I would like to write about some other brand but come on, one cannot pass on something like this XD.One miss Rita Schemeyev (I am sorry for mispronouncing the surname), 25, has recently died. Her father has buried his daughter in a cemetery in a town of Ufa. Mr. Schemeyev has made a somewhat controversial choice of tombstone, though, choosing to have one in shape of iPhone 6 be made. Right… the tombstone is a fairly accurate depiction of iPhone 6, too, down to the logo and the characteristic loudspeaker and camera combo on the upper bezel. Making of it cost, reportedly, around 104 ...
Monthly Archives: September 2018
Be careful! Popular Google Play app is actually a trojan
QRecorder was an app of some renome, available on Google Play for some time already. Its purpose was to record phone calls. While it did that, not long ago it was found out that QRecorder also had another, more malicious function. As it turned out, QRecorder was a trojan. Its function was to check text messages of infected devices for bank account access data, steal it, log into the account and steal money. It is believed that QRecorder was created with Bohemian banks in mind; it is unknown whether or not the virus will work on other countries’ bank accounts as well. As for the app ...
Motorola One Power to be updated to Android P before 2019
Motorola has officially confirmed that it will soon provide its Motorola One Power smartphones with the Android 9 Pie OS. How soon exacly? No one knows, but Phone Arena believes that it will happen sometime this year. First soak-test should be commenced by the end of October. ...
Palo Alto Apple Store robbed twice in 12 hours after iPhone Xs release
Smartphone store burglaries are nothing new; thieves often consider them easy marks due to the goods just laying out there, as well as for how easy it is to hide and transport stolen smartphones. Well, it seems that the Palo Alto thieves have become particulary brazen in their rigamorole, because they have robbed the Apple store there not once but twice in twelve hours. According to the Palo Alto Police Department (derpartment?), the store was first hit on 7pm, Saturday, when eight suspects took off with $57000 worth of demo iPhone models, iPhone Xs and Xs Max among them. Second hit took ...
Sprint version of BlackBerry KEYone will not receive Android Oreo
Most of the KEYone releases are being updated to Oreo (which is probably the last OS update this phone is going to get), but not all of them. Sprint, a North American carrier, has confirmed that it’s KEYone variant will not be receiving the update. The exact reason why is unknown. Other US carriers may or may not upgrade their KEYone’s OS’ accordingly. ...
LineageOS 15.1 Oreo is now available for a number of smartphones
LineageOS, the arguably most popular of custom Android ROMs, has its Oreo build released a few months ago. Ever since then, new phones’ support has been methodically added to it. Today, the list has grown with a good bunch of new devices: ZTE Axon 7, AT&T LG G2, International LG G2, T-Mobile LG G2, ZUK Z1, Canadian LG G2, Xiaomi Redmi 3S/3X and Xiaomi Redmi 4/4X. ...
LG V40 ThinQ unveiled. Cameras, soft material and more
– comes out on October 3rd,– five cameras confirmed: triple rear camera and dual selfie shooter,– slim design with small bezels,– emphasize on the device being lean and pleasant to the touch,– specs rumours from other sources include 6.4-inch display and reinforced glass frame.Unveiling video can be watched here. ...
New info on Samsung Galaxy P30
Samsung is reportedly working on a new member of the P series, Galaxy P30 smartphone, which is said to reach store shelves by the end of the year. According to an exclusive article from SamMobile, this device’s main selling point will be the fact that it will be the first Samsung smartphone with an in-display fingerprint sensor, beating the Galaxy S10 to the fingerprint punch. As for specs, Galaxy P30 is believed to come with an LCD display (into which the fingerprint scanner will be built) and 64GB and 128GB of storage. It will be available in black, blue, pink and red colour ...
Roland Quandt releases new pictures of Huawei Mate 20 Pro
Good old Roland Quandt never fails. Today the leakmeister provides us with picture depicting three colour variants and front of the upcoming Mate 20 Pro smartphone. Picture has been found on the German website WinFuture. The features it reveals are:– triple rear camera setup & flash,– relatively large notch with a facial recognition sensors embedded into it,– possible lack of fingerprint scanner.Leak does not cover any of the phone’s specs. According to older rumours, Mate 20 Pro may be sporting Kirin 980 chipset, Android 9 Pie, 6GB RAM, 128GB storage 4,200mAh ...
New iPhones have problems with connectiviity
Release of new and popular smartphones is the best time to showoff the most glaring and immediate of their shortcomings. This time some serious problems are troubling the newly released iPhone Xs, Xs Max and Xr devices. Shortly before their release Apple has told us that their data sending capabilities will be a few times stronger than these of iPhone X. Sadly, this boast seems to be untrue, if not for all then at least for many. A growing number of new iPhone owners report never achieving high connectivity capabilities with their smartphones; no matter where they are, their ...