More and more of Xperia XZ2 owners report issues with the phone’s display. The nature of the issue, as shown on the picture above, is that white dots and lines appear on the display seemingly at random. They distort the picture and are a nuisance to look at. Sony’s official statement is that electrostatic is the cause of the problem:”Sony Mobile is committed to providing the highest standard of product quality and customer service for all of our products. Due to the characteristic of the display, you may see stripe patterns as a result of electrostatic in some models. This ...
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Moto Z3 Pla and Prime Exclusive G6 Play available for pre-order
Motorola G6 and Z3 families are getting new members. Moto Z3 Play can be bought for $499 in retail, on BestBuy and B&H, or for $499 on Amazon. Moto G6 Play is exclusive to Amazon, available for $189.99. Both devices come with Alexa. Tweet Vote on HN ...
Alcatel soon releases four low-end smartphones under $200
When you need a solid phone but do not want or can spend your salary on an iPhone or Samsung, go Alcatel. The company will release four of its low-budget devices on the Australian market this August, with other markets soon to follow suit. These devices’ prices and specs are:Alcatel 1C, $895.3-inch 18:9 FWVGA+ display,1.3GHz Quad Core,Android Nougat OS,1GB RAM,16GB storage,5MP front/8MP rear cameras,2,460mAh battery,3GAlcatel 1, $995-inch 18:9 FWVGA+ display,1.28GHz Quad Core,Android GO OS,1GB RAM,8GB storage,Front 2MP/rear 5MP cameras,2,000mAh battery,4GAlcatel 1X, $1295.3-inch 18:9 ...
BlackBerry Key2 launches in Canada on July 6th
Neat. Second release of BlackBerry’s famous QWERTY smartphone, BlackBerry Key2, will launch in Canada in two weeks, on July the 6th. Device can already be pre-ordered for roughly $829.99 Canadian dollars. Carriers that offer it are Bell, Rogers, SaskTel and Telus.– 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 selfie ...
Bose Sleepbuds – $250 headset that you cannot listen to music with
Sound overdose is one of the problems of these days’ First World. We are surrounded by sound, overwhelmed by it – cars, people, smartphones, radios and TVs, they all produce high quantities of sound that assaults our poor receptors. Bose company took notice of that issue and responded – and made some money – by producing Bose Sleepbuds.Bose Sleepbuds are pretty standard, if well made, noise stoppers. Their function is to make sure that we have a good night’s rest by insulating our ears from the ouside. This outside noise is deafened by a variety of white noise ...
Good old new Diablo returns?
In a way! Making the long story short, here is how it happened: programmer going by the nickname GalaXyHaXz has found online a bunch of tools that allowed him to analyze old Diablo 1. Thanks to them he has reverse-engineered the game, which rewarded him with the game’s source code. With source code in hand, GalaXyHaXz went to GitHub and put there a compiling, working (as long as you have proper game data files) copy of Diablo 1 that he called Devilution. Programmer has also put the game’s source code online, which means that it can not only be downloaded now, but also modded ...
Jokes aside – paid Facebook arrives
Zuckerberg may have been telling both the Europarlament and the US Senate that Facebook will never be a paid platform, but his actions speak louder; FB is currently testing methods of monetizing the group content on its platform. Paid groups are nothing new on FB, but they have been existing in a state of a, how to put it, freestyle. Groups administration had to come up with 3rd party ways and means for the group members to pay their fees. What Zuckerberg’s platform is working on is creating a single, in-platform method for the groups administration to gather fees from their users ...
Picture and specs of Nokia 5.1 Plus
Nokia 5.1 Plus has just appeared on a Chinese TENAA website. Thanks to this we now have pictures of this phone, as well as its specification:– 5,86′ HD+ (720 x 1520 p) display,– 8-core CPU, 2,0GHz,– 3/4/6GB RAM, 32/64GB flash, microSD up to 128GB,– 8mpx selfie shooter, 13 Mpix main camera with LED flash,– 3000mAh battery,– Wi-Fi b/g/n, Bluetooth 4.2, GPS/GLONASS, modem LTE,– dual SIM, USB-C,– fingerprint scanner,– Android 8.1 Oreo.We do not know the price nor release date of the device. According to the Internet, it is supposed to ...
Picture of of what may be a Galaxy S10 prototype leaked
Samsung has promised us a next-generation S line smartphone next year, with the official word being that the device will be released on January. It looks like the production of Galaxy S10 may be well underway indeed, as one leakster Ice Universe has just released a picture of what he claims to be a prototype for the aforementioned smartphone. In his post, Ice Universe calls the smartphone ”Beyond”, which is supposed to be its development codename.The most interesting thing about the picture is the almost complete lack of bezels – talk about Infinity Display. Bottom bezel, ...
Amazon Prime and retail Moto X4 is getting upgraded to Android 8.1 Oreo
The list of changes is not massive, since the device was already sporting 8.0 Oreo; newest security update is the biggest change, a well as a bunch of UI tweaks as well as new developer APIs. Update should be available OTA (over the air). Tweet Vote on HN ...