Soon You May Use “Ok Google” On Your Apple Device: Google Assistant is seen to expand its availability on the various device as it is running on many Android smartphones, Google Home, and Allo after it was initially debuted on the Google Pixel. Now Google’s plan to launch Google Assistant on iOS is another major expansion of the company as Google Assistant will soon be available for iOS as a standalone app, according to the report of Android Police.

“Google Assistant” App Is Rumored To Launch In iOS Soon

At the time of launch, the Google Assistant for iOS will available in the US only. The announcement will possibly at Google I/O conference this week which will probably be a great place to announce such thing. The Google Assistant in iOS may have a different style in comparison to other devices in which it is present.

However, the voice control of the Assistant will be same in the iOS version as it is found in Android but chat-style in iOS version will be of that type which is present in Allo messaging app. Other specifications of Assistant in iOS remains unclear at this time.

It is a great idea to integrate the Assistant to world’s second largest mobile OS as it would likely attract more developers to integrate with the app’s functionality. The availability of Google Assistant in iPhone and iPad will increase the users of the AI and hopefully be enjoyed by the users.

Upcoming Moto X(2017) May Called As Moto X4: Says Report In 2015 Moto X pure Edition was released by the company and after that its successor Moto Z came. Now some rumors suggesting that Moto X brand is again set to come. Images of ‘Moto X’ was tweeted by leaker @evleaks last week suggesting that the device may come soon.

           Specs And Features Of Upcoming Moto X4

The Moto X (2017) is expecting to be called as Moto X4-claimed by Evan Blass. Leaked images of the device indicate that the latest Moto X4 may feature with 5.5-inch LCD display panel having the resolution of 1920 by 1080 pixels. The device may also have Snapdragon 660 with 4GB of RAM and 64 GB of storage. The storage is expandable up to 256GB via microSD card. the Moto X4 is also expected to have non-removable 3800 mAh battery.

It is also rumored that the Moto X4 will be the first smartphone of Motorola Mobility to have dual camera setup with LED flash. Some sources also said that the device will have the IP68 rating for water and dust resistance. The Moto X4  is said to have a single USB Type-C port and it will lack the traditional 3.5mm audio jack.

The upcoming smartphone is said to have the metal body with 3D glass screen with slightly curved edges. The announcement date of the Moto X4 is not declared yet but it is assumed that the device may available in the United States in the coming months.

WWDC 2017: Apple Could Announce 10.5-inch iPad Pro And Siri Speaker: Apple’s World Wide Developer Conference will start on June 5^th at the McEnery Convention Center in San Jose where thousands of developers will meet with Apple engineers. At this conference latest software of the Apple is expected to unveil. Apple could also launch two new hardware products at this conference according to the report of Apple analyst KGI’s Ming-Chi Kuo.

Apple has already sent invites for the WWDC 2017. The official WWDC invite to developers said, “Technology alone is not enough. Technology must intersect with the liberal arts and the humanities, to create new ideas and experiences that push society forward. This summer we bring together thousands of brilliant minds representing many diverse perspectives, passions, and talents to help us change the world”.

At the event, Apple is expecting to unveil the latest version of macOS and iOS with the new version of tvOS and Watch OS. According to KGI the two hardware products that may unveil at this event are Siri Speaker and 10.5-inch iPad Pro with the new design.

Kuo also said that there are more than 50% chances of Siri Speaker and more than 70% chances of the announcement of the all-new 10.5-inch iPad Pro at the event. As previously said by KGI, Siri Speaker is expecting to be costlier than Amazon Echo. The speaker may have touch panel as part of the device- according to KGI.

The 10.5-inch iPad Pro is supposed to come with the all-new design. it is expecting that the device will have narrower bezels that will provide extra space for screen display. KGI also expecting that Apple will ship near about 6 million units of 10.5 this year.

From the last few years, Apple is only announcing the new software at WWDC but this year we might have new hardware as well at the conference. The Apple’s WWDC will start at 10:00 am Pacific Time on June 5, 2017, and it will end on June 9, 2017.

