Facebook has just released the Lite version of its popular app Instagram, but… it’s only available in Mexico. Relax, hold your horses – it will most certainly become available in other countries as well, probably any day if not any hour now.Instagram Lite weights 0.5 megabyte and offers some of the full app’s functionalities. It allows the user to edit and publish pictures and add filters as well as Stories. In the future it will also allow us to publish videos and support private ...
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30 new Always on Display clock faces available for Samsung Galaxy S9, Galaxy S8, Galaxy S7 and Note 8
ClockFace, an app by Samsung, adds thirty clock faces to the abovementioned Samsung devices. Many different styles of faces are available – numerical, classic, even text. They can be ascribed to AoD or to the locked display screen. App also allows for things such as changing the clock’s colour.At the moment the app has not been officially releasedby Samsung. It can be downloaded from here. Tweet Vote on HN ...
Largest of the Galaxy S10 models may have a 6.44′ display
According to the latest report from ET News, Samsung Galaxy S10 will be released in three different variants. Report claimed that the largest of them will have a 6.2′ wide display. Now, though, new information from an unspecified source suggests that it may be as big as 6.4′. The decision by Samsung to increase the size of its largest model reportedly has something to do with the triple camera setup that the phone is rumoured to have. Larger battery capacity required? Need for more room to put the third camera in? We do not know.As for smaller variants of the S10, they are both ...
Samsung Galaxy S9, S8 and Note 8 have received the US military’s approval
This basically means that the US military has found these models A-OK and approved their usage by the US Army officials, adding them to the Approved Products List for the US Department of Defense. Receiving this approval was a difficult task for Samsung, as it is, as silly as it may sound, a matter of national security: military officials should only use the safest and most efficient communication devices for their official business; therefore, Samsung smartphones had to fulfill one hundred unique requirements before being accepted. These requirements ranged from intrusion detection to ...
Samsung Galaxy Note 9 just received its FCC papers.
A new Samsung phone has just been listed on FCC. Bearing model number SM-N960F, it is expected to be the upcoming Galaxy Note 9. This expectation is based on the model number’s similiarity to previous Galaxy Note smartphones, such as Note 8 (SM-N950) or Note 7 (SM-N930). Unfortunately, this listing does not tells us anything about the phone’s specs. Still, at least we know what model number to look for when some actual info surfaces. Tweet Vote on HN ...
We have learned UK’s pricing and release date of BlackBerry Key2
Smartphone will cost £579 and is available starting, well, today, although only in Selfridges stores in London, Manchester or Birmingham. Carphone Warehouse, Unlocked Mobiles, BuyItDirect, Mobile Phones Direct and Clove Technologies across the country will start selling them on June 29th. Vodafone will sell them somewhen in late July.Specifications:– Snapdragon 660 chipset,– 6GB RAM,– 64GB/128GB storage,– QWERTY keyboard, naturally,– 4.5-inch 1,620 x 1,080p, IPS LCD display,– 3500mAh battery, Quick Charge 3.0,– 12mpx main camera, f/1.8, 8mpx ...
Samsung Galaxy S10 will get a feature that everybody wanted on iPhone X
According to the Korean news site The Bell, Galaxy S10 will have its iris scanner removed in favour of fingerprint on display scanner – something that Apple’s iPhone X was supposed to have. It seems that Samsung has finally came to the point where he and his subsidiaries can mass produce components neccessary for the in-display fingerprint recognition. After checking with company’s suppliers, The Bell discovered that no iris authentication components have been ordered for the Galaxy S10 production.By the way, it has also been suggested that the Galaxy S10 might also have a ...
Unlocked US Samsung Galaxy S9 and S9 Plus are getting updated
The wait has been pretty frustrating for the unlocked Galaxy S9 and S9+ US owners, as the smartphone is still running on four months old security patch. Well, no more: Samsung is finally rolling out fresh updates for these two devices. These updates weight 700 megabytes and include, among other things, June security patch. Firmware versons rolled are G960U1UES2ARF4 and G965U1UES2ARF4. Tweet Vote on HN ...
A grain of rice is gigantic when compared to world’s smallest computer
American scientists… no, seriously, bear with me. A group of engineers from the University of Michigan have created a 0.3mm computer that can measure temperature. Well, ”computer” is probably too big of a word, pun totally intended – this device has no long term memory and loses all of its data upon losing power. Fact is a fact, though – we have a complete, working electronic device that is a dozen times smaller than a grain of rice.This device will be used to measure temperature in extremely little objects, e.g. a group of cells inside a body. It might prove ...
Nokia 8 Sirocco, 7 Plus and more will get face unlock soon-ish
Answering a tweet of a fan, Nokia Mobiles has pretty much officially confirmed growing rumours of some of its smartphones receiving face unlock feature. The smartphones in question are the Nokia 8 Sirocco, Nokia 8, Nokia 7 Plus and Nokia 6. The exact words of Nokia Mobile were ”Nokia 8 Sirocco, Nokia 7 plus and the new Nokia 6, as well as the Nokia 8 will get face unlock as an OTA update in the coming months”. So yeah, we know that it is coming but not when. We will let you know when we have learned the exact date of the update. ...