Huawei Honor 7The Huawei Honor 7 is another solid offering that gets a lot right with its beautiful display, impressive battery life, a fantastic fingerprint scanner, good camera, and useful additions like the swipe gestures and the SmartKey button. That said, the competition in this space is intense, and there are some arguably better options out there. Table of contents
Huawei, like quite a few other Chinese OEMs, is well known for bringing to market smartphones with impressive specifications and features, while keeping it budget-friendly, which is a key aspect of Huawei’s relatively new Honor series of smartphones.
If you are the type of person that likes to snag a ROM as soon as possible and remove the extra bloat, you might be wondering how long it will be before the first ROM finds its way onto Samsung’s latest flagship. For T-Mobile customers, right now.
It’s only been one day since the Galaxy S4 was available online for T-Mobile customers, but that’s not stopping CyanogenMod founder Steve Kondik. Earlier today, he took to Google+ with a screenshot showing T-Mobile’s Galaxy S4 running an unofficial CyanogenMod build.
It wasn’t long ago that Samsung was calling the projected $1 billion dollar cost of the first Galaxy Note 7 recall a “heartbreaking amount”. But with Samsung just now announcing it is permanently discontinuing production of the Galaxy Note 7, the company is facing a massive $17 billion dollars in lost sales revenue. The news comes just one day after Samsung put a global stop on sales of the defective device.
What is the best Galaxy Note 7 alternative?
Gaming chairs are notoriously expensive at times, but that won’t be true for Black Friday. Secretlab is selling its Omega gaming chair starting at $349 ($70 off) for a leather version. You’ll see other discounts regardless of your material and color choices, including Special Edition models.
In our experience (including that of Executive Editor Kris Carlon), the Secretlab Omega is one of the few gaming chairs in its class that matches the hype.
What happens when you’re stranded on the bowl without tissue paper? Did you ever wish you were forewarned about a stinky bathroom? Have you imagined being in better places while procrastinating in the loo? What does all this have to do with technology? TP-maker Charmin has the answers.
The company is presenting three cheeky concepts at CES 2020 that aim to deliver a better bathroom experience from start to flush.
We haven’t heard much from Project Astoria recently, but now it seems like the app-porting initiative has breathed its last. Microsoft has officially confirmed that they are abandoning their plans to use the project to port Android apps to Windows 10 Mobile:
[Microsoft] announced the Windows Bridge for Android (project “Astoria”) at Build last year, and some of you have asked about its status. We received a lot of feedback that having two Bridge technologies to bring code from mobile operating systems to Windows was unnecessary, and the choice between them could be confusing.
Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority
The number of Internet users in India has grown exponentially in recent years. The rapid growth has been helped along by the availability of low-cost smartphones and affordable mobile data as well as home broadband plans. Unfortunately, Internet freedom and security hasn’t developed as quickly. This is where a good virtual private network (VPN) can make all the difference. Here is our roundup of some of the best VPNs for India, both paid and free.
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A major vulnerability impacted the vast majority of 2021 Android phones. The issue is caused by compromised ALAC audio code. The vulnerable code was included in Mediatek and Qualcomm audio decoders. A bug in the Apple Lossless Audio Codec (ALAC) impacts two-thirds of Android devices sold in 2021, leaving unpatched devices vulnerable to takeover.
ALAC is an audio format developed by Apple for use in iTunes in 2004, providing lossless data compression.
Back in 2017, HMD Global started making high-end, mid-range, and budget Nokia-branded smartphones, each running Android One or Go. Since then, the company has released more than a couple of interesting handsets, one of which is the Nokia 7.1.
Nokia 7.1 full specs You can find the list of Nokia 7.1 specs in the table below:
Nokia 7.1Display
5.84-inch FHD+ (2,280 x 1,080)
19:9 with notch
2.5D curved front Corning Gorilla Glass 3
The US trade ban against Huawei has forced the manufacturer to ditch Google apps on new phone models, but it’s also affected the brand’s computer business. The trade ban meant that Huawei couldn’t pre-load Windows and other Microsoft software on its Matebook laptops and hybrid devices.
Fortunately, Microsoft has now confirmed to Reuters that the US Department of Commerce has approved its application to export “mass-market software” to Huawei.
“On November 20, the U.