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Quick 15 second teaser for the LG G4 doesn't show whips but does show the leather
4/22/2015 3:59:00 PM

A 15-second Korean video teaser for the LG G4 promotes the leather back edition of the handset. LG's new flagship phone will be unveiled on April 28th at a media event in New York City. A huge leak earlier this month revealed a number of images showing the leather backed device along with images of the phone in metallic black, silk white, shine gold, burgundy red and moon violet.

The teaser shows how the "Genuine Leather" is cut and stitched for the LG G4, although we're pretty sure that this is not done by hand for each individual unit. The reason why the teaser shows April 29th as the ...

 

Google introduces Project Fi; $20 unlimited talk and text, $10 per GB of data
4/22/2015 2:28:00 PM



Google has made it official. As expected, the tech titan has introduced its Project Fi MVNO that will offer consumers wireless service in the U.S. using cellular networks belonging to Sprint and T-Mobile. In addition, Google will also use Wi-Fi networks when available. New technology devised by Google will connect subscribers to the fastest network possible at any given moment, regardless if it is a Wi-Fi connection or a cellular one.

The service will choose from more than 1 million Wi-Fi hotspots verified as being "fast and reliable" by Google. Once connected, the signals will ...

 

Facebook Hello dialer for Android wants to make your smartphone smarter
4/22/2015 1:42:00 PM

Facebook seems to think that your Android phone is rather bad at being... well, at being a phone. That's why the company today launched its very own dialer app for Android (we already knew that this would eventually arrive). Called Hello, the new dialer connects with Facebook in order to make your handset "smarter" and "great at being a phone."

By gathering info from both your phone and your Facebook profile, Hello lets you see who's calling (even when you don't have certain numbers saved in your phone), search for places and people on Facebook, and even block unwanted calls. When someone ...

 

Huawei fights back against ZTE's charges of patent infringement
4/22/2015 1:30:00 PM

ZTE is claiming that Huawei infringed on a pair of its patents related to smartphone cameras. Earlier today, ZTE's Weibo page divulged how the manufacturer plans on suing Huawei for using this unlicensed technology. The handsets carrying the patents are apparently the Huawei Honor X2 and the recently unveiled Huawei P8 flagship model.

Huawei has responded to ZTE's charges by saying that the Slow Shutter and Capture, one of the two patents that ZTE is suing over, is a standard technique used in photography and is achieved by different manufacturers using different technological methods. Huawei ...

 

NVIDIA will soon update the Shield Tablet and Shield Portable to Android 5.1 Lollipop
4/22/2015 12:27:00 PM

A couple of NVIDIA's forum administrators recently announced that the company is gearing up to update both the Shield Tablet and the Shield Portable gaming console to Android 5.1 Lollipop, currently the latest version of Google's mobile operating system.


The NVIDIA Shield Portable, which currently runs Android 4.4 KitKat, will be updated straight to Android 5.1 Lollipop. Although the forum administrator didn't mention a specific time-frame, he did mention that "It won't be much longer" before the update rolls out.

The NVIDIA Shield Tablet currently runs ...

 

Is this the Sony Xperia Z5?
4/22/2015 11:42:00 AM

Just last week, the Sony Xperia Z4 become official. Now, we are passing along what is alleged to be a picture of the Sony Xperia Z5. Earlier this month (even before the Xperia Z4 was announced) we passed along speculation about the fifth-generation Xperia Z handset that could arrive in the fourth quarter of this year if Qualcomm has the Snapdragon 820 SoC ready by then.

From the picture, we can see that the rear camera will be placed on the top left of the phone, where it has been. The side of the device appears to be metallic. The photo was found on a Weibo site out of China, and the posting ...

 

Huawei is gearing up to tackle the US smartphone market
4/22/2015 11:42:00 AM

According to Zhiqiang Xu, Huawei's president of USA devices, Huawei is currently gearing up to tackle the US smartphone market, with plans to eventually become one of the three largest brands in the country. After expanding to the European market over the past couple of years, it looks like Huawei is now aiming to increase its footprint in the United States, the second largest smartphone market after Huawei's home market of China. According to some estimates, Huawei is the fourth largest smartphone marker in the world, with roughly 75 million units shipped in 2014.

