With Super-slim bezels, tall screen, infinity display and speedy new Snapdragon 835 (or Exynos 9) processor, the Samsung Galaxy S8 comes with a ton of biometric authentication options. You get a fingerprint reader, iris recognition, and face recognition that lets you unlock the phone. According to the latest reports, it looks like that Samsung's "Ultra-Secure" iris recognition security feature can easily be fooled. Germany's Chaos Computer Club (CCC), a venerable group of white-hat hackers, claims to have figured out a relatively straightforward way to trick the iris-recognition system on Samsung's flagship Galaxy S8 smartphone.
According to CCC: The easiest way for a thief to capture iris pictures is with a digital camera in night-shot mode or the infrared filter removed. In the infrared light spectrum – usually filtered in cameras – the fine, normally hard to distinguish details of the iris of dark eyes are well recognizable. Starbug was able to demonstrate that a good digital camera with 200mm-lens at a distance of up to five meters (16.4 ft.) is sufficient to capture suitably good pictures to fool iris recognition systems. Samsung claims that the Galaxy S8 and S8+ are the securest phones yet. The iris scanner and face recognition that unlocks your phone in an instant comes with defence-grade security. Here's a video of CCC tricking the Galaxy S8 with a photo:
Huawei's child brand, Honor has announced a new smartphone in its homeland China. Called Honor 6A, the smartphone packs in decent specifications and rivals the counterpart Xiaomi's Redmi series of phones in the country. The Honor 6A will be sold in two variants- 2GB+16GB, 3GB+32GB. The base variant will be available for CNY 800 ($115), whereas the bigger variant will be sold for CNY 1000 ($145). Preorders for the phone will begin on June 1. The Honor 6A packs decent specifications on paper. The handset has a 5-inch HD display and is fuelled with a Snapdragon 430 SoC. A 13MP camera sensor can be seen at the back along with a 5MP front-facing camera. The device boots Android 7.0 Nougat on top of EMUI 5.0. The phone boasts of a metal body and has a fingerprint sensor located below the rear camera module. The Honor 6A is armed with a 3020mAh battery.
The OnePlus 5 is one of the most anticipated devices of 2017 and is expected to fill the success of OnePlus 3 and 3T. Expected to come with mouth watering specifications, the phone will give a tough competition to Samsung Galaxy S8 series and Xiaomi Mi 6. It's confusing and irritating. That's all we can say about the leaks about OnePlus 5. We have already seen multiple leaked images of the OnePlus 5 and all of them looks completely different from each other. However, it seems that OnePlus has officially confirmed the final leaked design of their upcoming flagship. In this facebook post (which was clearly not meant to have gone out yet), OnePlus Denmark officially shares the previously leaked OnePlus 5's prototype link.
What else can we glean from this OnePlus's social media rep's mistake? Well, as you can see in the image (leaked earlier by AndroidAuthority), the OnePlus 5 Prototype is having vertically placed dual camera setup and OnePlus branding on the back. Recently, we got an official news from OnePlus about the OnePlus 5. A staff member of OnePlus in OnePlus forums has said that the OnePlus 5's camera will be built in collaboration with the camera authority-DxO. OnePlus is all set to launch the device this summer. Thoughts?
A leaked product roadmap of Motorola some days ago revealed that Motorola is working on two relatively new smartphones- Moto G5s and Moto G5s Plus. At first, it seemed like a fake news because Motorola recently announced the Moto G5 and G5 Plus and why did it want to launch successors in such a short time. But this is Motorola under Lenovo, not Google. The first press renders of the Moto G5s are out, and the device looks similar to the original Moto G5 from the front. From the rear though, the device resembles the Motorola Moto M which was released last year. The Moto dimple is coming back and is placed below the rear camera module. The smartphone will be entirely made of metal, unlike the plastic edges are seen on the Moto G5. The Moto G5s will boast a 5.2-inch Full HD display, while the Moto G5s Plus will have a 5.5-inch display with dual cameras at the back. SOURCE
Currently, the talk of the town is the Finnish smartphone vendor, Nokia's upcoming phone, the Nokia . While the Smartphone got leaked few days ago in real life Images, it is now spotted on benchmarking site Geekbench. As you can see in the image below, it clearly states that the phone will bear a model number TA-1004, which was rumoured earlier as well. The device has a single core score of 2255, which is below the score of Apple iPhone 7 Plus but above the Samsung Galaxy S8+ and upcoming OnePlus 5. However, the phone achieved a multi-core score of 7770, higher than any other smartphone released till date. The device was running Android 7.1.1 Nougat while running the benchmark test. Until now, no phone has achieved the scores as the Nokia 9. In fact, the other Snapdragon 835 powered smartphones such as the Galaxy S8 duo, Xiaomi Mi 6, and Sony Xperia XZ Premium all have fewer benchmark scores.
Remember the Fuchsia OS, which we wrote two weeks ago? The ambiguous new mobile and tablet OS is said to replace Android when it becomes fully functional because it is built on Google's own kernel Magenta, rather than Linux.
Back in September 2016, Google was rumoured to be working on the Fuchsia OS, and two weeks ago, the OS was leaked online. Since then, there is a lot of buzz going on around the internet claiming that it will replace Android. However, that's not the case says Dave Burke, Google VP of Engineering Android. He contends that the project is still in its nascent stages and also stated that it will be independent of Andriod. Expect the OS to power some low-cost devices out there. Here is what Dave Burke has to say about the Fuchsia OS:
"How do you spell Fuchsia? Fuchsia is a[n] early stage experimental project. We, you know, we actually have lots of cool early projects at Google. I think what's interesting here is its open source, so people can see it and comment on it. Like lots of early stage projects it's gonna probably pivot and morph. There's some really smart people on it, people we've worked with who are great. and so [it's] kind of exciting to see what happens. But it's definitely a diff-- sort of independent project to android. and yeah, that's basically it."-Dave Burke,VP of engineering for Android, Google
So, it's now confirmed that Fuchsia OS is not a threat to Android, which would be a huge relief for many fanboys out there.
Every individual with an Android surely would have experienced this: When you're downloading an Android system update and the power goes off, or your internet connection goes off due to some unknown reason, or maybe you've to go out after starting downloading the update. For all these scenarios, the answer used to simple one- download the update from the start again. But that's gonna change with the Android O update as it adds a new 'Pause' feature to the OS allows users to pause a system update while downloading and resume it later.
This feature is already present in the latest Developer Preview 2 of Android O. That's a handy little feature to have around, and Google is bringing it with the Android O update. Also, Google revealed that the 'pause' feature comes with a Google Play Services update, but currently limited to the people under Developer Preview of Android O.
