Pre-orders for ‘iPhone 7’ now rumored for Sept. 9th, suggesting event during week of Sept. 5th

Pre-orders for ‘iPhone 7’ now rumored for Sept. 9th, suggesting event during week of Sept. 5th:

Over the weekend prominent leaker Evan Blass, @evleaks on Twitter, shared a couple of interesting dates for when the next iPhone will be released. Blass tweeted that the 2016 iPhone would be released during the week of September 12th, then later specified that Friday, September 16th would be the actual retail release.

Now Blass is digging further and adding that pre-orders for the next iPhone will “start on the 9th” which happens to be the Friday before the release date he shared previously.

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Amazon brings its Dash grocery scanner to the UK

Amazon brings its Dash grocery scanner to the UK:

Now that Amazon's grocery delivery service has launched in the UK, many of the devices that it easier to order food and household items are starting to make their way here too. The first is the Dash, a small handheld gadget that lets you add products...

OLED to become leading smartphone display technology in 2020, IHS says

OLED to become leading smartphone display technology in 2020, IHS says: Although liquid-crystal display (LCD) has dominated mobile phone displays for more than 15 years, organic light-emitting diode (OLED) display technology is set to become the leading smartphone display technology in 2020, according to IHS Markit.

Samsung to ship 350 million smartphones in 2016?

Samsung to ship 350 million smartphones in 2016?:

After shipping 324.8 million smartphones last year, Samsung is expected to ship 350 million units this year according to industry sources. That would be a 7.8% gain in deliveries during 2016, and would keep Samsung on top as the world's largest smartphone manufacturer. Sammy shipped 81.9 million units in the first quarter of this year, followed by a 6% sequential decline to 77 million during the second quarter.



To reach the 350 million phones predicted to be shipped this year, Samsung will have its work cut out for it. The manufacturer will have to ship 191.1 million handsets in the second ...

LG to pour $1.75 billion in "paradigm shifting" OLED displays production

LG to pour $1.75 billion in "paradigm shifting" OLED displays production:

Amidst a slump which saw profits shrink by 91% in the past quarter, LG Display announced its plans to double down on flexible OLED panel production. The company is aiming to invest $1.75 billion in its flexible OLED production lines, preparing to meet growing demand from the smartphone market.



OLED screens have become an increasingly popular choice for TV and smartphone screens with their falling costs and performance advantages. But it's flexible OLED screens which will spark much needed innovation in design and functionality. LG Display CEO, Dr. Sang-Beom Han, describes the transition ...

Digitimes Research: Taiwan smartphone ODM/OEM shipments drop in 2Q16

Digitimes Research: Taiwan smartphone ODM/OEM shipments drop in 2Q16: Taiwan-based ODMs/OEMs shipped 12.06 million smartphones in the second quarter of 2016, slipping 13.5% on quarter and 43.5% on year, according to Digitimes Research.

Rumors say iris scanners coming to more phones in the future, including Apple's iPhones

Rumors say iris scanners coming to more phones in the future, including Apple's iPhones:

As we know thanks to an overwhelming amount of leaks and reports, Samsung's Galaxy Note 7, which we are about to see unveiled on the 2nd of August, will have an iris scanner module. While not an industry first, it certainly is the first high-profile Android device to have such technology installed, and all eyes are turned to Samsung, waiting to see if the implementation will work great or fail badly (a-la Galaxy S5 fingerprint scanner, if you will).



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Gorilla Glass 5 to debut on the Galaxy Note 7, the Apple iPhone 7 may follow

Gorilla Glass 5 to debut on the Galaxy Note 7, the Apple iPhone 7 may follow:

Ever since Corning announced its next generation of toughened cover for the screens of flagship phones and tablets - Gorilla Glass 5 - yesterday, we've had one thought in our mind. In the press release Corning stated that the "Gorilla Glass 5 is commercially available and is expected to be on product models from leading global brands later this year." Now, what are the most leading brands, and what does later in the year mean, does mid-August and September qualify?

