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What we know so far: LG G7 edition

Alexandra Arici
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We saw a lot of impressive smartphones making headlines in 2017, and in 2018 we expect to see a new generation of groundbreaking handsets appear on the market.

One of the most anticipated flagships of early 2018 will be released by LG, perhaps during the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona next month. But according to recent rumors, there will be no LG G7 this year, as the company is apparently looking to introduce a new branding for its flagship line.

You might not remember, but LG’s first G-series smartphone was introduced back in 2012 in the form of the Optimus G. A year later, the Korean phone company dropped the “Optimus” branding, only keeping the G for the launch of its G2 flagship.

While the specifics of the rebranding haven’t been settled yet, the report reveals two possible scenarios: numbering the phone with a two-digit number or rebranding it with a completely different name. But until we know more about the possible new name of LG’s next flagship, we’re going to refer to it as the G7 for the purpose of this article.

So what will the G7 be like? Read below to learn what we know so far:

Exterior

LG G7 concept

With two months to go before LG will supposedly reveal the G7, we still don’t know much about the upcoming flagship. Rumors are scarce and imagery even scarcer.

Naturally, we expect LG to continue on the path it started on 2017 when it comes to design. That means, its next flagship will probably boast even thinner bezels and feature the now familiar 18:9 aspect ratio. Visually, the smartphone will obviously be styled in the vein of G6, as well as the V30. This means we will get to see a phone made mostly out of glass with a metal frame, rounded corners, and slight curves to the left and right sides.

At this point, it’s quite unclear how large the G7 will end up being, although it’s pretty safe to assume the phone’s display will be between the 5.7-inches of the G6 and 6-inches of the V30 with at least Quad HD+ resolution and HDR/Dolby Vision support.

LG might also substitute the LCD panel used in the G6 with an OLED one, just like it did with the V30, but this is only speculation at this point, as nothing on the matter has been confirmed yet.

Internals

Last year Samsung hogged the initial Snapdragon 835 batch for its Galaxy S8, thus leaving no choice to LG than to use last year’s Snapdragon 821 for its G6 flagship. Which was one of the reasons why the phone was easily overshadowed by Samsung’s illustrious newcomer.

Well, we’ve already heard some rumors dating back to May according to which LG was already taking steps to ensure the G7 will get the Snapdragon 845. The high-end chipset was officially announced not so long ago and hopefully, LG will manage to outsmart Samsung this year. You can read more about the Snapdragon 845 and its promises here.

Furthermore, the G7 could end up offering a more generous RAM & storage configuration. The G6 has 4GB of RAM and 32GB of internal storage (with microSD card slot support), but the G7 could raise the bar and come with 6GB of RAM and at least 64GB of storage.

Moving on to battery, both the G6 and V30 rely on a 3,300 mAh power box, so we expect to see something similar in the G7. Maybe a 3,500 mAh battery? Who knows, as rumors have been mum on this topic.

Camera

LG V30’s camera

Mystery surrounds the G7’s camera too, although we expect the main one to be a dual camera setup, perhaps a standard lens coupled with a wide-angle one. It’s quite possible, the G7 will take a ton of cues from the V30 in this department, including the f/1.6 aperture (widest seen on a flagship on the Western market).

The camera will most likely also benefit from optical image stabilization, phase detection autofocus, and a manual mode. Obviously, some new features and tweaks will also be sprinkled.

As for the selfie camera, it’s probably going to get a bump from the 5-megapixel of the G6. LG could also end up implementing a dual-camera setup on the front, although that’s less likely to happen.

Other features

Given LG fondness for the premium audio, we expect the G7 to arrive with some sort of Hi-Fi function on board.

The 3.5mm headphone jack, as well as water-resistance and possibly military-grade shatter-resistance, might also make a return to the G7, although nothing is sure for the time being.

Wireless charging also seems to be in the cards and so is Android 8.0 Oreo as default operating system on board (with LG’s skin plastered on top).

Release date and pricing

LG usually unveils a flagship during the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. This year the event is scheduled to start on February 26, so LG will most likely make the G7 announcement a day earlier on February 25. Subsequently, the phone should go on sale sometime around March-April.

