Samsung’s Galaxy S Lite line has always had relatively small batteries, and the company is seemingly keeping to that course, despite the users’ protests. As revealed by the certification of the SM-G970 model, which most probably is the Galaxy S10 Lite, the device will sport a somewhat humble 3100mAh accumulator. In the era of 4 and 5 thousand mAh batteries, 3100 is really not that much, even for a Lite phones.More specs will surely surface any day now. Tweet Vote on ...
Monthly Archives: January 2019
Snowman in space, or how NASA published pictures of the furthest away from Earth object in space yet
American space probe New Horizons has recently sent NASA the pictures of a very particular space object. Dubbed Ultima Thule, it is the most distant space body found yet. The rather atypical thing, which official name is a ”contact binary”, has also been given a nickname ”Snowman” for its shape. It is placed 6.5 billion kilometers away from Earth, in a so-called Kuiper belt, which is said to be a collection of rocks and planetoids remaining after the forming of the Solar System.Of course, the above picture may have been fabricated, NASA is really a group of ...
Video of foldable phone by Xiaomi
Evan Blass strikes again, this time delivering us a video depicting an alleged folding Xiaomi smartphone. Blass himself has stated that he is not assured of the video’s authenticity, but who would pass such an opportunity? Worst case scenario, we will all get disappointed and go on; best case scenario, this is our first look at the upcoming foldable smartphone by Xiaomi. The device, first depicted in its ”tablet mode”, can fold its left and right side, packing up into an average smartphone size. Objects on the display respond to this action by moving closer together, so ...
Supposedly real picture of Samsung Galaxy S10 leaked
The mystery surrounding the Galaxy S10 is slowly dispelled as more and more info about it gets public. We already know some of its specs, and have seen a number of renders depicting the device. Now, thanks to @EVLeaks, we can put our filthy paws on what is supposed to be a real look of the smartphone. Unit depicted in the picture is said to be the ”normal” variant of Galaxy S10, with two others being the usual lite and plus versions. @EVLeaks’ tweet does not contain much info on the device, other than that it will be able to wirelessly charge other ...
”Bird Box Challenge”, or the Darwin Award goes to…
Bird Box is the latest, and seemingly very popular, Netflix production (as well as a blatant ripoff of Quiet Place, but shh). Popularity of the flick with Sandra Bullock as the main cast gave birth to a brand new Internet craze. Called ”Bird Box Challenge”, its gimmick is easy to figure out – it has people trying to go about their daily lives with their eyes covered. Results are easy to predict, and I am pretty sure that any day now we will get some sort of a ”Bird Box Challenge Fails” compilation video online. I will gladly watch it.As long as the idiots are ...
Samsung Galaxy M10, specs
Device with a codename SM0M105F/DS has recently been spotted in the FCC listings. As it turned out, the listing contains quite a lot of information regarding the device’s specifications. It looks like Samsung is cooking up yet another solid mid-ranger:– Exynos 7870 CPU, 1,6 GHz, 8 cores,– 3GB RAM, 32 or 64GB ROM,– Mali-T830 MP1 GPU,– 3400 mAh battery,– fingerprint scanner,– Bluetooth 4.2, Wi-Fi 2,4 GHz and LTE,– Android 8.1 Oreo with Samsung Experience OS.We have no clue regarding phone’s release date, price or ...
Exploding phone killed its owner
The unfortunate accident took place in India. 60 years old denizen of a Netavalgarh Pachhli village went to bed with his Jio smartphone in his pocket. When he woke up at night to go to bathroom, the phone exploded – man’s wife, who saw the whole thing happening, described it as ”flames covering his clothes”. Injured, the man was hospitalized but died from severe burns.As much as death is no laughing matter, it is hard not to think that the accident was victim’s own fault. If the man did not sleep with his phone put into a tight and overly warm place like his ...
From now on Mozilla will show ads in Firefox’ home window
Heh, okay, yet another reason to not move from Google Chrome… In an attempt to stay afloat, Mozilla has decided ona move that might be good for it but creates a bad precedens for all of us – namely, it now allows advertisements to show in Firefox’ home window, as shown in the screenshot above. Ads will be shown on every platform, from Windows to macOS to Linux.Interestingly, the ads still do not appear on everyone’s browsers. Mozilla might still be testing this ...
Sony Xperia XZ4 benchmarked. Impressive
The device has gathered 395 thousand points, which is even more than the ex-leader iPhone Xs Max. This is mostly due to the superior Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 CPU along with 6 gigabytes of RAM. This bad boy will be officially released during the MWC 2019, so between 25 and 28 February. As for its specs, here is what we know:– 6.55′ display, 21:9,– Snapdragon 855 CPU,– 6GB RAM, 64 or 256GB ROM,– 3900mAh battery,– Android 9 Pie OS,– no notch!,– 5G connectivity ...
Hurray, yet another smartphone went up in flames
A new day, a new smartphone fire. This time a little tragedy has struck an iPhone Xs Max and its owner, one Josh Hillard, Columbus, Ohio, USA. Hillard has reportedly been carrying his smartphone in his pocket when he suddenly felt an unpleasant scent coming out of it. He removed the quickly overheating device, which soon erupted into flames and burned down. Hillard took the phone to the Apple service place, but decided against sending it to Windows for analysis. The reason may or may not be shame; it is easy to imagine that Hollard kept the phone in his pocket for lenghty times every day, ...