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China market: Oppo raises 2016 smartphone shipment target to 100 million units, says paper

China market: Oppo raises 2016 smartphone shipment target to 100 million units, says paper: China-based smartphone vendor Oppo reportedly has raised its shipment target for 2016 to 100 million units, from the revised 80 million set in June, according to a Chinese-language Economic Daily News (EDN) report.

Rebound in notebooks in Western Europe boosted PC shipments in EMEA in 2Q16, says IDC

Rebound in notebooks in Western Europe boosted PC shipments in EMEA in 2Q16, says IDC: PC shipments in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) performed above expectations, reaching 16.1 million units in the second quarter of 2016 - a 4.7% on-year decrease, according to IDC. Looking at regions, Western Europe stabilized at negative 0.8%, while Central and Eastern Europe and Middle East and Africa remained constrained respectively at negative 8.5% and negative 13.3%.

Huawei sales revenue rises 40%, company wants to make $75 billion in 2016

Huawei sales revenue rises 40%, company wants to make $75 billion in 2016:

Chinese telecom giant and smartphone maker Huawei keeps building up its considerable momentum, announcing a 40% rise in sales revenue for the first half of 2016. This is a 10% improvement compared to the same time last year. In the past six months, the company amassed $36.8 billion (245 billion CNY) and intends to maintain this movement, setting a revenue target of $75 billion for the end of 2016.



Without reflecting on performance details, Huawei noted that it aims to conclude 2016 on a positive financial note, achieved by success in its ongoing operations. CFO ...

Apple’s iPhone 7 finally gets a release date

Apple’s iPhone 7 finally gets a release date:

It's time to mark your calendars, folks. According to reputable leaker Evan Blass, Apple's highly anticipated iPhone 7 is set to hit store shelves on Friday, September 16th.

Word of the not-yet-official release date originally came via a tweet from Blass indicating that Apple was going to release the device during the week of September 12. In turn, there was some initial confusion as to whether or not the week of September 12 referred to the product's unveiling or the actual launch event.





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Police get dead man's finger 3D-printed to unlock his phone

Police get dead man's finger 3D-printed to unlock his phone:

Michigan State University professor Anil Jain's work focuses on how to make biometric signifiers like facial recognition as difficult to hack into as possible. But when police approached him to break into someone's phone, they didn't want backdoor ac...

Apple's electric car might not hit the streets until 2021

Apple's electric car might not hit the streets until 2021:

Apple's electric car initiative, dubbed 'Project Titan,' has been sort of an open secret for awhile now -- but how close the company is to actually releasing a vehicle is anybody's guess. Initial reports pegged 2019 as Apple's foray into the automoti...

PMOLED more competitive than AMOLED for small-size panels, says RiTdisplay chairman

PMOLED more competitive than AMOLED for small-size panels, says RiTdisplay chairman: PMOLED (passive-matrix OLED) is more competitive than AMOLED (active-matrix OLED) for small-size, especially below 2-inch, panels mainly because of much lower production costs and easier customized production, according to chairman Wang Ding-chang for PMOLED panel maker RiTdisplay.

HTC to partner with HP and launch Vive branded PCs

HTC to partner with HP and launch Vive branded PCs: High Tech Computer (HTC), in addition to strengthening its software-hardware integration and retail channel expansion, is reportedly planning to release HTC Vive-branded PCs bundled with its HTC Vive to provide consumers virtual reality (VR) solutions at a friendlier price level. HTC will acquire PCs from HP and rebrand them under HTC Vive, according to sources from the upstream supply chain. HTC has not confirmed the news.

Apple’s Health Experiment Is Riddled With Privacy Problems

Apple’s Health Experiment Is Riddled With Privacy Problems:

Pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) has partnered with Apple on a new clinical study on rheumatoid arthritis. The study relies on an iPhone app to collect data about arthritic symptoms from users as they go about their daily lives. That sounds great at first glance, but how well will it protect your privacy?

