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jeudi 19 novembre 2020

The new Realme 7 5G is one of the UK’s cheapest 5G phones

Realme on Thursday introduced the Realme 7 5G, an affordable 5G option headed for the UK.

On paper, the smartphone packs a real punch, featuring a 6.5-inch 120Hz FHD+ LCD, a MediaTek 800U processor, and support for 5G networks. The device also comes equipped with up to 8GB of RAM, 128GB of storage, and a beefy 5000mAh battery. The Realme 7 5G comes with a Dart Charge brick and supports 30W charging, so you can replenish the battery from 0 percent to 50 percent in less than 30 minutes.

The Realme 7 5G also sports a quad-camera setup, which includes a 48MP main sensor, 8MP ultra wide-angle lens, 2MP macro lens, and 2MP black and white sensor for portrait mode. The device also features a 16MP front-facing camera, which lives in a small hole punch in the top left corner of the display.

Specification	Realme 7 5G
Dimensions & Weight	162.2mm x 75.1mm x 9.1mm 195g
Display	6.5″ FHD+ (2400 x 1080), 120Hz
SoC	MediaTek Dimensity 800U
RAM & Storage	Up to 8GB (LPDDR4x) 128GB (UFS 2.1, expandable)
Battery & Charging	5,000 mAh with 30W Dart Charge
Rear Camera(s)	48MP wide-angle (f/1.8) 8MP ultra-wide (FoV 119°, f/2.3) 2MP B&W portrait (f/2.4) 2MP macro (f/2.4)
Front Camera(s)	16MP (FoV 79.3°, f/2.1)
Port(s)	USB-C 3.5mm headphone jack
Connectivity	2.4/5 GHz 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac Bluetooth 5.1
Software	Realme UI (Android 10)

Rounding out the device is a side-mounted capacitive fingerprint sensor, support for Dolby Atmos and Hi-Res Audio, and a 3.5mm headphone jack. And for those who need more storage, you can expand the device’s storage using a microSD card.

As far as budget devices go, the Realme 7 5G is a winner on paper. About our only complaint is that it’s launching with Android 10 (with Realme UI) instead of Android 11. Even still, the Realme 7 5G offers a lot without breaking the bank.

The Realme 7 5G, which launches in Mist Blue and Flash Silver, will retail for £279 through Amazon when it launches on November 27. However, consumers can take advantage of a Black Friday price of £229, making it one of the most affordable 5G phones in the UK.

Realme 7 5G

The new Realme7 5G packs a real punch without breaking the bank. It features a quad-camera setup, 5000mAh battery, and supports 5G. And it's cheap, making it a great 5G option in the UK market.

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Google tests E2E encryption in Messages after rolling out RCS globally

Google has announced plans to launch end-to-end encryption in its Messages app for Android. The news comes on the back of the completion of the global rollout of its RCS-based chat features after the company decided last year to roll out access to the service itself, rather than waiting for telcos to enable it.

Rich Communication Services (RCS) brings the aged SMS standard into the instant-chat age, offering group chats, emojis, and higher quality photo and video sharing. It also brings online status, typing, and read indicators. The slow pace of global availability of the standard has led most people to switch to services like WhatsApp and Messenger. Last year, Google announced that it would start offering its own RCS servers, beginning with the UK and France, thus bypassing carriers who were showing no sign of enabling it. Following launches in several other countries, that process has now completed and Chat features via Google are now available worldwide. The result is a service more akin to iMessage on Apple devices, and with more scope to be integrated with other messenger standards.

As part of the announcement, Google has confirmed that Messages will soon support end-to-end encryption (E2E) – one of the most attractive features of other chat packages – beginning with one-to-one conversations using RCS in Google Messages. Google confirms that means that “no one, including Google and third parties” will be able to see what either party has said at any point. Even if the message is intercepted by hackers, it’ll be unreadable. Google will begin rolling out E2E to beta testers beginning this month, and into early 2021. When it becomes available, any conversations that meet the criteria will be automatically upgraded to E2E. By eligible, we mean that both parties will have to be using Messages, with Chat Features switched on.

