Thanks to a leaked slide, it seems that the Samsung Galaxy S7 will have a very unique carrier lock mechanism. Carrier devices that usually would be sold locked (or occasionally unlocked) will now be sold completely unlocked, but will lock themselves to the first carrier SIM that’s inserted.
This is interesting because it’ll technically be an unlocked phone from the factory, both hardware and software wise. Inserting a carrier SIM before first boot will install the carrier software, which will lock the device to that carrier. Maybe this means someone will be able to get around the device installing carrier software?
We probably won’t see this in the US, since our carriers have logos and branding all over the device. Nonetheless, it’s an interesting approach to carrier locks. You’ll still be able to unlock the device using an unlock code as usual, and factory unlocked devices will not be affected. What do you guys think? Is this preferable to regular carrier locks? Leave a comment!
Durante los últimos días, casi todas las noticias han estado centradas en el Mobile World Congress que se ha celebrado en Barcelona, donde hemos podido conocer los nuevos terminales de las marcas y sus apuestas para el año en curso. Esto no significa que las compañías no hayan estado trabajando en sus anteriores terminales, pues tal y como vamos a ver hoy y gracias a GSMArena, sabemos que Samsung ha comenzado a liberar la actualización a Android 6.0.1 Marshmallow para uno de sus tope de gama del año 2015, el Samsung Galaxy S6 edge+.
La actualización, denominada G928SKSU2BPAG, tendrá un tamaño de alrededor de 1 GB, y debería comenzar a los dispositivos de manera global en los próximos días, aunque en un principio solo haya sido liberada en Corea del Sur mediante la operadora SK Telecom.
Tal y como ya vimos en la noticia de la actualización de su hermano pequeño, el S6 edge, la nueva versión de Android incorporará las mejoras ya anunciadas por Google tales como la gestión de la batería mediante DOZE, un mejor control de los permisos, o el servicio Now on Tap, además de nuevas características disponibles para la pantalla curva del dispositivo, que nos permitirán sacarle aún más partido a esta función y algunas mejoras de rendimiento y cambios en la interfaz.
Así que ya sabes, si eres el poseedor de un Samsung Galaxy S6 edge+, puedes revisar si has recibido la nueva versión de Android accediendo a los ajustes del terminal y comprobando si hay alguna actualización para tu smartphone. En caso negativo, no deberías preocuparte, pues la actualización debería llegar en los próximos días a todos los dispositivos.
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While we know that Samsung is generously offering a free Gear VR with any pre-order of the Galaxy S7, Verizon has a potentially even more compelling offer for would-be Galaxy S7 and S7 edge buyers.
If you purchase either of the Galaxy S7 variants through vzw.com, you will have the option to receive either a Gear VR or the Tizen-powered Gear S2 for free with your new smartphone. As the Gear S2 goes for around $299 in most places, that is quite the offer.
In-store purchases qualify for a slightly different version of this deal, with the Gear VR still free, but no option to receive the Gear S2 instead. What you are eligible for is a $100 discount on the Gear S2 in addition to the Gear VR.
Both offers include the six-game bundle from Oculus that is valued at around $50.
There are plenty of incentives to make sure the Galaxy S7 gets off to a great start in 2016. Are any of these offers swaying you toward making a purchase?
Samsung and LG, two of the biggest players in the Android smartphone game, have announced their new flagships for the year at Mobile World Congress. The Samsung Galaxy S7 and LG G5 look to be strong contenders, and both devices place a focus on camera performance
But HTC Chief Financial Officer Chialin Chang says that things will be different this time around:
We can confidently say that HTC will have a very, very compelling camera experience. We’re making this comment after we’ve seen what’s going on in the market.Chialin ChangHTC
Even after seeing what Samsung and LG are putting on the market, HTC seems confident that it cam provide a competing camera experience. And why shouldn’t they? HTC has a history of amazing cameras with the UltraPixel sensors. They produced fairly low-resolution shots, but the quality was pretty amazing.
Let’s hope that confidence really does result in a great product. We still have hope in HTC.
Welcome back to Android Gaming Weekly, our weekly recap of new game releases. We still plan to cover upcoming releases and games we’re playing, but this column is dedicated to new games that you can start playing right now. Check out our top picks and let us know in the comments section if you have any suggestions for next week’s post.
