OnePlus is working on a “OnePlus App” that integrates Community, Red Cable Club, E-Commerce, After-Sales Support into one app

OnePlus has been working on expanding its brand image from an entity that merely sells smartphones, to become a culture brand that expands beyond the product and into the experience of owning a OnePlus device. For instance, OnePlus has expanded its OnePlus Experience Stores to more locations, letting users walk in, have a cup of coffee, and check out the latest OnePlus smartphones and other accessories before making a purchase. OnePlus also has several apps and initiatives that it runs alongside, for this experience. According to a new post on the OnePlus Red Cable Club, OnePlus is looking to create a “OnePlus App” — a singular umbrella application that would integrate all the different apps and initiatives in one place.

OnePlus displayed a new post on its devices, announcing the following:

According to the survey announcement, OnePlus is working on its “next-generation” application to provide a seamless experience across all of its services. The OnePlus App platform proposes to integrate all existing ecosystem offerings as well as upcoming services. OnePlus currently maintains its websites as the online shopping platform, the OnePlus Care app for after-sales support, the OnePlus Community app for its forums and community, and the Red Cable Club which provides access to a few exclusives for consumers who purchase a OnePlus phone. If the announcement and accompanying survey questions are an indication, OnePlus is also working towards integrating personalized content and engagement activities related to photography and gaming within this app.

Other questions in the survey include what sections should be prioritized within the mega app, such as after-sales service and consultation, device health check, buyback values, Red Cable Club membership zone, ecosystem services, product feedback and tutorials, and OnePlus partner offers and co-branded merchandise. The survey even asks if there are additional features or services that users would be willing to pay to use the app every day — though we reckon that the app, once it launches, will very likely remain free for OnePlus users.

There is no timeline currently mentioned for the release of this app. If we had to take a guess, the launch of the OnePlus 8T would be an opportune moment.

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Telegram can now edit Videos and make Animated Stickers, show trending GIFs, and more

While ensuring user privacy may be Telegram‘s main claim to fame, the instant messenger has evolved significantly over the years and it now offers a great selection of features that attracts many users. Over the last few months, Telegram has received several major updates that introduced features like chat folders, a fast media viewer, People Nearby 2.0, revamped profiles, and more. The developers have also confirmed that they’re currently working on some highly-requested features like secure group video calls, which will be released at a later date. Thanks, in part, to such frequent feature updates, Telegram has grown steadily over the last couple of years and it recently reached the 400 million monthly active users milestone. Today, Telegram is rolling out yet another major update that brings a new video editor to the app, among other things.

With its latest update, Telegram is giving users the ability to edit videos within the messenger. The media editor includes features like a video quality enhancement tool, that can automatically improve video quality with just two taps. In case you don’t want to depend on the messenger to make the edits for you, the app also lets you manually tweak a dozen parameters, including brightness, saturation, etc. and even add animated stickers to videos.

The animated stickers feature can also be used while editing photos, so you can now convert your photo into a GIF by simply adding an animated sticker to it.

Speaking of GIFs, the GIF panel on the app has also received a minor update with a new Trending section and emoji-based tabs that cover the most popular emotions. This change is expected to make GIF search even easier on the messenger. Additionally, GIF loading times have been improved in the GIF panel to further improve user experience.

Adding on the chat folder feature that was released with Telegram 6.0, Telegram will now also let you move chats to any given folder simply by tapping and holding on a chat and then selecting a folder from the pop-up menu.

Along with the aforementioned features, the latest update also includes some exclusive features for Android users. These include smoother animations, improvements to the video player, support for automatic looping on videos that are less than 30 seconds long, and better animations for voice messages. Cache management interfaces on Android have also received a design update and the two-step verification setting now has a monkey overseeing the process. You can find the complete changelog for the latest Android release in the section below.

Changelog

• Media Editor
  • Tap the brush icon when sending a photo or video to access the media editor.
  • Enhance media quality, tweak parameters like brightness, saturation, etc.
  • Add drawings, text, or stickers to media.
  • Put animated stickers on photos or videos. Photos with animated stickers automatically turn into GIFs.
  • Zoom in on photos or videos for high-precision drawing.
• New GIF panel
  • Enjoy greatly enhanced loading times for GIFs in the panel.
  • Quickly find GIFs in emoji-based sections covering the most popular emotions.
  • Check the Trending Tab for the top reactions of the day.
  • Press and hold on any GIF in search results to save it to your collection.
• Sleeker Interfaces
  • Send, edit, and delete messages with new smooth animations.
  • Watch videos from an improved player: controls disappear after 3 seconds, long cations get out of your way quickly, videos shorter than 30 seconds are looped.
  • Manage Telegram cache settings in style.
  • Watch out for the nosey monkey when you set a Two-Step Verification password.
• Flexible Folders
  • Hold on a chat in your chat list to add it to a folder.

