Bixby is not doing so well and Samsung is trying to save it up appointing a new development executive. The position of the head of Service Intelligence Group, the party maintaining and developing Bixby, is now taken by Samsung Research America’s Vice Chief Chung Eui-suk. The project that Eui-suk is working now, namely Bixby 2.0, will probably be announced at Samsung’s yearly Developer Conference on October 18. While Samsung promises ”much improvement, honest”, we do not really know anything about the 2.0. Hopefully Mr. Eui-suk can turn things around for Bixby and ...
Monthly Archives: October 2017
Motorola Moto G5S Plus, a solid budget phone, specification
Long story short, for a budget phone, Moto G5S Plus is a really good smartphone. It has a large battery, good performance, very decent software and looks pretty. While not free of negatives – low quality cameras and speakers among them – it is still good enough to satisfy any customer that does not demand flagship level device.Specifications:– price – $229/$299,– 5.5′ LCD display, 401 ppi, FHD,– Snapdragon 625 CPU, 2GHz, 8-core,– Adreno 506 GPU,– 3/4GB RAM, 32/64GB storage memory,– Micro USB port,– annoyingly high-volume ...
Into The Dead 2 is now available on Android
Do you like zombies? Do you like endless runners? Then you will probably like Into The Dead 2. A sequel to a pretty popular Android game, ITD 2 puts you in a shoes of a man on a quest to save his daughter. That heroic deed can be achieved by running through seven chapters filled with hordes of living dead. To make it out alive you will have to either skillfully avoid the incoming fleash eaters or killing them dead with a large variety of weapons – and a dog. Game’s trailer make it look pretty cool, but beware; while the game is free to download, first ITD had a lot of micro ...
iPhone X makes waves as its promo billboards appear around the world
They are coming to get you*, Bar… iPhone fan. It is only three weeks until iPhone X debuts on November 3. Apple is using this time to up its propaganda, I mean advertisement. Posters and billboards presenting iPhone X are popping up in Japan, UK, Canada, USA and other places around the globe. Billboards have been spotted at shopping malls, underground train stations, simply by the road and in many other locations. iPhone X is also making a number of ”live” appearances as Apple employees are testing the phone during their day to day activities.Time to get hyped, I guess. If ...
Promo poster confirms Mate 10 specifications
Office is closing soon, so this one will be a quickie! A Chinese promotional poster from Huawei Mate 10 has just leaked online, and it confirms some of the phone’s specifications; namely the 6.2′, 2160 x 1080p display, the LEICA branded dual-camera 20mpx + 23mpx camera setup, Kirin 970 CPU and, last but not least, 4000mAh battery. There is also a bonus rumour about the phone’s price: Chinese release of Mate 10 is said to cost around $650, while Mate 10 Pro will sell for roughly $835. Prices may be higher in the rest of the world. ...
Apple and LG work on folding and flexible OLED phones
Hey, it turns out that there is an acronym for folding and flexible OLED phones – FFOLED. Well, as it turns out Apple plans on making a FFOLED phone, and wants LG to help out with it. According to The Korea Herald, Apple wants to source its OLED panels, as well as flexible circuit board, from LG as part of its development of a FFOLED iPhone prototype. Apple is said to already own a number of patented flexible phone designs. The reason why Apple wants to work with LG instead of Samsung (to which it outsourced the OLED panels for iPhone X) is, or so we hear, Apple’s fear of ...
BlackBerry KEYone Black Edition now available in Blueshop and CDW Canada
By now we all know and (many of us) love BB’s KEYone and its Black Edition. What is not to like about the same good smartphone with physical keyboard but with 4GB instead of 3 and 64GB storage instead of 32? If you live in Canada and want to buy yourself that phone, you can now get it from two new carriers: CDW Canada for $891.99 CAD and Blueshop for $799.99. And no, Americans, sorry but Black Edition still is not coming to the US. You can get a BlackBerry KEYone Space Edition from AT&T, and while it is still a great phone, it has the specs of a normal ...
ZTE Blade Force now available on Boost Mobile
Price and specification:– $130,– 5.5′ IPS display, 1280 x 720p res,– Qualcomm Snapdragon 427 CPU,– 2GB RAM, 16GB storage, up to 128GB with microSD,– 8mpx main and 5mpx rear cameras,– 3000mAh battery, non-removable,– Android 7.1.1 Nougat OS,– 3.5mm headphone jack, Bluetooth 4.2,– High Performance User Equipment, feature that extends phone’s 2.5GHz coverage by roughly 30%. Tweet Vote on HN ...
First render of Samsung Galaxy A5 (2018) leaked; like a smaller Galaxy S8
Infinity (more or less bezel-less) Displays become more popular with time, and Samsung is not letting that new trend die down. Galaxy S8 was first of Big S’s phones to feature ID; now the same feature is being implemented into the company’s A series with Galaxy A5 (2018). Renders depicting that phone have recently surfaced online. What do they show us?– Bixby virtual assistant button,– fingerprint scanner fitted below the camera,– front panel smaller than Galaxy S8’s, lacks S8’s curved display.People wiser than me believe that Galaxy A7 (2018), when ...
Foldable ZTE Axon M receives FCC certification
Cool, but what does this certification tell us exacly? Well… we get the device’s diagram… and that is pretty much it. The drawing itself at least confirms some of the rumours about the device. According to them, ZTE Axom M is supposed to have a foldable, FullHD 6.8′ display (wow), Snapdragon 820 CPU, 3120mAh battery and 4 gigabytes of RAM.We do not know when will ZTE’s compact phone come out, nor how much will it cost. Stay tuned. Tweet Vote on HN ...