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The virtual or extended RAM feature has been available as an option on smartphones for a while now, using a portion of your storage as virtual memory of sorts. Some of the more prominent manufacturers offering this feature include OnePlus, Oppo, Samsung, Vivo, and Xiaomi.
Is this something you actually use, though? That’s what we asked in our standalone poll article last week, and here are the results of that survey.
After the unlocked Galaxy S7 Edge received the Android Nougat update in the US last week, questions were once again raised as to the whereabouts of the same update for the Galaxy S7. Thankfully, reports are now coming in that the unlocked S7 is also receiving it.
Galaxy S7 owners have taken to Reddit to confirm the rollout for the Galaxy S7 model SM-G930U (US unlocked), while another thread suggests it’s hitting the unlocked Galaxy S7 Edge in the UK too.
To celebrate their second anniversary as a Mobile Virtual Network Operator (MVNO), Ting is giving U.S. customers a reason to join in the celebration, offering rate changes, including a handful of lower rates across their service levels. The focus is on savings for heavy data usage.
On their blog, Ting makes it a point that this is not a promotion, they are just dropping their rates. Current users will begin to see savings on their next monthly bill and new users will receive the new rates no matter what carrier they are coming from.
2015 has been an interesting year for mobile processing technology and the overarching trend in products has been wide-spread adoption of hexa-core and octa-core processors. The Snapdragon 810, 808 and Exynos 7420 are powering a range of flagship smartphones this year, while MediaTek announced the world’s first deca-core mobile SoC with its Helio X20 a few months back.
Qualcomm is looking to buck this trend with its new Snapdragon 820, which is scheduled for an early 2016 appearance in mobile products, including the Galaxy S7.
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Microsoft is bringing the power of Windows Defender to the Chrome browser via an extension. Chrome already does a good job of protecting you from malware, but Microsoft says the Windows Defender Chrome extension is better. According to Microsoft, the Windows Defender Chrome extension is 99 percent effective against phishing attacks. Google’s Chrome browser already has some pretty good malware protection. When you visit a site that Chrome thinks might be harmful, you are given a huge warning and have to go through a couple of steps to click through against Chrome’s advice.
The LG G8 was a good smartphone lost in a sea of great smartphones. It launched at $850, but Amazon is going to new lows with this LG G8 deal.
LG’s early 2019 flagship is retailing for just $399.99 on Amazon, making it $450 cheaper than the original price. It’s also $100 cheaper than the usual Amazon price ($499.99).
You’re getting a lot of phone for your money, even when compared to affordable flagships from the likes of Xiaomi and OnePlus.
Apps are a tricky beast: unlike the video game industry, which is by-and-large comprised of consumers who actively seek to play games, and have purchased hardware with the explicit purpose of doing just that, the mobile industry doesn’t work quite that way. Many “customers” are in fact, casual users who are randomly looking around a curated digital storefront and find something that may be worth a minute or two of their time.
LG is apparently ready to kick off a promo/contest that’s likely related to the upcoming LG G2, a next-gen flagship Android smartphone expected to be unveiled on August 7.
Called “To Me, You Are Perfect,” the campaign encourages users to send photo or video messages to their loved ones using “one or more of LG’s online channels.”
During a recent video teaser the company has posted on YouTube for its New York-based event, LG insisted on the same particular message: “To me, you are perfect.
Remember those VerveLife products we talked about last February? If you don’t, these are uniquely branded Motorola products meant to enhance your mobile experience. Their offers include headphones, a camera and an activity tracker. We knew pretty much all about them, except for a release date and price point… which are being revealed today.
Some of these products have shown up on Amazon, including the Motorola Verve Loop+, Verve Rider, Verve Ones and Verve Ones+.
Amazon already owns Twitch — one of the largest game streaming platforms on the planet — but the company plans to expand further out into the games industry in the near future. According to The New York Times, Amazon is investing hundreds of millions of dollars into video game development and an upcoming cloud gaming service codenamed Project Tempo.
Amazon is currently working on a few game titles, including some casual games Twitch streamers can play alongside viewers in real-time.