Back in January, Oppo quietly filed a patent for a UI feature. A tipster has found such a patent that will automatically adapt to the user’s clothing color and calculate the correct color to change the UI’s theme to.

Many phones today are available in very neutral colors perhaps for this reason: black, white, silver, or gold might match with any outfit. Oppo wants to take it a step further and incorporate a phone’s UI theme to match your outfit.

Details of the patent state that the phone would be able to take an image and analyze the colors of a piece of clothing. This RGB value would be calculated by averaging the colors found in the image. Then, a theme with a variably changing color will show a theme with new accent colors.

Would this kind of feature interest you? Anybody can do this even today if you buy a bunch of cheap cases of different colors. You can pop off a case, and snap on another color that matches your outfit for the day.

It’s not known if such a feature will ever actually make it to smartphones any time soon, but Oppo found it necessary to patent the idea before another similarly phonetic company decides to go crazy with filing patents.

More recently, Oppo introduced a new lightning fast charging standard, capable of fully charging a 2,500mAh battery in about 15…

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Today, Google finally pushed out an update to the YouTube app, specifically for the iPad Pro. Since the iPad Pro’s launch, users were only able to use the YouTube app for the iPad’s resolution.

This means the iPad Pro was displaying the same amount of pixels as the iPad Air, therefore stretching all the pixels and made it rather unpleasant to navigate YouTube and watch videos.

This update brings the YouTube to the iPad pro in its native resolution of 2732 x 2048px. It also squashes a few bugs but has not yet been updated to support the iPad Pro’s Split View or Picture-in-Picture mode.

If you don’t want to use the official YouTube app or need to view YouTube videos in Split View while you write a research paper, there are a bunch of third-party apps that can play YouTube videos and support Split View and Picture-in-Picture.

The iPad Pro is a 12.9 inch Apple tablet with available keyboard attachment running Apple’s mobile iOS starting at $799 in the US.

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The Huawei Honor 6 is now being updated to Android 6.0 Marshmallow. Users in India are reporting receiving the OTA update, which weighs in around 700MB, which updates the build number to H60-L04C675B810 and the OS to the newest major release of Android.

The update is rolling out slowly for now and may not be available to all devices, particularly locked units which should get the update a bit later. You should check your phone to see if the update is available on your…

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One thing is for sure, LG didn’t play it safe – the LG G5 turned V10’s dual-camera setup 180°. Unlike previous dual-camera setups, this one allows users to capture photos with a traditional FoV, wide-angle shots or both at the same time. We did an impromptu shootout with both G5 cameras, pitting them against various well-respected opponents.

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It’s not every day that a phone maker partners with a company known for creating mobile apps in order to design a new handset, but that’s exactly what’s going on with Cubot and Cheetah Mobile. They’re both Chinese companies, but that hasn’t stopped them from jointly unveiling the CheetahPhone at MWC in Barcelona today.

Unlike many other Chinese devices, this one is officially on its way to Europe, where you’ll be able to pre-order it from Amazon for €199 sans contract. Pre-orders will start on March 20, and the phone will start shipping at some point in April. After that, it will also be launched in Africa.

So what do you get for that amount of money? Well, the CheetahPhone packs a 5.5-inch 1080p touchscreen, a 13 MP Samsung-made rear camera with LED flash, and an 8 MP selfie snapper. It’s powered by the MediaTek MT6753 chipset, which comes with a 1.5 GHz octa-core Cortex-A53 CPU and the Mali-T720 GPU. Built-in storage is 32GB, which is complemented by 10GB of cloud storage and a microSD card slot. 3GB of RAM will ensure the apps running in the background never have to close because of low memory. A fingerprint scanner is on the back.

The CheetahPhone runs Android 6.0 Marshmallow, on top of which there’s the Cubot launcher which has been optimized by Cheetah Mobile. All of the Cheetah Mobile apps come preinstalled, and they are deeply integrated into the UI. Its makers boast that the CheetahPhone is exactly as long and as wide as the Samsung Galaxy S7 edge, though not as slim. The battery capacity is still a mystery…

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In case you forgot, Microsoft has this useful Next Lockscreen app for Android, which replaces your default lockscreen. It has been around since late October 2014.

