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When battery manufacturers make smartphones…

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This isn’t really what I had in mind when I was complaining about how my phone’s battery didn’t last long enough, but I guess Energizer’s product does count as a solution to the smartphone’s battery problem.

This is the Energizer Power Max P18K Pop. I wouldn’t go so far as to call it a smartphone, but it certainly has smartphone-like features. The Energizer Power Max P18K Pop, according to the guys at The Verge, is a massive 18,000 mAh battery with a smartphone attached to it. Measuring at a staggering 18mm thick, the Power Max P18K Pop is the equivalent of 3.5 iPhones making it the phone with the world’s biggest battery.

The Power Max P18K Pop comes with three rear cameras and sports a hidden sliding module with two front-facing cameras, like last year’s Vivo Apex smartphone. This means the Power Max P18K Pop’s 6.2-inch LCD display on the front is uniquely pleasing to look at. It has no notch, and sports minimal bezels… a concept that seems to be slightly defeated when your phone is as thick as a power bank. The phone also sports a MediaTek processor, 6GB of RAM, 128GB of storage, runs Android Pie, and comes with 48 hours of CONTINUOUS usage, courtesy its gargantuan battery. The battery also takes a whopping 8 hours to charge fully, but I doubt you’d ever reach 0% battery unless you actually tried, given the phone could last practically through the week with moderated usage.

The Energizer Power Max P18K Pop launches this summer, and it certainly is the thicc-est phone I’ve ever seen… but I guess there are people out there who like themselves a phone with a big batt-ery. See what I did there?

Designer: Energizer

Image Credits: The Verge

What to expect at MWC 2019

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AI is already beating us at our own game

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LG G5 : Rumors and possible design

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Mobile World Congress 2016 is about to start, and so we start seeing different leaks and concepts for new smartphones around the web. All of these are meant to come up at one point or the other throughout the conference, but the LG G5 we are featuring today is different and special for it is one of the most awaited of them all. Here comes, straight from the designer Vuk Nemanja Zoraja’s mind.

 

Whenever Mobile World Congress draws near several leaks and proof of concept start showing up featuring some of the devices to be shown at the event itself, and many times the concepts end up being showing the exact features of the products. One of the most awaited designs this year is the LG G5, featuring what looks like a very different and innovative design compared to what we usually see from the Korean brand. It is worth nothing that it does sport some similarities to the most recent iPhones, so we can see some stainless steel covering the smartphone’s sides as a frame. In the back we can see a protecting glass to what looks like the area where the camera will be, but it also keeps the colored leather covers users have grown used to. Users can see at simple glance that they are going for a more elegant design, similar to what they did with the G5. From what we understood based on LG’s comments about the G5, they are preparing a smartphone to compete directly with the much-touted Samsung Galaxy S7.

Based on the rumors going around the web, it would seem that LG are preparing something that would top the impact the G3 and G4 had, and some rumors even speak about the possibility of a completely metallic frame. Other sources also point out it might sport a 5.6 inches QHD screen with a 2560 X 1440 pixels resolution. The brain behind this smartphone is going to be the new Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 64 bits, featuring an Adreno 530 video chip. When it comes to the cameras, it will feature a frontal 8 MP one for big selfies and video conference in high quality, along with a back camera sporting impressive 16 MPs. This concept also shows a USB Type-C port and speakers.

All rumors aside, it is confirmed that we are going to see LG’s new smartphones at Mobile World Congress, and that the LG G5 is going to be among them. We probably don’t need official confirmation that the Korean giant is going to surprise and amaze everyone in it.

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Yotaphone 2 Makes a Case for Dual Screen Smartphones

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For some people, one smartphone screen just isn’t enough.  Yotaphone put an E-Ink display on the back of their phone and it was at Mobile World Congress.

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One issue at the forefront of Smartphone design—both software and physical—is notification presentation and management.  The Yotaphone 2 had its debut at CES and continues to push a niche handset in a direction that many mainstream phones might want to find a way to emulate.

