Samsung has announced its cooperation with China UnionPay which will allow UnionPay card holders in China to enjoy the benefits of Samsung’s mobile payment solution. We can expect to see the service to go live in 2016 in China.
To usher in the festive season in its home turf of South Korea, Samsung has announced a 128GB variant of the Galaxy Note 5 Winter Edition. This 128GB variant was only leaked in prior to Note 5 release, but never made it to an official announcement till now. The 128GB variant will set you back KRW 999,900 ( ~$845).
Now that the Moto 360 Sport has been announced, you might find it interesting that Motorola says the device has a “first of its kind LCD display.” While indoors, the LCD panel will use the same back lighting technology that we’re used to, but when you’re in direct sunlight, it uses a “front lit reflective technology.” This makes things easily visible even when outside.
The second generation Moto X is now receiving an over-the-air update to Android 6.0 Marshmallow. XDA Forum Member ricos-web managed to capture the update for the European variant of the phone. If you want to flash it, your phone has to be in vanilla state – without root and any system modifications.
With the recent 6.0.1 release, Android brought a bunch of new emojis. If you want to use them with SwiftKey, you can download the latest beta version from the Play Store. Official support will surely be integrated into the stable release soon, but you don’t have to keep waiting for that.
VLC is one of the best media player available for almost every operating system. The VideoLAN team has officially announced that the player is now officially available for ChromeOS. This is the port of the Android version to ChromeOS, using the Android Runtime on Chrome. You can get it from here.
Bluboo is a brand that you most likely haven’t heard of. To make its own name in the Android ecosystem, Bluboo has announced a smartphone with a sapphire display. Sapphire is the second hardest mineral in the world, so the Picasso phone might be an interesting device to play with. A price is unknown, but we should expect it to be high.