Snowboarding The Fourth Phase
Description: Ride like a pro! Recreate your favorite tricks through intuitive controls designed for touch screens. Stomp your tricks in the backcountry and explore epic lines down insane mountainsides!
Description: Juggernaut Wars is a new captivating Action RPG MOBA game. Dozens of astounding heroes, beautiful arenas and thousands of upgrade possibilities are waiting for you!
Description: In this award-winning board game for two, quilting has never been more competitive! In the long-awaited digital adaptation of Uwe Rosenberg’s Patchwork, players patch their way to victory using fabric pieces of assorted sizes, colors, and buttons.
Description: The Walking Dead: Michonne – A Telltale Miniseries stars the iconic, blade-wielding character from Robert Kirkman’s best-selling comic books. Haunted by her past, and coping with unimaginable loss and regret, the story explores Michonne’s absence between issues #126 and #139 of the comic book.
Description: Tune up your ninja senses, sharpen your slashing skill! The #1 slashing puzzle iSlash is back with new deadly gameplay elements, fearless bosses, stunning graphics and lots of challenging levels!
Description:NOT SURE IF MATCH 3, OR… – This isn’t Slurm Soda Crush Epic! You gotta match 4, dummy. YOU’RE SPECIAL – Use your special delivery boy superpowers, like, erm… oh never mind. EXPLORE THE FUTURAMA UNIVERSE – And teach colorful aliens how to lurve.
Description: The East New World is a retro-inspired action platformer game with the high quality pixel art style. Any screenshot in the game is a wonderful picture.
Description: Retro cities of neon lights filled with explosions and lasers await you as you take on the machine in an 80’s arcade flashback. Blast along to an original synthwave soundtrack as you tackle 60 stages of arcade madness.
Description: Drop in to Olliwood and prepare for finger-flippin’ mayhem in this follow up to cult skateboarding smash OlliOlli. The iconic skater is going all green-screen with a stunning new look, plucking you from the street and dropping you squarely in the middle of the big screen’s most bodacious cinematic locations.
Description: Optimzed for NVIDIA SHIELD, Parallax is a first-person puzzle game with two overlapping worlds. Weave back and forth between black and white as you try to be in the right place, in the right dimension, at the right time.
Micro USB cables are a hassle. While many don’t think much of it, you have to check if you’re inserting the cable the right way every time you plug your phone in. If you’re not looking attentively (and let’s be fair, both sides look almost identical), you’re shoving a round peg into a square hole.
For most of us, that’s not a big deal. But for the everyday person, imagine how many damaged charging ports this results in. There’s a reason Apple went with the Lighting cable for the iPhone; it just works better. But all hope is not lost. While we wait for USB Type C to become standardized (even the newly announced Galaxy S7 features an old micro USB port), the MicFlip can make life a bit easier.
Overview
Reversible micro USB end
Aluminum plug housings
3 foot braided cable
Gold coated contacts
$19.99
Where to buy: Winnergear
The MicFlip is a very simple cable. One end is a regular USB plug, and the other is a reversible micro USB plug. This reversible plug has both the angles on the sides as well as the prongs that keep the plug in your device. Plugging it in either way works the same.
But the cable is also very premium feeling. The contacts are gold plated, the housings for each plug are made of aluminum, and the cable is braided and tangle free. It’s constructed extremely well, and I especially like the aluminum and very slim plugs. It both looks and feels great.
When it comes to plugging it into your device, you don’t have to bother checking which way you hold it. It just plugs right in. The fitment was a little more snug than the average cable at first (though I’ve seen some reglar cables fit much more snugly), over the course of a week it loosened up a bit. Since then, the resistance hasn’t changed, and it’s been a snug and reassuring fit.
Unfortunately, the other end isn’t reversible. This has been done by other companies, so it wasn’t impossible, but that’s likely the end you rarely unplug anyway.
Overall, the cable is expensive but worth it. It really does feel nice not having to care which way you plug your phone in at night, and even better not having to flip it over when you get it wrong. Plus, it’ll last a long time and look great doing the job. I’d say this is a must have, at least until USB Type C becomes common. And that might not be for another year or two.
Seguimos trayendo impresiones de los diferentes teléfonos que hemos visto durante el Mobile World Congress, y no queríamos irnos sin enseñar uno de los teléfonos más curiosos que hemos encontrado durante estos días en Barcelona. Se trata del Wiko Fever Special Edition, un smartphone bastante interesante que destaca en su apartado físico.
