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Mobile gaming is the mass market because pretty much everyone who is online uses a smartphone. Naturally, there’s a huge interest in games on the Play Store and they also tend to bring inthe most revenue for app stores. So it’s fleshing out theGoogle Play Gamesoffering a little more. XDA Developersreports that the Google Play Games app is testing a new ‘Hub’ section for gaming news. The news feed will show you stories related to games you have installed or games that are trending....

Mozillais believed to be working on a new Android browser called ‘Fenix’, which is expected to be released next year. The new project is believed to be in the extremely early stages of development, and it isn’t entirely clear whether it will eventually be released as a new app or anew version of Firefox, which is alreadyone of the more popularthird-party web-browsers on most platforms, including Android. It’s worth noting here that apart from Firefox, Mozilla has a number of other browsers on Android, including the privacy-focused Focus and the lightweight data-saving Rocket meant for the Indonesian market....

With theimminent entryofJio’s GigaFiberbroadband serviceexpected to shake up the broadband marketin India much the same way the company’s LTE services shook up the mobile telephony market in the country, ISPs are falling over one another to offer more bang for the buck to their customers either byintroducing new, competitive planswith higher speeds, or increasing data allocations byremoving arbitrary FUP limits. Now, MTNL has launched an offer of its own to latch on to its dwindling customer base in the face of the renewed competition in the sector....

Paytm became the primary fallback option for Indians during the demonetization drive, helping it grow into thebiggest digital payments platformin the country. The payments giant has since debuted its payments bank, UPI, and other features to carry forward the momentum. With regards to the same, the company today claimed to haveclocked a run rate of 5 billion transactions and $50 billion in Gross Transaction Value (GTV) annually. It has grown significantly as compared to the same time the previous year, when Paytm had a GTV of $1 billion, which includes all services sold by Paytm....

According to a new report fromThe Bell, thetriple-camera moduleon the rear will include a super wide angle lens, just like LG does in its G7. This means theGalaxy S10 Plus could be one of the first phones with five cameras in total. The dual-lens setup on the front will possibly be key to the hardware-based face unlock and for selfie portraits. Two of the high-end models – out of three that Samsung plans to launch – are expected tosport a 12MP standard wide-angle lens with a dual aperture, a secondary 13MP telephoto lens and a third 16MP ‘super-wide-angle’ lens....

Samsung is all set to inaugurate the world’s largest mobile phone production unit in Noida, Uttar Pradesh. The factory, which is located in the Sector 81 of Noida, holds the distinction of beingthe world’s largest mobile phone production unitin terms of the number of device rolled out on a monthly basis. The sprawling factory, which is spread across 35 acres, is expected to produce 120 million Samsung phones every month, among other electronics, to be sold in India, SAARC, Europe, west Asia and Africa markets....

Xiaomi has so far announced four Snapdragon 845-powered flagship smartphones this year,the Mi 8,Mi 8 Explorer Edition,Mi MIX 2Sand theBlack Sharkgaming smartphone, but none of them have made it to the Indian market yet. According to a new report that might change soon as Xiaomi is working on bringing a top-tier phone to India soon. Codenamed ‘Beryllium’, details about the upcoming device were discovered in the firmware files created earlier in March....

Putting an end to our anticipation, Xiaomi finallywent publicand the first day of trading has now come to a close. The company would’ve expected a better opening on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange but it was without much fanfare as the stock opened at $HK16.60 when compared to the $HK17 offer price. Yes,Xiaomi’s stock trading was off to a rocky startand share prices came tumbling down to the lowest point of the day at $HK16 in the first 30 minutes of its listing....

After much-anticipation, Xiaomi has today finally gone public and made its debut on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange (HKEX) at a listing price lower than its $HK17 offer price. The company’s shares opened for trade 2 percent lower than its IPO pricing at $HK16.60. The stock price plunged to around $HK16 in the first 20 minutes of the trade before bouncing back over the next few hours, but still trading below the lower-end offer price....

Now that Reliance has announced theJioGigaFiberFTTH broadband service which claims to provide gigabit speed, rival companies are already gearing up to adapt to the competition that Reliance’s offering is going to bring. Ahead of JioGigaFiber’s availability, You Broadband has announced a high-speed 250 Mbps broadband plan as well as new 200 Mbps broadband plans, the latter of which are available in multiple circles across India where You Broadband is operational....

Asus’s latest flagship, the Snapdragon 845-poweredZenfone 5Z, has a highly competitive price point of just Rs. 29,999. At that asking price, the Zenfone 5Z undercuts rivals such as the OnePlus 6 and the Honor 10, and our firstimpressionsof the new Asus device have been very positive, to say the least. Merely days after the device’s arrival in India, Asus has now begun the rollout of a new OTA update which brings the latest Android Security Patch and also brings an improved camera, aside from a few enhancements and fixes for some minor bugs....

Google released the ‘July Security Update‘ for Android devices earlier this month, which tackles a total of 44 vulnerabilities in the operating system. According to the July Security Bulletin, most of these 44 vulnerabilities were rated as high in severity. This update haspatched 11 critical exploits in the mobile OS, where the most severe of them all was a critical security vulnerability in the Android OS Media framework. If this vulnerability was exploited, a remote attacker could have used a“specially-crafted file to execute arbitrary code within the context of a privileged process,”says Google....

Ever since the Nokia X6made its debutin China, fans around the globe have had just one wish: that the notched yet stunning device globally. And it seems like their wish may finally come true, starting with Hong Kong. Yes, according to folks over atMobile Magazine HK,the Nokia X6 is launching in Hong Kong on July 19, but it isn’t expected to be under the same moniker. The report says that it will come to the country as Nokia 6....