At launch, we expect the phone to be priced around $700, which was also was the starting price of the G6. Yet, soon after the phone got various price-cuts.

How to permanently delete your Instagram account

Alexandra Arici
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How many times did you check your Instagram today? For all the wonders of social media, browsing feeds non-stop can also end up consuming out lives and give us unnecessary anxiety. So are all the drawbacks worth it, or should you simply wash your hands of the whole affair?

If in 2018, you want to focus more on being productive or improving yourself as much as you can, then it might be time to delete your beloved Instagram account.

It’s not extremely difficult to delete your Instagram, but you should be aware there are two ways to go about it. First off, you can just temporarily disable your account – you know, to see how it feels or how badly you miss spying on your friends, err I mean discovering new and wonderful photographs.

This option allows you keep all your pictures and videos in a state of hibernation. They won’t be deleted and once you decide you can’t live without Instagram and re-activate your account, you’ll find they are still there.

The second option is the drastic approach, as it will permanently delete all your data. And there’s no way of getting them back. Except if you have saved said photos and videos on your smartphone or another device you might own.

Below we’ll show you how you can temporary disable your account or permanently delete it.

How to temporary disable your Instagram account

  1. Open up Instagram in a browser (note: you can’t do it from the mobile app)
  2. Log in, if you haven’t already
  3. Click the profile button in the top-right corner
  4. Click on Edit Profile button, next to your Profile Picture
  5. Scroll down until you see “Temporary disable my account” in blue (next to the Submit button)
  6. You’ll be asked why you are disabling your profile and to re-type your password
  7. Do so and click on the “Temporary disable account” button

How to delete your Instagram account for good

  1. Go to Instagram’s dedicated page for permanently deleting an account
  2. Tell them why you are deleting your account
  3. Re-enter your password
  4. Press the red “Permanently Delete my Account” button
  5. RIP Instagram account

Don’t forget, you can do any of this from the mobile Instagram app, you will need to log-in into Instagram in a browser.

9 apps to keep you calm and relaxed in 2018

Alexandra Arici
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Feeling a little stressed about returning to our busy life after the Holiday season? We bet you’d love to prolong the blissful, relaxed state you enjoyed during the mini-holiday and the good news is that you most certainly can.

If one of your New Year’s resolutions has to do with living a more stress-free existence, here are some useful apps to keep you take life a little easier in 2018.

Loop

At the onset of a new year, everyone is busy making a new list of goals to achieve. But it’s not always easy to form a new habit. That’s where Loop steps in.

Once installed on your smartphone or smartwatch, the app can be configured to send reminders for each new habit (like drinking water), as well as provide detailed graphs that showcase your progress over time. The app is completely ad-free and open source and benefits from a clean, minimalist interface.

Pacifica

Feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety and even depression? Pacifica is built on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy methods, as well as mindfulness, meditation and relaxation principles to help you througher tough times.

The app includes a mood tracker tool which lets users rate their moods and feelings, as well as a psychologist-designed thought analysis tools that teaches sufferers how to by-pass distorted thinking patterns which contribute to their anxiety and sadness.

The app also has a social media component, as you will be able to share your stories via Pacifica’s peer-support community.

Insight Timer

Insight Timer is one of the most popular meditation apps out there, as it comes packed with up to 8,000 guided meditations.

You can follow 1,600 mediation teachers and 500 topics, as well as join one or more of the 5,000 discussion groups. In that sense, the app acts as a sort of social network for meditation students.

The app is free for download, but if you want to use it offline you’ll be required to pay a monthly fee of $2.99/month.

MindFi

Meditation is a deep relaxation method that stills the mind and stops the constant chatter in your head. When this never-ending internal dialogue ceases the mind settles. But what if you’re a really busy individual who just can’t find the time to sit in a quiet room and concentrate on a mantra?

MindFi aims to solve this problem by incorporating meditation into your busy schedule, without interfering with your activities. The three-minute meditation sessions can be done with your eyes open, while you work or do other tasks. It’s pretty handy!

