Xiaomi announces 10,000mAh Mi Power Bank Pro with USB Type-C

Xiaomi has a new 10,000mAh power bank in China, called the Mi Power Bank Pro. The cool new feature here is the presence of USB Type-C and two way fast charging.

The Mi Power Bank Pro can output power from both the Type-A connectors and can be charged from the Type-C connector. It can output and draw 12V 1.5A, 9V 2A, or 5V 2A. It can also charge accessories like Bluetooth headsets and fitness bands that usually draw very low current and can cause some power banks to switch off.

The Mi Power Bank Pro comes with a USB cable with a Type-A connector on one and end microUSB on the other, and also a microUSB to Type-C adaptor. This allows you to charge devices with a microUSB port, with a Type-C port and also to charge the power bank itself.

Like the other Mi Power Banks, the Mi Power Bank Pro has an aluminum body and temperature, input overload, short circuit, output overcurrent, and reset protection.

The Mi Power Bank Pro is priced at 149 yuan, which is about…

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HTC financial report for February 2016 shows record low revenue

HTC outed its financial report for February with some grim numbers. Revenue for the month was $128 million (NT$4.2 billion), less than half than the same period of 2015 – $261 million (NT$9.2 billion). Worse still, the revenue is 35% less than it was in January, which traditionally is a slow month after the Christmas holidays.

Sadly for HTC, this is just another month in a series of poor financial performance. For Q4 2015, the Taiwanese phone maker reported a net loss of $101 million (NT$3.5 billion). Revenue for the period was $766 million (NT$25.7 billion).

The company retains an upbeat mood however. The upcoming HTC M10 flagship will carry a new dose of hope for turning the company’s fortunes around. The phone will be announced on April 19, according to recent rumors.

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New ransomware targeting OS X was spotted in the wild

Yes, we all know that convenient, long-standing myth about OS X being immune to viruses and while Apple has done a great deal to secure the platform, it was bound to happen sooner or later – a ransomware application was caught infecting OS X machines.

Palo Alto Networks claims that the software, going by the name of “KeyRanger” is the first known case of a malicious encrypter running on OS X, other than a reportedly unfinished bit of code known as “FileCoder”, spotted back in 2014.

If you don’t know what ransomware actually is, it is basically a file encrypter that infects your system and in the case of KeyRanger, lays dormant for three days, after which it encrypts your files and asks you to pay a sizable amount of money (in bitcoin form) to an unknown organization to get them un-encrypted. The malicious code is already in the open and is being distributed as a part of the popular Torrent client app Transmission.

Just to clarify, it is not the work of the app developers, but Transmission has rather been employed as a host. Apparently, hackers got their hands on version 2.90 of the app package, so, if you are currently running that one, you might be infected. If the aforementioned three days haven’t passed yet, you might still have a change to delete KeyRanger before it locks you out of your files.

Specialists from Palo Alto Networks have released an in-depth analysis of the software and how it works, which you can check out at the source link, but generally suggest that users be on the lookout for a suspicious kernel_service process in Activity monitor and you can also check for the existence of a “General.rtf” file inside the Resources folder of Transmission.

But even if you don’t intend or want to get your hands dirty, both Apple and the Transmission team have taken swift measures. The former has revoked the certificate used by the affected app package, so it can no longer be installed. As for Transmission, it has issued an emergency version 2.92 update that claims to actively remove the ransomware files, if present.

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Oppo R9 and R9 Plus unveiling officially scheduled for March 17

You can officially mark March 17 on your calendars as the announcement of the camera-focused Oppo R9 and R9 Plus.

Both phones passed through TENAA and will bring all-metal bodies and AMOLED screens. The R9 will have a 5.5″ 1080p screen, the R9 Plus will be bigger with a 6″ 1080p screen. Both have octa-core processors with 4GB of RAM and 64GB storage (before you put in a microSD card in the hybrid slot) and will run Android 5.1 Lollipop at launch.

As for the camera, they will have 16MP sensors on the front and back (yep, 16MP selfies!). It’s not clear if they will feature the sensor-shift image stabilization tech Oppo demoed at the MWC.

They will have VOOC rapid charge for their 2,850mAh (R9) and 4,120mAh (R9 Plus) batteries. It won’t be the Super VOOC from MWC, though, that tech is still in development.

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Samsung Galaxy S7 edge Dual Pixel autofocus tested against that of Canon 70D

Well, here’s a very unscientific but still demonstrative test of Samsung Galaxy S7 edge’s Dual Pixels autofocus system. This fellow from Thailand put the S7 against the Canon 70D, a DSLR with its own Dual Pixel AF system (which reviews show is faster and more accurate than traditional Phase Detection AF).

Here’s a video of the two cameras, S7 edge and 70D, keeping track of fast moving objects. The difference in speed is tangible.

And here’s the same test in the dark. Things are moving too fast to really tell, but the Samsung Galaxy S7 edge seems to have an edge in image quality as well as focus speed.

You can read how Dual Pixel autofocus works and see our own test of the S7.

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Huawei P9 now tipped to launch second week of April

Huawei had officially announced a press event in Berlin for March 9, and it made every bit of sense to be the announcement of the P9 smartphone. The timing is about right, the date rings with the model number, it was a match made in heaven. Apparently not.