‘How To Shot On iPhone 7’-Video Series Launched By Apple: Apple released a new series of video on its website so that iPhone users can learn to take best pictures with their iPhone 7. Many short videos are uploaded which guides you take better pictures with iPhone 7. These videos tell about various modes of taking pictures that are very useful while taking pictures.

   Apple’s Complete Guide To Make Images Better

Each video runs for about 40 seconds and provides tips to shot in a very easy way for the iPhone 7 users. It provides guidelines for close-up shots, vertical panoramas, shots without flash, action shots, street light, one-handed selfies and much more. Tips for editing selfies are also given in the video.

In the video, step-by-step instructions are provided which is very simple to follow in order to take best images. For example, in a video naming “How to shot without flash on iPhone 7” three steps are given to instruct you. In step 1 – Find a light source, step 2- Turn off the flash, step 3- Tap subject to set exposure and shot. In the end of the video, a brief summary is also seen.

Taking images is one of the most loving features that smartphones provide for the users and Apple’s iPhone 7 has done a lot to give best images and videos for its consumers. Now providing video tutorials is a great way of Apple to teach users of the device so that they can utilize its functions related to the images that can be taken from the device very effectively.

Apple has released 17 such videos on How to shoot on iPhone 7 website and you can also find some of the videos on YouTube channel.

iPhone 7 Is The Highest-Selling Smartphone In Q1: Says Report: In the list of the highest-selling smartphone, Apple’s iPhone 7 is on the top with 6.1% of total smartphone shipped while iPhone 7 Plus with larger screen maintains its second position with 4.9% of shipment.

Strategy Analytics shows a new data that reveals Apple’s iPhone 7 was highest-selling smartphone worldwide with the shipment of near about of 21.5 million units and iPhone 7 Plus which is costlier than iPhone 7 attains 17.4 million units sale during the first quarter of 2017.

Strategic Analytics said the total sale of iPhone in the first quarter of this year is slightly above then the sale during the first quarter of last year. During Q1 of last year, Apple sold 333.1 million units of iPhone while in Q1 2017 this figure is increased to 353.3 million units.

  iPhone 7 becomes The No.1 Selling Smartphone

Neil Mawston, Executive Director Strategy Analytics, in a statement on Wednesday said “Global smartphone shipments reached a robust 353.3 million units in the first quarter of 2017. The top-five most popular models together accounted for 1 in 6 of all smartphones shipped worldwide during the quarter”.

In the list of highest-selling smartphone OPPO R9s smartphone – a Chinese brand shows a great performance and came to the third position with the shipment of 9 million units worldwide during the first quarter of the year.

Neil Mawston, Executive Director at Strategy Analytics, added, “OPPO R9s shipped 8.9 million units for third place and 3 percent market share worldwide in Q1 2017. OPPO is largely unknown in the Western world, but its brand is wildly popular in China and growing rapidly across India. The R9s is OPPO’s flagship 4G device with key features such as dual-SIM connectivity and fingerprint security.”

“Samsung was still gearing up for the launch of its new Galaxy S8 portfolio, but managed to get two models in the top five during the first quarter of 2017,” noted Linda Sui, Director Strategy Analytics.

After the OPPO, Samsung Galaxy J3 and J5 came in fourth and fifth position respectively. Samsung Galaxy J3 shares 2% of total market sell of the smartphone while Samsung Galaxy J5 shares 1% of total market sell.

iPhone 8: Sale Will Start From October 2017, Suggesting Report: Last month few reports were claiming that the production of Apple’s upcoming smartphones may face delay but now according to a report from Economic Daily News, the iPhone 7s and iPhone 8 will release on time. Apple will announce the iPhones in September and it will be available from the month of October.

According to the Economic Daily News production of the smartphone is ‘on schedule’ and sale of the device will start from the October. The sale pattern of the iPhone in last few years depicts that Apple used to start the sale of the device in the same month in which it announced. Last year Apple announce iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus on September 7, 2016, and sale was started on September 16, 2016. But the sale schedule of the iPhone this year shows a little delay.

