In light of the FBI VS Apple fiasco that’s gathered the attention of readers around the world, Facebook is reportedly planning to encrypt voice calls and group chats on the worldwide messaging giant WhatsApp.

Apparently the company was having similar issues with Brazil as Apple had been having with the FBI in the US. The only difference was officials were successfully able to get a court order for a user’s WhatsApp data, to which the company was unable to help since it has been encrypting all of its users’ messages since 2014 and was not able to come up with any of the user’s…

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Pushed way out of its comfort zone and into a high-stakes flagship redesign last season, Samsung’s back to what it does best – making itself comfortable at the top of the heap. OK, it sounds like a bold claim but by no means incredible if you’ve seen the Samsung Galaxy S7 edge.

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Following in the footsteps of Virgin and Boost Mobile, both of which launched it in January, AT&T is going to be selling Samsung’s Galaxy J3 (2016) at some point in the future.

We know this because serial leaker @evleaks has outed the official press renders of the device, complete with AT&T branding on the back. It’s unclear if the carrier will offer the phone in more color versions or just this white/black combo.

As you can see, the name on the handset’s back is something along the likes of Galaxy J3 6, or J3(6). So it will be interesting to see what AT&T’s promotional materials…

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Although it was rumored a few times, a Samsung Galaxy S6 Mini never actually became official. So the last S Mini handset to come out of the Korean company was the S5 Mini (which is pictured below). Yet that, like all of its predecessors, was very different from the normal S5, not only in size but also in specs. None of Samsung’s S Mini devices have packed the hardware from their bigger siblings, in fact, in stark contrast to what Sony’s been doing with its Z Compact line.

That might all change with the newly-rumored Galaxy S7 Mini. According to a report from Taiwan, Samsung will introduce…

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Skype’s Web client has received a neat update today, one which brings with it a couple of new features. First off, you can now call mobile phones as well as landlines straight from Skype’s Web interface. This might let you save money compared to your carrier’s rates, depending on where you’re calling. You obviously need either a Skype calling subscription or some Skype credit in your account in order to make use of this functionality.

Next up, you can watch YouTube videos directly inside Skype for Web from this point on. When someone shares a link to a YouTube video in a Skype…

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As you probably heard, Google made a developer build for the upcoming Android N OS available, a little earlier than expected this year and since then, Android tinkerers, us included, have been busy playing around with the early version.

And while some new features were apparent and nicely detailed in Google’s release notes, there are naturally quite a few little things hidden here and there to be discovered. One such interesting feature, that we didn’t cover in our initial features overview is a new emergency information screen.

What it is, is basically a way for you to store…

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The parts of the Galaxy S7 cost Samsung $255, according to the latest report of market analyst company IHS. This is $1 less than the bill-of-materials of the Galaxy S5 from two years ago.

IHS reports the most expensive bit of the Galaxy S7 to be the Snapdragon 820 chipset from Qualcomm at an estimated cost of $62. This is the phone’s chipset in the US, while the international version comes with the company’s own Exynos 8890 Octa.

The 12MP camera with Dual Pixel tech costs nearly $14, while the overall asembly of the device comes at $5. Mind you, the bill of materials doesn’t…

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If you are the proud owner on a OnePlus 2 handset and have been aching for a new gallery experience, then you can rejoice as the company just announced its new OnePlus Gallery app. It is available now on the Google Play Store, but currently only for the aforementioned top end model, running OxygenOS v2.2.1. Support for the manufacturer’s other pair of phones, as well as other handsets is possibly on the way.

OnePlus describes the app as streamlined so if you are a power user needing advanced features and tricks for your extensive photo library, you will undoubtedly find it a bit…

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Sony’s mobile division seems to be struggling, but actually numbers show that the company makes the most profit per phone sold aside from Apple.

In Q4 last year, LG lost money on phones while Sony made a small profit. Looking at the Average Selling Price (ASP) for Xperias was double that of LG phones and the gap has been widening in recent quarters.

ASP is a mix of product lineup and which devices actually sell. Apple’s ASP is the highest, but the company doesn’t have mid-range offerings (just old models still on sale), let alone entry-level ones. Sony’s ASP is halfway between Apple…

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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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