A bit over a month ago Apple got found out on its deplorable and dishonest/helpful and caused by concern practices of lowering its old phones' performance. Naturally, scandal and lawsuits followed, one of the effects of which is that now Apple offers replacement batteries for much cheaper. Cheaper batteries are not all, though; newest iPhone operating ...

It is old news that Samsung's new phones will be revealed during the MWC 2018 in Barcelona. Now, thanks to Samsung's official confirmation, we know that the phones' premiere will take place on 25th February. Great. In exacly a month we will learn whether the Galaxy S9/S9+ are something worth waiting for or not. - 5,8 or 6,2 inch Super AMOLED screen, ...

Wow, something useful came out of Twitter. Twitter user @jaraszski uploaded a video in which he shows how to bypass the lock screen of Moto G5 Plus Prime Edition. It turns out to be pretty simple; all you have to do is tap the fingerprint sensor button, receive the ”not recognized” message and hit the power button. An Amazon lock advertisement ...

Hooray! 8.0 Oreo OS is finally coming out for the retail models of the United States' Moto X4. News comes straight from the horses mouth, with Motorola releasing this statement: Deployment for Oreo update has started but not everyone would have it, all at the same time. Please be advised that OTA updates not just depend on the Model and the Country ...

Google has just released info on one of the new features in the slooowly released 8.1 Oreo. This interesting little ditty will allow us to check the connection speed of nearby, publically available hotspots without the need for connecting with them. Hotspots' speed will be ranked from low (0-1 Mbps), medium (1-5 Mbps), fast (5-20 Mbps) to very fast ...

The video, recently dug out from the depths of the Chinese internet, depicts someone testing the touchscreen of what may or may not be the Galaxy S9 smartphone. This is actually a bit of a mystery, as we are not really sure whether or not the phone shown in the video is Galaxy S9. Some details of the device, like its thin bottom bezel, suggest that ...

Coming straight from Taiwan: an electronic store security camera caught footage of a man biting a smartphone battery, second after which the battery explodes. Thankfully nobody seems to be seriously hurt. The video, of course, went viral. According to a report from Taiwan News, the battery in question was a replacement accumulator for an iPhone, ...

The title of the article probably says it all. Die With Me is a new application, currently available on both App Store and Google Play, that is a pretty regular group chat. The only irregular thing about it is that it cannot be activated until the phone's power level is higher than 5%. It means that Die With Me creates a sort of an elite club only for People ...

Android 8.1 Oreo has been available for Pixel and Nexus smartphones for a while now, so it is about time for Oreo to move on. Juho Sarvikas, HMD's Chief Product Officer has just announced that the Android 8.1 Oreo OS will be available on Nokia 8. 8.1 Oreo beta can be downloaded from the Nokia Beta Labs. Update itself might take minutes or hours, it seems ...

It is raining updates! One Samsung phone after another gets its security updates. Newest devices to receive these are the Galaxy Note 5 and Note 8 smartphones. The Galaxy Note 5 firmware update N920CXXS4CRA1 brings with it: - five critical Android vulnerabilities fixes, - thirteen Vulnerabilities and Exposures fixes, - multiple lesser vulnerabilities ...

Actually they have been available there since Saturday. Sorry for the late news, my bad. Anyway, HTC has recently released three new smartphones: HTC U11 Life, U11 Plus and U11 Eyes. Unfortunately for the American customers, only Life is officially available in the US. Fortunately for the American customers, they can get Plus or Eyes anyway! All they ...

According to Mo Versi, HTC Vice President of Product Management, Sprint version of HTC U11 is getting its OS update today, upgrading its Android to 8.0 Oreo. The update should be already rolling out by the time this article is being written. Update will probably not be released to all the devices simultaneously, so if you still do not have it, do not fret ...