Look at that sexy, super thin bezel. Just look at it. The LG G2 was launched last week and LG looked to have thrown everything in but the kitchen sink (although they might have found room for that too, only the teardowns can confirm). Turns out LG also skipped out on the inclusion of wireless charging as there was no mention of the feature at the event.
However, the sign up site for the Verizon version of the LG G2 has revealed that the G2 will have wireless charging exclusively for the Verizon variant.
If you’re already playing music through YouTube Music, you’ll see the widget for it on the Android Auto home screen. Otherwise, you’ll need to tap the headphones icon on the bottom right and select YouTube Music from the list.
YouTube Music’s main navigation menu features four options: Your Mixtape, Recommended, Last played, and Library. Android Police noted that there is a fifth option for Downloads, but it didn’t pop up for me likely because I don’t have anything downloaded in the main YouTube Music app.
Nokia is a fallen giant that’s trying to get back atop the mobile business, a position it held for years before the smartphone revolution caught it unprepared. Apple initiated the revolution, by introducing a touchscreen-only device that impressed the crowds and started selling like hot cakes. And then Android came out of hiding, and OEMs launched a variety of Android-based devices, also touchscreen based and capable to run various apps like the iPhone, that fitted any budget.
The Samsung Galaxy Premier has had a busy schedule in the past weeks. After we caught the unofficial Nexus phone successor making a stop at Taiwan’s FCC-like agency (NCC), which hinted its impending arrival, the Premier now stars in a billboard ad alongside the rest of the Galaxy lineup in Guangzhou, China.
Looking at the ad, which was first spotted by ePrice, it seems Samsung is planning to introduce two variants of the Premier: the I9260, which we’ve known and talked about in the last couple of months, and the lesser known I9268 model.
We continue to fight the war against phone theft with kill switches, but companies like Sony have been providing theft protection for years. Sony’s My Xperia app can locate, lock, factory reset or even send a sound alert to your phone. That’s not all it does, though – if you have an unlocked bootloader, it may go as far as making your device malfunction.
Those with the My Xperia Theft Protection service on their more recent high-end Sony Xperia smartphones may have noticed that using this service will get rid of the ability to unlock your bootloader.
Deutsche Telekom, the mother ship in charge of T-Mobile’s destiny, issued a press release today detailing its mobile plans for the coming years. Since T-Mobile is a big part of Deutsche Telekom, we were not surprised to see the U.S. carrier mentioned quite a few times in the document. And yes, Apple was also there.
In a simple phrase towards the middle of the press release, Deutsche Telekom shyly confirmed that the iPhone is coming to T-Mobile.
We see a lot of smartphones launched at MWC every year, and sometimes, smaller players have had the tendency to get lost in the crowd, especially if there are any big hitters around that steal the spotlight. While that is somewhat the case this year as well, especially with HTC and Samsung introducing their respective flagships, what the other lesser known names in Android have done extremely well is to offer something unique with their products, that go beyond what their otherwise standard nature, or price point, would suggest.
Your tech news digest, by way of the DGiT Daily tech newsletter, for Friday, April 24.
1. Apple dropping Intel by 2021: BloombergBloomberg reports Apple will be aiming to offer its MacBook range with its own ARM-based chips starting in 2021. That leaves Intel out in the cold, in theory, but this has been talked about since the start of the last decade, and we last reported on it in February this year.
Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, its ARM’s new 128 bit processor. Like all good science-fiction the plot sounds feasible but actually, in the end, it is all make believe. So it is with ARM’s plans for a 128 bit processor. Rumors have been circulating this week because the Korea Herald wrote a piece about how an unnamed ARM official “predicted that a 128-bit processor could hit the market in the next two years.
Samsung has today launched its Galaxy Grand Prime 4G in India with a price tag of Rs. 11,100, which equates to around $175. The Galaxy Grand Prime 4G is Samsung’s latest 4G smartphone in the rapidly growing market and brings the total number of LTE-enabled Galaxy devices in India to 14.
The handset was announced alongside the Galaxy Core Prime 4G and Galaxy J1 4G back in February this year but Samsung missed its expected release date; the handsets were meant to go on sale in March but the Core Prime 4G was only released in June and the J1 4G is yet to make its debut.