Maniha Barry

Hello everyone, how are you all doing? Life has been so busy with studies everything. I just received the Pixel 2 XL and it’s a beautiful phone. 

The Pixel 2 XL is a much bigger version of the Pixel 2 phone. It’s an extremely fast phone. It’s dimensions are 157.9 x 76.7 x 7.9 mm and weighs 175 g. It has a front glass, aluminium body, partial glass back. It has nano sim. It is water resistant up to 1 meter and 30 minutes. It is also dust and water resistant. It has a P-OLED capacitative touch screen 16 M colors. The resolution is 1440 x 2880 pixels and the display is multi touch. It has a corning gorilla glass 5. 

It runs on Android 8.0 oreo. It has 64/128 GB, 4 GB RAM. The camera is  12.2 MP (f/1.8, 27mm, 1/2.6″, 1.4 µm, Dual Pixel PDAF), OIS, phase detection & laser auto focus, dual-LED flash. The camera features include Geo-tagging, touch focus, Face detection, HDR, panorama,portrait mode, Ar mode. It has the best portrait mode in it. There is no headphone jack in it, so you can’t charge your phone and use the headphones at the same time. It has fast battery charging (capped at 10.5 W). It’s available in black, blue and white color. The battery can last very long too. Overall it’s a great phone, if you are an Android fan then do try it. 🙂

Yo everyone!! What’s up? I hope you all are fine. Today I decided to blog about this thing called “System Ui Tuner” which is an option which comes in Android. It is neat hidden menu on Android Marshmallow and Android Nougat. It gives you a bit of control over your status bar and its  pull-down menus. 

Once it is enabled, you can change the way your status  bar and pull-down settings look and feel which gives your android a more custom feel that would have required some rooting and flashing previous. 

How to enable System UI tuner?

1. Put down your quick settings, swipe down on the notifications. On the top right you’ll see the gear icon. Tapping it is a shortcut for settings but tapping it for a few seconds will open a hidden menu in settings. 

2. Long press your gear until it spins, then keep holding it until you get a popup message that says “Congrats! System Ui Tuner has been added to settings.” 

However this could be a bit risky for the future, but if you are ok  with that, go ahead and tap “Got it.” The only reason I tried this is to manage my notification settings for applications. For example, if you are using “whatsapp” and you don’t want it’s notifications every time on the scream when you are using it, then this System Ui Tuner has around 5 levels for your notification settings for every option. Scroll down to your settings, click other and switch it. That’s all folks. keep smiling!. 😀

A new Android version is arriving and it’s called “Android oreo.” Hearing that name makes me crave for Oreo :p. Android 8.0 is going to have some good features such as:

1. It is 2x faster. You can get started on your favorite tasks more quickly with 2x the boot speed when powering up.
2. Android oreo helps minimize background activity in the apps you use.
3. Autofill remembers your logins to get into your apps at supersonic speed with your permission. 
4. It allows you to see 2 apps at once. 
5. You can press the notification dots to quickly see what’s new.
6. You can teleport directly into new apps right from your browser, no installation needed. 
7. The battery saver is quite good, it can keep your battery strong and full of life.

Android oreo will soon comes in phones such as Nexus 6p, Google Pixel, Google Pixel XL, Nexus 5X or Pixel C. More phones are going to get the update later this year. 😀

Hey all, I hope ya all having a good weekend, well I having midterms next week, so meh. Anyhow what’s going around here? First came snap chat stories, then Instagram stories, then came WhatsApp stories and now Facebook stories. Like seriously every social network here wants to go be snap chat. I had no idea about this Facebook stories, until yesterday. I hate Facebook messenger too.

The only stories are like are the snap chat stores, honestly. Facebook stories will soon look exactly like Instagram stories with little circular profile photo of the user and their friends appearing on top of the news feed. Facebook stories will have a blue ring around the profile photos of users who post a new story. Stories for Facebook messenger has already gone live as new Messenger day feature. It lets users share photos and videos to a story within the Messenger app adding filters and stickers. You can comment on them and stories last for around 24 hours. Users can use built-in privacy features, something which differentiates from Snapchat and Instagram. Since, I don’t like Messenger or Facebook that much, I refuse to use these stories. So yeah, enjoy the stories if you like to. 😛

Ever since the whatsapp stories came up, people haven’t been happy with it. Due to a lot of complaints from the users, whatapp is bringing back the text status. The new ‘Status’ update does not let users keep a text-based status and also not for anymore than 24 hours, similar to snapchat. The removal of the earliar feature is a disadvantage for some people as they sometimes like to keep informative statuses. For example “Studying for exams, don’t contact me. ” and many others. I myself was not amused by this feature on whatsapp. So whatsapp is bringing it back except this time this feature would be called tagline. So let’s see how this goes now. The tagline feature has arrived in Windows phone 2.17.82 and whatsapp beta for iOS 2.17.6.21, it is soon expected in Android devices as well. 

