Thumbs up became practically a synonym of Facebook. Elegantly simple method of letting others know that you approve of given content appeared online for the first time ever on Zuckerberg’s social website*, from where it quickly spreaded to dozens other social portals. Thumbs up quickly became a norm, but what about thumbs down? About showing that, for a change, we do not approve of content given?Well, it looks like Facebook is working on something like that.Some of the American Facebook users have just received a new option called downvote. It is not thumbs down as such, although it ...
Monthly Archives: February 2018
Motorola Moto E5 Play coming to Cricket and Verizon
Newest picture of Moto E5 Play has just leaked online, thanks to the ever reliable @evleaks. Along with the picture (no front-placed fingerprint scanner, not-so-thin bezels) comes info that the phone will be available from both Verizon and Cricket, with Cricket selling it under the name of Moto E5 Cruise.Want to learn more about the phone’s price, specs or release date? You are out of luck, bud – we do not know ourselves. IMEI24 will make sure to let you know as fast as ...
Samsung Galaxy Note 5 and Galaxy S6 series on T-Mobile will get their OS updated to Oreo. Awesome
Samsung’s standard life support for smartphones is two years. Or did it use to be two years? South Korean company has just officially announced that it will update some of its 2015 devices – namely the Galaxy Note 5, Galaxy S6, S6 edge and S6 edge plus – operating systems to the Android 8.0 Oreo version. While we do not know when will this update take place, it is a great piece of news in itself! One of complaints against smartphones is that they are quickly dumped in favour of new models. If older models are kept up to date with system updates, there will be less of a ...
There is a Samsung Galaxy Note 9 concept
Concept Creator, group dedicated to creating concept graphics of various devices, has today brought us a concept of the Galaxy Note 8 smartphone. Effects of their work look quite interesting! Almost no bezel, USB-C port, 3.5mm headphone jack, S-Pen. There is even a Bixby button as well as a under-screen fingerprint scanner.Do you like what you hear? It sounds pretty good to me. If you want to take a look at the phone, go visit Concept Creator’s official website. Tweet Vote on ...
Not only smartphones can burn, or Apple AirPods headphone caught fire
Burning smartphones are old news; what will you say about burning headphones? The story is as follows: one Jason Colan was spending time in a fitness club excercising and listening to music, when suddenly he noticed that his right headphone started to let out thick smoke. He quickly took it out and left to find help. When he returned, he found his headphones a burnt mess of plastic and wires. Hm.Apple already knows about this and promised to look into the how’s and why’s of it. Hopefully it was just an isolated ...
Samsung Galaxy S8 Android 8.0 Oreo update is rolling out!
German and Dutch beta testers of Galaxy S8 Oreo Beta are the first ones to receive the update. What is so cool about it? Well, it features Samsung Experience 9.0 interface, which is Samsung’s latest UI, as well as February’s security patch.European non-beta testers should receive their updates soon. US owners might have to wait a little while longer, but not much. Tweet Vote on HN ...
Honor 7X and Honor 8 will be updated to Android Oreo in 2nd quarter of the year
Honor France has just officially announced that it will be updating those two phones to Android 8.0 Oreo sometime in Q2 2018. Exact date of the update is unknown. It is believed that rest of the Europe will receive it soon after. Announcement also stated that Honor 9 and Honor 8 are being rolled out in France as we speak. Tweet Vote on HN ...
Nokia 3 and Nokia 8 get their February security update
Nokia 3’s update weights 80 megabytes, while Nokia 8’s weights 87. Security patches included fix, among other things, a critical security vulnerability in Media framework. As of now, Nokia 3 update is available only in India, while Nokia 8 can be downloaded in India and Jordan. Both should reach other regions soon. Tweet Vote on HN ...
BlackBerry KEYone Bronze Edition announced, BlackBerry Motion coming to the US
Yay, two BlackBerry news in one day! New colour variant of BB KEYone, Bronze Edition, will soon be released in Europe, Middle East and Asia – sorry, Americans, no word on US release yet. Bronze Edition’s specs will be the same as Black Edition’s, the only difference being a new colour. Oh, and there will be a dual-SIM variant too, because why not.Also, BlackBerry Motion will soon come out in the US! Device will be released on February 12 and available via Amazon and Best Buy for a price of ...
BlackBerry KEYone permanently $50 cheaper in the US
Nice. If you have been waiting for a sale on BB KEYone, you got a permanent one now! Best Buy and Amazon are both offering BlackBerry KEYone $500, which is fifty bucks cheaper than before. Phone is available in two versions, CMDA and GSM. Tweet Vote on HN ...