The world has become a small town and distances matter no more. The reason for this statement is huge developments in all kinds of communications especially telecommunications. Every day there are new cell phone models in the market and one gets carried away with these very expensive new cell phones
Samsung took its sweet time getting ready for another Gear launch, but it’s getting there — specifically in the UK. The Gear S3 classic and the more rough-and-tumble Gear S3 frontier smartwatches are up for sales.As a reminder, both variants run on the same Tizen OS, are rated IP68 or 1.5 meters of submersion for 30 minutes and are actually similar in dimensions: 46 x 49 x 12.9 mm. The ...
This year’s prime steak becomes next year’s chop suey when it comes to the parts going inside of a phone. But if you can put a pretty wrapper around it all and then label it as an “exclusive,” then you can definitely make up some ground and move merchandise.For LG in Korea, it decided to do just that with the LG U exclusively for its LG U+ cellular subscribers. See if you don’t have callbacks to LG’s effort on the
Now that we've got all of the iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus excitement out of the way, it's time to turn our attention to the iPhone 8 (or whatever it is Apple decides to call it). These phones are planned a long way ahead of time, and we're already hearing rumours about what's in store for 2017.
The particular rumour we're interested in here concerns display technology: Tai Jeng-wu, president of electronics giant Sharp, has told an audience of students that the iPhone 8 will use OLED display technology, something we've already heard whispers about.
Pay attention at the back - Sharp has just been bought out by Foxconn, Apple's main manufacturing partner in Asia, and the word on the Cupertino grapevine is that Apple wants to start making screens in-house with the help of Sharp and Foxconn. Sharp already makes some of the displays used in the current generation of iPhones.
That display tech in full
Today's iPhones use LTPS (Low-Temperature Polycrystalline Silicon) LCD technology and are of course already great to look at, but the switch to OLED (Organic Light-Emitting Diode) displays (similar to those used in Samsung Galaxy phones) would mean better colour contrast and an easier path to making curved screens. The Apple Watch already uses an OLED display.
Perhaps not the most interesting of iPhone rumours to the average consumer, but you're going to be spending a long time staring at the screen, so it's important to understand the technology behind it. It's also a clue that Apple may one day add a curved screen to its iconic smartphone handset.
We're also hearing that next year's iPhone will have a glass back and there might even be a third size and form factor to celebrate 10 years of iPhones. If you want to get in early with all the iPhone 8 speculation, we've got a complete round-up here.
from TechRadar: Phone and communications news http://www.techradar.com/news/there-are-more-hints-apple-is-changing-up-its-display-tech-for-the-iphone-8
No time is a good time to remove nearly 100,000 apps from your mobile apps store in Italy. The move does not help the Windows 10 Mobile app gap at all, but given that operating system simply isn’t a priority at this time, we can probably say that Microsoft is driving age ratings for apps on principle.It has been doing so since last month and has been urging developers to take an International Age Ratings Coalition ...
There have been quite a few reports of BlackBerry Privs getting intermittent “No Service” readings while on AT&T and T-Mobile. The company’s support forums have been buzzing about the problem. For those on the Un-carrier, the issue may have appeared as early as July while ...
Photos and video clips that disappear after 24 hours; fancy filter overlays that add special effects or turn you and your friends into different characters; one-to-one messages rather than a public news feed... no, it's not Snapchat, it's Facebook's new camera feature.
Facebook is reportedly testing its new Snapchat-style camera features with a limited number of users before potentially rolling them out to the rest of us, reports TechCrunch, and it's an unashamedly direct copy of what Snapchat already does.
Facebook borrowing feature ideas from Snapchat is nothing new (Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg tried to buy Snapchat in 2013), but this update applies to the camera tool built right into the main Facebook app - it's designed to make sharing "fast, fun, and flexible" according to camera product manager Sachin Monga.
Snap to it
This is actually an adapted version of the feature Facebook tested during the 2016 Olympics in Rio. It sounds a lot more flexible and almost ready for the masses, and there are some arty Prisma-esque effects built into the camera too, apparently. It's accessed with a quick swipe from the News Feed.
After you've created a photo or video you can post it to the News Feed or send it directly to some of your contacts, who then have 24 hours to watch it. Each message can be viewed once before it disappears, though just like Snapchat there is a limited replay option.
Facebook bosses know they have a struggle on their hands to keep younger users interested - check your News Feed and see how many posts are by people under the age of 25 or so - and they've obviously decided that following Snapchat's lead is the way to go. There's no word on when these new features will reach everyone, if they ever do, but watch this space.
Oh HTC. This company had a pretty rough year in 2015. The One M9 was one of a handful of phones which were somewhat burned by performance concerns over Qualcomm’s snapdragon 810 chipset. No one seemed much interested in a phone with inconsistent performance which would run hot to the touch. Consumers wandered, and HTC lost market share.The response for 2016 was a fresh take on refining the aspects of HTC products we have all liked in the past. The HTC 10 arrived as a counterpoint to the Samsung / Apple duopoly, waging battle against LG for market share. In our early reviews we were ...
