The enterprise market is important for technology companies and we see Samsung and BlackBerry taking most of the market share when it comes to smartphones. LG wants in on this market too and the LG V10 has introduced a new suite of security features for the enterprise user. LG calls this LG Gate and it includes features like Enhanced EAS, Data Encryption, VPN and MDM.
After the Alphabet restructuring, Google’s latest CEO is doing a little restructuring of his own. Neal Mohan has gone from VP of Display and Advertising to SVP. Phillipp Schindler went from VP of Ads to the SVP of Global Sales and Operations. Lastly, Hiroshi Lockheimer used to be the VP of the Android team but is now the SVP for Android, Chrome OS and Chromecast
Facebook released a dialer application called Hello not too long ago and Yahoo was rumored to be working on one as well. Skype is Microsoft’s voice and video communication service so it makes sense to have them develop one too. The app is reportedly called Dialer, it is designed by the Skype team and made exclusively for the Indian market right now.
Along with serving voice and data service to smartphones across the United States, Verizon Wireless also sells data plans to data only devices. For anyone with a tablet or hotspot device, the company has just announced some new data plans for its customers. You have the choice of 500MB for $15/week, 1GB for $20/month, 2GB for $35/2 months, 5GB for $60/2 months or 10GB for $100/2 months.
Google has been doing a big push to get deep links of mobile applications. Amit Singhal was recently interviewed by Kara Swisher and told us that Google is now indexing over 100 billion links within applications are searchable via Google’s search engine. Not only that, but 40% of applications that are indexed on Android are appearing on the first page of mobile search results.
Just when you thought the 2015 Android hype train was coming to an end, a mysterious device has put the train back into motion.
The phone in question belongs to OnePlus, which was found in FCC listings. There is only one image of the device present (found under the Label & Label location header at this link), and honestly, it does not give out a lot of information about the device, apart from its existence.
Image from FCC
The FCC listing does reveal that this phone, model ONE E1005, will be a dual sim phone with a max processor speed of 1.9GHz. The phone has support for LTE Bands 1, 2, 4, 5, 7 and 8, along with GSM support for frequency at 850, 900, 1800 and 1900 MHz. From the images, we can gather that the phone will sport a traditional micro-usb port instead of the USB Type-C port that is slowly becoming the standard in newer smartphones. Regards build design and materials, the phone features what appears to be a metal frame. The bottom of the device looks inspired from the Galaxy S6 and other similar devices, with its drilled speaker holes and plastic antennae bands.
Piecing together some more information from other leaks about new OnePlus devices, we know that the next OnePlus device will most likely sport the X tag instead of Mini. This has been mentioned at multiple instance, such as this GizmoChina leak of the OnePlus X renders as well as this recent Weibo post by OnePlus CEO Liu Zuohu. Worth noting is the fact that the GizmoChina renders (pictured below) do not match the device in the FCC image, so we have our doubts on the renders making to the production stage. Regarding the processors, it was mentioned that the phone may either sport a Snapdragon 801 or the new Helio X10 MT6795, neither of which ties in perfectly with the FCC mentioned clock speed of 1.9GHz unless the processor has been purposely underclocked (which OnePlus has done with the OnePlus 2).
Older and outdated OnePlus X Render
At this stage, concrete details about the OnePlus X still remains a mystery, a rarity in recent leak culture. OnePlus is holding an event in Bangalore, India next week with attendance from OnePlus founder Pete Lau as well as OnePlus General Manager of India, Vikas Agarwal, with a cryptic invitation that says the company wants to showcase its “Next Big Step”. Hopefully, the picture will become clearer at the event. For now, take all non-FCC material with a pinch of salt.
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