Smartphone store burglaries are nothing new; thieves often consider them easy marks due to the goods just laying out there, as well as for how easy it is to hide and transport stolen smartphones. Well, it seems that the Palo Alto thieves have become particulary brazen in their rigamorole, because they have robbed the Apple store there not once but twice in twelve hours. According to the Palo Alto Police Department (derpartment?), the store was first hit on 7pm, Saturday, when eight suspects took off with $57000 worth of demo iPhone models, iPhone Xs and Xs Max among them. Second hit took ...
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Sprint version of BlackBerry KEYone will not receive Android Oreo
Most of the KEYone releases are being updated to Oreo (which is probably the last OS update this phone is going to get), but not all of them. Sprint, a North American carrier, has confirmed that it’s KEYone variant will not be receiving the update. The exact reason why is unknown. Other US carriers may or may not upgrade their KEYone’s OS’ accordingly. Tweet Vote on HN ...
LineageOS 15.1 Oreo is now available for a number of smartphones
LineageOS, the arguably most popular of custom Android ROMs, has its Oreo build released a few months ago. Ever since then, new phones’ support has been methodically added to it. Today, the list has grown with a good bunch of new devices: ZTE Axon 7, AT&T LG G2, International LG G2, T-Mobile LG G2, ZUK Z1, Canadian LG G2, Xiaomi Redmi 3S/3X and Xiaomi Redmi 4/4X. Tweet Vote on HN ...
LG V40 ThinQ unveiled. Cameras, soft material and more
– comes out on October 3rd,– five cameras confirmed: triple rear camera and dual selfie shooter,– slim design with small bezels,– emphasize on the device being lean and pleasant to the touch,– specs rumours from other sources include 6.4-inch display and reinforced glass frame.Unveiling video can be watched here. Tweet Vote on HN ...
New info on Samsung Galaxy P30
Samsung is reportedly working on a new member of the P series, Galaxy P30 smartphone, which is said to reach store shelves by the end of the year. According to an exclusive article from SamMobile, this device’s main selling point will be the fact that it will be the first Samsung smartphone with an in-display fingerprint sensor, beating the Galaxy S10 to the fingerprint punch. As for specs, Galaxy P30 is believed to come with an LCD display (into which the fingerprint scanner will be built) and 64GB and 128GB of storage. It will be available in black, blue, pink and red colour ...
Roland Quandt releases new pictures of Huawei Mate 20 Pro
Good old Roland Quandt never fails. Today the leakmeister provides us with picture depicting three colour variants and front of the upcoming Mate 20 Pro smartphone. Picture has been found on the German website WinFuture. The features it reveals are:– triple rear camera setup & flash,– relatively large notch with a facial recognition sensors embedded into it,– possible lack of fingerprint scanner.Leak does not cover any of the phone’s specs. According to older rumours, Mate 20 Pro may be sporting Kirin 980 chipset, Android 9 Pie, 6GB RAM, 128GB storage 4,200mAh ...
New iPhones have problems with connectiviity
Release of new and popular smartphones is the best time to showoff the most glaring and immediate of their shortcomings. This time some serious problems are troubling the newly released iPhone Xs, Xs Max and Xr devices. Shortly before their release Apple has told us that their data sending capabilities will be a few times stronger than these of iPhone X. Sadly, this boast seems to be untrue, if not for all then at least for many. A growing number of new iPhone owners report never achieving high connectivity capabilities with their smartphones; no matter where they are, their ...
Former Facebook moderator sues her company, or ”I have seen too much”
Have you ever wondered what is it like to work as a mod on a popular social website? I have not, but if I were to believe Selena Scott, a former Facebook employee, it is no cakewalk. Miss Scott has sued her ex-employers after she allegedly developed PTSD from the illicit content she had to moderate in her line of work. This content included pictures of graphic violence and abuse, pornography (also underage) and many kinds of criminal activity. She and her coworkers have reportedly repeatedly asked for psychological help and counselling to help with the trauma coming from their work and have ...
eSIM. What is it and how does it work?
First, a reminder: SIM card, which stands for Subscriber Identity Module, is a microchip processor with built-in memory. It performs a number of functions, mostly that of connecting with GSM network and holding important data such as contacts and text messages. A phone can function without the SIM card, but its lack only allows the user to call emergency numbers like 911. Over time, SIM card was changed into miniSIM, followed by micro and nanoSIM. The main difference between them was their size.Okay, now that we remember what SIM cards are, what about eSIM? it is basically just another step ...
They are working on an animated Diablo show. Nice
Oh man, what times do we live in… In the past, when I wanted to play the game I would buy it, install and play. Now they want me to play its spin-offs, read books and comics and even watch whole shows based on my favourite pasttime.Pretty great, is it not?One Andrew Cosby, writer and producer, has went to Twitter to write a post about how he is supposedly working on a Netflix animated show. The show is supposed to be based on Diablo, one of the beloved video game franchises by Blizzard. This tweet confirms rumours around a Diablo show in the works that have been going around for ...