Huawei P9 launches Wednesday, April 6th.— Evan Blass (@evleaks) March 6, 2016

Over the weekend @evleaks revealed that the P9 is coming on April 6th, but a few hours ago the leakster had second thoughts and the date is now more of a guideline. The launch date had been given to him in number of days and not a precise date, so the pesky February 29 might have messed up the calculations.

UPDATE: I was told a number of days, not an exact date; may have done the calculation wrong. Will inquire. http://ift.tt/1QZilEw Evan Blass (@evleaks) March 7, 2016

There’s little about the Huawei P9 that will surprise us at this point, as the smartphone often made the news in renders and a couple of sets of live images. In terms of hardware, we expect to see the in-house Kirin 950 chipset, found in the Mate 8, 5.2-inch FullHD display and a dual-camera setup, among other…

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Best Apps and Games of the Week

These are some of the best apps and games that came out this week.

M Cam

M Cam is a camera app for the iPhone that allows you more control over the photography process than the stock Camera app. You can now control the ISO, white balance, and focus more precisely. With focus peaking and focus zoom you can be sure everything you want is in perfect focus.

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GetSpace

GetSpace is a photo management app for the iPhone. It lets you find and automatically delete duplicate photos. It scans and finds visually similar photos and will keep the best ones and delete the rest. It can also scan for blurry and out of focus photos and delete them. Lastly, the app can also delete old screenshots for you.

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Morning Kit

Morning Kit is an alarm application that shows vital information along with your alarm so you are up to speed with things as soon as you wake up. The app will show you today’s schedule, weather, news headlines, world clock, exchange rates, and even motivational quotes.

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Hound

Hound is a powerful search assistant app. Like Google Now and Siri it lets you find information by asking for it but Hound can also understand complex questions with multiple queries in it, and you can continue a conversation with it and it will refine its search based on your previous queries. It’s also way faster than any other voice assistant. Hound is currently only available in the US.

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Clash Royale

Clash Royale is a new game from the developers of Clash of Clans. Clash Royale gameplay is a mixture classic tower defense games, and card games such as Hearthstone. The characters in the game are from Clash of Clans but that’s pretty much the extent of the similarities. Except maybe for all the in-app purchases, of which there are many. The game itself is fun, though.

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Fahrenheit: Indigo Prophecy Remastered

Fahrenheit is a third person mystery/horror/action game that originally came out back in 2005 on the consoles. The remastered version was released on iOS last year and is now finally on Android. It is one of the more critically acclaimed games out there on any platform, and although the visuals might look a bit long in the tooth now the gameplay and story still make it very playable.

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Poll results: Sony Xperia X bested by the Xiaomi Mi 5

On to poll number 2, where we gave you a chance to pick between Xiaomi’s long overdue replacement to the Mi 4 and Sony’s Xperia X, the pioneer in the company’s new X-series. The Mi 5 left no chance to the Xperia X and took a decisive victory, collecting 61% of upvotes.

Admittedly, there was a catch here – the Xperia X Performance is still months away, while the Mi 5 you can already order.

Whatever the case though, the Mi 5 is a pretty strong contender all on its own, with a Snapdragon 820, 4 gigs of RAM and 128GB of storage in its top-specced Pro version. That same variant comes in ceramic attire too – a stunner to look at. So come to think about it, the Xperia X Performance might have had a tough time against it as…

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Top 10 trending phones of week 9

With all the clamor surrounding this year’s MWC over the past two weeks, we couldn’t find time to update you on the latest developments in phone interest trends on a weekly basis. Well, we’re back at it, and there’s plenty to talk about.

The Samsung Galaxy A7 (2016) joins its little brother A5 (2016), which entered the chart earlier, and the two occupy 10th and 8th spots respectively. In between them we have the Sony Xperia X Performance, the Japanese company’s new flagship.

The Galaxy J5 is far from its regular comfort zone on the podium, this week in 7th. In 6th we find the Lenovo Vibe K4 Note, the bronze holder in the last edition of the chart.

Samsung’s sexier S7, the S7 edge, enters the chart in 5th spot, with the LG G5 slightly ahead. Long-time champion Galaxy J7 has lost the crown, again, but still manages to hold on to the third.

Xiaomi’s brand new flagship Mi 5 storms straight into second, not surprising for a device arriving a long year and half after the one it replaces, with top-end specs too.

It is, however, the vanilla Galaxy S7 that snatches the gold. Promising brand new camera, generous battery capacity, premium build, waterproofing, and storage expansion – pretty much all of the important boxes have been checked. Samsung’s Galaxy S6 stood on top for weeks on end last year, and we’re seeing no reason for the S7 not to.

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Poll results: Galaxy S7 edge defeats the LG G5 in the battle of Korean flagships

One of the most action-packed editions of MWC of recent years saw the introduction of two (okay, technically three) of the most important smartphones of the year – the LG G5 and the Samsung Galaxy S7/S7 edge. We figured the S7 edge is the more attractive part of Samsung’s pair (meanwhile so did consumers, apparently), and chose that one to pit against the G5.

And the S7 edge did splendidly, beating the G5 3:2. In other words, Samsung’s dual-edge glass-and-metal top model gathered 58% of the upvotes, while the modular G5 had to settle for 42%.

Fandom aside, the two devices have a bunch of conceptual differences, which can sway users either way. AMOLED vs. LCD, removable battery vs. a larger sealed one, big pixels and near-instant focus vs. dual cameras with extra wide coverage – choices must be made and it’s just that the S7 edge has ticked the right boxes for the majority of our…

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