With a 15-year history in India, General Electric spinoff Synchrony Financial is working on their rebranding and building strategy there after setting out on their own ? one of the ways is through offering opportunities to the local young, and female, workforce, says EVP and CIO Carol Juel.
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The highly anticipated Galaxy S7 and S7 edge are expecting to break last year’s initial number of Galaxy S6 units in the first three months following its announcement.
A Korean media outlet reports that Samsung is preparing to manufacturer a total of 17.2 million Galaxy S7 and Galaxy S7 edge units by April of this year.
Samsung is really hoping to break its previous record set by the Galaxy S6 and S6 edge which sold roughly 15.8 million units in its first three months after launch with the second most successful device title held by the Galaxy S4 selling just over 15.2 million units in its initial sale period.
Also, the company has reportedly changed its ratio of S7 and S7 edge where the S6 was manufactured 4:1 with the S6 edge constantly in short supply. This time around, Samsung wants to use a 6:4 ratio since it was not able to predict the roaring demand that the S6 edge had last year.
Samsung hopes the overwhelming reception to the Galaxy S7’s announcement this year at MWC is indication to the S7 and S7 edge’s success and should break the S6’s record for the first three months of sales.
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Senior XDA member Gorgtech performed a hard modification to his warranty-less Nexus 5 and 7 so decided to do the same to his Nexus 6P whose warranty was voided as well.
An XDA thread shows the tedious and difficult disassembly of the Nexus 6P, starting with carefully heating and removing the camera glass, which takes a steady hand and lots of patience.
Gorgtech then removes the entire rear panel which looks even more difficult than the camera hump’s glass. Once the more problematic parts were out of the way, screws and clips hold the boards in place.
The post shows you where to add thermal paste to improve the cooling ability of the Nexus 6P, ultimately reducing the amount of thermal throttling of the roaring Snapdragon 810 chip.
Head over to the XDA thread if you’re feeling indubitably adventurous. I’ve repaired and ruined a bunch of devices in my day, but I will not likely try such a modification. Maybe if I still have the phone after my factory warranty expires, I MIGHT consider it.
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From a childhood legend shrouded in myth and skepticism to the topic of his dissertation, this river has carved a path through Andres’ life and the geophysical community.
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Making mentoring a serious part of scientific training empowers trainees and makes them less vulnerable to harassment.
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This week’s Apple Loop includes the updates in iOS 9.3, Siri’s upcoming release on OSX, Apple’s continued legal tussles over encryption, steps to take to make your iOS device secure, WatchOS improvements for the Apple Watch, the definition of Apple’s ‘i’, the new Podcast Connects portal, and Rick Owen’s Black Python iPhone case.
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This week’s Android Circuit focuses heavily on the news from Mobile World Congress and includes details of the Samsung Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge, the modular LG G5, the battery friendly Sony Xperia, and Acer’s mid range Zest and Jade 2 handsets. There’s also a look at Google’s update to Gmail on Android, and the circadian lighting app F.Lux arriving (in a fashion) on Android.
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The American wireless industry has been phasing out the traditional 2 year contract in light of phones coming out more frequently and customers becoming disgruntled at being stuck with a 1-2 year old phone until next year.
Sprint hasn’t been doing particularly well in the past few years and continues to lose customers to other carriers. Since then they’ve been downsizing and cutting costs anywhere they could, they even removed Sprint’s own in-house repair centers from several stores in the beginning of the month. Sprint also gave store employees more cleaning duties to cut store maintenance costs.
The other 3 major carriers have already gotten rid of new 2 year contracts (unless you have a grandfathered 2 year agreement, you’d still have the option of renewing), so why did Sprint decide to bring back the 2 year contract?
Perhaps Sprint is in desperate need of customers that it needs to sell service to every customer it possibly can. The older generation of customers might still be oriented with a 2 year contract. Here’s what I mean:
The customer is attracted to the idea of slapping down one or two-hundred dollars and walking home with a brand new phone that he or she now owns (with the only caveat being that they were obligated to fulfill this contract for 24 months).
Maybe this group of customers is scared off when finding out their financed phone will cost six to seven-hundred dollars (total amount paid after 24 months) and are too stubborn to understand how a lease or financing program will benefit them, or let them switch phones more often, than a 2 year commitment.
Maybe I’m totally off. Maybe it’s a stubborn executive that wants to bring back the 2 year contract.
For the American wireless industry and competition’s sake, let’s hope Sprint can turn it around and take it back to the good ol’ days of 2010-2011 when Sprint launched the first 4G WiMax network in the world and thrived with phones like the Samsung Moment and the HTC EVO 4G was Sprint’s thriving star.
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