November 2017 ~ XDA

Thursday, November 30, 2017

New Samsung Patent Shows a Fully Curved Galaxy Smartphone

In 2013, Samsung released its first smartphone with a flexible AMOLED display: The Galaxy Round. A year later, the Galaxy Note Edge hit the market with a curved display. The Galaxy Round and...

FCC Documents Reveal Unreleased Huawei Daydream VR Controller

Google has released two generations of virtual reality (VR) headsets of its own so far, both based on its Daydream VR platform. But while it announced a bevy of Daydream VR partners at its Google I/O...

Despite the advent of 4G LTE, mobile data continues to be an expensive and unreliable proposition in many parts of the world. But at the same time, data consumption has increased exponentially —...

Beaming an old webpage to your TV is harder than it looks, which is why it’s sometimes helpful to have a built-for-TV web browser at your disposal. Sure, it’s probably easier to pull up the troublesome...

There’s no doubt that Instagram, the Facebook-owned photo-sharing app for Android and iOS, is more popular than it’s ever been — it hit 500 million daily active users in September. But it could...

OnePlus Announces New Beta Update for the OnePlus 3 and OnePlus 3T

In light of the OnePlus 5T’s launch, some OnePlus 3 and OnePlus 3T owners expressed concern that their phones wouldn’t receive as much attention from OnePlus as they had in the past. But OnePlus allayed those fears with the launch of the Android Oreo-based OxygenOS open beta in early...

Pay What You Want for 10 Beginner-Friendly Coding Courses

It’s no secret that the most important and high-paying jobs of the future reside in the world of tech and web development. It is somewhat of a secret, however, that the skills you need to break into this thriving sector can be obtained entirely online, at a tiny fraction of what you’d pay for a traditional...

Apple Files a Countersuit Against Qualcomm, Claims Patent Infringement

If you thought the spat between Qualcomm and Apple couldn’t get any worse, think again. On Wednesday, Apple filed a countersuit against Qualcomm, alleging that the chipmaker is infringing on its intellectual property. Here’s a quick refresher: Earlier this year, Qualcomm filed a patent infringement...

Google-owned navigation application Waze is gaining new features ahead of the holiday season, and they’re some of the biggest in its history. In a blog post on Wednesday, the Waze team announced...

There’s a lot of reason to be excited about the new Honor 7X phone. Every aspect of this device is a step up from the previous model, the Honor 6X, including the camera, and while pricing and availability...

It’s a little hard to believe, but it’s been almost five years since Google released Chrome for Android. Since then, the mobile port of Google’s popular web browser has replaced the stock Android Open...

Xiaomi Redmi 5A Launched in India with Snapdragon 425 and 13MP Rear Camera

A week ago, Xiaomi said that it would launch a new Redmi smartphone in India. Some reports suggested that it was the Redmi 5A, the successor to the Redmi 4A, which launched in India in March. Those reports turned out to be true: On Thursday, Xiaomi has officially took the wraps off the India-bound...

Alexa Rolls Out Notifications and Per-User Voice Recognition to More Alexa Developers

Amazon’s voice-powered virtual assistant, Alexa, has been making strides lately. It could already tell you about your commute, make shopping lists, play music, give you the news, control your smart home, and lots more. But one of the features it lacked was notifications. Luckily, Amazon’s on the...

Microsoft is Working on a Smartphone Companion App for Windows Photos

ARM compatibility. Tabbed multitasking. A timeline-based workflow. The Microsoft’s Insider program is a proving ground for experimental Windows features, and the new and improved Photos application is...

Honor’s Smartphone Shipments Doubled in India in 2017

Honor’s relentless release cycle shows no sign of slowing down. Earlier this year, the Huawei sub-brand took the wraps off the Honor 6X and a couple of high-end devices, most recently the Honor 7X in China. On Tuesday, it made the Honor V10, its newest flagship phone, official. And the effort’s...

The Xiaomi Redmi 5 Plus was leaked by the Chinese regulatory body TENAA on Wednesday. What’s more, Xiaomi officially confirmed via its Weibo account that it will announce the Redmi 5 and the...

Take an Extra 70% off this Ethical Hacking Training

It takes only a quick glance at a newspaper to see how much cyber attacks have become a major part of our daily lives. Government agencies, businesses, and NGOs are getting hacked on an almost daily basis, and individuals are just as likely to be targeted for credit card information and other sensitive...

Samsung Begins Mass Production of Second-Gen 10nm FinFET Chips

Samsung. Intel. TMSC. They’re members of the exclusive club that fabricate the system-on-chips (SoC) in hundreds of millions of devices, and over the last few years, they’ve constantly been trying to outdo each other. The latest to make a move is Samsung, which this week announced it was ready...