Relax Melodies

You can’t be at your best if you don’t get a good night’s sleep. Relax Melodies helps you achieve just that. Beat insomnia by listening to the app’s collection of soundscapes which includes over 50 free relaxing sounds like white sounds, meditation music, and nature sounds.

Users can also add a guided meditation to their sleep sounds to help them combat stress and anxiety or tinnitus.

Recolor

Coloring books for adults have really taken off in 2017. Advertised as an anti-stress method, many adults have taken to coloring in order to channel their anxiety into a creative process.

Recolor takes the healing power of a coloring book and brings it to your Android smartphone. The app features over 2000 unique pictures including portraits, mandalas, animals and flowers for your coloring pleasure. Finish off your masterwork with unique style effects to make your creation stand out.

Peak

Concentrate your attention on something productive while using your phone, instead of using it for scrolling mindlessly on social media or playing random games.

Peak offers a collection of games to challenge your memory, attention, problem-solving, emotion control and more. The app also includes a personal trainer for your brain, to help you track progress and improve the current state of cognitive function.

7 Cups

Can’t seem to shake off the post-Christmas blues no matter what you do? Maybe you need to talk to someone about it.

7 Cups provides emotional support and counseling from active trained listeners who are available for you 24/7. The app also provides 300 mindfulness exercises to calm your nerves, as well as simple activity prompts to boost your mood.

HelloMind

HelloMind is an app which aims to help you overcome specific issues like weight gain or low self-esteem, not just stress. Choose a treatment of 10 sessions and listen to them in your headphones to break and eliminate the negative patterns you’ve engulfed yourself in.

Or choose a Quick Fix if you crave immediate relief from a craving, stress or panic or simply 5 minutes of complete relaxation. Also learn how to reinforce good emotions, as opposed to negative ones that lead to never-ending loops.

How to “check for updates” on your Android device

Alexandra Arici
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Updating your Android can be a painful experience that requires a lot of patience, depending on the device you own and the carrier you’re with.

Customarily when a new version of Android starts rolling out, it doesn’t hit every device at the same time – it depends a lot on your location. The process can take up to a few weeks, but there are ways to ensure you get the update sooner.

The majority of users usually wait until they receive a notification on their handset which alerts them the new update is available for download. But you don’t have to. Just use the “check for updates” button in Settings, which has been recently updated to help you get the new software a lot quicker.

Follow these steps to manually Check for Updates on your Android device (a OnePlus 5T was used for the purpose of this tutorial):

  1. Open up the Settings app either by using the app icon or by tapping the gear-shaped settings button in the notification bar
  2. Scroll down all the way to the bottom until you reach the System menu
  3. Tap on System Updates
  4. Tap on Check for Updates to see if you have something new

Different manufacturers do things differently, so for example, if you own a Samsung phone you’ll notice things are arranged a bit differently.

  1. Open the Settings app on your Samsung phone
  2. Look for the dedicated Software Update section and tap on it
  3. Tap on Download updates manually to check for updates

It’s worth mentioning that the functionality of the “check for updates” button has changed in recent months. Now when you tap that button, the system will recognize this it’s a user-initiated process and if a new software version is available, you’ll get it immediately.

In the past, the button didn’t do much to speed up things along, so some impatient users resorted to sideloading the OTA updates. But this shouldn’t be necessary anymore.

Hey, iPhone users, Samsung and LG won’t slow down your old devices

Dan Bartram
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By now you’ll have heard the news that Apple purposely slows down older iPhones to reduce the CPU power to account for degraded batteries. Apple acknowledged such practices and said it was to protect against unwanted shutdowns, and not to encourage users to upgrade to the latest and greatest, faster, iPhones.

Huge manufacturing companies aren’t stupid and anyone could see this as a valuable marketing opportunity to one-up Apple. Samsung and LG took the opportunity to both issue statements to Phone Arena:

LG:  Never have, never will! We care what our customers think.

Samsung: Product quality has been and will always be Samsung Mobile’s top priority. We ensure extended battery life of Samsung mobile devices through multi-layer safety measures, which include software algorithms that govern the battery charging current and charging duration. We do not reduce CPU performance through software updates over the lifecycles of the phone.

