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Bharat Interface for Money (BHIM) Just in time for the new year, India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi has today officially launched the BHIM app, the country's new mobile payment solution. BHIM (which stands for Bharat Interface for Money) is India's bet to push the switch to a cashless economy, requiring nothing more than a smartphone to make any sort of transaction.

Google reportedly has two new Nexus phones planned for 2016 that will replace the Nexus 5X and Nexus 6P as the company’s showcase smartphones for the latest version of Android. The new Nexus models will reportedly be built by HTC, which means we can undoubtedly expect top-notch software to complement Android 7.0 Nougat — if the new phones are anything at all like the HTC 10, Android fans are in for a real treat once the new Nexus models are finally made available. Of course, it’s not just the hardware that has fans excited. On Tuesday morning we told you about a new Android launcher that Google has reportedly created for the upcoming new Nexus handsets. It’s not clear if the new launcher will be a part of Android 7.0 Nougat when it’s released to the public in the near future, or if it was made especially for Google’s new 2016 Nexus phones. Here’s a GIF of the launcher in action: Whichever the case, it’s moot now because the new launcher has already leaked — someone

The Pokemon Go craze is in full swing, with more than 30 million players hunting Pokemon around the world. However, it might be tough to find new Pokemon to add to your roster, and not everybody has time to walk around town hoping to encounter missing characters. Thankfully, there’s an app for that – install Poke Radar right now if you need help catching Pokemon. But if that’s not enough, then you should be aware of another cool trick that uses Google Maps to point you to Pokemon near you. Yes, you can call it cheating. But it gets the job done, especially if the “Nearby” feature breaks down, which is the way to find Pokemon inside the game. Someone figured out how to extract location data from the game, including the location of gyms, the items at various PokeStops and where Pokemon will appear,The Verge reports. Developer Ahmed Almutawa plotted the data on the map and posted the project on GitHub and Reddit. Naturally, fans have started using the trick almost immediately,

A week ago, reports emerged after a Redditor that had claimed to be a ‘third level beta tester’ for Google revealed that Messenger will be gradually phased out and that both Allo and Duo will be default apps on Android 7.0. It was also said that Hangouts will be phased out on mobile. XDA-Developers has since been contacted by a trusted source close to the matter, who wished to remain anonymous. We endorse the veracity of the claim given the source’s relationship to both XDA and Google. This source has revealed several key pieces of information about the future of  Google’s messaging apps and the claims made on Reddit: There is no such thing as a third level beta tester. There are Googlers, trusted testers, and friends and family. Neither Hangout nor Messenger will be going anywhere. Allo only supports Allo messages at this time, there is no cross-app messaging, Google Voice or SMS support. Whether you’re a Hangouts and Messenger fan or not, Google is certainly d

Google Play now displays the actual storage space a whole app or an upgrade will take up, so you don't accidentally download anything too big. If an update is only 2.91MB, it will show that exact figure right there in each app's detail box. That will give you the chance to reconsider your download or to free up some space before getting a particularly large game or VR experience. Besides displaying more accurate file sizes, Google also tweaked its Play Store algorithm to make updates even smaller. Most Android apps (98 percent of them) only download changes to their APK files when you update them, and those new files merge with the old ones. The updated algorithm will make those updates up to 50 percent smaller. Finally, Google's improved compression algorithms will reduce big games' file sizes, which could be as huge as 2GB, by around 12 percent. Those with high-end phones might not get much out of these changes, but they could make a big difference for

Intex has launched a 4G enabled smartphone with Sailfish OS 2.0, called the Aqua Fish. The smartphone is priced at Rs 5,499, and is available in orange color.     At the MWC earlier this year, Intex unveiled a Sailfish OS 2.0 based smartphone, the Aqua Fish. The company had then revealed it will be launching the smartphone in India ‘within a few months’. Now, Intex has officially announced the launch of the Aqua Fish in India. Priced at Rs 5,499, the smartphone will be available via ebay.com. It will soon be available through Flipkart, Snapdeal and Amazon in the coming weeks. Interestingly, it took about one year for Intex to commercially launch the Sailfish OS based smartphone after announcing a partnership with Jolla in July 2015. The company had initially aimed to launch a Sailfish OS based smartphone in November last year. Intex had said it would launch an under Rs 10,000 smartphone with 4G connectivity and Sailfish OS. Intex also happens to be Jolla’s first licensing

