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Picture this scenario: you launch the phone dialer app on your phone, but instead of being greeted with a pristine dialer screen, your screen is instead littered with banner ads for products, services, and restaurants. Wouldn’t that be annoying? If you think that it is, be thankful that you do not live in China.

According to reports, it seems that the OnePlus 3 handset in China has ads baked into the system apps on the phone. Users are claiming that the dialer interface has a “Live Services” feed which shows banners for all kinds of products and services, and to make it worse, it seems that these ads are outsourced meaning that OnePlus doesn’t even get to control what ads are displayed.

Now you’re probably wondering, “But I don’t live in China, this shouldn’t affect me, right?” For the most part you’re probably right and you can go ahead and buy the OnePlus 3 without any issues. However OnePlus did announce that they have plans to eventually merge its operating systems. Right now there is Oxygen OS which is for everywhere else but China, while in China OnePlus uses Hydrogen OS.

We can only hope that by merging the platforms that ads baked into system apps will not be a feature that is brought over.

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Pantech is a smartphone brand that isn’t exactly well-known in the US, although in the past the company has launched a couple of handsets here and there. However they are South Korea’s third largest smartphone maker and it seems that after some restructuring over the course of 20 months, the company has made a return to the smartphone scene with the Sky IM-100.

According to ZDNet, “100” in Korean is pronounced as “back” (or at least close enough), so IM-100 could be thought of as the company’s way of saying that “I am back.” Now as you can see in the photo above, the IM-100 is a pretty stylish-looking handset. It sports a unique jog wheel on the side of the handset which according to Pantech, will allow users greater control over features like volume, versus the more traditional rockers you would find on most smartphones these days.

It can also be used to quickly scroll through pictures and videos. There is even an accompanying accessory called the Stone (pictured above) which acts as a Bluetooth speaker and a wireless charger for the phone. Unfortunately in terms of hardware, this isn’t exactly a high-end phone. It packs a Qualcomm Snapdragon 430 chipset with 2GB of RAM and a 3,000mAh battery.

The Pantech Sky IM-100 is priced at $380 which is rather pricey given that it isn’t exactly a very feature-rich phone. No word on whether Pantech plans on bringing the phone stateside, so we wouldn’t get our hopes up until the company announces otherwise.

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A patent filing from last year seemed to suggest that the upcoming Nintendo NX won’t have an optical drive. However if you thought that this meant that the console would digital-only, think again. Instead we have been hearing rumors that the Nintendo NX could actually be going back to the good old days of cartridges.

Now it seems that there is more evidence that this could be the case. According to a recent trademark filing for The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, it reads, “Downloadable electronic game programs; downloadable electronic video game software; electronic game programs; electronic game software; video game cartridges; video game discs; video game memory cards; video game programs; video game software”.

Note that it says “video game cartridges” in the filing alongside video game discs and memory cards. Now it is entirely possible that Nintendo is simply covering their bases when it comes to the distribution of their games. With the Wii U accepting discs, we guess the “game discs” portion is probably for the Wii U.

However what’s interesting is the mention of cartridges and memory cards which hints at potential ways NX games could be distributed. In any case perhaps we shouldn’t get too excited yet since nothing about the NX has been confirmed yet, but with details expected this coming fall, we won’t have to wait too long to find out.

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Our Street Style Around The World series looks at the broad expanse of different looks from all corners of the globe. We’re aiming to celebrate all different kinds of beauty and style. 

With the Olympics around the corner, it seems as though all the attention has been on Brazil. But today, we want to shine the light on another South American country — Argentina. 

Besides the amazing food and staggeringly beautiful landscape, there’s another reason the country should be on your radar: The street style.

The ladies of Argentina (and especially in Buenos Aires) are turning it out when it comes to fashion. Everyone has their own unique style and that’s why we love it. Between the monochromatic looks, cool prints and bold colors, Argentina is one to watch. 

Check out a few of our favorite fashion photos below: 

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Move over BMI: It’s time for waist circumference to shine.

Since the 19th century, the body mass index scale, or BMI, has been the most reliable way to calculate a healthy body weight. The calculations categorize people into levels of normal weight, underweight, overweight, or obese depending on their weight to height proportions.

However, because BMI cannot distinguish between body fat and lean tissue, this measurement is not the most accurate way to assess your health in relation to your body weight.

For example, a professional football player who is 6 feet tall and weighs 230 pounds would be considered “obese” according to the BMI scale. But as an NFL athlete, most of that weight comes from lean tissue, not unhealthy body fat. In this case, BMI wrongly categorizes the player as “unhealthy” because muscle isn’t distinguished from fat.

The second problem with BMI is the fact that the measurement cannot tell us where the fat in our bodies is located. Fat around our belly is more dangerous than fat around arms and legs, because belly fat is linked to greater risk for chronic diseases like heart disease, diabetes, and high blood pressure.

As The Today Show segment above notes, having the same BMI as someone else does not mean that you are at equal risk for the same things. Two people could have the same BMI, but completely different body shapes and body fat percentages. This single metric wouldn’t tell either very much about their disease risks.

Instead of relying on BMI, it would be more beneficial to rely on waist circumference to assess health risks. By measuring waist circumference, you are actually measuring the amount of body fat around your waist that poses more risk than the fat around your arms or legs. 

Your waistline, which should measure no more than 40 inches for men and 35 inches for women, is a more accurate screening tool than BMI when it comes to determining whether you are at risk for developing obesity-related conditions.

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