Damn, man, the things they are coming up with nowadays… Archos, French company that until now dealt in budget tablets and smartphones is reportedly working on an Android-controlled scooter. Vehicle’s name will be Citee Connect. It’s core will be a small touch-screen computer with Android 8.0 Oreo operating system. Computer’s specs include 1GB of RAM and a 4-core processor. 3G connectivity will allow for displaying Google Maps on the computer’s screen. As for the scooter itself, we have been told that it will have a 8.5′ diameter puncture-proof tires, 36W ...

Looks like political issues are starting to influence mobile business, at least in the US. Who would have thought that smartphones and real life occure in the same space, huh… Anyway, chiefs of US security services – CIA, FBI, NSA and such – are officially recommending avoiding China-produced smartphones. Exact words of the FBI Director Chris Wray are:We are deeply concerned about the risks of allowing any company or entity that is beholden to foreign governments that don’t share our values to gain positions of power inside our telecommunications networks.Personally ...

Android P is the new upcoming version of the most popular mobile OS. It is said to come out this year and, so far, there is little more that we know about it. People smarter than me believe that it will increase battery life, but there is also word about a more interesting function. According to the gossip, Android 9.0 P will be able to tell when your caller is recording your phone call; OS will let you know by emitting a special sound that will repeat every fifteen seconds.On the one hand it sounds a bit strange – repeating sound? Why? On the other hand, I would prefer knowing when ...

Thumbs up became practically a synonym of Facebook. Elegantly simple method of letting others know that you approve of given content appeared online for the first time ever on Zuckerberg’s social website*, from where it quickly spreaded to dozens other social portals. Thumbs up quickly became a norm, but what about thumbs down? About showing that, for a change, we do not approve of content given?Well, it looks like Facebook is working on something like that.Some of the American Facebook users have just received a new option called downvote. It is not thumbs down as such, although it ...

Burning smartphones are old news; what will you say about burning headphones? The story is as follows: one Jason Colan was spending time in a fitness club excercising and listening to music, when suddenly he noticed that his right headphone started to let out thick smoke. He quickly took it out and left to find help. When he returned, he found his headphones a burnt mess of plastic and wires. Hm.Apple already knows about this and promised to look into the how’s and why’s of it. Hopefully it was just an isolated ...

Company called Akhan Semiconductor is said to be working on a special feature that will offer a great deal of protection to our valuable smartphone displays. This magickal tech is called Mirage Diamond Glass. It is basically a thin layer of diamond dust that will cover a classic display. This tech is supposedly already in a test phase. We do not know who the Akhan Semiconductor’s partner or partners are, but we have heard that they are not working with any of the ”big boys” of the smartphone market.Oh, by the way, Akhan is also trying to devise a way to combat sunrays ...

To be precize, Google took over the complete mobile division of HTC. Their job in Google is now to design Google’s new Made By Google series devices. Ex-HTC team reportedly consists of high class specialists, experienced people who worked on devices such as HTC Touch and HTC One and not, as some people theorized, washed-up devs that HTC just wanted to get rid of.That is great, but what with the remaining HTC? Well… we do not know. There are few theories online, for example some people believe that HTC will now concentrate on developing mobile software, but nobody knows anything ...

That is right, FF fans; newest installment of the series is coming to mobile devices, and soon! The game is using AppStore’s new pre-order function. Tap ”Get”, buy the game, and it will download onto your device automatically upon release. Chapter 1 – as the game is being released in an episodic format, similiar to e.g. Telltale Games – can be pre-ordered for free, while Chapters 2 and 3 will cost $0.99 each and Chapters 4-10 will cost $3.99 each. All chapters bundled together will be available later for $19.99 from TouchArcade. The game will run on iOS devices ...

This time the hooded bastards with keyboards stroke against Coincheck, one of the largest cryptocurrency markets. Hackers broke the market’s security measures and took almost 400 million dollars worth of NEM cryptocurrency. This attack has been called similiar to one from 2014, where hackers robbed a japanese cryptocurrency market for roughly the same amount of money, forcing the market to go bankrupt. Coincheck has said that it will try to return lost money to those injured by the robbery, but with such a large sum of money missing… well, I hope for the ...

United States of ‘Mu… America certainly have a wide variety of phone carriers to chose from! With such a large number of services available, it is no wonder that some of them garner more love from user’s love than others. AndroidPIT has just released a poll in which it asks people their opinions on what is the worst US carrier. You can check out the poll here. Right now it seems that most americans dislike Sprint, with Verizon and AT&T being far second and third. This though may be so only because of how many people use them. Least disliked – again, possibly due ...