/truecaller_adds_sms_spam_filtering_functionality_on_ios-news-27464.php

ZTE sends out press invites, a new nubia phone coming in mid-October

With a new nubia device bouncing around the rumor mill, there was bound to be an event soon. And here it is - a press invite was sent out for an October 12 unveiling. Just what will be unveiled the invite does not say - it merely shows a glowing rectangle of light. If this is a bezel-less device, then the NX589J linked above is not it. That one very much has bezels. Press invite for a ZTE nubia event But there was another device too, NX595J, which was slated to have a larger screen and smaller bezels (though this particular leak is rather iffy). Whatever the model number, an...

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