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Royole FlexPai, The World’s First Folding Smartphone, Tested, And It’s Working

While Samsung is preparing the announcement of its folding phone, the Chinese company Royole presented officially the world’s first folding smartphone, the Royole FlexPai, at an event held in San Francisco where the business has one of its headquarters. The folks from the Verge tested the device and reported the results on their site.

The Royole FlexPai is a 78-inch hybrid foldable smartphone that can turn into a phone from a tablet and vice-versa. However, according to The Verge, the world’s first folding smartphone is by far behind the modern-day high-end smartphones, but nobody can take away from it the achievement of becoming the first foldable smartphone in the world.

The FlexPai will be available in China at a starting price of 8,999 yuan (around $1,300). Also, a developer version would be released across North America. For about $1,3000 you’ll get a variant of FlexPai with 6 Gb of RAM and 128 Gb of internal storage. You can pay an extra $150 to get the version with 8 Gb of RAM.

Royole FlexPai, The World’s First Folding Smartphone, Tested, And It’s Working

Also, Royole FlexPai operates with a 2.8 GHz, eight-core Qualcomm Snapdragon processor and boasts a 3,800-mAh battery. Both variants of the world’s first folding smartphone are now available for pre-orders on the Royole official website. According to the company, the devices will be shipped starting with December.

“The software seemed extremely sluggish, apps continuously opened accidentally, and the orientation kept changing randomly when one of the Royole representatives was demonstrating the folding process. That, to me, indicates that the company’s custom Water OS (a fork of Android 9.0, Royole says) is probably not the most robust operating system just yet,” said Nick Statt from The Verge.

On the other hand, Royole stated that FlexPai, the world’s first folding smartphone, is guaranteed for 200,000 foldings. They, however, did not specify what happens afterward.

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AMD Launched Eight New Crypto Mining Rigs In Collaboration With Seven Manufacturers

Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) entered the business of cryptocurrency mining, and now the company offers eight models of mining rigs online. The AMD crypto mining equipment incorporates Radeon graphics cards, already accessible in the field of mining cryptocurrencies. The company had also pointed out that sales of this type of machine had slowed down, but they have reached an agreement with other manufacturers such as Asus, Saphire or Asrock to design the rigs and integrate the AMD graphics cards.

According to the company, this business area can help make the use of blockchains safer and more efficient by providing the necessary hardware to perform the mathematical and cryptographic calculations required for the mining operation.

“Blockchain algorithms require computing platforms, PCs and servers, more specifically CPUs and GPUs to run. AMD is uniquely positioned to offer the best combination of CPU and GPU technologies to make blockchain transactions faster and more secure,” AMD stated.

AMD ventures into the cryptocurrency mining business with eight new crypto mining rigs

Saphire, Asus, Asrock, MSI, Biostar, Tul, and Rajintek are the companies AMD has partnered with to offer complete crypto mining rigs along with their hardware, the AMD Radeon graphics cards. This new line of business is contrasting with the low level of sales reported by the company just a week ago.

According to the recently released AMD report, the company’s revenues for Q4 2017 were $1.34 billion, adjusted for revenue accounting standard ASC 606, and included GPU sales related to blockchain and crypto mining. According to AMD, this year’s crypto mining rigs’ sales were negligible, in comparison with the company’s other products.

The irruption of ASIC miners, with chips specialized in a specific algorithm and with more capacity and computing power, have caused the decline of this business. The popularity of ASIC miners, together with the many drops of the cryptocurrency market, could have had an impact on the fall of the AMD’s profits from crypto mining rigs. However, new AMD cryptocurrency mining computers are now available to revive this sector for AMD.

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Facebook Messenger 191.0.0.19.98 Beta For Android With A New Feature

Facebook Messenger is the instant messaging app for the mobile versions of Facebook for both Android and iOS. It allows users of Facebook to connect with friends and family more straightforwardly. Now, Facebook Messenger 191.0.0.19.98 Beta rolled out for Android with a new feature about which will talk below.

Facebook Messenger totals many cool features

With Facebook Messenger, users can reach anyone, even though they are not on their Facebook friends list. You can find a contact using the phone number or their names using the built-in search engine, as you usually do on Facebook to find new friends. Also, Facebook Messenger is a cross-platform app as it’s available on all the existent operating systems, such as iOS, Android, and desktop/laptop PCs where the messenger is integrated within the Facebook page.

