The Australian consumer watchdog is taking Samsung to court alleging the company is falsely advertising water resitance of its Galaxy phones.
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Clove carries Galaxy Xcover 4 for UK at £249
It's a durable little phone for cheap and it's coming on at a price that's a little more tenuous in the UK than it is in Germany.
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Mission start — Nixon’s first Android Wear ships October 10
It’s a chunky smartwatch with understated looks that’s built for action. And we’re finally seeing the ship date and price tag on it.Let’s re-introduce you to Nixon’s first Android Wear smartwatch, the Mission. It’s one of the first to come with Qualcomm’s wearable-dedicated Snapdragon 2100 chipset along with 10 ATM (100m) water resistance. The 400 x 400 circular AMOLED ...
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Apple Watch Series 2 announced with water-resistance, GPS
The second series of Apple Watch has been announced. It runs watchOS 3 and you can literally swim with it.Like most water-resistant watches, the Apple Watch, Apple Watch Sport and Apple Watch Edition are rated for 50 meters of ingress. With any device that has a speaker, this is where the main ingress concerns are as a speaker requires air to propagate sound. Apple has redesigned the speakers to push water out if any gets in. Swimmers also get two workout modes in Apple Health.The Apple S2 system package includes a dual-core processor that’s 50 percent faster and a GPU that provides ...
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Samsung stands by Galaxy S7 Active IP68 rating
Consumer Reports put the Galaxy S7 Active — a phone that should be able to withstand water immersion “up to 5.0 feet for up to 30 minutes” — to its water immersion test. It failed. It put another Galaxy S7 Active to its test. That one broke, too. The magazine decided that it could not recommend the phone to its readers.Samsung released a statement in light of that aversion, reading:The Galaxy S7 ...
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AT&T GoPhone brings Kyocera Hydro SHORE to Walmart
Add “waterproof” to almost anything in tech and you probably would not get much of a complaint. Now add in the value component: are you going to be able to save money and keep liquids out of these circuits? Oh, and feel good about your purchase?Well, if you’re living on a shoestring or just need a better burner phone for your needs, AT&T has a GoPhone for you. The
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Galaxy Note 7 Zauba listings out waterproofedness
Another day, another Note 7 leak, though this one was apparently removed from the Weibo account it came from. More evidence, slightly doubtful with the deletion, but still evidence that the Galaxy Note 7 will have a curved screen version.If you’re looking for a little harder proof, though, look to Indian import-export database
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Galaxy S7 Active fails Consumer Reports water test
The Galaxy S7 Active is rated to survive under five feet of water for 30 minutes. That’s what IP68 is supposed to mean. And yet, apparently, two Galaxy S7 Actives couldn’t take the testing process of customer advocacy magazine, Consumer Reports.The outlet put one device into a water tank under 2.12 psi of pressure to simulate conditions just short of five feet underwater. After 30 minutes, the team found a damaged display, air bubbles visible in both of the cameras’ lenses and a ...
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Foxconn presentation leak signals iPhone 7 Plus water-resistance
So, what have you heard about the iPhone 7 Plus? Dual cameras? Check. No headphone jack? Uncheck. iOS 10? Most defs. But what about water-resistance? That’s been a maybe for a while ...
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Somebody decided to see if the Xperia X is waterproof
He did it so we didn’t have to (ruin a review unit and get Sony representatives on our tail).One young Zaryab Khan — known as xeetechcare on most internet platforms — decided to take his Xperia X for a little dunk in “real water” and not the “fake water” that, apparently, his YouTube commenters thought he had. Take our advice, kid: you don’t ...
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IP68? Mil-Spec? Rugged phone standards defined!
How durable is your phone? Or better yet, how confident are you in your phone’s ability to survive daily lifestyle abuse? Do you use your phone “naked”, or is a case a mandatory accessory when leaving the house?We’re seeing some progress with manufacturers advertising more durable build quality for consumer facing devices. No longer just the ultra-tough construction site gadgets, many flagship phones now champion improved drop protection or enhanced water resistance. We currently have the Galaxy S7 Active in ...
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AT&T preps a durable Wi-Fi hotspot meant for the outdoors
So, you’re on the jobsite or off the road. If you need to be connected and capable beyond what, say, a Galaxy S6 Active (or Galaxy S7 Active) can afford, well, hopefully you have that beefy, cased-up laptop with you. Well, that’s the capable part down, but what ...
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Another Galaxy S7 teardown reveals a non-removable battery not for puppies
There are plenty of teardowns out there of the hottest Android device out there. But if you really don’t want to look out there to find out what’s really going on in there, we’ve usually come to trust the folks at iFixit to tell us what’s up, what’s repairable and what will break ...
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Galaxy S7 knows when your phone’s a little damp, says, “uh-uh, no charging for you”
Samsung made a really well-received move when it brought water resistance back to this year’s flagship pair, the Galaxy S7 and Galaxy S7 edge. Sure, your average user may not go out and take advantage of that protection every day, but it’s sure nicer to have than not, especially when dealing with unanticipated dunks. Generally speaking, the Galaxy S7 handles its water resistance with aplomb, keeping the phone safe without needing any bulky, awkward port covers safeguarding ...
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Samsung Indonesia teases a water-resistant Galaxy S7
Samsung is less than a week from launching its Galaxy S7 and Galaxy S7 edge smartphones in Barcelona, so of course it would be getting its ducks ready. And the media is just picking them off like they’re on the Super Nintendo.Samsung Indonesia has prepped a landing page for “The Next Galaxy” to drop on and in it, ...
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