Upcoming iPhone Sale May Start From October 2017

In the all three upcoming iPhones, new substrate-like circuit boards will present and manufacturing of these substrate-like circuit boards is facing some issues. As per some reports, Mass production of the internal component of the smartphone will begin from the month of June with the manufacturing of substrate-like parts.

This year, it is expected that Apple will launch three iPhone models. Two of them is said to be the improved version of the last year launch iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus while the one is expected to be the flagship smartphone iPhone 8 (anniversary edition) with many new features and body design.

The two upgrade models are expected to come with better functions, improved battery life and wireless charging may also feature in that while the flagship iPhone 8 is expected to have many new features such as OLED display with large screen size as compared to the previous ones.

The screen will size will be 5.8-inch but the case size will be similar to the 4.7-inch iPhone 7. This because the screens will almost have no bezels also known as an edge-to-edge display. The iPhone 8 may have stainless steel sides and the back side will have glass body.

Apart from these, new features that may expect in upcoming iPhone 8 are 3D-sensing front camera, A11 SoC, improved waterproofing, wireless charging, Touch ID fingerprint embedded into the display and much more.

Invoke: The Cortana Powered Harman Kardon’s Speaker First Look Is Out Here: Since the end of the last year when we have all have been introduced with the Microsoft’s Cortana powered Harman Kardon’s voice-activated the speaker, till now we all had nothing to talk about the device. But now here is something very interesting to look around as the new device just got confirmed for the name titled as Invoke. The voice activated speaker will be competing the Google Home & Amazon Echo in order to have a control over all your homes through the very well known Cortana from Microsoft.

Cortana Powered Harman Kardon’s Speaker: Invoke (First Look Out):

Through the official website of Harman Kardon, today the first look of the Cortana Powered Voice Activated Speaker from the Brand itself was revealed. As of now, the original page has been taken down but as far as the concerned image is to be taken into consideration, the newer member out coming in competition with the Google Home & the Amazon Echo i.e named as Invoke is also a Cylindrical connected speaker which will be producing a handful 360 degree sound. As per the leaked image, it will be featured with a metal design cabinet & might be available with Black & Silver variants.

Further, as far as the expected features are to be thought of, according to the website quote, it says “Enhance every moment with captivating sound, voice control your music and smart home, make and receive hands-free calls with Skype, get answers to your questions, and more.” So it is now very clear from the above statement itself about the features that the speaker will be having.

Not much of information is available yet for the Cortana voice activated speaker but this one seems promising. It is expected to be coming during “this fall” & might be seen soon at the Microsoft Build Conference as per the leaked information through the cached web page.

New Report Suggesting Horizontally Edge To Edge Display and Glass Back In iPhone 8: A new report highlighting the features that upcoming iPhone may have has come from JPMorgan. It suggests that the iPhone 7s model which will be the upgrade version of iPhone 7 will have the glass back with radical OLED display. The flagship smartphone iPhone 8 will have an edge to edge OLED display. The edge to edge display will be from the horizontal side not vertically. It will give the upcoming iPhone 8 almost bezel-less look. Well, it is also claimed by the analyst that a pair of Wireless AirPods will come free with the iPhone 8.

Next iPhone May Have Edge To Edge Display

The report suggests that the iPhone 7s and iPhone 7s Plus will have aluminum sides and 2.5D glass to the rear side while iPhone 8 will come with stainless steel and glass body. The report shows the screen of the upcoming device via the diagram. In the diagram, we can see the 5.8-inch screen size with minimal bezels at upper and lower side. However, it can’t be said clearly that at which extent these pictures are accurate.

A summary table is also provided by the analyst which does not provide any hint about the fingerprint sensor in the devices. With a question mark, it leaves as unanswered. Maybe they didn’t have any idea about the location of the fingerprint sensor. In earlier schematics, fingerprint sensors were placed at the rear side while some rumors suggested that it may be embedded into the display of upcoming iPhone 8.

