Crazy Phones

Friday, 30 September 2016

No curved OLED screen for LG G6, Korean media reports

It’s a little silly to talk about the cancellation of certain internal development plans for next-gen Android flagship phones when said intentions were never officially confirmed. They weren’t even rumored, or at least no such gossip made the headlines on the Western Hemisphere.Over in LG’s homeland, insiders apparently spoke of a possible dual-curved G6 to follow the suit of numerous Samsung devices already while preceding the late 2017 iPhone 8 (

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Forget Twitter, this fall’s biggest tech acquisition could see Qualcomm snap up NXP

The vast majority of today’s popular premium smartphones, iPhones not included, are powered by Snapdragon chips, despite Qualcomm’s highly publicized 810 overheating woes just last year.The San Diego-based semiconductor giant is also making decent headway in the low to mid-end handheld space, where MediaTek remains quite competitive, while the next wave of smartwatches should adopt its own custom-designed Snapdragons.Still, ...

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Sharp once again tipped as major OLED display supplier for ‘next-gen’ iPhones

It almost feels like we’re talking more about the iPhone 8 than the 7 and 7 Plus already, which come to think of it, isn’t as absurd as it sounds, since 2017 is widely believed to be the year of a radical redesign and great number of under-the-hood hardware improvements.While Apple reportedly leans towards a bezel-free,

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Lenovo Tab3 8 Plus is reportedly on the way with Marshmallow, 1200p screen, optional LTE

Noticed anything missing from Lenovo’s fairly rich IFA 2016 product portfolio? No? Then you must not be familiar with the company’s budget-friendly non-Yoga Android slate lineup.This is in dire need of a couple of upgrades, despite the modest Tab 3 (or Tab3) having seen daylight last spring in 7, 8 ...

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Find an iPhone bug, bag $1.5 million

No one likes buggy software, but certain bugs can now make you rich if you find them before anyone else.

That's thanks to Zerodium (an exploit broker), which is offering large sums of money through a bug bounty for zero-day (previously unknown) exploits, with the bounty topping out at $1.5 million (around £1.15 million/AU$2 million). But to grab that much cash you'll need to find a way to remotely jailbreak an iPhone running iOS 10.

Jailbreaking your iPhone opens it up to apps and features that aren't officially offered by Apple, but it's never been quite this rewarding.

Bug bounties aren't new, in fact Apple itself offers payouts for vulnerabilities in its secure boot firmware components, but these top out at $200,000 (roughly £155,000/AU$260,000) and are only available to a select group of researchers.

Bounties for all

Zerodium's bug bounty is available to anyone, and the company is prepared to make multiple $1.5 million payments.

Finding Android bugs isn't quite as lucrative, but Zerodium will pay up to $200,000 for zero-day Android 7 exploits, according to a report by Wired.

Both its Android and iOS payouts are by far the highest they've ever been, with payments last year topping out at $100,000 (roughly £77,000/AU$130,000) for Android bugs and $1 million (around £770,000/AU$1.3 million) for iOS ones.

The increased prices on both platforms reflect the increased security offered by iOS 10 and Android Nougat, so the good news is our phones should be becoming less vulnerable to exploits. The bad news is that there's clearly a huge market for them still, and anyone with the skills to find them could become very rich indeed.

What is jailbreaking?

from TechRadar: Phone and communications news http://www.techradar.com/1329659

The Pixel XL could be more finger-friendly than the iPhone 7 Plus

With talk of a 5.5-inch screen the Pixel XL is expected to be a big phone, but exactly how big was unknown until now, and it seems the handset might actually be smaller than some other 5.5-inch phones, including the iPhone 7 Plus.

According to reliable leaker @OnLeaks, the Pixel XL has dimensions of 154.72 x 75.74 x 7.3-8.5mm, with the thin bit at the bottom and the thickest bit at the top.

The iPhone 7 Plus for comparison is 158.2 x 77.9 x 7.3mm, so other than being a little thicker at the top the Pixel XL should be a more compact device, which also suggests it will have smaller bezels than Apple's phablet flagship – though notably the 5.5-inch Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge is smaller still, if not quite as thin.

Pixel XL render

This information was accompanied by new renders of the phone. They're not official, instead being based on a leaked factory designs, but they line up with what we've seen before, complete with a differently colored section at the top, rumored to be made of glass, while the bottom is thought to be metal.

Although not obvious in the images, the glass section, where the fingerprint scanner and camera are found, is presumably where the phone starts getting thicker.

One size doesn't fit all

While no dimensions have been leaked for the smaller Pixel handset it's expected to have a similar design, so expect that to be thicker at the top than bottom as well, though given the rumored 5-inch screen size it should be a lot more compact overall.

We'll know for sure soon, as Google is holding an event on October 4 where we're expecting to see both phones.

We may also see more of Google Home at the October 4 event

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