Xu said that Huawei is ...

 

Mobile Safari responsible for 55% of mobile browser usage in the U.S.
4/22/2015 10:40:00 AM

According to analytics firm StatCounter, Apple's mobile Safari browser was responsible for 55% of mobile browsing in the U.S. last month. The data is derived from StatCounter's tracking of over 3 million websites. Following mobile Safari is Google's Chrome, which is available for Android and iOS. The latter accounted for 29.9% of mobile browsing in the states during March.

Other Android browsers were used for 9.5% of U.S. mobile browsing last month. Other notable mobile browsers include Amazon's Silk (1.63%), Microsoft's Mobile IE (1.17%) and the BlackBerry Browser (.47%). Mobile Safari ...

 

What's an Android advertising ID & how and why to reset it?
4/22/2015 9:50:00 AM

What's an advertising ID and what does it bring to your life as an Android user? In short, app developers and Google's ad network use your ad ID to recognize your device in the vast ocean of Android gadgets, then generously serve it targeted ads for stuff you may or may not actually care about. Based on the advertising ID, devs and Google can make anonymous user profiles that contain info for targeted advertising, collected during your search activities. It's the price you pay for relying on Google to find stuff. Only apps downloaded from Google Play get to use this feature, and where in-app advertising ...

 

Follow these few simple steps to keep your kid safe on a smartphone
4/22/2015 9:41:00 AM

For those of you who have taken on the challenging task of raising your kids, smartphones are not merely a tech toy - they are also a challenge.
Why? Simple, because with so many apps and the openness of the Internet, junior can go just about anywhere, buy anything, and send the wrong picture to the wrong person.

The dangers that stem from this can vary from a few dollars (or a thousand dollars!) after kiddo played Candy Crush and spend real dollar on in-app purchases, but there can also be more serious problems if they encounter the wrong person/people on ...

 

Verizon shrugs off loss of customers who left the carrier during the first quarter
4/22/2015 9:36:00 AM

Verizon announced on Tuesday that it had lost 138,000 postpaid phone customers over the last three months. Will the nation's largest carrier miss those who have left the grasp of Big Red? Not if you listen to the company's CFO, Fran Shammo. The executive characterizes those who have moved on from Verizon Wireless as being more interested in pricing than the quality of the network. Shammo says that price-sensitive customers are the ones that Verizon is not going to keep.

Sprint and T-Mobile have been gunning for Verizon's postpaid customers with a variety of deals. Sprint has been heavily ...

 

The highs and lows of Pantech: check out some of the maker's best and worst phones over the years
4/22/2015 9:11:00 AM


Founded in 1991, Pantech was once a company that successfully sparred with its more popular compatriots, Samsung and LG, but if recent reports are to be believed, the large handset maker might cease to exist soon. Due to one reason or another, the handset maker couldn't position itself as a leading player in the post-feature phone era and establish itself as a viable competition in the Android era.

Like any other manufacturer, Pantech also had its highs and lows - some of its phones were actually pretty good, while others are best forgotten. In lieu with the rumors ...

 

Envying the Note 4's Screen Write? Here's how you can draw on your screen on any Android device
4/22/2015 9:05:00 AM

Hey there, droids. Now, most of you are probably aware of the Screen Write function that was introduced by Samsung with the Galaxy Note 4 / Note Edge. Basically, it creates a screenshot of whatever you are viewing on the handset right now and allows you to doodle over it, presumably to annotate important points in the image, and send it off as a guide for a friend, or just save it for personal needs.

Well, thanks to a little app called Draw on screen, any Android phone can now get this function. Well, you can try it for free while, unfortunately, the settings that make it really useful are ...