Do you read comic books from the Play Store? if not, you might want to start. Google just announced a great new feature at San Diego Comic-Con 2016 that changes the experience of reading comic books. It's called Bubble Zoom and it quite literally makes speech bubbles leap off the page. Each blob of text is identified and sequentially pops up with the press of a volume button or a tap at the bottom-right of the screen. With the use of its powerful machine learning and image recognition technology, Google can identify speech bubbles on the page and enlarge them on the page. The magnification of individual talking points makes it easier to read dialog while the entire page is left visible. There's even an added sense of action as the bubbles animate back and forth on the page. For now, the only supported comics are collections published by Marvel and DC. There's a list of them here. To promote Bubble Zoom, Google is offering 50% off these books with

The famous Photo Editor Application is now available for Android. Download it edit your pictures with the dozens of amazing styles.   Description Be an artist! Turn your photos into awesome artworks: - Modern art filters! - Stunning photo effects - Fast sharing Prisma transforms your photos into artworks using the styles of famous artists: Munk, Picasso as well as world famous ornaments and patterns. A unique combination of neural networks and artificial intelligence helps you turn memorable moments into timeless art. Download From Play Store

Adobe Lightroom app: Adobe has recently updated its new version of Lightroom app for the Android and iOS devices. The updated version of the Lightroom app will have several new features for both platforms. The updated software has features for taking and editing photos. The user can take the picture, edit and can share the picture. The user has the iOS device then they can get the ability to edit and share the RAW images whereas Android users can have the ability to shoot pictures from the application then can edit with the new pro mode and can share the image. To edit the images using this application is very simple and which basically adds manual controls. Adobe Lightroom app v2.4 for iOS comes with a feature called RAW Technology Preview where the user need not have to convert the images into another format before or after editing. The user can also allow the user to perform local adjustments with linear and radical selections. The use of keyboard shortcuts with physical

WhatsApp is without any doubts one of the most used mobile messaging applications out there. The application has over 1 billion monthly active users from all over the world and 95 percent of the smartphone users have installed it in India. Unfortunately, if you own an “old” device, then we have some bad news for you, as the WhatsApp will stop functioning on many old smart phones. The developers of this application have already announced that they will stop supporting a good amount of handsets before the end of 2016. According to reports, WhatsApp will no longer support Blackberry OS, Nokia S40 and Symbian OS before the end of 2016. In other words, if you have smart phones that run on any of these three operating systems, you should already consider purchasing a new handset (that’s if you want to keep using WhatsApp). In addition, older devices that run on outdated Android, Windows and iOS versions will be in the same situations as the ones that run on Blackberry OS, Nokia S

Google has updated Hangouts to enable its users to join groups through unique links in order to save group members the trouble of having to add everyone to the group individually by sending out invitations. HIGHLIGHTS Everyone can add themselves to the group via the link You can now search for group chats from group name or participants Feature will roll-out in next few days to all supported platforms. "This means that even if you don't have someone in your contact list, you can still quickly add them to your Hangouts conversation by sending a link instead." Google Staff Software Engineer Jordanna Chord said in a Google Plus post. The feature is expected to roll-out over all Hangouts platforms in next few days, she added. This particular feature requires to be switched on for each chat individually and the link for the group chat can be found in that same chat's settings menu. Importantly, you will also get the option to disallow new members to t

Qualcomm recently announced the launch of the Snapdragon 821 processor and teased that the first commercial device will be available in the second half of 2016. Asus, at their Taiwan and Hong Kong launch event today has announced another version of Zenfone 3 Deluxe that will run on the Snapdragon 821 SoC. This will make it, the world’s first smartphone running on the newer chipset. The Zenfone 3 Deluxe will come with a quad-core Kryo CPU that will be clocked at 2.4 GHz and backed by 6GB DDR4 RAM. The phone will be priced at $780 and it might take it some time to come to India. The Zenfone 3 Deluxe will sport a 5.7-inch Full HD Super AMOLED display with Gorilla Glass 4 and a non-removable 3000mAh battery. The phone will also come with a 23-megapixel rear camera with a f/2.0 aperture lens that will have OIS, laser AF and dual-tone flash. For selfies the phone will sport a 8 megapixel f/2.0 front camera. There will also be two other variants of the Zenfone 3 Deluxe that we

