T-Mobile has a pretty sweet ongoing “Bring your Pixel” special offer for those who can still find the Google-made smartphones in stock anywhere, with the UnCarrier’s LG V20 looking like a solid bargain for Android power users as well.But if you’re not necessarily in the market for a current-generation flagship handheld or tablet, ...
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We’ve heard a lot about the Huawei Mate 9, but so far images of it have been limited to renders and prototypes, at least until today.
Now two seemingly-real images of the phone have emerged on CNMO, showing both the front and back of the Mate 9.
These leaks largely line up with what we’ve seen and heard before, showing a big (probably 5.9-inch) screen, a metal shell in a gold color, a rear-mounted fingerprint scanner and a dual-lens camera, rumored to have 20MP and 12MP sensors.
You can also see a dual-LED flash on the back, and Huawei’s Emotion UI running on the screen.
The images don’t give much else away, but we’ve heard previously that the Mate 9 will come in a 1080p standard and QHD Pro version, with either 4GB or 6GB of RAM (again differing based on the version you opt for), a 4000mAh battery and up to 256GB of storage.
If the higher end rumors pan out then the Huawei Mate 9 Pro could be one of the best phones of the year (albeit a bit late in the game), and we should know soon enough, as it’s likely to be announced on November 3.
Aside from mobile hardware and software, Microsoft’s New York City event last week pretty much had it all. We were treated not only to a first-of-a-kind though mostly predictable Surface Studio all-in-one PC announcement, but a ...
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Android purists accustomed to the traditionally unbeatable quality – pricing ratio of Nexus devices may find the first ever “Made by Google” smartphones a little on the steep side, starting at $650 and $770 with 5 and 5.5-inch displays respectively outright.Luckily, there’s a bunch of freebies to be had from various retailers and carriers, at least stateside, so at the end of the day, the Pixel and Pixel XL will feel like much better deals than ...
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Sony’s latest attempt at flagship phones, the Xperia X series, hasn’t set the smartphone world alight. But Sony looks set to push ahead with two new phones at the start of next year nonetheless.
The Eurasian Economic Commission has revealed two new codenames for Xperia handsets with the model numbers of G3112 and G3121.
Sony has revealed phones at Mobile World Congress for a number of years now. The Xperia Z5 was revealed at MWC 2015 with the model number E6603, while the Xperia X was released last year under F5121.
Considering the codenames suggest we have now moved onto the G series with these new Xperia model names, it’d suggest a release in February next year is on the cards.
So far there’s no mention of the spec or what the new Xperia X phones will even be called.
The X series currently features the Xperia XA, Xperia X, Xperia X Compact and Xperia XZ with the Xperia XA Ultra appearing in some other markets too.
The Sony Xperia X will be a year old by the time next year's MWC rolls around, so it’d make sense for Sony to upgrade it to the Xperia X2. These model numbers would make sense for any such phone.
If getting you to “Skip the Sevens” means Lenovo has to slim down its profit margins on the modular Moto Z family, so be it. Enter a fresh new batch of discounts, this time offered through Motorola’s US website in addition to third-party retailer and deal specialist Best Buy.Until November 18, you can purchase the unlocked standard Moto Z, as ...
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The world’s third largest smartphone vendor probably never considered rushing the development of its next-gen hero phablet, even as many iFans were disappointed of the iPhone 7’s repetitive appearance, and Galaxy Note 7 owners could have easily been persuaded to abandon the sinking ship.But Huawei’s traditional release ...
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If you’re looking for something like an older Moto phone from Lenovo anytime soon, November 8 may be the closest that we get to it. As a bonus, we’ll be getting another phone strictly from Lenovo.That’s according to an invitation to an event in Guangzhou from Motorola. Yep, Motorola is the brand face of Lenovo when it comes to smartphones even though the actual ...
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Foxconn has goals for its new display manufacturing subsidiary Sharp — including building OLED displays for iPhones down the road. But for Apple to have those phones, it’s going to need to switch off of its LCD technology. And ...
