A new Samsung phone has just been listed on FCC. Bearing model number SM-N960F, it is expected to be the upcoming Galaxy Note 9. This expectation is based on the model number’s similiarity to previous Galaxy Note smartphones, such as Note 8 (SM-N950) or Note 7 (SM-N930). Unfortunately, this listing does not tells us anything about the phone’s specs. Still, at least we know what model number to look for when some actual info surfaces. Tweet Vote on HN ...
Monthly Archives: June 2018
We have learned UK’s pricing and release date of BlackBerry Key2
Smartphone will cost £579 and is available starting, well, today, although only in Selfridges stores in London, Manchester or Birmingham. Carphone Warehouse, Unlocked Mobiles, BuyItDirect, Mobile Phones Direct and Clove Technologies across the country will start selling them on June 29th. Vodafone will sell them somewhen in late July.Specifications:– Snapdragon 660 chipset,– 6GB RAM,– 64GB/128GB storage,– QWERTY keyboard, naturally,– 4.5-inch 1,620 x 1,080p, IPS LCD display,– 3500mAh battery, Quick Charge 3.0,– 12mpx main camera, f/1.8, 8mpx ...
Samsung Galaxy S10 will get a feature that everybody wanted on iPhone X
According to the Korean news site The Bell, Galaxy S10 will have its iris scanner removed in favour of fingerprint on display scanner – something that Apple’s iPhone X was supposed to have. It seems that Samsung has finally came to the point where he and his subsidiaries can mass produce components neccessary for the in-display fingerprint recognition. After checking with company’s suppliers, The Bell discovered that no iris authentication components have been ordered for the Galaxy S10 production.By the way, it has also been suggested that the Galaxy S10 might also have a ...
Unlocked US Samsung Galaxy S9 and S9 Plus are getting updated
The wait has been pretty frustrating for the unlocked Galaxy S9 and S9+ US owners, as the smartphone is still running on four months old security patch. Well, no more: Samsung is finally rolling out fresh updates for these two devices. These updates weight 700 megabytes and include, among other things, June security patch. Firmware versons rolled are G960U1UES2ARF4 and G965U1UES2ARF4. Tweet Vote on HN ...
A grain of rice is gigantic when compared to world’s smallest computer
American scientists… no, seriously, bear with me. A group of engineers from the University of Michigan have created a 0.3mm computer that can measure temperature. Well, ”computer” is probably too big of a word, pun totally intended – this device has no long term memory and loses all of its data upon losing power. Fact is a fact, though – we have a complete, working electronic device that is a dozen times smaller than a grain of rice.This device will be used to measure temperature in extremely little objects, e.g. a group of cells inside a body. It might prove ...
Nokia 8 Sirocco, 7 Plus and more will get face unlock soon-ish
Answering a tweet of a fan, Nokia Mobiles has pretty much officially confirmed growing rumours of some of its smartphones receiving face unlock feature. The smartphones in question are the Nokia 8 Sirocco, Nokia 8, Nokia 7 Plus and Nokia 6. The exact words of Nokia Mobile were ”Nokia 8 Sirocco, Nokia 7 plus and the new Nokia 6, as well as the Nokia 8 will get face unlock as an OTA update in the coming months”. So yeah, we know that it is coming but not when. We will let you know when we have learned the exact date of the update. ...
BlackBerry KEY2 coming out in the US soon
After being announced two weeks ago, TCL has finally released a statement on 13th July being the US release date for the device. The pre-orders will be available starting June 29th, this Friday. BB KEY2’s price will be $649.99. Pre-orders will be available via Amazon and BestBuy.Specifications:– Snapdragon 660 chipset,– 6GB RAM,– 64GB/128GB storage,– QWERTY keyboard, naturally,– 4.5-inch 1,620 x 1,080p, IPS LCD display,– 3500mAh battery, Quick Charge 3.0,– 12mpx main camera, f/1.8, 8mpx selfie ...
Rogers Blackberry KeyONE will get Oreo on June 28th
BlackBerry KeyONE is going Oreo in North America, which is nice. On June 28th, in two days, US release of KeyONE will have its operating system updated to Android 8.0 Oreo. This update will also allow the phone to support Wi-Fi calling. Some of the new features included in 8.0 Oreo are Picture-in-Picture (watch a video while interacting with the app in the background), notification dots on the home screen and an option to snooze said notifications. Tweet Vote on HN ...
New specs of Samsung SM-J260F revealed
Before this leak, there was very little that we knew about the first, upcoming Samsung from the Android Go program – all that we had was that it will have 1GB RAM and an Exynos 7570 CPU. Now, a picture with some of the phone’s specs tells us about:– 5′ Super AMOLED display,– Exynos 7570, 4-core, 1.4GHz,– 1GB RAM, 16GB ROM,– 8mpx main camera, 5mpx selfie shooter,– 2600mAh battery,– sAndroid 8.1 Oreo OS.Sadly, we do not know the phone’s release date, place or ...
US Nokia 3.1 available for $169 on July 2nd
The device has been available for pre-order for a few weeks, and will hit retail stores in exacly one week. What will you get if you decide to spend your hard-earned 169 bucks on it?– 5.2′ HD display,– MediaTek MT6750 CPU,– 2GB RAM and 16GB storage memory, microSD chip slot,– 13mpx main camera, 8mpx selfie shooter,– 2990mAh battery,– Android One,– copper/blue, black/chrome and white/iron colour variants. Tweet Vote on HN ...