College classrom, middle of a lecture. Suddenly, speaking professor is being abruptly interrupted by a loud “pop!”, followed by one of the students jumping from his chair and reaching for his back pocket. Young man takes out something black, warped and smoldering, throws it on the floor and kicks away. The classroom is slowly filling with a black, acrid smoke… If you think that’sa good beginning for an action movie then thank you, I am glad. It is not a fictional writing by me, though, but a description of what happened not long ago in the American college in ...

We are all well aware of the exploding Samsung phones case, but now it looks like we may have to add iPhones to the list of malicious hardware. A Reddit user has posted a picture of, reportedly, his iPhone 7, completely ruined and with a singed box. Help, help, iPhone hand grenades!? Possibly, but maybe not. The original poster of the picture has not described events surrounding the phone’s destruction. Judging by the partially burned box, it may be theorized that the phone caught fire before even being unpacked, but we do not know anything for certain. It may be the case, but it ...

There has been much negative commentary about the recent RAM situation on Androids, with users complaining about their phones lagging under multitasking situations, even when equipped with 4GB/6GB of memory. There is even a video online, showing iPhone 7 losing hard in a performance match against iPhone 6S, even though the latter has only 2GB RAM. Thankfully, recent betatests of the new iOS 10.1 on an iPhone 7 Plus show a meaningful improvement in performance when compared to iOS 10.0.X. ...

1010! – absorbing clone of TetrisAsphalt 8: Airborne – a fast, fun and colourful racing gameBattle Golf – golf with a twist, and a two-player modeBreakneck – sort-of a sci-fi racing game with great graphicsCapitals – word game mixed with strategyCircle Breakout – Pong with a modern blingClash Royale – Apple’s Plants vs. Zombies, based on Clash of Clans Tweet Vote on HN ...

According to experts, iOS10 is serviced by SHA256, an old version of cryptographic hash functions devised to make it more difficult for the third-party programming to guess the user’s password. iOS9 is using SHA-1, which is a much better defence against possible hacker attacks. So far, Apple has made no comment on the alleged issue. Tweet Vote on HN ...

YouTuber going by the nickname TechRax has uploaded two movies yesterday, on which he shows drastic measures that he took to test iPhone 7’s waterproof qualities. He began by immersing the phone in one litre of Coca-Cola. He then put said Cola into the freezer long enough for it to freeze solid. After seventeen hours of turning into soda ice-cream, TechRax took the icy block out and carefully broke it with a hammer, thus releasing the phone from its icy confines. When the viewer thought it’s finally over, the second film started, during which TechRax boils up some water and ...

And what can we expect from it? According to the leaks, this: – a curved AMOLED display– an 5.8-inch screen– no physical home button– a curved glass back– wireless charging– An iris scanner– s Smart Connector– new security features Tweet Vote on HN ...

Released but a while ago, iPhone 7 has already gained much popularity among the customers, particulary the fancy Jet Black version, sporting a neat shade of black. The problem, though, is that this version is almost all but sold out, and the remaining supply is expensive, since only the 128GB and 256GB versions of the phone are available in JB. What in the world can a bling-hungry customer with too much money do in such a situation? Buy an iPhone 7 in golden casing. If that is not enough, said client can also have any shape he wants engraved into the phone with a laser. Price of such luxury ...

Just a while ago Apple has released its newest smartphone model, iPhone 7. In order to help those of our readers who either missed its release or are still unsure of whether or not to buy it, here’s the device’s specification: – Water-proof metal unibody– W4.7″ 16M-color LED-backlit IPS LCD of 750 x 1334px resolution, 326ppi, wide color gamut, 3D Touch tech– pressure-sensitive Home key powered by a brand new Taptic Engine– quad-core 64-bit Apple CPU, hexa-core GPU, 2GB of RAM and Apple A10 Fusion SoC– 12MP F/1.8 camera with a quad-LED flash, ...

– design identical to that of its precedessor – waterproof, can measure distance traveled in water – dual-core cpu and a strong graphic card – features GPS – price depends on the material chosen – aluminium ones start at £369, stainless steel ones come in at £549 and above, while ceramic version costs £1,249. Tweet Vote on HN ...