LG is Rumored to Unveil New K, X and Stylus Series Phones at CES 2017

LG hasn't had the best year in 2016, but the company is hoping that some new low-end and mid-range devices will boost sales next year. With a new CEO at the helm of the South Korean technology company, a rumor talks about their plans for the upcoming Consumer Electronics Show happening in early 2017. Evan Blass from VentureBeat says LG will be revealing at least 7 different devices in Las Vegas next month.

If true, we're looking at four new devcies for LG's K-series of smartphones. The LG K3 2017 is said to have a 4.5″ display, 5MP rear camera, 2MP front camera and a 2,100mAh capacity battery. The LG K4 2017 is said to have a 4.7″ display, an 8MP rear camera, 5MP front camera, and a 2,500mAh capacity battery. The LG K8 2017 is rumored to have a 5″ 720p display, 13MP rear camera, 5MP front camera, and a 2,500mAh capacity battery. Lastly, the LG K10 2017 could sport a 5.3″ 720p display, a 5MP wide-angle front camera, a fingerprint scanner and buttons on the back.

Moving onto the company's X-series of smartphones, the LG X Power 2 is rumored to come with a 5.5″ 720p display, a 13MP wide-angle rear camera, a 5MP front camera, and a 4,500mAh capacity battery. Then there's the LG Calibur, which could have military-grade durability, IP68 water and dust resistance, and a 4,100mAh capacity battery. The last device in this big leak is the LG Stylus 3 (LG Stylo 3 Plus).

This device is rumored to be rocking a 5.7″ display, a 13MP rear camera, 5MP front-facing camera, both front and rear cameras will have an LED flash, a fingerprint scanner, buttons on the back of the phone, 32GB of internal storage, a 3,200mAh capacity battery and a digital pen as a stylus. We normally see these phone leaks sprinkled throughout the month, so it's nice to have them known all at once. We'll just have to wait and see how accurate these sources are.

Source: VentureBeat

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Resurrection Remix on the Honor 8

A Resurrection Remix ROM is in it's alpha stages for the Honor 8. This ROM is a favorite for many flashaholics so this will be exciting for a lot of you. TK has put together a video showing some of the best features that you can expect in this ROM.

If you want to test this out on your device, just know that right now the battery drains really fast and you will experience your phone getting hot because of this. With that in mind, here are the full list of features being implemented into this ROM:

Navigation Bar
Enable/Disable Navbar
Navbar Ring Switch
Navbar Ring Targets
Navbar Button Customization
Navbar Dimensions(Potrait & Landscape)
Statusbar
Brightness Slider
Enable/Disable Show Notification Count
SuperUser Indicator Switch
Carrier Label
Carrier Label Switch
Carrier label Colour
Quick PullDown Switch
Smart Pulldown Switch
Clock Customizations
Time & date
Clock Colour
Day & date Toogle
Center Clock/Right Clock Choice
Battery
Battery % Text
Network Traffic Indicator
Theme Chooser
Animations
Toast Animations
ListView Animations
System Animations
Gestures
Gestures Anywhere Feature
App Circle Bar
Choose apps in App circle
Trigger Width
Trigger Hieght
Trigger Position
Recents Panel
Clear All button Switch
Clear All Tasks Switch
Clear All Button Location(Top right,Top Left,Top Center,Bottom Left,Bottom Right,Bottom Center)
Cclock Widget
CLock And Alarm Customizations
Weather Panel Customizations
Calender Events
LockScreen
Lockscreen Shortcuts
Choose upto 5 Shortcuts
100+ Icons for Shortcuts
Quick Slider Shortcuts
Notification Drawer
Weather Display Switch
Quick Settings
Choice to Add 20+ Tiles
Enable 2/3/4 Tiles per Row
Enable Disable Birghtness Slider in Notification Panel
Advanced Location Settings Switch(Choose Battery saving/Device Only/High Accuracy Directly in Notification Panel)
LongPress Toogles to Enter Settings
Buttons
Backlight Timer
Backlight Strength
Navigation Bar left/Right handed mode Switch
Power Menu
Power Menu End Calls Switch
Home Button(For devices with HW keys Only)
Home Button Wake Up
Home Button answer call
Long Press Actions
Double Tap Actions
Back Button(For devices with HW keys Only)
Wake Up device Switch
Menu Button(For devices with HW keys Only)
Wake Up Device Switch
Short Press Actions
Long Press Actions
Search Button(For devices with HW keys Only)
Wake Up Device
Short Press Action
Long Press Action
Volume Buttons
Wake Up Device
Playback Control
Keyboard Cursor Control
Swap Buttons on Landscape mode
Perfomance Profiles
LCD Density
Expanded Desktop Mode
All New CM Audio FX App
Heads Up Customizations
OverAll Smoothness Improvements
Quick Unlock
Optimizations to Improve Battery
ALL cm13 Features

