Happy birthday to you! Happy birthday to you! Happy birthday, dear Short Message Service! Happy birthday to you! Twenty five years and one day ago the first SMS ever was sent*. It read ”Merry Christmas” and was sent to Richard Jarvis, the then CEO of Verizon, who received it on his Orbitel 901 cellphone (or, as we would call it today, a large ...
Update, already available in the US, is now slowly entering Europe. There are reports of it being available in Germany, France and Ireland. Other European countries will surely not have to wait long for their turn. Unfortunately, the update does not include the Live Focus camera tweaks, something that Note 8 users have been waiting for impatiently. ...
Well that is a surprise. Until yesterday, we have not heard of this phone at all, and suddenly it is all around the place with leaked images, parts of specifications and, now, a release date. According to an image recently shared on Weibo, Huawei Nova 2S will be launched on December 7th. Poster image seems to suggest that the device will sport not one, ...
Samsung's October security update is slowly making rounds. While having one's security updated should be a cause for contentment, it is not so for the Galaxy S8/S8+ owners. According to a growing number of people, Samsung's October security patch causes issue with fast charging, namely preventing the device from using it at all and forcing it to use regular ...
Released earlier this month, the US release of U11 Life is now getting upgraded to the latest Android operating system. The news were delivered by Mo Versi, HTC's Vice President of Product Management, via Twitter. According to Versi, the update is available ”starting today”, which means that some units will probably get it today and others ...
Something interesting has just been uploaded on Reddit, namely a chart with specification of an upcoming Sony phone named H8541. It looks pretty interesting: - 5.7' screen, Gorilla Glass 5, - Snapdragon 835 CPU, - 4GB RAM, 64GB ROM, - 3420mAh battery, Quick Charge 3.0, - USB-C, - Android 8.0 Oreo OS. Noteworthy is also the size of the phone. ...
Facebook lately has, or at least believes it does, a huge problem with bots and fake accounts. Company tries many differet things to solve it. Latest idea of Zuckerberg & Company is to make people use selfies in order to verify their accounts. New system is already being tested in a small, closed group. How will it work? Simply. You know captcha, ...
Good tidings, Moto X Pure Edition users! At least those of you who live in the US. Few months ago Motorola begun to update its Moto X Pure Edition smartphones' OS to the 7.0 Nougat version. The update had to be put on hold due to a widespread screen issue related to it, it had to be postponed. Now that the issue is fixed, the update can continue, bringing ...
Samsung has just rolled third Android 8.0 Oreo beta for Galaxy S8 in the United States. A list of bug fixes is pretty long, but there is nothing particulary major in it; no big, new features, just a number of issue fixes and stability improvements. New to the 8.0 Oreo on Galaxy S8? You are in for a treat! Oreo's features include an always-on display, ...
iPhone X is not only more sought after and bought more often than iPhone 8, but it is unlocked more often as well. According to Sim-unlock's statistics, there is at the very least a 5th more iPhone X's on the market than there are iPhone 8's. In other words, for every hundred iPhone 8 smartphones that are unlocked by Sim-unlock, there are 125 iPhone ...
According to unknown sources, Samsung plans to release a limited number of Galaxy A7 devices in Europe. These A7's are said to come equipped with 6'+ display. Release will take place in only a few European countries, namely Poland and Germany - as well as Russia but, contrary to what some people believe, Russia is not a part of Europe. Neither price ...
ZTE can be seen slowly taking hold in the United States of America, largerly thanks to the relatively low cost of their phones and prepaid wireless service provider tie. ZTE's newly found success in the land of freedom and justice will not, though, help a one and a half-year old Axon 7 from being discontinued. The phone is reported to be out of production, ...

