Everything you want to know about the Galaxy Note 8 was just leaked Samsung’s Galaxy Note 8 has been a long time coming, but it launches later this month — and now we might know exactly what’ll be under the hood when it does. Trusted leaker Evan Blass of VentureBeat just revealed an exhaustive list of the upcoming flagship’s specs, citing a “person briefed on the device’s final configuration” as the source. The details …
Honor 6X and Huawei Mate 9 discounted at Amazon If you’re looking for a deal on a new Android smartphone, Amazon’s got two of ‘em for you right now. First up, Amazon is selling the Honor 6X for $174.99. That’s $75.00 less than the price that the Honor 6X launched with earlier this year. What’s more, it appears that that may be its new regular …
Airbnb’s new open source library lets you design with React and render to Sketch Today, Airbnb’s design team open sourced its internal library for writing React components that easily render directly to Sketch. Instead of trying to get Sketch to export to code, the Airbnb team spent its time on the opposite — putting the paintbrush in the hands of the engineer. Everyday engineers and designers have the luxury of …
Galaxy S8 owners are complaining of red-tinted screens Looks like Samsung’s not out of the woods quite yet. After the explosive Note7 debacle of 2016, the newest Samsung phones have a lot to make up for. Unfortunately, early Galaxy S8 users have already found a flaw in the device: the screens appear to have a red tint to them. According to ZDNet, since …
Facebook releases timeline of Cleveland shooting videos Facebook is facing backlash after a Cleveland man uploaded a video of himself shooting someone to the social network, and followed it with a Live video confessing to the murder. The slaying and its subsequent distribution across Facebook has raised questions about how the company moderates violent content. Justin Osofsky, Facebook’s vice president of global …
Nexus 6 and Nexus 9 won’t get Android 7.1.2 updates Earlier today, Google officially unveiled Android 7.1.2 for several Pixel and Nexus devices. The company also confirmed two devices that won’t be getting the update. The Nexus 6 and Nexus 9 will not receive an update to Android 7.1.2. Google hinted at this when it omitted the N6 and N9 from its list of devices …
Samsung Pay Mini announced for non-Samsung Android phones Samsung Pay has been exclusive to Samsung smartphones ever since its launch in September 2015, but today Samsung announced plans to bring its platform to non-Samsung phones. Sort of. Samsung Pay Mini is now official. The new service will offer online purchases to non-Samsung Android smartphones after downloading a dedicated app. To use Samsung Pay …
ZTE weighing options for crowdsourced Hawkeye smartphone, may cancel device entirely Things with ZTE’s Project CSX crowdsourced smartphone haven’t been going well lately, with the phone having launched on Kickstarter earlier this month and currently only at $36,000 of its $500,000 goal, and then ZTE saying that it made a “mistake” with the device. Now ZTE has revealed what’s next for the device. Jeff Yee, VP …
Android 7.1.2 announced by Google, now available to beta testers Surprise! Google today announced Android 7.1.2 and revealed that the update is now rolling out to public beta testers. As you might expect from an x.x.1 update, Android 7.1.2 is primarily focused on bug fixes and under-the-hood improvements. Google says that the update includes “a number of bugfixes and optimizations, along with a small number …
Starbucks adds voice ordering to iPhone app, coming soon to Android Voice controls are big in mobile right now, with services like Google Assistant, Siri, and Alexa all helping you get things done using only your voice. Today Starbucks is getting in on the trend. Starbucks is now rolling out voice ordering in the Starbucks app for iOS and. The feature, which is currently available to …
