"On-Screen" FingerPrint Scanner For Smartphones Coming to Reality.

The future of "on-screen" fingerprint scanner is coming to reality, despite our high expectations on Samsung to include it on its Galaxy Note 8 launching this month. But they didn't.

At this year's MWC Shanghai, Chinese producer Vivo showed smartphone prototypes that utilize Qualcomm's cutting edge ultrasonic fingerprint scanners. While Qualcomm plainly expressed that it will begin sending the technology to smart phone producers for commercial testing in Q4 2017, it gives the idea that Vivo may have gotten a bit of a head start. 

Pictures demonstrating the forthcoming Vivo Xplay 7 (otherwise called X20) rose today. They basically affirm that the handset will be the first to have an on-screen finger print scanner. This bodes well, as one of the prototypes at MWC Shanghai was based on the current Xplay 6 Model. 



Slides from a presentation about the phone leaked out initially. Although the quality isn't too great, we can obviously observe the "all-screen" front of the handset which looks like the Galaxy Note 8 renders released so far.
Apart from the on-screen fingerprint scanner, it also comes with three cameras at the back that performs different functions and two selfie cameras.
Right now, there's no data with respect to the exact hardware details of this phone, however we'll most likely discover soon.




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11 Ways to Make Your Smartphone Battery Last Longer

I came up with this article because my smartphone battery was draining unnecessarily today, and i got it fixed in few minutes.
One of the major issues smartphone users normally complain of is ''battery'' It's either the phone battery is bad, drain so fast or doesn’t last as expected. Obviously, most people who buy smartphones do not check the battery capacity. Some smartphones batteries are disaster in the making. Charge it and after 30min, you are charging it again.
                                  
In this article, I’m going to be showing you 11 ways to make your smartphone battery last longer than expected.

11 Ways to Make Your Smartphone Battery Last Longer

1. Avoid Keeping Your Phone in a Hot or Heated Surface:
Most smartphones have battery made of either Lithium ion or Lithium Polymer battery. These two elements used for production of cell phone batteries are badly affected when there are exposed to heat and this leads to drastic drain of the battery.
Make sure you device is always in a cool environment.

2. Turn on Power Saving Mode:
Power saving mood help to conserve your cell battery, this feature limits you to necessary functions like call, messages, time, contacts etc. It saves your battery up to 90%, releasing more power to your cell. So when you don’t need internet service in your mobile phone put it in power saving mood. Or when you battery gets to 50%,  put it in Power Saving Mode.
To turn on Power saving mode, go to settings>>battery>> by the right side, click on battery saver and turn it on.

3. Dim The Screen Brightness or Use Auto Brightness: 
                                       
Phone brightness consumes 30% of your battery. Make your battery last longer by setting the screen brightness to auto so that it can adjust to indoor and outdoor lighting.

4. Keep The Screen Timeout Short:
Every seconds here count. Go to settings>>Display and hit the Sleep button. Set it to 30 seconds or 15seconds.
                                                  

5. Turn Off Your Bluetooth:
No matter now much you love using Bluetooth with your hands-free headset, your wireless speaker or activity tracker, the extra radio is constantly listening for signals from the outside world. Hence consuming your phone battery.

6. Switch Off The GPS Tracking:
Only use your GPS when navigation and location services are necessary. GPS tracking consumes a lot of energy, tracking your location via radio waves and satellites will surely give you a dead cell.

7. Turn Off All Auto Updates:
Most smartphones especially iPhones try to keep you updated by automatically installing new version of apps when they come out. Visit the store of the device you are using to deactivate.

8. Turn Off Background App Refresh:
Background App Refresh is a setting that allows apps to get updated with the latest content while you're not using them. It downloads the latest news or updates to an app. It's an awesome feature because it keeps your phone current, but it takes up a lot of battery life.
To disable go to Settings > General > Background App Refresh and turn it off.

