Are you bored? Craving emotions? Do you long for the thrills of this life? No problem! You do not need to enroll into the Foreign Legion nor spend fortune on parachute jumps. All you have to do is buy a smartphone and always keep it near you. Sooner or later, when you least expect it, you will get your money’s worth in excitement.Long story short, yes, another smartphone blew up. This time the whole scene is caught on tape, too. Recording depicts a man holding his phone in a pocket on his chest. Phone suddenly blows up, putting the man’s shirt on fire. He drops on the floor and ...
Monthly Archives: October 2017
BlackBerry Motion will be available in the US at Sprint, Verizon and AT&T
In more BlackBerry news; BB Motion, smartphone that I wrote about just a few hours ago, will most definitely be launched in the United States. Unknown source of that information believes that the device will be sold by Sprint, AT&T and Verizon.That is all. Tweet Vote on HN ...
Missing text issue annoys a number of US Galaxy S8/S8 Plus users
According to complaints made by a significant number of US owners of Samsung Galaxy S8/S8 Plus, those phones have a nasty habit of delaying and/or not receiving portions of text messages sent to them. You could send a message to a Galaxy S8 owner, and he/she would receive it much later and not complete. Issue touches Galaxy S8 smartphones across all carriers, from T-Mobile to Verizon to Sprint and more. Android Messages and Textra are also not safe from the problem – sounds like this is phone’s software issue.Samsung already knowns about the problem and is presumably working on ...
Verizon updates HTC Desire 530 to Android 7.0
In more Verizon news, this arguably most popular US phone carrier has just released an Android 7.0 Nougat update for HTC Desire 530 smartphones. The update comes off as a surprise, seeing how Desire 530 is a rather budget phone, but hey, good for us. Changes include August security patch. Also, do not count on future updates – Verizon has been generous as it is.Before downloading & installing the update, make sure that your phone is charged and connected to the wi-fi. It will take roughly 1.5GB of storage memory, so delete those naughty pictures to make ...
Verizon is upgrading Galaxy Tab E 8.0 to Android 7.1.1 Nougat
Rejoice, US owners of Galaxy Tab E 8.0. Verizon has just released an update number T377VVRU1CQH9, updating the tablet from paltry Android 6.0 Marshmallow to 7.1.1 Nougat. The update enables all the typical Nougat features in the device, from improved battery savings to additional emojis, and does not skimp on August security patches. Enjoy, as this might as well be the last update this device will ever get.The update might take as long as a week to reach your tablet, so hold your horses and wait patiently. If you want to check its availability every now and then, head to Settings > About ...
Confirmed – Huawei Mate 10 will have a 4000mAh battery
Huawei twitted a gif post in which the company confirmed that, yes, Mate 10 will have a 4000mAh battery. Cool. Tweet boasts that the battery will allow the phone to, quote, last all day on a single charge. While the info itself is no surprise, it is always nice to get an official confirmation. Huawei has not confirmed whether or not will this 4k mAh battery support Huawei’s Super Charge technology, but it is rumoured that it will.Huawei Mate 10 and Mate 10 Pro will be officially revealed on October ...
BlackBerry Motion leaked. Waterproof, touchscreen and more
The above picture has been posted on Twitter by Evan Blass himself, god bless the man. Phone has been previously rumoured to be called Krypton, but it now has been changed to Motion. Might have something to do with all the exploding, health-risking phones that appear on the market lately. What do we know about BB Motion? Not much. It will sport a common touchscreen interface instead of KeyONE’s physical keyboard. Rumoured specification is:– 1920 x 1080p display,– Snapdragon 625 or 626 CPU,– 4GB RAM,– home button with embedded fingerprint scanner,– ...
Life picture of Huawei Mate 10 Pro
The above photos were shared on Weibo, Chinese Twitter by one TheTime. How he got his hands on the live Mate 10 Pro is unknown. What we do now know is that the phone presented on the picture mostly lines up with what we know about the Mate 10 Pro, except one thing; namely, the back cover of the device looks to be much shinier than it should. This suggests that Mate 10 Pro’s back panel will be made of glass instead of, as we heard, metal.Everything else about the phone (6′ display, back-placed dual lens camera, fingerprint scanner etc) seems to be the same. ...
Maze Alpha X, a solid mid-lowranger
Maze Alpha X is the successor of a well-received (so I heard) Maze Alpha budget phone. Compared to its predecessor, X is a solid upgrade – it sports thinner bezels, larger screen ratio and better camera, among other things.Specifications:– 6′ screen, 18:9 ratio, Gorning Gorilla Glass 5,– 6GB RAM and 64/128GB ROM,– Sony camera, 16mpx main and 14mpx selfie shooter,– fingerprint scanner,– Helio P25 CPU,– Android 7.0 OS,– 4000mAh battery,– blue, silver and black colour variants.Phone will be released in November 17th, and can be ...
Samsung Galaxy Note 8 and S8 Enterprise Edition is released in Germany
So… why does this exist? Enterprise Edition is a variant of Galaxy Note 8 and S8 smartphones made for businessmen. They do not offer any new, different features or upgrades; the only thing different about them are an extended, three years long warranty, monthly security maintenance updates guaranteed for three years and a, you guessed it, three years long license for Knox Configure. Okay? Cool?If for some reason you want an EE yourself, you need to contact Tech Data Mobile. Tweet Vote ...