Samsung has officially announced the date, time and location of its next "Unpacked" event, where it typically introduces the next-generation of Galaxy smartphones. The official 14 second teaser video comes attached with the #TheNextGalaxy promotional hashtag, and confirms that the event will take place on Sunday February 21st at 7PM CET in Barcelona. Samsung is likely taking the opportunity to raise excitement levels for the Galaxy S7 hardware prior to the annual Mobile World Conference (MWC) starting in the city.
Here's how you can add functionality similar to iOS 9.3's Night Shift feature to Mac OS X, Windows or Android device, reducing eye strain from constantly looking at their screens.
You can now download CinemaBox (also known as Cinema Box) app on iOS and Android devices. No jailbreak is required for this app to work on iPhone and iPad.
Google has once again reduced the price of Nexus 5X, making it a very attractive proposition for those looking to purchase a new SIM-free and unlocked Android Marshmallow-powered handset outright in time for Valentine's Day. Those with an eye for a bargain were able to pick up a discounted Nexus 5X towards the end of last year with a $50 reduction in the original price during the holiday season. This latest marketing tactic by Google, means that the hardware is now an agreeable $80 cheaper than when it first launched.
We all love saving money on some of the latest devices in the consumer technology world. It's even better when those savings are only available for a limited period of time, essentially injecting some excitement into the purchase. In the middle of last year's holiday shopping season, Google made the renegade move of reducing the 64GB Huawei Nexus 6P by $50 to entice in those last minute purchases. That deal proved successful and so now the deal has been reintroduced for a limited time only, but this time for the elusive Gold version of Nexus 6P, essentially knocking $50 off the 32GB and 64GB models of the Android flagship.
Following on from the hours of countless fun that users had with the "effective power" text messaging bug that caused iPhones to crash at will, there's now a new crashing solution doing the rounds. Here are the details.
Google and Oracle have been going against one another in court over Oracle's insistence that Google should be paying royalties to the company for its use of Java software within the Android platform. A lawyer for Oracle Corp has crunched some numbers as part of the litigation and found that Android has generated revenue of $31 billion in its lifetime. $22 billion of that is pure profit for Google. Those figures actually sound quite impressive, that is until you dig a little deeper and compare that revenue to how much the iPhone generates for rival Apple Inc.
California has had a bill introduced into legislation that any smartphone built on or after January 1st 2017 and sold in California must be able to be decrypted by the manufacturer of that device, or the company that makes its operating system.
Apple has won a long-running patent case against Samsung, but we somehow doubt the infringing party will be too concerned, even though it has been ordered to cease selling devices that infringe upon Apple's patents in their current form.
Here's how much it costs one annually to charge an iPhone, iPad, laptop, desktop computer, Tesla, LCD TV, Xbox One and more.
