9. Turn off Location Services:
Go to Settings > Privacy > Location Services to disable.

10. Check which apps use the most battery:
If you go to Settings > Battery, you can check to see which apps take up the most battery. Disable it.
                                           

11. Don't Use The Camera Flash in daylight:
Turn on Camera Flash only at night, Flash drains your battery life. So turn it off!

My smartphone battery takes me 48 hours without charging... Now tell me, how long does your smartphone battery take you?

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Apple's IPhone 8; The Expectations

Apple is expected to launch new iPhones in September.
There's been lot of speculations and reports about the forthcoming iPhone, including that it'll be redesigned .

The pressure is on Apple, and it's the tenth anniversary of the first iPhone, launched in 2007, and the company is expected to have some big plans to launch the event.

Here's what you need to know about the forthcoming iPhone: 

Apple is expected to launch three iPhones: one that is redesigned, and two updates to the current iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus. Analysts have proposed a few names for the redesigned iPhone, including "iPhone Pro," "iPhone Edition," "OLED iPhone," and "iPhone 8," which we're calling it.
This report will concentrate completely on the iPhone 8.


Photo credit: business Insider.

The redesigned iPhone is the model that has gotten the most attention. It's expected to have an edge-to-edge, curved screen with much smaller bezels than the current iPhone 7. The screen uses a newer kind of display technology called OLED that promises to use less power and provide darker blacks.


Photo Credit: Martin Hajek

Apple apparently affirmed the iPhone 8 redesign with significantly smaller bezels in this image included in HomePod firmware it dispersed. The codename for this image? D22.

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This design would enable Apple to pack more screen into the same size phone.
This bigger screen is expected to have a resolution of 1125x2436, as per Apple's leaked code and also a forecast from KGI Securities.

The iPhone 8 is expected to have a front camera with 3D sensing and modeling capacities, permitting it to take photographs, as well as to manipulate them. The front looking camera will be used for facial recognition, either to replace the Touch ID fingerprint sensor or to supplement it.

The back camera will  have its two rear lenses vertically oriented, as opposed to horizontal, like on the iPhone 7 Plus. 
With another edge-to-edge design, Apple is expected to remove the home button and build its functions into the screen.

It's vague whether the fingerprint sensor will be incorporated with the screen as well or whether the new "Face ID" feature replaces it.
Lastly, Apple will also be adding wireless charging to the models coming out in September.
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Nokia 9: Full Specifications Spotted on GFXBench Listing

HMD Global is expected to announce the launch of the first Nokia flagship and its only couple of weeks away. In any case, Nokia was spotted on GFXbench database uncovering its specifications and I'm almost certain you'll want to see the specs.
The listing is not very far from past rumors which incorporates a 5.3-inch QHD (2560 x 1440) display, Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 processor.



The listing also reveals that the new Nokia 9 device will also feature an Adreno 540 graphics chip, 4GB of RAM, and 64Gb internal storage.
For the camera, Nokia 9 will be equipped with a 12-megapixel rear camera and in addition a 12-megapixel front camera, both of which are capable of capturing 4K video. Ultimately, the listing shows that the Nokia 9 will accompany Android 7.1.1 Nougat out of the box.
The cost is obscure for now, but rumors suggest that it will be priced at $610 (N228,750). Will you give it a shot?
Source: https://goo.gl/TrfjQz

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How to Perform Reverse Image Search on Google & Facebook Using Your Mobile Phone

This tutorial might be useful to those who aren't aware of some capabilities of Google Search Engine.

Google Reverse Search lets you search by images instead of keywords. Upload a picture from your desktop, tablet or mobile phone, and Google will show all the other web pages on the Internet that have similar images.
Reverse Search is useful for verifying the source of photographs, WhatsApp images, screenshots and memes. Tinder and Facebook users have used "Search by Image" to research profile pictures of their potential dates while travelers use it for finding the photo's location.