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Source: Telegram blog

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Samsung Galaxy Buds+ BTS Edition will come with a vibrant look for K-pop fans

At the Galaxy Unpacked event earlier this year, Samsung unveiled a new pair of truly wireless (TWS) earbuds alongside its flagship Galaxy S20 series. The new earbuds, called the Samsung Galaxy Buds+, were a minor upgrade over the original Galaxy Buds, featuring larger batteries in the earbuds as well as the charging case, support for multi-device connection, and a new dual driver system. Initially, the Buds+ were released in three color variants — Cosmic Black, Cosmic Blue, and Black — but Samsung went on to add a new red color, a special Thom Browne edition, and an Aura Blue color. Now, Samsung is working on a BTS-branded Galaxy Buds+ that will cater to K-pop fans.

XDA Editor-in-Chief Mishaal Rahman and XDA TV Video Producer Max Weinbach had originally spotted that Samsung was working on a new purple-colored Galaxy Buds+ that would go on sale alongside a BTS-branded Mirror Purple Samsung Galaxy S20+.

Remember how I was asking about that BTS logo yesterday? Well, it’s because Samsung is releasing Galaxy Buds+ in partnership with BTS. This will likely launch with the Mirror Purple BTS phone. We found these images in the newest Galaxy Buds+ plugin from the Google Play Store. pic.twitter.com/LPw8kJTAoy

— Max Weinbach (@MaxWinebach) June 3, 2020

These Mirror Purple BTS-branded Buds+ were then leaked by Evan ‘evleaks’ Blass from all angles, on his Patreon.

Evan has also posted the retail packaging and the BTS-adorned marketing material for the wireless earbuds from Samsung.

The Galaxy Buds+ BTS Edition will be launching alongside the Samsung Galaxy S20+ BTS Edition on July 7.

BTS is a seven-member South Korean boy band which is immensely popular among fans of the K-pop (Korean Pop) genre. The band has fans not only in South Korea, but all across the world, thanks to their works as well as collaborations with other international pop artists like Halsey, Ed Sheeran, Nicki Minaj, The Chainsmokers, and many others. A BTS-branded Galaxy S20+ and Buds+ attempts to capitalize on the fandom while still introducing a different color option on the already-popular products.

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A community-designed OnePlus jacket will launch alongside the OnePlus 8T

OnePlus relies heavily on its community of fans to constantly improve its products, both on the hardware and software level. The company is known for hosting regular Open Ears forums around the world to directly engage with community members for feedback and it recently launched the new IDEAS program to get user input on new software features for OxygenOS. On top of that, OnePlus regularly hosts contests on its forums and social channels to keep the community engaged and reward its most loyal fans. In keeping with the trend, OnePlus has now announced a new contest over on its forums asking its community to co-design a OnePlus jacket which will be launched alongside the OnePlus 8T.

If you’re interested in taking part in the design contest, you’ll first need to sign up for contest-related notifications before June 5 by following this link. Then you can download the jacket template from the forum post linked below or you can use the online tool here. Once you have the template, you can add elements related to the “We and OnePlus” theme to create your unique design. After you’re done creating your design, you’ll need to save it as a .PNG file and submit it via this link before June 15 20:00 EST.

OnePlus’ internal review board will judge the submitted designs based on three attributes — relevancy to the theme, creativity, and aesthetics. For your design to qualify for this stage, it will have to feature the OnePlus logo, be original and have not been used for any other contests or IP, and the file submitted should be over 120 PPI. All participants who submit a design will be awarded 200 community points, while the top 8 entries will be rewarded 1000 community points.

The top 8 shortlisted entries will also be featured on OnePlus’ social channels and the final winners will receive a special edition of the community jacket. Additionally, the final winners will get a VIP ticket to the next offline launch event (most likely for the OnePlus 8T series), including return flight tickets and one-night accommodation. The company will select two winners based on a community vote on the OnePlus forums and Twitter. It’s also worth noting that OnePlus won’t be selling the community jackets and they will only be offered to users who are active in both online and offline community activities. The company will release more details about how you can win a community jacket at a later date.