Despite being used by thousands of companies for two-factor authentication, the SMS standard is now almost 30 years old and increasingly insecure. The arrival of RCS and E2E will hopefully bring text messaging back to life for another 30 years. Google Chat, which is due to replace Hangouts next year also works using RCS, which might signal that one day, Google will actually have a coherent messaging strategy and bring everything together.

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Best Samsung Galaxy Watch 3 bands in 2020: Options for every style!

So you’ve got your Samsung Galaxy Watch 3, and you love it, but it somehow doesn’t scream “you”, style-wise. Fortunately, both the 41mm and 46mm models have access to a kaleidoscope of alternative bands so there’s bound to be the perfect one for you, available officially. And if not, you can buy a few alternatives and change them with your mood. Make sure you know which size you have before you order – 20mm for the smaller model, 22mm for the larger. Here’s Samsung’s official efforts, and some third-party designs we couldn’t resist.

Samsung Galaxy Watch 3 Stitch Leather Band

The premium choice in the official range, this leather band is available in black or brown, with white stitching detail, a standard buckle fastener and two bands to hold the excess leather in place. It is a great choice if you want to give your device a professional vibe, but at $79.00, it is easily the most expensive strap in this list.

$79.99 from Samsung

Samsung Galaxy Watch 3 Ridge Sport Band

A more familiar style for anyone who bought their watch as a fitness tool. The silicone strap is about the stark, strong recessed strip in the middle, and the way that silicone allows the watch to hug the wrist - great for those heart rate measurements. It is available in gray or black directly from the Samsung website.

$39.99 from Samsung

Vigoss Replacement Watch 3 Band

Sometimes, a plain old strap just will not do. For real self-expression, you need to find something a little bit funkier. These soft silicone straps come in a variety of patterns. We have gone for the Leopard Print, but you might fancy camo, daisies, or erm… black flower cow skull. Either way, these are a cut above a plain black watch strap for around ten bucks.

Buy on Amazon

MoKo Band Silicone Six Pack

This is a six strap package, for just twenty bucks. And the good news is that although they can look a bit ‘chunky’ compared to the originals, buyers have raved about the design and comfort. Thanks to a quick-release clasp, you can easily switch between the six colors - red, yellow, blue, white, black, and green. Or mix them up for funky combinations!

Buy on Amazon

Kartice Metal Band

It’s amazing how just changing the watchband can make a watch look and feel entirely different, and nowhere is that more noticeable than with stainless steel bands like this one from Kartice. Available in Black, Light Black, Silver and Light Silver, adding a metal band gives your S3 a feeling of urban utilitarianism, and just a smattering of style.

Buy on Amazon

UAG Nato Watch Strap

Although NATO watch straps are tough, comfortable, and cheap; many NATO straps will cover the back of the watch and block the heart rate sensor. Urban Armor has given us the best of both worlds with this NATO-style nylon strap that will not interfere with the watch function. At present, it is only available in grey.

$39.99 at UAG

Wearlizer Slim Leather Band

One of the complaints we hear the most about smartwatches is that they are too chunky for smaller, thinner wrists. Although we cannot do anything about the size, a slim watch strap like this one can lend your Watch 3 a little more grace and will not look quite so odd when paired with the outfit you’re wearing out tonight, especially as it comes in a rainbow of color options.

Buy on Amazon

Konafei Multilayer Vintage Cuff Bracelet

If you are the sort of person that loves the tech, but also has a seriously hippy streak, this unusual strap could be right for you. Part watch strap, part bead bracelet, this is meant to be a DIY bracelet - remove beads, add more beads, add charms, whatever you choose, you have a leather lace holding it all in place and a solid metal buckle.

Buy on Amazon

LeRobo Soft Silicone Sports Wristband

A watch band full of holes might seem like an odd choice, but these air holes allow sweat to dry up more quickly, meaning you will not have to peel off the strap after a long workout. These sports straps do the job, whilst taking home the prize for the cheapest entry in this list at under $8, you can probably pick up more than one of the 15 colors.

Buy on Amazon

Although we’ve only scratched the surface here – there are pages and pages of aftermarket watch straps on Amazon alone – we’ve tried to give you a flavor of the different types out there – posh ones, scruffy ones, funky ones, sporty ones. Because they’re all very different and subjective, we’re not going to pick our favorite, but hopefully, there’s one here that’s right for you. If not, let us know what you chose and we might add it to a future update. Just remember – pick one that’s right for your variant of the watch, your size of wrist, and if you’re looking beyond those made specifically for smartwatches, make sure you don’t get one that covers up the sensors on the watch back! In fact, given that you can buy multiple bands for the price of Samsung’s official leather one, why not buy a few and change the look to suit your mood?

