We have leaked renders that depicted Note 9 as purple, brown and blue; it only makes sense that we will get to see the classic black variant too. This one seemingly comes with a silver S-Pen, significantly less cool than Deepsea Blue’s golden one. Midnight Black has been said to be the only Galaxy Note 9 colour variant to be available on every market.Galaxy Note 9 hits the store shelves on August 24th. Tweet Vote on HN ...
Monthly Archives: July 2018
Wow – Sony promises us a 48mpx camera
The IMX586 sensor is supposed to not only have more megapixels than any smartphone camera in the history, but also make the sharpest pictures on the market. People in the know-how foresee a few issues with these claims, though. They believe that too many megapixels of the sensor will make it so that the small pixels do not catch enough light, which in turn will considerably lower the the quality of the pictures. This problem can be bypassed by equipping the camera sensor with a 4x Bayer filter (a net of basic colour filters which make four pixels of the same colour connect into one larger ...
Facebook and Instagram plan on banning all of their 13-years old or below users
Technically speaking, only people over the age of thirteen can create FB or Instagram profiles, but the thing is that nobody is really verifying their age – until now. Both services will now block profiles suspected of being owned by people younger than 13. In case of moderators being wrong, access to the profile will be returned upon showing the administration a proper identity card.We do not know how exacly will the verification process look like. It can be assumed to take a lot of work on the moderators’ end; it will probably also significantly reduce the population of both ...
Swiss town replaces its church bell with ringtones, or where is your god now
Lucerne, Switzerland. A church bell of the town’s small catholic church is being renovated, but the faithful still need their ol’ and trusty bell to let them know when it is noon. How did the church solve this issue? It asked the, of all people, art students of the nearby college for help, and the students kind of delivered. What was their solution? Why, to install a loudspeaker in the church’ tower and have it blast smartphone ringtones, of course. What did you expect? Ringtones played by the church include the iPhone’s highly recognizable Marimba tune, which is ...
Better late than never – Skype can now record conversations
And all it took Microsoft to implement this option was fifteen years. Truly, the OS giant of personal computers is a force to be reckoned with… The record feature is to be implemented until the end of July. It will inform the other side of the conversation of being recorded – it is unsure whether that side will have to agree to it or will they be presented with fait accompli. Recorded conversations will be kept in the cloud (where Microsoft employees will probably spend lovely hours listening in on us, because that is what evil corps do). These conversations will then be ...
BlackBerry KEY2 Lite is coming. What do we know about it?
BlackBerry is preparing to strike into the mid-tier smartphone range with its KEY2 Lite. Thanks to Evan Blass, leakster extraordinaire, we now know… very little about it. All that mister Blass has shared about this device is that it will be availble in red, blue and copper colour variants, that it will continue the QWERTY tradition of its predecessors and that it may or may not debut on IFA 2018. Tweet Vote on HN ...
Honor Note 10, specs
Phone’s TENAA certificate has just leaked online. The bad news is that it does not have the phone’s picture; the good news is that it does have the device’s specifications. Here they are:– phone’s code name – RVL-AL09,– AMOLED 6,95′ display, 1080 x 2220 p,– HiSilicon Kirin 970 CPU,– 6 or 8 GB RAM,– 64, 128 or 512 GB flash memory, microSD up to 256 GB,– dual 24 and 16 Mpix camera,– 4900 mAh battery,– Android 8.1 Oreo with EMUI.Honor Note 10 will be released on August 31st. Its price is ...
U.S. Cellular Samsung Galaxy S7, S7 edge and LG G6 are getting upgraded to Android 8.0
According to the info on U.S. Cellular’s website, the update can be downloaded automatically by your device. If that fails, it can also be downloaded manually from the Samsung Kier desktop software. Specific changelog for the updates is not available yet, so we do not know which security update will be added to the upgrade. It can be assumed to be either June or July one. Tweet Vote on HN ...
ANATEL listing reveals Galaxy Note 9’s battery capacity
We now have the confirmation of one of the earliest Galaxy Note 9 rumours. It has been rumoured that the device’s battery will allow it a 25-hours of continuous video playback with maximum brightness. Well, it looks like this may be true. A filing with the National Telecommunications Agency ANATEL in Brazil reveals that that the Galaxy Note 9 will feature a 4000mAh battery. This is a huge step forward when compared to Galaxy S9’s mere 3000mAh. Tweet Vote on HN ...
Deepsea Blue colour variant of Galaxy Note 9 leaked
It is semi-official now that one of the colours Galaxy Note 9 will be available in on August 9th will be blue. Whether it will be called Deepsea Blue, Coral Blue or any other name does not matter; Note 9 is not the first Galaxy series to use this colour and will probably not be the last, especially since Colar Blue was considered the most preferred of the Galaxy S9 colour variants.Samsung Galaxy Note 9 will reach store shelves on August 24th. Tweet Vote on HN ...