Device listed as Galaxy A50 (SM-A505FN) has just been certified by Bluetooth. Listing informs us of the fact that the phone will support the Bluetooth 5.0 Low Energy standard and… not much else. Its’ very existence, though, supports the rumour that Galaxy A50 will be announced soon, probably next month at MWC 2019. Other, older rumours regarding this phone include specs such as large Infinity-V display, Exynos 9610 CPU, 4000mAh battery, 4GB RAM, 64 or 128GB storage, 24mpx main camera and Android 9 Pie ...
Ex-vice chief of Samsung SDI hired by Apple. Makes me feel all warm inside
Hot topic! According to Bloomberg, Apple has just hired one Soonho Ahn, an ex-vice chief of Samsund SDI, Samsung’s branch responsible for developing batteries. In other words, Apple hired a guy indirectly responsible for the whole Galaxy Note 7 fiasco. Mr. Ahn has been hired to lead the company’s in-house battery development efforts; makes sense, seeing as Apple is currently working on a large number of projects (e.g. MicroLED displays and new CPUs) that will require upgraded, top of the shelf and hopefully not blowing up batteries to support them. Mister Ahn has refrained ...
Motorola patented new Razr project
As we already know, Motorola has announced that it is now working on a remake of the old Razr flip phone. All that we knew about it until now was that it will cost 1500 USD and will probably come out sometime this year. Today, though, thanks to the hard work of journalists from the 91Mobiles blog, we can take a look at sweet graphics from new Razr’s patent. Motorola has supposedly patented the device in December 2018. The graphics are quite informative, too. They show us that the device looks quite like its old predecessor, except maybe being a bit more square. When closed, a small ...
Vivo Apex 2019, another smartphone with no buttons and joints
It was just yesterday that I wrote about Meizu Zero, world’s first smartphone lacking both any buttons and connectors, and today I get to tell you about another one just like that. Apex 2019 by Vivo is a concept smartphone with the same main feature as Zero; it will have no buttons, with user’s interface being limited to touchscreen and touch frame, and no connectors. Like Zero it will be charged wirelessly, but it will also have the option of charging via a magnetic interface. Unlike Zero it will lack a pretty important feature these days, namely the selfie shooter camera. ...
New, live images of Samsung Galaxy S10 and Galaxy S10 Plus
– source: German website AllAboutSamsung,– the units in question are supposedly ”advanced prototypes” of the two devices,– still no notches, screen cutouts instead,– no new info on specifications. Tweet Vote on HN ...
A bunch of Nokia phones will soon get Android 9 Pie update
Nokia is known for always – although not neccessarily quickly or even regularly – updating its older smartphones. Year 2019 has not changed this: thanks to a tweet from Juho Sarvikas himself we now know which Nokia smartphones will be updated to 9 Pie in the next months:– Nokia 1 – beginning of 2nd quarter of 2019,– Nokia 2.1 – first quarter of 2019,– Nokia 3 – beginning of 2nd quarter of 2019,– Nokia 3.1 – first quarter of 2019,– Nokia 3.1 Plus – January 2019,– Nokia 5 – January 2019,– Nokia 5.1 ...
Xiaomi Redmi Note 7 soon out in India
Xiaomi has just taken to Twitter to announce that their Redmi Note 7 budget smartphone will soon be debuting in India. The precise release date and price are unknown; the latter might be something around 10500 rupees for the normal model and 14000-15000 for the Plus one. Device’s specs include Sony IMX586 48mpx camera sensor, Snapdragon 660 CPU, 3 or 4 gigabytes of RAM and 6.3′ display with teardrop. Tweet Vote on HN ...
iOS 12.1.3. Newest iOS update
Apple’s newest iOS has just completed its betatests and is now available for everyone to download. The changes are… small:– fixed glitch where the screen would not scroll properly after a picture,– improved work of external loudspeaker devices in iPad Pro 2018,– HomePod fixes, Siri now listens better and random loudspeaker restarts fixed,– bug fixes for CarPlay on iPhone XS, XS Max i XR.In order to download iOS 12.1.3, you need to connect to the Wi-Fi, go to Settings, General and select Updates. It might be a good idea to make sure that your phone is ...
Meizu Zero, first in the world smartphone with no buttons and connectors
Guys from Meizu have just presented us a concept of their newest smartphone, an interesting, perhaps even groundbreaking Meizu Zero. What is so cool about it? Oh, nothing, just the fact that it has no buttons and no connectors at all. All there is to this smartphone is its case, display and a touch frame on the right side of the device. Having no classic loudspeakers, it will use the so-called piezo-electronic transducers; lack of charger connectivity means that it will be charged wireless-only. There is even no SIM card, which might displease some potential users.Specs:– ...
Target announces support for both Samsung Pay and Google Pay
Starting at an unspecified but supposedly near date, 1850 Target locations across the United States of America will accept Google Pay and Samsung Pay in addition to Apple Pay which it have already been supporting for a while now. Unfortunately, Target’s RED cards cannot be added to any of the above payment methods; if you want to keep your 5% discount then you need to use the Wallet feature in Target’s app. Too bad. Tweet Vote on HN ...