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Google Camera 8.0 mod brings the Pixel 5’s camera app to OnePlus, Xiaomi, ASUS, and other phones

The Google Pixel 5 and Pixel 4a 5G were launched with a new version of the Google Camera app (v8.0) that featured a revamped UI and some exciting new features. While the app was initially reserved for Google’s latest phones, the company recently released Google Camera 8.1 which brought the new UI, Cinematic pan mode, and the Storage Saver feature to older Pixel devices. Now, thanks to the efforts of XDA Senior Member Arnova8G2, you can enjoy the new Google Camera 8.0 UI and features on a bunch of non-Pixel devices.

Arnova8G2‘s latest Google Camera mod, which is based on Google Camera 8.0.101, is now available for the following devices:

The Google Camera 8.0 mod includes the revamped UI that debuted with the Pixel 5/4a 5G, which features new buttons, a quick zoom toggle, quick access for video modes, a new icon for video recording, and cues to help users click a better image. As you’d expect, the mod also includes new features like Audio Zoom, Cinematic Pan, the Storage Saver mode, and social share for videos. Our Editor-in-Chief, Mishaal Rahman, tested the mod on his ASUS ZenFone 7 Pro, and he was able to access all of these new features on the device.

Google Camera 8.0 mod

If you’re wondering why the Google Camera mod is available for Google’s Pixel lineup, that’s because it enables additional options/tuning on Pixel phones that aren’t available in the regular app. The mod also unlocks some of the Pixel 5’s camera features that haven’t been released for older Pixel devices. In case you have any of the aforementioned devices, you can download the latest Arnova8G2 GCam mod by following the link below.

Download Arnova8G2’s GCam 8.0 mod

Arnova8G2’s GCam mod thread on XDA Forums

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Facebook Messenger and Instagram add BTS theme and Watch Together feature

Facebook Messenger and Instagram have extended the scope of their newly joined-up messaging service with some new features, including one involving South Korean boy-band sensation BTS (for our regular readers, that’s the band providing the song for the current global Samsung Galaxy S20 FE advertisement).

First up, according to Facebook’s newsroom, (if you’re just here to read about BTS, you’ll have to wait) is Watch Together. In line with a number of streaming services who have added similar functionality during 2020, this feature lets you watch streaming content at the same time as your friends. Just start a video call, o,r open a new chat room. Once everyone is ready, you’ll find “Watch Together” as an option in the TV & Movies tab of Instagram. Two new shows have been added as part of the launch – ‘Post Malone’s Celebrity World Pong League’ (the ‘pong’ in question is actually beer-pong, by the way) and ‘Here for It with Avani Gregg’. You don’t have to watch them though, all available content works with Watch Together.

The second feature (BTS army, stand by) is ‘Chat Themes’, which lets you personalise your conversations. As well as a range of stock themes, there are some special editions too, including TinyTAN, a theme based around adorable little animated avatars of the seven members of BTS. We’re aware that a lot of our readers will be underwhelmed by this, so let us assure you there are plenty more non-boy-band options available in Messenger and Instagram. To use themes, go into chat settings, tap Theme, and find the one you want – BTS or otherwise.

Both those features are available now, but there’s also a third announcement coming soon, that we trailed recently. Vanish Mode is an option that brings disappearing chats to the Instagram/Messenger canon. When activated, anything you say won’t be recorded in your chat history and will be scrubbed as soon as you leave the chat. You can toggle between modes without leaving the chat – swipe up once to toggle on, swipe up again for off.

In order to ensure that Vanish Mode is being used properly, it will be limited to people who are either following each other on Instagram or are connected in Messenger. If someone screenshots the chat when you’re in Vanish Mode, everyone else will be informed that the chat is no longer off the record.

Vanish Mode is available now on Messenger in the US, with Instagram coming soon. European countries will start to see it soon, though in all cases you’ll need to upgrade to the new Messenger experience on Instagram.

