Chinese government has a long and not very warm relationship with WhatsApp. The application has been hindered multiple times in the land of dragons and gunpowder: its voice chat, as well as video chat, was blocked, you could not send pictures et cetera. Now the Chinese have made a logical step forward and pretty much blocked the application from usage. ...

If you are living in the US and owning HTC One M9, good for you - Verizon is upgrading its units of the phone with a Nougat 7.0 OS. Update will include the latest security patches and bug fixes, too. Some of the more noteworthy features that 7.0 brings are split-screen view, quicker multi-tasking and more reply options. The update is already available. ...

If you thought that unlocking your phone with your pretty face is high-tech, get a load of this. A group of researchers is working on a method of unlocking devices with just your heart, or rather its size and shape. It will require your phone to be equipped with a miniaturized version of a low-level Doppler radar which will scan your heart's dimensions. ...

Apple may be the leading company in the mobile device industry, but it does not mean that they do not have their share of technical hiccups. Yesterday I wrote about how some iPhone 8 and 8 Plus users complain about a nasty static interrupting their calls when using headsets. Today I have a mispleasure (okay, maybe a bit of spiteful pleasure) of informing ...

The whole story sounds like a mediocre joke, but hey, stranger things happened at sea. According to MalwareHunterTeam, a new ransomware has just emerged. Its name is nRansomware and its shtick is that it does not demand money but nudes. Yes, you read that correctly. When nRansomware infects your PC, it blocks you from accessing it until you take ten naked ...

This is the first solid bit of news on the Galaxy A5 (2018) we have had in a while; last time I wrote about the phone, it was to show a picture that may or may not have presented it. What we now know, according to Geekbench, is that the phone will come with: - Exynos 7885 CPU, eight cores, clocked at 1.59GHz, - 4 gigabytes of RAM, - Android 7.1.1 ...

According to MacRumors, a number of iPhone Plus owners have some trouble with their phones, or at least their headsets. They say that, when using headsets during the call, they can hear a loud-pitched, annoying static sound coming from the headset's earpiece. This issue did not occur when using headphones or phone's own speaker. It is said it does not matter ...

iPhones do not crash often, but even Apple products are not safe from fails of modern technology (insert anti-fans' moan). Older iPhones' way of restarting was to press'n'hold Hold and Home buttons until an Apple logo pops on-screen. Instruction on how to do that is a bit different in iPhones 8 and 8 Plus, though: - press and release Volume Up, - ...

This news comes from Frandroid. According to the French, HTC will soon release an upgraded version of HTC U11, called HTC U11 Pro. What do the French and, by extension, we know about it? Not much. Phone is said to be revealed on November 11th during an event in China. We know that the phone will have a 18:9 aspect ratio, 5.99' screen, Snapdragon 835 CPU, ...

Black Edition is an upgraded version of BlackBerry's KeyONE. KeyONE is already famous for one thing - having balls large enough to have, in an era of all-touch displays, a physical keyboard. Black Edition is pretty much the same thing that KeyONE was, only with more memory (4GB RAM instead of 3GB and 128GB storage instead of 64GB). Phone will be available ...

Not much can be said about the device from looking at that picture, but I guess it is always nice to know what may be coming next. As a reminder, Krypton is the upcoming all-touch BlackBerry project, expected to come out sometime in October. At least that is what François Mahieu, chief of TCL's global sales, officially stated. So, uhm, yeah, that ...

Specifications: - 5.5', 1080p display, - Snapdragon 625 CPU, - 3/4GB RAM, 32/64GB ROM, - dual 13mpx rear camera, 8mpx selfie shooter, - fingerprint scanner, - metal unibody, - 3000mAh battery. Lesser version of the phone will cost $230, while stronger one will go for $300. Both will go up by $50 after September 28th, so if you want to buy one, ...