Apple’s financial track may be great, but it could be better. According to the IDC report from the 2nd quarter of 2018, company from Cupertino has dropped from the 2nd to 3rd best-selling smartphone brand in the world. Huawei has taken this spot on the pedestal, with 54,2 mln smartphones sold, while Apple has sold merely, hah hah, 41.3 million. In other words, Huawei holds 15.8% of the market, while Apple covers only 12.1%. Both companies are dwarfed by the ongoing lider, though. Samsung has sold 71.5 million devices in the last quarter year, and holds 21.9% of the market shares. 4th ...

As reported by Agence France-Presse, the French government has just passed the law which bans school students under and up to 15 years old from using their phones at school. They can have their phones with them, but they have to be turned off. The law will come into effect this September.What do you think? Would you like your government to pass the same law? Tweet Vote on HN ...

The company wants to change its, quote, ”visual identity&#8221, and changing its icons is meant to be a large part of the process. Mozilla’s designers have lots of ideas for the new icons, but they want to give us, the users, a say in the matter. It is not a poll, no – more like Mozilla gives us an outlet for us to share our opinions on the new designs.Offered icons are grouped into two sets. Mozilla wants to choose icons that will make us, the users, realize that Firefox is much more than just a web browser. Among the proposed designs are icons for Firefox Quantum, ...

Dark Mode is nothing new on YouTube: PC and iOS users have had it for a few months. Android users have been left in the dark – until now. A small number of Android-wielders are reporting that they now have access to YT’s Dark Mode. Anyone lucky or uninterested enough to receivet he update is reportedly being informed by a special message appearing in the bottom window of the app. The function can be turned on in the app’s settings, just like in the iOS version.Dark Mode appearing on a selected few Android devices is probably a part of a closed test of the function. We do ...

Every now and then Google raids its own store in order to get rid of its more undesirable elements. That is what happened this time, too: Google has removed many of its trash-apps, like ones that only offer advertisements, cryptocurrency miners, apps that copy-past content of others or the infamous ”Elsagate”-esque apps that imitates child-friendly content but actually contains disturbing images and/or pornography.Bitcoin mining apps were particulary hard hit – ALL of the cryptocurrency mining applications are now gone from Google Play. The main reason for such drastic ...

It took a while but here it is. Those of us who enjoy being test subjects, as well as have Google Pixel smartphones, can now download and use the Android P Beta version 4 operating system. All they have to do is go to and register on this website. More good news is that the beta will soon be available on other smartphones as well:– Essential Phone,– Nokia 6.1,– Nokia 7,– Nokia 7 Plus,– Nokia 8 Sirocco,– OnePlus 6,– Oppo R15 Pro,– Sony Xperia XZ2,– Vivo X21 UD,– Vivo X21,– Xiaomi Mi Mix ...

Lucerne, Switzerland. A church bell of the town’s small catholic church is being renovated, but the faithful still need their ol’ and trusty bell to let them know when it is noon. How did the church solve this issue? It asked the, of all people, art students of the nearby college for help, and the students kind of delivered. What was their solution? Why, to install a loudspeaker in the church’ tower and have it blast smartphone ringtones, of course. What did you expect? Ringtones played by the church include the iPhone’s highly recognizable Marimba tune, which is ...

And all it took Microsoft to implement this option was fifteen years. Truly, the OS giant of personal computers is a force to be reckoned with… The record feature is to be implemented until the end of July. It will inform the other side of the conversation of being recorded – it is unsure whether that side will have to agree to it or will they be presented with fait accompli. Recorded conversations will be kept in the cloud (where Microsoft employees will probably spend lovely hours listening in on us, because that is what evil corps do). These conversations will then be ...

This penalty is so far the largest in the history of Google. Its official goal is to punish Google for its supposedly monopolistic practices, such as forcing smartphone producers to install Chrome web browsers and/or set it as a default browser in return for receiving the Google Play Services certificate. Personally I think it sounds like UE punishing Google for being good, but what do I know.Google has already announced that it will make an appeal. Tweet Vote on HN ...

Air flight is statistically the safest form of transporation; this old mantra may be about to change, all thanks to the drone owners. One of them, a daring/murderous idiot equipped with, according to people in the know-how, Parrot Anafi model, has caught a video of an A380 passenger plane taking off from the Plaine Magnien airport on Mauritius, Indian Ocean. This would not be dangerous in itself if not for the fact that the drone was only 300 feet (91.5 meters) away from the plane – distance which, in air flight terms, is ridiculously short. I do not care to think what could happen if ...