Huawei has been trying to figure out how to live without Google for over a year now. She has no store, no services, or much more. All this time, the company has been slowly and drop by drop collecting applications that should fill its App Gallery so that the company can somehow exist and continue to develop. This time it’s about Huawei having a new partner that will supply it with maps so that users have a real alternative. The collaboration is kind of amazing, but when Google Maps is taken away from you, you have to get out somehow, and the Chinese telecommunications giant seems to have figured out how.

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• Navigators for Huawei
• TomTom app for Huawei
• Huawei Partners

Navigators for Huawei

If you bought a new Huawei after September last year and it is not an old model, then life is more difficult for you than for users of other models. Even if you bought not the old model, but remade in a new case and with a new name, you are still lucky, but this is the only exception.

Let the App Gallery become much better , but it still has something to complain about. Now, the applications that are in this store will be joined by the solution of probably the world’s most famous manufacturer of navigators – TomTom.

If you’re using a Huawei smartphone without access to Google Play , you don’t have many basic navigation app options. Among them, of course, you can find Here WeGo and even solutions from Yandex (since recently, all Yandex applications have been in the App Gallery), but this is different. Variety is always good. Moreover, there are users who were close to Google Maps, and they continue to be in constant search for alternatives.

TomTom app for Huawei

TomTom has announced that its Go Navigation app is available on all major app platforms, including Huawei’s App Gallery. It can also be found on Google Play and the Apple App Store . The app offers state-of-the-art 2D and 3D maps, as well as many of the navigation apps’ core features. These include real-time traffic jams, speed camera alerts, lane guidance, and offline maps with data saving.

Using TomTom Go Navigation is not free and you have to pay for it . At the same time, the application can be used for free for thirty days. This is more than enough to understand if you are ready to pay for its use. If you decide to pay, then in a month you will have to choose a tariff. You will be offered to buy a subscription for a year for $30, for half a year for $9, for three months for $5, or for a month for $2. To be even, the prices are not shocking with their size, so the offer can be considered quite generous.

You will say that there are free applications, but Google Maps is no longer available and this solution no longer works for the new Huawei. Therefore, this option can be very useful.

Huawei Partners

Huawei reportedly made a deal with TomTom to use its map data for an internal app. We shouldn’t be too concerned about this. We don’t have to think too much about the specifics of this agreement, because we just need to open applications, choose a route and follow it. Let the people in the company’s management decide the rest. They get paid for this.

It’s not certain that the new app will make users abandon other navigation apps , including Here WeGo. However, this may cause many new users to take a look at Huawei smartphones. Even if this number is not very large, the company will definitely attract attention to itself and will be able to boldly say at presentations that it now has new partners.

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Google, like any other company that is interested in the success of its product, tries to provide it with some special features. Not without them and Google Pixel. Among such functions at different times were Google Camera and even Google Phone. Now it’s time to let the bird out of its cage and Google is ready to share its brainchild. This is already good in itself, but in addition to this, the application will receive a “verified calls” function, which will allow you to effectively deal with unwanted calls. It remains only to understand how it will all work and on which smartphones this application can be installed. We will enjoy later, but for now let’s see what we are talking about.

Google Phone

Google apps are really in high demand among users. The reason for this is very simple – over time, even the strangest of them began to work quickly, simply and efficiently. And also, since Google is literally everything in the modern world (for better or worse, we will discuss in a separate article), its applications integrate perfectly with our lives.

Google launched verified SMS in Messages for Android last year to help reduce spam. The Google Phone app now supports Verified Calls as the dialer officially becomes available for many other non-Pixel devices.

If there are people who do not experience phone spam, then there are slightly more than zero. All due to the fact that this method of unwanted advertising has now become the most relevant and convenient for advertisers. Let no one listen to them, but they find their client. And do not forget about scammers who call people in order to take possession of their money or valuable data in one way or another.