That’s LG and Samsung added to the list of HTC and Motorola who also confirm they do not forcefully limit devices based on age.

While it can be argued that Apple devices age better than Android smartphones, it still leaves it up to the user as to when the performance of their device is warranting an upgrade and arguably would be longer than when Apple would start throttling performance.

Have you migrated to Android from iOS because of a slow device? Would you have made the jump without this throttling?

The Google Pixel 2 XL has changed how I take photos

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I have loved photography ever since my grandfather got me into collecting old film cameras over a decade ago, but that love has never extended into mobile photography. For years, most of the photos you would find on my phone were of documents, notes, or something I wanted to remember for later. Sure, there were a few pictures of my family and friends, but there were almost no photos of landscapes, nature, or anything particularly “Instagram worthy.” I reserved all of those photos for a separate digital camera, my trusted Sony A6000. I took that camera with me everywhere and used it to capture any “real” photos, that is, not photos of grocery lists or receipts. However, this entire dynamic changed once I got my hands on the Google Pixel 2 XL.

During the past year, I have been consistently impressed with the photos taken on the original Google Pixel, and once I began looking to upgrade my phone, I anxiously awaited the announcement for the Google Pixel 2. I am not normally one to put my weight behind numbers and a spec sheet, but when I saw the details come out about the camera on the Pixel 2 along with the score it received from DxOMark, I could not help but get excited and purchased it on release day.

In November, I took a trip down to New Orleans where the strangest thing happened. Even though I carried my Sony A6000 with me the entire time, you will not see many photos from my trip on that SD card. Instead, almost every photo from New Orleans can be found on my Pixel 2 XL and for good reason. The camera on the Google Pixel 2 XL is incredible. With that phone in my hand, I was able to focus more on what I was photographing than how I was photographing it. As someone who almost always shoots in manual mode with my Sony, I’m used to spending a few seconds fidgeting with settings before finally pressing that shutter button, but with the Pixel 2 XL, camera settings were the furthest thing from my mind. Having the incredible power of HDR+ at my fingertips meant every shot I took was as close to perfect as I could hope.

At first, I tried to strike a balance between using my phone and my camera, but it did not take me long to leave my camera around my neck and use my phone only. I imagine I looked pretty strange walking around with a DSLR and taking pictures on a phone, but people weren’t seeing what I was seeing. The photos I was able to capture with my Pixel 2 XL are hands down the best I have ever taken with a phone. I was consistently impressed with the speed and consistency I achieved with this phone, and HDR+ is a gift to all mobile photographers. The Google Pixel 2 XL gave me the confidence of knowing that if I saw something I liked, it would succeed in capturing it for me.

If something caught my eye while walking the streets of the French Quarter, I could quickly capture it without worrying about settings or focus. This meant I could spend more time looking around and less time looking at my viewfinder. It was a fairly sunny day when I was strolling around, and most of the photos I took would have required switching to HDR and fiddling with images in post had I been using my Sony. But with the Pixel 2 XL, I was able to frame my shot and press one button to take a picture that looked pretty darn impressive. The dynamic range of the Pixel 2 XL is amazing both with and without HDR+ enabled, and I could really see just how powerful Google’s camera software is as I watched photos process right before my eyes.

I know what you are thinking, other phones have taken great photos with incredible details and dynamic range long before the Pixel 2, and you would be completely right. However, I never owned any of these phones. I always held performance and software above camera quality, and I normally had a phone that met those criteria. The Pixel 2 XL is the first phone I have owned that delivers stellar results in both software performance and camera performance, and I cannot wait to see what 2018 brings in terms of mobile photography.

Has the Google Pixel 2 XL replaced my Sony A6000? Not at all. But what this phone has done is given me the opportunity leave my big camera at home and not worry about my phone delivering sub-par camera performance. My Sony still holds the edge in overall image detail along with a robust manual mode and the option to change lenses. Photos taken with my Sony and edited in post still look better than most of what the Pixel 2 can capture. However, the Pixel 2 often produces better images than the Sony when no editing is done, and using my phone means I spend less time behind a computer and more time out taking photos. No phone yet has been able to fully compete with a stand-alone digital camera, but the Google Pixel 2 XL is the closest any phone has ever gotten.

