… of how much time are you spending on the platform. This new, officially confirmed by the company feature will tell you how much time have you spent on FB in the last seven days. It will also show the average per day time that you were logged in. Another feature of this, erm, feature will be an option to set a timer to let us know when we have been on Facebook for too long.”Your Time On Facebook” is probably a part of Zuckerberg’s plan to make sure that people’s time on his website is ”well spent”. He is not the only one, too, as both YouTube, ...
Monthly Archives: June 2018
Nazrin Hassan, CEO of Cradle Fund, dead in a smartphone-related accident
Hassan was killed when one of two smartphones he was known for carrying around each day exploded. Explosion started fire in the man’s bedroom; the cause of death may be the either the fire itself or, as believes Nazrin’s brother-in-law, a piece of an exploding phone that critically struck the back of the man’s head.”He had two phones, one Blackberry and a Huawei. We don’t know which one exploded. Who would have thought such an innocuous routine procedure is the reason three young kids will grow up without their father by their side”.Police, on the other ...
Curio – iPhone X might not have had any junctions
As we know, iPhone X has no headphone jack (which is a shame). As it turns out though, Apple was also planning on removing the Lightning port; at least so says Mark Gurman from Bloomberg. In his article Mr. Gurman states that the company was seriously considering removing all the ports from their smartphone. He does not say why, though – we can only assume that Apple have not had the quote on quote balls to go through with such a radical decision. Smartphone that could only be charged via an induction may still be too much for even a modern mobile user. ...
Instagram reaches 1 billion monthly users. Congrats, we are now officially married to social media
Or at least way too many of us are. While users number of Facebook and Snapchat stagnate, Instagram is seeing a radical increase in usage, passing the 800 million users recorded in September 2017, ten months ago. Snapchat’s daily user grow in Q1 has only been 2.13% and Facebook’s has been 3.14% – Snapchat’s, un turn, reached almost 5%. Instagram’s rapidly growing popularity might be the reason for the platform to kick off IGTV, video hub that is supposed to rival YouTube. I do not see this happening but good luck! It is not like Instagram itself is not a gold ...
New pictures of Motorola Moto One
The pictures in question are this, this and this. Perpaps the most interesting of the visible features of the phone are the a notch (hooray), USB-C joint and a dual main camera. Phone’s specs are:– 6′ Full HD+ display,– Qualcomm Snapdragon 636 CPU, Adreno 509 GPU,– 4 or 6 GB RAM, 64 GB flash memory, microSD,– 8 mpx selfie shooter, 12 i 5 mpx dual camera with LED flash,– 3780 mAh battery,– Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, GPS, modem LTE, dual SIM,– USB-C joint,– Android 8.1 Oreo PSWe do not know, unfortunately, the phone’s price nor date of ...
A neat deal for the US Galaxy S9 or S9 Plus: buy one and get a free movie pass for two years
Well that sounds like a pretty sweet deal. Samsung’s partnership with MoviePass brought us this exceedingly good sounding promotion: if you buy an US release of either Galaxy S9 or Galaxy S9+ between now and the end of the month, you will receive two free annual MoviePass memberships. This effectively gives every moviegoer a free 252 dollars. In order to get on the offer, upon buying the phone online you need to sign your email up for it and voila, two MoviePass are yours – in up to two weeks. ...
Xperia XZ2’s display goes to heck and Sony does not give a crap. Or so it seems
More and more of Xperia XZ2 owners report issues with the phone’s display. The nature of the issue, as shown on the picture above, is that white dots and lines appear on the display seemingly at random. They distort the picture and are a nuisance to look at. Sony’s official statement is that electrostatic is the cause of the problem:”Sony Mobile is committed to providing the highest standard of product quality and customer service for all of our products. Due to the characteristic of the display, you may see stripe patterns as a result of electrostatic in some models. This ...
Moto Z3 Pla and Prime Exclusive G6 Play available for pre-order
Motorola G6 and Z3 families are getting new members. Moto Z3 Play can be bought for $499 in retail, on BestBuy and B&H, or for $499 on Amazon. Moto G6 Play is exclusive to Amazon, available for $189.99. Both devices come with Alexa. Tweet Vote on HN ...
Alcatel soon releases four low-end smartphones under $200
When you need a solid phone but do not want or can spend your salary on an iPhone or Samsung, go Alcatel. The company will release four of its low-budget devices on the Australian market this August, with other markets soon to follow suit. These devices’ prices and specs are:Alcatel 1C, $895.3-inch 18:9 FWVGA+ display,1.3GHz Quad Core,Android Nougat OS,1GB RAM,16GB storage,5MP front/8MP rear cameras,2,460mAh battery,3GAlcatel 1, $995-inch 18:9 FWVGA+ display,1.28GHz Quad Core,Android GO OS,1GB RAM,8GB storage,Front 2MP/rear 5MP cameras,2,000mAh battery,4GAlcatel 1X, $1295.3-inch 18:9 ...
BlackBerry Key2 launches in Canada on July 6th
Neat. Second release of BlackBerry’s famous QWERTY smartphone, BlackBerry Key2, will launch in Canada in two weeks, on July the 6th. Device can already be pre-ordered for roughly $829.99 Canadian dollars. Carriers that offer it are Bell, Rogers, SaskTel and Telus.– 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 ...