Update: Verizon Wireless announced that its LG V10 sales start today. Check out the Verizon source link.LG has all the right boxes in all the right places. They just have to go out. Jumping off the verge of some very poor smartphone numbers at the company, the Korean manufacturer sent off its Nexus baby to Google. Now, it’s
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Beats Electronics, operating under the Apple banner, has sustained its success in the audio hardware business and is still going on with its streaming radio service. Therefore, it seems as though Dr. Dre’s treasure shall be one of the first to go to the dark side: Android.Specifically, this Android app from Apple — its second — ...
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Thanks to Project Loon, Indonesia's rural areas will start to enjoy internet access from the beginning of next year.
Google's parent company, Alphabet, has announced it will soon be partnering with Indonesia's three largest telcos (Telkomsel, XL Axiata, and Indosat) to start countrywide Project Loon testing, bringing the wonder of the web to Indonesia's more remote communities.
Already underway in Australia, New Zealand, and Brazil, Project Loon uses high-altitude balloons to provide internet coverage to places where Wi-Fi signals are as rare as honest politicians.
The balloons float in the stratosphere – twice the altitude of planes and weather – and users can connect to them with LTE-enabled devices.
Indonesia's geography makes it a perfect candidate for the program – being made up of over 17,000 islands, it's just too darn tricky to implement traditional broadband and telecoms infrastructure.
Project Loon will run in Inndonesia as an experiment for 12 months, during which time it will use the 900 Mhz frequency in five skypoints above Sumatra, Kalimantan, and East Papua.
Once the 12 months is up, Project Loon can make the transition to commercial project.
Watch today’s Pocketnow Daily as we talk about Samsung’s Q3 earnings, and how its mobile division has influenced in these. Then we talk about Nintendo and the company’s disappointing attempt at a mobile game. Huawei follows as the company surprises us with a serious move in improving its UX. Then we focus on the iPhone 6s, and how Apple is already rejecting weighing scale apps. We end today’s show talking about OnePlus and its new fin-inch OnePlus X.All this and more after the break.Stories:–
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Miami-based BLU has recently pushed out a couple of sequels to its Studio Energy and Vivo Air phones this season. Okay, a couple of cool niches in there: the endurance crowd that would look also to the OUKITEL K10000 and the Vivo Air which has seen competition from
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Apple Music stirred up controversy earlier this year when it debuted its pay-only service by providing a three-month free trial to users. In so doing, Apple said it would not be paying royalties to artists for those three months. Taylor Swift
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The Philippines telco duopoly leaves quite a bit to be desired, according to Andy Penn, CEO of Australian telco Telstra.
Speaking at Telstra's annual investor day, Penn described the service offered by the country's incumbent operators, PLDT and Globe Telecom, as "lousy".
Penn also explained that the situation presented an opportunity for a new operator to enter the market and provide a superior service – an opportunity Telstra is keen to capitalise on.
Telstra will invest up to US$1 billion in a planned wireless joint venture with the San Miguel Corporation.
The investment would see Telstra own 40 per cent of the venture, with San Miguel Corp. and a number of banks providing the rest.
The parties are yet to reach an agreement, but talks have been ongoing since August.
The move would align with Penn's strategy to transform Telstra into an international brand, starting with an expansion of its operations in Asia.
It's not Telstra's first move into territories outside Australia. Earlier this year Telstra spent US$697 million acquiring Pacnet, an internet services company based in Hong Kong and Singapore.
Let’s face it: as much as we prop up the mobile operating platforms and their software updates, the best party has always been third party. We can always mention the good folk who cook up custom recoveries and mods, but we’re talking about app developers in this instance.And for the longest time, when they’ve had to ...
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The debut of a refreshed Google Photos app during I/O 2015 also featured an extremely useful context algorithm. You could search up different locations, objects and even faces of people. There was also a big deal made about collaborative albums, too. While those have yet to get pushed to the public, there is now an addendum to the former feature we just mentioned.In the changelog for version 1.8 of the app, you can now privately group faces together so that you can remember the time you were hanging with ...
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A few of us at Pocketnow have been opponents to using fingerprint scanners as biometric security devices on our phones for quite a while. There are various reasons why fingerprints should be used for identification, but not for passwords. Nonetheless, the industry is sprinting toward using fingerprints as passwords, and now Google has gotten in the game with ...
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A couple weeks back we saw the latest consequence of Google’s Alphabet reorganization, as the company tapped a new exec to head up its Android, Chrome OS, and Chromecast programs. And as we look forward to seeing what Hiroshi Lockheimer can do with the position, how much longer will those those three focal points be treated as distinct efforts? A new report says it’s just a matter of time before we see Google merge Chrome OS and Android, and a unified OS could debut as soon as ...
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Donkey Kong, Zelda, f*****g Mario! Just some of the classic and awesome characters that Nintendo has in its arsenal. The company announced its first ever smartphone game today, and well, it was none of those beloved gaming legends coming to device near you. Instead Nintendo rolled out a rather bland title called Miitomo.
OnePlus introduced its new OnePlus X mid-ranger in the early morning hours, and as as the day’s been unfolding, we’ve picked up more and more info about how the smartphone will be sold. The initial news didn’t sound super-promising, as OnePlus confirmed that just like the OnePlus Two and OnePlus One before it, the OnePlus X would be sold through an invite system – shoppers looking to purchase the phone would need to come across an invite code, either handed out by OnePlus itself or shared ...
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The Qualcomm Snapdragon 810 processor is the company's current flagship silicon, but it has been plagued with issues. It started off overheating, which led for smartphones (we're thinking the LG G Flex 2) to throttle the chipset and underperform. It has gotten better through the year, but largely an issue that has stayed with the silicon. Qualcomm is now smoothing things over by saying its upcoming Snapdragon 820 will have no such problems.
If you want a budget device you are really spoilt for choice these days, with numerous handsets marrying solid specs with good designs and affordable price tags. Alcatel has been in the budget market longer than most and the company's OneTouch Fierce XL is making a debut in the United States.