Last week (so yeah, I am late, sue me), Google announced that the storage upgrade of Google One will become available in the US immediately; other countries will still have to wait a week or few.Google One plans are: US$1.99 for 100 GB, $2.99 for 200 GB and $9.99 for 2 TB of space. Already existing 1 TB plans will be upgraded to 2 TB free of charge. Plans that provide over 2 TB of space will have their prices unchanged. As for Google Drive, it offers the first 15 GB for free. Additional 100 GB cost $1.99, 1 TB costs $9.99 and 10 TB cost ...
Monthly Archives: August 2018
HTC U12 Plus Flame Rose up for pre-order in the US
HTC U12+ was always supposed to be available in three colour variants: Translucent Blue, Ceramic Black, and Flame Red. While the first two became available in the US of A pretty soon after the device’s release in May, them Americans had to wait until now for Flame Rose. To be more precise, they will still have to wait a bit: while this colour variant can be pre-ordered in North America as we speak, devices will reach US store shelves on September 10. Phone’s price is, and will be after the device reaches stores, $799.U12’s specifications include 6′ display, 12mpx ...
Samsung Galaxy J6 receives August security update
Galaxy J6 has just received a firmware update in Europe. Italy is the first to receive firmware version J600FNXXU3ARH1. Update includes four critical Android fixes and 11 Samsung vulnerabilities as well as dozens of lesser issues. Galaxy A5 (2016) has also received the same update. Tweet Vote on HN ...
World War 3, or the capital city of Poland gets it
First time we ever heard of World War 3, online shooter made by a Polish studio Farm 51, was in May, when we were given an eye-catching but not overly informative agglomeration of cut-scenes. Now though, during this year’s Gamescom a few days ago, Farm 51 has provided us with something much better, namely a two and a half minute gameplay trailer showing off the game in all its glory. It shows us much (hopefully not all) that the game has to offer – frantic, fast-paced on-foot action, environmental destruction (loved the way the tree was brought down by heavy fire, or how the ...
Be careful! Your Huawei phone might self-reset after you change its SIM card
Huawei has decided to put a rather controvertial feature in its newer smartphone models. What this function does is to automatically hard reset (reset your smartphone back to its default, factory settings) after putting in a SIM card from a different operator. This will make the phone’s owner lose all of his/her data – apps, pictures and other content will be lost. The function will also change the device’s brand to this of the new operator.If you really have to change the SIM card in your Huawei smartphone, please, make sure to create a backup of all your data ...
iPad battery overheating causes whole Apple Store to evacuate
Apple Store in Amsterdam, yesterday, 2:20 pm. Crew of firefighters from Amsterdam’s fire department arrived after being called by the store’s employee. The reason they were called was an iPhone smartphone that started to smoke, releasing toxic waste into the air. The device did not start a fire, nor anyone was burnt by it, but three people have been treated on site by the ambulance workers due to suffering breathing difficulties. While no official statement has been released, it is rumoured that the whole event was caused by a faulty iPhone battery that melted down. Whatever ...
Fresh new render of BlackBerry KEY2 LE
While it is still unlikely that BB Evolve and Evolve X will ever be released outside India, us Westerners can look forward another device made by BlackBerry, namely the KEY2 LE, a Lite edition of the well-received KEY2. Whether there is a point in making a light edition of an already mid-range device is up to you but, thanks to a leak from Nieuwe Mobiel, you have to admit that it looks pretty good. Device will be available in black, blue, red and copper. As for its specs:– 4.5-inch touchscreen,– Snapdragon 636 processor,– 4GB RAM, 64GB storage,– 13mpx + 5mpx dual ...
Canadian release of BlackBerry KEYone updated to Android Oreo, more coming soon
An over-the-air update is currently ongoing for both locked and unlocked versions of the phone. New features in the Oreo OS include Picture-in-Picture functionality, smart text selection, background limits and Autofill. It will probably take a few days before the update is available in all of Canada. The update will weight around one gigabyte, so better make some room. Tweet Vote on HN ...
Samsung Exynos 5100 official – world’s first 5G modem
Device is compliant with 3rd Generation Partnership Project standards. It is build with the 10nm process technology. It supports legacy radio access technologies, sub-6GHz, mmWave spectrums and older networks like 2G GSM/CDMA, 3G WCDMA, TD-SCDMA, HSPA, and 4G LTE. Samsung maintains that Exynos 5100 can deliver a maximum downlink speed of up to 2Gbps in 5G’s sub-6GHz settings and 6Gbps in mmWave settings, which equals roughly 1.7 and 5 times the data transfer speeds of 4G connection. All of this goodness will be made available to us by the end of 2018. Lets just hope that the ...
Rumour goes that the HTC U12 Life will not be made by HTC
According to an allegedly reliable leakster, HTC will outsource the production of its upcoming mid-ranger U12 Life (which may or may not be called differently). The leakster does not know who will HTC’s original design manufacturer be. As for the reason for the outsourcing, it probably has something to do with HTC’s recent financial problems; lets not forget that the company recently had to lay off a quarter of its Taiwanese employees.By the way, the phone will probably have Android 8.1 Oreo on board. ...