ZUK Z1, a result of a collaboration of a few companies, including Lenovo and Elephone, is set to receive a Cyanogen OS 13.0 update next year. Luckily for its users, XDA Senior Member MrColdbird refused to wait any longer and started to work on CyanogenMod 13.0 for this device. A port is still quite early and contains a list of bugs, but it’s great to see the small Z1’s community thriving.
Evan Blass (@evleaks) has just revealed some details of what could be the upcoming LG G5. We are told the build material will be metal, the phone will have a 5.3″ QuadHD display, a secondary “ticker” screen, dual cameras on the back to give it 135-degree wide-angle capabilities, and have the Snapdragon 820 SoC. The device is also said to have a modular “Magic Slot” and bringing the battery down to 2,800mAh.
Bluboo has just announced the Xfire 2 and claims it is the world’s first 5″ smartphone with three SIM slots. However, 10 seconds into a Google search I have already read about the GooPhone X1+ (which came out in 2013). The Bluboo Xfire 2 will have a 2.5D “arc suspended” screen, a quad-core MT6580 So, will retail for only $69.99 and launch sometime in January.
One of the very first Firefox OS partners – Telefonica – ditched Mozilla’s system in favor of Cyanogen OS. Telefonica joins such companies as OnePlus, Oppo, ZUK or YU which use or have been using Cyanogen’s OS. The first branded devices powered by Cyanogen have started to sell in Spain and will arrive in countries like Germany and theUnited Kingdom soon. Telefonica aims to launch Cyanogen in different countries in 2016.
For anyone with the D855 LG G3 who also doesn’t want to wait for the 30B Marshmallow OTA update to be released in your country, KDZ and flashable ZIP files are now available for you. This is courtesy of XDA Recognized Contributor autoprime and it will work on both the 16GB and 32GB models.
A recent discovery made by Tony Beltramelli, a Masters student at the IT University of Copenhagen, shows how vulnerable smartwaches are. Cyber criminals can gather important data like PIN codes by using the gyroscope and accelerometer. Beltramelli even posted a proof of concept video demonstrating how easy such data can be hijacked. More in the article.
YouTube recently accused T-Mobile of throttling users on their network who were watching videos on the service. This week, T-Mobile has come back and said that throttling is a bad way to describe it, and instead the videos are now “mobile optimized”. YouTube never agreed to be part of T-Mobile’s Binge On service and they feel users should have to opt in to enable it.
