News & Reviews:   smartphone

Fans of the latest versions of Android, start saving your money – the upcoming LG V20 will be the first OEM device to be shipped with Android 7.0 Nougat out of the box when it is launched in September.

Standard smartphones today are built around the 16:9 screen ratio when rotated to the side (apart from the LG Optimus Vu that had a 4:3 screen ratio). Right now however LG may want to buck the trend, as they just patented a new screen form factor for mobile, dubbed “UltraWide Mobile+”.

IFA 2016 Berlin is upon us, and we are expecting many manufacturers to announce new products during the week-long event. Traditionally manufacturers have their events before the IFA trade show itself, and Sony is following the trend as they are geared to announce new stuff on September 1st , just before IFA.

Previously we have covered about Superbook here when it was first mooted online. Now that it has started its kickstarter period, they have surpassed expectations – their current USD 944,000 (~RM 3.8 million as the time of this post) amount is about twenty times their initial request!

Softbank, one of the world’s largest telecommunication conglomerate, just announced that they will agree to invest in ARM for USD 32 billion (~RM 127 billion). Just as a recap, ARM is the company that creates the basic chip building blocks for just about every mobile chipmaker out there.

We have seen the Sony Xperia X line of models in Malaysia – the Sony Xperia X, Sony Xperia XA and the Sony Xperia XA Ultra. We even tested one of them, with a bit of a bitter aftertaste in our mouth. Now though a new sighting of a new Sony Xperia design phone is putting our hopes back up for the Japanese company.

More cameras these days are WiFi-enabled, allowing you to connect it to your tablet or smartphone to control it remotely from a distance. What about for cameras that has no WiFi built-in?

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.  

We may soon see more foldable phone technology implemented in future smartphones, if these patents from Samsung are any indication. They have patents for just about any and every form imaginable, and we may see one (or more!) of them in the next 12 months.

A new patent application by Samsung Display published today in South Korea shows a possible 3-in-1 device that transforms from a watch into a phone, and even a tablet. This transformation is made possible the new technology based on stretchable OLED display.