New promotion has been announced by the US connection provide Verizon. It now offers a number of discounts for US military personnel as well as their families. Active-duty military, reservists, Gold Star families and veterans net 15% off one line, $35 off two lines, and $40 off three or more lines. This promotion also applies to Verizon’s Beyond Unlimited and Above Unlimited plans. Military families are also eligible for a $200 MasterCard prepaid card if they activate a new LTE phone on a new line. In order to receive the discount, one needs to log into their Verizon account and ...
Monthly Archives: June 2018
Sweet Jesus, again?, or how it took Facebook two months to fix a large data leak
Long story short, a huge data leak involving well over 120 million monthly users of a quiz website Nametests.com, which’ quizes Facebook published, has been found out on April 22nd. The finding has been done by one Inti De Ceukelaire from Belgium. IT turned out that the quiz website stored users’ data in extremely easily to hack JavaScript format. After Inti reported his findings to Facebook, it took the company two months to act – data leak was fixed on June 25-th. During this time the website was not closed and has been gathering more easily accessible information.Come ...
Huawei wants to release a gaming smartphone this year & other news
A few weeks ago, Huawei has unveiled its new GPU Turbo technology. This piece of tech is reportedly capable of significantly boosting the the gaming performance of a number of smartphones. It looks like Huawei plans on using this tech, too – according to according to Huawei’s president Jim Xu, the company is currently working on a smartphone dedicated specifically to gaming. We do now know this device’s specs; it is said to be unveiled by the end of 2018. In other news, Huawei has announced that its first 5G-enabled device will be released in June 2019. The company is also ...
Motorola announces an August 2nd event. Three new phones may be unveiled
The event’s teaser fails to deliver any information about what exacly is the ”big announcement” that Motorola is going to make in Chicago. People wiser than me assume that Motorola will unveil three new smartphone models: Moto Z3 flagship that has been rumoured to release around this time, and two Android One smartphones. Guess we shall learn more in tad over a month. ...
Airbag for smartphones? Why not
The history of this device has begun on the dark day when hilip Frenzel, mechatronics student on the University of Aalen, accidentally broke the display of his iPhone. Repairs did not work and a week later the display broke once more. Instead of shedding a tear over all the beers that he will not be able to afford and buying a new phone, Frenzel instead put his mind to work to create a device that will help everyone to avoid such nasty accidents in the future. Thus, the prototype of Spider-app was made.The device was made with simplicity and functionality in mind (it was mostly made via a ...
Facebook is not going to record you, honest
Long story short: according to the British newspaper Metro, on June 14th Facebook has applied for a patent for its invention, a software that allows for remote control over smartphone’s sound record capabilities. Mark Zuckerberg has repeatedly stated during his hearing with the US Congress that Facebook has never and will never spy on its users. We can feel completely safe in the knowledge that FB is not working on a spying software to actually spy on us. No sir they are not. Vice-President of Facebook, Allen Lo has stated in an interview that the reason FB wants to patent its ...
Instagram Lite is out, but you probably cannot install it
Facebook has just released the Lite version of its popular app Instagram, but… it’s only available in Mexico. Relax, hold your horses – it will most certainly become available in other countries as well, probably any day if not any hour now.Instagram Lite weights 0.5 megabyte and offers some of the full app’s functionalities. It allows the user to edit and publish pictures and add filters as well as Stories. In the future it will also allow us to publish videos and support private messages. ...
30 new Always on Display clock faces available for Samsung Galaxy S9, Galaxy S8, Galaxy S7 and Note 8
ClockFace, an app by Samsung, adds thirty clock faces to the abovementioned Samsung devices. Many different styles of faces are available – numerical, classic, even text. They can be ascribed to AoD or to the locked display screen. App also allows for things such as changing the clock’s colour.At the moment the app has not been officially releasedby Samsung. It can be downloaded from here. ...
Largest of the Galaxy S10 models may have a 6.44′ display
According to the latest report from ET News, Samsung Galaxy S10 will be released in three different variants. Report claimed that the largest of them will have a 6.2′ wide display. Now, though, new information from an unspecified source suggests that it may be as big as 6.4′. The decision by Samsung to increase the size of its largest model reportedly has something to do with the triple camera setup that the phone is rumoured to have. Larger battery capacity required? Need for more room to put the third camera in? We do not know.As for smaller variants of the S10, they are both ...
Samsung Galaxy S9, S8 and Note 8 have received the US military’s approval
This basically means that the US military has found these models A-OK and approved their usage by the US Army officials, adding them to the Approved Products List for the US Department of Defense. Receiving this approval was a difficult task for Samsung, as it is, as silly as it may sound, a matter of national security: military officials should only use the safest and most efficient communication devices for their official business; therefore, Samsung smartphones had to fulfill one hundred unique requirements before being accepted. These requirements ranged from intrusion detection to ...