Facebook Messenger permits users to send and receive messages, as well as to make or answer both voice and video calls as simple as you send/receive SMS or make and answer phone calls on your smartphone. In comparison with other instant messaging apps, Facebook Messenger positions itself in the top of the list, along with WhatsApp Messenger and Skype of Microsoft.

You can use Facebook Messenger to send emojis, photos, videos, share documents, and even play games and compete with your friends from your list, who are playing the same games. Besides, if you own a business, you can get in touch with your clients using Facebook Messenger.

Facebook Messenger 191.0.0.19.98 Beta for Android with a new feature

The newly launched Facebook Messenger 191.0.0.19.98 Beta for Android comes with a new function, under the hood, while nothing changed at the GUI’s level.

According to the official release note, “now, you can see your call history and missed calls – all in one place.” Besides this new function, Facebook Messenger 191.0.0.19.98 Beta for Android doesn’t bring anything else. However, as you can see, it is a Beta version, so the new function is still under testing before emerging in the final version, if everything goes right.

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Hola Free VPN Proxy 1.111.484 Rolled Out For Android With New Improvements

Hola Free VPN Proxy is reportedly the best unlimited FREE VPN allowing you to stay safe and keep your privacy while navigating on the web. Also, Hola Free VPN Proxy also permits users to access any content around the world, even in those geo-restricted regions. Now, Hola Free VPN Proxy 1.111.484 rolled out for Android with new improvements under the hood.

With Hola Free VPN Proxy, users can enjoy the benefits of a completely free VPN solution to help everyone access any kind of content while keeps customers’ privacy and security while navigating on the Internet. The variant we’re talking about in this article is a free one because Hola is also offering a paid version that provides a VPN solution for businesses.

Hola Free VPN Proxy is a free peer-to-peer VPN service that operates by sharing idle resources of all its users to establish more open and private web navigation. Also, Hola accelerates browsing and allows users to access regional-restricted content.

Hola Free VPN Proxy 1.111.484 Rolled Out For Android With New Improvements

As we’ve mentioned above, Hola Free VPN Proxy is helping users keep their privacy while they’re navigating the web, while it’s also allowing them access regional-restricted content. Hola is reportedly the best such VPN solution for Android as it’s a stand-alone and entirely free VPN app, and it comes with Lightning Browser pre-installed.

Now, the new Hola Free VPN Proxy 1.111.484 rolled out for Android with further improvements under the hood, boosting the app’s security and fixing some bugs reported in the previous version. Nothing has changed, however, in the Hola’s interface. Also, the new version is not bringing any new features or functions to the app.

In short, Hola Free VPN Proxy 1.111.484 launched on APKMirror as an APK file, but you’ll also be able to download it directly from the Google Play Store.

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Apple Maps Recent Updates Aim To Make The App Compete With Google Maps

Apple Maps, Apple’s navigation application, has been years behind Google Maps, but the latest changes that Cupertino-based company has brought to its app throughout 2018 are making Apple Maps more similar to Google Maps than ever.

The cartographer and former Apple employee Justin O’Beirne has been following the evolution of the two before-mentioned navigation applications and compared them to reveal how Apple Maps updated to recover the gap between it and Google Maps, probably the best navigation app in the world. At first glance, the main novelty is the introduction of more green areas what may seem an insignificant detail, but it involves a considerable amount of new data, too.

The Apple Maps application was launched in 2012, but since Google started to focus more on its Android system, the giant Internet company also centered more on the developing of its own Google Maps navigation application. Steve Jobs accused Google of plagiarism and decided to reduce, as much as possible, his company’s dependence on Google, so Apple began to work on his own mapping software, appearing for the first time as Apple Maps in iOS 6.

Apple Maps Updates Help It Get Closer To Google Maps, The Best Navigation App At The Moment

While until now the application had used third-party mapping data, now Apple will use its own infrastructure to turn Apple Maps into a stand-alone application.

After hard work, we begin to see the changes in Apple Maps, as Apple’s navigation system is now enjoying many updates. Justin O’Beirne assures that after four years of work, Apple’s mapping data cover 3.1% of the land surface of the United States and the main upgrade in Apple Maps is the mapping of large vegetation areas across the US.

In addition to detailing the largest green areas in the US, Apple continues to improve urban centers including streets, buildings, parks, among others. If the Apple Maps keeps on going on the same track, Apple might finally compete with Google Maps which, for the time being, is the best navigation app worldwide.

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