Apple's 2018 iPhone trio looks set to include an eye-catching LCD model with "Full Active" technology from JDI for razor-thin bezels.
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Two of the "big four" US carriers have simultaneously dropped their LG V30 availability specifics, including price tags and dates.
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Not quite as flexible as you may have hoped, the impending ZTE Axon M still looks special in a pair of glamour shots with a pair of Full HD screens.
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In part 4, Adam accidentally discovers yet another hidden gesture and starts to figure out the difference between 3D touch and regular touch.
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Initially limited to ancient 2G connectivity, the 2017 "reimagining" of the Nokia 3310 classic is finally getting 3G speeds in unspecified markets.
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While the phone makers are moving towards latest and powerful hardware and modern design to differentiate from the crowd, LG took a totally different approach to come up with a phone that repels mosquitoes. Yes, you heard it right. LG recently launched K7i smartphone in India that integrates a mosquito repeller using ultrasonic sound waves.
Although India is not among the top countries prone to mosquitoes, but it’s still not void of mosquito-borne diseases. Keeping that in mind, LG baked an ultrasonic mosquito repeller on the back of the phone, which works on the similar mechanism as the conventional insect repellent devices that we once used at our homes. Well, it’s not something new for LG as we already seen similar tech in LG’s home appliances like air conditioners and TVs.
The ‘Mosquito Away’ technology, as LG calls it, is built-in. So that when the LG K7i is around, its inaudible sound waves will keep the users safe from mosquito bites without causing any harm.
The repeller comes with a slight hump n the lower back of the phone, that’s why the company has made it replaceable. So that you can swap back panels to get rid of that extra muscle when you don’t need it. Also, LG gives a Mosquito Away stand with the phone.
On the specification front, the K7i is very similar to the K8 smartphone launched last year. It has a 5-inch display with 854x480 pixel resolution. A 1.1 GHz quad-core processor with 2GB RAM and 16GB internal storage with microSD card support. The dual SIM smartphone has an 8-megapixel rear camera and a 5-megapixel front snapper. It runs on Android 6.0 Marshmallow, which wouldn't get Nougat. Apart from that, it has a fingerprint sensor and a 2500mAh battery. All this comes at a price of Rs 7,990.
There’s no convincing or scientific evidence which proves that mosquitoes are repelled by high-frequency sound. Instead, ultrasonic mosquito/insect repellents are said to be counterproductive as it promises false mental security that refrains a user from opting alternate measures.
While the mosquito repelling apps have been there in phones since Symbian OS era, it’s the first time that a phone maker has included a dedicated hardware in a phone. So if you are buying this phone just for its mosquito repelling feature, we would suggest you to rely on scientifically approved methods over the LG K7i.
Several insiders and tipsters have come together to offer us a nearly complete picture of probable Google Pixel 2 and Pixel 2 XL specs.
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There's another new Nokia phone! Except it's the same phone that we saw earlier this year - but with the one key feature that it was missing.
No, it's not the new colors that it's appearing in - azure and charcoal (AKA blue and gray) are now added to the mix - but it can now connect to 3G networks.
This feature was something that was sorely lacking from the new Nokia 3310 (2017) that HMD Global (the brand behind Nokia phones) launched at MWC this year, because it meant that it wouldn't be able to work on some networks in the future.
But now - at a press launch in Australia - HMD has quietly rebooted the phone to come with 3G capabilities, just half a year after being shown off.
Let's not beat about the bush here: the new Nokia 3310 was something of a marketing gimmick, designed to evoke nostalgia for a phone brand and show that 'Nokia was back!'
So it didn't really matter that the handset was technically inferior in some ways to cheaper feature phones bearing the Nokia name... people were buying into a memory, not a piece of hardware.
So if that's the case, then why bother rebooting it? Or if the plan always was to bring out a 3G variant, why not do it at the start?
The answer could lie in the price - or lack thereof. The new Nokia 3310 3G release date has been set for October this year, but it doesn't have a cost attached.
The original Nokia 3310 (well, the one from this year, not the actually original one) sold for a low price, and that was part of the attraction - if that doubles just to add 3G, some new colors and the ability to customize the UI, then that would have slowed sales at launch.
So let's wait and see the actual price - it's been confirmed to land on O2 in the UK already - before deciding whether HMD is playing a smart game or just likely to upset users who purchased the original, lifetime-limited version.
We’re less than a week away from the October 4 launch of the Pixel 2 and Pixel 2 XL, but it doesn’t look like there will be too many surprises when they land, as a big leak has just revealed most of the specs.
