Born with the first iPhone in 2007, the Home Button was much more than a recessed circular component on the face of the iPhone. Over the years, Apple had added many functionalities to the Home Button and as the iPhones grew in front of our eyes, so did that little button. We remember living in a world not so long ago, where phones were stacked with buttons, right up front....
Instagram has become a go-to source for sharing photos, and now the developer wants you to build collages, too. Putting together a collage of pictures used to take some time. You had to find the photos, first off, which meant sifting through a bunch of physical pictures, and then finding the paper to put them on, glue, all that. So, Instagram is here to save the day — eventually. Instagram, on its official blog, unveiled “Layout,” a new app that’s meant to help sift through your digital photography and help you build collages faster and easier than ever before....
The air fryer includes a dishwasher-safe metal basket for cooking your favorite dishes, which is great if you don’t feel like cleaning up after eating your delicious meal. The size works for up to six servings of food, so you can cook for the entire family in the large nonstick basket. With the ClearCook window, you can keep an eye on dinner while you’re prepping side salads or simply reheating yesterday’s leftovers....
But it is not just your Apple Watch that can help. A New Jersey resident knocked her head on a metal pipe and, after regaining consciousness, used her Apple AirPods to call for help through Siri. If you ever find yourself in a dire situation, you should use Apple’s Emergency SOS feature. Read on to see how it saved a snowboarder’s life and directions to enable it yourself. Here’s the backstory Trekking up mountains to reach the perfect launching spot for downhill snowboarding can be dangerous....
In case you haven’t been keeping up with the news these past few days, the HTC One Mini just got banned in the UK because it violates some of Nokia’s patents. During the trial over said patents, Judge Richard Arnold was privy to some information that should have stayed behind closed doors, information like when the successor of the HTC One would come out. According to the BBC, you can expect to see the “HTC One Two” on store shelves in either February or March....
Daniel Howley from LAPTOP Magazine recently got a chance to run some benchmarks on a pre-production Samsung Galaxy S4. I’m not going to share the results with you since the device isn’t final yet, but I will share some of Daniel’s other findings. He cranked the display brightness to maximum on the GS4 and saw how it compared to Samsung’s GS3 and Note II. Here are the results: GS3: 213 lux....
Motorola’s Moto G helped the company make its comeback years ago. Today Moto G is a popular budget smartphone that gets an update every year. The company is expected to launch Motorola G100 and Motorola Edge S this year. Even the Moto G30 is the lineup for launch. Moto G30 images have leaked close to the launch. Moto G30 features a waterdrop notch alongside chunky bezels. The Moto G30 arrives with a 6....
Interested in buying the Lenovo Vibe K4 Note, but have questions about it that you are not sure whom to ask about? Worry not as we have got you covered. In this article, we have tried answering some of the frequently asked questions that most buyers will like have in their mind before buying the Vibe K4 Note. Q) What are the full specifications of the Vibe K4 Note? A) The full specs of the Vibe K4 Note are as follows:...
According to the giant Chinese smartphone manufacturer, Lenovo, the Z5 will have a body with rounded corners and a screen that occupies 95% of the front, above 84.2% of the Samsung Galaxy S9+, 82.9% of the iPhone X and 80.8% of the Xiaomi Mi Mix 2. This would be possible thanks to “four technological advances” and “18 patented technologies” by the Chinese manufacturer. It was not clear how the front camera works, if the Lenovo Z5 has one....
For these reasons, it came as a shock when Marriott disclosed that they had suffered possibly one of the biggest data breaches in history. The breach was detected on its Starwood guest reservation database, which contained a lot of personal data about their clients. This data included names, personal phone numbers, passport information and even encrypted card data for payments. The payment data was never proved to have been used but the fact that it was accessed by an outside group was very concerning....