 

Samsung sells 200,000 Galaxy S6 and S6 edge units in South Korea, falls short of previous estimates
4/22/2015 8:59:00 AM

According to a new report from the South Korean media, local manufacturer Samsung managed to sell 200,000 Galaxy S6 and S6 edge units in its home country in 10 days of commercial availability. Although previous estimates said that South Koreans have pre-ordered 300,000 units, it looks like the latest smartphones from Samsung are not gaining as much traction in the country as previously believed. 


The report moves on to mention that the 10-day sales estimate isn't necessarily a bad sign for Samsung at the global level, seeing as the South Korean smartphone market is already ...

 

How to speed up your Android notifications if they arrive too late [root]
4/22/2015 8:30:00 AM

When it comes to the speed with which your smartphone or tablet receives notifications, it's a question of how often a heartbeat exchange occurs. Mind you, we're not even remotely referencing the kind of heartbeat exchange that Apple Watch users are able to do. In this case, HE stands for how often your device calls the Google Cloud Messaging service's Push function, which powers the notifications engine behind many popular Android apps. A Push request is basically your device asking GCM "What's up, got anything for me?" and GCM answering "No.", or quickly delivering the notifications content. 


Usually, ...

 

Sony Xperia Z4 Compact seemingly confirmed for the summer with a DoCoMo coding of SO-04G
4/22/2015 8:18:00 AM

Hot on the heels of the leaked codenames that will eventually represent an Xperia Z4 Compact and Z4 Ultra yesterday, comes another proof that a mini version of the Xperia Z4 is in the cards, too.

As you can see in the leaked accessory catalog screenshot below, the spring/summer portfolio of NTT DoCoMo will likely include both the Z4, and a phone simply dubbed Z4 Compact. 

Given that the Z3 Compact goes under the carrier coding SO-02G there, it's not hard to deduce that an SO-04G would be its successor, indicating a new entrant ...

 

Useful file managers for iPhone and iPad
4/22/2015 8:09:00 AM


Managing your files on an iOS device - be it an iPhone or an iPad - can be a challenging task, especially given the fact that unlike Android, Apple's platform is a walled garden when it comes to program files.

Apple has adopted a simple solution: it simply does not allow users to tinker with them, so that they don't break something.

However, if you still want some control over a limited number of files, such as your captured images or downloaded books for example, you can manage them in folders easily with the help of a file manager. You can also use this crop of new file managers ...

 

These are not the droids you're looking for: 4 infamous smartphone clone manufacturers
4/22/2015 7:53:00 AM

Whether we're talking watches, expensive perfumes, jewelry, or even clothes, somebody out there (usually somewhere in Asia) is likely hard at work, churning out copies of it. With smartphones, we simply refer to them as clones, and believe it or not, they're more common than you'd think.


Is manufacturing seemingly complicated high-end smartphones so easy? Not really, which is why most of these copies are usually inferior (sometimes, considerably so) to the real thing. Also, despite their different 'brands', they're typically manufactured by a small number of factories that simply ...

 

So long, Pantech! South Korean phone maker will probably throw in the towel in the coming months
4/22/2015 7:40:00 AM

Pantech, the third-largest smartphone maker in South Korea, will most certainly cease to exist next month, as nobody bought the smartphone slinger in the specified by court time period. 


As a refresher, Pantech was up for grabs after the company scored a number of disastrous financial quarters and the losses it accumulated, the growing debt (roughly $475 million according as well as the non-existent profitability forced the company to put itself on the market. Interested parties could express their desire to acquire the manufacturer until April 17.  From the looks of ...

 

Huawei's Honor X2 and P8 smartphones could infringe on a couple of ZTE camera patents
4/22/2015 7:39:00 AM

It looks like Huawei's Honor X2 and the recently-announced P8 flagship might be infringing on camera technology patents owned by ZTE. The news comes as ZTE announced today on Weibo that it is suing its local rival for the suspected infringement of two camera tech patents owned by ZTE's Nubia division.