Hello everyone, I hope ya all are doing fine, this is my first post in 2017, lol. But I am back now. Ok this blog post is actually about the lame whatsapp update. Snapchat has been one of the most fun and amazing social network by far now, so now whatsapp has copied its idea too.  First it was possible to write statuses on whatsapp but now you can’t. It has become like snapchat, there is something like whatsapp story on it now. You can take photos, use emojis, edit photos and the stories disappear after 24 hours which is just like snapchat. It’s possible to set up privacy like let only a few of yours contacts to see your story. If you haven’t noticed, the options of gifs has also been included in whatsapp which is a good feature but I am not really fond of the stories feature.  Peace love and unity 😀

One of the most beautiful phone by google is “Pixel.” I can say that because I have actually checked that phone out and it seemed amazing even though I don’t own it. This phone has the highest rated smartphone camera, a battery that lasts all day, unlimited storage for all your photos and videos and the first phone which has google assistant built in. It has 12.3 MP for sharp, crisp images, large 1.55 pixels for great shots in the light and f/2.0 Aperture for bright, even photos. 

It combines hardware and software made by Google which includes all your favorite Google apps. It has a seamless glass aluminium body. With the pixel imprint, the phone gets unlocked quickly with just a swipe down on the finger print scanner. It has a brilliant 5.0 AMOLED screen with true blacks and 16.77 million colors. It gets up to 7 hours of battery life in just 15 minutes. The OS in it is “Android Noughat. 7.0.” In short, it’s a great phone if you are a die hard Android phone, go for it and buy it. 😀

Hello everyone! How is it going? I hope you all are doing great. I haven’t been blogging because you know semester finals and I have been busy with stuff. So, yesterday I was watching a video by “finebros” on youtube where teens were reacting to “Snapchat glasses”. That attracted me a lot. I saw that video then I realized these glasses seem so cool. I’m gonna tell you about them. 

We all sure love snapchat because it’s like the most fun app ever with all those fabulous filters. These glasses only work with Snapchat but the great thing you can do with them is film what you see and the battery lasts a long time. Cool right? You can record literally anything with them. It’s a lot easier to skate and snap a video using these glasses, it will save you from accidents, you can focus on the road. They feel like regular glasses and they look great on anyone who wears them. The video quality is awesome, if the light is good then you’ll get a decent video/ picture. The spectacles record circular video. They don’t need to be connected to a phone unless you want to post or view snaps. They don’t fall of your face if you jump around. The audio is good but not great. Very hard to take selfies with it. There are no face filters available yet: if snapchat glasses get the face filters and stuff, I’ll probably get these glasses. 😀

Android 7.0 is the 7th version of the Android operating system. Nexus devices were the first ones to actually get this version, I own a Nexus 6p, so I got the update already. Nougat introduces notable changes to the operating system and its development platform, including the ability to display multiple apps on-screen at once in a split-screen view, support for inline replies to notifications, as well as an openJDK-based JAVA environment and support for the Vulkan graphics rendering API, and “seamless” system updates on supported devices.

It introduces a split-screen display mode for phones, in which 2 apps can be snapped to occupy halves of the screen.  An experimental multi-window mode is also available as a hidden feature, where multiple apps can appear simultaneously on the screen in overlapping windows. The notification shade was redesigned, featuring a smaller row of icons for settings, replacing notification cards with a new “sheet” design, and allowing inline replies to notifications.  Multiple notifications from a single app can also be “bundled”. There is a great per-app control over notifications. 

The “Doze” power saving mechanism introduced in Android Marshmallow was expanded to include a state activated when the device is running on battery and the screen has been off for a period of time, but is not stationary. A new “Data Saver” mode restricts background mobile data usage, and can trigger internal functions in apps that are designed to reduce bandwidth usage, such as capping the quality of streaming media. Nougat introduces a system for enabling “seamless”, automatic system updates, based upon and sharing some code with the implementation of similar functionality on Chrome OS. Overall, I am having a great experience with it, enjoy the update once you get it. 🙂

Hello everyone, I am here again. Sorry I was away. It’s because my website had some problem. Anyways, I am here to tell you about my new best friend aka. “Allo.” This is google’s new assistant and is super fun. As you can see in the picture, I asked it “Do you wanna build a snowman?” It sent me the answers and it’s also singing the song with me. The only thing, it lacks is the voice. Allo can do everything an assistant does for you like siri and cortana. Siri is sorta the annoying one, I am not fan of siri. I do like cortana, though :p. Allo can entertain you when you are bored., you can start a group chat with it or send a simple message to someone. It works over internet connection. Allo can google stuff for you. I had a test and I asked every single thing from Allo, it helped me a lot. It can set reminders for you. 

“Whisper Shout” allows the user to increase or decrease the size of a message to represent volume. Allo also lets users draw on photos before sending them. Incognito mode is an optional mode that includes expiring chats, private notifications, and end to end encryption. For encryption, the app uses the Signal Protocol.

Incognito mode does not include any Smart Reply or Google Assistant features. When the user receives a sticker from a sticker pack that they do not already have installed on their device, the app will retrieve the sticker from Google’s servers using client-to-server encryption. You can delete single messages or entire conversations in Allo. Google also provide the option to chat in Incognito mode, where messages are end-to-end encrypted and you can set a timer to automatically delete messages for your device and the person you’re chatting with’s device at a set time. The messenger is a competitor of whatsapp, so I recommend you try it too. 🙂