BlackBerry May security update coming any day now

If you’re the owner of a DTEK 50, DTEK 60 or BlackBerry Priv, then get ready to receive your security patch… well, sometime soon, no one knows when exacly but soon. Do remember that the first to receive the update will be those with an Android OS and whose phones have been bought from ShopBlackBerry – the rest of us schmucks will have to wait some more. The update’s features include fixing a number of security issues with both Google and BlackBerry’s own software. If you wish to check the complete list of issues fixed, check out the Android Security ...

Facebook vs. illegal content, or FB hires 3000 new moderators

Dark clouds gather over Facebook. Hating is a large percentage of the portal’s content; cyberbullying runs rampant; illicit posts and videos become way more popular than they should be; fake news, whatever they actually are, sow disinformation. Mark Zuckerberg, owner and one of the creators of Facebook seems to think thinks that enough is enough and decides to increase the number of Facebook moderators from 4500 to 7500.It’s hard to say if this increased manpower will help alleviate the situation. Perhaps it is just a subterfuge meant to make Zuckerberg’s hands appear ...

DLI-AL10, or there will be a new Huawei Honor

Another new Huawei phone has received its TENAA certification. Mysterious newcomer has received codename DLI-AL10. Thankfully, it will be an actually new phone and not just an already known Huawei renamed for a new market (this happens weirdly often with Huawei. For example, Huawei Honor 6C is known in some countries as Huawei Nova Smart). This fact is proven by the device’s specification, which does not fit any known Huawei phones:– 5-inch display, TFT, HD,– 8-core CPU, 1.4GHz, – 13mpx main camera, 5mpx secondary camera,– 3GB RAM, 32GB storage memory, microSD ...

Samsung Galaxy S7 may be the most used Samsung phone in the world

According to a study conducted by the advertising agency ScientiaMobile, Galaxy S7 is the smartphone that generates more mobile browsing than any other Samsung device. What it means that is that, effectively, Galaxy S7 is the most popularly used Samsung in the world. Yay? ScientiaMobile analysts believe that the Galaxy S8, Samsung’s newest phone, has a chance to beat the S7’s record. Tweet Vote on HN ...

Ring ring ring ring ring ring ring, banana phone!

Tired of using plain, boring smartphone? Do you want something new, fresh and yellow? My friend, Banana Phone is the device for you. Starting its life as a kickstarter project on Indiegogo, Banana Phone is a Bluetooth communicator that connects to your phone wirelessly. All you can do on it is making and taking and changing volume, but that is not the point – the point is that you’re talking on a banana. Banana Phone is said to have a large battery, enough for ten hours of talking, so you will never run out of juice when cruising town with your ap-peel-ing device. As a bonus, ...

Refurbished Samsung Galaxy Note 7 will most certainly be available in South Korea and unavailable in the USA

Just in case you were still wondering; refurbished Galaxy Note 7 has just received its FCC certification. Three varians of the phone have been certified; SM-N935S, SM-N935L and SM-N935K, which probably means that three South Korean carriers, SK Telecom, LG U+ and KT Corporation will be selling it. While Samsung revealed that the device will eventually be available in other countries as well, United States will not be one of them – perhaps they’re tired of all the lawsuits, eh? Nudge, nudge. The only difference between the old and new Note 7 will be smaller and hopefully ...

ZTE Axon 8/7s, specification

*double phone’s name in the title is there, because it is unclear whether the rumours pertain to one or the other. More info points out towards the 7s*Judging by what information there is, ZTE is cooking up a solid mid-range phone. Personally, I do not really know why we need more of these, save perhaps for those of us who cannot stomach buying a Samsung. Most of Axon 8/7s looks quite nifty: 5.5′ OLED screen, Snapdragon 820/821 CPU, 4GB of RAM and from 64 to 256GB of storage, 3320mAh battery, 12mpx main and 8mpx secondary cameras. The only weird, in a bad sense of the word, ...

O tempora o mores!, or we might not see iPhone 8 this year

Hold on, don’t go jumping off the window. It is just a rumour, one that may or may not be true. Still… Deutsche Bank (what do they know about phones? Or am I missing something)’s analysts seem to think that iPhone 8 will not get released this year. The reason is that Apple lacks the neccessary amount of components to mass produce the device right now, plus it is said there are some technical difficulties with the device’s development. Foxconn seems to share that point of fiew. At the same time, though, TRENDFORCE believes that we will be seeing iPhone 8 getting ...

Autism and software, or a young hacker will spend two years in jail

Adam Mudd, 20, lived in Hertfordshire, small town in the United Kingdom. I say ”lived” because he will be spending next two years in a much less warm and comfortable environment of prison cell. Young man has been sentenced after proven guilty of numerous hacker attacks which netted him a considerable sum of five hundred thousand pounds.It all begun four years ago. Then sixteen years old, young Adam (who is also, by the way, autistic. As much as it saddens me to say that, this was probably the cause of the boy having too much spare time on his hands) wrote a virus that he dubbed ...

Samsung Pay will launch in France in September

According to a leak from an unknown source, payment service Samsung Pay is set to launch in the land of wine and baguettes in September 2017. Furthermore, it is said that Samsung wants to launch it along with its new smartphone, which may or may not be Galaxy Note 8. Samsung Pay is slowly gaining popularity in Sweden and UAE; Koreans are planning to launch it in Switzerland, United Kingdoms and Hong Kong as well. Tweet Vote on HN ...