Phone spam

All this leads to the fact that people often simply do not answer calls from unknown numbers and often miss important calls because of this. Not only does Google think this is bad, but it also cares about stores that really need to get through to you. This is the meaning of the function that will be applied in users’ smartphones.

” Verified Calls ” is Google’s solution whereby users see a blue shield icon with a check mark, company name, logo, and number. This is already enough for users to understand whether it is worth answering, but besides this, there will be one more mark that will contain the reason for the call. Such reasons may include the need to confirm a transaction, food delivery, or a change in departure time for travelers.

This affects not only the comfort of subscribers, but also their safety . So, for example, banks can increase the number of responses when they call to report a fraudulent scheme or an attempted attack on a customer’s bank account. I’m talking about those cases when banks call, and not scammers posing as bank employees. It’s just that they won’t be able to get through to you so easily.

How not to miss an important call

I missed important calls from the car service a couple of times when I ordered some rare spare part and then forgot about it. Especially when several days passed and there was a period especially rich in spammers. Special applications helped to cope with this, such as a determinant from Kaspersky. They also answer the question of who is calling you. Moreover, in the phone which fell into nowhere, such a function was at the system level. Now everything will be easier and a similar function should work fine as a native tool in Android smartphones.

Approximately with such a face, we politely (or not) end the conversation with spammers.

Google will take care of whether the caller is a spammer. She will check it against the database of numbers and warn you in case of a potentially unpleasant situation. According to the company, this feature “substantially increases the number of responses”, as in the case of a confirmed SMS.

This, in turn, helps to reduce business costs for those who provide services or sell goods and make life more comfortable for ordinary users.

Confirmed calls in the Google Phone app are being rolled out first in the US, Mexico, Brazil, Spain, and India. Other countries will follow. The company even launched a special page where companies interested in cooperation with this service could get additional information regarding participation in the project.

Meanwhile, Google is officially bringing the Phone app to many other non-Pixel devices . The application is already available for certain devices in some countries, and users can download it on Google Play. Android One and Go devices already have it preinstalled. Launch will be limited to select devices running Android 9 and above for the time being. This includes flagships from Samsung and LG.

Even if you are the most careful person in the world, there is no guarantee that you will not accidentally install a malicious application on your smartphone. It will not necessarily be a virus spyware that will track all your actions and movements, and then steal data from your bank account and wipe it to zero. It is possible that the application itself will be quite safe, but at the same time it may initiate the installation of additional components that may be dangerous for your security. With them, Google plans to start fighting. Almost.

The developers from the XDA team analyzed the new version of  Google Play and found in its code a mention of a mechanism that will warn that applications may be downloading other components or programs. Obviously, in this way Google wants to protect users from installing potentially dangerous software that can harm the device, steal data from its memory, or cause other previously installed software to deteriorate.

Android has had a similar mechanism in the past to keep users safe. True, he did not take active steps to detect malware, but simply blocked the installation of any applications from any sources other than Google Play. If desired, it could always be turned off in the smartphone settings, but now the need for a similar mechanism has appeared in Google Play.

How to identify a malicious application

Sounds great, doesn’t it? Now Google Play will automatically detect potentially dangerous applications and warn you that installing them can be fraught with negative consequences for you. But don’t you see the contradiction in this? Google boasts so much that Google Play Protect’s algorithms are so effective at detecting virus software that they don’t even need the help of a live person. However, it now appears that Google leaves the decision on the danger of the application to the discretion of users.

It turns out that in this way Google signs for its inability to distinguish malware, and therefore decides to start stigmatizing all applications that even slightly fall under this definition. Another thing is that algorithms cannot understand whether an application is really dangerous. But, since the user is warned about potential risks, bribes are also smooth with Google, which means that you don’t have to bother with hiring specially trained people who would search for malware the way Apple does.

Is Google protecting our data? No matter how

In general, it seems that Google is trying to imitate the protection of users, but in fact it is only concerned with protecting itself and suddenly not remaining extreme. This is clearly seen in the example of how the search giant decided tprohibit ISPs from accessing users’ traffic, ostensibly in order to ensure their safety. However, anyone who knows Google in the slightest degree will be clear that in this way the company simply wants to monopolize the right to access the personal information of customers, depriving everyone else.

