Tag: phones

02 NOV

Diablo Immortal on phones, WarCraft 3: Reforged top BlizzCon’s announcements

Enlarge (credit: Blizzard Entertainment) Announcements of a brand-new, smartphone-only Diablo and a remastered WarCraft 3 headlined a news-filled BlizzCon keynote presentation on Friday. The talk focused on games across Blizzard Entertainment’s portfolio—along with a huge freebie from its corporate siblings at Bungie. Starting today, that developer’s Destiny 2 is now free to claim on Windows […]

31 OCT

Samsung will bolster its mobile business with foldable and 5G phones

Samsung has posted a 17.57 trillion Korean won (US$ 15.45 billion) operating profit for Q3 2018 like it expected, setting a record high for the Korean corporation. As has been the case over the past years, its chip business is the company’s top earner. It made 13.65 trillion won (US$ 12 billion) in operating profit […]

03 OCT

Surface ‘Phones released; Headphones, that is

Enlarge / Surface Headphones. (credit: Microsoft) Microsoft has unveiled a new member of the Surface family: the Surface Headphones. The rather surprising addition to the Surface range is a set of noise-cancelling Bluetooth headphones. They’re large, over-ear headphones with soft, comfortable ear cups. Each ear cup has a spinning dial: one to control the volume, […]

25 SEP

Sikur launches high-security phones based on Sony hardware

Sikur garnered attention with its reportedly hack-resistant GranitePhone back in 2015, but the follow-up has been a long time in coming — it only just announced a follow-up in February. The sequels are here, however, and they’ll look more than a little familiar. The company has released the SIKURPhone XZ1 and SIKURPhone XA2, both of […]

19 SEP

Russian poll reveals overwhelming support for ban on mobile phones in schools

About three quarters of Russians say they support the idea of banning the use of cell phones and other tech gadgets in schools and believe that children would study better were such measures taken. The data was revealed by the state-run public opinion research agency VTSIOM on Wednesday. A recent poll has shown that 83 […]

15 SEP

Google changed a battery setting on Android phones by mistake

Some Android users probably noticed some strange things happening with their phones over the last couple of days. Apps might have stopped updating in the background, location services maybe weren’t in use when your screen was locked, and your notifications were perhaps delayed. That’s because Google accidentally enabled the battery saver feature remotely on some […]

03 SEP

French schools welcome students with a nationwide ban on mobile phones

Hello, school. Goodbye, smartphone. Across France, kids marked the start of classes today. But this year, they have to leave their mobile phones behind. Adopted several months ago, France has put in a place a nationwide ban on mobile phones for students in middle school and younger. High schools have the option of putting in […]