The JPMorgan report suggesting iPhone 8 with wireless AirPods seems doubtful as the AirPods are costly enough. It may not be beneficial for the company. Apart from the cost, short supply of the AirPods is also considerable. AirPods are already facing the short-supply issue and in that case, it is not likely possible that each iPhone 8 will come with a pair of AirPods. JPMorgan also provided the estimates for iPhone 8 that may cost Apple an extra $75-$80 per unit.

NASA’s Veteran Hired To Join Apple’s Growing AR Team Says Report: According to recent reports from Bloomberg, as of now Apple is more focused on its Augmented Reality Growth & for the sake of that they have hired a specialist from NASA (Veteran) i.e Jeff Norris to add some extraordinary efforts to come out with some better results. He is a specialist for upcoming with newer technologies at NASA & that is why Apple had approached & hired him to help growing its AR Team. Jeff Norris when firstly joined the NASA back in 1999, has helped in creating software for controlling Mars exploration rovers from the ground itself.

NASA’s Veteran Hired To Join Apple’s Growing AR Team Says Report:

This report also says that he had already joined Apple’s Augmented Reality Team as a Senior Manager earlier this year. Apple has already been trying to ramp up its very owned reality technologies since past few years. The company had already hired Mike Rockwell from Dolby’s Technology (Chief) for boosting up its audio & display technologies & as of now he is heading the AR Team. Apple seems to be very focussed for its upcoming technology of AR since 2015 itself & keeping that in mind it has also made some notable hires & acquisitions in space too with the most recent one being responsible for various numbers of Virtual Reality Plugins for the Final Cut Pro.

Something about the so-called newer member in the Apple group i.e Jeff Norris As people must be very much unaware of this man i.e Norris. You should all be knowing that at NASA he had founded the Mission Operations Innovation Office of its Jet Propulsion Lab. There he had led his valuable efforts to “create new ways to control spacecraft & robots in the space with virtual & augmented reality”. Not only this but with the help of all these technologies he had issued some headsets to the scientists over there at the ground in order that they could have an experience with the live Mars images.

Reports also suggested in the past that Apple has been working on a pair of AR glasses that could be coming for a launch sometimes sooner in 2018. As there is no any official announcement yet from Apple leaked docs reveal that still, those are in the testing phase. In the Augmented Reality project at Apple, about 1000 engineers may be working another – the report says.

Tim Cook itself has spoken out about the AR in the past & praised all the efforts for the same on different occasions. It could also be the headlining feature of the upcoming iPhone 8 but this information is yet to be getting cleared officially. So we are still looking out for some more information & report related to the Apple Augmented Reality & will let you know at the earliest if any.

Rumored Motorola Tablet May Bring long Waited Features For Android Users: As per the past products review, the Android tablets were not able to stand up to the mark yet among the user’s groups & had not delivered their best. With the launch of the latest Android 7.0 Nougat supporting the multiple window option, still, the user is not easily allowed to switch between them for working. Windows have been a very successful & very renowned option in terms of Tablet & PC’s when it comes to switching between multiple Apps to work with them. But now as per few rumors waving around, Motorola is about to bring up its new Tablet that might have a feature for multiple App switching to work with ease.

Motorola To Bring Multiple App Switching Support With Its New Rumored Tablet For Android Users:

According to sources, the tablet will be having a productivity mode that will allow pinning of the Android Apps to the Navigation bar & thus allow to easily switch between them for easy working. The leaked picture shows that the users will be able to switch between the apps just by tapping on to the icons without taking the users to the home screen.

This all is just based on the leaked picture of the slide & much more new could be waiting with the Productivity mode. Not much information related to the tablet is yet available but if it comes into the market it will be the first one from Motorola after the release of Droid Xyboard in 2011.

If this tablet comes into the market for real then surely something will be there which can be called as a “Work Capable Android Tablet” & that can also stand along with its rivals like Microsoft’s surface. Till now the Android tablets were only designed for watching contents but this will introduce it to the world of business with the productivity mode option thus providing the users a better Multi-tasking environment.