Samsung UK’s ”How do I join the One UI Beta Programme?” site has just been updated. It now says that the beta is, quote, coming soon. We do not know whether that means we have to wait a few weeks or a few hours. The former is more likely, seeing how UK’s phase one beta tests have just ended. Tweet Vote on HN ...
Monthly Archives: November 2018
AnTuTu benchmarks Samsung Galaxy M
Samsung Galaxy M, a merge of J, C and On series, is currently in the works. Some of the info regarding this phone has been released yesterday due to a Geekbench listing (3GB of RAM, Exynos 7885 CPU, Android 8.1 Oreo OS). Today, a benchmark by AnTuTu reveals more about the device’s specs:– display resolution of 2340×1080 pixels,– 13mpx main camera, 8mpx selfie shooter,– 32GB storage,– Exynos 7885 CPU,– Mali-G71 MP2 GPU.These specs may change over ...
Huawei Matebook X Pro already sold out in Australia
Well that was fast. It was only a week ago that Microsoft Store added the Matebook X Pro laptop to its australian offer, and all the devices have already been sold out. This is probably both due to the laptop’s high quality as well as very juicy pre-order and Black Friday deals that the australian Microsoft Store offered for it; it is not every day that you can buy a laptop for two or three hundred bucks cheaper than normally. Sadly, we do not know when will the Microsoft Stores in the land down under be resupplied. That is what I call being a victim of your own success, though Huawei ...
Blizzard is making a mobile Warcraft game
O tempora o mores… Only days after a PR fiasco that was the announcement of Diablo: Immortal, Blizzard is pushing its luck again. This time it was Kotaku who told the world that the gaming giant is working on a mobile Warcraft game. According to Kotaku, it is supposed to be an augmented reality game similiar in style to Pokemon: Go. Pokemon: Go is supposedly very popular among the Warcraft developers team, with the new Warcraft mobile team’s leader, one Cory Stockton, reportedly being a huge Pokemon fan in general. Those who managed to play the game’s early version say ...
Honor 10 Lite. Price and specifications
Honor 10 Lite has just been officially announced by Huawei. It is a mid-ranger in flashy colours, created with younger customers in mind. It will come in a number of colour variants – Gradient Blue, Gradient Red, Night Black, and Lily White. Its price will depend on the memory variant chosen: 4GB RAM/64 GB of storage memory for CNY1399 ($200), 6GB/64 GB for CNY1699 ($245) and 6GB/128GB for CNY1899 ($275).Specifications:– 6.2-inch display, 19.5:9 aspect ratio, 1080×2340 resolution,– HiSilicon Kirin 710 SoC,– Mali-G51 MP4 GPU,– 4/6GB RAM, 64/128GB storage, up to ...
App Store removed Tumblr from its offer because of child pornography
Apple has recently removed Tumblr from its app store. The reason? Tumblr’s failure to filter child pornography. Tumblr released a statement in which the company admitted that its security scans repeatedly failed to filter out images of child pornography, failure which caused App Store to temporarily remove the app from its offer. The ban is to be revoked once Tumblr’s security measures will be sufficiently updated. Tweet Vote on HN ...
SMS might be replaced by RCS
American cellphone network Verizon is working on starting a new communication standard, one that will replace both SMS as well as Messenger and other similiar communicators. The new standard is called RCS, which stands for Rich Communication Suite. RCS will allow to send multimedia files and text that weights even 100 megabytes – much more than the currently available 200 kilobytes of an MMS, whether these files be audio or video. It will have all the usual Messenger amenities such as location recognition and text delivery confirmation. The only bad side of RCS is that it requires a ...
Google Maps will get its own messenger?
Lately Google tries hard to make us keep using its Maps. They recently added the accident and speed camera report systems; today the gossip of a new function spreaded into the Internet. According to it, Google Maps will be receiving its own messenger soon. Interestingly, this messenger will not allow us to talk to friends and acquaintances, instead being limited to chatting with firms. Weird… The way it works is shown in this short video.I do not know whether or not such a function is really useful to Google Maps users. What I do know is that it will cause the app to be even more ...
Render and specs of Motorola Moto G7 Plus
One OnLeaks has recently, well, leaked a bunch of renders depicting Motorola’s Moto G7 Plus smartphone. They depict a device with a notch with selfie shooter embedded into it, a 6.4′ display, dual main camera and rear-mounted fingerprint scanner. The device’s specifications are available here:– 6,4′ Full HD+ display,– Snapdragon 670 or 710 CPU,– 4 or 6 GB RAM, 64 or 128 GB flash memoery,– microSD up to 256GB,– 16mpx + 5mpx main camera, LED flash, 12mpx camera,– fingerprint scanner,– 3500 mAh battery,– Android 9 ...
Pictures of Infinity O displays
That is what the Infinity O display panels are supposed to look like. These panels are being made for the upcoming Galaxy S10 smartphones, the production of which has just begun. What do we know about these panels? The one belonging to the cheapest version of Galaxy S10 will have 5.8′ diameter and be flat; the more expensive versions will be curved. Samsung has also decided that they will have holes carved in them for the selfie shooter.That is all. The devices will probably hit the store shelves soon now that the production is going ...