The HTC A9 is set to launch in just under an hour, join us as we see HTC’s latest attempt to turn the company around, although with a rumoured price tag of $599 it seems doubtful.
The Mali-400 series is a very popular GPU chipset for ARM devices, and the company has just announced its latest addition to the family. The Mali-470 GPU was created with low power environments in mind with focus on products like wearables and other IoT devices. We’re looking at more than half the power consumption when compared to the Mali-400.
Information has emerged that the Nexus 6P has a hardware “QFuse”, a hardware feature by Qualcomm which changes its state permanently on device unlocking. The blown fuse cannot be reversed via software, once triggered. This is a very surprising decision as Nexus devices are prime choice for developers and are one of the easiest to unlock.
XDA Recognized Contributor abo hani is back with another mod for Sony devices. With this mod, you can color the Sony Media apps on your Xperia device according to your active theme. The mod works on Sony devices on Android 5.1 Lollipop, so give it a try!
Sony just started rolling out their Android Marshmallow concept for lucky Xperia Z3 and Xperia Z3 Compact users who live in select regions. Thankfully though, XDA Senior Member imputazz has collected the installer and put together an easy to follow guide to let anyone with one of these two devices install the latest concept from Sony.
XDA Senior Member AmniX has posted an app which allows you to display your network speed on your statusbar. The feature that lets this app stand out of the crowd is that it does not need any root permissions, nor the Xposed framework installed, nor involves any flashable zips. Just install and you’re good to go!
FireFlex Vinyls is currently offering a flat 50% discount on its carbon fibre range of phone skins, allowing you to purchase one for as low as £3.99 with free shipping for Europe. The site has a wide variety of skins to choose from and supports a lot of current devices, so go check them out!
The New York Times and Google have together to help distribute 1 million Google Cardboard kits to subscribers of the popular newspaper. NYT subscribers who receive the VR kits will be able to watch a documentary called The Displace, which was put together by the New York Times and the VR company Vrse. This project will see additional project releases well into 2016.
AVG has been compiling data on the effects of mobile applications on our smartphones and their Q2 reports are in. More often than not, it’s the social applications that are eating the most battery and negatively effecting the overall performance the most. So, if your aging smartphone seems to be struggling, you might want to shed some social media apps off.
