Charge-masters at Zerolemon unveiled a battery for the LG G4, one with 8,500mAh charge. That’s nearly triple what you get out of the stock battery (3,000mAh). However, LG’s G-series phones pose a challenge – the back buttons.

Zerolemon had to add button on the back of its custom case to allow normal operation of the phone. With the case, the LG G4 becomes 21.3mm thick (0.84″), up from 9.8mm, and weight goes up to 178g, up from 155g.

The 8,500mAh battery takes 2-3 hours of charging to reach 100%. The case that comes with the battery is soft-touch black plastic.

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Gionee has announced that it will be partnering with Foxconn and Dixon to start manufacturing devices in India. The company will be investing $50 million in the next three years for this venture.

The Foxconn facility in Andhra Pradesh will be handling the manufacturing of the F and P series smartphones initially while the Dixon facility in Delhi-NCR will take care of the feature phones and other smartphones. Both have the capacity of producing 1.2 million handsets per month and will begin production in October.

Gionee has also stated that it will be increasing investment in the R&D team in India, which handles the software division, to make it more more suitable for Indian customers.

Speaking on the matter, Gionee India Country CEO & MD, Arvind Vohra said, “Make in India as an initiative gives an opportunity to not only take Gionee as brand ahead but also to be actively able to participate in the growth of our economy through various touch points. We are happy to have partnered with the best in business including Foxconn and Dixon and sure that this step will prove to be instrumental in the brands future.”

William Lu, President Gionee added, “India market is second home market to Gionee after China and the investment in India manufacturing is just another step in a line up of much more to come for the Indian market and…

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When T-Mobile launched its native video calling feature last week, it was only available on the Samsung Galaxy S6 edge+ and Galaxy Note5 smartphones, although the carrier said that the Galaxy S6 and Galaxy S6 edge will get it the following week.

As promised, the feature has started rolling out to the latter two through a software update.

Sized at around 413 MB, the update also brings along the carrier’s Advanced Messaging feature that allows users to easily share high-res photos and videos up to 10 MB, have near real-time chat, and more.

Finally, it also brings Samsung Pay to the devices. If you aren’t in the know, Samsung Pay is the South Korean company’s answer to Apple Pay and Android Pay. The mobile payment service is already live in the company’s home country, and will officially launch in the US on September…

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After revealing that the Moto X Force will be launched in the US (exclusively by Verizon) as the Droid Turbo 2, the usually reliable leaker @upleaks has also shared some information on their launch date.

DROID Turbo 2=Oct, X Force=Dec? Hmm.— upleaks (@upleaks) September 10, 2015

According to him, the Droid Turbo 2 will be launched sometime next month, while the international variant – the Moto X Force – will launch in the month of December. The latter is currently confirmed for China and Europe, he revealed.

Moto X Force=International Version, currently confirmed for Europe and China. http://ift.tt/1F0iSGL upleaks (@upleaks) September 10, 2015

From what is known till now, the Droid Turbo 2 will have the same specs and looks (except for the Verizon logo) as that of the Moto X Force, which is said to be powered by Snapdragon 810 chipset, and sport a 5.43-inch QHD display. Other specs include 3GB RAM, 32/64GB storage, 21 MP rear and 5MP front camera, and a 3,760 mAh battery.

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Wikipedia for Android has received an update, bumping it to version 2.0.110. Among the new features the update brings, the most notable is the ability to let users see previews of links.

The updated app now lets you see a preview of the article whenever you tap on a link, making it easier for you to take a quick look at the topic without leaving the current page. The preview also includes a swipeable image thumbnail gallery.

In addition, pressing-and-holding links now produces more options, including save for offline reading, share, and copy. The update has also made it easy to share a link to the current article, something which can now directly be done from the overflow menu.

Finally, the update has also brought along tabbed browsing, updates to Material Design compliance, and several other improvements.

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The now-discontinued Google Play Edition program used to pair the flagship smartphones from Android device manufacturers such as Samsung and HTC with stock Android from Google. That, however, turned out not to be a very enticing proposition for many, which is why the scheme was dropped.

But before that happened certain GPE devices did launch, such as the Samsung Galaxy S4 Google Play Edition. It was just like the regular S4, but with software from Google – and no TouchWiz in sight. Furthermore, there was this (now laughable) promise of “Nexus-like” delivery of software updates.

That mostly has not materialized. Case in point: The S4 GPE is only now being updated to Android 5.1, build LMY47O. That particular version was first spotted on other devices back in April, believe it or not. It’s unclear why it took five months or so for it to reach the Galaxy S4 GPE, but at least it’s rolling out now.