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Samsung took its sweet time getting ready for another Gear launch, but it’s getting there — specifically in the UK. The Gear S3 classic and the more rough-and-tumble Gear S3 frontier smartwatches are up for sales.As a reminder, both variants run on the same Tizen OS, are rated IP68 or 1.5 meters of submersion for 30 minutes and are actually similar in dimensions: 46 x 49 x 12.9 mm. The ...
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It’s a ridiculous time in the morning, and you’ve just about got out of bed. At this point, you’re extremely tired and could do with an extra few minutes of shut-eye, but you know you have work in an hour.
You quickly get washed and dressed, before making your way to the kitchen to fix up some breakfast and grab a cup of coffee. Now it’s time for that painfully boring commute, which could easily make you cry at any given moment.
Whatever you tell yourself, the fact is you can make your journey to work even better. You’ve no doubt got a smartphone tucked away in your pocket, so why not make use of it and the time you have on the bus or train?
Time is precious, and you can potentially achieve a lot during your commute - even if it’s pretty short. Get productive with an app, or have fun with a game to kill the time. There are plenty of them out there, and we look at the best apps and services for quick commutes.
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Reading is powerful, and there’s so much you can learn by doing it. On your daily commute - especially if you’re on a train or bus - you no doubt see people with their heads buried in books, newspapers and magazines. Well, with Medium, you can read quality content straight from your phone. What’s cool, though, is that the app has a ‘read time’ feature, meaning you can identify how long an article will take to read. Most are pretty easy to get into, and you can easily get through a piece within fifteen minutes.
If you’d like to kill time and have a bit of fun as well, then it’s worth checking out Stronghold Games Timer. Available on both Android and iOS, the app offers a selection of easy games that are controlled by sand timers. They’re based mainly on the theme of space, but there’s also a whacky game about the UN Security Council. You can set a timer for each game, lasting from a few seconds to a few minutes. There’s a pre-timer option of five minutes, so you could easily play a few while you’re on the bus or train.
Sometimes, it can be hard to keep up-to-date with the things happening in the world when you have so much going on in your life. But you can change that with News In 60. The app finds all the important news in a day - covering areas such as current affairs, technology and sports - and summarises them so they only take a few seconds to read. You can easily share your favourite articles with friends and save them as bookmarks to access later on. It’s been optimised for high-download speed, low bandwidth and night use.
It’s easy to get bored while travelling to work on the train or bus. You’ll often sit there, read a newspaper briefly and just daydream till you reach your destination. Recolor, a digital colouring book, could literally brighten things up for you. Available on both Android and iOS, the app lets you colour in pictures such as mandalas and animals. You could easily get through one or two within fifteen minutes. What sets it apart, though, is the fact there are stress-relieving qualities. The colours are fresh and easy on the eyes, and the process is all about easing your mind. You can use this app as a therapeutic way to get your brain ready for a busy day of work.
Not everyone travels to work by car, train, bus or other means of transport. There are many people who opt to walk, mainly because it can be healthier and avoids the stampede of passengers. If you’re one of these individuals, you may feel as though your daily walk to work is like an exercise course. And why shouldn’t it be? Seconds is a handy app to have if you agree. It lets you set up templates and timers for exercise. There are loads of interval timers to choose from, including a small 7-minute workout session. Should you be feeling up for it, you could time your walk and incorporate a few push-ups. You may get a few odd looks, but good health is what it’s all about.
Meditation is one of the best ways to improve your focus throughout the day, relieve stress and help you get some much-needed sleep. And with time to spare while you commute, you have a good time to put your mind at rest. Often, meditation is seen as a timely, skillful process but Headspace proves otherwise. It lets you meditate on-the-go, giving you access to guided sessions. The great thing about the app is that the latter are split into ten minutes, so you can meditate before you head into the office. Although the app is free to download, it’ll actually cost you about a tenner a month.
