OnePlus launches OnePlus Pay on the OnePlus 7T series in China, may launch in India later this year

There is a variety of mobile payment solutions to choose from. The diverse options depend on your country, which bank account or credit card you have, or even based on your device. Over and above, there are several cross-platform wallet services that you can use for mobile payments.  For Android devices, although Google already offers Google Pay in most countries, there are additional options offered by OEM themselves – including Samsung Pay and Xiaomi’s Mi Pay. Now, OnePlus is joining the club by introducing OnePlus Pay in China with the latest update for OnePlus 7T and 7T Pro.

OnePlus Pay makes way to the OnePlus 7T/7T Pro with the latest stable build of HydrogenOS (company’s China-specific ROM). Based on the screenshots, OnePlus Pay can be used for payments at POS machines, for subway and bus rides, toll taxes, and video service subscriptions. Additionally, you can buy tickets for air or long-distance train travel as well as medical insurance using the service and also subscribe to stocks.

Source: OnePlus Community China

For payments, OnePlus Pay apparently supports both card tokenization for tap-to-pay as well as QR code scanning. Other options like India’s Unified Payments Interface (UPI) may also be added when OnePlus Pay is available in other countries.

Although OnePlus Pay is launched in a stable build of HydrogenOS and not a beta, credit cards from only three banks are supported right now. The number might increase when the product is supported by other devices.

OnePlus first teased OnePlus Pay at the OnePlus 7T launch event in India last September. The company’s head of the Software Product Growth at that time, Szymon Kopec, notified the media professionals and fans attending the event that the service would be available “sometime next year” from then, noted Android Authority.

We can expect OnePlus to make an announcement at the OnePlus 8 launch event, which is slated to happen next month.

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Source: OnePlus Community China

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Facebook and Google reportedly wanted stakes in India’s Reliance Jio

Reliance Jio has seen astronomical growth ever since it entered the Indian telecom sector back in September 2016. The company’s success has allowed it to diversify into various other verticals, like home broadband and e-commerce, where it has opted for the same strategy of offering services at a price point that undercuts the competition by a significant margin. Jio’s rise in popularity seems to have caught the attention of silicon valley giants like Facebook and Google, as a recent report from Financial Times suggests that the companies are eyeing a multibillion-dollar stake in the company.

The report cites two people familiar with the matter who have revealed that Facebook is currently in talks to purchase a significant stake in Reliance Jio. The domestic telecom service provider, which has close to 370 million active users, was close to signing a preliminary deal with Facebook for a 10% share in the company. However, the timeline of the deal has been affected by the global lockdown caused by the ongoing COVID-19 crisis. In case the deal proceeds as highlighted, Facebook will gain a stronger foothold in the Indian market, where it already has a large user base. The deal, which had previously been scheduled to be announced later this month, is part of Jio’s parent company Reliance Industries Ltd’s plans to reduce debt.

It’s also worth noting that Reliance, which is part of billionaire Mukesh Ambani’s empire, had revealed plans to cut net debt to zero by 2021. To do so, Reliance seeks to sell off stakes, including 20 percent of its refining unit to Saudi Aramco, and a $3.3bn investment by Brookfield in its tower business. The pending deal with Facebook will also work towards helping Reliance achieve its net-zero debt goals. Additionally, the report also reveals that Google is also engaged in separate talks with Reliance Jio according to one of the people briefed on the discussions. This builds upon Microsoft’s announcement from last year, where it revealed plans to partner with Jio to offer cloud computing services to businesses in the country. Interestingly, the report has had a positive effect on Reliance Industries Ltd’s stock, which surged by 20% following the revelation.

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Source: Financial Times

Via: Bloomberg

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Samsung is bringing Galaxy S20 software features to the Galaxy S10/Note 10 with One UI 2.1

The One UI skin from Samsung is largely regarded as a user-friendly user interface, especially after considering its predecessors, i.e. TouchWiz and Samsung Experience. The latest iteration of this Android 10-based skin is One UI 2.1, which can be found on the Galaxy Z Flip and the Galaxy S20 series of phones. While Samsung is already teasing One UI 2.5, the Korean company has promised to bring One UI 2.1 to its legacy flagships. The OEM has stayed true to its words, as both the Galaxy S10 and Galaxy Note 10 lineup are now receiving a number of software features from the Galaxy S20 series in the form of One UI 2.1 update.