Report: Samsung Likely to Source Fingerprint Sensors from Egistec for the Galaxy S9

These days, it’s hard to find a phone without a fingerprint sensor. But not all fingerprint sensors are created equal. Take Samsung, for example, which shipped the Galaxy S5 with a swipe-based fingerprint sensor that didn’t always work reliably. The Seoul, South Korea-based company switched to a much...

Andy Rubin Takes Leave of Absence from Essential as Google Investigation of “Inappropriate” Relationship Emerges

Essential Products, the startup founded by Android co-creator Andy Rubin, launched its first product — the Essential Phone — to great fanfare earlier this year. But the company’s in hot water over a Google investigation that alleges Mr. Rubin, who took a leave of absence for “personal reasons”...

New Snapchat Redesign Separates the Social from the Media

If Snapchat was getting a bit too cluttered for your liking, you aren’t the only one. Snap Inc., the company behind the popular social network, announced a redesign on Wednesday that streamlines the user experience (UI) by splitting it in two. Now, friends and third-party content inhabit distinct, separate...

As useful as they are, Google Home and Google Assistant-enabled smart speakers are ultimately just another way to Google. But that’s not necessarily a bad thing — especially when it comes to shopping....

Google Lens, which was announced in Google I/O 2017 as the spiritual successor to Google Goggles, is a next-gen computer vision platform that classifies real-world objects. With nothing more than...

Google Project Detects When Someone is Stealing Glances at Your Phone

Google’s researchers are constantly experimenting. Some of their projects, like Gmail, are almost destined to become full-scale products. Others never see the light of day. But we’re hoping that one — an artificially intelligent (AI) camera app that recognizes when more than one person is looking at...

OnePlus Co-Founders Talk About Plans for India, OnePlus 5T Camera, and More

OnePlus is one of a kind. In just a few short years, the Shenzhen, China-based startup managed to capture 12 percent of the high-end smartphone market and amass a worldwide following. It’s experienced outsized growth in India, and in a wide-ranging interview with Gadgets360, OnePlus co-founders Pete...

Blu’s Software Update is Locking People out of Their Phones

Blu is one of the biggest budget phone manufacturers out there. You don’t have to take our word for it — the Miami, Florida-based original equipment manufacturer (OEM) nabbed a commanding 36 percent of the unlocked smartphone market in the U.S. last year, according to Strategy Analytics. The key to...

Microsoft Introduces “Sets”, Bringing Tabs to Every Windows 10 Application

Web browsers are much more versatile than most programs, generally speaking, and that’s because they’re skewed toward productivity. Case in point: Browsers such as Vivaldi, which allow you to group multiple tabs together and organize them any way you choose. So what if other programs were to adopt...

Bootloader Unlock Codes for the LG V30 (H930/H930G Models) are Now Available

The last update to LG’s bootloader unlock program added the unlocked US model of the LG G6 (US997). Since then, the LG V30 has been announced, and released in select markets. It still hasn’t seen a wider roll-out yet, but it has been available for more than a month in markets such as the US. However,...

Patents don’t always make it into consumer products, but there’s always a chance they might. And that’s what makes Google’s patent for a dual-screen convertible laptop so exciting. The newly uncovered...

Samsung Looking to Upgrade Bixby By Acquiring Fluenty, An Artificial Intelligence Startup

Fluenty is a smart reply assistant application, which can be run in both Korean and in English. When given a text, it can suggest automatic replies which range from witty to actual informational answers. Founded by developers previously at Naver and Daum, two of the biggest Korean search engines, the...

OnePlus announced the OnePlus 5T in early October, the newest in its wallet-friendly line of smartphones, and it’s since gone on to break the company’s sales records. But OnePlus isn’t resting on its...

Thanks to devices such as the Redmi 1s, which offered a great experience at a price point under $100, Xiaomi’s Redmi series are some of the most popular devices out there. The Redmi 1s has since been...

NVIDIA Shield Tablet Update Patches KRACK and BroadPwn Vulnerabilities

NVIDIA released the original Shield Tablet back 2014, and followed it up with a more powerful model, the Shield Tablet K1, in 2015. It’s not terribly common to see original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) support older devices long past their launch date, but the company continues to buck the trend by...

SwiftKey Beta Adds Location Sharing, Quick Paste, and More

Every developer debugs updates differently. Some choose to use Google Play’s built-in beta-testing feature, while others like to separate their releases into several branches. SwiftKey takes the latter approach, and folks who’ve opted into the beta program will be glad to hear that a major update’s...

Samsung’s effort to develop an under-screen fingerprint sensor is an open secret. As early as Spring 2017, shortly before the release of the Galaxy S8, the Seoul, South Korea-based was developing...

We’ve reported in the past on the things Google does to keep Android smartphones and tablets safe from malware — for example, the Play Store detects Potentially Harmful Applications (PHAs) using...

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