The good news is that after five months of wait, Alcatel is finally launching the Idol 4s in the US on its official website on August 3rd. The even better news is that if you’re eager to get your hands on the device as soon as possible, it will be available for pre-order this Friday, July 15th, starting at 8 a.m. (Pacific Daylight Time).
Those who pre-order will be able to snag up this beautifully designed smartphone for only $349.
Samsung has big things planned for the home automation space next year it seems. The company has just announced that its entire line-up of 2016 smart TVs will be internet-of-things ready and can connected up to the company’s SmartThings platform.
In case you missed it, SmartThings is an open IoT platform that allows users to control other smart home devices. This includes products such as lights, thermostats, alarms and even security cameras.
Sony has been one of the more developer friendly OEMs over the past few years, opening up its bootloaders, kernel source code, and driver binaries to aid others in the development of custom ROMs and the like. The company looks set to take its relationship with the custom ROM community one step further, but providing stock Android (AOSP) ROMs for its major smartphones in the future.
Back in June, Alin Jerpelea from CyanogenMod’s FreeXperia team joined Sony’s Developer Program, and he has been giving a talk at the XDA Devcon this week about where Sony will be taking ROM support in the future.
The Samsung Galaxy S20 was expensive at launch, and nobody really wants to drop even more money on durable protection. On the bright side, there are a lot of cheap but good cases out there. All the options on this list priced at around the $10 mark. Here are the best cheap cases for the Samsung Galaxy S20 you can get.
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As rumored, the phone is indeed selling at $99.99 at Best Buy, and it doesn’t require users to sign-up for a new two-year contract with Verizon, the LA Times has learned:
“The phone is currently landing in stores and is available for sale as soon as it arrives,” Best Buy spokesman Jonathan Sandler told The Times.
It’s not clear at this time what Verizon Moto G version costs $99.99, the 8GB or the 16GB model.
By now we have a pretty good idea of just how Samsung and the carriers plan to introduce the Samsung Galaxy S4 into the U.S. market. To recap, AT&T, T-Mobile and Sprint are all shipping the Galaxy S4 before the end of April, with Verizon dropping the S4 sometime during May.
AT&T is offering the Galaxy S4 on preorder for $199.99 on a two-year contract, but you might want to consider heading over to Walmart Wireless.
OnePlus, aside from being known for providing one of the best Android experiences with its clean OxygenOS, has also introduced popular apps and features such as Clipt, WellPaper, Canvas AOD, and Zen Mode. Between them, they’ve garnered hundreds of thousands of downloads on the Google Play Store and have expanded through word-of-mouth beyond OnePlus owners to the whole Android community.
A number of these apps and features come from OneLab — a creative engine within OnePlus composed of UI/UX designers, product managers, and developers from around the world.
CES 2017 is right around the corner and as we start arranging our calendars, OEMs start teasing what to expect. Asus has just done so with a new teaser for its CES reveals, including what looks like hints toward two new smartphone announcements.
The video shows outlines of a device with two different symbols on it: an infinity symbol and a ^ which could be Lambda, a circumflex, carat, turned V, the logical conjunction “and” or Asus’ way of telling us to refer to the comment above.
Since the launch of the iPhone 5, we compared the device with the best-selling Android device of the year, the Galaxy S3, from various points of view (including drop tests, video comparison, benchmarks and display performance) but we’re yet to compare the sales of the two smartphones.
Luckily, a new study from analytics company Localytics reveals that Galaxy S3 sales are still up and growing from week to week. The company has noticed particular Galaxy S3 sale spikes in late August and mid-September tied to Apple’s $1 billion court win against Samsung and Apple’s iPhone 5 launch, respectively.
Android 10 is here! Well, it is if you happen to have a Google Pixel or an Essential Phone. The rest of us have to wait a little longer, but if you happen to be a OnePlus 7 or OnePlus 7 Pro owner you can get a taste of what’s to come with the Android 10 OxygenOS open beta.
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I’ve been running the first open beta on a OnePlus 7 Pro for a few days now and there are a bunch of fairly significant changes along with some more subtle tweaks, most of which are expected to carry over to the stable release of OxygenOS based on Android 10 in the near future.