XDA Forums: Samsung Galaxy S10e || Samsung Galaxy S10 || Samsung Galaxy S10 Plus

Samsung Galaxy Note 10 || Samsung Galaxy Note 10 Plus

At the time of writing this article, the OTA for OneUI 2.1 is rolling out in Switzerland and Germany, targeting the Exynos-powered variants of the Galaxy S10 & Galaxy Note 10. The changelog is quite huge, as One UI 2.1 adds Quick Share (i.e. the AirDrop clone from Samsung), Music Share, new AR Emojis, AR Zone, and an upgraded stock keyboard with multilingual translation, stickers, and text undo/redo support. Owners of these phones now have new fingerprint animations (no love for the Galaxy S10e for this for obvious reasons), scene detection in the stock gallery app, a dedicated power button in the notification drop-down panel, and Google Duo integration in the dialer and messaging apps.

There is a major overhaul in the camera department as well. Single Take, which is Samsung’s AI-enhanced best shot detection mechanism, is now available as part of the stock camera app. Users can finally record 4K 60fps and 1080p 60fps using the front camera, while the My filter feature enables the creation of custom filters “with colors and styles you like from a favorite photo serving as inspiration”.

Samsung has also shipped April 2020 security patches (yes, even before Google!) with the updated firmware builds for the Galaxy S10 and the Galaxy Note 10, which are tagged as G97xFXXU4CTC9 and N97xFXXU3CTC9 respectively. The OTAs are rolling out in batches, but enthusiasts can skip the queue and download the new firmware packages directly from the Samsung update server using Frija.

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Thanks to XDA Member Robert Smali for the screenshot!

Source: Samsung

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[Update: Postponed] Xiaomi Mi 10 with 108MP camera and Snapdragon 865 launching in India on 31st March

Update 1 (03/25/2020 @ 06:35 AM ET): Xiaomi has postponed the launch of the Mi 10 in India in light of the COVID-19 shutdown. Scroll to the bottom for more information. The article as published on March 19, 2020 is preserved below.

It wouldn’t be an overstatement if one was to say that Xiaomi has revolutionized the Indian smartphone market. Ever since the Chinese company entered the market, Indians have had very high-value products to choose from in the budget and early-mid range segments, much to the displeasure of other brands. Xiaomi’s massive success in India is, however, restricted to the under-₹20,000 (<$275) range. Historically, Xiaomi’s Mi smartphones haven’t done well in India, with the last products to launch in the country within this line being the Xiaomi Mi 5 and Xiaomi Mi Mix 2 (though Mix series doesn’t really count). Xiaomi had announced that this will change this year onwards, as they will launch a “lot more premium Mi flagships in 2020“. Now, Xiaomi has officially confirmed that it is launching the Mi 10 in India on 31st March 2020.

Mi Fans, wait is over! # : .

Watch Livestream across @XiaomiIndia social media handles. Know more here: https://t.co/oKPXrAaCYf

RT with #Mi10IsHere and #108MP if you are excited. #Xiaomi pic.twitter.com/P4KkLWFH95

— Manu Kumar Jain (@manukumarjain) March 19, 2020

The Xiaomi Mi 10 was launched in China on February 13, 2020. It brings along several premium features, such as a 90Hz FHD+ AMOLED display with HDR10+ support, Qualcomm Snapdragon 865 SoC, up to 12GB LPDDR5 RAM, up to 512GB UFS 3.0 internal storage, a 108MP quad-camera setup, a 20MP front camera, a 4,780 mAh battery with 30W fast wired charging, 30W fast wireless charging and 10W reverse wireless charging. The primary camera has a 7 piece lens setup and optical image stabilization and can capture 8K video footage with both OIS and EIS. Xiaomi has also released the kernel sources of the device, shortly after its launch.

Xiaomi’s Mi 10 launch does not come as a complete surprise. We had already found code references indicating a launch in India back in February itself. The code references, however, also indicate that both the Mi 10 and Mi 10 Pro will be launching in India, but Xiaomi has only officially confirmed the Mi 10’s launch for now.

