We’ve never been more aware of what lurks outside. Throughout day-to-day life, your phone, keys, headphones, and anything else you touch can pick up a substantial amount of germs and bacteria. Right now, you can keep all your daily devices cleaner by picking up the Samsung Qi wireless charger and UV sanitizer for only $37.99. That’s 24% off its usual retail price of $49.99. By placing any small device inside and closing the lid for 10 minutes, the sanitizer will utilize a UV-C light that promises to kill up to 99% of harmful germs and bacteria.

Soon you can charge your smartphone while sunbathing, with a gallium arsenide solar cell chemistry from Alta Devices. Power efficiency can make or break a mobile device. If we weren’t constrained with the power supply, then our mobile devices would probably be even faster and more powerful than they are now. But even as mobile CPUs and GPUs are increasingly becoming power efficient, we still find ourselves finding the need to plug in at the end of the day (or even at the middle of the day).

TL;DR According to a new report, Samsung is no longer the top smartphone brand in Africa. Transsion’s Tecno became the continent’s biggest smartphone shipper in 2020. The likes of Itel, Xiaomi, and Oppo also grew their market share portions. Samsung may be the biggest smartphone maker globally, but this isn’t the case in Africa. According to a new report from research firm Counterpoint, the dominant Korean smartphone maker was bested by little known Chinese brand Tecno in 2020.

Update, 2:52PM EST: The video was taken down from Vimeo and Shaun Saperstein’s website (you can still see it in on Evan Blass’ Twitter feed). That makes it seem like the video was not supposed to be publicized. Original post, 09:10AM EST: HTC’s smartphone business is in dire need of a reboot, but the company’s other big venture – virtual reality – is actually growing steadily. It wouldn’t be surprising therefore that HTC would want to use the Vive brand to boost its smartphone lineup.

Based on some strings of code XDA-Developers found earlier today, Xiaomi is working on a smartphone with a 64MP primary camera. Found in the latest MIUI 10 China Developer ROM for the Redmi K20 Pro, the strings reference a 64MP “ultra-pixel” mode several times. The strings also reference a “64MP DUAL CAMERA” watermark for images. This lines up with information from Ice Universe published on Weibo. According to the known leaker, Xiaomi subsidiary Redmi is working on a smartphone with a 64MP camera.

To put it bluntly, not every developer makes good decisions when releasing or updating their applications. Wrong moves get made, people get angry, and we have ourselves a good old fashioned controversy. 2015 was a more tame year than usual, but we still had some moves that made people angry. Buckle up, folks, here are the most controversial apps and games of 2015! Android Pay [Price: Free] Android Pay was announced to heavy fanfare at Google I/O.

Android Messages, Google’s default SMS/RCS messaging app formerly known as Messenger, has been updated to version 2.2.67. The update began rolling out yesterday and introduces a couple of interface improvements and additional buttons. First up, the plus symbol used to add stickers has been changed to make it more prominent: it’s now a white cross inside a circle that’s the same color as the theme. This becomes a keyboard symbol when you’re in the stickers collection to make it clear how you can return to the regular typing interface — previously it remained as a small cross.

Getting your future told by a fortune teller with her or his magical crystal ball and power can be a scary and exciting experience. Not only can you catch a glimpse of your future; you will also feel curious about how these fortune experts managed to forecast your fortunes with dead accuracy. Thanks to modern day technology, knowing your future will never be a problem as there are applications tailored to tell your fortune.

It’s barely a secret that BlackBerry is working on expanding its influence to other platforms. And not only as a service provider, the company is said to be working on the BlackBerry Venice, an Android smartphone with a slide-out keyboard. But how will they keep this Google-powered handset as secure as their industry-leading BB10 products? Their latest acquisition could very well be part of the strategy. BlackBerry has just purchased Good Technology for $425 million.

I am constantly amazed at the range of Android tablets that are coming out of China. As the song goes there are short ones, tall ones, fine ones, kind ones – okay maybe not kind ones, but there are tablets for almost every need. However the 9.7 inch category still remains popular due to the success of the iPad. Many Android tablet makers including Google (with its Nexus 10) have tried to push the 10.