There are many people who commute to work by walking, especially if they live in interconnected cities and towns. Perhaps you’re one of them. You probably see it as a great way of exercising, and with Map My Walk, you can calculate your pace, route, distance, calories and steps. It’s a handy way to look at how much your daily commute contributes to your health and wellbeing. You can import data to connected devices from Jawbone, Misfit, Fitbit, Garmin and Withings. There’s also the ability to map and plan your route before you leave your house.
It feels great to get ingrained in a good novel, but in reality, not everyone has the time to get through long-read prose. There’s just not enough time in the day. With Serial Reader, though, you can use your commutes to delve into small chunks of books. This smart app lets you subscribe to classic books and sends you an instalment to read each day. You should be able to read each issue within 20 minutes, and if you manage to do that, then there’s no reason why you can’t finish a whole book within a few days. The app has over 300 books available, including classics like The Three Musketeers, Treasure Island, Wuthering Heights, My Antonia, Les Miserables and Peter Pan.
Long commutes may feel like wasted time, although they don’t have to be. You can easily do something productive when walking or on public transport - like learning a language. Duolingo covers a plethora of languages, including Danish, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Spanish and Russian. The best thing about it is that language learning is presented as a game, where you pick up words and earn points at the same time. There’s the option to learn in daily doses of 5, 10, 15 or 20 minutes.
Radio still plays a big role in today’s media-dominated world, and there’s nothing better than a good old radio drama. Of course, it’s easy to access popular radio stations on most smartphones and media players today, but LibriVox Audio Books is an app that gives you direct access to over 15,000 audiobooks and dramas. Free to download and use, it’s made possible a team of volunteers who record, edit and distribute these books. New releases are published daily, and you can find everything from biographies to novels. They’re all presented in easy-to-digest, quick audio recordings. The app could add a new dimension to your commute.
You can do pretty much what you want while you commute. It can be a time for rest, entertainment and, like it nor not, actual work. The fact is, you’ve no doubt got a really busy job, so your regular commute can be a good time to be pragmatic and get things done. Trello is an excellent companion for this. Widely seen as one of the best task management apps on the market, you can sort out everything that needs to be done in visual cards that can be tracked. There’s even the ability to add teams and individuals to cards, so you could delegate tasks or get support from your colleagues while you’re travelling to work or an important business meeting. In 20 minutes, you could organise a lot.
While the daily commute is an opportune time to sit back and relax, it’s also a good time to get productive and prepare for the day of work. Tasks managers are a brilliant for keeping organised, and 30/30 is a great example. It lets you create comprehensive task lists and track them to ensure you don’t fall behind. There’s a pre-set time of 30 minutes, meaning you could easily go over emails, documents and other work-related material while you travel to your office. Once the time’s up, you’re encouraged to start another task. It’s worth noting that you have the option to customise the duration of tasks.
When you have so much going on in life life - from family commitments to work deadlines - it’s easy to become stressed. Meditating is a good way to relieve anxiety and keep productive throughout the day, and Buddhify makes this easy. The app provides more than 80 audio-guided tasks, all of which have been tailored for different parts of the day. These include commuting, sleeping and taking a work break. They last up to 30 minutes, and you can track your progress through statistics.
The fact is, there’s so much you can do while you commute: play games, meditate and so much more. But what about journalling? That’s probably something that’s never come across your mind, but it’s actually quite fun. Using Day One, you can easily enter your thoughts and memories into diary entries that are synced and backed up in the Cloud. It lets you store up to ten journals with different colours and names, and you’re able to add as many photos as you’d like. These journals will help not only give you something to do while you get to and from work, but also map your thoughts and feelings. That’s extremely handy if you have a job in the creative world.
If you work long hours, then it’s easy to end up becoming sleep deprived. Or perhaps you have so much on your mind that you find it harder to doze off. Either way, you should be getting plenty of shut-eye in order to have a fulfilled, productive day. This is where power naps come into the picture, and the Power Nap app app will help you take one for 30 minutes each day. It sports a 30-minute alarm to ensure you don’t sleep for too long, relaxing sounds so you can drift off easily, and high-quality audio tracks. There’s no reason why you can’t use this app on a long commute if you have some headphones handy.
