Whatsapp just rolled in live location sharing feature to its app. Read how it works

A few weeks ago, the news was online that whatsapp was planning to introduce live sharing feature to its platform. And now, the feature was just recently activated which I think will start rolling out to users when they update their whatsapp to the latest version. However, in this post is everything you need to know about the new live location sharing feature.

Live location sharing is the new useful tool that has been introduced to whatsapp which lets users share their exact location in real-time with friends and family, or even to groups they belong to. This is the advanced method of sharing your location compared to the previous location sharing tool.



How does it work?
The live location sharing feature is end-to-end encrypted when shared among friends and family members. The duration for this is limited, you can choose to share your real-time location with your friends within a given time, you will have options like 5 minutes, 10 minutes, 30 minutes, 1 hour or even something else.
Once the stipulated time is reached, your friend or members of your group chat will stop seeing your real-time location. Even before the time is reached, you can choose to terminate the sharing task.

In a group chat, multiple members can share their real-time locations almost at the same time, and you will still be able to view all their locations right in a single map

How to share live location in a chat
It's pretty simple…
• Open a chat with your friend or a group you belong to which you want them to know your real-time location.
• Just below your screen is the usual attach icon, click it and select Location, now here's the new feature option “share live location”. Select the option and choose the duration you want and tap send. It's done.



Final words
This is best for meeting up with new friends, and keeping loved ones so close while you know where they are at a particular point in time.
The feature will be available to users of both Android and iOS devices. We should be expecting new update notification of whatsapp because I'm sure the feature will roll out to a new version of whatsapp. Follow me on Facebook to keep informed of what's going on in the world of tech.

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Microsoft Edge Browser Now Available On Android And iOS

A few days back, news leaked out online that Microsoft is planning to make Microsoft Edge browser available to Android and iOS devices.

If you're not too familiar with the Microsoft Edge browser, it is the successor to Internet Explorer browser and it's included in the windows 10 set as its default browser.

The mobile version of the Microsoft Edge is currently available for those having the new Windows 10 Insider Preview build. Having the Edge web browser on mobile devices running on iOS and Android will build better approach and more user-friendly with the windows 10.

Having the newly designed mobile version of Edge web browser on your Android/iOS devices lets you enrol the continue on PC feature, which means you can resume your activity on your phone from where you left it on your computer as it allows for synchronization between your computer and the smartphone.

Apart from your search habit, your bookmarks, passwords, history, and other fill in details will also get synchronized so you can access them easily especially when they're needed.

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What's new on Edge mobile web browser???
The search engine: As usual the default search engine dedicated to the Edge browser is the Bing search engine. Now on the mobile version, is not only limited to Bing, also to Google’s search engine and Yahoo search engine, you can make your choice of which search engine is desired to be your default type.
Too bad the Edge mobile web browser does not support ad blocking. Perhaps it should in its next version.

The design: Microsoft Edge mobile browser has pretty much the same design as the Chrome and Safari browsers. These browsers are familiar in surfaces and having features like QR-code reader, Reading View, voice search, Hub View and more.

For now, Microsoft is only aiming at smartphones running on Android and iOS platforms, tablets are yet to gain support but I'm certain that as time goes by, tablets users will benefit too.

For Windows Insider users, all you have to do is visit this page and confirm it is an insider, which will prompt Microsoft to send you a message containing the instructions to install its first Edge Beta for your smartphone running on Android or iOS platform.

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Currently, the official app has not yet been introduced, we should be expecting it before the year-end. Though the preview app was recently introduced to Google Play Store for Android users.
Click here to download the preview app for the meantime.

So that should be all, for now, regards Microsoft Edge mobile browsers. We'll keep you updated as soon as something comes up. Thanks for visiting Oshetech, please do come back for more tech info.

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Android 8.0 Oreo Released, Its 10 New Features Will Get You Excited

Finally! The tech-giant Google has officially announced the latest Android O. The Operating System has been confirmed by Google to be known as Android 8.0 Oreo, now we know what the “O” simply stands for.

Yes, everyone had been thinking of what name could be given to Android O, and after several suggestions have been made, Google has taken its final decision by confirming the Android O to be Android Oreo.

The launching of Android 8.0 Oreo kicked off on Monday being August 21st, in New York, during the Solar eclipse event, it was indeed a special day.

But what could be so special about Android Oreo?