Notification LEDs are older than smartphones, as are second screens.  Both were initially ways to make important notifications easier to access, but neither translated well to smartphones.  Obviously most smartphones have notification LEDs, but with so many apps trying to get your attention, it makes a single blinking light pretty inadequate at communicating anything other than “turn on the screen,” which—let’s be honest—is something we all do every 30 seconds anyway.

The problem is, anything more drastic than a blinking LED is a major battery drain.  Samsung and Motorola have both made huge jumps forward on this front with the creative use of their AMOLED displays, which allow them to light up individual pixels without the need of a full backlight, allowing for minimal screen usage to deliver live (and specific) notifications without a need for the phone to even be touched.

Yotaphone goes the extra mile and makes the entire backside of their  Android phone an E-Ink display.  This allows for the presentation of full text messages and other notifications without even putting as much strain on the battery as Motorola’s Active Display notifications.

The Yotaphone itself doesn’t offer much as the handset is not very impressive outside of this individual feature, but it does serve as an amazing proof of concept phone.  The use of an E-Ink display to show not just text message and social media notifications, but live stock quotes, weather, and a plethora of other bits of data that many people will check multiple times an hour will go a long way towards improving multi-tasking and saving battery life simultaneously.

Maybe Yotaphone will evolve to this place on its own, or maybe it will take another company to come along and innovate on their concept, but Yotaphone has proven that there are still more ideas to be explored in mobile tech.

Source: TechAdvisor

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Nokia Announces Android Phones, Sort of…

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Android fans have been clamoring for Nokia to release an Android phone for years, but when they finally do, it’s not the one anyone was begging for.

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One of the big acquisitions of last year was the purchase of Nokia by Microsoft. Nokia had been a long time partner for Microsoft and produced–what most people would consider–the best Windows Phone devices.

Nokia’s reputation for quality smartphone handsets extends far beyobnd just Windows Phone users, though, as many Android enthusiasts have long since been drooling over Nokia phones wishing they would be available with their own choice operating system instead of exclusively Windows Phone.

Their patience has paid off. Sort of…

During Mobile World Congress, Nokia finally unvieled three Android phones, the X, the X+, and the XL. All phones are low tier devices running a Windows Phone-esque skin over Android 4.1 JellyBean.

The X, X+, and XL are mostly the same, each having a dual core 1 GHz processor, 512 MB of RAM, 4GB of internal storage, and a 4″ 800 x 480 WVGA display. The cameras aren’t much to speak of at 3MP each. The only variances is that the X+ has 768MB of RAM instead of 512MB and the XL has the RAM upgrade plus an upgrade to a 5MP camera and a 5″ screen (still WVGA). The X, X+, and XL are clearly budget phones intended primarily (exclusively?) for emerging markets with prices of 89 EUR, 99 EUR, and 109 EUR, respectively.

Maybe not what people wanted when they clamored for a Nokia Android Phone. Many may not even consider them Android as they forego any Google Services (including the Google Play Store) as they are well ourside of–and have no intention of meeting–Google’s Services Certification standards.

The phones are still compatible with 75% of Android apps, though, they just need to be submitted and approved through the Nokia Store and the remaining 25% just need to be modified to ensure they don’t tie into any incompatible Google Services (such as cloud services or Google Play Games leaderboards and etc).

This is the type of move we could start seeing with increasing frequency, and is in fact very similar to how Android is supposed to be used in the first place. Obviously, most people are more familliar with the Google Services version of Android, but Amazon does something very similar to what Nokia is doing here with their Amazon Kindle Fire series.

The Nokia X phones are unlikely to make their way to the US and since the Microsoft acquisition is due to complete soon, we are unlikely to get any of the high end Nokia Android devices some people have been dreaming of, but at least this gives those dreamers a glimpse of what could have been.

Source: Engadget, AnandTech

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Nokia Brings out its X Platform of Android Devices

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LG G2 Mini to Hit Shelves in March

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LG G2 Mini to Launch at Mobile World Congress

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