Samsung owns two factories in Slovakia, one manufacturing OLED panels parts and another assembling the screens. Soon though, these factories may be no more, as Samsung is threatening to shut down one of thems and is said to consider closing both. The reason is pretty prosaic, namely lack of workforce - seems like Slavs are not very interested in making ...

Lixin Cheng, CEO of the United States' division of ZTE, officially announced the ”late 2018 or early 2019” arrival of ZTE's first 5G smartphone. Exact date of release depends on, quote, ”availability of 5G networks and the requisite chipsets”. Both Verizon and AT&T have announced that they will be rolling out their own 5G networks ...

The phones in question are Sony Xperia XA2, Xperia XA2 Ultra and Xperia L2. US customers can buy them in four different colour variants (Black, Blue, Pink, and Silver). Best Buy retailer offers them for pre-order for $349.99, $449.99 and $249.99. All three phones should be released in the US tomorrow, on January 16th. As for UK, Unlocked Mobile and Clove ...

Pictures of alleged box of Samsung Galaxy S9 have recently leaked online, and they are quite informative - if true. According to the info on the box, Samsung's Galaxy S9 will have: - 5.8", 1440p AMOLED display, rounded corners, - Super Speed camera, either f/1.5 or f/2.4 aperture, 12mpx rear and 8mpx front, - Super Slow-mo slow motion capabilities, - ...

Although from only one retailer - Clove. The release is not perfect, unfortunately. Firstly, the device's price is £480, which is higher than if bought from an European retailer (€500 + shipping). Secondly, A8 is sold with an European charger, which means that the UK user has to buy an UK charger to be able to recharge the phone. Units with ...

Alcatel 3C, a new budget line of Alcatel smartphones, sees itself leaked online for the first time. Two renders available depict the device in white (silver?) and black colour variants, with a 2:1 aspect ratio display, a single rear-facing camera with an LED and fingerprint scanner. Specs-wise, Alcatel 3C is said to have: - 6' display, HD+ resolution, - ...

It is old news that Apple is now facing twenty six lawsuits regarding the battery downgrading scandal. ”New news” is that not only private citizens have an axe to grind with Apple; senator John Thune, president of the Federal Trade Commission, have issued a letter to Tim Cook, CEO of Apple, where he touches on a few subjects that are mighty ...

This one is a biggie! Weighing 737.5 megabytes, software update 2.42.617.1... has a suspiciously small changelog. All we are seemingly getting in it are the December Android Security patch and some unspecified system enhancements. There must be more to this update than meets the eye, but so far we do not know what could it be. We will let you know when ...

Hurray, I guess. After a large December update, this one is pretty small. Weighing 22 megabytes, firmware version A520FXXU4BRA8 brings with itself 91 Google fixes for the Android OS and 13 for the Samsung Experience OS. Right now the update is available only for the unbranded models. We do not know when will it become more widely available.

Like, really greatly. 50% of performance drain kind of greatly. Apple has recently released an iOS 11.2.2 update for iPhones. The update was supposed to protect the phones against a newly infamous Spectre vulnerability. Apple predicted that it will cause the phones' performance to drop, but numbers estimated were no bigger than 2.5% drop. Well... one Melvin ...

In a move that may annoy some of the less modernized iPhone users, Niantic, developer of Pokemon Go, decided to stop supporting devices that cannot run iOS 11. That includes iPhone 5c, iPhone 5, iPad mini, iPad 4, iPod touch 5 and earlier devices. iPhone 5s users ae lucky, as that phone supports iOS 11. This is what Niantic had to say on the subject: ”In ...

Samsung Galaxy J1 mini Prime is one of the cheapest Samsung phones sold. Hence, it may be a bit weird that it is a second Samsung phone to get January security update. Samsung's update policy is weird. Anyway, the update's content consists mainly of security fixes - five critical Android vulnerabilities, thirteen Samsung vulnerabilities and a bunch ...