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  • Rumours: Google to have Nexus Android Wear devices?

    Rumours: Google to have Nexus Android Wear devices?

    A new rumour popped up on the internet – saying that Google may be designing their own Android Wear device, to be set under the Nexus branding. Codenamed Angelfish and Swordfish – the two devices are probably going to be the new benchmark for Android Wear devices. 

  • Rumour: Early renders of the Nexus Sailfish and Marlin smartphones spotted online

    Rumour: Early renders of the Nexus Sailfish and Marlin smartphones spotted online

    We have seen the supposed specs of the upcoming Google Nexus phone, codenamed Sailfish here. Now, we have early renders of what the smartphone may look like in its final form, and it looks unlike anything we have seen before.  

  • Samsung UFS Memory cards promises faster transfer speeds than microSD

    Samsung UFS Memory cards promises faster transfer speeds than microSD

    Samsung has just annoucned the industry’s first memory cards based on the UFS removable card standard. The new standard was finalized in March by JEDEC, an industry body that develops standards used in the semiconductor industry, and is based on UFS 2.0.

     

  • Rumour: New mystery phone from Xiaomi spotted online

    Rumour: New mystery phone from Xiaomi spotted online

    With the Xiaomi Mi MaxRedmi 3S and the Mi 5 – Xiaomi is on a roll in launching new models for the mass market. However we may see more models coming soon from them, if this leak from Geekbench is correct.

  • Rumours: Samsung may redesign their fingerprint scanner

    Rumours: Samsung may redesign their fingerprint scanner

    The Samsung fingerprint scanner cum home button has been in place since the Samsung Galaxy S5 was introduced, and the shape and design has been maintained ever since. However a new patent spotted online may change everything as the company may change the shape into a circle, ala Apple iPhones.

     

  • Samsung reimaging the notification LED concept with Smart Glow

    Samsung reimaging the notification LED concept with Smart Glow

    Samsung may just turn phone design on its head soon, if this feature concept becomes true. The Smart Glow is the company’s attempt to turn the standard notification LED into something more interactive.

  • Tiny 'metalens' could change mobile photography forever

    Tiny 'metalens' could change mobile photography forever

    While we may have great sensor sizes in modern phones, mobile photography is stymied by one thing – physics. The megapixel number may be high, but physically the camera module is small, that the lens size is limited by the space available on the phone itself. A new breakthrough in material design may just do away with this problem – and it involves putting metal on your phone cam

  • Rumours: Possible Samsung folding screen phone design patented

    Rumours: Possible Samsung folding screen phone design patented

    Next year may be the year of the multi-mode smartphone. We have seen several companies playing around with bendable screen technology so we can expect a product in the mid to far future that will have a foldable screen. Samsung had patented a design for their foldable smartphone which looks interesting yet a little baffling.

  • No current Android flagship will have Daydream VR support

    No current Android flagship will have Daydream VR support

    Even as we get more advanced flagship smartphones - some with crazy amount of memory, others with great camera and processing power – the new VR platform from Google may just be too much for them.

  • Researchers creates a Rubik’s cube screen

    Researchers creates a Rubik’s cube screen

    Let’s face it – smartphone designs has been stagnating for the past few years. We may see leaps and jumps for the internal technologies but outwardly it has been the standard large slab of glass at the front of the device. University of Bristol's Interaction Group may have something new in the works. They have designed a slick new reconfigurable form for touchscreen displays. The Cubimorph is a single display built out of smaller, six-sided display cubes that are daisy-chained together and can be repositioned up to the users needs.