Y decimos destaca porque es dificil encontrar un teléfono móvil con acabados como los de éste. Metal, madera y una especie de tela son algunos de los materiales de entre los que podremos elegir, algo que sinceramente no suele ser muy común. Por otro lado se trata de un dispositivo muy contenido en tamaño y que sinceramente, sienta genial en la mano.
Respecto al hardware no encontraremos grandes sorpresas. Un procesador octacore con 3 GB de RAM, 32 GB de almacenamiento ampliables mediante microSD, 3.000 mAh y ciertos extras como dual sim o compatibilidad con las redes 4G/LTE. Sin duda un teléfono de gama media alta cuyo rendimiento suponemos que será muy similar al de dispositivos con idénticas especificaciones.
Entrando a valorar el apartado multimedia, tenemos una pantalla de 5,2 pulgadas IPS con resolución FHD, una cámara trasera de 13 megapíxeles, una delantera de 5 megapíxeles y Android 6.0 Marshmallo personalizado al estilo Wiko, una capa de personalización que no es nuestra favorita pero que aporta algún elemento interesante como una pantalla a la izquierda del escritorio, muy al estilo Google Now, que nos dará información y atajos tanto de contactos como de aplicaciones usadas recientemente.
Primeras impresiones en vídeo
Por lo demás, este dispositivo no es más que una edición especial del ya conocido Wiko Fever, con el que salvo algún que otro detalle en concreto, comparte mucho. Simplemente destacar su diseño y sus acabados, que a pesar de no saber si llegarán a nuestro mercado, dan un toque diferenciador respecto a las demás marcas actuales.
Sometimes you’ll upload a YouTube video and notice something that shouldn’t be there. Whether that’s a person’s face, a license plate, or anything else, YouTube’s editor will now allow you to blur it out from your desktop.
The best part about this new feature is that it’s not just a blur feature, but it’ll follow whatever you have it set to blur. You don’t have to worry about having the blurred part stay on your subject, YouTube will take care of it automatically. When saving the video, it’ll allow you to either save over the original or create a new video and delete the original (you know, in case the comments are full of whatever you wanted to hide).
If you want to find out more about this feature, hit the source link. I think it’s an amazing feature and takes so much effort out of blurring moving subjects out of your videos. Let us know what you think of it in the comments!
Android 6.0 Marshmallow still seems fresh and new, but that doesn’t mean that future versions of Android aren’t in the works. Android Police has done some digging and found a couple of screenshots that show Android N and a change that looks to be on the way.
Within a post on the Android Developer Blog, there are a few screenshots showing the Bluetooth section within Android N. The revealing piece is the inclusion of a hamburger button in the upper left hand corner. This indicates that Android N will add a navigation drawer within the settings. Within different sections, users can simply open the navigation drawer to find a new section, rather than going back to the main Settings screen and scrolling through to find their desired section.
An interesting aspect that’s pointed out is that the navigation drawer could go against Google’s own design guidelines. These state that a drawer must be consistent across all screens, not simply on one screen and not another. If the drawer isn’t available from the mains ettings screen, it breaks the guidelines. It could be possible, however, that Google will ditch the main Settings screen, instead offering only sections.
Additionally, this could simply be a feature that’s in beta testing on Android N. There’s the real possibility that it may not make it to the final version of Android N.
We’ll keep you posted on more rumors and reports regarding Android N.
Samsung mobile displays have long been considered some of the best around, with the company’s flagships being outfitted with AMOLED displays that always push the boundaries of what’s available at the time. With the Galaxy S7, Samsung decided to keep both the display size and resolution the same as the previous year’s model, which ended up winning it DisplayMate’s “best mobile display tested” title.
DisplayMate says that Samsung bumped the brightness by 24% over the Galaxy S6. Colors are also spot-on with customizable color profiles. Samsung introduced Personalized Automatic Brightness Control, as well, which learns your preferred brightness depending on the lighting situation, and DisplayMate claims it works really well.
Overall, the Galaxy S7 display comes out on top in almost every test, coming second in a few to the Galaxy Note 5 that it ends up besting. So if you want an amazing display, you know what device to buy. We’re glad to see Samsung improving the display outside of insane resolutions, instead opting to make every other aspect better.
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