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Synaptics Announces Optical-based Fingerprint Sensor for Smartphones

Synaptics Incorporated has announced what it claims is the "industry-first" Optical-based fingerprint sensor, the FS9100. The main objective of this product is to enable fingerprint sensor technology through Cover Glass as thick as 1mm.

Synaptics has been around for more than two decades in the computer and technology sphere, where they are known for developing, patenting and licensing several technologies concerned with human interfaces and interactions. Synaptic products are usually supplied to an OEM to be incorporated into a product design, which is where the consumer has the chance to make use of the product.

The Synaptics FS9100 optical fingerprint sensor family is the first family of human interface solutions that leverage high performance optical-based fingerprint sensors for use in biometric authentication systems employed in our smartphone and tablets. As Synaptics claims, the FS9100 family is capable of high resolution scanning through 1mm of full cover glass. This enables our smartphones to get rid of the special button for the fingerprint sensor and incorporate the sensor directly under the glass, thus giving us a cleaner "glass-slab" design.

The FS9100 Natural ID optical fingerprint sensor can be placed under cover glass, including 2.5D glass. This "under glass" capability eliminates button cut-outs and glass thinning processes required by the sensors we see on the front of devices these days, which should lead to glass-yield improvements. Further, the sensor is said to work well in wet finger performance, and since it is covered by cover glass like the rest of the display, it remains durable and waterproof. The thin form factor and the "minimal" power consumption are areas which make it ideal for adoption in smartphones.

This fingerprint sensor also comes with Synaptics' SentryPoint tech, which employs several key security-based technologies that examine fingerprint images using AI to distinguish between actual fingers and fake fingers.

The Synaptics Natural IDFS9100 optical fingerprint sensor is scheduled to sample in early Q1 next year, and will enter mass production in Q2. Considering Synaptics' and Samsung's long-term partnership and collaboration, the fingerprint sensor seems an ideal candidate to make an appearance in the upcoming Galaxy S8. But the dates mentioned for sampling and mass production of the fingerprint sensor do not line up perfectly with the release of the Galaxy S8 unless the phone itself is delayed for mass production until Q2 of 2017.

Source: Synaptics

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Google Keyboard rebrands as Gboard with integrated Google Search

Back in May of this year, Google launched a new keyboard application called Gboard. At the time, the application was only available on iOS,  but we were told that this functionality would eventually be coming to Android in the near future.

The application gave you a quick way to do a Google search without leaving the current application. One example of the keyboard in action that Google loved to tout was searching for the address to a restaurant while in the middle of a messaging conversation. Of course, you can use Gboard for all sorts of searches such as figuring out flight times, finding relevant news articles, and even searching for images to immediately paste into the conversation.

Until Android 7.1 Nougat, the platform did not have an API allowing for keyboards to inject rich media into an application. This Gboard update adds support for what Google calls an images keyboard, and it does not require you to be running Android 7.1. However, it does require the developer to update their application before it can accept media from Gboard. The update also lets you search for the exact emoji that you want (so you don't have to hunt it down in the sea of categories), and it also comes with support for multiple languages as well (with the ability to have up to three active at once). Finally, the application also finally brings the ability to place a dedicated number row on the top of the keyboard.

Interestingly, it seems like Google has decided to rebrand Google Keyboard to Gboard instead of releasing it as an separate application on Android. You can download said application directly from the Play Store here, but if the update is not yet live for you, you can download the 32-bit or 64-bit version of the application from APKMirror.