There isn’t a shortage of reading apps out there, whether they cover books or newspapers. But maybe you’re a magazine fan instead. If that’s the case, then you should have a look at Readly Magazines. It’s an app that gives you access to some of the country’s biggest magazine titles. You can download and read more than 1,500 top titles for £7.99 a month (in the UK), which isn’t too bad when you consider that magazines can cost a few quid each. The app itself lets you read titles as many times as you want, across up to five different devices, and offline or online. That means that if you’re on the tube, you’ve got access to some good reading material.
It’s easy to lose track of time, and if you use your commutes to get work done and plan the day ahead, then it’s important that you keep tabs on how things are progressing. You could be reading a few emails, and before you know it, ten minutes have past. If you have an Android device, the app Alarm Every 15 Minutes will help. As the name suggests, the app vibrates whenever fifteen minutes go by, so you can time manage your commutes effectively. You’re able to use it as a way to ensure you don’t fall asleep and miss your stop, too. There’s also the ability to tweak the vibrations, all the way up to 45 minutes per every full hour.
When it comes to killing time, watching videos of cats dancing on YouTube probably comes into your mind. But while videos like that are entertaining, they’re pretty redundant and you don’t get much from them. TED Talks are much different. These videos are topical and aim to inspire viewers. And there’s a mobile app for Android and iOS videos, giving you access to over 2,000 talks from some truly remarkable people. Topics vary greatly, such as technology, science and lifestyle. With the app, you can browse the whole TED video library, get subtitles in more than 90 different languages, bookmark talks and save them to watch them offline.
This year’s prime steak becomes next year’s chop suey when it comes to the parts going inside of a phone. But if you can put a pretty wrapper around it all and then label it as an “exclusive,” then you can definitely make up some ground and move merchandise.For LG in Korea, it decided to do just that with the LG U exclusively for its LG U+ cellular subscribers. See if you don’t have callbacks to LG’s effort on the
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Now that we've got all of the iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus excitement out of the way, it's time to turn our attention to the iPhone 8 (or whatever it is Apple decides to call it). These phones are planned a long way ahead of time, and we're already hearing rumours about what's in store for 2017.
The particular rumour we're interested in here concerns display technology: Tai Jeng-wu, president of electronics giant Sharp, has told an audience of students that the iPhone 8 will use OLED display technology, something we've already heard whispers about.
Pay attention at the back - Sharp has just been bought out by Foxconn, Apple's main manufacturing partner in Asia, and the word on the Cupertino grapevine is that Apple wants to start making screens in-house with the help of Sharp and Foxconn. Sharp already makes some of the displays used in the current generation of iPhones.
Today's iPhones use LTPS (Low-Temperature Polycrystalline Silicon) LCD technology and are of course already great to look at, but the switch to OLED (Organic Light-Emitting Diode) displays (similar to those used in Samsung Galaxy phones) would mean better colour contrast and an easier path to making curved screens. The Apple Watch already uses an OLED display.
Perhaps not the most interesting of iPhone rumours to the average consumer, but you're going to be spending a long time staring at the screen, so it's important to understand the technology behind it. It's also a clue that Apple may one day add a curved screen to its iconic smartphone handset.
We're also hearing that next year's iPhone will have a glass back and there might even be a third size and form factor to celebrate 10 years of iPhones. If you want to get in early with all the iPhone 8 speculation, we've got a complete round-up here.
Via 9to5Mac
No time is a good time to remove nearly 100,000 apps from your mobile apps store in Italy. The move does not help the Windows 10 Mobile app gap at all, but given that operating system simply isn’t a priority at this time, we can probably say that Microsoft is driving age ratings for apps on principle.It has been doing so since last month and has been urging developers to take an International Age Ratings Coalition ...
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