Google Chrome’s memory use could drop significantly after adopting a new Windows 10 feature

The Google Chrome RAM hog meme might soon be a thing of the past as Microsoft has introduced a new feature in Windows 10 that could reduce Chrome’s memory usage significantly. According to a recent report from Windows Latest, the Windows 10 May 2020 update (20H1) has started rolling out to users worldwide, and it introduces Windows segment heap memory improvements that will reduce the overall memory usage of Win32 apps like Google Chrome.

Microsoft explains that the latest update for Windows 10 introduces a new “SegmentHeap” value for developers, which is a modern heap implementation that “will generally reduce your overall memory usage” on Windows 10 version 2004 or newer. The company has confirmed that it has already started using the new value in its Chromium-based Edge browser, with early tests showing a memory reduction of up to 27% on the Windows 10 May 2020 update.

Google Chrome could also benefit from the new value, and according to a recently added commit on the Chromium Gerrit, a change may be coming soon. In the commit, a Chrome developer notes that adding the “SegmentHeap” entry to the chrome.exe manifest will tell Windows 10 2004 or newer to opt chrome.exe into using the segment heap instead of the legacy heap. The developer further notes that “Experiments with per-machine opting-in to the segment heap for chrome.exe suggests that this could save hundreds of MB in the browser and Network Service utility processes, among others, on some machines.”

While both Microsoft and Google note that the actual results will vary widely, the change will undoubtedly reduce memory usage to some extent and provide users with a better experience overall. As of now, it isn’t clear when the improvements will land in a stable release of Google Chrome.

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Source: Windows blog, Microsoft Application Manifests, Chromium Gerrit

Via: Windows Latest

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Xiaomi’s affordable Mi Watch Color smartwatch may launch globally as the Mi Watch Revolve

Market analyst firm Canalys came out with a report today stating that worldwide smartwatch shipments grew 12% in Q1 2020 despite COVID-19. Apple, Huawei, Samsung, Garmin, and Fitbit were the top 5 smartwatch vendors. One vendor mentioned in the report is Xiaomi, whose products are known for their exceptional value-for-money. Although Xiaomi isn’t a top-5 smartwatch vendor, the company has seen great success with its other wearables and is shifting to the smartwatch segment, having already released two smartwatches in China. Now, Xiaomi is gearing up to release its second self-branded smartwatch, the Xiaomi Watch Color, outside of China as the Mi Watch Revolve.

Back in November of 2019, Xiaomi announced the Mi Watch, the company’s first self-branded smartwatch that is also the company’s first product to run Google’s Wear OS. It’s unapologetically inspired by the Apple Watch with its square display and crown/button placement. Then in December of 2019, Xiaomi unveiled the Watch Color with a design and spec sheet that’s pretty similar to the Amazfit GTR: The Watch Color has a circular dial and a 1.39-inch 454×454 AMOLED display. In China, the Watch Color costs just CNY 799, or about $112, making it a pretty affordable smartwatch. In terms of sensors, it has a heart-rate monitor, sleep tracker, GPS, Bluetooth 5.0, NFC, compass, barometer, gyroscope, accelerometer, and ambient light sensor. Its water resistance is rated up to 5 ATM and lasts up to 14-days with a 420mAh battery. Unlike the Mi Watch, however, the Watch Color does not run Google’s Wear OS.

Xiaomi Watch Color renders. Source: Xiaomi

Xiaomi Watch Color Product Page

In the latest version of the Mi Watch app, we spotted a new listing for a “Mi Watch Revolve.” Searching online, we then found a YouTube video from Spanish YouTuber eSavants that unboxes this new smartwatch. According to the YouTuber, they purchased the smartwatch from AliExpress for about €90.

Interestingly, the unreleased Mi Smart Band 4C also shows up in the Mi Watch app. According to tech blog Xiaomishka, the Mi Smart Band 4C is expected to be a rebranded version of the Redmi Band that recently launched in April. That’s about all we know so far about the Xiaomi Mi Watch Revolve and the Mi Smart Band 4C. Both will basically be rebrands of existing wearable products launched in China, so there’s unfortunately nothing truly new here. However, more competition is always welcome, and we expect both products to be very affordable at launch.

