German and Dutch beta testers of Galaxy S8 Oreo Beta are the first ones to receive the update. What is so cool about it? Well, it features Samsung Experience 9.0 interface, which is Samsung’s latest UI, as well as February’s security patch.European non-beta testers should receive their updates soon. US owners might have to wait a little while longer, but not much. Tweet Vote on HN ...
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Honor 7X and Honor 8 will be updated to Android Oreo in 2nd quarter of the year
Honor France has just officially announced that it will be updating those two phones to Android 8.0 Oreo sometime in Q2 2018. Exact date of the update is unknown. It is believed that rest of the Europe will receive it soon after. Announcement also stated that Honor 9 and Honor 8 are being rolled out in France as we speak. Tweet Vote on HN ...
Nokia 3 and Nokia 8 get their February security update
Nokia 3’s update weights 80 megabytes, while Nokia 8’s weights 87. Security patches included fix, among other things, a critical security vulnerability in Media framework. As of now, Nokia 3 update is available only in India, while Nokia 8 can be downloaded in India and Jordan. Both should reach other regions soon. Tweet Vote on HN ...
BlackBerry KEYone Bronze Edition announced, BlackBerry Motion coming to the US
Yay, two BlackBerry news in one day! New colour variant of BB KEYone, Bronze Edition, will soon be released in Europe, Middle East and Asia – sorry, Americans, no word on US release yet. Bronze Edition’s specs will be the same as Black Edition’s, the only difference being a new colour. Oh, and there will be a dual-SIM variant too, because why not.Also, BlackBerry Motion will soon come out in the US! Device will be released on February 12 and available via Amazon and Best Buy for a price of ...
BlackBerry KEYone permanently $50 cheaper in the US
Nice. If you have been waiting for a sale on BB KEYone, you got a permanent one now! Best Buy and Amazon are both offering BlackBerry KEYone $500, which is fifty bucks cheaper than before. Phone is available in two versions, CMDA and GSM. Tweet Vote on HN ...
Rumoured Samsung Galaxy S10 features. Big battery, AI chip and more
Galaxy S9 still is not out and yet here we are, already talking about its successor. How could we not, though! It is not every day that specs of a phone that will be released after the yet unreleased phone leak out. This leak coms from China, and while we have not been told the name of its source, it has been said to be a reliable one. So, what are we being told about the Galaxy S10’s specs?– dedicated neural processing unit for enhanced AI features. Sounds spooky,– support for 5G,– UFS 3.0 memory,– large battery,– next generation Infinity Display,– ...
ZTE Blade V9 to be announced at MWC 2018. Probably
ZTE’s new Blade V9 smartphone held few secrets from us. Thanks to a leak back from December we know both its specs and its design. The only thing we did not know was when and where will the phone be released. Now we do. It just so happened that a device with an ID code SRQ-ZTEBLADEV9 has passed through the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). Not only the phone’s code name ”hints” heavily at it being Blade V9, the few specs that the FCC listing provides also follow specs leaked in December. The fact that the phone has already passed the FCC suggests that it will ...
Woman’s new best friend? In 2019 we are supposed to get a diamond-display smartphones
Company called Akhan Semiconductor is said to be working on a special feature that will offer a great deal of protection to our valuable smartphone displays. This magickal tech is called Mirage Diamond Glass. It is basically a thin layer of diamond dust that will cover a classic display. This tech is supposedly already in a test phase. We do not know who the Akhan Semiconductor’s partner or partners are, but we have heard that they are not working with any of the ”big boys” of the smartphone market.Oh, by the way, Akhan is also trying to devise a way to combat sunrays ...
Honor 9 Lite now out in Europe
After being announced at an event in London earlier today, Huawei’s Honor 9 Lite is now out in the United Kingdoms, Germany, Italy, Spain and France, available via the Honor’s online store. Phone’s price is £199 in the UK and €229 in other countries. Neither release date nor price for other regions are currently known.Honor 9 Lite is a lighter version of the Honor 9 flagship. It can be summarized as Honor 7X with much different looks, as the two phone’s specs are very similiar. Here is what Honor 9 Lite is packing:– 5.65′ display, 2160 x ...
Mysterious new Honor phone pops on TENAA
Device has been listed under the name Honor LND-TL30. Listing consists of both a small number of specs as well as a, perhaps more informative, picture of the phone. Phone’s features that can be asserted from these sources are:– two SIM card slots,– compatibility with 2G GSM, CDMA, TD-SCDMA, 3G WCDMA, CDMA2000 and 4G LTE networks,– Android OS, probably with EMUI interface,– golden colour variant,– dual rear cameras located at the upper left corner of the panel,– rear-mounted fingerprint scanner.As is usually the case with TENAA listings, no price, ...