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Facebook now allows you to make group chats across Instagram and Messenger
According to the official information, Facebook will now allow you to make cross-app group chats between Messenger and Instagram. This is a huge improvement made by a company, to recall this preparation was working from last 2 years. To be able to use the cross-app communications, you’ll have to opt in, and Facebook says that “over 70% of eligible people on Instagram have updated to the new Messenger experience.”
The company is bringing other new features to the messaging apps in addition to cross-app group messaging. Polls will be available in group DMs on Instagram and in cross-app chats so you can, for example, vote on where to grab lunch.
Facebook has added group typing indicators to Messenger, so you can see when multiple people are drafting a message. Facebook is also adding new chat themes to Messenger, including a “cottagecore” theme, one inspired by J Balvin’s latest album, and an astrology theme.
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The introduction of group typing indicators allows users to see when their friends — two or several — are typing at the same time on the apps.
Facebook has also modified the Watch Together feature — launched earlier — which will now let users watch trending videos directly from their Instagram feed together with their friends. Users can start a video chat within Instagram, then scroll to the post they want to share, and then click on the share button and Watch Together.
Tipster Digital Chat Station has confirmed that the Chinese tech giant Huawei will release new phones called the Mate 80 series in November. These new phones will have better designs, cameras, and speed.
The company is expected to compete with Apple’s new iPhone 17 phones. Huawei will make four different Mate 80 phones: the regular Mate 80, Mate 80 Pro, Mate 80 Pro+, and Mate 80 RS. Each phone will have different cameras. The regular Mate 80 will have a 50-megapixel camera.
The Pro version will have a bigger 50-megapixel camera. The Pro+ and RS models will have even bigger 50-megapixel cameras.
The Pro model might have a flat screen and face recognition. The Pro+ and RS models might have curved screens that bend more.
The best phone, the Mate 80 RS, might have a 6.9-inch screen with special technology.
This screen should be brighter, use less battery power, and last longer than normal phone screens. Huawei might also use strong titanium metal for the frame and special glass on the back. Inside the phones, there will be a new chip called the Kirin 9030. The battery might be bigger than 6000mAh and charge very fast – 100W with a wire and 80W without wires. The phones might work with 5G internet and satellite communication.
The phones will use Huawei’s own software called HarmonyOS. This might work better with other Huawei devices and have more AI features. Some people think these improvements will help Huawei compete better with Apple, especially in battery life, communication, and smart features.
A Chinese company called HiSilicon Semiconductor just changed who’s in charge. The old boss, Xu Zhijun, stepped down from his job as the legal representative and chairman. Now the company’s CEO, Gao Ji, is taking over these roles.
Xu has been working at Huawei since 1993 and still has other important jobs there – he’s a vice chairman and sometimes serves as the rotating chairman. Him leaving this position is probably just Huawei moving people around to different jobs within the company.
HiSilicon is completely owned by Huawei and makes computer chips. This change in leadership might mean Huawei is trying to make things work better.
HiSilicon started in October 2004 when Huawei took its computer chip design team and turned it into its own company. The main office is in Shenzhen, but they also have offices in Beijing, Shanghai, and other cities in China.
HUAWEI has introduced the all-new MatePad Mini tablet, in China. As per the specifications, the device is 5.1mm thin, weighs 255g, and boasts an 8.8″ 2.5K 120Hz OLED screen with 2.99mm narrow bezels.
It has support for the HUAWEI M-Pencil Pro, runs HarmonyOS 5.1, has a 3D heat dissipation architecture for cooling, has SIM card support, and has a 6400mAh battery with 66W fast charging support.
It also features a dual rear camera setup consisting of a 50MP main camera and an 8MP ultra-wide camera with macro mode, along with a single 32MP front-facing camera. These are paired with AI photo editing features. Like other HUAWEI phones, the chipset hasn’t been revealed, but it is most likely powered by HUAWEI’s own Kirin 9010 SoC, based on earlier reports.
HUAWEI MatePad Mini Specifications:
- 8.8-inch 2.5K (2560 × 1600 pixels) OLED screen, 120Hz refresh rate, 92% Screen-to-body ratio, 1800 nits peak brightness, 1.07 billion colors
- HUAWEI Kirin SoC (speculated)
- 12GB / 16GB RAM with 256GB / 512GB / 1TB storage
- Rear Cameras: 50MP camera (f/1.8 aperture), 8MP wide-angle camera with macro mode (f/2.2 aperture), LED flash
- Front Camera: 32MP (f/2.4 aperture)
- Stereo speakers
- HarmonyOS 5.1
- Single SIM
- Cellular network support, Wi-Fi 7 (2.4 GHz and 5 GHz), Bluetooth 5.2 LE, GPS/GLONASS/BeiDou/Galileo/WLAN network positioning/cellular network positioning
- 6400 mAh battery with 66W fast charging support
The HUAWEI MatePad Mini comes in Spruce green, obsidian black, and snowy white colors and is priced at CNY 3899 (USD 545 / Rs. 48,120 approx.) for the 12+256GB variant, CNY 4399 (USD 615 / Rs. 54,280 approx.) for the 12+512GB variant, and CNY 4899 (USD 685 / Rs. 60,450 approx.) for the soft light version with matte screen.
There is also a special HUAWEI MatePad Mini Collector’s Edition in Global Red, bundled with a few accessories. It is priced at CNY 5,999 (USD 839 / Rs. 74,040 approx.) for the 16GB + 512GB variant and CNY 6,499 (USD 909 / Rs. 80,210 approx.) for the 16GB + 1TB variant.