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Developers bring Project Treble support to several Samsung Galaxy phones with the Exynos 7870

The Exynos 7870 is one of the most widely used SoCs by Samsung. The OEM had been using this octa-core (8x ARM Cortex-A53 cores clocked at 1.6GHz) system-on-chip in its phones since 2016 and even released the Galaxy M10 in 2019 with the same 14nm processor. Interestingly, some of the newer Exynos-7870 powered devices were launched with Android Oreo onboard, which made them compatible with Project Treble. While Samsung didn’t officially backport Treble support to legacy Exynos 7870 smartphones, XDA’s developer community has managed to do it anyway.

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Based on the contributions of XDA Recognized Developer ananjaser1211, XDA Member SPARTANICUS, and XDA Senior Member Valera1978, XDA Recognized Developer Astrako has created an automated partitioning tool and a unified vendor-kernel combo targeting the Exynos 7870 platform. The custom kernel (H-Kernel) is based on the Android 10 kernel source for the Samsung Galaxy A6 (2018), whereas the bits and pieces of the homebrew vendor partition named “H-Vendor” were ported from the Android 10 firmware for the Samsung Galaxy J6, Galaxy A7 (2018), and the Galaxy S20. The mod enables a total of seven legacy Exynos 7870-powered smartphones to boot existing Android 10 Generic System Images (GSI) and prepares them for Android 11-based GSIs.

It is worth mentioning that offline charging and Bluetooth calls are broken in the initial version of H-vendor. Moreover, SELinux is set to permissive on H-Kernel, which is unfortunately a major security issue that we hope to see resolved soon. The device-specific known issues are listed below:

Device and XDA Forum Link	Model Number	Known Bugs
Samsung Galaxy A3 (2017)	A320X	Echo in calls
Samsung Galaxy J7 Core	G610X	Screen delay when coming on, Camera flash
Samsung Galaxy J6 (2018)	J530X	–
Samsung Galaxy J7 Pro	J600X	NFC could be broken for some variants
Samsung Galaxy J7 (2016)	J701X	Front camera flash
Samsung Galaxy J7 Prime	J710X	NFC could be broken for some variants, Delayed audio
Samsung Galaxy J5 Pro	J730X	–

An updated custom recovery is required to carry out the vendor partition creation step, which is handled by Exynos7870_CreateVendor_XX.zip. Despite the fact that none of the aforementioned Samsung phones feature an A/B dual partition scheme, users need to flash an A/B ARM64 system GSI image before flashing the H-Vendor zip. Those coming from stock Samsung firmware have to format the data partition (which will delete the contents of the internal storage) before flashing this mod, so do perform a complete backup.

H-Vendor and H-Kernel Project Treble port — XDA Download and Discussion Thread

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Adobe Photoshop and Lightroom add lens correction profiles for the Huawei P40 Pro, Apple iPhone SE, iPad Pro, and more

A number of premium and mid-range smartphones these days feature a Pro mode in the camera app that lets users make manual adjustments to the ISO, shutter speed, white balance, and exposure while capturing images. More often than not, the Pro mode also includes a RAW image capture setting that lets users save captured images as .dng files. While there are many benefits to capturing images in the RAW format, it does have a few drawbacks. For instance, when you capture images in a common format like JPEG, the smartphone can automatically correct geometric distortions or exposure issues in the images. However, when you capture RAW images, these issues aren’t fixed automatically. To address this issue, Adobe Photoshop and Lightroom offer device-specific lens correction profiles for several Android smartphones that you can use to quickly correct your images.