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LG tipped prepping foldable phones with flexible displays for next year, too

LG tipped prepping foldable phones with flexible displays for next year, too:

Not to be outdone by the big bro across the river, LG is on the cusp of commercializing devices with flexible displays like folding phones. It is no stranger to proof-of-concept handsets, like the G Flex line which uses plastic, instead of glass substrate for its OLED displays, so it comes slightly curved top to bottom. The company also makes the OLED panel for the Apple Watch with more than $1 billion invested in flexible display production so far, but it is apparently ready to take things to a whole new level.

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Market analysts skeptical about the Galaxy Note 7 iris scanner's usefulness

Market analysts skeptical about the Galaxy Note 7 iris scanner's usefulness:

As the Galaxy Note 7's unveiling date approaches, we get more and more tidbits about the phone — some might even say we already know all there is to know about it before Samsung even takes the stage to show it to us. One of the features new to the line is the iris scanner – we've heard about it in reports, we've seen openings for it cut in leaked frontal panels of the device, and we've even seen a screenshot of the software that's going to operate it.



The Note 7's iris scanner is not going to be the first in the industry. Most prominently, such a device was featured on the Microsoft Lumia ...

Corning's new Gorilla Glass 5 is meant to survive epic smartphone drops | The Verge

Corning's new Gorilla Glass 5 is meant to survive epic smartphone drops | The Verge: "Corning's new Gorilla Glass 5 is meant to survive epic smartphone drops"



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Glassmaker Corning just unveiled its newest version of Gorilla Glass, the chemically strengthened super glass that dozens of consumer electronics makers use in their devices.

Called Gorilla Glass 5, the new glass was formulated to improve drop performance from gadgets that are dropped onto rough surfaces from certain heights — specifically, waist height to shoulder height. Selfie-fumblers rejoice: Corning says Gorilla Glass 5 survives up to 80 percent of the time when dropped from 1.6 meters.

The new glass is the successor to Corning Gorilla Glass 4, which was introduced in the fall of 2014. Gorilla Glass 4 was said to be twice as tough as the previous version of its glass and twice as likely to survive drops onto uneven surfaces — but only from about a meter high.

Wistron to see notebook shipments grow 6-9% on quarter in 3Q16

Wistron to see notebook shipments grow 6-9% on quarter in 3Q16: Wistron is expected to see its notebook shipments increase 6-9% sequentially in the third quarter of 2016, from 4.6 million units shipped a quarter earlier, according to a Chinese-language Commercial Times report.

Apple’s Mac lineup is getting incredibly stale

Apple’s Mac lineup is getting incredibly stale:

I should start off with a disclaimer: we as consumers have gotten incredibly spoiled over the last 10 years. Thanks in large part to the iPhone's annual refresh cycle, we've been unwittingly programmed to view any piece of hardware that's more than a year old as old news, even ancient. We all want faster machines, improved display technologies, and battery life than can last for days on end. And whereas we used to patiently wait for exciting new hardware innovations and products, the tech world today vociferously demands it now.





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Microsoft's earnings show its future is in the cloud

Microsoft's earnings show its future is in the cloud:

While Microsoft's phone business remains in freefall, its cloud offerings are stronger than ever. For the fourth fiscal quarter of 2016, the company's Intelligent Cloud (which covers all of its cloud services) revenue jumped seven percent compared to...

Digitimes Research: Touch panel makers shift to industrial control, automotive applications

Digitimes Research: Touch panel makers shift to industrial control, automotive applications: Conventional touch panel makers, due to stagnant demand for smartphones and tablets and growing adoption of In-Cell and On-Cell touch solutions, have shifted from consumer electronics to industrial control and automotive display applications for better profitability, according to Digitimes Research.

Worldwide security software market grows 3.7% in 2015, says Gartner

Worldwide security software market grows 3.7% in 2015, says Gartner: Worldwide security software revenues totaled US$22.1 billion in 2015, a 3.7% increase from 2014, according to Gartner. Security information and event management (SIEM) remained the fastest-growing segment in 2015, with 15.8% growth, while consumer security software showed the sharpest decline at 5.9% on year.

