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Over the past couple of weeks there have been several leaks that showed the iPhone 8 rear panel with a really ugly hole in the middle for where the fingerprint sensor will have been located. We’ve been praying it wasn’t true, and now it looks as though our prayers have been answered. A more reliable…
Surface Phone is increasingly becoming more of a concept and an ideology rather than an actual physical device, and Microsoft is taking its first step towards realizing that ideology in the form of a Windows 10 Ultralight Mobile PC to be launched in the fourth calendar quarter of 2017 in collaboration with Qualcomm, which will…
AT&T is promoting its new network capabilities as 5G Evolution. What does it really mean? Is it the real 5G that everyone is hyping, or is it merely a marketing ploy for an upgraded 4G technology? There are several clues that point to the fact that AT&T is merely using a marketing gimmick by calling…
We’re one step closer to knowing the truth about iPhone 8 and its sibling smartphone variants for 2017, iPhone 7s and iPhone 7s Plus. Believed to be upgraded versions of last year’s iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus, the two new smartphones will arrive on time, says reputed KGI Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, known for…
The iPhone 8 back panel schematic that was leaked earlier this week showed the blueprint of something that looked really ugly, and unlike any Apple device ever made. A new render, presumably based on that schematic leaked by Sonny Dickson, shows how ugly it will actually look. If the schematic was a leak of the…
If the newly leaked schematics are anything to go by, Apple could be taking a very different direction with the 2017 iPhone 8, also rumored to be called iPhone Edition – a really, horribly ugly one. The schematic was shared by serial leaker Sonny Dickson, who has revealed iPhone features in the past before the devices…
Will the technological challenge of a display-embedded Touch ID stop Apple from releasing the iPhone 8 on time this year? That’s what analysts seem to think. Andy Hargreaves, equity research analyst at Pacific Crest Securities, says that if the smartphone giant cannot resolve the problem within a month or so, it may have to drop Touch…
In a surprise move by Apple Inc., the Cupertino smartphone maker has decided that its new OS version, iOS 10.3.2 (currently in beta testing), will not come to iPhone 5 and iPhone 5c. That leaves tens of millions of devices in the lurch, forcing a hard stop at iOS 10.3.1, the current public version. We’ve known for…
As the lineup of flagship smartphones for 2017 gets heavier on the premium side of things, Microsoft is under intense pressure to reveal Surface Phone, its biggest attempted entry into the smartphone market since the acquisition of Nokia prior to Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella taking over the helm at one of the most valuable tech…
Last year’s Google Pixel and Pixel XL set several benchmarks for smartphones, not the least of which was the performance of its camera, which is now considered one of the best in the industry according to several sources and benchmark sites. But what about Google Pixel 2 and the lineup of three devices for 2017?…
Since the launch of iOS 10 in September 2016, more than 79 percent of iOS devices have moved to the latest major version of Apple’s mobile operating system. In comparison, even though Android is far more prolific as a mobile OS, less than 5 percent of Android device users are on Android 7.0 Nougat or…
We’ve known this for some time now as a rumor, but the Android Open Source Project has just confirmed the codenames of the three Google Pixel 2 smartphones that are slated for release later this year. Spotted by Android Police in an AOSP gerrit (Gerrit is a collaborative code review tool developed by Google’s Shawn Pearce)…
According to several recent reports, Surface Phone could come with a foldable design. Being skeptics, we naturally want to put that claim to the test. And it doesn’t look too good. The latest reports from multiple sources showcase a patent granted to Microsoft that shows a foldable design for a smartphone and a multilayer display. Essentially, the…
Echo, Amazon’s AI powered smart speaker’s free run in the United Kingdom is nearly over as Google gears up to launch Google Home in the country. With the race for smartphone market share nearing its end, tech majors have found a new area of competition: smart home devices. Amazon launched the Echo family of devices that house Amazon’s…
A while ago, Facebook’s founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg made it clear that video was the future of Facebook. Although the social media giant is yet to crack into the paid video streaming market in a meaningful way, there’s no doubt that video is a big part of Facebook and its other assets: Instagram and…