(All images are unedited originals from a Google Pixel 2 XL compressed for web use)

How to easily fake your location, without rooting your Android

Alexandra Arici
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Your Android device tracks your location to help you with things like navigation, but there are times when users might want to fake their GPS location. Maybe you want to access an app or a service which is not currently available in your area/country. Well you can do that by tricking your Android into thinking you are in a different location.

Another reason for faking your GPS location is to prevent your device from tracking your whereabouts, thus keeping your privacy intact.  Fortunately, there’s an easy way to do all that, one does not require you to root your device. However, you will need to install a GPS location spoofing app form the Google Play Store.

There are many such apps available for download, but for the purpose of this tutorial, we’re going to use an app called Floater.

To get started you need to make sure you have Developer Options on. If you don’t, here’s how to go about doing that.

 

  1. Open the Settings app on your device
  2. Scroll down at the bottom until you see “About phone”
  3. Scroll down all the way down to “Build number” and tap exactly seven times to enable Developer Options

With Developer Options on:

  1. Scroll down to “Select mock location app”
  2. Select “Floater”

Once you’re done with that, look for the Personal menu in Settings.

  1. Tap on Location
  2. Select Mode
  3. Set in on “Device only” to prevent your phone from using other location sources such as Wi-Fi and cell network connections
  4. Tap on the three-dot menu button and select “Scanning”
  5. Disable both options to make sure your device doesn’t use any source to determine your location

Now open Floater on your Android device and follow these steps:

  1. Select a location you want to fake on the map
  2. Tap the target bottom at the bottom to manually search for a location or the magnifying glass icon at the tap to search for a location
  3. Position the location under the green market and then tap the play button located on the bottom left
  4. Your location is now spoofed to the one you’ve selected
  5. When you had enough of faking your location, simply tap the pause button at the bottom left

You are welcome to dig a little deeper into the options offered by Floater, which let you customize your experience in a number of ways including improving your location accuracy.

How to root the Samsung Galaxy S8 with SamPWND

Dan Bartram
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While some of what root used to achieve has been baked natively into Android, there is still some considerable advantage to rooting your device. This guide focuses on achieving root and install SuperSu on the USA variant of the Galaxy S8. All the hard work was done over at XDA and you can see the full details of how it was achieved in the official thread.

At a high level, root is achieved by flashing 4 files with Odin and executing a su binary. A script is then run to install the SuperSu to the system, at which point root is obtained. There’s some extra bits to make the root more stable and smooth that takes a file from another firmware and flashed resulting in a stock rooted ROM.