Samsung Electronics boosting use of AMOLED panels

Samsung Electronics boosting use of AMOLED panels: Samsung Electronics has taken the initiative to adopt AMOLED panels for its high-end Galaxy S and Galaxy Note as well as its mid-range models, with around 70% of its smartphones to feature AMOLED panels, according to industry sources.

MasterCard is lending its mobile payment tech to banks

MasterCard is lending its mobile payment tech to banks:

MasterCard is hoping to make in-store mobile payments -- the ability to wave your phone at a terminal to buy something -- more accessible. The company is teaming up with several banks, including Citi and Bank of America, to let customers pay for stuf...

Invisibility 'cloak' hides objects by making them seem flat

Invisibility 'cloak' hides objects by making them seem flat:

Humanity is still some distance away from a real, honest-to-goodness invisibility cloak, but British scientists are that much closer to making it practical. They've developed a coating that uses graded refractive index nanocomposite materials (just r...

Softbank buys mobile chip designer ARM for $32 billion

Softbank buys mobile chip designer ARM for $32 billion:

Japan's Softbank, which owns US carrier Sprint and many other firms, is set to buy mobile chip company ARM in a blockbuster £24.3 billion ($32 billion) deal, according to ARM. The UK company designs the processors used in virtually every mobile...

Samsung Finally Gave Us the Laptop Apple Should Have

Samsung Finally Gave Us the Laptop Apple Should Have:

Samsung’s gone and done it guys. It’s made a perfectly wonderful laptop that retails for under a grand, is of exceptional quality, and is neither under-powered nor teeming with crappy finishes. This is the college-bound laptop everyone, including Apple, has failed to make for the last couple of years.

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An FBI 'pilot' collected over 434,000 iris scans since 2013

An FBI 'pilot' collected over 434,000 iris scans since 2013:

Don't freak out, but the FBI has been quietly collecting the iris scans of nearly half a million people in the US -- as part of a "test" program focused on biometric data. According to a confirmation given to The Verge, the San Bernardino Sheriff's D...

PC shipments recover in the US

PC shipments recover in the US:

It's not all doom and gloom in the PC world... for once. Both Gartner and IDC estimate that PC shipments actually grew in the US for the first time in over a year, climbing in the second quarter by either 1.4 percent according to Gartner (which inclu...

The EU-US Privacy Shield is up, but its future is in doubt

The EU-US Privacy Shield is up, but its future is in doubt:

After much argument and discussion, the European Commission (EC) today adopted the Privacy Shield, an EU-US agreement that's supposed to protect the rights of Europeans whose personal data is transferred to the US. It's necessary because laws in the...

Samsung Display demonstrates the superiority of AMOLED screens over LCD in new promotional video

Samsung Display demonstrates the superiority of AMOLED screens over LCD in new promotional video:

While Samsung Display still believes making LCD screens is worth the effort, it hasn't been especially coy about where all the crowd-pleasing innovation, as well as all the money have been going lately – and that's OLED panels. Propelled forward by falling prices, increased popularity (thanks to robust sales of Samsung's Galaxy S handsets), and newfound demand by Apple (which reportedly signed a $2.6 billion contract with Samsung to supply OLED panels for the 2017 iPhones), organic light-emitting diodes might light up one-third of all smartphone displays by 2018, if analyst ...

Google smartwatches could look like these renders

Google smartwatches could look like these renders:

We've already heard that Google has been prototyping a pair of Android Wear smartwatches that could be built in house, but based on the fish-themed codenames of the devices -- Angelfish and Swordfish -- we're guessing they are more likely Nexus devices. We had gotten vague descriptions before but now there are a couple product renders to show what the devices could look like.

According to the report, there are two devices in the works, the larger (Angelfish) will be more premium with options like LTE connectivity and GPS, while the smaller (Swordfish) will likely be less expensive. ...

