FEATURED — I wish the iPhone had copied HTC instead
There are so many things that HTC used to be so good at, but several of the company’s strengths have become weaknesses in recent years. I’m not just talking about selling phones, though that task has indeed become increasingly difficult for HTC as Apple and Samsung apply global pressure at the top and no-name Chinese vendors eat up the bottom and middle of the Eastern market. I’m talking about hardware and software design, which could once both be counted among HTC’s strong suits.
The HTC One M7 and M8 were fantastic phones, and reaching back even further, HTC’s Windows Mobile phones and its early Android phones were often ahead of their time and a cut above rival handsets. With the One M9, HTC had a lapse in judgement at the worst possible time, and while the new HTC One A9 does sport a terrific design it isn’t HTC’s design, it’s Apple’s.
Since I first saw the phone in a series of leaks, I found myself reminiscing about HTC phones of old and it got me thinking: HTC just copied the iPhone 6/6s, but there are a few things about HTC’s handsets that I really wish Apple would copy on the iPhone.
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Android fans agree: iPhone 6s is the world’s best smartphone camera
What’s the best smartphone camera in the world? There’s no certain answer, of course, but in general the top contenders every year seem to be phones made by Apple and Samsung, with manufacturers such as LG and even Sony often in the mix. Android Authority recently conducted a blind camera shootout that asked its readers to pick the best photos that were snapped with four different phones: The iPhone 6s, the Galaxy Note 5, the LG G4 and the Sony Xperia Z5. In the end, Android Authority’s readers decided to go with… the iPhone 6s.
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First-person augmented reality demo shows how close we are to the future of computing
There was a huge amount of hype surrounding Windows 10 ahead of its release earlier this year, but another Microsoft product may have been even more worthy of our attention. The company’s HoloLens gave us a glimpse of what computing in the near future may be like, and it was awesome. But Microsoft is hardly the first company to dive into augmented reality. Long before Microsoft ever showed off its HoloLens product, a somewhat low-profile company called Magic Leap was busy behind the scenes cooking up an exciting augmented reality experience that we just got a taste of late last night.
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How breakable is your smartphone?
Smartphone manufacturers often praise the strength of their newest models. But, as it turns out, even the strongest phone screen is doomed if it falls on its face.
The hottest new phones faced off recently thanks to SquareTrade, a service that offers insurance for devices and appliances. SquareTrade treated the Apple iPhone 6s, iPhone 6s Plus and Samsung Galaxy Note5 to a strength test using an obstacle course of drops, dunks, bends and extreme temperatures.
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Apple doubles down on encryption, tells judge it’s ‘impossible’ to unlock new iPhones
As long as a new iPhone is protected by a password, pin, or fingerprint, and it’s running the latest operating system for it Apple can’t unlock it, the company told a U.S. judge. However, Apple can unlock for law enforcement older devices.
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Feature: Unsafe at Any Speed, 50 Years Later
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Feature: Unsafe at Any Speed, 50 Years Later
The more things change… Continue reading →
Feature: Unsafe at Any Speed, 50 Years Later is a post from: Autos.ca
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Man spends 2 days taking LSD and watching ‘The Simpsons,’ here’s what he wrote
The first eight seasons of The Simpsons represent an absolute tour de force of quick-witted comedy. All the more impressive is that the show’s earlier seasons still hold up today, a remarkable feat which speaks to the sheer level of talent involved in putting those first few magical seasons of the show together.
In a somewhat bizarre tale, a Reddit user by the name doobieschnauzer decided to see what it’d be like to watch episode after episode while high on LSD. So off he went on a ridiculous binge where, for two days straight, he consumed LSD and watched innumerable episodes of The Simpsons back to back to back.
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Microsoft’s move to keep users off of Google Chrome and Firefox
Windows 10 thus far has been a huge success, with Microsoft’s newest OS having recently passed over 110 million installs. All in all, that’s a pretty impressive start given that the highly anticipated Windows update was released just about 11 weeks ago.
But Microsoft doesn’t want to stop stop at desktop OS dominance and call it a day. On the contrary It wants to take back some of the valuable browser marketshare it lost rather quickly to Google Chrome. That being the case, leaked screenshots from an upcoming build of Windows 10 show how Microsoft plans to dissuade users from changing the default web browser on their system from Microsoft Edge to something else.
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Chrome is killing your computer’s battery life
Want better battery life on your laptop? You might want to consider using a browser besides Chrome. Digital Citizen has tested popular Internet browsers across multiple Windows 10 laptops and has found one major common denominator: Chrome is by far the biggest battery hog.
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