Google Nexus not made by HTC?

Rumors indicate that Chinese device maker Huawei could end up assembling the Google Nexus 2016 flagship phone and the chief reason is, Taiwan's HTC has decided to back out of the coveted project. A new report claims that in skipping the next Nexus, HTC is actually protecting its flagship HTC 10.
A news article published by the Daily Sun claimed that sales trajectory of the HTC 10 is heading north and to keep that trend, the struggling device maker is likely to pass up on the Nexus 2016 project. Recent reports said that Google has inked a deal with HTC for the latter to produce two Pure Android handsets this year - a mid-range variant and a premium edition that will largely replicate the Nexus 2015 release last year.
However, the project would not push through after all with HTC belatedly realizing that a Nexus smartphone that mirror the design, build, specs and features of its current flagship "would cannibalize the sales of the HTC 10." The report added that given a choice between the HTC 10 and a Nexus counterpart that runs on stock Android, buyers might skip the original in favor of the Google-sanctioned device.
Naturally, HTC dreads such a scenario and would want to prevent it from happening so the best decision is to allow others to pick up on the Nexus project from Google.
Google and Huawei, HTC including, have yet to comment on the matter but speculations are rife that the sequel to last year's Pure Android device will touchdown at around the same time that Android N is ready to rock and roll with uncompressed Google Photo storage as among the exclusive features for Nexus device.

Courtesy of Yibada

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Limited Edition Batman themed Samsung

Samsung has announced that it will release a limited edition Batman-themed Galaxy S7 Edge smartphone in early June, called the Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Injustice Edition. The company is commemorating the third anniversary of the game, Injustice: Gods Among Us. No price has yet been detailed.

This limited edition version will only roll out in few regions including China, Singapore, Korea, Latin America, and Russia. However, Samsung announced that other regions will follow. This Batman-inspried edition is a black smartphone with gold edges across the home button and camera. The company name at the front is also written in Gold, while the back sports the Batarang symbol (in Gold again).

The Samsung Galaxy S7 Injustice Edition brings Batman screensavers as well. The box will include a Gear VR, a Batman-styled smartphone back cover, a Gold Batarang, along with the charger and headphones.

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All glass iPhone??

Last month the world’s most accurate Apple tipster revealed the company is working on a radical ‘all glass’ new iPhone. The news was met with cynicism and excitement in equal measure, and now a major Apple supplier has confirmed it…

Speaking at its annual shareholder meeting Allen Horng, chairman and chief executive of long time iPhone chassis maker Catcher Technology , said Apple will make its 2017 iPhone using a glass casing.
The move is expected to go far beyond Apple’s previous glass backed iPhone 4 and iPhone 4S and rival Samsung’s recent Galaxy S and Note lines by using a single piece of glass for the whole exterior. Pull that off and Apple would certainly have a smartphone that looked like no other.

Courtesy of Forbes

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Oppo's 7in prototype with folding display

Samsung and LG have explored this format over the past years, offering us glimpses into flexible devices like Samsung Youm or the LG G Flex series. In the end they didn’t evolve further. Oppo’s invention has been in development since August 2015 and the first prototype was ready in February 2016. The concept shown here feels like a Nintendo 3DS and it’s not very clear if there’s one large screen folded in the middle, or two screens joint up with a special hinge.

We do seem to be spotting a hinge or something that looks metallic and the bezels are rather big. If this model reminds me of any device, that’s the HTC Flyer and considering its front camera and USB port placement, it’s more of a tablet than phone.

Courtesy of TabletNews

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Low Battery??

A number of devices now exist to provide extra power to mobiles and wearables, such as power packs, mobile hand generators and solar cells. But although external power packs have become popular, they add size and weight, and mobile hand generators and solar cells produce only limited amounts of power.

Instead, an invention called PowerShake allows mobile and wearable devices to wirelessly charge other mobile and wearable devices on the go, even when those devices are being held or worn. Wireless-charging technologies are becoming more prevalent, but many of these stations are fixed, and do not account for devices near or in contact with skin.

The researchers experimented with a variety of power transmitter and receiver coils. They also devised electromagnetic shielding made of ferrite plates and copper tape on the back of coils in order to prevent any transmitted energy from reaching human tissue. They noted flexible coils were also possible, and potentially embeddable in watch straps.

In experiments, PowerShake fit into small devices, met wireless power transfer safety guidelines, and performed about as well at power transmission as commercial alternatives, such as the Qi wireless charging pad, transferring about 3.1 watts of power, the researchers said. They estimated that about 12 seconds of charging would support 1 minute of additional talk time, while 2 minutes of charging would support about 4 minutes of video watching.

For information check out LiveScience

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Motorola unveiled three new smartphones

Motorola unveiled three new smartphones: the fourth-generation Moto G, the Moto G Plus and the Moto G Play.

