Sprint and T-Mobile parent companies to drop Huawei to appease regulators

The latest news on the Sprint/T-Mobile merger is here, and Huawei will not be happy about it. Sprint and T-Mobile are close to completing the merger of the two US carriers but some concerns about the two carrier's parent companies need to be addressed. According to a report from Reuters, Japanese carrier Softbank (Sprint's parent company) has agreed to replace Huawei Technologies 4G equipment in favor of Nokia and Ericsson which will take place over the next few years. Softbank is also the only carrier in Japan using Huawei infrastructure. The move is in hopes that the merger deal will be...

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Deal: Two Google Home Minis and one Google Home Hub for $129

Like last holiday season, both Google and Amazon have aggressively discounted its smart assistant speakers. Google is currently offering a great bundle deal for anyone who is looking to cover their home with Google Assistant. The bundle includes one Google Home Hub with a 7 inch display, and two Google Home Minis, each item in any color of your choosing. The Home Hub has a regular retail price of $129, so to see it discounted with two extra Home Minis is a really nice deal for those who want to start putting Google Home around the house or give individual items as gifts. Head to...

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Apple Music is now playing on Amazon Echo speakers with Alexa

At the end of November Amazon announced that Apple Music would soon be supported by its Echo smart speakers with the Alexa virtual assistant built-in. Today the integration has finally gone live, around two weeks after the initial reveal. The rollout has started in the US through the Alexa app on Android and iOS. Over there you can connect your Apple Music account with your Echo speakers. Once you've done that, you can listen to music through Apple's service on your Echo speaker by simply using Alexa's voice control. You can set Apple Music as your default music library source on Alexa...

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New Facebook data leak allowed apps broader access to 6.8 million users' photos

It looks like the year couldn't end without yet another Facebook scandal. This time around the company has come clean about discovering a bug in its photo API that allowed apps to access unposted photos from 6.8 million accounts. The bug affected people who used Facebook Login and granted permission to third-party apps to access their photos. The issue has been fixed but because of the bug some apps may have had access to "a broader set of photos" than intended, for a period of 12 days between September 13 and September 25. The bug gave 876 developers of up to 1,500 apps access to...

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Samsung Galaxy S10 Lite will have exclusive color versions

It's already been rumored that Samsung's upcoming Galaxy S10 Lite is basically the company's reaction to Apple's iPhone XR and should be that device's main competitor. Now a new report claims that the theme will continue when it comes to colors. The XR is Apple's most colorful iPhone of 2018, and the S10 Lite will be the most colorful member of its family too, as it turns out. You'll be able to pick one up in yellow, white, black, green, and blue. The S10 and S10+, on the other hand, will only be offered in white, black, green, and blue, while the S10 Ceramic edition will be out in...

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Samusng Galaxy S10 trio to offer reverse wireless charging too?

Just the other day a report came in disclosing the pricing of the Samsung Galaxy S10 trio in the UK and along with it, the source also shared a small tidbit about the possibility of Samsung implementing a reverse wireless charging feature. Just like the one on Huawei Mate 20 Pro and now an independent source claims that to be true. According to the new leak, the reverse wireless charging is going to be a feature on all three Galaxy S10 devices, including the Lite version and it's called "Powershare". But we somehow remain skeptical of the usability of the tech. After all, standard...

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Estimated Samsung Galaxy F bill of materials shows why it will cost $1,800

Korean agency CGS-CIMB Research has posted a report in which it estimates the Bill of Materials (BOM) for the foldable Galaxy F and compares it to a Galaxy S9+ and an iPhone XS Max. The priciest item is the display - or should we say "displays". The Galaxy F will have one large 7.3" panel that folds down the middle along with an external 4.58" display. There will reportedly be two batteries as well, though that doesn't add much to the cost (total capacity is expected to be around 5,000-6,000mAh). The BOM works out to around 65% more than the iPhone and the S9+, which cost about the...

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Fourth Samsung Galaxy S10 model pops up, could be the 5G variant

So far, three model numbers are linked to the future Galaxy S10 models - SM-G970, SM-G973 and SM-G975, which should correspond to the Galaxy S10 Lite, S10 and S10+. So the fourth one comes as something of a surprise. The new addition to the rumor mill is SM-G977 and the only variations of this model are the American SM-G977U and South Korean SM-G977N. The European SM-G977F is still nowhere to be seen, which suggests that this particular version is not far into the development process like the three main ones. There's a great chance that the newly surfaced model number belongs to the...

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Apple to seed a software update in China to comply with court's ruling

Apple is facing a ban of its older iPhones in China ranging from iPhone 6s to iPhone X because it doesn't infringe with Qualcomm's patents. So in order to solve the issue, the Cupertino-based company will push a software update that will comply with the Chinese court ruling. Since the infringed patents are software-related - resizing photos and navigating apps on a touchscreen - it will be easy for Apple to solve the problem. The company officially stated that the patch should come early next week and will hopefully reinstate the sales and imports of older iPhones. However, the...

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Honor Magic 2 review

The Honor Magic 2 is one of several recent handsets that mark the return of the slider - bringing back a level of tactile interaction almost forgotten in these times of incessant tapping and swiping.

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Three new Xiaomi smartphones get certified at 3C

Three new Xiaomi phones were just certified by China's Compulsory Certificate (3C) and it looks like the Redmi 7 series is incoming. Phones with model numbers M1901F7C, M1901F7E, and M1901F7T are approved with 5V/2A charging, meaning the basic 10W charge standard is for basic devices, such as the Redmi phones. Since the model numbers begin with M19, we are likely to see actual Redmi smartphones as early as 2019, given all current-year models' nicknames begin with M18. Xiaomi is yet to introduce the Redmi Note 6 Pro smartphone to its market and it appears it will skip entirely...

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Samsung showcases its One UI in the first promo video

While we are waiting for the stable installment of Samsung's One UI based on Android 9.0 Pie, the company is hyping up with a short introduction video that was played at the announcement event of the new UI. The video itself is pretty cool and emphasizes on the main principles that Samsung was going for - better one-handed usability, minimalist appearance, more intuitive interaction with the content and focusing on what's important on the screen. The new One UI is supposed to hit Samsung's latest flagship models - the Note9 and the Galaxy S9/S9+ sometime in January and will...

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Qualcomm aims to ban iPhone XS and iPhone XR in China too

On Monday the Fuzhou Intermediate People's Court in China banned the import and sale of select iPhones due to a lawsuit between Qualcomm and Apple. Cupertino had to pull out phones from iPhone 6s all the way to iPhone X but said the 2018 devices are not affected by this ruling. Apparently, the chipset company thinks otherwise and now filed for an injunction of the iPhone XS, iPhone XS Max and iPhone XR in China as the next step in its legal battle with Apple. The action is another move in the legal battle between the tech giants that are still nowhere near reaching a deal about...

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Lenovo teases more than 8GB of RAM, dual assistants for Z5s

In what's now the norm for teasing a device, Lenovo has gone on Weibo and uploaded four promo posters for the upcoming Z5s smartphone. Lenovo teases that the Z5s will have more than 8GB of RAM - which would point to 10GB - that it will be a powerful gaming device and that it will have dual personal assistants. Lenovo teaser posters for Z5s The Lenovo Z5s is scheduled to become official on December 18 and we know that it will offer three cameras on the rear. We can also make an educated guess that the Z5s will be powered by a Snapdragon 678 (although a Snapdragon 710 is also a...

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