Earlier this year in March, Adobe released lens correction profiles for a couple of newly released devices like the OnePlus 7T, Huawei Mate 30 Pro, and the LG G8 ThinQ. Now, the company has added profiles for even more devices that are supported in Adobe Photoshop, Lightroom, and the Camera Raw plugin. The list of newly supported devices includes:

• Apple iPad (6th generation) back camera (JPEG)
• Apple iPad (7th generation) back camera (JPEG)
• Apple iPad Air (3rd generation) back camera (JPEG)
• Apple iPad Mini (5th generation) back camera (JPEG)
• Apple iPhone SE back camera (DNG+JPEG+HEIC)
• Apple iPad Pro (11-inch, 2nd generation) wide-angle camera (JPEG+HEIC)
• Apple iPad Pro (11-inch, 2nd generation) main camera (DNG+JPEG+HEIC)
• Apple iPad Pro (11-inch, 2nd generation) front camera (JPEG+HEIC)
• Apple iPad Pro (12.9-inch, 4th generation) wide-angle camera (JPEG+HEIC)
• Apple iPad Pro (12.9-inch, 4th generation) main camera (DNG+JPEG+HEIC)
• Apple iPad Pro (12.9-inch, 4th generation) front camera (JPEG+HEIC)
• Apple iPod Touch back camera (JPEG)
• Huawei P40 Pro front camera (JPEG)
• Huawei P40 Pro rear main camera (DNG+JPEG)
• Huawei P40 Pro rear telephoto camera (DNG+JPEG)
• Huawei P40 Pro rear wide camera (DNG+JPEG)

It’s worth noting that these lens correction profiles are also supported in Adobe’s Photoshop Express and Lightroom apps on Android. In case you’re not sure if Adobe offers a lens correction profile for your device, you can follow this link and search for your device in the list of supported devices.

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OPPO demonstrates some of its potential new camera tech at CVPR 2020

Chinese smartphone manufacturer OPPO has demonstrated some of its potential new camera technologies at the Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) Conference 2020, which have earned the company two first-place and two-third place awards at the event. The technologies that won the awards include perceptual extreme super-resolution technology, visual localization, and human activity recognition in videos.

Perceptual Extreme Super-Resolution

During the event, OPPO’s Research team was challenged to solve the problem of perceptual extreme super-resolution for a single image with a 16x magnification factor. The aim of the challenge was to develop an AI model capable of producing high-resolution results with the best perceptual quality and similarity to the ground truth. For the challenge, OPPO’s team demonstrated the effectiveness of its RFB-ERSGAN neural network which delivered the following results:

OPPO’s neural network helped the company beat 280 other participants and secure the first place in the challenge. According to a press release on the matter, the neural network will be applied in a number of scenarios, including smartphones, where it will be able to help change low-resolution photos taken by the smartphone to high-resolution images with greater details. Other potential applications include restoring old or damaged photos, refining important medical images, or conducting a detailed analysis of satellite images.

Visual Localization for Handheld Devices

In the Visual Localization for Handheld Devices challenge, OPPO created a monocular visual localization pipeline that leverages semantic and depth cues to find the precise location of any given image. OPPO’s solution helped the company secure the first-place for outdoor visual localization and the third-place for indoor visual localization.

Potential use cases for this technology include augmented reality applications, intelligent robotics, or precise navigations. The company claims that an AI assistant equipped with a camera will be able to utilize the technology to analyze images and achieve accurate positioning, allowing it to guide users in the right direction.

Activity Detection in Extended Videos

OPPO also secured the third-place in the Activity Detection in Extended Videos challenge, which required companies to design automatic activity detection algorithms. OPPO’s solution is designed to effectively identify and reorganize the characters in each frame and recognize dozens of human activities in complex dynamic videos.

The technology is expected to play an important role in the field of human-computer interaction and sports video analysis in the future. Additionally, the technology may also be found in future smartphones that will allow them to automatically identify moving subjects and adjust the camera focus accordingly.

