By Matt Swider Introduction, design and display When I first wrote about the Samsung Galaxy Tab S2, my dad remarked of the news story, “So, I heard Samsung is making a new iPad?” This perfectly sums up how average consumers view tablets as a product category. Apple now makes the Kleenex or, in the UK,…

By Matt Swider Introduction, design and display When I first wrote about the Samsung Galaxy Tab S2, my dad remarked of the news story, “So, I heard Samsung is making a new iPad?” This perfectly sums up how average consumers view tablets as a product category. Apple now makes the Kleenex or, in the UK,…

A new Android phone exploit, dubbed Stagefright 2.0, has been discovered. Smartphone manufacturers such as Samsung, Google, LG, HTC, Huawei and Sony are all working on patches for their affected devices. …read more Source:: TechTimes.com – Smartphones

The Nexus team has revealed more details regarding the Nexus 5X and Nexus 6P in a Reddit AMA, further adding to the hype. Among other things, the team noted that the ‘P’ in ‘Nexus 6P’ stands for ‘Premium,’ and that the new Huawei Nexus phablet boasts the latest-generation Samsung WQHD AMOLED panel. …read more Source::…

A budget OnePlus X smartphone will reportedly debut in October at a $249 price point, sporting a 5-inch display, a Snapdragon 801 processor, a fingerprint scanner and more neat specs on a budget. This leaked image shows the purported handset’s dual camera setup and rear-mounted fingerprint scanner. …read more Source:: TechTimes.com – Smartphones

By Hugh Langley People do some crazy things in Minecraft – like, really crazy – but I think this is the most impressed I’ve ever been. What you’re looking at above is a giant Game Boy running Pokémon Red, built in Minecraft. “Great,” you say, “Someone modded an emulator into a Minecraft Game Boy. Big…

Google rolled out its new premium warranty program Nexus Protect, ensuring good condition for select Nexus smartphones. The company now offers great relief for butter-fingered Nexus owners. …read more Source:: TechTimes.com – Smartphones

By Duncan Geere Psychologists studying the effects of different types of games on our minds have discovered that brain training games aren’t all they’re cracked up to be. In fact, there’s huge differences in the positive and negative effects that games can bring – and it turns out that action games have the most positive…

South Korean handset maker LG introduced its newest Android phone. The handset sports two displays, two front-facing shooters and Manual Video Capture. …read more Source:: TechTimes.com – Smartphones

DxOMark lists the newly-released Google Nexus 6P’s main camera as the second among smartphones, coming second to the Samsung S6 edge. How did Huawei pull it off? …read more Source:: TechTimes.com – Smartphones

By Josh Constine Today Google was granted a patent for using holograms in a head mounted display like Google Glass. It would effectively let Google create augmented reality experiences that superimpose computer-generated imagery (CGI) atop the real world. Filed in March 2014, the patent shows Google’s research into how it could merge its head mounted…

By Alex Wilhelm Last week at Disrupt SF 2015, I ran into the folks behind Sereneti Kitchen, a company that I’ve known since it launched at our Hardware Battlefield in Vegas earlier this year. Then, its technology had promise, but less polish. In the interim, the firm went through the Highway1 accelerator and wanted to…

By Matt Swider Introduction, design and display I’m convinced Dr. Ram-chan Woo and his LG design team are really mad scientists determined to bend and shape unique smartphones. The LG V10 is their latest Frankensteinian creation, launching in South Korea on October 8 and worldwide later this year. This Android phone would then be a…

By Matt Swider Introduction, design and display I’m convinced Dr. Ram-chan Woo and his LG design team are really mad scientists determined to bend and shape unique smartphones. The LG V10 is their latest Frankensteinian creation, launching in South Korea on October 8 and worldwide later this year. This Android phone would then be a…

The cost of making one unit of the iPhone 6s Plus is $236. The starting price tag of the 5.5-inch iPhone, however, is $749. …read more Source:: TechTimes.com – Smartphones