The app has been updated quite a few times throughout the years, sometimes with new features. Today, the Next Lockscreen gets another major update with new functionalities and bug fixes.

The new version of Next Lockscreen for Android supports PIN, pattern, and fingerprint (if available) unlock. The smart lock can be based on location (work, home).

The location awareness also allows the new Next Lockscreen to change your wallpapers based on your location.

A new feature called Smart Contacts premieres with the new version. The Next Lockscreen learns the contacts you communicate with the most and will offer shortcuts for them in the lockscreen.

The Next Lockscreen retains its previous features – Weather, App shortcuts, Calendar, Music controls, quick access to the camera, flashlight, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, among others.

You can get the new version from the Play…

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Yesterday Sony announced the new Xperia X series at MWC in Barcelona, comprising of the Xperia X, Xperia X Performance, and the Xperia XA. To learn more about these handsets, make sure you don’t miss our detailed hands-on report. We’ve also attended an interview with Sony officials, which should clear up some things about the phones.

Today Sony has gone ahead and created an infographic about the Xperia X series, which focuses on three areas in which the company thinks its devices outshine the competition: the camera, the design, and the battery life.

The first part praises the predictive hybrid autofocus system, which has been created for the Xperia X and X Performance. The design bit says the whole point of these smartphones is to perfectly fit in your hand, while the last section is all about the smart battery management that allows you to get up to two days of battery life from the…

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Xiaomi is supposed to unveil the Mi 5 in a few hours at the MWC 2016, but a retailer has already jumped the gun and published all the information online. XiaomiDevice listed both the Xiaomi Mi 5 and Xiaomi Mi 5 Plus on its website with pictures, specs, and prices.

We already knew the specs of both devices from the rumor mill, but in case you need a refresh, here is a quick one.

The Xiaomi Mi 5 will be packing a 5.2″ 2K (1440×2560) IPS display and will run on Snapdragon 820 chip with 4GB of RAM. The rest of the specs include a 16MP rear snapper with a dual-LED flash and a front 8MP selfie shooter. You can opt for a 16GB or 64GB models, and since there is no memory expansion available, you should probably get the latter. Gold, White, and Black are your color options.

The Mi 5 Plus is almost the same device but with a bigger screen. It will offer either 5.7″ or 6.0″ big 2K IPS display, a larger battery, and will be available in 64GB flavor only.

XiaomiDevice lists the 16GB Mi 5 for $499.99, while the 64GB models cost $599.99. The Mi 5 Plus is also listed at $599.99.

The Mi 5 lineup is going to be unveiled tomorrow, so the speculations will be over soon.

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Sony invited us for a one on one interview and we jumped at the chance to ask them questions about the Xperia X, Sony’s other phones and the company’s strategy in general.

Will the Xperia X Performance be available in Europe? What about its performance? What about Xperia Z5 Premium’s 4K display?

The answers to those questions and more can be found…

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Yes, you read it right – free stuff is awaiting any current of future owner of Microsoft’s pair of flagship phones in India. The first deal is for a one-year subscription to Office 365 Personal. The suite will allow you to use the latest Office apps on the device, as well as PCs and tablets, along with cloud storage and syncing. Normally, it would cost you about INR 3,299, so it’s a fairly good deal. You can get it from the Lumia Offers app, just tap on the “1-year Office 365” deal.

The other offer is actually even more tantalizing. If you are planning on getting a Lumia 950 or Lumia 950XL, you can skip on purchasing the dock as well. Just go over to Amazon India, for instance, get the phone and then, once you have it in your possession, head on over to http://getdock.in and insert your IMEI for verification. Then the Display Dock and an HDMI cable should come within the next seven working day. We are not exactly sure if the offer will apply to all units already in the wild, but, you can always try for yourself and share your results in the…

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