Supposedly the Pixel 2 XL will have a curved QHD screen with a screen-to-body ratio of 80-85%, meaning minimal bezel.
It’s tipped to use a high-end Snapdragon 835 chipset (the same chip as powers the likes of the HTC U11 and some versions of the Samsung Galaxy Note 8) which would make it one of the most powerful handsets on the market.
The Pixel 2 XL will also apparently come with either 64GB or 128GB of storage and dual-stereo speakers, but no headphone port.
The source adds that the phone will have a single-lens rear camera with optical image stabilization (OIS), and there’s a suggestion that the front might have OIS too, but they don’t seem clear on that.
Interestingly, it’s also said to have an E-SIM slot, which could let you switch networks without switching SIM cards - but that would be a bold move.
The Pixel 2 XL will also apparently have a fingerprint scanner and be IP67 certified dust and water resistant, meaning you can submerge it up to 1 meter deep for 30 minutes.
There rumor states the screen will be made of tough Gorilla Glass 5, a big 3,520mAh battery and the long-rumored Active Edge feature, allowing you to squeeze the phone to launch Google Assistant or mute calls and alarms.
The standard Pixel 2 meanwhile is said to be similar, but with a smaller 1080p rather than QHD screen, and the display will likely be flat rather than curved. It will also apparently have a smaller 2,700mAh battery.
Finally, the source said that purchasing either of these phones will give you unlimited Google Cloud storage until 2023.
While we’re skeptical of the E-SIM, the rest of this information sounds believable, and largely lines up with earlier rumors. Android Authority, which received the information, also sounds convinced by it, claiming to have verified it independently using an internal document.
We’ll know for certain how accurate it is soon, and we’ll be sure to bring you all the information on the Pixel 2 and our impressions of it as soon as it’s announced.
A lot smaller and cheaper than the Apple TV 4K, the "all-new" Amazon Fire TV does basically the same things, including streaming 4K HDR content.
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A heap of next-gen Amazon Echo products is launching in time for the holiday season, including a revised version of the original and a compact Echo Spot.
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Australians all let us rejoice! The new and improved Nokia 3310 is finally getting an Australian release, with the territory announced as the first in the world to get a 3G-ready version of the retro-tastic phone.
Priced at a staggeringly-affordable $89.95, the Nokia 3310's removable battery offers 6.5 hours of talk-time and a whopping 27 days worth of standby time – perfect for taking with you to the beach or a festival.
For that extra rush of nostalgia-induced fun, the Nokia 3310 will come with the classic Snake video game pre-installed, and if you're anything like us, you might end up using the whole battery solely on that.
But of course, that's not all you can do with it. "You can talk, you can text, you of course can also tweet now, as it's 3G," said Pekka Rentala, Chief Marketing Officer at HMD Global.
Available from mid-October 2017, you'll be able to purchase the Nokia 3310 from JB Hi-Fi, Harvey Norman, Vodafone and Optus in Azure (light blue) and Charcoal colours.
Watch today's Pocketnow Daily as we talk about the rumors of iPhone X component problems, Microsoft Surface Pro LTE & more
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The iPhone 8 is out now, but while it’s new and has a new number in the name, it’s not Apple’s top flagship. That honor falls to the iPhone X, a phone so new it’s not even out yet. You can pre-order now and it's set to come out on November 3.
And it’s a very different phone to the iPhone 8. While – if you were feeling blunt – you could call the iPhone 8 more of the same from Apple, the iPhone X is packed full of new tech from an all-screen front to the Face ID scanner.
To give you a clear picture of just how different these two phones really are we’ve put them head to head, comparing their design, display, power, camera, battery and price.
From the back or side you might not see too much difference between these two phones. They both have a glass back and a metal frame and both are available in Space Grey or Silver (though the iPhone 8 is also available in Gold).
But flip the phones over and the difference is obvious. The iPhone X has a screen-filled front with just a tiny notch at the top housing its fancy new camera, while the iPhone 8 has large bezels above and below the display, with the lower one housing the home button and Touch ID fingerprint scanner – a feature lacking from the iPhone X.
Other differences come in the form of their weight and dimensions, as while the iPhone X is 143.6 x 70.9 x 7.7mm and 174g, the iPhone 8 is 138.4 x 67.3 x 7.3mm and 148g.
So the iPhone X is longer, wider, thicker and heavier than the iPhone 8, but not by as much as you might expect given the size of the screen (more on that below...).
One key way in which the phones are the same, though, is their dust and water resistance, as both the iPhone X and iPhone 8 are IP67 certified, meaning they can be submerged in water up to 1 meter deep for up to 30 minutes.