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Source: Ausdroid

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Homescreen Critique 11: Minimalist Edition

Homescreen Critique is back with another special episode. This video will go through some of the awesome submission from the XDA community and find the best homescreens with minimalist designs. Here are the homescreens featured in this video:

beespoison

• Icons: Simpax icon pack
• Launcher: Nova Launcher
• Widget: Parrot for Zooper Widget

Check out the homescreen here.

Jackdafish

• Launcher: Nova Launcher
• Revolution Icon Pack

Check out the homescreen here.

Roods_Burger

• Lines Free – Icon Pack
• Check out the homescreen here.
• Launcher: Nova Launcher

Check out the homescreen here.

mctosima

• CandyCons – Icon Pack

 

Check out the homescreen here.

 

Submit your own homescreen in this thread to be featured in the next video.

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Motorola Launches the Moto M in India for Rs. 15,999 (~$240)

We first heard about rumors of the Moto M back in August of this year. At the time, it was rumored to be a smartphone with a 4.6″ display, but that isn't the device that made it to market. A few weeks later we saw the Moto M receive TENAA certification in China and giving us a different idea as to what type of hardware we should expect with the device. A month later, it was rumored that the Moto M would be launching with some Microsoft applications pre-installed on it.

In August, both Microsoft and Lenovo signed a deal that would give Lenovo access to some Microsoft patents in exchange for some applications being pre-installed on Lenovo products. With Motorola and the Moto brand being part of the Lenovo company, this made sense. At the time, we had only seen photos of the device thanks to the TENAA website, but then some leaked photos gave us a hands-on look at what the 5.5″ Motorola smartphone would look like.

Today, Motorola has officially launched the Moto M in India, and will begin selling the device one minute before December 15th. The Moto M will sport a 5.5″ 1080p display with 2.5D glass, the MediaTek Helio P15 SoC, microSD card slot, two SIM slots (Nano-SIM), Android 6.0.1 Marshmallow, USB Type-C, 3.5mm audio jack, a 3,050mAh capacity battery, 16MP rear camera with PDAF and an 8MP front-facing camera.

There will be two variants of this device and both of them will be sold exclusively at Flipkart. There will be a base version with 3GB of RAM and 32GB of internal storage that will be priced at Rs. 15,999 (~$237). Then, Motorola is also launching a variant that will have 4GB of RAM and 64GB of internal storage with this one being priced at Rs. 17,999 (~$266). Lenovo will also be offering a Rs. 1,000 discount on Citibank and Rs. 2,000 off when you trade in your old smartphone.

Source: NDTV Gadgets 360

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Makers of the CoWatch Have Been Acquired by Google

Cronologics was founded in 2014 by Lan Rcohe, Leor Stern, and John Lagerling. All three of these people had previously worked at Google in business development, but then decided to leave the company. They formed this new company and for the past two years have been working on a way to build "compelling wearable hardware". Then, in April of this year their team launched an Indiegogo campaign for their first product.

The wearable was dubbed the CoWatch, and its main selling point was its integration with Amazon Alexa. It was marketed as the "world's first Amazon Alexa-enabled smart watch", with the campaign being funded on June 3rd. The team was able to crowdfund over $293,000; overshooting their goal by 281%. The team did see an official product launch too, when they started selling it on Amazon in September for $280.

This week, it's been confirmed that the Cronologics team has been acquired by Google. While the details of the acquisition have yet to be revealed, we're told that the folks at Cronologics will now be working at Google's Android Wear division. Google has had to delay the launch of Android Wear 2.0 so this injection of new talent might be enough to get the project back on track. We'll just have to wait and see if there ends up being any CoWatch DNA found in Android Wear 2.0 and beyond.

The team at Cronologics had said they wanted to bring its CoWatch technology to other devices (like iOS). But it seems clear that the CoWatch era is over and plans to do anything with it are likely scrapped. The team had the backing of some major investors though, including CoinDesk, Student.com, Shakil Khan and the head of Spotify's special projects. So bringing this team back under the Google umbrella can do wonders for Android Wear's future given their potential.

Source: Cronologics

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