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YouTube terms update lets Google show ads on unmonetized content

YouTube has updated its Terms of Service, and some of the changes have left users fuming. Parent company Google seems to be on a roll of taking away things and replacing them with not-as-good things, as the recent Google Photos debacle showed us, and the YouTube changes follow the theme.

As we reported yesterday, the company has confirmed that it will be allowing a beta test of audio-only advertisements aimed at anyone using the service for background music. But there’s more to unpick here too. Firstly, YouTube has strengthened its policy about data collection from YouTube visitors. It now specifically mentions facial recognition data which has always been covered but not explicitly stated.

But the biggest change outlined in today’s blog post is the least palatable. As part of the changes, Google has confirmed that it will experiment in adding advertising to videos uploaded by those who aren’t in the YouTube Partner Program (YPP). In other words, if you aren’t monetizing your YouTube content, Google now reserves the rights to use the advertising space for its own purposes, and you won’t get a penny.

This is particularly galling if you’ve uploaded a video without adverts because you wanted to spare your followers from adverts. By changing this clause, Google can now override your good intentions to make a few extra quid, and that doesn’t feel very sporting. Google will ensure that this only occurs on brand-safe videos, but the only real way to opt-out is to opt-in to YPP. Google ads that there will be no changes to the suitability controls available to advertisers and adds that the criteria for YPP remain unchanged and users will be able to opt-in to the scheme if they qualify.

Finally, YouTube has clarified its rules for complying with US taxes. The good news is that it has confirmed that providing that AdSense has up-to-date tax details for you, there should no longer be an issue about taxing your earnings, and as such, Google’s long-standing threat to skim payouts for taxes if required has been diminished. Google adds that creators outside the US will have more details about their tax relationship with YouTube clarified during 2021.

So it seems that the real losers here are the end-users. Creators can choose to opt-in to YPP, register their tax details with AdSense and there’ll be business as usual. But for casual visitors, it looks like 2021 is going to see a lot more in the way of ad-heavy YouTube videos, with Google profiting from those videos that go ‘unclaimed’.

You can read the full, revised terms and conditions here. They’ll come into force from “mid-2021” outside the US.

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NVIDIA bypasses Apple’s App Store, launches GeForce NOW on iOS via Safari

Cloud gaming, or game streaming as some others call it, is promising to be the future of gaming, freeing up users from the constraints of physical hardware and letting them game anywhere thanks to the omnipresence of the cloud. Most big names have pitched in their own game streaming service, and while the ecosystem slowly matures, there’s still one problem towards this omnipresence: the Apple App Store. Apple has blocked both Microsoft xCloud and Google Stadia cloud gaming services from the App Store previously. And now, NVIDIA seems to have bypassed this block by choosing to launch GeForce NOW on iOS through the Safari browser.

Apple’s primary contention against allowing these cloud gaming services on its mobile platform is that they need to submit each game within the service individually for review. Such rules for review are applicable for all developers already on the App Store, and to appear on the App Store, these rules and guidelines need to be followed. As an alternate, Apple did suggest in its own statement that game streaming services could use the Safari browser or other browsers to reach all iPhone ad iPad users.

NVIDIA appears to have done just that. GeForce NOW is streaming on iOS Safari in beta from today onwards. This opens the door for existing members subscribed to this game streaming service to play their favorite games on iPhones and iPad as well, in addition to all the other hardware options such as Windows, macOS, Android, and Chromebooks.

There are a few small caveats though. For one, GeForce NOW on iOS Safari requires a gamepad. NVIDIA says that keyboard and mouse-only games aren’t available due to hardware limitations. And if you are looking to use the service to play Fortnite on your iOS device (considering how Fortnite is still banned from the App Store), a touch-friendly version of the game is being worked on and will be coming soon. But right at launch, Fortnite will be missing for practical gameplay on iOS devices.

NVIDIA also has more to share on games that are coming in the future. GeForce NOW will soon connect with GOG.com, letting users enjoy games like CD Projekt Red’s Cyberpunk 2077 and The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt. Cyberpunk 2077 is an upcoming title that has generated massive hype leading up to its launch, while Witcher 3 needs no introduction to serious gamers. It’s an exciting time to be a gamer indeed.

NVIDIA GeForce NOW (Free, Google Play) →

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