Worldwide IT spending forecast to be flat in 2016, says Gartner

Worldwide IT spending forecast to be flat in 2016, says Gartner: Worldwide IT spending is forecast to be flat in 2016, totaling US$3.41 trillion, according to Gartner. This is up from last quarter's forecast of negative 0.5% growth. The change in the forecast is mainly due to currency fluctuations.

Motherboard players see 20-30% drop in 2Q16 shipments

Motherboard players see 20-30% drop in 2Q16 shipments: Motherboard players' shipments suffered worse-than-expected sequential declines in the second quarter of 2016 with many seeing over 20% decreases and some around 30%, according to sources from the motherboard industry. Orders from the retail channel for the third quarter remain weak and the issue is expected to seriously impact motherboard players' shipment performance in 2016.

LG is getting ready to mass produce futuristic plastic OLED panels

LG is getting ready to mass produce futuristic plastic OLED panels:

Perhaps signaling that a future of bendable displays is closer to becoming a reality than ever before, ZDNet is reporting that LG Display recently took steps to ramp up production for plastic OLED panels, or POLED for short. By utilizing plastic instead of glass, POLED panels are much more malleable and bendable, making the technology an ideal fit across a wide array of products, including smartphones, watches and even automobiles. And while we're not there yet, it does seem as if the future of technology will consist of flexible displays.



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Foxconn, Pegatron & other Apple suppliers reportedly under pressure as Apple squeezes margins

Foxconn, Pegatron & other Apple suppliers reportedly under pressure as Apple squeezes margins:

A Digitimes report claims that Apple suppliers are facing pressure from Apple to reduce costs, with major players like Foxconn and Pegatron affected. Apple is in some cases adding suppliers into the mix to help drive down pricing. It was recently reported that Sharp was gearing up to compete with Samsung and LG for the OLED displays Apple is expected to use for future iPhones.

Currently, Largan is facing strong competition from Japan-based Kantatsu over camera module orders, while Foxconn and Pegatron are seeing Apple adding new ODM partners such as Wistron for the production of its new iPhone.

Taiwan’s printed circuit board (PCB) players are also competing aggressively over Apple’s orders by cutting prices.

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Leak: Google's next-gen Nexus devices are going to be monsters

Leak: Google's next-gen Nexus devices are going to be monsters:

After a couple of leaks from a trustworthy source recently revealed that Google’s upcoming HTC-made Nexus devices would each deliver the same set of high-end specs, the first benchmarks for one of the models has been spotted online, suggesting that both smartphones will offer some serious performance when they launch later this year.



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Dell discontinues its Android tablets in favor of Windows 2-in-1s

Dell discontinues its Android tablets in favor of Windows 2-in-1s:

Another Android tablet maker bites the dust. Dell has decided to end distribution of its Android tabs and will instead focus on Windows 2-in-1 devices. This means several things: One, the company will no longer offer its Venue brand of Android tablet...

BMW partners with Intel to get autonomous cars on the road by 2021

BMW partners with Intel to get autonomous cars on the road by 2021:

BMW has already said it wants to get autonomous cars on the road by 2021, but the automaker doesn't have all the technological know-how to make that a reality. To get there, BMW today announced a partnership with Intel and computer vision / sensing c...

Apple betting big on the glass iPhone 8? Samsung said to ship 40 million AMOLED panels for it

Apple betting big on the glass iPhone 8? Samsung said to ship 40 million AMOLED panels for it:

Apple may be planning a grand return to the phone industry disruption game next year, if various analysts and assorted rumormongers are any indication, with an all-glass iPhone that could have a curved display aspect for reasons known only to Apple for now. Well, curved screen would mean only one thing - Apple will be using flexible AMOLED screens for that model - and the speculation is rife that Samsung is poised to supply it with up to 100 million 5.5" sheets for the task at hand.

Of course, not everything will be delivered at once, as it is allegedly a three year contract ...