It has been four years now and Galaxy S6 is still being supported with security updates

Do not get me wrong, I hate Samsung as much as I hate any other large company, but I have to admit that this is quite classy. Galaxy S6 and S6 Edge have just received their January 2019 security update software versions G920FXXU6ESA1 and G925FXXU6ESA1: pretty impressive for smartphones released in on April 2015. This bodes well for the owners of Galaxy S7 and newer Samsung devices – it will be a long time before your smartphones will be so out of date that they will not be supported any longer. ...

MIUI 11 is coming out later this year. These are the phones that will support it

A list of devices that will support the future MIUI 11 update has been put online. It consists of both Xiaomi and Redmi smartphones, although some Poco models will probably get it in the future as well:– Mi 9, Mi 8, Mi 8 SE, Mi 8 Pro, Mi 8 Explorer Edition, Mi 6,– Mi Mix 3, Mi Mix 2s, Mix Mix 2, Mi Mix, Mi Note 3, Mi Note 2,– Mi 6X, Mi 5c, Mi 5X, Mi 5s, Mi 5s Plus, Mi Max 3, Mi Max 2, Mi Max, Mi Play, Mi Play,– Redmi 6, Redmi 6A, Redmi 6 Pro, Redmi 5, Redmi 5A, Redmi 5 Plus, Redmi 4, Redmi 4A, Redmi 4X, Redmi 3s, Redmi 3X, Redmi S2,– Redmi Note 7, Redmi Note 6 ...

Sony wants you to buy a walkman. Why? Because video game

Buy an expensive and pointless device because it has a logo of a video game you probably have not played anyway, Sony said; and that is why we now have the NW-A55 Series A Sony Walkman on the market. What will the 260 dollars that it costs get us? A walkman that plays mp3 files, with 16GB of space, box with the logo of Kingdom Hearts 3 and… that is all. There are also wireless headphones that cost 220 dollars – both products are, imho, pointless. Tweet Vote on HN ...

Phone blew up in London metro

Yesterday an interesting accident took place in the international London metro station. The usual hustle and bustle of the terminal has been interrupted when a sudden explosion has been heard, with smoke quickly filling the hall. People, sadly used to terrorist attacks, started to run, but soon stopped when it became clear there is no danger: it was a smartphone or, more specifically, smartphone’s battery that was the culprit. The specific model has yet to be recognized, though some speculate that it may be Sony Xperia; the phone’s owner has not been found. Nobody has got hurt, ...

Huawei Watch GT is up for pre-orders in the US of A

GT Watch has been on the market for some time now, but the device was not released in North America – until now. The watch can be bought in black and stainless/brown colour variants, with its specs including a 1.39-inch AMOLED display, GPS, heart rate monitor, sleep tracker and more. It is compatible with both iOS and Android, but equires users to download the free companion app in order to utilise smart notifications feature. Tweet Vote on HN ...

Render and specs of Sony Xperia XA3

Both renders and some of the specs of Sony’s new mid-ranger have leaked online: the former looks as presented above, and has been published online by Winfuture.de. Renders show us a device with a 6.5′ Cinemadisplay, err, display with 21:9 proportions as well as a dual camera setup. There is no rear-mounted fingerprint scanner to be seen, so there is probably one built into the device’s display. The rest of the smartphone’s specs will be more or less such:– 8-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 660 CPU,– GPU Adreno 512,– 4GB RAM, 64GB memory space, microSD card ...

Ubisoft wil soon start The Division 2’s open beta

Launch date of The Division 2 is near (march 15th), but do not worry, you will get to play your beta before that. Open beta will take place on March 1 to 4. It will be available to every PC owner with Uplay as well as to owners of Xbox One and PS4. The beta will open quite a large part of the game, too: whole east side of the city, with its Dark Zone and settlement, 2 campaign missions and 5 sidequests, 4v4 pvp and an unspecified end-game content – a raid, perhaps? We shall see – personally I am waiting for Anthem ...

Harley for kids, or how Harley-Davidson made a motor scooter

Have you always wanted a real Harley-Davidson chopper but you are only sixteen and your parents would never buy you one? Do not worry: there is a small, slow and, in general, significantly less awesome alternative that you can ask them for, at least as long as you do not mind looking like a toddler on its first fourwheeler. During this year’s Winter X Games, H-D has decided to present its newest product: an electric scooter. We have not learned anything about the technicalities of this device, but it has been called a working prototype, so I suppose that its release date is near. H-D ...

OnePlus 5G will probably say hi on MWC 2019. OnePlus 7

Chinese company OnePlus has just confirmed that their smartphone with 5G capabilities will be revealed during this year’s Mobile World Congress. Presentation will take place in Hall 3, on stance 3E10. We have also learned that OnePlus 7 will launch some time in 2nd quarter of this year, and that it will cost less than the 5G model – which, by the way, will cost around 700 – 800 euro. Tweet Vote on HN ...

Some of Nokia 9’s specs just came out

Android Enterprise Program has just put some of this smartphone’s specs online. Thanks to this we now know that this device will sport, among other things, the 6′ display with 18:9 proportions, NFC, 4 gigabytes of RAM (in the basic version; expanded one will get 6 GB) and 128 gigabytes of memory space. The render above is also from that site.Nokia 9 will be released some time by the end of this year. The phone will cost between 749 and 799 euro. Tweet Vote on HN ...