There have already been rumors about Samsung’s upcoming Galaxy S7/S7 edge flagships sporting an Always On display, and there has been some credible information as well.

Now, adding weight to these previous reports, Russian tech blogger Eldar Murtazin – who has decent track record when it comes to smartphone leaks – has also confirmed the same.

So now, we can say that it is all but officially confirmed that the Galaxy S6 successor will come with this feature. In case you missed, LG has already confirmed that its upcoming G5 flagship will come with Always On display.

Both devices are set to be unveiled this Sunday – February 21.

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Google has announced that its Translate service now supports 13 new languages. This brings the total number of supported languages to 103, Google revealed, claiming that the service now covers 99% of the online population.

The newly-added languages include Amharic, Corsican, Frisian, Kyrgyz, Hawaiian, Kurdish (Kurmanji), Luxembourgish, Samoan, Scots Gaelic, Shona, Sindhi, Pashto, and Xhosa. Google says the addition “helps bring a combined 120 million new people to the billions who can already communicate with Translate all over the world.”

The software-giant also touched upon exactly what goes into adding a new language, revealing that until now more 3 million people have contributed approximately 200 million translated words. Head to the Source link below for more…

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Huawei has started rolling out a new update to its Mate 8 flagship smartphone that includes Android security patch for the month of February. The update also brings along fixes to several issues, including those related to security, privilege escalation, and remote code execution.

If you are a Mate 8 owner, you should see an OTA update notification soon, if not already. However, if you’re feeling impatient, you can also check for the update manually by heading to your handset’s settings menu.

Among other devices, BlackBerry’s Android-powered Priv and Nexus devices have already received this month’s Android security…

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The Microsoft Lumia 950 XL smartphone has received a price cut in the United States, where retailer B&H Photo is currently selling the flagship device for $529.95, which is $100 down from the handset’s usual price.

The discount is available on both Black and White variants of the phone. Microsoft is officially selling the device for $649, while other third party retailers like Amazon also have it listed for over $600.

What’s worth mentioning here is that B&H says there is “limited supply at this price,” so you’ll have to act fast if you want to take advantage of the deal.

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The Cupertino, CA Company successfully launched the mobile payment service just as planned for a February launch as reported back in November. Apple Pay is slowly but surely shaping up the mobile payments industry starting in October 2014 with the launch of the iPhone 6.

Apply Pay’s countries of availability include: the USA, United Kingdom, Canada, and newly added to the list: China.

Apple has its own work cut out for competing against other mobile payment companies that are already established in China, such as WeChat Payment and Alipay from Alibaba Group.

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Nintendo is going to launch its newest mobile game next month which all surrounds interacting with other Mii’s. But today, you can sign up to receive notifications regarding the launch of the game.

Miitomo is half game and the other half communication app. It will offer refreshing and new ways to chat and interact with your friend’s Mii’s as well as offer new ways to get to know your friends better. It sounds like a much more interactive version of the Tomodachi Life game available for Nintendo 3DS and 2DS.

The Japanese game maker plans to release a total of 5 new mobile games before March of next year. The second of which is Pokémon GO, which is slated for release this year, though, there is no other indication of its estimated release date.

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The popular video streaming service has gained Chromecast support for its Android app’s latest update. Vimeo was among the first companies to voice support for the Chromecast in its original run back in 2013.

Additionally, with the new update, a bunch of stability fixes and bug squashing has been done for this release of the Android app. Vimeo was founded in 2004, just one year before YouTube invaded computer screens all around the world, and became the first online video service to support 720p HD videos

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Samsung will officially introduce the Galaxy S7 and Galaxy S7 edge this Sunday in Barcelona, as you may know. And as we get closer to that moment, the Korean company is teasing more and more aspects of its upcoming flagship smartphones.

One of the things that has been rumored to return to this generation of the top of the line Galaxy S devices after an absence in last year’s S6 and S6 edge is water resistance. This did feature in the Galaxy S5 from 2014, and along with microSD card support will be making a comeback with the S7 line.

Change your idea of what a phone can handle on 2.21.16. #TheNextGalaxyhttps://t.co/saU2TutJ5T— Samsung Mobile (@SamsungMobile) February 17, 2016

That fact has pretty much been confirmed by the teaser video you can see above, which originates at Samsung’s official Twitter account. There’s no point in focusing on the fact that people sometimes drop their phones in water, unless the Galaxy S7 and S7 edge can withstand such an encounter. Now all that’s left is for us to find out the exact IP code for the new models, which will tell us how long they can be safely submerged. But we assume that’s a tidbit that will only be officially revealed on February…

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Here’s a very nice deal that will appeal to you if you like Spotify and have pondered buying a Chromecast. If you purchase a three-month Spotify Premium subscription, you’ll receive a Chromecast dongle entirely for free. The subscription itself costs $29.97.

The offer is only valid in the US and the UK, and it expires on February 28 at 11:59 pm CET. There’s also a limit of one Chromecast per person. One important caveat here is that you can’t take advantage of this deal if you are a current or previous Premium subscriber, even if you’ve just used a free trial of the Premium functionality in the past.

You need to sign up for Spotify Premium using this link if you’re in the US or this link if you’re in the UK. Then, within a week of that, you’ll receive a voucher for the Chromecast in your email inbox. The voucher can only be used at the Google…

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The collaboration between Meizu and Canonical (the company behind the Ubuntu operating system) is still going strong, it seems. Following the Meizu MX4 Ubuntu Edition from last year, today the two have unveiled a new smartphone – the Meizu PRO 5 Ubuntu Edition.

This is the fifth handset launched in the past twelve months running Ubuntu, according to Canonical. It’s also the highest-end Ubuntu phone to date.

Like the Android-running iteration of the PRO 5, the Ubuntu Edition comes with a 5.7-inch 1080p AMOLED touchscreen, a 21 MP rear camera with phase detection autofocus and dual-tone LED flash, a 5 MP front camera, Samsung’s Exynos 7420 chipset at the helm (with an octa-core CPU clocked at up to 2.1 GHz), 3GB of RAM, 32GB of storage, and dual-SIM slots.

Ubuntu’s official listing doesn’t mention the battery capacity, but since all of the other specs are 100% identical to those of the Android version of the phone, we assume it will be a 3,050 mAh cell in this case too. 4G LTE should be supported as well.

The Meizu PRO 5 Ubuntu Edition will go up for pre-order internationally at some point during MWC next week. Pricing information hasn’t been revealed…

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