The newly unveiled LG G Flex 2 isn’t just a smartphone for display buffs, the handset is also packing Qualcomm’s latest and greatest 64-bit Snapdragon 810 processor. However, all may not be well with Qualcomm’s latest high-end SoC, as more rumors have surfaced suggesting that the chip is struggling with some performance impacting production issues.
As a quick recap, the Snapdragon 810 features eight CPU cores in a big.LITTLE configuration, arranged as four heavy lifting Cortex-A57s and four energy efficient Cortex-A53s for the less demanding background tasks.
The Nvidia Shield TV is our favorite media streamer. Even though the set-top box is well over three years old at this point, Nvidia continues to support it, bringing Android 8.0 Oreo to the device a few months ago.
Now, the Shield TV is getting some love from Amazon, in the form of both Amazon Music and a global rollout of the Nvidia Shield TV skill in the Amazon Alexa app.
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A report from Gizmodo proves that some US schools are buying phone-cracking hardware for decrypting students’ phones at school. School officials do not need warrants to seize and search smartphones owned by students. Over at Gizmodo, there’s a new report related to smartphone security. The report shows how certain schools here in the United States have purchased phone-cracking systems from companies such as Cellebrite. These tools allow school officials to decrypt students’ smartphones and retrieve data those students may have erased.
Those currently looking for a Chromebook may have a bit of trouble finding the right one. There is really only one premium Chromebook right now, and it costs a fortune (yes, it’s the Pixel). Almost every other laptop running Google’s svelte OS is affordable, which is great, but most come with significant sacrifices. Where are the Chromebooks that offer both quality and value?
Enter the new Dell Chromebook 13, a laptop with a reasonable price point, powerful specs, great performance and a design worthy of envy.
In today’s app update roundup, popular Twitter client Falcon Pro gets updated to include full offline mode, the eBay for Android app now features eBay shopping cart, and the newly released BBC iPlayer Radio takes care of your BBC Radio needs on the go. Let’s take a look at what’s new and what has changed.
Falcon Pro (for Twitter)There are numerous Twitter clients available on the Google Play Store, but Falcon Pro is easily one of the most popular around.
We usually see Android phones with typically big touchscreens and virtual keyboards. It is not typical for us to see Android phones with QWERTY keyboards. This makes the two Android phones we are comparing today unique. The Motorola Charm and the Huawei U8300 are two of the unique Android phones in the market today that sport a QWERTY keyboard.
Let’s go ahead and dissect these two Android devices so we’ll see what makes them unique.
As part of the company’s Q4 2015 earnings report, Google’s CEO Sundar Pichai announced that the company’s massively popular email service Gmail has passed the 1 billion user mark. This is active, monthly users, not just downloads or sporadic users. This means that if you’re a human being reading this news article, then there’s at least a 14 percent chance you’re a Gmail user.
This isn’t the first time a Google service has netted over a billion users.
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As with any new premium Samsung phone, the arrival of the Galaxy Note 20 and Note 20 Ultra inevitably leads to talk about the US vs global variants, as well as their differences. Of course, the most controversial difference is the Snapdragon vs Exynos debate, or to be more specific in this case: the capabilities of the Snapdragon 865 Plus versus the Exynos 990. Samsung likes to avoid comparisons between its handset variants, and increasingly with good reason.
Best Buy on Thursday revealed that it will be launching an exclusive blue Samsung Galaxy S4 model, starting with November 14.
The Blue Arctic model will be available online, but also in the Samsung Experience Shops located in “more than 1,400 Best Buy and Best Buy Mobile stores.” The device will come in various carrier versions including AT&T, Sprint and Verizon Wireless, and pre-orders will also be available:
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If you were lucky enough to get an HP TouchPad this time last year during their “fire sale” for $99 (16GB) or the $149 (32GB) your Android luck hasn’t run out yet. Remember, Android first came to the HP TouchPad via CM7, Gingerbread. A few months later, Android 4.0 came to the HP TouchPad, bringing a true tablet UI to the 10″ popular slate. The CyanogenMod development community continues to grace the HP TouchPad, this time with Android 4.