Two HTC devices are said to be released on November 2nd. One of them is HTC U11 Plus, phone that I wrote about yesterday; another is U11 Life. Life is rumoured to be the first HTC smartphone sporting Android Ore; thanks to the leak by Roland Quandt (source unknown), we now have more info on the device than that:– 5.2′ display, 1080p resolution, Gorilla Glass,– Snapdragon 630 CPU, 8-core,– 3GB RAM, 32GB storage, microSD card slot,– 16mpx front and rear cameras, RAW support,– IP67 water and dust certification,– 2600mAh battery,– Bluetooth 5.0, ...

Update’s number is J730FXXU1AQI5. It consists of patches contained in August security update as well as BlueBorne security vulnerability patch. Right now the update is only available in Netherlands, but it should make its way to the rest of Europe any day. If you want to make sure whether or not it is already available in your country, go to Settings > About Device > Download Updates Manually. Tweet Vote on HN ...

The update is rolling out as we speak. If it has not reached your device yet, either S7 or S7 edge, it soon will. It weights 122 megabytes, so make sure that your phone is charged before downloading. Successor to the August patch, the newest one does not change anything major, instead just fixing a number of lesser issues.If the update will not download automatically on your device, you can do it manually by going to Settings > Software update. Tweet Vote on HN ...

Specification:– 8′ display, 1280 x 800p, Wacom digitizer,– Exynos 7880 CPU,– 3GB RAM, 16GB storage, up to 256GB with microSD,– fingerprint scanner,– 8mpx main camera, 5mpx selfie shooter,– 4450mAh battery,– IP68 certificate,– NFC, dual-band Wi-Fi, USB Type-C, Bluetooth 4.2, LTE,– Android 7.1 Nougat OS,– stylus pen.Device’s price is unknown. Same goes for date of release, although it is expected to happen soon. Tweet Vote ...

Thanks to OnLeaks we can now get a better look at two of Samsung’s upcoming smartphones. Just having a picture to look at would be boring and not very informative, so how about a 3D video? Anyway, here is what the renders show:– both devices are made of glass and metal,– Infinity Displays with 18:9 aspect ratio & 2160 by 1080p resolution, rumoured to be 5.5′ for A5 and 6′ for A7,– UCB-C and heaphone jack placed at the bottom of the device,– single rear camera with fingerprint scanner under it,– dual front cameras,– no Bixby button, ...

Bixby is not doing so well and Samsung is trying to save it up appointing a new development executive. The position of the head of Service Intelligence Group, the party maintaining and developing Bixby, is now taken by Samsung Research America’s Vice Chief Chung Eui-suk. The project that Eui-suk is working now, namely Bixby 2.0, will probably be announced at Samsung’s yearly Developer Conference on October 18. While Samsung promises ”much improvement, honest”, we do not really know anything about the 2.0. Hopefully Mr. Eui-suk can turn things around for Bixby and ...

Infinity (more or less bezel-less) Displays become more popular with time, and Samsung is not letting that new trend die down. Galaxy S8 was first of Big S’s phones to feature ID; now the same feature is being implemented into the company’s A series with Galaxy A5 (2018). Renders depicting that phone have recently surfaced online. What do they show us?– Bixby virtual assistant button,– fingerprint scanner fitted below the camera,– front panel smaller than Galaxy S8’s, lacks S8’s curved display.People wiser than me believe that Galaxy A7 (2018), when ...

Are you bored? Craving emotions? Do you long for the thrills of this life? No problem! You do not need to enroll into the Foreign Legion nor spend fortune on parachute jumps. All you have to do is buy a smartphone and always keep it near you. Sooner or later, when you least expect it, you will get your money’s worth in excitement.Long story short, yes, another smartphone blew up. This time the whole scene is caught on tape, too. Recording depicts a man holding his phone in a pocket on his chest. Phone suddenly blows up, putting the man’s shirt on fire. He drops on the floor and ...

According to complaints made by a significant number of US owners of Samsung Galaxy S8/S8 Plus, those phones have a nasty habit of delaying and/or not receiving portions of text messages sent to them. You could send a message to a Galaxy S8 owner, and he/she would receive it much later and not complete. Issue touches Galaxy S8 smartphones across all carriers, from T-Mobile to Verizon to Sprint and more. Android Messages and Textra are also not safe from the problem – sounds like this is phone’s software issue.Samsung already knowns about the problem and is presumably working on ...

Rejoice, US owners of Galaxy Tab E 8.0. Verizon has just released an update number T377VVRU1CQH9, updating the tablet from paltry Android 6.0 Marshmallow to 7.1.1 Nougat. The update enables all the typical Nougat features in the device, from improved battery savings to additional emojis, and does not skimp on August security patches. Enjoy, as this might as well be the last update this device will ever get.The update might take as long as a week to reach your tablet, so hold your horses and wait patiently. If you want to check its availability every now and then, head to Settings > About ...