At least that is what David Ruddock, commissioning editor of Android Police, believes to be true. According to the man, new OS will be revealed on August. Google Pixel is said to be the first smartphone to boast the ”Oreo”, with Google Nexus being the latter. It is possible, though, that this first version of the OS will be but a skeleton frame, with remaining components being added to it over the span of a few months after release. Tweet Vote on HN ...

”Harvest sunflowers, potatoes and more… tend to your crops, pigs and sheep… load your bales with a front loader…”. I do not understand the fascination with Farming Simulator, but I won’t judge. If you like to work when playing, its your business. Transport those potatoes, pronto! Farming Simulator is a strangely popular video game series. It is one of the very best selling games on Steam, and has topped sales charts in Germany and France (Really, France?). Anyway, the latest game in the series has just been released on Google Play for you mobile farmers ...

Hope it does better than the last one! Whether it will or will not, I do not know. What I do know is this:– Microsoft’s new mobile OS is being tested as we speak,– its interface is supposedly similiar to the old one,– Os is said to support universal applications.That is all. No date or release or any other morsel of info. Who knows, maybe Microsoft will finally become popular among mobile users? What do you think? Tweet Vote on HN ...

Well, well, well… I am speechless. Well, mostly because I am too busy rolling on the floor, laughing.*five minutes and one aspirin pill later*Okay, I am good now. So… North Korea has once again shown its technologial superiority to the rest of the world. Ryonghung iPad is basically a badly made parody, excuse me, I mean ripoff of Apple’s mobile device. This beast (specification: 1GB RAM, 8GB storage with an USD slot, 4-core 1.2GHz CPU, Internet connection (!!)) will not be, naturally, available to the common citizen of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. No ...

For better or for worse, these are interesting times for those who want to live in the US. I will not argue for or against the new American government, but it is easy to see that there has been a number of changes in the US security policy lately: citizens of several Arabic countries are banned from traveling to the country; electronic devices are banned from aboard planes flying to the country; and now this – Facebook account name becoming a required part of an application for the US visa. Yep, you read me right. From now on, those who want to receive an USA visa will have to input ...

I wanted to write a nice entry paragraph on how smartphones are a common commodity nowadays, that they are an important part of everyone’s life and how they need to be protected or one can face losing what is basically another body part, but I reckon that everyone already knows all that jazz. Instead, I will skip the introduction and just give you guys and girls a few tips on how to keep your iPhones, Huaweis, Samsungs and Nokias from getting physically damaged, so that you can call, text, browse and play on your mobiles to your heart’s content.1. Be sure to know where your ...

Android Pay is slowly expanding its reach. Starting in the US, it then rolled out in Russia, Taiwan, Spain and Brazil. Yesterday, the app debuted in the land of peace and snow known as Canada. Launch supports both MasterCard and Visa credit cards, with Interac joining on June 5th. American Express and Tangerine will become serviceable later this summer. Every phone with Android OS version 4.4 or higher will be able to house the app. Tweet Vote on HN ...

Everyone here knows Skype, right? One of the most popular instant messengers, allowing for a single and group chatrooms as well as video and audio calls. It is thanks to Skype that, for example, a citizen of Canada can talk to his bud working in Israel. Well, it looks like Russians have heard of Skype too and are now working on their own. Rostec (darn, a name like that can do in a sci-fi movie. Just change this c into a k or ck and voila), a Russian technology company that works on the ”Russian Skype”, has already shared a bit of info on their project. Function-wise, their ...

Remember how I wrote about this phone last week? Well, I am glad to return to the subject. Essential Phone, a first child of an Essential company started by an ex-Android CEO Andy Rubin, has just been announced! Thanks to the announcement all the specifics and other info on the device has been released. If you want to learn about the Essential’s specs or how much will it cost, I am your man.Specification:– 5.71-inch Edge to Edge screen, UHD,– dual 13mpx main camera, f/1.85 aperture; 8mpx selfie shooter; 4k videos,– Snapdragon 835 chipset, 8-core, 2.45GHz,– 4GB ...

Andy Rubin, ex-CEO of Android, has left his company some time ago to create his own, Essential Products (heh, nice one) and is working on a phone. Device’s name is, yep, Essential. We do not know a lot about this newcomer. Phone’s specification is a mystery, but, thankfully, Bloomberg has dug out a few interesting details on the device. According to Bloomberg, Essential will be a frame-less device, basically meaning that it will have a large screen but the phone’s overall size will still be compact. It is said to be modify-able, much like Lenovo Moto Z is with Modo Mods; ...