Usually we at IMEI24 do not write about Google smartphones, but today’s news is just too good to pass up. More and more of Pixel 3 XL owners complain about a pretty unusual graphic glitch appearing on their phones’, namely… a second notch growing up from the side of the display. Notch comes and goes, appearing seemingly at random and going away after the phone is restarted. Thankfully, Google already acknowledged the issue and is preparing a patch to fix it up. Tweet Vote ...
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Lenovo Z5 Pro is just around the corner
Z5 Pro, advertisted by Lenovo as ”the first truly borderless smartphone”, has just got its official release date. Teaser graphic of the device has been released on Weibo. Other than some, probably very smart, marketing slogan written in Chinese, it offers us a release date of November 1st. It looks like we are only six days away from learning more about that phone. Lenovo kept its secrets well: all we know about it so far is that it will have a 4x main camera. Tweet Vote on ...
Google wants to force Android-smartphone producers to regularly update their phones
You have probably heard about the little Google vs. European Union war, right? One of the outcomes of that scuffles is supposed to be higher prices of Android-wielding smartphones, which is sad. Thankfully, some good may come out of it too. According to The Verge, one of the entries of the new deal between Google and Android producers is that they are obligated to update their smartphones’ operating systems every 90 days for at least two years after release. The new deal includes every Android smartphone released in the European Economic Area. Failing to comply may result with ...
Follow JC GO, or Pokemon GO in missionary position
Imagine yourself walking down the street and seeing kids playing Pokemon GO. You think to yourself ”little devils, never going to the church, just playing these stupid games night and day. Wish I could teach them a lesson…”. You then return home, turn on your PC, browse the Internet and find out about a mew Pokemon GO, one with saints and holiness and Jesus in its title. A smile spreads your mouth. God is good after all.Spanish christian foundation Ramon Pane has just created Follow J(esus) C(hrist) GO. It is a mobile game that is basically Pokemon GO but with religious ...
How Android smartphones will cost more because of EU
Or Google, depending on how you look at it. Long story short, EU has punished Google with a 4.3 billion fine due to Google making monopolistic attempts at the market. Now, few months after that revelation, Google announced that after 1th of February 2019 it will begin to collect Android license fees from smartphone producers. How high those fees will be will depend on both the size of the phone’s display (why?) as well as the country it is being made in – the fee’s size can fluctuate between 2.5 and 40 dollars. We do not know how exacly will the fees influence ...
Winamp 5.8, app’s first update in years
Winamp, a popular (a long time ago) music player, is making a comeback with a 5.8 update, the first one in a long time. The update does not revolutionize the application, instead opting to improve its efficiency. The new and improved features of the 5.8 are:– WASAPI plugin for Windows,– more modern OS demanded (at least Windows XP with Service Pack 3),– improved compability with new(er) Windows OS’.Radionomy, Winamp’s owner ever since 2014, promises more changes in the upcoming patches, like support for podcasts and music streaming. These and more features will ...
Have you played The Stanley Parable? Today is the first day you might honestly fulfill the game’s most notorious achievement
Most of video game achievements push us to play the game more – do this with that character, defeat XXX many enemies, play for YYY amount of hours et cetera. The Stanley Parable, a video game slash psychoanalysis from 2013, took a bit different approach. While the game does have a few normal – or as normal as The Stanley Parable can get – achievements, it also has one called ”Go Outside”. Obtaining this achievement is simple and yet difficult, as all you have to do is not playing the game for five years. Opposite to this is the ”Commitment” ...
Facebook is being taken to court over alleged fraud
Crowd Siren Agency is accusing Facebook of inflating its average time spent watching videos statistics. According to the agency, in years 2015-2016 FB has premeditely deceived its business partners by modifying their aforementioned statistics so that they are even 900% larger than they were supposed to. This in turn has created an artificial deflux of video content from YT and other platforms to Facebook, with content creators counting on FB’s ”magic” to garner them a large number of views. The whole fraud has supposedly begun with a glitch that FB found out back in 2015 ...
Vertu Aster P, the newest luxury phone with Android
We have good news for everyone with too much money. Vertu, British company specialized in creating luxury mobile devices, is coming back after some financial difficulties. Their newest product is Asper P, a smartphone slash symbol of sumptuousness, presented yesterday on a Pekin conference. Aster P does not have a groundbreaking specs, but specs are not what this device is about; it is about bling, and Asper P has plenty of that. Phone’s body is made of a titan alloy, which will certainly sound good when snobbing about your phone with your equally snobby friends. Device’s rear ...
Kyocera KY-O1L, smallest kinda-smartphone in the world
See that thing next to it? That is a credit card. That is right, KY-O1L is pretty much as little as your credit card. That is quite small. Device’s size is 91mm x 55mm x 5.3mm, and it weights 47 gram. Sounds good, right? Well, if you want to buy it, you will have to be ready to make a few sacrifices. KY-O1L lacks any kind of camera, sports a 2.8′ display and will cost $284.39 – quite a bit, considering how little it offers. On the plus side, its microscopic 380mAh battery will still easily outlast big boy pants’ smartphones and it does have LTE functionality and web ...