The Moto G and Moto G Plus can be customized using Moto Maker, while the Moto G Play can not. All three run Android 6.0.1 Marshmallow.
The Moto G and Moto G Plus became available Tuesday in Brazil and India. They will be rolled out across North America, Europe, Latin America and Asia over time. The lower-end Moto G Play will be available globally this summer, Motorola said.
Both the Moto G and Moto G Plus models have a 5.5-inch 1080p full HD display. They have a 16-MP rear camera and a 5-MP front camera. They run on a Qualcomm Snapdragon 617 octacore processor that goes up to 1.5 GHz, and have a 550-MHz Adreno 405 GPU.

The Moto G and Moto G Plus are available in dual-SIM versions in select regions and offer 16 GB or 32 GB of internal storage. They both take 15 minutes to charge the battery for six hours of use.

The Moto G Plus is available with 2 GB or 4 GB of ROM storage. The Moto G comes with only 2 GB of ROM storage.

The Moto G Plus has a fingerprint reader.

The Moto G, Moto G Plus and Moto G Play all have water-repellent coatings and all-day batteries, and they support a microSD card of up to 128-GB capacity.

The Moto G Play has a 5-inch 720p HD screen; an 8-MP rear camera and a 5-MP front camera. It runs on a quad-core Snapdragon 410 processor.

Courtesy of TechNewsWorld

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Purism builds a secure tablet

Purism, proud makers of one of the first truly open laptops, is moving into the world of pro-level tablets. Their latest product, the Librem 11, is a tablet that runs any GNU/Linux version (they recommend the ultra-secure Qubes) and can double as a laptop.

The company made waves with their 15 and 13 laptops and they are bringing the same level of security to the $1,299 tablet. While that’s a bit steep remember that this is custom hardware with security built in including hardware kill switches for WiFi, the camera, GPS, and cellular data.

Obviously a secure tablet like this isn’t for everyone. You can definitely get a cheaper device but, according to Purism, you’re paying for privacy and control. According to the Indiegogo page the tablet is “designed to help protect you from ad trackers, malware, ransomware, and surveillance capitalism” and “no identification is required to use or install applications.”

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Courtesy of TechCrunch

Nokia to make a comeback?

The Finnish company Nokia never really went away, we just stopped caring about the colorful Windows Phones being turned out under Microsoft's ownership, especially when they repeatedly proved less capable and exciting than similar Android and iOS offerings.

The Nokia name is coming back thanks to a new license agreement that allows Finnish company HMD to sell phones using the name over the next ten years. The product will be manufactured by FIH, a subsidiary of FoxConn.

The deal doesn't involve Nokia Technologies (the current form of the phone brand) buying any equity in HMD, instead it will receive royalty payments in exchange for its name and and cellular standard patent licenses. HMD's Nokia-labeled products will, however, be scrutinized to make sure they're up to scratch with what's expected of the brand.

According to HMD's CEO in-waiting, Arto Nummela, the venture is built around Nokia's instantly recognizable name.

Rather than running with Windows Phone like recent offerings, the new devices will be built around the Android platform.

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Wearable tech and "Band Aid Batteries"

Wearable tech might actually be the future if only low battery life wasn't keeping it down. Most developers of wearables rely on advances in processor efficiency than hoping for a new battery life. A new development might be the advancement wearables really need —in fact, they can be worn just as easily as the wearable tech they'll power.

These are batteries that can be applied to the skin like a Band-Aid and could even recharge with exposure to sunlight.
A team cut a regular lithium ion battery into very thin tiles, and then tied those tiles together  with wires to make them all a singular power source. These were then embedded within multiple rubber layers, creating a battery that is stretchable, mobile, rechargeable and even waterproof.

Beyond integration into clothing, there's the potential for "chip-scale microelectromechanical technologies, radio devices, mechanical/thermal energy harvesting" and other devices which would need tiny, flexible batteries.

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Courtesy of Popular Mechanics 

Perfect for selfie lovers!

Enter the Xperia XA Ultra. It might be late to the party, but it's still making a statement.

Unlike the Xperia X, the smaller XA and the X Performance, which are all about top specs and processing might, the real emphasis of this larger phone targeted at younger, edgier phone owners is its photography prowess. And, of course, its attention-grabbing screen.
The front-facing 16-megapixel camera has a super-wide angle that has been designed to produce bright selfies in all conditions with no sign of blurring. Unusually for Sony, this camera comes with optical image stabilisation.
A couple of clever tricks like a hand-activated shutter and a timer in the top corner -- to encourage people to look at the lens rather than themselves -- should enhance selfies further. Additionally, the night portrait mode combines an image taken with the flash off and an image with the flash on to present a single, well-balanced photo in which the foreground and background are both adequately lit.
The XA Ultra will be available in graphite black, white and lime gold. There is no word yet on availability and pricing, but Sony did say that it had a global release planned for the phone.