  1. Download the SamPWND_S8_4File_Firm, the SamPWND_S8.zip, and the systemroot.zip
  2. Download Odin Prince Comsy and Normal Odin
  3. Extract SamPWND_S8_Firm to your desired destination (desktop works), then open Odin Prince Comsy, and place the files in their respective slot (BL –> BL, AP –> AP, CP–> CP, CSC–> CSC)
  4. In Odin, go to options and select, Auto Reboot, Re-Partition, F. Reset Time, Nand Erase All, and Phone Bootloader Update (This will wipe the device)
  5. Put Samsung Galaxy S8 into Download mode (Power + Volume Down + Bixby) A warning screen will come up warning you about flashing a custom os, to continue press Volume Up.
  6. Press Start in Odin (Flashing will begin, this can take up to 10 min)
  7. When complete device will reboot into recovery mode, at this point just select reboot system now.
  8. Complete the Setup, and accept device RSA Keys, to authorize adb (if popup is not there already, or you have dismissed it; please disconnect and reconnect phone, then accept)
  9. Now take the systemroot.zip dowloaded in step one, and extract it to your adb install directory (usually C:adb)
  10. Navigate to adb directory and CTRL + Shift + Right Click, select open cmd window here
  11. Once you have cmd open and the extracted systemroot folder in your adb directory, we can begin.
  12. Type: adb push systemroot /data/local/tmp/systemroot
  13. When that completes type: adb shell
  14. Once in the shell type: chmod -R 0777 /data/local/tmp
  15. This next one is tricky, type: setsid su (the output will look like this: dreamqltesq:/ $ /system/bin/sh: No controlling tty: open /dev/tty: No such deviceor address
    /system/bin/sh: warning: won’t have full job control), you will then be in a very unstable rootshell
  16. In order for this shell to become stable you must type exit, it will then drop you into a stable rootshell, however this will probably take a few tries as most commands sent to the unstable shell are returned as gibberish. The shell itself will continue to change from standard user to root user, upon a press of the enter key. This will continue until exit is successfully ran and you are dropped into the stable shell (Note: Since the shell is changing from user to root after each command the exit command must be executed will the shell is root, otherwise instead of dropping to a root shell, you will drop to a user shell and have to begin with setsid su again)
  17. Once a stable root shell is achieved you will type: echo /data/local/tmp/systemroot/remount2.sh > /sys/kernel/uevent_helper (this will remount system and rootfs as r/w)
  18. Wait 10 sec and type: mount (confirm that systemis mounted as r/w)
  19. Now we will execute the script, type: sh /data/local/tmp/systemroot/root.sh (there will be some errors displayed back to you in adb, don’t worry about them everything is going accordingly)
  20. When the script is done running your device will reboot, and at this point you are done. However, although root has been achieved it is not the smoothest/most stable, but we have a remedy for that as well!

The next bit

  1. With your device still connected to the computer** Take the SamPWND_S8.zip downloaded from step one, and either put it on your device’s internal storage or sdcard
  2. Take your stock firmware of choice, and extract it to your desktop. From this you will take the system.img.ext4 and either put it on your device’s inter storage or sdcard
  3. Download flashfire from the Play Store
  4. Open flashfire and grant root permissions (this must be done with airplane mode enabled), exit flashfire
  5. Open SuperSU, go to settings, scroll to the bottom, and enable pro features. Reopen SuperSU, select flashfire, and force user ROOT
  6. Open flashfire again, and select flash firmwarepackage (choose system.img.ext4)
  7. Select flash ZIP or OTA (choose SamPWND_G950U.zip) Under options for the zipmake sure to select mount /system read/write!!
  8. Select wipe and make sure the top 3 options are selected, press the check in the right hand corner
  9. This next step is very important! There is a specific order that these are supposed to be in, from top to bottom: WIPE –> Flash Firmware Package –> Flash ZIP or OTA. If your order is not this, hold down on wipe like it is an app and drag it to the top of the list. Make sure it is in that order before pressing the flash button!
  10. Select EverRoot from main screen and under options disable inject SuperSU
  11. Press the lightning bolt to begin flashing, and wait for your device to reboot
  12. Congratulations you now have a very smooth/fast/stable stock rom, with root. Enjoy!!

Again, all the hard work can be found over at XDA but is compiled here for those who want to root their Galaxy S8. Be sure to head over to the thread and give thanks for all the work they put in to finding root.

Work for you? Drop us a comment below.

Top 5 forex Android apps to help you in trading (Promoted)

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In the currency market, the major pairs are traded actively and they often experience a high level of volatility throughout the trading session. They are all driven by events and are vulnerable to economic news releases that happen for 24 hours during trading days. Forex traders need to quickly access market quotes, charts, news feeds, and accounts all the time in order to take advantage of the opportunities presented to them. Smartphone apps enable traders to quickly access their accounts, check quotes, and place orders cash in on volatility caused economic news releases. This is essential to successfully trade currencies. The top 5 forex trading apps that can of help to them in this regard are as follows:

Trade Interceptor

Trade Interceptor offers advanced analysis tools that were limited to desktops in the past. In 2012, the app was presented the “Best Mobile Platform” award by Forex Magnates.

