Following the lowered prices of iPhones in China are India, where iPhone XR can now be bought for 75% of its old price. The 64GB variant can now be bought there for 59,000 rupees, 17,900 less than before. According to Reuter though, the new pricing is merely a short-term promotional offer. Apple hopes that the new price will entice Indians into buying their devices, seeing how roughly 3/4 of people there do not own such a device at all due to their steep, for Indian market, prices. ...
Monthly Archives: April 2019
Indian Redmi Note 5 receives its first MIUI update in four months. Good for them
Redmi Note 5, one of the most successful Xiaomi smartphones in India, has lately been hurting for MIUI updates. Not anymore, though, as Xiaomi is just now releasing the MIUI build number 10.2.1. Update fixes a large number of issues with an earlier build 10.0.4. The full list of fixes is as follows:PhoneNotifications about incoming calls will no longer disappear if you’re in a video callIncorrect UI elements for switching between the front and the back cameras during video calls is now fixedThose who couldn’t send SMSes during conference calls will now be able to do ...
Starting today, commuters in Singapore can use Google Pay as their transit pass
Plain, old fashioned tickets? Forget it. Commuters in Singapore can now pay for their public transporation needs with Google Pay. This was made possible by the cooperation between the Land Transport Authority and Samsung. Payment can be made contactless with a MasterCard, and since these cards work with Google Pay, the latter now allows seamless payment option. All you need to do is unlock your phone and hold its display on the fare reader; voila, done.LTA has announced that, while the payment can only be done with MasterCard for now, Visa cards will also be supported ...
ASUS Zenfone 6 appeared on AnTuTu. What do we know about it?
Over 36 thousand points is a number high enough to consider this device a decent flagship. As far as specs go, the list tells us about a popular Snapdragon 855 with Adreno 640 GPU, a somewhat lacking 6GB RAM, very reasonable 128GB flash space and a FHD+ display. All of it works under the command of Android 9 Pie. Time will tell whether or not these specs are real. Tweet Vote on HN ...
Hackers have used a gaming pad to gain access into Tesla vehicle
Tencent Keen Security Lab employees have put Tesla cars under a series of tests to, well, test their defenses against hacking attempts. Those defenses have been found lacking to say the least: as it turned out, a really Keen hacker (see what I did there?) could gain access to the autonomous vehicle with just a gaming pad, whether or not the car is currently working on an autopilot. This as well as other ways to hack Tesla have been presented on this video. As for Elon Musk, he thanked Keen for their work at finding security holes in his cars and promised, that they have been or are being ...
Samsung may be working on a smaller variant of Galaxy Note 10
Oh, yay, more Samsung news. Today we have learned that we may get two separate models of the Galaxy Note 10 smartphone: a normal and a smaller one. The smaller device is rumoured to sport a 6.4′ display. It is also said that it will be made specifically for the European market.For now, that is all. Tweet Vote on HN ...
Interesting. Apple has decresed its products’ prices in China
The products in question are iPhones XS, XR, 8 and 7, as well as some of the iPods, Mac computers and Airpods. iPhones’ prices have decreased from 300 to 500 juan – 45 to 75 dollars. Also, according to CX Live and CNBC, Chinese customers who have bought their Apples in the last two weeks and for old prices will reportedly be able to receive partial refunds. Hmm.Apple has not released any official statement explaining this course of action. It is believed that this is due to the company’s sales getting pretty low in China: Apple was only the 4th best-selling mobile brand ...
LG network unlock explained. Device unlock app or a code, which one should you use?
We receive many LG orders in our company. They usually work without any problems, however sometimes the unlocking method is not supported. What it means is the fact that not all network can be unlocked by code like Sprint or Verizon which are CDMA networks.The problem is not with the codes but the fact that you cannot enter the code in any way. So we strongly advice to check before the order if your device has an option to enter a code.All instruction are mentioned on the website and look like this:Unlocking instruction for LGHow to enter an unlock code in a LG:First option:1. Insert a ...
Apple hired ex-Tesla head of electric powertrains. Apple electric cars are coming?
Project Titan is the name of Apple’s ongoing, well, project to create its own brand of autonomous, electric vehicles. The project will now be strenghtened by Apple obtaining Michael Schwekutsch, former chief of Tesla powertrains. He is a second ex-Tesla employee to join Apple, the first one being engineer Doug Field. Schwekutsch’s work on improving electric Motors of Tesla devices will certainly be useful for Apple’s own efforts. Tweet Vote on HN ...
Watch out for malware-filled Game of Thrones downloads
If you want to get a head-start on Season 8, you might want to reconsider. Hackers and other online miscreants will often use the lure of ”yeah, this is totally the leaked first episode of Season 8” to make you download files filled with spying malware, viruses and other malicious stuff. According to Kaspersky Lab, the series’ pirated content accounts for 17% of all infected pirated content downloaded in 2018 – a huge number. The most common kind of virus hidden in the show is trojan. My suggestion? Hold your horses and wait for the legal episodes to come ...