The two patents that ZTE is looking to protect against plagiarism are called "Slow Shutter and Capture" and "Imaging and Mobile Terminal Tech". In an open letter sent to Huawei by ZTE's law representatives, Huawei is asked to stop manufacturing and selling devices that infringe on these two ...

 

Still confused about what camera aperture and ISO mean? This chart will visualize their effects to help you understand
4/22/2015 7:25:00 AM


Hey there, up-and-coming shutter bugs! Remember the smartphone camera race rules of yesteryear? Back then, it was all about who will pump out the biggest resolution sensor – it was a megapixel race, throwing numbers in the faces of consumers as proof that one's camera is better than the other. Nowadays, it has become clear that it's hardly all about the resolution of a camera – its aperture size, general build technology, and the software that tweaks the images as you take them are just as, if not more, important. Manufacturers now see that there is a greater benefit to ...

 

Well, hello, Prometheus: ARM roadmap leak hints at 10nm flagship chipsets
4/22/2015 7:21:00 AM

With Qualcomm's Snapdragon 810 still rocking it at 20nm, and the bleeding edge Exynos 7420 in Galaxy S6 shrunk at the record for a mobile 14nm, a leaked ARM roadmap comes to show that's not all we can expect from flagship chipsets in the near future. As you can see in the chart above, ARM is prepping a Prometheus architecture that will be as powerful, as it will be power-sipping, and will be hammered out with a breathtaking 10nm production process.

The speculated timeframe seems to infer that we could see such SoCs as soon as the second half of next year, and a previous ...

 

Spotlight: ultra-violent 1997 shooter Postal goes on a rampage against sugary Android casual games
4/22/2015 7:15:00 AM


.gamespecs {border: 1px solid #ddd; background: #fefefe; color: #333; width: 100%;} .gamespecs tr:first-child td {border-bottom: 1px solid #ddd; background: #f5f5f5;} .gamespecs tr td + td {border-left: 1px solid #ddd;} .gamespecs tr td {padding: 5px;}Developer: Running With ScissorsDownload: Android (Amazon app store)Category: GamesPrice: $1.99

What is this, a post delivery simulator? Um, no. It's something even crazier! Ever heard the expression "going postal"? If not, we'll do the Urban Dictionary consultation work for you. "Originally coined ...

 

Cheating boyfriend receives proper punishment: all his Apple collection takes a bath
4/22/2015 7:03:00 AM

Even you know you deserve it when you cheat on your (obviously not so) significant other. And when it comes to revenge, it can take various forms depending mostly on the imagination of the one who carries it out.

If you are a member of the Apple church, though, one who owns quite a few of the not-at-all-cheap iDevices, we can think of no better punishment than carrying out revenge to your favorite tech toys.

That's exactly what happened to a poor soul in Japan, a man who cheated on his girlfriend, and when she learned about it, she carried ...

 

LG G4 to come with a curved display at a subtle 3000mm radius
4/22/2015 6:48:00 AM

Those leaks hinting at a curved LG G4 display might bear fruit, after all, if a report out of the Korean mediascape is to be believed. Upon stating how the G4 will have to clash directly with the Galaxy S6, and going through the expected specs and design Rolodex, like a record F1.8 lens aperture, and a genuine leather back cover for the G4, the publication casually mentions that its screen is going to be curved, and even cites the exact curvature radius of 3000mm. LG already has midrangers with this subtle 3000mm curvature on the market, dubbed LG Magna and LG Spirit, so this speculation is utterly ...

 

Did you play Google's Earth Day quiz game yet?
4/22/2015 4:49:00 AM

So, today is Earth Day – the day when we try to remember the importance of environmental protection and the fact that we live on a piece of rock with limited resources. Right after that, we will get back to drooling over a smartphone that currently has a 50% production yield for its frontal glass, but that's another story.

Google, of course, is commemorating this date with a specialized logo on its front page. However, if you tap the logo, you will get a quiz, which will try to tell you what kind of animal you are – just some typical Google fun, which tries to be lighthearted, ...

 

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