In order to decrease the amount of man-made waste in the world, de-clutter our bins and closets and generally make everyone’s life more pleasant, Samsung Electronics have announced that it will begin to replace plastic components of its products’ packaging with more easily decomposable and recyclable (btw, first time ever I use this word) materials such as paper or bioengineered plastics. Samsung’s plans include:- replacing plastic bags protecting its products with ones based on recycled and bioplastic materials,– using only paper fiber that is certified by select ...
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Turns out Xiaomi ships more smartphones into India than Samsung
According to research by Counterpoint Research (doi), the number of Xiaomi smartphones shipped into India during the whole 2018 have exceeded that of Samsung devices. Xiaomi has experienced a very healthy 11% growth in units shipped when compared to least year. Currently Xiaomi devices cover 27% of Indian mobile market; in comparison, Samsung takes ”only” 22%. Tweet Vote on HN ...
Render and specs of Nokia 1 Plus leaked
Tigermobiles website have just released some potential information on the upcoming Nokia 1 Plus budget phone. The aforementioned info includes both the above render and some of the phone’s specs:– 960 x 480-pixel display, 2:1 aspect ratio,– Mediatek MT6739WW chipset, 4-core,– PowerVR GE8100 GPU,– 1GB RAM,– dual-SIM support,– Bluetooth, GPS, Wi-Fi, microUSB connectivity,– Android 9 Pie OS.Phone’s price is as of yet unknown. It will probably be officially released during this year’s MWC trade ...
Test version of new Windows 10 released. Many fixes, not a lot changes
Participats of the Windows Insider program have just received their test version of the new Windows 10 19H1 update. Most of the changes included within it are smaller or greater fixes of existing issues; the pretty much only new addition is that of adding RAW files support for Windows Explorer. Judging by the opinions online, most people prefer this minimalistic approach: Windows is already a robust and advanced operating system, and what it needs now is more polish. Tweet Vote on ...
Facebook wants to merge Messengera, Instagram and WhatsAppa into a single service
Mark Zuckerberg wants to integrate all three of his social network messaging services into one in order to, supposedly, assert his control over the increasing division between the three apps. This in turn will supposedly make it easier for Facebook to better fight against Internet evils such as fake news or hate speech. The plan is to continue operating three apps separately, but to connect them via an underlying technical infrastructure. Reconfiguration of the three social apps should be complete by the end of 2020. Additionally, this process will include incorporating an end-to-end ...
Redmi Note 7 is a decent chopping board
Redmi Note 7 is supposedly selling well, but it could always sell better. As everyone knows, nothing bumps up the sales as much as some good media coverage (well, nothing except delivering a quality product or selling it for competitive prices). Therefore, the only natural conclusion was for Xiaomi to publish a video where the company’s CEO, Lu Weibing, uses their smartphone as a cutting board. Yeah… The arguably entertaining video can be watched here.Redmi Note 7’s specification is as follows:– 6,3′ display Full HD+,– 8-core Qualcomm Snapdragon ...
Energizer is preparing a phone with a LARGE battery
Energizer seemingly wants to take a smartphone market by storm. The company plans to show us 26 different smartphone models during the MWC 2019, and while we will probably forget most of them the day they come out, a few of these models have a shot at being more memorable. One of them is one of the Power Max series (there will be four series, Energy, Hardcase, Ultimate and Power Max), which is supposed to come out with an 18000mAh battery. Other interesting models include a foldable one and retractable camera ...
Samsung Galaxy Buds and Galaxy Fit
Both devices have just received their certifications. Galaxy Buds, bearing model number SM-R170, will be available in black, white, and yellow. They will come with 8GB of internal storage and support Bluetooth 5.0. As for Galaxy Fit, two models are in the works, model numbers SM-R370 and SM-R375. They will be available in silver, white and yellow. The latter will also support Bluetooth 5.0. It is listed as ”Galaxy Fit e” – it is anyone’s guess as to what does the additional letter in its name mean.W do not know when will the two devices be unveiled, but this ...
Nokia 8.1 now available at UK via HMD
HMD Global has just announced that it will now be selling Nokia 8.1 smartphones in the United Kingdoms. It will be available at various retailers, cost £379.99 and be sold in blue/silver and steel/copper colour variants. For those who forgot, Nokia 8.1’s specs include Snapdragon 710 chipset, Android 9 Pie OS, 4GB RAM and dual 12mpx + 13mpx main camera. Tweet Vote on HN ...
Samsung Galaxy S10 Plus might have a goshdarn large battery
Samsung phones are famous for pretty much never staying secret until their release date; leaks and rumours have the tendency of spilling all over the web way before any Samsung device hits the store shelves. It is the same with Galaxy S10 Plus, another incoming flagship by this company. According to a tweet by famous leakster Ice universe, this smartphone will have a pretty large 4100mAh battery. This rumour is, sadly, not backed up by any actual data. This plus an earlier rumour stating Galaxy S10 Plus’ battery capacity at 4000mAh, puts this piece of gossip into question.Guess we ...