You can do Reverse Image Search on mobile or PC depending on what is convenient for you without installing any applications.
How to do Reverse Image search?
1 Go to images.google.com on PC and if you are using a Mobile Phone, open same url using Google chrome, request for desktop site as seen below


2 Wait for the page to finish loading, you should have something like this

3 Click on the camera icon





4 Click on the image upload tab and choose your desire image to upload from your directory.


Once the image is done uploading, it will bring you the best search result.


No need of any app.

You can also perform Reverse Image Search on Facebook. Just follow the easiest steps below;

1. Right-click a Facebook image in your Web browser and select "Properties" from the drop-down menu.
2. Locate the "Address: (URL)" section and write down the second to last number. It should look like: 5102898
3. Replace "ProfileID" in the following URL with the number that you copied: http://www.facebook.com/profile.... This results in a URL of: https://facebook.com/profile.php?id=182073391
4. Copy the URL that you created in Step 3 and paste it into your Web browser. Press "Enter" to access the user's Facebook profile.
5. Warning; You may have to be logged in to your Facebook account to access a user's profile.

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Nigeria Becomes a Manufacturer & an Exporter of Cars; A Starting Point.

Nigerian automobile manufacturing company, Innoson Motors, is set to export made in Nigerian cars to Mali. The Charge'd Affair of Nigera in Mali, Yara Abdulsalam, says an indigenous manufacturing motor company has signed an MoU with a Malian firm to send out 400 privately made vehicles to Mali.


Image source: Naijng

Abdulsalam made the declaration in Abuja when he led a deligation of business men from Mali to visit the Foreign Affairs Minister, Geoffrey Onyeama.
He said that amid the week, Innoson Motors signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Taxi Plus VIP, a Mali based transport company for the development of transport business in that country.

He said the development was the result of "Made-in-Nigeria products presentation" held in Bamako in 2016.

He said the presentation was encouraged by Ginco Group, a Nigerian firm situated in Mali to exhibit Nigeria's possibilities.


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Abdulsalam stated: "from the presentation, Taxi Plus VIP approached the embassy that they needed to import vehicles from China in any case, we disclosed to them that we have indigenous company in Nigeria that manufactures cars.

They began conversing with Innoson through Nigerian Export Promotion Commission (NEPC) and the arrangement was later settled.

"Mali is the focal point of Francophone nations and has boundary with eight countries."
"On the off chance that the MoU emerges, it will influence all different countries and will increase Foreign Direct Investment in Nigeria."

In his comments, Geoffrey Onyeama expressed delight at the development and portrayed it as "the start of modern transformation in Nigeria.''
He said it was a decent improvement that would create job creation and stem the rate at which youngsters leave on risky adventure to Europe looking for greener pasture.

"What you are accomplishing can be the start of transformation in our country; the longest journey needs to begin from somewhere."
"What you are doing represents a giant leap for Africa because it involves exchanging among ourselves."

"What i found fascinating that we are trading at the highest tech level with the export of automobile, cars and buses to each other."
"As we are currently establishing the framework, anything is possible for Africa; it implies we have broken that barrier that is holding us down," he said."
Onyeama commended the Nigerian embassy in Mali for giving the institutional support for the MoU.

"This is what the ministry wants Nigerian embassies around the globe to be doing; to fill in as little center point to promote exchange relationship."
He said one of the ministry's objectives was to be a center point to advance Nigerian export.
"We have numerous offices around the globe and we need to use that to advance Nigerian goods."

The Managing Director of Ginco Group, Mr. Godwin Oguzie, said the 2016 Made-in-Nigeria presentation in Bamako, was to empower Nigerian manufacturers realize that opportunity awaited them in Mali to sell their products.
He said he led Taxi Plus VIP to sign the memorable MoU with Innoson Motors to export 400 vehicles to Mali.

"We sign an MOU with Innoson Manufacturing Company to enable Taxi Plus increase its capacity to provide urban transportation in Bamako."
"This is the first time a country in Africa is exporting locally manufactured vehicles to another country," he said.

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