Google set to unveil Android P name ‘soon’

Google is still keeping us all in the dark about what the company is calling Android P. But a new blog post from the company claims they are going to unveil the official name soon. How soon? We can’t say. The final version of the operating system is expected to drop this fall so we should hear about it in the coming weeks.

Speaking of final version, there will be an Android P Beta 4 update coming, which the company calls “a release candidate build with final system behaviors.” This is going to be the closest to the final version as it gets. Now, we just have to sit and wait. Any predictions on what the official name of Android P is going to be?

Source: CNET

Google Drive set to reach one billion user mark at the end of this week

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If you rely heavily on Google Drive, you would assume everyone is on the service, too. Not quite. But the cloud storage service is set to hit a major milestone before the week ends. Google announced at its Google Cloud Next conference that the service will be crossing its billion-user threshold before the end of the week. It’ll be the eighth Google product to do so (after Android, Chrome, Gmail, Maps, the Play Store, Search, and YouTube). But it must be noted though that not all of these users are paying subscribers. Drive offers 15GB if free storage for Gmail and Drive. It’s also taken a bit of time to reach this number. At Google I/O 2017, Drive was said to have 800 million users and had then been storage for over two trillion files.

Source: Android Police 

Qualcomm will not supply chips for the 2018 iPhone

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It isn’t a secret that Apple and Qualcomm are locked in a long-term legal dispute and now that seems to have affected who will be supplying the chips for this year’s iPhones. George Davis, Qualcomm’s financial chief, announced at an earnings call with industry analysts that, “We believe Apple intends to solely use our competitor’s modems rather than our modems in its next iPhone release.” But according to Cristiano Amon, Qualcomm’s head for its chip division, this doesn’t mean Qualcomm and Apple are done doing business together. Qualcomm believes it can still supply chips for Apple in the future.

Apple has been using both Intel and Qualcomm modems for different iPhone models over the years. And if Apple intends to use Intel this time around, expect the devices to have slower speeds. Different online testimonies have already said they’ve experienced stronger signal and LTE speeds on the iPhone models that use Qualcomm’s modems. A couple of days ago, Qualcomm and Ookla’s Speedtest.com released results showed that Qualcomm-powered Android devices were faster than Apple devices that used Intel’s modems (53 percent faster on T-Mobile and 40 percent faster on AT&T).

Source: GSMArena

‘Fallout 76’ will launch a closed beta test in October

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Bethesda just posted on the Bethesda.net forum that its upcoming online role-playing game Fallout 76 will be holding its closed beta test this Octobers. Invites will be going out that month to select people who pre-ordered the game from a participating retailer. And the beta will start small and then grow over time as the game is set to launch on November 14^th. The beta will be available on the PC, Sony PlayStation 4, and Microsoft Xbox One. Those who pre-order will need to have a Bethesda.net account and will need to enter a redemption code found in their receipt or email confirmation to be eligible for an invite.

The game is still going through iterations, according to Bethesda. But the developer plans to share more information on the game during the Fallout 76 panel at QuakeCon, which is happening from August 9^th to 12^th at the Gaylord Texan Resort and Convention Center in Grapevine, Texas.

Source: Variety