It was just yesterday that I wrote about Meizu Zero, world’s first smartphone lacking both any buttons and connectors, and today I get to tell you about another one just like that. Apex 2019 by Vivo is a concept smartphone with the same main feature as Zero; it will have no buttons, with user’s interface being limited to touchscreen and touch frame, and no connectors. Like Zero it will be charged wirelessly, but it will also have the option of charging via a magnetic interface. Unlike Zero it will lack a pretty important feature these days, namely the selfie shooter camera. ...

Xiaomi has just taken to Twitter to announce that their Redmi Note 7 budget smartphone will soon be debuting in India. The precise release date and price are unknown; the latter might be something around 10500 rupees for the normal model and 14000-15000 for the Plus one. Device’s specs include Sony IMX586 48mpx camera sensor, Snapdragon 660 CPU, 3 or 4 gigabytes of RAM and 6.3′ display with teardrop. Tweet Vote on HN ...

Apple’s newest iOS has just completed its betatests and is now available for everyone to download. The changes are… small:– fixed glitch where the screen would not scroll properly after a picture,– improved work of external loudspeaker devices in iPad Pro 2018,– HomePod fixes, Siri now listens better and random loudspeaker restarts fixed,– bug fixes for CarPlay on iPhone XS, XS Max i XR.In order to download iOS 12.1.3, you need to connect to the Wi-Fi, go to Settings, General and select Updates. It might be a good idea to make sure that your phone is ...

Guys from Meizu have just presented us a concept of their newest smartphone, an interesting, perhaps even groundbreaking Meizu Zero. What is so cool about it? Oh, nothing, just the fact that it has no buttons and no connectors at all. All there is to this smartphone is its case, display and a touch frame on the right side of the device. Having no classic loudspeakers, it will use the so-called piezo-electronic transducers; lack of charger connectivity means that it will be charged wireless-only. There is even no SIM card, which might displease some potential users.Specs:– ...

Starting at an unspecified but supposedly near date, 1850 Target locations across the United States of America will accept Google Pay and Samsung Pay in addition to Apple Pay which it have already been supporting for a while now. Unfortunately, Target’s RED cards cannot be added to any of the above payment methods; if you want to keep your 5% discount then you need to use the Wallet feature in Target’s app. Too bad. Tweet Vote on HN ...

Interesting. One extremely devoted fan of the old Fallout games have accomplished a pretty impressive task of making the old game work on a smartphone. They launched it on a pretty old by itself Lumia 950 XL. In order to pull it off, the fan had to use Windows 10 ARM, Windows OS version specifically made to work alongside ARM architecture processors. Video depicting this accomplishment can be watched here.Personally I would rather not play that game on a small screen but hey, kudos for ...

Google News, aggregate of news from various online websites from all over the world, might be pulled out from Europe. The reason for this is a copyright laws directive that the European Parliament is currently working on. If the directive passes, it will give the authors of texts that Google News uses demand payment for their usage – all that it will require is for just parts of their articles to appear when browsing Google News. For the moment the directive has been stopped, but it being passed is not out of question. Analysts are not certain what Google will do if that happens; they ...