Monthly Archives: March 2016

Samsung Galaxy S7 and S7 edge put to the test: water, drops and bends face the flagship duo

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The Samsung Galaxy S7 is having a Sarah Connor moment – bots are out to get it. Square Trade, which sells warranty on your gadgets, tested the S7 and S7 edge to see if it lives up to Samsung’s claims of durability.

The flagship duo was faced with two new bots. Deep Water Dunkbot places phones under 5ft / 1.5m of water and keeps them there for half an hour (that’s the IP68 level).

Both the Galaxy S7 and S7 edge survived the ordeal, but not without paying a price – their audio was “permanently muffled and distorted”. The iPhone 6s lost all audio and its screen suffered water damage while…

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Leaked Samsung Galaxy J5 (2016) and J7 (2016) user manual hint at metal frames yet again

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The Samsung Galaxy J5 and J7 are less than a year old, but their and the Korean giant is about to roll out improved models for 2016. We already know that both budget-friendly handsets have received their Bluetooth SIG certification and the latter has also made a visit to FCC, so, it seems to be only a matter of time, before the refreshed 2016 editions become available.

This might actually happen any time now, as suggested by a pair of official user manuals for the China Mobile and China Telecom versions of the handsets, found on Samsung servers. This might also be a sign that the…

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I Didn’t Know How Much I Loved Autocorrect Until It Was Gonne

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I Didn’t Know How Much I Loved Autocorrect Until It Was Gonne
This quiet, theoretically invisible technology wields incredible power. Autocorrect allows us to type quickly and sloppily and let the software figure it out. Think about the implication of that: Your phone knows you so well it can correct your mistakes.

March 14, 2016 at 07:42AM
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