Looks like political issues are starting to influence mobile business, at least in the US. Who would have thought that smartphones and real life occure in the same space, huh… Anyway, chiefs of US security services – CIA, FBI, NSA and such – are officially recommending avoiding China-produced smartphones. Exact words of the FBI Director Chris Wray are:We are deeply concerned about the risks of allowing any company or entity that is beholden to foreign governments that don’t share our values to gain positions of power inside our telecommunications networks.Personally ...
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Nokia 9 makes rounds around town
Pictures of what may or may not be Nokia 9 have just surfaced online. It is really hard to say whether or not this is Nokia 9 – we know very little about this phone (5.5′ OLED display, 2:1) and none of it can be checked by looking at the low-res pictures that basically show the shape of the phone.I suggest assuming that these pictures present Nokia 9, treat them as curio and leave them at that. Tweet Vote on HN ...
Android P will know when your phone call is being recorded
Android P is the new upcoming version of the most popular mobile OS. It is said to come out this year and, so far, there is little more that we know about it. People smarter than me believe that it will increase battery life, but there is also word about a more interesting function. According to the gossip, Android 9.0 P will be able to tell when your caller is recording your phone call; OS will let you know by emitting a special sound that will repeat every fifteen seconds.On the one hand it sounds a bit strange – repeating sound? Why? On the other hand, I would prefer knowing when ...
Nokia 2 gets February Android fixes
Update weights 90 megabytes and consists mostly of latest fixes for Android OS. Most important fix is probably the Media Framework critical security vulnerability. Currently the update is available only in India, though that will surely change in the near future. Tweet Vote on HN ...
Sony Xperia XZ2 popped up on AnTuTu. Some specs info!
Device with a codename H8266 has just appeared on the AnTuTu benchmark. People wiser than me are pretty sure that it is the long-awaited Sony’s Xperia XZ2. Benchmark brings with itself a handful of specs info:– Snapdragon 845 CPU,– Android Oreo OS,– 4 GB RAM, 64 GB storage,– resolution – 2160×1080,– proportions – 18:9.Xperia XZ2 is to premiere in two weeks, on MWC 2018. Tweet Vote on HN ...
Facebook is finally giving us thumbs down option? Kind of, in a way
Thumbs up became practically a synonym of Facebook. Elegantly simple method of letting others know that you approve of given content appeared online for the first time ever on Zuckerberg’s social website*, from where it quickly spreaded to dozens other social portals. Thumbs up quickly became a norm, but what about thumbs down? About showing that, for a change, we do not approve of content given?Well, it looks like Facebook is working on something like that.Some of the American Facebook users have just received a new option called downvote. It is not thumbs down as such, although it ...
Motorola Moto E5 Play coming to Cricket and Verizon
Newest picture of Moto E5 Play has just leaked online, thanks to the ever reliable @evleaks. Along with the picture (no front-placed fingerprint scanner, not-so-thin bezels) comes info that the phone will be available from both Verizon and Cricket, with Cricket selling it under the name of Moto E5 Cruise.Want to learn more about the phone’s price, specs or release date? You are out of luck, bud – we do not know ourselves. IMEI24 will make sure to let you know as fast as ...
Samsung Galaxy Note 5 and Galaxy S6 series on T-Mobile will get their OS updated to Oreo. Awesome
Samsung’s standard life support for smartphones is two years. Or did it use to be two years? South Korean company has just officially announced that it will update some of its 2015 devices – namely the Galaxy Note 5, Galaxy S6, S6 edge and S6 edge plus – operating systems to the Android 8.0 Oreo version. While we do not know when will this update take place, it is a great piece of news in itself! One of complaints against smartphones is that they are quickly dumped in favour of new models. If older models are kept up to date with system updates, there will be less of a ...
There is a Samsung Galaxy Note 9 concept
Concept Creator, group dedicated to creating concept graphics of various devices, has today brought us a concept of the Galaxy Note 8 smartphone. Effects of their work look quite interesting! Almost no bezel, USB-C port, 3.5mm headphone jack, S-Pen. There is even a Bixby button as well as a under-screen fingerprint scanner.Do you like what you hear? It sounds pretty good to me. If you want to take a look at the phone, go visit Concept Creator’s official website. Tweet Vote on ...
Not only smartphones can burn, or Apple AirPods headphone caught fire
Burning smartphones are old news; what will you say about burning headphones? The story is as follows: one Jason Colan was spending time in a fitness club excercising and listening to music, when suddenly he noticed that his right headphone started to let out thick smoke. He quickly took it out and left to find help. When he returned, he found his headphones a burnt mess of plastic and wires. Hm.Apple already knows about this and promised to look into the how’s and why’s of it. Hopefully it was just an isolated ...