News & Reviews: Android
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Oct 06, 2016
Antutu is one of the big names for benchmark usage out there. Currently the highest scoring smartphone on the list is the Apple iPhone 7 Plus, with 172,644. Now however a mystery prototype smartphone had scored almost 20% more when compared to Apple’s newest phablet.
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Oct 06, 2016
While the company may be facing some tough times, Samsung is still a large multinational company, and they have many facets of business to rely on. Case in point – chip fabrication. They are fabricating their own processor – the Exynos - and we will be seeing another customer using Samsung’s fabrication facilities. Qualcomm is said to engage with Samsung for their Snapdragon 830 fabrication.
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Oct 05, 2016
The top messaging-app has been updated to make it a bit more, well, fun. With the latest version of WhatsApp, users will be able to customize and improve the photos and video they want to share with friends and family. There's a set of new camera features that have been implemented in the Android version of WhatsApp, which enable users to write or draw on photos and videos.
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Oct 07, 2016
While the new Apple iPhone 7 may have a new virtual home button (i.e. it is not a real physical button), a new patent from the company may reveal what we can expect in next year’s Apple iPhone 8. It seems that they will be borrowing the idea from Qualcomm and Android, and have an edge-to-edge OLED display that covers the handset's entire front, eliminating the well familiar home button in favor of a virtual touch-sensitive key.
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Oct 04, 2016
Companies are slowly moving away from including the humble 3.5mm jack on their smartphones. We have a few companies already coming out with devices sans the jack - LeEco, Motorola and the most famous of all, Apple. Now the organization behind the USB standard has come up with a new guideline for a spec called USB Audio Class 3.0, which eliminates the need of having an audio jack in the smartphone altogether.
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Oct 04, 2016
While Facebook is a great platform to connect with your friends and family, the queen to have two different apps on your smartphone to be on that social network can be infuriating. Facebook is trying to lessen the burden of the users by deploying a lighter version of their Messenger app, aptly named Messenger Lite – and Malaysia is one of the first countries in the list.
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Oct 03, 2016
The Google event is happening in less than a day, and we have a pretty good idea what Google will be announcing at the said event. A telco in Canada however has spilled the beans a day too early, so we have all the details of the new Google Pixel & Pixel XL.
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Oct 03, 2016
Nokia is coming back to the smartphone market, and they are expected to run Android OS on board their devices. Until now we do not have any indication on the device that Nokia will be putting on the market, but a new entry by Geekbench may reveal some clues to their plans in the near future, with the upcoming Nokia D1C.
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Oct 03, 2016
After the successful entry to the Japan market, Spotify is growing ever more in its presence online, and now they are said to be in talks to purchase Soundcloud, in a deal that could be around USD 700 million (~RM 2.9 billion).
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Sep 30, 2016
We are still looking and waiting for the foldable smartphone to come to fruition. We expect Samsung to be the first company to bring the foldable smartphone to the market – but according to a new patent filed by them, we may see a foldable tablet first instead.
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