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Save up to $100 on HUAWEI Watch GT – AliExpress Summer Sale Event

The AliExpress 618 summer sale event begins on June 15th and continues through June 21s. It is one of the two biggest China-originated online shopping festivals of the year. This year especially when shopping online seems to be a safer and cheaper choice for most consumers, the 618 Summer Sale event seems to be extremely ambitious with their discount strength being the biggest so far. Huawei just unveiled their 618’s latest deals. This includes several competitive discounts and high-value coupons for some of their bestsellers like the Huawei Watch GT2, of which the final checkout price can be even less than half of the original retail price.

The offers of Huawei’s 618 sales on AliExpress are made up of three different discounts: the platform level discounts, the shop level discounts, and the product-specific discounts. Some of the shop level coupons started on June 10th in the sales preview phase and bigger discounts will be started on June 15th. Among all the must-buys, Watch GT2 specifically will have up to a $100 markdown. Here is a quick guide that will help you to get it at the best price:

⦁ Step 1: Copy the super half-price discount code: HALFGT2 (limited to 50 pieces and should be used before June 21st), and use when checking out. This is the most rewarding discount code ever for Watch GT 2. Apply this coupon to instantly save $79.99 when checking out.

AliExpress Summer Sale Price

⦁ Step2: Get the AliExpress $10 off on orders over $100 coupon code: get10 (limited to 3000 pieces)

AliExpress $10 off Coupon

⦁ Step 3: Purchase the $5 for $20 coupon here, which is the most rewarding discount in the shop for Huawei Watch GT 2.

AliExpress Pay $5 Get $20 Coupon

The discounts and offers during the 618 sales can be a bit complex and some of the coupons code are time-limited. In a short summary, in the best circumstances, you can get a Watch GT 2 for only $55 with a free Band 4e. Just make sure that you place your order among the first 100 customers.

Additional to these discounts and coupons, you can get a Huawei Band 4e for free if you are one of the first 100 Watch GT 2 buyers and stand a chance of winning a P40. This deal is not exclusive to Watch GT 2. You can order any product in the store and get a Band 4e for free (limited) to 100 pieces.

Free HUAWEI P40 and Band 4 promotion

If you miss the chance of placing order among the first 100 customers, there are also other ways that you can easily get cash rewards. For example, simply sharing your Huawei product must-buys on any social platforms and send back the screenshot to customer service and receive a $10 off coupon.

HUAWEI $10 Discount

Other interesting rewards may be a surprising plus if you participate in the game Flip “N”. You could walk home with one more Huawei Band 4 Pro, or coupons up to $100. Click here for more details about the game.

Play Flip “N”

Of course, other products also have great mark-downs during the sale, including Freebuds3i (US $128.56 89.99), Watch GT 2e (US $170.00 119.00), etc. All sales info can be found on Huawei AliExpress Store.

Have fun while shopping the 618 Summer Sale event!

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OPPO Find X2 launches in India with Snapdragon 865 for ₹64,990

The OPPO Find X2 and OPPO Find X2 Pro were launched internationally back in March 2020, bringing the best of OPPO’s flagship technologies to the international community. The phones have a fair few highlights, like the 120Hz QHD+ AMOLED display, the flagship Qualcomm Snapdragon 865 SoC, 65W SuperVooc 2.0 fast charging, a competitive camera system, and more. Now, OPPO is finally bringing the flagships series to India, giving us another good option in the premium flagship space.

