5 Amazing Features Of Google Allo that makes it better than Whatsapp

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WhatsApp Update: New Added Features You Need To Know

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The back of the V30 is Gorilla Glass 5, with a dual-lens camera system (covered by Gorilla Glass 4) and a fingerprint sensor that’s mercifully in the right place where your index finger naturally rests. The major difference here compared to the V20 is that the back is non-removable, so there’s no way to hotswap the 3300mAh battery inside. 

That’s the same battery cell capacity that Samsung is using to power the Galaxy Note 8 and its even larger screen, so hopefully the V30’s stamina won’t be a limiting factor. But Samsung has more reason to be conservative than LG in this department. Either way, it’s definitely a bit of convenience lost. The writing was probably on the wall when the G6 was similarly sealed off earlier this year. The upside is that the V30 is now IP68 water and dust resistant and supports wireless charging. The V20 offered neither. And despite its all-screen look, LG says the V30 has passed over a dozen military-standard durability tests and remains rated MIL-STD-810G.

LG V30 SPECS

LG’s new V30 smartphone is justifiably one of the most exciting Android devices on the near horizon, checking off practically every desirable feature and spec from a modern flagship-tier phone. Among its many attributes is a new breakthrough in camera aperture (a measure of the amount of light that the lens array lets in) for smartphones with a value of f/1.6. For the vast majority of people, the difference between f/1.6 and f/1.7 is not something to be especially fussed about, but for companies like LG, which fight for every possible spec edge that they can get, it’s a treasured advantage.

In past times, obsessive fans have been able to dig up information on the Google Nexus via EXIF data on pictures posted to Google+ by incautious Google employees. LG itself has fallen afoul of similar premature revelations with the Nexus 4 that it built for Google. So now the company is being extra circumspect.

As a sign of how closely guarded a secret this was for LG, the company went to the extent of having its test V30 devices deliberately misrepresent the aperture of their shots, showing the slightly higher value of f/1.7. Granted, LG pre-announced the new spec a few weeks ahead of the V30 launch, but that was done in its own time rather than leaking out the novelty in a manner outside the company’s control.

With pre-production V30s going out to bloggers and reviewers over the past week or so, it wasn’t long before people spotted this and started questioning if LG truly had an f/1.6 aperture on its newest camera. As a result, the company has issued the following statement to The Verge and other press outlets, reassuring everyone that the V30 retail units will indeed be arriving with an f/1.6 aperture:

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MUMBAI: Engineering is being revisited. Even as seats in this professional course are reducing across the country (from 16.3 lakh in 2013-14 to about 14.7 lakh this year), mechanical engineering seems to be emerging as the hottest pick in times of uncertainty in the IT and software industry.

While engineering continues to be a big draw, its 70 odd options undergo a life cycle of their own. Experts say industry growth, which translates into more jobs and higher incomes, is what decides the path that colleges and students take. And many feel the sun is setting on the computer science engineering stream. While 25.44% of all students opted for it in 2013-14, that has dropped to around 24% this year.

Core courses like civil and electrical engineering are also expected to be top on the charts.

Although data from the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) shows that seats in undergraduate engineering are reducing, experts feel the course will continue to have lakhs of takers. "Engineering has become a broad-based course like BA, BCom and BSc. From here, students go on to do several courses," says IIT-Madras director Bhaskar Ramamurthy .

"Mechanical engineering is a great branch. One can fit into a lot of industries after ME," adds Ramamurthy. "But given some amount of uncertainty in the IT sector, there are more takers for mechanical - because mechanical students can join IT companies, but the reverse is not possible."

G.D Yadav, vice-chancellor of the Institute of Chemical Technology, says mechanical is rising in popularity because manufacturing industry needs these engineers. "There is so much new construction, new infrastructure, machinery and mechanical engineers are needed everywhere."

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It can be hard to predict what will happen when you visit an Apple Store to get your iPhone repaired.

Apple's warranty for most products covers eligible repairs for its products, including the iPhone, for a year after purchase.

But what's an eligible repair? Damages specifically not covered include anything stemming from "accident, disassembly, unauthorized service, and unauthorized modifications."

A 22-page document recently leaked on Dropbox shows how Apple instructs its technicians and authorized service partners to inspect iPhones for repair and determine whether they are eligible for an in-warranty repair (inexpensive) or an out-of-warranty repair (more expensive) — or if it's a problem Apple can't fix (you need a new phone).

The document seen by Business Insider, called the "Visual/Mechanical Inspection Guide," is dated March 3, 2017, and covers the iPhone 6, 6S, and 7, as well as the associated Plus models. Apple technicians called Geniuses call it a "VMI."

"We have one just like that for all of the products," one Apple retail technician told Business Insider. "Used more for the physical inspection and how to determine cost for damage. That's basically half the training for iPhone techs."

VMIs are "something we use, but we don't refer to it all that often unless we get some oddball issue," another Apple technician told Business Insider. "We can normally pick out abnormal issues without using it."

So what does the VMI look like? This chart provides an overview, with photos, about common issues that are covered:

Most of this should not be a surprise if you're a longtime Apple user. If your iPhone has water damage, you'll have to pay.

The guide includes which questions a technician should ask if they think a phone has water damage and shows that they must take apart the phone before denying warranty coverage.

However, it is worth noting that a single hairline crack is covered under warranty, which appears to be a change since 2014. (Older versions of the guide are available online.) And if you're seeing dead pixels on your screen, you have to specifically ask for them to be fixed.

Other parts of the guide focus on identifying an iPhone's internals and whether any parts have been swapped. Any device with a non-Apple battery or missing parts is ineligible for service.

Another thing Apple won't fix is cosmetic damage:

If you have a problem not covered in this guide, that doesn't necessarily mean you won't get a repair under warranty.

An Apple retail employee told Business Insider that the VMI wasn't the last word on whether a repair is covered — at least unofficially.

"There are always those one-off issues that the phone is technically not covered under warranty but we swap the phone anyways under warranty," an Apple technician said.

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