LG is expanding its mid-range G Pad tablet lineup with the G Pad II 8.3 LTE, which has been officially announced for South Korean carrier LG U+ and will go on sale on December 23rd. The G Pad II 8.3 LTE follows the G Pad II 8.0 that was launched in August this year. LG has increased the screen size and resolution on the new tablet to 8.3 inches and 1920×1200 pixels respectively (the G Pad II 8....
But, there are times when erasing your hard drive is perfectly acceptable and even recommended — like when you need to get rid of an old computer or are selling a laptop you no longer need. You don’t want someone else to have access to your files and other information that could be left on your computer. RELATED: 5 downloads to secure your devices. Let’s look at when and how you should erase your hard drive and the options for doing so....
HTC’s European website briefly featured a device that hasn’t been announced yet, the Desire 310. What makes the phone special is that it’s powered by a MediaTek chip. Note that Qualcomm owns a small stake in HTC, and just about every HTC product released in the past few years has used Qualcomm silicon. Let’s pretend the Tegra powered One X never happened, OK? Anyway, back to the Desire 310, it has a 4....
The HTC EYE Experience has already made its rounds within Europe, and both the T-Mobile and Verizon versions of the handset have been updated on their own as well. Sprint is now jumping into the fray as well. HTC executive Mo Versi recently confirmed via Twitter that the official EYE Experience update for the One (M8) will begin sometime at night on October 27. According to the tweet, Sprint’s version of the One (M8) and their Harman Kardon Edition has received technical approval for the EYE Experience, which was the last hurdle before the update could be publicly released....
HTC has just issued what the financial industry likes to call “guidance”. The company is required, by law, to tell investors what to expect in the next quarter. And I hate to break it to you HTC fans, but they’re likely going to experience their first quarter of losses since taking the company public in 2002. How bad is bad? An operating margin of between 0% to negative 8%, which is a pretty big window, but no one really knows what to expect between now and the end of September....
However, from past few years, the company has failed to adapt to new marketing trends, especially in terms of design. However, HTC lovers will feel good to know that HTC has just launched its next flagship smartphone U11 which is built on the lines of HTC U ultra announced in January 2017. Well, the company is been touting the most anticipated “Edge Sense” Feature. The Edge sense feature of HTC U11 will allow users to perform various actions by tapping on the metal edges....
Huami rose to the forefront after it started manufacturing the $15 Mi Band for Xiaomi. The latest Mi Band 2 comes packed with a heart rate sensor, pedometer, sleep tracker and is sold under the Xiaomi Branding. Interestingly Xiaomi is the second company after Fitbit when it comes to global sales rank after having managed to sell 24-Million Mi Wristbands in China since the launch, according to IDC. It all started two years ago when Xiaomi decided to invest in Huami in order to bolster its efforts in creating a range of connected device that would eventually work with in tandem with the smartphone....
The two phones might have different names, but they’re equally sleek powerful. Both include fingerprint sensors on the front—a curious decision in the age of shrinking bezels— feature diamond-cut all-metal designs with 2.5D glass. A strip across the top on the back houses dual ica-bred 12M 20Mrear cameras, on the front you’ll find an 8Mfront camera. ile neither phone is water resistant, both are powered by Huawei’s proprietary 2.4GHz octa-core Hisilicon Kirin 960 chip, the same chip found in the Mate 9....
Huawei was planning on finally getting some major U.S. wireless carrier support for one of its major flagship handsets (the Mate 10 Pro), but word is that AT&T backed out of those talks just a day before Huawei was set to make its big announcement at CES 2018. The handset will be a GSM-unlocked unit. You’ll be able to use it on carriers like AT&T, T-Mobile, Simple Mobile, and a few others....
On Tuesday, IBM said $5 million of in-kind grants would be awarded to public schools, including K-12 institutions in the United States. While IBM’s existing grants program has previously focused on US schools, the scheme has now expanded to other countries. IBM said these programs are necessary to “help address cybersecurity resiliency in schools, including against ransomware.” SEE: Just in time? Bosses are finally waking up to the cybersecurity threat In total, six grants are being awarded to US school districts....