Features

  • 14 types of advanced charts
  • More than 160 intelligent indicators as well as drawing tools for assisting technical analysis
  • Touch-chart trade functionality for placing orders from charts
  • Quad-screen and split-screen views help traders stay on top of the forex market
  • Cloud-based alerts on the basis of prices, indicator values, and technical analysis tools delivered to devices
  • Single-login and similar interfaces on mobiles, tablets, and desktops
  • Streaming quotes for currencies, indices, and commodities and precious metals
  • Real-time news Asian, European, and American markets
  • Multilingual customer service
  • Economic calendar, data, and event release alerts
  • Risk management tool

FXDailyReport.com

The app Daily Forex News incorporates all of the best aspects of FXDailyReport.com. Users can remain connected to the financial markets and trade stocks, forex, CFDs, Bitcoin, silver, gold, and commodities from anywhere. Regular updates provided on major currency pairs, oil, gold, silver, and BTC/USD, among others, will be very helpful to users in this regard. Traders will also benefit from the market analysis, stocks report, forex news, recommended trading brokers review and free signals that are delivered through the app.

Since 2015, FXDailyReport.com has been providing articles on forex, stocks, investing, finance, brokers news and business for free to help users master currency and stock trading.

MetaTrader 5

MetaTrader 5 app enables users to trade currencies and stocks online. The app allows traders to access the servers of brokers, receive currency quotes and stock prices, trade stocks and currency pairs, analyze financial markets with the help of charts and using technical indicators, and view trading operations history. The app is available for free all over the world.

Features

  • Quotes in real-time
  • Trade orders, which includes pending orders
  • Level 2 prices with as many as 32 quotes
  • All kinds of trade execution
  • Trading history in detail
  • Switch quickly between instruments on charts
  • Notifications
  • Customizable chart color scheme
  • Free financial news
  • Chatting with registered MQL5.community users
  • Push notifications
  • Interactive real-time charts that come with scroll and zoom options
  • 30 popular technical indicators
  • 24 analytical objects
  • 9 timeframes
  • 3 different types of charts

Investing.com

Investing.com offers a lot of financial tools for trading varied financial instruments from around the globe.

Features

  • Real-time data: charts and live quotes for more than 100,000 financial instruments from 70 global exchanges
  • Track global stocks, bonds, commodities, indices, forex, futures, interest rates, and options
  • Economic calendar and real-time updates on economic events which can be customized to suit users’ needs
  • Users can add their favorite financial instruments and holdings to their portfolio.
  • Traders can build their own customized watchlist and track stocks, currencies, indices, ETFs, commodities, and bonds
  • Customizable alerts for all instruments, and news and economic events analysis articles
  • News and analysis – breaking news, updates, videos, analysis, technology, politics, and business
  • Quick access to tools such as earnings calendar, technical summary, market quotes, currency converter, advanced charts, etc.

NetDania Global Stock and Forex Trading App

The app operates very fast and provides a market overview. NetDania app provides:

  • Bitcoin price in real-time
  • Trading strategies and ideas with target, and limit and stop
  • More than 20,000 financial instruments
  • 2,200+ Currency pairs
  • Real-time news
  • Economic calendar
  • Alerts for entering or exiting the market
  • Real-time quotes and low latency Interbank rates from top liquidity providers
  • Charts for smartphones and tablets
  • 6 different chart types
  • Trading from chart
  • Unlimited watch lists
  • 16 languages
  • 27 time-scales

Samsung rolls out Android Oreo beta 5 to Galaxy S8 and S8+

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The final build of Android Oreo for the Samsung Galaxy S8 and S8+ got that little bit closer with the release of the fifth beta of Android 8.0.

The firmware is marked as version ZQLE and is a rather sizeable at 613.40MB but includes a whole host of bug fixes from those labelled as device stability down to incredibly broad ‘performance improvements’.

Included in the update is the December security patch from Google so that’s good. Aside from that, the Beta 5 release isn’t very exciting but is significant as it means we’re one step closer to getting a final public build of the latest version of Android Oreo.

To check to see if the update is ready for your device, open the Settings app > Software update > Download updates manually. You need to be enrolled in the Beta program for Samsung to be eligible to upgrade OTA.

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