OPPO Find X2 XDA Forums || OPPO Find X2 Pro XDA Forums

OPPO Find X2 and Find X2 Pro: Specifications

Specification	OPPO Find X2	OPPO Find X2 Pro
Dimensions & Weight	Glass: 164.9 x 74.5 x 8 mm 187g  Ceramic: 164.9 x 74.5 x 8 mm 196g	Ceramic: 165.2 x 74.4 x 8 mm 207g Vegan Leather: 165.2 x 74.4 x 9.5 mm 200g
Display	6.7″ AMOLED 3168 x 1440 QHD+ 10bit color depth 120Hz refresh rate 240Hz touch sample rate O1 Ultra Vision Engine: Hardware-level Video Motion Compensation Elevate frame rates to 60/120fps Supports: YouTube (60fps/120fps) Tencent Sports (60fps/120fps) Amazon (60fps) Netflix (60fps) 100% DCI-P3 coverage JNCD < 0.4 HDR Video Enhancer	6.7″ AMOLED 3168 x 1440 QHD+ 10bit color depth 120Hz refresh rate 240Hz touch sample rate O1 Ultra Vision Engine: Hardware-level Video Motion Compensation Elevate frame rates to 60/120fps Supports: YouTube (60fps/120fps) Tencent Sports (60fps/120fps) Amazon (60fps) Netflix (60fps) 100% DCI-P3 coverage JNCD < 0.4 HDR Video Enhancer
SoC	Qualcomm Snapdragon 865: 1x Kryo 585 (ARM Cortex A77-based) Prime core @ 2.8GHz 3x Kryo 585 (ARM Cortex A77-based) Performance cores @ 2.4GHz 4x Kryo 385 (ARM Cortex A55-based) Efficiency cores @ 1.8GHz Adreno 650	Qualcomm Snapdragon 865: 1x Kryo 585 (ARM Cortex A77-based) Prime core @ 2.8GHz 3x Kryo 585 (ARM Cortex A77-based) Performance cores @ 2.4GHz 4x Kryo 385 (ARM Cortex A55-based) Efficiency cores @ 1.8GHz Adreno 650
RAM & Storage	12GB LPDDR5 + 256GB UFS 3.0	12GB LPDDR5 + 512GB UFS 3.0
Battery and Charging	4,200 mAh 65W SuperVooc 2.0 fast charging Compatible with 18W USB-PD	4,260 mAh 65W SuperVooc 2.0 fast charging Compatible with 18W USB-PD
Rear Camera	Primary: 48MP Sony IMX586 Secondary: 12MP, Wide-Angle Camera, Sony IMX708 Tertiary: 13MP, Telephoto	Primary: 48MP Sony IMX689, f/1.7, 1/1.43″ sensor, 1.12µm individual pixels before binning, All Pixel Omni-Directional PDAF, OIS Secondary: 48MP Sony IMX586 Wide-Angle Camera, 1/2″ sensor, f/2.2 Tertiary: 13MP, Periscope Telephoto, 1/3.4″ sensor, f/3.0, OIS
Front Camera	32MP	32MP
Other Features	Under-display fingerprint scanner NFC IP54 Z-axis motor Dual Stereo Speakers	Under-display fingerprint scanner NFC IP68 X-axis motor Dual Stereo Speakers
Android Version	ColorOS 7.1 based on Android 10	ColorOS 7.1 based on Android 10

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Both the OPPO Find X2 and Find X2 Pro have been around for a while, so the verdict on the devices is already out there. The opportunity here is to take a look at how the product has aged in the intervening months since the international launch and the Indian launch.

OPPO Find X2 Pro Hands-on: A Pleasing First Impression of OPPO’s Best Smartphone

Notably, these flagships from OPPO feature PixelWorks Iris 5 display chip and Goodix’s new voice and audio technology. The Iris 5 display chip allows the devices to boast of better video playback quality, clearer display, brighter colors, and higher dynamic range as a result. Goodix’s new voice and audio technology aid in better voice recording thanks to their smart noise suppression technology.

Download OPPO Find X2 Pro’s Wallpapers

Beyond this, the OPPO Find X2 Pro also supports dual-frequency GNSS, and has been certified as an Android Enterprise Recommended smartphone, as well as a Youtube Signature Device. Kernel sources for the devices is also available. OPPO has also promised to bring the Android 11 Beta 1 to the device series later this month, so that is something to look forward to as well.

Pricing and Availability in India

The OPPO Find X2 will be available in India for ₹64,990 (~$853) for the 12GB + 256GB variant, in Ceramic Black and Ocean Glass colors. The device will be available for purchase from June 27, 2020.

OPPO has not shared further details on the pricing and availability of the X2 Pro. However, it appears that OPPO will not commercially launch the Find X2 Pro in India. We’ll update our article as soon as more information is available.

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