The iPhone X has a 5.8-inch bezel-less screen, which is the biggest display Apple has ever put on an iPhone and far, far bigger than the 4.7-inch screen on the iPhone 8.
Size isn’t the only difference between them either. The iPhone X has a 1,125 x 2,436 resolution for a pixel density of 458 pixels per inch, while the iPhone 8 is 750 x 1,334 and 326 pixels per inch.
And the iPhone X also has an AMOLED display – that technology being the same as Samsung uses in the likes of the Galaxy S8 - while the iPhone 8 has an LCD one.
The switch to AMOLED leads to deeper blacks and richer colors, and the iPhone X also can show HDR content, which the iPhone 8 can't (although it does, oddly, support it).
But both phones sport True Tone technology, allowing them to automatically adjust their white balance based on your surroundings and improve the picture.
We can’t compare these phones without talking about how you unlock them, as that’s one of the key differences.
The iPhone 8 uses the familiar Touch ID fingerprint scanner, built into a circular home button, while the iPhone X uses facial recognition, with a new system called Face ID.
Apple has hyped this up in a lot of ways, claiming it’s fast, reliable and secure. We’ll let you know exactly how it stacks up when we’ve put the iPhone X through a full review, but along with the screen it’s one of the main new features and one of the main differences from the iPhone 8.
It’s also worth noting that Face ID is instead of Touch ID, not in addition.
There’s little difference in terms of power between these phones, as both the iPhone X and the iPhone 8 run iOS 11.
However, the way you interact with the phones differs slightly, as on the iPhone X there are gesture controls in place of the physical home button found on the iPhone 8.
Both handsets also have a hexa-core A11 Bionic chipset, so power should be similar, though the iPhone 8 has 2GB of RAM, while reports suggest there’s 3GB in the iPhone X, which could give it a performance boost.
We won't know how much RAM is in the iPhone X until we see some teardowns of the product after it's released, but it'll make sense for Apple to include more RAM in the top-end phone.
The iPhone X has a 12MP dual-lens camera incorporating both a wide-angle and a telephoto lens, while the iPhone 8 has a 12MP single-lens camera.
Both phones sport optical image stabilization, a quad-LED flash and an f/1.8 aperture on their main cameras, but the extra lens on the iPhone X allows it to optically zoom and to use Portrait Mode, which blurs the background of an image to emphasize the foreground.
Both phones have a 7MP f/2.2 front-facing camera, so they’re similarly equipped there, but the iPhone X again has some extra skills.
Portrait Mode works here too on the X, and it also supports ‘Animoji’, which are essentially emoji that are animated based on your facial expressions and mouth movements.
As for battery, thanks to teardowns we now know there’s an 1,821mAh one in the iPhone 8. No-one’s been in a position to take an iPhone X apart yet, but reportedly that has a 2,716mAh cell.
For Apple’s part, the company has said that the iPhone X lasts up to 2 hours longer than the iPhone 7, while we found in our review that the iPhone 8 lasts about the same amount of time as the iPhone 7, so in theory you should get more juice from the iPhone X.
We won't know for certain which one has the best battery until we get to properly test the battery on the iPhone X in our upcoming full review. Whichever phone you choose though you’ll get access to fast charging and - thanks to that glass back – wireless charging.
This is another big difference between the two phones and one that might push you away from Apple’s flagship, as the iPhone X starts at $999 / £999 / AU$1,579 for a 64GB model, rising to $1,149 / £1,149 / AU$1,829 for a 256GB one.
You can now pre-order the iPhone X and you can find a selection of the best deals we've seen in the US here and in here for the UK.
The iPhone 8 meanwhile isn’t cheap, but it’s the far more affordable option, starting at $699 / £699 / AU$1,079 for 64GB and going up to $849 / £849 / $1,329 for 256GB.
You can also buy the iPhone 8 right now and we've put together our favorite deals for the US here and here for the UK.
Apple’s iPhone range has never been more varied, and while there’s still not something for everyone, its two main new phones are likely to appeal to very different buyers.
On the one hand there’s the iPhone X, with cutting-edge tech and features, a completely new look, a big screen and a high price to match.
While on the other there’s the not-quite-top-end iPhone 8, which should feel similarly slick in use thanks to iOS 11 and its A11 Bionic chipset, but is more compact and visually what you might expect from an iPhone, as well as costing a fair bit less.
Which is best - and whether either one is worth the money - will be a question we can answer when our final iPhone X review is finished.
Microsoft knows you've been waiting for a Surface Pro configuration with LTE connectivity since forever, likely prepping a December 1 rollout.
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