Keep in mind that the Xiaomi Mi 10 will not be priced in line with what we expect from Xiaomi India, in the context of their Redmi value-pricing. The Indian government recently raised the GST applicable to smartphones. This tax increase, coupled with a depreciating INR-USD ratio and the fact that the Mi 10 will be imported from China and not assembled in India, means that the Mi 10 will command a premium pricing at par its premium listing. It is a very strong product, so expect pricing in a similar ballpark.

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Update: Mi 10 India launch postponed indefinitely due to COVID-19 lockdown

India was put into a 21-day lockdown to fight the COVID-19 pandemic, beginning 25th March 2020. This means that there is no scope of product delivery for smartphone OEMs. In light of this development, Xiaomi has postponed the launch of Mi 10 in India indefinitely.

We, at #XiaomiIndia, are focusing our energy to support the nation in its fight against #COVID19.

After careful deliberation, we’ve decided to postpone the launch of #Mi10 in India, which was scheduled for 31st March 2020.

Thank you for your patience & cooperation.#Xiaomi pic.twitter.com/KCDDbXJxTs

— Manu Kumar Jain (@manukumarjain) March 25, 2020

We understand and support Xiaomi’s decision.

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YouTube 15.12.33 prepares to add video quality preferences on Android

YouTube is by far the most popular video streaming service around the world. Because of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, people have been generally advised to stay at home as much as possible. Naturally, this has caused a spike in the consumption of videos and related media content to beat the boredom that comes along. This, coupled with the increase internet usage as the world turns to digital solutions even more, has led to an unprecedented load on the internet infrastructure in many regions. While the internet infrastructure has largely held up so far, such casual-category consumption can be deprioritized to ensure that the infrastructure does not collapse under the load in these circumstances. YouTube just announced that it would limit default video quality across the world to 480p for the next one month in an effort to ease internet traffic. Now, we have also found evidence that suggests YouTube is working on allowing users to set their preferred default video quality on the Android app.

Currently, on YouTube for Android, you can only change the video quality on a per-video basis while you are watching the video. You can also choose to restrict high-quality streaming for when you are on Wi-Fi. The recent 480p limitation applies as the default setting for playback, but YouTube had also mentioned that it will allow users to watch in HD if they want to, but they will have to consciously make this choice. It was naturally presumed that this choice would be on a per-video level, as that would be enough of an effort to undertake for every single video consumed, which would have effectively dissuaded users from switching to a higher quality.

An APK teardown can often predict features that may arrive in a future update of an application, but it is possible that any of the features we mention here may not make it in a future release. This is because these features are currently unimplemented in the live build and may be pulled at any time by the developers in a future build.

However, YouTube for Android v15.12.33 has added a new activity for a new setting page pertaining to video quality preferences, which suggests that users would be able to change the default video quality too.

<string name="persistent_settings_video_quality_title">Video quality preferences</string>
<string name="persistent_video_quality_auto_description">Adjusts to give you the best experience for your conditions</string>
<string name="persistent_video_quality_auto_label">Auto (recommended)</string>
<string name="persistent_video_quality_high_description">Uses more data</string>
<string name="persistent_video_quality_high_label">Higher picture quality</string>
<string name="persistent_video_quality_intro_description">Select your default streaming quality for all videos. You can change streaming quality in player options for single videos.</string>
<string name="persistent_video_quality_intro_heading">Video quality preferences <b>(BETA)</b></string>
<string name="persistent_video_quality_low_description">Lower picture quality</string>
<string name="persistent_video_quality_low_label">Data saver</string>
<string name="persistent_video_quality_mobile_network_heading">VIDEO QUALITY ON MOBILE NETWORKS</string>
<string name="persistent_video_quality_wifi_heading">VIDEO QUALITY ON WI-FI</string>
<string name="pref_settings_video_quality">Video quality preferences <b>(BETA)</b></string>

While this possible change makes sense in terms of choice, it is perplexing within the context of our extraordinary conditions. Users do deserve the option to choose better quality for themselves, and ordinarily, we would have stood by this choice. But such a possible change at this moment would defeat the very purpose of the 480p quality limitation. We do not have information on the qualities that would be presented to the user to choose, so we hope that the qualities are restricted on the upper end as this would be a mere minor inconvenience in light of our extraordinary circumstances.