And once you apply this update you’ll no longer be stuck on the even more ancient Android 5.0 build LRX21P, from November 2014. At this rate, we wouldn’t bet on the S4 GPE getting a Marshmallow treat. Or if it does eventually receive it, be prepared to wait well into 2016 for that to happen.

If you’re impatient and haven’t seen the update notification yet, you can head over to the Source link below to download the OTA ZIP file if you’d like to flash it manually (provided, of course, that you know how to do…

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It was just a few hours ago when we told you about the first beta of iOS 9.1 becoming available for developers to tinker with. And here we are now, not one day later, and the first public beta of iOS 9.1 is already up for grabs.

This is the fastest we’ve ever seen Apple move from a developer beta release to one targeted at general consumers. It’s a bit of an odd situation because iOS 9 will only be out on September 16.

If you’re interested in trying out iOS 9.1, you need to enroll in Apple’s beta software program, after which the update notification should pop up on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch.

iOS 9.1 brings with it some new emoji, better performance compared to iOS 9, and some new developer APIs enabling apps to take advantage of 3D Touch and Live Photos. It also includes features for the newly unveiled iPad Pro, gaining support for the Smart Keyboard and Apple Pencil.

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Cricket has announced the HTC Desire 520 today. The mid-range smartphone will go on sale at the carrier as soon as tomorrow, and it will be priced at $99.99 without any long-term contract requirement. The phone will be exclusive to Cricket.

The Desire 520 was announced for the US by HTC back in July, and it sure took its sweet time actually getting to stores.

It comes with a 4.5-inch 480×854 touchscreen, an 8 MP rear camera with LED flash, a 2 MP front-facing camera, 1GB of RAM, 8GB of expandable storage, 4G LTE support, and a 2,000 mAh battery. It’s powered by Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 210 chipset with a 1.1 GHz quad-core Cortex-A7 CPU and Adreno 304 GPU. It runs Android 5.1 Lollipop with HTC’s Sense 7 UI on…

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It’s official, straight from a Google engineer: the upcoming Android 6.0 Marshmallow release will not come with a built-in dark theme.

Many people have been hoping to see a darkened version of the Material Design UI in the final Marshmallow release because an experimental dark theme was included in the Android M developer preview.

You did have to jump through some hoops in order to activate it, but as the screenshots above show, it did actually work. Unfortunately though it looks like Google has dropped any plans to make something like this part of Marshmallow.

So all that fans of stock Android and dark UIs can now do is hope that the search giant will reconsider when it comes to the next version of the OS. In fact, the dark theme “may be considered for future releases”, according to the same Google engineer mentioned above.

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Just yesterday we saw an unknown Samsung device getting benchmarked sporting an Exynos 8890 chipset. The device in question was codenamed Lucky. According to a new report, this is in fact the codename for the Galaxy S7. Since 7 is considered a lucky number in many cultures, it’s pretty obvious why Samsung chose to name its next flagship “Project Lucky” while it’s in development.

In an interesting twist, the Lucky was caught in another benchmark database today, this time rocking Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 820 SoC. This is no surprise, as there have been rumors claiming Samsung is testing Qualcomm’s next top of the line chip and hasn’t yet decided whether to use it or not. Now it seems likely that the S820 will power at least certain versions of the Galaxy S7, probably the ones destined for the US (echoing what’s been going on for most of the Galaxy S line’s existence, except with the S6 this year).

The prototype that went through the AnTuTu benchmark today came with a 5.7-inch QHD touchscreen, a 16 MP rear camera, a 5 MP front snapper, 4GB of RAM, and 64GB of internal storage. It ran Android 5.1.1 Lollipop at the time.

So this is the bigger of the two rumored iterations for Samsung’s next flagship. Qualcomm’s chipset managed to beat out the Exynos 7420 as well as the Snapdragon 810 in single-threaded runs and in the 3D test. However, overall the Exynos 7420 still managed to come out on top of both of Qualcomm’s contenders. Obviously though the Snapdragon 820 is still in development, so don’t take these results too seriously yet. Just for fun, let’s mention that Lucky’s AnTuTu score was 65,775.

The final version of the Galaxy S7 may have a 20 MP ISOCELL camera instead of the 16 MP unit the prototype boasts. The S7 should keep the ultrafast UFS 2.0 storage of its predecessor, but Samsung is working on getting that to work with microSD cards. Currently the UFS 2.0 memory controller isn’t compatible with expandable storage. Yet the Korean company might fix that by the time the S7 arrives on the market. It’s definitely not a given, though, so don’t get your hopes up that the Galaxy S7 will have microSD card support.

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