Just a day after an alleged render of Alcatel’s Idol 4 Pro smartphone (shown below) leaked online, the Windows 10-powered device has been spotted on GFXBench, revealing some of its previously-unknown key specs.

The listing reveals that the handset sports a 6-inch display, and features a 20MP rear and 9MP front camera. RAM is listed as 2GB, although we think it should be more than that (3 or 4GB considering it’s a high-end device). Internal memory should be 64GB.

Other specs, such as 1080p display resolution and Snapdragon 820 SoC have been mentioned in some earlier rumors as…

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A week after they officially went on sale, both Samsung Galaxy S7 and S7 edge have started receiving this month’s Android security update. Specifically, T-Mobile has already started the roll-out, while Verizon will begin pushing the update on March 18.

While T-Mobile doesn’t explicitly say that it’s Android’s March security update, Verizon’s update page clearly mentions that the update includes “the most up to date Android security patch.” The T-Mobile update carries a build number of UVS2APB8, while the Verizon’s arrives as build number VRS2APB4.

With two of the Big Four US…

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Google first introduced this feature with the launch of Lollipop on the Motorola Nexus 6 to show off the OS’ new ability to show individual app processes among other apps in the multitasking window. Although, putting Chrome’s tabs in the app switcher makes it so easy to lose a past tab and makes it impossible to clear all Chrome tabs.

As of version 49, the Chrome app no longer defaults this option of putting every single Chrome tab in the app switcher. Most people may not care about this, but this is more for people who are constantly getting new phones or always wiping their phones for a…

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There is a way to access this hidden menu, perhaps Samsung intended to activate the setting in a future software update, but if you want your Galaxy S7 to display more content on the same size screen, you can follow these steps to do just that.

Download Nova Launcher from the Play Store
Long-press an empty space in the homescreen and find the Widgets section
Choose the “Activities” widget and place it on any homescreen page
Find “Settings” and then pick .DisplayScalingActivity
Once the new widget shortcut appears, tap on it
Choose between Standard and Condensed
Enjoy more overall…

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