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Sep 29, 2016
Sep 28, 2016
Mozilla buries Firefox OS for good
Although Mozilla had hopes to keep this operating system around for use in at least some other devices instead of handsets, the company has finanlly decided to completely stop all work on it.
Samsung Pay celebrates its first birthday
One year since its official US launch, Samsung Pay is now rolling out a few new features, store coupons, and cloud storage backup.
Google Play Music now available in India
Almost five years after the music store went live in the US, Google finally releases Play Music on the Android dominated Indian market.
BlackBerry: All internal hardware-development ceases
Because of the continuing failure produce any profit, BlackBerry is ceasing all internal hardware-development. All future BlackBerry hardware will be engineered by partners, BlackBerry is going to concentrate on software and security.
Apple: New MacBook Pro and MacBook Air with Skylake processors?
According to an analyst at IHS Markit, Apple will release new MacBook Pro models and a new MacBook Air with Intel Skylake processors instead of Kaby Lake silkon because production started too early for Kaby Lake.
Fitbit Charge 2 hits the US market
This fitness tracker hits now multiple new markets, with more to be added next month, and a Special Edition Series to launch in December.
Eurocom: Mobile Servers now with VMware ESXi vSphere Hypervisor 6.0
Eurocom launches VMware ESXi vSphere Hypervisor 6.0 in line of its Mobile Servers P7 Pro SE and P5 Pro SE with Intel Xeon E3 series processors. Both laptop series are fully upgradeable and configurable.
T-Mobile Galaxy S7 and Galaxy S7 Edge get Samsung Cloud and the last security update
The new firmware contains the September Security Maintenance Release, but it also delivers the Samsung Cloud features like sync for photos, videos, and other files.
Wearables: Enterprise device shipments reach 154 Million by 2021
ABI Research forecasts global wearable device shipments to increase from nearly 202 million in 2016 to more than 501 million by 2021. 17% of these will be attributed to enterprise end users in 2016.
Xiaomi shows off low light capabilities of the Mi 5s camera
Xiaomi released 26 professionally made pictures showing the low light capabilities of the new Xiaomi Mi 5s smartphone and its internal 12 megapixel Sony IMX 378 camera.
Blackberry DTEK60 leak: New Android smartphone looks like Alcatel Idol 4s
Starting October 11th, BlackBerry could start selling the DTEK60 smartphone for 699 CAD in Canada, a new leak suggests. Once again BlackBerry uses TCL hardware. The Android phone resembles the Alcatel Idol 4S with updated specs.
Lenovo Moto Z and Moto G4 to get Nougat later this year
A Lenovo official has recently unveiled that the Moto Z and the Moto G4 families are scheduled to get Android 7.0 in the fourth quarter of this year.
LG V20 available starting this week
LG Electronics announced that the new smartphone LG V20 will become available to customers starting this week. The LG V20 will make its public debut in LG's home market of South Korea.
Sep 27, 2016
Huawei Honor 6X coming next month
This 5.5-inch handset is expected to hit the market next month, featuring dual cameras and a fingerprint scanner, as well as mid-range specs overall.
Xiaomi Mi 5s & Mi 5s Plus now official
These 5.2-inch and 5.7-inch handsets are both powered by the same Qualcomm Snapdragon 821 chip, and will soon hit the Chinese market.
Samsung Galaxy On8 launches in India
This 5.5-inch, Exynos 7580-powered handset will go on sale via Flipkart starting October 2 and carries a price tag of roughly $240 USD.
Samsung Galaxy Note 7 Recall: Almost 60 percent swapped
Samsung says it has got back almost 60 percent of recalled Galaxy Note 7 smartphones sold in Europe so far, suggesting Samsung is making progress in its attempts to echange all faulty Galaxy Note 7 smartphones.
Logitech SmartDock and Surface Pro 4 for Skype Business Meetings
The Logitech video collaboration team announced a new meeting room solution at Microsoft Ignite: Logitech SmartDock. Logitech and Skype for Business combine to create an elegant, affordable, easy-to-use conference room system.
Huawei H smartphone launches in South Korea
This new 5.5-inch handset powered by a Snapdragon 617 processor and a 3,000 mAh battery launches exclusively via LG Uplus on September 29.
Alcatel unveils Pixi 4 Plus Power smartphone
This handset has no price and launch date yet, but it is obviously a low-end handset with just 1 GB RAM and 8 GB storage, but features an impressive 5,000 mAh battery.
LG Pay launch delayed until next year
Although expected to arrive this year, LG Pay is now scheduled to launch in 2017, apparently due to issues encountered during testing in South Korea.
Motorola Mobility: More layoffs, 500 employees left
Lenovo continues the layoffs at Motorola, hundreds of employees loose their job. Once, Motorola Mobility had 20.000 employees, now only 500 are left in Chicago.
Samsung Galaxy Note 7 Replacement: Many choosing to stick with Note 7
On September 2, Samsung announced a global replacement program for the Galaxy Note 7 smartphone due to an battery cell issue. Since then, the company has been working hard to expedite product shipments for the exchange program.
Lenovo: ThinkPad E470/E570 leaked
Although Kaby Lake has already been announced, the business notebook-sector is still settled with Intels 2015 platform Skylake. This might change soon, because today the first Lenovo ThinkPads of the Kaby Lake generation were leaked.
Sep 26, 2016
Windows 10 now running on 400 million devices
After leaving the 300 million mark behind in May, Microsoft's operating system reaches now a new milestone, running on no less than 400 million devices.