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Source: OnePlus forums

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Facebook’s picture transfer tool that lets you transfer images to Google Photos is now available globally

Back in December last year, Facebook launched a new tool to help users transfer their photos and videos from the platform over to Google Photos. The photo transfer tool, which was launched as part of Facebook’s Data Transfer Project, was initially rolled out in Ireland and later made available in countries in Latin America, the Asia Pacific, the EU, UK, South East Asia, and Africa. Then, earlier this year in April, Facebook rolled out the tool in the US and Canada. And now, according to a recent blog post from the company, the tool has finally been made available worldwide.

The tool is quite easy to use and it seamlessly transfers all of your photos and videos on Facebook to Google Photos. To use the tool, open up Facebook’s desktop or mobile site and head to the main settings. On the desktop site, click the “Your Facebook Information” tab and then select “Transfer a Copy of Your Photos or Videos.” Enter your password in the next step, the choose Google Photos from the dropdown menu. Enter your Google password, grant permission, and you’re done. On the mobile site, you’ll have to scroll down on the main settings to access the “Your Facebook Information” section. The rest of the steps remain the same.

It’s worth noting that the transfer process isn’t quick and will take quite a bit of time if you have a whole lot of photos and videos shared on Facebook. The Activity section will show the transfer as “Pending” until it begins, then it will say “In Progress” while the photos/videos are being transferred. Once the process is complete, you’ll receive an email from Facebook notifying you of the same. The transferred photos and videos will appear in Google Photos under albums named “Copy of [Facebook album name].”

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Source: Facebook Newsroom

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Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge are fixing an annoying behavior when dragging and dropping files

For a very long time, web browsers have had a feature that can occasionally be frustrating. Dragging and dropping a file to a browser tab will open the file in the tab. This is fine if it’s intended, but it can be aggravating if you were trying to drop a file into an upload box and then you’re suddenly navigated away from the page. Thankfully, Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge are solving this problem.

The big issue with this behavior is that there’s no warning of what action will happen. You could be trying to drop something into a box to upload a file to a webpage or simply drop a file accidentally while dragging it across the screen. Either way, the page will navigate to the local file without warning, potentially causing you to lose your progress on a form or data.

Microsoft Edge developer Eric Lawrence detailed a change coming to Edge and Chrome that solves this problem. By default, the browser will no longer open the file in the current tab if you drop it on the page. Instead, it will open the file in a new tab. However, you can still open a file in the current tab if you drop it on the tab itself at the top of the browser.

Users can easily lose work if they drag/drop a file or URL into a tab that does not consume the dropped data (e.g. as a file upload). Rather than navigating the current tab (blowing away whatever was in it), instead open the dropped URL in a new foreground tab.

The change is present in Chromium version 85.0.4163.0. Google has already included this behavior change in the latest Chrome Canary update, and it will be coming to Microsoft’s Chromium-based Edge browser soon. Keep an eye out for the updated functionality in stable updates soon.

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Source 1: Twitter | Source 2: Chromium

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Clicking featured snippets in Google Search will now take you directly to the result

Google offers dozens of different Internet services, but its most important one has always been Search. Search has undergone many changes since 1998, and two of those changes were designed to make searching more convenient and accessible to users: Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) and Featured snippets. The former makes loading web content much faster on mobile devices while the latter shows you portions of a webpage that Google thinks has the answer you’re looking for. Since December 2018, clicking an AMP link from a featured snippet would highlight the exact part of the page that was featured, and now, that same functionality has extended more broadly.

If you’re searching on Google and see a highlighted answer from a featured snippet, opening the website link will now take you directly to the part where the answer shows up and highlight that text in yellow. This can help you find the information you’re looking for much more quickly without having to skim through the entire page or using CTRL+F.

This works for both AMP as previously mentioned as well as HTML pages, and there’s nothing additional that needs to be done by webmasters in order to support this feature. If, for whatever reason, the featured snippet can’t be highlighted, the featured website will open up just like it always has done.

A featured snippet and its respective search result highlighted on the page when clicked.

Danny Sullivan, a search liaison at Google, confirms that this feature is now standard for users clicking on HTML and AMP pages from featured snippets.

We’ve done this regularly with AMP pages since December 2018. We tested with HTML pages last year, as noted. We now do it regularly HTML pages, since last week. More info here: https://t.co/z0AP78h1qH

— Danny Sullivan (@dannysullivan) June 3, 2020

The official Google Search Liaison Twitter account also confirmed this and added that the scroll anchoring is done using the Scroll To Text Fragment feature for HTML pages on supported browsers.

There is no markup needed by webmasters. This happens automatically, using Scroll To Text for HTML pages https://t.co/cE9O2cBgKu. See also more background here: https://t.co/vKFmR3HLK3

— Google SearchLiaison (@searchliaison) June 3, 2020

Do you like this feature? Let us know in the comments.

Via: Search Engine Land

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