Episode 258 of the Phones Show Chat Podcast was recorded on Saturday featuring Steve Litchfield, Ted Salmon and myself as their guest.
The Phones Show Chat podcast is recorded weekly and is available by searching in your favourite podcast app, iTunes or to listen directly here – http://stevelitchfield.com/sshow/chat.html
It’s hard to believe, that while Samsung is reducing onboard storage by only offering 32gb or 64gb storage options on its new Samsung S6 Edge Plus and Note 5, Asus goes and announces a phone with 256gb built in storage.
So what is this new phone. It’s the Asus Zenfone 2 Deluxe Special Edition. The phone. It has a 5.5-inch display, a 64-bit Intel Atom processor, 4GB of RAM, and a 13MP rear camera, along with a 5MP front-facing camera.
Sign me up!
Source – http://www.androidcentral.com
I received the orange leather back for the G4 today.
It really adds a bit of style to the otherwise unimaginative phone. The orange looks better in real life than the photo.
Just a quick photo I took in my village this morning. I used the default LG G4 camera app in manual mode, shot in RAW and post processed it Adobe Lightroom 6. I am still learning how to use Lightroom 6, but even using some of the basics features, it truly is incredible what can be achieved with your photos.
Of course, it does help having a phone like the LG G4 that takes such amazing shots!
To see full size version, click on shot.
It is no surprise with Windows 10 just having become available for the masses, that it is time for Microsoft to fire back with some new cool hardware.
So what’s expected –
– The new Microsoft Surface Pro 4
– Microsoft Lumia 950, 950 XL
– Microsoft Band 2
– Maybe a revised Xbox.
So is there a possibility that a new phone from Microsoft will be one to look forward too?
Source – pocketnow.com
Via Three UK –
We thought you should know that our All-in-One 15 Add-on is being replaced from 19th August. Don’t worry if you have recently purchased the All-in-One 15, as you can still use it until it’s finished, but if you want to continue afterwards with the great features our All-in-One Add-ons offer, you will need to switch to another one.
So what do Three suggest might work to replace the above plan –
Based on your recent data usage, you may find that the All-in-One 10 Add-on better meets your needs. Our All-in-One 10 Add-on gives you 100 minutes, 3000 texts and 500MB data for up to 30 days. What’s more, you can use your Add-on allowance to use your phone abroad at no extra cost in 18 destinations worldwide when on holiday (some limits apply – see Three.co.uk/feelathome).
Somehow, I doubt very much that most people will be able to switch from All-in-One to 500mb data per month! Alternative plans seem to start from £20/£25 per month. This is part of Three UK’s #makeitright. This change will increase my current plan by £7 per month, which is nearly a 50% increase overnight.
Honor announced the Honor 7i yesterday and what a phone it is featuring a Snapdragon 616 processor, Adreno 405 GPU, 13mp camera f/2.0 that flips round 180 degrees with dual tone flash, fingerprint sensor on the side, 7.8mm thick, metal frame, 5.2-inch full-HD display, LTE connectivity and a 3,100mAh battery. There will also be a 3gb ram/32gb storage option. The phone will run android 5.1 with Emotion UI 3.1.
I have captured some of the specs and translated the text first. The translated text is a little wonky at times.
Notice the camera that flips around.
Fingerprint sensor is on the side.
Improved Audio.
Decent size screen and quality.
There are a few different versions with varying storage too and comms setup.
And a high quality camera system.
Let’s hope this comes to the UK.
Source – http://www.honor.cn/new/mobile-phones/honor7i/index.html
A few days ago I received an update to android wear update bringing it to version 1.3. There was no change log but it transpires it was actually a big update. All the screen shots are from my LG Watch Urbane. Above is Google Fit progress clock face. Looks similar to one of the Apple Watch faces.
Android Wear v1.3 brings support with a proper API for interactive watch faces. I’ve installed a few of these new interactive watch faces. Now it is up to developers to hone their creativitiy. The extra functionality is endless.
I can’t wait to see what other designs are created shortly. Below is the Bits watch face. With this watch face you can select a background style and then choose which complications to select.
Below is the screen saver mode of my Bits face. This always on screen is handy. Now if it comes out of screen saver mode, the edge of the circle lights up, and becomes an active circle.
Another addition to the Android Wear functionality comes via Google Translate app. Using your watch, you can now hold a 2 way conversation in over 44 languages, and all by both people using the watch.
Android Wear v1.3 also allowed the LG G Watch R to have the WiFi antenna activated.
I am sure we will see more hidden features of this update revealed over the coming weeks.
Twitter user @evleaks has revealed a render of the new BlackBerry Venice smartphone, that runs android instead of BB110. Apart from the slide out keyboard, there will be a curved Quad HD display, Snapdragon 808 processor, 3GB of RAM, a 18-megapixel rear-facing camera, specific and exclusive BlackBerry features including the BlackBerry Hub.
On paper this looks really good. Can’t wait to see this in person. Press play for more eye candy.
Sources – @evleaks, http://www.cultofandroid.com
Sometimes, companies like to make a point at another companies expense. However, LG’s tweet below was in my opinion perfect. Following Samsung’s decision not to bring the Note 5 to the UK or Europe, LG felt it should just make one point clear about its own phone, the LG G4.
I do wonder if Samsung may regret its decision not to sell the Note 5 in the UK or Europe. Or maybe Samsung is loving all the free publicity!
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