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Telegram is currently one of the most popular instant messengers in the world. Moreover, lately it has become more and more like a social network, where you can find all the necessary information, from news to some entertaining videos and pictures. With a large number of already existing functions, the application does not look overloaded, and it is, as before, a pleasure to use. The most interesting thing is that the developers do not stop there and continue to improve the program.

The new update adds interesting features to Telegram.

In yesterday’s update, it became possible to register in Telegram without a SIM card, filter out spam more efficiently, set up automatic deletion of chats, and even determine how much space each chat takes up in the smartphone’s memory. We understand what else is new in Telegram and how new functions work.

Telegram without phone number

The most important innovation of this version of Telegram should be called the possibility of registering in a messenger without a SIM card . To do this, you need to purchase a special anonymous phone number on the Fragment platform , where usernames are sold. It is not tied to a SIM card, therefore, it will be impossible to establish your identity. As indicated on the website of the Fragment site, you will not be able to use these numbers outside of Telegram. You can read more about the process of buying anonymous numbers in our material.

The cost of numbers, as well as usernames, is different. You can buy a beautiful number +8888888 for 31,500 TON, or you can buy something simpler, like +88807240724 for 12 TON. The cost of one TON is currently $1.82. If you do not chase the beauty of the number and anonymity is important to you, then this is a viable option.
Any random number costs 9 TON or $16. And it’s a fixed price. For more or less beautiful numbers, an auction is held and the cost may increase.

Auto-delete chats in Telegram

Now Telegram supports setting up auto-delete of all chats. If you are used to clearing messages and not storing them on your smartphone, then this feature will definitely come in handy. It works like this:

• 1. Open Telegram and click on the three bars in the upper left corner.
• 2. Select “Settings” and go to the “Privacy” section.
• 3. In the “Security” block, find “Auto-delete messages” and set the desired timer.
• 4. If you want to configure auto-delete for old chats, then here click “Apply to previously created chats” and check those
• 5. where messages need to be cleared.

Now you don’t have to do it all manually. Telegram itself will clear your chats after a specified time, which will save space on your smartphone.

Additional tools have also appeared for working with the repository. If you go to the “Memory Usage” section, you can see how much space each chat or channel takes up. In this way, you can determine at any time what needs to be cleaned first. Users have been asking for this opportunity for a long time, because to find out
in which chat the heaviest files are stored, without such a breakdown it was very difficult. Fortunately, Telegram understood this and provided the appropriate tools.

Telegram – new version

The new version of Telegram for Android received the number 9.2.0. You can download it, as usual, from Google Play. The app is available there. If for some reason you cannot download it from the Google store, then it is available for download as an apk file from here.
To install, you can use our detailed instructions for updating applications on Android.

However, these are not all the innovations that have appeared in the messenger. It’s just that for many users, the ones mentioned above will become the most noticeable. Other new features include:

• Active anti-spam filter for groups.
• Spam protection is now supported in large groups. When activated, the algorithms will automatically screen out messages from spammers.
• Temporary QR codes. Users who have disabled search by number and have not provided a username can now generate a QR code with a link to their account.
• There are new emoji sets for Premium-
• users.
• Interactive emojis and reactions have received new animation options.
• Groups with more than 100 members can create Topics 2.0. They have convenient navigation and the transition to the latest message directly from the list of chats. This will allow people to more conveniently communicate in a specific topic and immediately open the most recent messages.

As you can see, Telegram is developing and doing it very well. All innovations will obviously be in demand by users. From everything that appeared in the application today, I personally was not interested in registering in Telegram without a SIM card. But this does not mean at all that it will not be useful to anyone else.
Surely there will be those who want to take advantage of this opportunity. And even new animations for emoji and reactions will make communication more lively and interesting.

Thank you for attention!