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Courtesy of CNET

Still to come in 2016

Here are the new Android phones to get excited about in 2016.
OnePlus 3
OnePlus is one of the most exciting smartphone manufacturers right now. Two years in a row it has produced reasonably priced flagship phones that have been (almost) capable of going toe-to-toe with the major manufacturers. While OnePlus' "flagship killer" slogan may be a little hyperbolic, there's no doubt that its phones are of a high standard.
Xiaomi Mi5
Xiaomi is the incredibly popular Chinese manufacturer edging its way towards the West. It's yet to release one of its flagships in the US, but that hasn't stopped Xiaomi becoming the fourth largest smartphone manufacturer (based on market share) in the world during 2015.
Project Tango
Project Ara isn't the only new Google phone/prototype/thing that's set to arrive in 2016. There's also Project Tango, for which Google has teamed up with Lenovo to transform "your smartphone into a magic lens that lets you place digital information on your physical world". OK...
Samsung Galaxy S7, Galaxy S7 Edge, and Galaxy S7 Edge+
Samsung's Galaxy S6 and Galaxy S6 Edge changed a number of important aspects of the Galaxy S series design. They lost the removable battery and expandable storage, and a lot of people fell out of love with the Korean manufacturer as a result. However, Samsung still produced two fantastically fast handsets, with delicious displays and compelling cameras, things that Samsung rarely gets wrong.

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Samsung foldable phone to launch in 2017?

Samsung has been focusing on its innovative edge display technology for the last few years to make some handsome-looking phones, but it may soon take things to the next level with foldable tech.

Rumors of the Samsung foldable phone – codenamed Project Valley – have been building for a few years, and the latest leak suggests it'll be ready for a release next year, under the name Galaxy X.

A post on Chinese social networking site Weibo suggests the Samsung Galaxy X will feature a foldable 4K display to keep the resolution high when the device is bent – which would be a fantastic achievement if it really does have the ability to fully fold.

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Courtesy of TechRadar

iPhone 7 Rumors

Apple is expected to release "iPhone 7" in 2016. Rumors suggest a modest update from the iPhone 6. Apple reportedly is aiming to make the "iPhone 7" thinner, possibly by removing the headphone jack. In conjunction to this, Apple is rumored to be working on Lightning-Equipped ear pods. Other features would include a different camera system which includes using 2 cameras and including 3GB of RAM.

Rumors are all just speculation, what we know for sure is that Apple will be coming out with a new version of the iPhone soon. And when that release happens be sure to sell or recycle your old phone at WikiWoo or WikiWoo.com

Why should I sell my device to WikiWoo?

Firstly what is WikiWoo? WikiWoo is a company who buys new, used and broken mobile devices and electronics. Basically you send your old iPhone or tablet in and they send you cash back. Not only is it getting the electronic clutter out of your life, you are getting paid to do so. Not a bad deal in my eyes. So let me break down everything you need to know about WikiWoo.

WikiWoo is a US based company started in Louisville, KY in 2012. The first physical location was opened in Oxmoor Mall, as you may have guessed, it was a hit. Leading to 3 new locations along the east coast. The great thing about WikiWoo is that even though there are physical locations, you can also do everything online. In today’s society having an online presence is just as important as a physical one.

WikiWoo has an A+ rating with the Better Business Bureau, and is committed to keeping their customers happy. Okay now to the nitty gritty.

Here is the process of selling your device. If you are close to one of the four locations you can go and talk to an experienced representative and literally walk out with cash in your pocket! As long as your device meets certain condition requirements, you will walk out with cash in hand.  

Now if you are unable to go to a store location, or just don’t want to leave the comfort of your home, online is a great option. Here all you have to do is check the correct boxes. WikiWoo.com will ask all the basic questions, what type of device, what service, what condition etc. After you have answered a few questions about your device you get an instant quote. Simple right, I certainly think so!

Next is the best part, getting paid! All the basic info will be needed here, e-mail, shipping, payment method. Right now there are two ways to get paid. The fastest way is through PayPal, and the second is good old fashioned USPS. All you need to do is ship your device to WikiWoo and voila, here comes your payment.

Let me guess, you are worried about the shipping cost right? Well don’t, WikiWoo pays the shipping cost, and will insure the package incase it gets lost or damaged. So as long as you pack your device correctly and the post office scans it in, you are as good as gold.

If you chose PayPal for your payment method you should receive payment within one business day of WikiWoo receiving your device. If you chose USPS, you should receive payment within 3-5 business days.

Once WikiWoo receives your device, their expert team will double check the condition. If there are any problems, ie the condition doesn’t match what you selected, WikiWoo will contact you via e-mail to send a requote. If you agree to the requote then you should get ready for a fancy dinner, because your money is on the way!

Now that the condition is verified your device will have a hard factory reset done. This will ensure that any information or data you may have left behind is erased. No need to worry about someone seeing that embarrassing picture of you, or getting any personal information either. Also WikiWoo will make sure the sims card is removed and properly disposed of. Your privacy is at the top of WikiWoo’s list!

Once your device has been reset and cleared of all your info, a few different things could happen. It will be restored and resold, sold for salvageable parts, or recycled.

And that is it, pretty simple if you ask me. If you are still asking yourself why WikiWoo? Here it is in a few words. WikiWoo will take care of you, they will make sure none of your information is leaked anywhere. They will pay you cash fast for a device that is probably just collecting dust in your room. And if they can’t resell your device they will recycle it for you, so you are helping the environment in the process. And just so you know, you don’t get an A+ rating from the Better Business Bureau by being a bad company.

So if you want to get money fast, and get rid of some mobile clutter WikiWoo is the site for you!