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Google Play Services 20.12.14 hints at letting parents create a secondary lockscreen for kids

It has been just over a month since Google released the first developer preview of Android 11. It’s needless to say that both of the currently released builds have a lot to changes over Android 10, including a new one-time permission use, notification history, and so on. Though we already covered most of the user-facing and under-the-hood changes in Developer Preview 1 and the newer Developer Preview 2, there is still a lot of new APIs that we’ve been keeping an eye on. One of them is the DevicePolicyKeyguardService API, which is intended for providing a secondary lockscreen to the SystemUI. We initially thought this was intended only for enterprise use due to the device admin requirement, but we discovered another potential use as a new parental control tool for Family Link.

A new service we dug up in the Manifest file of Google Play Services 20.12.14 suggests that we may soon see a first-party integration of this API. The name of this service, “com.google.android.gms.kids.SecondaryLockscreenService,” leads us to believe that Family Link will be the one taking advantage of it. We can make an educated guess that Google will let parents set up a secondary lockscreen for their kids, which will then display information different from the main one. The API documentation mentions that the implementation must be provided by a device admin app, which Google Play Services satisfies. The boolean “platformAtLeastR” in the service suggests that this feature will only be available for devices running Android 11 and above.

<service android:enabled="@bool/platformIsAtLeastR" android:exported="@bool/platformIsAtLeastR" android:name="com.google.android.gms.kids.SecondaryLockscreenService" android:permission="android.permission.BIND_DEVICE_ADMIN" android:process="com.google.android.gms.ui" chimera:autoEnabled="false">
    <intent-filter>
        <action android:name="android.app.action.BIND_SECONDARY_LOCKSCREEN_SERVICE"/>
    </intent-filter>
</service>

Keep in mind that even though the service is present in the Manifest of Google Play Services, we didn’t find any strings or assets pertaining to the feature. Similarly, the latest version of Family Link did not have any details about this feature. This probably means that the feature is in an early development stage so we will have to wait for it to be fleshed out more. I think we’ll see more details of the feature soon after the arrival of the Android 11 stable release, though.

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Google Photos adds text selection hint on mobile, upload origin info on web, and prepares to let you mute videos

Google Photos is considered by many to be the company’s best service. If you need a free feature-rich photo and video backup solution, it’s hard to beat Google Photos. The company is constantly tweaking the user interface and adding new tools. The latest additions, as spotted by AndroidPolice, include text selection hints on mobile through Google Lens and showing upload origin information on the web. We’ve also spotted hints that you’ll soon be able to mute videos while editing.

First, a new toast “hint” for text selection is appearing in the Google Photos mobile app. When you open an image that contains text, a pop-up hint suggests “copy text from image.” Tapping it takes you to the Google Lens interface where you can select text and take action such as a Google Search, translation, or copy the text. You could already do this by manually tapping the Google Lens button, but now the app will actually suggest it to you.

Next up is a feature for the web version of Google Photos. You can finally see where uploaded images and videos came from in the “Info” section.” You’ll see “Uploaded from computer, Uploaded from Android device, Uploaded from Google Drive,” etc. This only applies to images you uploaded yourself, though, and not images shared from others.

Lastly, we’ve discovered that Google is preparing to add the ability to mute videos. The Google Photos 4.44 APK includes strings that mention “Mute audio” and “Mute video,” along with other audio-muting related strings. This suggests you will be able to turn off audio from videos in editing. If you’ve ever had a video ruined by audio, you know this is a great feature.

<string name="photos_videoeditor_a11y_mute_audio">Mute audio</string>
<string name="photos_videoeditor_a11y_mute_disabled">Mute button is disabled for silent videos</string>
<string name="photos_videoeditor_a11y_unmute_audio">Turn audio on</string>
<string name="photos_videoeditor_action_mute">Mute</string>
<string name="photos_videoeditor_cpe_mute_applied">Muted</string>
<string name="photos_videoplayer_mute_button">Mute video</string>
<string name="photos_videoplayer_unmute_button">Unmute video</string>

The first few features appear to be available now in Google Photos for their respective platforms. Muting audio is not live yet, but it looks like Google is getting ready to add it soon. It’s always nice to see Google continue to improve one of its best services.

Google Photos (Free, Google Play) →

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