A bit over a month ago Apple got found out on its deplorable and dishonest/helpful and caused by concern practices of lowering its old phones’ performance. Naturally, scandal and lawsuits followed, one of the effects of which is that now Apple offers replacement batteries for much cheaper. Cheaper batteries are not all, though; newest iPhone operating system, the upcoming iOS 11.3, will give us a very interesting new function that I wrote about last week. Long story short, it will allow the iPhone owners to decide whether they want Apple to throttle their phone’s performance or ...
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Opening date for Samsung Galaxy S9 i S9 Plus revealed. Yaay
It is old news that Samsung’s new phones will be revealed during the MWC 2018 in Barcelona. Now, thanks to Samsung’s official confirmation, we know that the phones’ premiere will take place on 25th February. Great. In exacly a month we will learn whether the Galaxy S9/S9+ are something worth waiting for or not.– 5,8 or 6,2 inch Super AMOLED screen, QHD+ (1440 x 2960p) resolution,– Qualcomm Snapdragon 845 or Exynos 9810 CPU,– 4 or 6 GB RAM, 64 GB ROM, microSD up to 256 GB,– 8 Mpix f/1.7 selfie shooter with autofocus,– 12 Mpix Dual Pixel main ...
Moto G5 Plus Prime Edition lock screen can be bypassed by tapping an ad
Wow, something useful came out of Twitter. Twitter user @jaraszski uploaded a video in which he shows how to bypass the lock screen of Moto G5 Plus Prime Edition. It turns out to be pretty simple; all you have to do is tap the fingerprint sensor button, receive the ”not recognized” message and hit the power button. An Amazon lock advertisement should pop up; tap on it and voila!, you now have access to the phone. While this has been reported to not work on every Prime Edition, it is allegedly working on many enough. Some say that the above trick only works for them if they have ...
Android 8.0 Oreo rolls out for regular US Moto X4
Hooray! 8.0 Oreo OS is finally coming out for the retail models of the United States’ Moto X4. News comes straight from the horses mouth, with Motorola releasing this statement:Deployment for Oreo update has started but not everyone would have it, all at the same time. Please be advised that OTA updates not just depend on the Model and the Country but with the Carrier as well. We recommend waiting for the official release of OTA update, as you will receive notification about the update once available.The grammar of the statement is somewhat lacking, but it doesn’t matter ...
Android 8.1 Oreo will tell us which of the hotspots available are the fastest
Google has just released info on one of the new features in the slooowly released 8.1 Oreo. This interesting little ditty will allow us to check the connection speed of nearby, publically available hotspots without the need for connecting with them. Hotspots’ speed will be ranked from low (0-1 Mbps), medium (1-5 Mbps), fast (5-20 Mbps) to very fast (20+ Mbps). Helpful cookie will even add descriptions to the hotspots’ status’ for those less in the know-how, like ”medium – allows the use of web browser, social media and music streaming; fast – allows ...
Newest video on (allegedly) Samsung Galaxy S9
The video, recently dug out from the depths of the Chinese internet, depicts someone testing the touchscreen of what may or may not be the Galaxy S9 smartphone. This is actually a bit of a mystery, as we are not really sure whether or not the phone shown in the video is Galaxy S9. Some details of the device, like its thin bottom bezel, suggest that it may actually be an S8. But hey, where would we be without gossip?Samsung Galaxy S9 is expected to make an official appearance in late February. The phones’ specs include a 5.8′ display and an Exynos 9810 ...
Man bites his phone’s battery. Battery blows up
Coming straight from Taiwan: an electronic store security camera caught footage of a man biting a smartphone battery, second after which the battery explodes. Thankfully nobody seems to be seriously hurt. The video, of course, went viral.According to a report from Taiwan News, the battery in question was a replacement accumulator for an iPhone, presumably one of the older models that Apple has been secretely downgrading to keep them working longer/sell more iPhones. The reason why the man was biting the battery is unclear; theories range from ”he wanted to somehow make sure that the ...
Die With Me, app that works only when your phone battery is under 5 percent
The title of the article probably says it all. Die With Me is a new application, currently available on both App Store and Google Play, that is a pretty regular group chat. The only irregular thing about it is that it cannot be activated until the phone’s power level is higher than 5%. It means that Die With Me creates a sort of an elite club only for People Whose Smartphones Are About To Die.Great. Now you can contact even more random and probably stupid to talk about more definitely stupid things. Hi guys, my phone is going to die… mine too… mine too… look, ...
Android 8.1 beta available for Nokia 8
Android 8.1 Oreo has been available for Pixel and Nexus smartphones for a while now, so it is about time for Oreo to move on. Juho Sarvikas, HMD’s Chief Product Officer has just announced that the Android 8.1 Oreo OS will be available on Nokia 8. 8.1 Oreo beta can be downloaded from the Nokia Beta Labs. Update itself might take minutes or hours, it seems to be pretty random. Update changelog can be found here. Tweet Vote on HN ...
Samsung Galaxy Note 5 and Note 8 receives their January security update
It is raining updates! One Samsung phone after another gets its security updates. Newest devices to receive these are the Galaxy Note 5 and Note 8 smartphones. The Galaxy Note 5 firmware update N920CXXS4CRA1 brings with it:– five critical Android vulnerabilities fixes,– thirteen Vulnerabilities and Exposures fixes,– multiple lesser vulnerabilities fixed.The update is now available in Morocco, Pakistan, Kenya, United Arab Emirates, South Africa, Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Nigeria. As for Galaxy Note 8 update, it fixes:– six critical Android vulnerabilities,– ...