Lenovo seemingly tries to push Xiaomi off its ”king of the budget smartphones in India” pedestal. The company has just released two new budget phones, K9 and A5, as pretty much a direct competition to Xiaomi Redmi 6 and 6A. Lenovo K9 offers a bit better specs than Redmi 6, but for the price of being slightly, well, pricier, while Lenovo A5 has slightly worse CPU than 6A but instead sports a fingerprint scanner that Redmi does not. Both phones have 18:9 display. Lenovo K9 costs ₹8,999 while Lenovo A5 costs either ₹5,999 or ₹6,999, depending on the memory ...

A sort of surprise! It has been a few days since files neccessary for the update appeared in game’s Android version files, but nobody expected that it will come out that fast. Well, it did, and both Android and iPhone players can now enjoy catching new pokemon. Some of them, at least: update will come out in portions. Some of the new monsters available now are Bidoof, Turtwig, Chimchar and Buneary. Niantic has also implemented new CP-counting algorithms, but these were undone almsost immediately. We can expect them to be brought back in any day.Trailer of the 4th gen update can be ...

Device has been available for pre-order ever since October 11th, but only today do we learn its final release date – October 22nd, next Monday. Its price is $799, with free shipment that will take two to four days. Device’s specs are available in the hyperlink above: among other points, Razer Phone 2 has a Snapdragon 845 CPU, 8GB RAM, Sony camera setup and a 120Hz display. Tweet Vote on HN ...

Now that is a kind of a milestone many games can only wish they could reach. If anyone ever doubted PUBG’s popularity, do so no more, as the game has been downloaded from Play Store over a hundred million times. Oh, by the way: Play Store does not count downloads made from China, and since PUBG is very popular there as well, the real number is certainly much higher. Tweet Vote on HN ...

Today is good news for everyone who ever happened to send a regretful Messenger text. Facebook Messenger, one of the most often used text communicators in the world, works on a feature that will allow us to delete sent messages. Message deleted – we do not know if there is a limited time window for deleting it – will be become invisible for both the sender and, most importantly, the receiver. This feature, called Unsend, is already available for some users, but only as a test run.Phew. Finally I will be able to relax when I accidentally send messages to my boss instead of my ...

Google can be considered a good company or not so much, but today I will give them a little praise. Google has just released – just on the newest Pixel smartphones so far – a so-called Call Screen assistant. What does it do? Well, Call Screen is basically an antispam filter for your telephone; it starts up whenever an unknown number calls, asking the user whether or not they want to answer the call. If not, CS’s answers it itself, upon which it informs the caller that they are talking to an assistant. If the caller is not discouraged by talking to the machine, CS will show ...

Google Chromecast is supposed to be officially unveiled today during a New York event, but that would not stop some crafty Brits from offering these devices for sale even before that. Very, a British online store specialized in furniture, clothing and electronics, is already selling Google’s device for £29.99. Very’s listing does not reveal any of Chromecast’s specifications, though, so if you buy it, expect to be going in dark. Tweet Vote on HN ...

You can read about how the issue begun here.After the fiasco that was the latest Windows 10 update, Microsoft have decided to put the update on hold until it figures out what exacly went wrong. Upon visiting Windows’ official website you will see that the latest Windows 10 update available is the October one. Message on the site’s support page states that ”We have paused the rollout of the Windows 10 October 2018 Update (version 1809) for all users as we investigate isolated reports of users missing some files after updating”. We shall see how Windows deals with the ...

Analysts from the British Strategy Analytics Inc. believe that in the next few years we will see a major outflow of console users, who will instead content themselves with playing on their smartphones. The analysts’ belief is that we tend to abandon unwieldy and cumbersome items for the more complex and compact. Makes sense: walkmen were abandoned in favour of MP3’s, which in turn were dropped when smartphones emerged. Development of fast Internet connection will also help smartphone gaming. The upcoming 5G standard will make game streaming common and make the consoles with ...

It is no news that Apple does not like us using 3rd party services to fix our devices. The company has previously denied us the possibility of fixing screens and fingerprint scanners by unauthorized firms. Now Americans go one step ahead and take away our ability to fix many elements of the MacBook 2018 and MacBook Pro devices. Blockade pertains to the hard drive, keyboard, battery, loudspeakers, trackpad, display and Touch ID. After every time we change one of these elements, these two devices will run a diagnostic program; if the program discovers that one of parts is not an original ...