Microsoft has delayed the much-anticipated heroic brawler Crackdown 3 until Spring 2018. The sandbox brawler was previously scheduled to come out this November alongside the launch of the Xbox One X, but the tech titan pushed back the game’s release…
Put the power of Android into your living room with this mini DLP Android 4.4 projector. Powered by a 1.2GHz Cortex-A7 quad-core processor, this travel-friendly projector provides 854 x 480 native resolution (40 to 120-inch image size), 4:3/16:9/16:10 aspect ratio, 1000 ANSI lumens brightness, 1000:1 contrast ratio and up to 30,000 hours of RGB LED lamp life.
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Following the disastrous launch of the Samsung Galaxy Note 7 last year in which there were several instances of batteries overheating and exploding and catching on fire, you can imagine that Samsung is being very cautious about such incidents repeating themselves in the future, and to their credit Samsung has taken active measures to prevent that from happening.
Unfortunately for Samsung, it seems that one of their phones has entered into the spotlight over overheating batteries, but this comes in the form of an older phone with the Galaxy Note 4. The CPSC has announced a recall of the Note 4’s batteries for overheating risks. However it seems that in this instance, the fault is not Samsung’s as the batteries being recalled are supplied by another company and used in refurbished Note 4 handsets sold through AT&T.
According to the CPSC, “This recall involves batteries placed into refurbished AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note 4 cellphones by FedEx Supply Chain and distributed as replacement phones through AT&T’s Insurance program only. FedEx and Samsung have determined that some of the recalled batteries are counterfeit and show anomalies that can lead the batteries to overheat. The batteries are non-OEM, which means they were not supplied as original equipment by the phone’s manufacturer, Samsung.”
We’re not sure how many Note 4 handsets are still out there in the wild these days, especially when you consider the fact that the phone was launched 3 years ago and has been succeeded by many other Samsung phones since, but if you do own one of the refurbished handsets from AT&T, you should head on over to the CPSC’s website for the details on what you should do.
Samsung Galaxy Note 4 Batteries Being Recalled For Overheating Risk , original content from Ubergizmo. Read our Copyrights and terms of use.
One of the great things about Google Docs is that it is a pretty collaborative platform, where it allows users to work on documents together at the same time and to see the changes reflected in real-time. For the most part the collaborative features are pretty great, but if you rely on Google Docs pretty heavily, the recent update might be of interest to you.
Google has announced that they will be introducing more collaborative features to Google Docs. This includes name versions of the document (or Sheet or Slide) that you’re editing. “Being able to assign custom names to versions of your document is a great way to keep a historical record of your team’s progress. It’s also helpful for communicating when a document is actually final. You can organize and track your team’s changes in one place under “Version history” (formerly known as “Revision history”) on the web.”
There is also the ability for users to preview “clean” versions of Docs, which is basically Google Docs minus all the comments or suggested edits, and is more or less what you might expect from the final copy that you plan to print or send off. Users can also accept or reject all suggestions at once, suggest changes via mobile devices, and there will also be support for Litera Change-Pro or Workshare. The changes and new features should already be live, so fire up Google Docs if you’d like to take the new features for a spin.
Google Docs Updated With More Collaborative Features , original content from Ubergizmo. Read our Copyrights and terms of use.
Do you ever find yourself feeling a little bit nervous when your smartphone isn’t with you? Where you’re wondering who might have sent you messages, emails, or tried to call, or who might have commented on your latest Facebook post? That anxiety you feel is smartphone separation anxiety, also known as nomophobia.
It is also a problem that according to scientists, is a growing one on the rise, and one that they are trying to understand. One of the possible reasons offered is our growing reliance on social media to get updates on our friends, family, co-workers, news, and so on, and not having your smartphone with you means that you won’t be able to find out what’s going on, and also you won’t be able to share your current activities (not that it really needs sharing, sometimes).
According to Dr Ki Joon Kim, of the City University of Hong Kong, “As smartphones evoke more personal memories, users extend more of their identity onto them. When users perceive smartphones as their extended selves, they are more likely to become attached to the devices, which, in turn, leads to nomophobia by heightening the phone proximity-seeking tendency.”
Dr Ki is also worried that this problem could grow worse in the future as services become increasingly tailored to our preferences, which we’re seeing on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter where the feed is curated based on posts you’ve engaged in and reacted to.
Scientists Find Smartphone Separation Anxiety Is A Growing Problem , original content from Ubergizmo. Read our Copyrights and terms of use.
The market share of Apple’s iOS platform isn’t quite as huge compared to Android. However in terms of actual smartphones, it seems that is where Apple might have Android beat, or at least when you compare them brand to brand. This is according to Strategy Analytics whose latest report claims that Apple’s iPhone 7 and 7 Plus are the world’s most popular smartphones.
According to the numbers, the iPhone 7 and 7 Plus take the number one and two spots in terms of global smartphone shipments. In Q2 2017, the iPhone 7 accounted for 16.9% of global smartphone shipments, while the iPhone 7 Plus accounted for 15.1%. Coming in third and fourth is the Samsung Galaxy S8 and S8+ at 10.2% and 9% respectively.
However we should note that shipping figures don’t necessarily translate into actual sales figures, but in the case of Apple and Samsung in which both companies tend to experience sellouts, we wouldn’t be surprised if the shipping figures and sales figures are actually pretty close with each other.
Also take note that this is for Q2 2017, meaning that next quarter’s figures could tell a different story, Let’s not forget that there are upcoming smartphones that many are excited for, such as the Samsung Galaxy Note 8, the Google Pixel 2 handsets, and of course Apple’s 2017 iPhones, which is expected to include the iPhone 7s, 7s Plus, and the 8.
Apple’s iPhone 7 Is The World’s Most Popular Smartphone , original content from Ubergizmo. Read our Copyrights and terms of use.
Things like changing a flat tyre is usually something that is taught at driving school, but as they say, practice makes perfect and unless we are changing flat tyres all the time, it is easy to forget how to go about changing it. If you think that describes you, getting into a situation where your car has a flat is obviously going to be inconvenient, but not if you use Waze.
In an update to Waze as spotted by Android Police, it seems that the app will now allow users to reach out to other Waze users for help, such as changing a flat tyre, which you can see in the screenshot to the right where users are now presented with an added option called “Roadside help” under the “Send a report” menu.
However the feature doesn’t seem to be fully live yet, despite it showing up in the app. Android Police speculates that maybe something needs to be enabled server-side in order for it to start working, which means that we’ll just have to wait for Waze to eventually turn it on. Presumably the feature will work like the rest of the reporting features, where an icon will show up when you approach someone who might need some roadside assistance.
It is a rather nifty feature and we expect that it will be rather invaluable should it find its way onto the Android Auto version as well, meaning that drivers who do not subscribe to roadside assistance services will still be able to get some kind of help (and hopefully for free). This particular feature seems to be only available for the Android version of Waze right now, but presumably it will find its way to the iOS app eventually.
Waze’s Latest Update Lets You Reach Out To Other Wazers For Help , original content from Ubergizmo. Read our Copyrights and terms of use.
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