I can say that Android 8.0 Oreo was built in the sense of advancement in technology. I remember when Android 4.2.2 through 4.4 Jelly Bean used to be the talk of the world, and today it's no more considerable, Hahaha… without wasting much of your time, let's get to know the goodies of Android Oreo.

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A few days ago, I made a post on this blog about Android 8.0 OTA updates.

This is one thing I love about the latest Android Oreo Operating System, its OTA updates work irrespective of storage space. Yes, I am not mistaking, Android 8.0 OTA updates will still work even when your device has storage space as little as 100KB or even 1KB. You know storage space used to be a challenge when downloading OTA updates of any OS as most times it usually requires about 1GB of free space or even more than that. I would have love to explain how the OTA updates work without consuming heavy storage space, but I've discussed it before. If you want to know how it works, then scroll up to where I mentioned “ its OTA updates works irrespective of storage space” and click on the link you see. That's aside

There are reasons you should be more excited as you are, those reasons are the wow features of Android 8.0 Oreo which will be reading soon.

Features Of  Android 8.0 Oreo

Android Oreo is packed with so many features which are discussed below.

#1. Picture-in-Picture

Google has made activities being done with smartphones easier by introducing picture-in-picture functionality into Android Oreo.

This feature would allow users perform multi tasks simultaneously which is similar to the Nougat feature, though, it is more advanced than that because, with Android Oreo, users would be able to continue watching videos on a small-sized simulated/virtual screen while operating on other apps. For example, a user could be watching a video on YouTube while making use of Google+ app.

#2. Background Limits

In Android smartphones, there have been improvements at liming the background activity of apps when you think there is a need for saving battery life, and with the invention of Android Oreo, it has gained more improvement.

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#3. Manage Notification Priorities

With Android Oreo, users can influence their apps notification categories using “notification channel”. Users can categorize which notifications to receive and not to be received.

In addition, Google has also made it possible that users can be able to snooze individual notifications for some time like an hour, 30 minutes, 15 minutes and so on.

#4 Notification dots

This feature is quite similar to #3 feature.

Notification dots are visual indicators displayed on apps icon indicating that you have a waiting message/notification. Of course, iPhone users should be familiar with this feature.

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#5. Adaptive icons

This is another amazing feature brought to you by Android 8.0 Oreo. With this feature, developers can be able to make use of various shapes of app icons, though this depends on the manufacturer’s choice. These different shaped app icons will also support the notification dots feature mentioned on #4

#6. Improved Camera App

Having Android 8.0 Oreo on your Android device will improve your camera quality. One of its improvement is the double-tap feature that lets you double-tap on the screen to zoom objects up to 50% in the camera app.

Some shortcut buttons will also be added to the camera app. These buttons will let you switch between photo and video rather than the usual swiping which users might have found uninteresting.

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#7. Google Play Protect

This is all about making your Android device more secured.

Android Oreo will be receiving this feature to keep your device from corrupt programs, though the feature is also rolling out via Google Play Services to other devices with older OS like the Nougat and probably Marshmallow.

The duty of this feature is to automatically scan incoming and already- installed apps for malware and then sending you notifications if it happened to spot any suspicious content and prompt you to take action.

#8. New Emojis

This is a very usual feature being updated each time new versions of Android are set out. Google did not just only introduced new Emojis to Android Oreo but did update existing ones giving them new designs

A Screenshot I Shot At Android Official Website

#9. Data Sync across all your mobile devices

Of course, this has been existing in Google Chrome browser as one of its features.

It's a good thing that Google is extending this feature to Android 8.0 Oreo OS.

This Autofill feature, when given permission to function, syncs app logins (password, username, phone number and other login information), addresses, Credit card details, and other information.

The reason for this feature according to Google is because “ Android users already rely on a massive count of password managers to auto-fill repetitive information.

I know you must be exhausted reading this article,  so sorry about that. Let me round it up with the 10th feature

#10. Octopus Easter Egg

There is no way an Android version would be discussed without adding its Easter egg.

Android 8.0 Oreo’s Easter egg is an octopus.

To play with Octopus on Android Oreo devices, go to settings»» About phone, then tap Android version until Android O appears. Continue tapping the O for several times and then long-press it to pop up the Octopus.

Finally!!!  I drop my pen… Haven read this article, do not fail to drink a cup of coffee because you must be very tired by now.

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