“Power Hungry” aptly describes a large number of users these days with increased usage of Internet and gaming. But then a big bag of juice for a phone would also mean yielding to gravity in all its weight. Lenovo has an answer – the P2. The successor to 2015’s P1 and P1 Turbo, that was launched in IFA 2016, has now launched in India. We had a chance to use the phone for more than a week, and boy are we excited to tell you what it is all about?...
The tech giant Google has officially submitted to Android 8.1 Oreo, the first major update to its mobile operating system. With the arrival of this “stable” version, improvements are introduced and, in addition, some new features that users will love. So, it is the time for speculation and development versions is over. The Mountain View presented recently the first major update of its mobile operating system, which comes with some developments related, among other things, to the optimization of software for smartphones cameras....
The funds will go into expanding and building new battery production facilities at the Ochang industrial zone located in Cheongju, the capital city of North Chungcheong Province southeast of Seoul. LG Energy Solution already operates a cylindrical battery production facility at Ochang, Additional production lines to be built there will adopt the latest smart factory solutions such as logistics automation, remote support, and intelligent manufacturing, the South Korean battery maker said....
According to “industry sources” of The Korea Herald, LG’s smartphone division posted a growth of 25 percent on a YoY basis. If the company continues to keep up this rate of growth, it might eventually become the third largest smartphone market in the world. The company currently shares the fourth spot with Huawei. Analysts estimate that LG shipped 59.6 million smartphones in 2014, thanks to the growing popularity of its G series of smartphones, which includes its flagship handset — the LG G3....
“Over the past few months, we have been working on providing a ‘native experience’ for Open b Apps,” Mozilla recently said on its Hacks blog. “at this means is that as a user, you can now manage your web app just like you would a native app.” Installing an app from the Firefox etplace works just as you’d expect it to in any other app store. Tap an app’s install button it automatically downloads to your device....
Bloomberg reports that HTC has hired en. en worked for Samsung from 2008 to 2012 played an instrumental role in creating launching the “highly successful” Galaxy br, according to his nkedIn profile. And he’s right: Samsung has had one of the most successful marketing campaigns for smartphones, alongside companies like Apple. This is one of the smartest decisions HTC has made since it launched the greatly improved second-generation HTC One....
Rumors and leaks surrounding HTC’s upcoming flagship phone, the One M10, have sadly been…non-existent. Apart from one leak which suggested that the handset will be launched in March and will be available in both Snapdragon 820 and MediaTek powered variants, not much is known about the handset. Thanks to Evan Blass (a.k.a @evleaks) though, we now have more details about HTC’s upcoming flagship. His source confirms that the M10 is being internally called as the Perfume and that it will feature a 5....
There has been some confusion over the naming of the upcoming HTC One Mini successor. And according to Evleaks, HTC might be keeping it “simple” by calling it the One Mini 2. Several theories have suggested that HTC might opt for something like the One (M8) Mini, but that doesn’t appear to be the case, much to our delight. We’ll treat this merely as speculation until HTC makes the device official later this month....
The newest update ports over a nearly identical feature from the iOS app’s use of 3D Touch. en you long press a thumbnail image (you’ll see this layout when searching or viewing someone’s profile) a nearly full-size expansion of the photo will appear. ong with the report from 9to5, several others say the feature is now live in version 7.13. However, we tried it on two different phones with different accounts were unable to get it to work....
Despite this forecast, Gelsinger outlined that Intel is in a “good position” to manage the constraints that arise as a result of the supply chain shortage. “In fact, Intel is rising to meet this challenge,” he told investors on Thursday during a first-quarter earnings call. “Following our announcements in Arizona, New Mexico, and Ohio, we recently announced a series of investments in Europe, spanning our existing operations as well as our new investments in France and Germany – the silicon junction,” he continued....
Android fans, on the other hand, can use their phones as blank slates because Android is an open-source operating system. There are tons of things you can do with Android that aren’t possible with iPhones. Apple has begun loosening the reins with the recent release of iOS 14 and while it adds new features and customizations, it’s also seen its share of bugs. This week, iOS 14.1 was released to address a number of issues, but a problem with one key new feature is still persisting....
Steve Litchfield already reviewed the iPhone 7 for iPhoneHacks, but now he’s back with a review for the larger of Apple’s newest flagships, the iPhone 7 Plus. While the iPhone 7 and 7 Plus share plenty of similarities, there are a plethora of tweaks, both in terms of hardware and software, that make the larger of the pair stand out. As such, Litchfield took a crack at reviewing the 7 Plus, inspecting it for any cracks in the armor, coming off an already impressed outlook from the iPhone 7....
However, now it seems that mobile ransomware is starting to become more common, as the international software security group Kaspersky Lab reported that “the firm has stopped 136,532 ransomware attacks between the March 2015 and March 2016 based on the metrics from its own tools on smartphones”. The international software security group Kaspersky Lab described in its statement that “Ransomware is a type of malware that, upon infecting a device, blocks access to it or to some or all of the information stored on it....
In Summary The Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Fold is the world’s first foldable computer that comes in a compact form factor. The machine comes with a 13.3-inch foldable OLED screen with touch input and stylus support, with the Lenovo Pen. The X1 Fold runs on Windows 10 and has special software features for the folding screen, including dual-screen usage. Does the Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Fold show us the future of laptop designs?...
The most critical factor behind the move, as per sources, is the fact that the LG was being outpaced by the aggressive marketing strategies and pricing from local phone makers. Vendors such as Xiaomi, Oppo, Huawei have been largely dominating the country for years and have made it nearly impossible for anyone else to break in. Even Samsung, in the last quarter, was not in the top five league according to Kantar....
At its launch event yesterday, LG was pretty vague about the availability of the G3 outside of Korea. Thankfully, all the four major carriers in the United States have already confirmed that they would be launching the phone later this year on their network. The LG G3 will be available on all the four major carriers in the United States — T-Mobile, Verizon, AT&T and Sprint. While T-Mobile and AT&T did not announce any specific details about the handset, Sprint confirmed that the Shine Gold color of the handset is going to be exclusive to their network and would also support their HD Voice and Spark LTE network....
ARM has just announced that LG has licensed their Cortex A50 series CPUs and “the next generation of ARM Mali” GPUs. For those who need a little bit or a refresher, ARM’s business model is to make blueprints for processors, which they then license to pretty much everyone. Companies take those blueprints, design a processor, and more often than not they ship those final designs to what’s called a “fab”....
On December 3rd 2015, Certificate Authority provider Let’s Encrypt announced that it is now entering Public Beta, now in order to get free certificates from Let’s Encrypt users won’t have to apply invitations from now. What basically Let’s Encrypt does for its users and customers, Let’s Encrypt allow its users to provide HTTPS extension of privacy and security for their websites by allowing web security and manage certificates for SSL....
In the past, connecting the TV to your computer could be tricky, and in some cases, offer poor video quality. This was due to the poor quality of the connectors or the low resolution of the TV. Nowadays, the story is somehow different: TVs have full HD resolutions and offer a crystal clear images and the bigger dimension of the screen does not affect the quality. Also, newer connectors, such as HDMI or DisplayPort have almost no attenuation and provide top of the line video signal....
It’s Super Bowl Sunday, and you may be looking at ways to watch the big game on your Android tablet or smartphone. Unfortunately, watching the game won’t be that easy as the sports event is only licensed to a few affiliates who are authorized to provide streaming coverage to a mobile device. The one and only way to watch the Super Bowl on Android in the US is the NFL Mobile app....