Samsung Galaxy On7 (2016) launches in China
This 5.5-inch handset launches in China for around $240 USD. It is powered by a Snapdragon 625 processor and comes loaded with Android 7.0 Nougat out-of-the-box.
Samsung: NVMe SSDs are the future
According to Samsung the SSD market is changing fast right now. In 2017 the faster NVMe PCIe SSDs are supposed to be more important then the older AHCI SATA III based SSDs.
Samsung Galaxy S8 might use the Exynos 8895 SoC
A set of leaked documents reveals that the next-gen Galaxy S flagship uses a 10 nm Exynos SoC that integrates a Mali-G71 GPU.
Sony Xperia X Compact now available for purchase
After a short pre-order period, Sony's new 4.6-inch Xperia handset is ready to ship, its unlocked version carrying a price tag of $499.99 USD.
Samsung Galaxy C9 hits Geekbench
Still using Android Marshmallow, this 6-inch handset has been spotted with a Qualcomm Snapdragon 652 under the hood, next to 6 GB of memory.
OWC announces USB Type-C Drive Dock docking station
The external docking station supports read and writes rates of over 400 MB/s and is now available for just under $90 USD.
Sep 25, 2016
Google Andromeda: Merged Android and Chrome OS on October 4th?
The 4th of October could be a more significant date for Google than previously expected. A tweet by Android and Chrome OS VP Hiroshi Lockheimer gives reason to speculate about a merger between Android an Chrome OS once again, 8 years after Android was first announced.
Apple: iOS 10.0.2 fixes Lightning earpods control issues
Even if Apple is already beta testing iOS 10.1, it is still busy fixing bugs in iOS 10. Version 10.0.2 fixes a few usability issues with Lightning headphones and the Photos app.
Google October 4th hardware event: Leaked pricing and information
Google is said to unveil a bunch of hardware on October 4th. Apart from the Pixel Phones and Google Home we might also see a new smart home router. Pricing information for some of the hardware was leaked as well.
Xiaomi Mi 5S & Mi 5S Plus: Camera samples posted by CEO
Next week, Xiaomi will unveil their next generation flagship smartphones, the Mi 5S and the Mi 5S Plus. CEO Lei Jun is busy posting camera samples on Weibo to show off the quality of the dual-camera-setup inside the two new models.
Sep 24, 2016
Xiaomi Mi 5S & Mi 5S Plus: New leak suggests cheap pricing
How does $450 sound for a 5.7 inch smartphone with QHD-resolution, Snapdragon 821, 6 GB of RAM and 256 GB of storage? Too good to be true? Well, we do not have confirmation but leaked presentation slides point to the new Xiaomi Mi 5S-series to be rather cheap.
HP: Windows Phone Elite X3 postponed because of unfinished software
The Elite X3 from HP is no doubt the most important Windows Smartphone of 2016. Now it seems the release of the phone could be partly postponed. The software is still unfinished.
Will Samsung Galaxy S7 users get their hands on the Note 7 GUI with Android 7?
Internally, Samsung is testing Android 7 Nougat on a bunch of Galaxy Phones already, the S7 and S7 edge are among them. A new report from China suggests that the Grace UX and some of the Note 7 features might make it to the Galaxy S7 with Android 7
Apple iPhone 7 and 7 Plus: A surfer is testing their water resistance in the ocean
We all know that Apple's iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus are water resistant. But does that make them perfect surf companions? Surfer Kai Lenny took them out to the ocean and compared them with Apple's previous generation.
Google Maps will show if your compass is uncalibrated on Android
Google has made it easier to know which way you are headed by replacing the direction arrow with a blue beam, that will be wider or more narrow depending on you phone's compass calibration status.
The Mi 5S will also have a dual camera, Xiaomi says
Three more days ahead of the Xiaomi launch event next week, the Chinese company is teasing a dual camera for its next flagship phone.
Sep 23, 2016
Gaming: Battle.net will no longer be called Battle.net
The online gaming platform Battle.net by game developer Blizzard will soon get a new name.
Yahoo: Personal info of 500 million accounts stolen
You should change your password! In a blog entry, email provider and search engine Yahoo states that in 2014 the data of at least 500 million user accounts have been stolen from their servers.
Galaxy Note 7: More trouble for Samsung
South Korean authorities demand further security tests for each new device and Samsung has to allow more time for customers to claim their money back.
Sep 22, 2016
Moto E3 Power sold 100,000 units on its first day
The new Moto E handset managed to break the previous record of first-day smartphone sales via Flipkart.
Samsung Galaxy Tab S gets Android Marshmallow on Verizon
After moving from KitKat to Lollipop, this two-year-old slate on Verizon finally gets Android Marshmallow, but this update also removes some bloatware as well.
Black Onyx Galaxy Note 7 coming next month
Since the first batch of jet black iPhone 7 handsets sold out very fast, Samsung is on the right path with the black onyx Note 7, to come out in early October.
Apple to open its first South Korean store
Unconfirmed reports from sources familiar with the matter claim that Apple signed three long-term lease contracts, planning to build a two- to three-story store in Seoul.
Xiaomi Mi 5S: New official teaser announces an impressive 164K AnTuTu score
Xiaomi has put up another Mi 5S teaser recently, promoting an impressive AnTuTu score of 164,119 points for their next flagship phone that will be released September 27th. Meanwhile rumors claim that there might be a smaller 4 inch model and 3D Touch capabilities.
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