Rumors have it that iOS 9.3.2 Jailbreak is set to be released soon. Apple Inc. fan boys that have been waiting for a legitimate working iOS 9.3.2 jailbreak must be feeling glad. The high hopes that have been set are based on the rumors about the new tool that is coming out. The rumors sprouted during the MOSET 2016. The icing on the cake are the rumors pointing to the iOS 10 Jailbreak techniques. During MOSET 2016, the Pangu jailbreaking team made certain statements that point to rumors being true. Well, although the reports are not still confirmed, people would certainly love to try out a new iOS 9.3.2 Jailbreak technique. When all of this is going through, some reports in hand suggests that Apple Inc. might as well release another build in iOS 9 and it will be iOS 9.3.3. Some individuals are stating that with iOS 9.3.2 jailbreak not working completely, an upgrade to iOS 9.3.3 would make things further difficult. There is no doubt of the fact that iOS 9.3.2 has had its own sha

Reliance Jio announced four of its Flame Android smartphone models at an affordable price of Rs 2,999 that come with free Jio services for three months. Taking the smartphone war to an entirely new level, LYF, the smartphone brand from Reliance Retail, on Thursday announced four of its Flame Android smartphone models at an affordable price of Rs 2,999 that come with free Jio services for three months. The four models on which LYF is offering the competitive price are -- Flame 3, Flame 4, Flame 5 and Flame 6 -- and every user buying these phones will get access to the entire range of Jio services. “This makes LYF India’s most affordable 4G VoLTE smartphone and opens the doors to a digital life for millions of consumers in the country,” the company said in statement. The voice over LTE is a technology that enables the device to provide advanced features such as faster call setup, high-definition (HD) voice and video calling, seamless switching between voice and video

You already use Facebook Messenger to stay connected to your world. Now, thanks to four new Yahoo bots that are algorithmically-driven, coming to Messenger today, you can stay on top of what matters to you. Follow stock market trends or share weather forecasts without ever leaving Messenger. And for those of you longing for a pet monkey, your dreams have come true. 🙈🎉 Introducing… Yahoo Finance  (@YahooFinance), exclusively on Messenger. This bot allows you to search the latest news and information in order to stay on top of the stock market and ever-changing world of finance. Follow market trends, read finance news and play fun games, then easily share information you find interesting with your friends. Stay on the pulse of current events by searching with the  Yahoo News  bot (@YahooNews) to discover trending stories and dive deeper into the news that interests you most. Even search for specific news articles to send to your friends directly in Messenger.  Sta

What is Xposed Framework?? Xposed is a framework for modules that can change the behavior of the system and apps without touching any APKs. That's great because it means that modules can work for different versions and even ROMs without any changes (as long as the original code was not changed too much). It's also easy to undo. As all changes are done in the memory, you just need to deactivate the module and reboot to get your original system back. There are many other advantages, but here is just one more: Multiple modules can do changes to the same part of the system or app. With modified APKs, you to decide for one. No way to combine them, unless the author builds multiple APKs with different combinations. How to Install Xposed Framework?? To  install Xposed Framework , consult the linked thread from the XDA Developers forum and note, once again, that your device will need to be rooted and with a custom recovery installed. Since November 2015, support for t

The Android N is finally named as Android Nougat. The name was announced on 30 June 2016 with a statue of an android. What is Nougat?? Nougat is a family of confections made with sugar or honey, roasted nuts (almonds, walnuts, pistachios, hazelnuts, and macadamia nuts are common), whipped egg whites, and sometimes chopped, candied fruit. The consistency of nougat is chewy, and it is used in a variety of candy bars and chocolates. The word nougat comes from Occitan, seemingly from Latin panis nucatus ‘nut bread’ (the late colloquial Latin adjective nucatum means ‘nutted’ or ‘nutty’). Source:  Wikipedia So what do you guys think about the name? Tell us in the comments. :)

Introduction: AdClear is a non-root ad blocker for Android devices. There's only one version of the app, and it's free. Seven Adclear was released it at the end of December and are looking for feedback and help in making AdClear the best it can be. Adblocking is much easier now with this app.