Nokia makes good phones but is not particulary fast when it comes to updating them. At least until now. Nokia 7 is already running on Pie, with 5.1’s update being planned. According to Juho Sarvikas, Nokia’s employee that often visits Twitter, Nokia 6.1 will not only be updated to Android Pie but quickly so, without entering the Beta Labs betatests first. On the one hand it is good, as we can expect the update to arrive any day; on the other hand, lack of beta testing does not bode well for the update’s ...
Monthly Archives: October 2018
Samsung Galaxy S8 gets its October security update in Germany
Software versions G950FXXU4CRJ5 and G955FXXU4CRJ5 have been released for the Germany-sold Samsung Galaxy S8 and S8+ smartphones. These updates bring with them fixes for a dozen critical Android OS, 11 Samsung and an unspecified number of lesser vulnerabilities. No other content has been reported so far. If your phone does not update automatically, I suggest going to Settings and Software update and tap the Download updates manually option. Tweet Vote on HN ...
Samsung Galaxy Note 9 gets October security updates
Software number N960FXXS2ARJ4 is now available for Galaxy Note 9. Update weights 67.5MB and brings with it 11 Android OS, 12 Samsung and some lesser fixes. It is now available in many of the Eastern and Centeral Europe countries, and is expected to roll out globally over the course of the next few days. As always, go to Settings > Software Updates if you want to download it manually. Tweet Vote on HN ...
Have you played The Stanley Parable? Today is the first day you might honestly fulfill the game’s most notorious achievement
Most of video game achievements push us to play the game more – do this with that character, defeat XXX many enemies, play for YYY amount of hours et cetera. The Stanley Parable, a video game slash psychoanalysis from 2013, took a bit different approach. While the game does have a few normal – or as normal as The Stanley Parable can get – achievements, it also has one called ”Go Outside”. Obtaining this achievement is simple and yet difficult, as all you have to do is not playing the game for five years. Opposite to this is the ”Commitment” ...
Facebook is being taken to court over alleged fraud
Crowd Siren Agency is accusing Facebook of inflating its average time spent watching videos statistics. According to the agency, in years 2015-2016 FB has premeditely deceived its business partners by modifying their aforementioned statistics so that they are even 900% larger than they were supposed to. This in turn has created an artificial deflux of video content from YT and other platforms to Facebook, with content creators counting on FB’s ”magic” to garner them a large number of views. The whole fraud has supposedly begun with a glitch that FB found out back in 2015 ...
Vertu Aster P, the newest luxury phone with Android
We have good news for everyone with too much money. Vertu, British company specialized in creating luxury mobile devices, is coming back after some financial difficulties. Their newest product is Asper P, a smartphone slash symbol of sumptuousness, presented yesterday on a Pekin conference. Aster P does not have a groundbreaking specs, but specs are not what this device is about; it is about bling, and Asper P has plenty of that. Phone’s body is made of a titan alloy, which will certainly sound good when snobbing about your phone with your equally snobby friends. Device’s rear ...
Kyocera KY-O1L, smallest kinda-smartphone in the world
See that thing next to it? That is a credit card. That is right, KY-O1L is pretty much as little as your credit card. That is quite small. Device’s size is 91mm x 55mm x 5.3mm, and it weights 47 gram. Sounds good, right? Well, if you want to buy it, you will have to be ready to make a few sacrifices. KY-O1L lacks any kind of camera, sports a 2.8′ display and will cost $284.39 – quite a bit, considering how little it offers. On the plus side, its microscopic 380mAh battery will still easily outlast big boy pants’ smartphones and it does have LTE functionality and web ...
US release of Moto G5S Plus is getting an OS update to Android 8.1 Oreo
Global rollout of that device has begun last month, and although it took a while, it has finally reached North America. Update consists of an August security patch (wow, that is late) as well as a number of stability improvements. The update is staged, so it is not available in every corner of the US from the start. Just a little more patience. Tweet Vote on HN ...
Lenovo K9 and Lenovo A5 are now out in India
Lenovo seemingly tries to push Xiaomi off its ”king of the budget smartphones in India” pedestal. The company has just released two new budget phones, K9 and A5, as pretty much a direct competition to Xiaomi Redmi 6 and 6A. Lenovo K9 offers a bit better specs than Redmi 6, but for the price of being slightly, well, pricier, while Lenovo A5 has slightly worse CPU than 6A but instead sports a fingerprint scanner that Redmi does not. Both phones have 18:9 display. Lenovo K9 costs ₹8,999 while Lenovo A5 costs either ₹5,999 or ₹6,999, depending on the memory ...
Samsung Galaxy A7 (2017) and Galaxy A8 (2018) are slowly getting their October security patches
Update for Galaxy A7 (2017) is already out in India, while Galaxy A8 (2018) got its own in Belarus and Canada. Other markets should receive their updates any time now. New firmware versions are A720FXXU6CRJ5 and A530WVLS3BRJ1. Fixes included are typical security patches. Tweet Vote on HN ...