Telegram now has a blogging platform to go along with its popular messaging app. It’s called Telegraph and, according to VentureBeat, offers fast publishing and anonymous posting — without requiring you to register an account or sign in through social media.
The app’s user interface looks very similar to Medium and allows for easy embeds. You can also embed images from your computer by clicking on the camera button. In comparison to Medium, the loading time for embeds is relatively fast. Publication is instantaneous upon hitting “publish.” Posts are shareable on social media platforms but are designed to work best on Telegram’s new Instant View layout, which works similarly to Facebook’s Instant Articles feature.
The simplicity and speed of Telegraph are not without its downsides. As TechCrunch points out, the lack of user history means that if you accidentally delete the link to your published post, it would be very difficult to track down unless you have cookies enabled on your browser. The anonymous nature also opens up opportunities for abuse, potentially paving the way for internet trolls and spreaders of fake news — a problem that has put tech giants like Facebook and Google under scrutiny.
Telegram’s user base has grown significantly since its inception, though it continues to lag behind WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger. In February this year, founder Pavel Durov announced that the company hit 100 million active users.
The introduction of Telegraph continues Telegram’s expansion beyond just messaging. The company recently added games, and in a blog post, it teased “Something big is brewing in our secret dungeons. Stay tuned.”
It’s probably not going to catch on with teens anytime soon, but scientists have found a new way to send text messages: with chemicals. we take it for granted that modern communication systems — everything from smartphones to the internet — use electronics to send and receive messages, but what if that weren’t the case? A group of researchers from Stanford are exploring an alternate system that uses chemicals instead of electricity as the base unit of communication, and have even managed to send a text message with it.
At heart, Stanford’s setup is structurally similar to modern-day electronics, but instead, of using electric signals to send instructions, it uses chemicals. The 1s and 0s of binary communication are just replaced with pulses of vinegar (an acid) and glass cleaner (a base) sent through plastic tubes. A traditional computer is used to converted researchers’ instructions into this chemical format, and a pH sensor on the receiving end converts the pulse of liquid back to traditional binary.
But, you’re asking, if the system depends traditional electronics to interpret the chemical signals, what’s the point of using them in the first place?
The answer isn’t obvious now, but there are many potential applications for a fully developed chemical communication system in the future. For a start, they could be used in places where traditional electromagnetic systems have difficulty with communication — underwater, for example, or in places with lots of metal. They could also be useful in the human body, where high-frequency signals can damage organs, or, in the event that the electric grid is knocked out.
"It’s just so ‘out there,’ like science fiction," said Andrea Goldsmith, professor of electrical engineering at Stanford, in a press statement. "What are all the exciting ways that we could use this to enable communication that is impossible today? That’s what I would want someone to walk away thinking about."
The Nigeria CBN Governor Godwin Emefiele who is already runing out of ideals is back again I the news. Emefiele who was a keynote speaker at the annual Bankers Committee Dinner and delivered a speech about alternative source of revenue for the government.
In providing an alternative to source of revenue for the government, the CBN Governor suggested that the government imposes a telecoms tax for phone call conversations above 3 minutes. He also suggested that we introduce a tax on properties. Here is CBN Governor Emefiele in his own words;
“There are several ways we can raise additional revenue to finance the increased expenditure that is needed to engender fast and sustainable growth in the economy,” Emefiele said.
“I think we can consider introducing a negligible telecom surcharge to be entirely borne by the initiator of a call. In order to protect the poor and vulnerable amongst us, we could structure it to only take effect after the third minute of talk.
“Some analyses have indicated that the government could earn about N100 billion per annum from this alone. Obviously this surcharge will mainly be borne by middle and upper class people since I do not know many poor people who make calls for more than 3 minutes,"
Smartwatches are becoming ever more ubiquitous (total smartwatch shipments exceeded 6.1 million in Q3 2016, an annual increase of 60 percent) but there’s one major obstacle preventing them from being fully adopted by a dubious public… battery life.
However, that could be a problem confined to history if claims by the makers of the Matrix Powerwatch ring true. Just landed on Indiegogo, the Powerwatch is powered by thermoelectric technology, which converts heat to electric power. It’s the same tech that NASA used to power the Voyager spacecraft and Curiosity the Mars rover.
On the Powerwatch, it takes the body heat of the user and turns that into the juice to run the show.
It’s not a full-on smartwatch, running Android Wear or the like, but it does measure calories, steps and sleep – with the calorie count apparently more accurate than fitness tracker rivals as it analyses this directly from the same heat that it uses to power itself. When you’re not wearing the watch, it has memory on board to store your stats in a low-power state.
I’ve been told by the team behind the Powerwatch that it’s just the first product of the gate of a body-heat powered stable. “We aim to make this energy harvesting technology a reality for the IoT and wearables industries, alleviating the battery recharge/replacement pain point and helping to drive down costs for commercial businesses,” said senior engineer Anne Ruminski
“Also on our roadmap are medical devices, battery-less hearing aids, and smart logistics – energy harvesting sensors that track pallets and shipping containers that are wireless and don’t need batteries,” she added.
Back to the Powerwatch and it offers multiple watch faces, all displaying the power meter of how much battery life your body is generating. It’s made from a rugged aircraft-grade aluminium and is water resistant to 50m. There’s a smartphone app (iOS and Android) that all the info collected by the Powerwatch pairs to and it also syncs up with Google Fit or Apple Healthkit as well.
You can order one now from $99 – the suggested retail price is going to be (55000 naria) $169.99. Shipping is expected to begin in July 2017.
Google has been toying with its Tango augmented reality platform for several years, and now the first consumer smartphone with this technology is on the horizon. The Lenovo Phab 2 Pro is set to ship in several weeks. This phone has all the sensors necessary for experiencing augmented reality content. However, it’s absolutely massive.
Having actually seen the phone now, I’m convinced few regular human beings would want to actually carry it around. The 160.000 naira ($500) Lenovo Phab 2 Pro has a 6.4-inch 2560 x 1440 resolution LCD. It’s a nice enough screen, but a 6.4-inch phone is barely a phone. It’s like a small tablet that makes calls.
You may think you’ve held big phones before, but this is on a whole different level. The Phab 2 Pro weighs 259g and is 10.7mm wide by 179mm tall. By comparison, the Google Pixel XL (which is plenty large itself) weighs 168g and is only 8.5mm wide by 154mm tall. You can use that phone with one hand for short periods of time, but not so with the Lenovo Phab 2 Pro. See below for a comparison with other 2016 smartphones.
On the back of the phone are all the augmented reality sensors, which I think points to the reason this phone is so gigantic. For Tango to work as intended, the hardware needs to be a little larger to accommodate all the sensors. The last Tango dev device was a tablet not much larger than this. The layout of sensors and cameras also pushes the fingerprint scanner rather far down the rear of the device, making it even more awkward to hold.
This is only the first Tango phone, so I expect Google and its OEM partners to make the hardware smaller over time. maybe one day Tango will just be included in most phones by default. For now, though, you have to be okay with toting around a pocket-busting monster phone to enjoy augmented reality.
OnePlus on Tuesday as expected unveiled an upgraded version of the OnePlus 3 – the OnePlus 3T. The only differences between the two smartphones are a faster SoC, increased storage, an improved front camera, and a larger battery. The 64GB model has been priced at GBP 399, EUR 439 and USD 439 (roughly 146.000 naria), and while the 128GB model has been priced at GBP 439,EUR and USD 479 (roughly 159.000 naria)
The OnePlus 3T will be available in the US from November 22 and in Europe from November 26. Unlike the OnePlus 3 (Review), no details of when the smartphone will be made available in Nigeria were revealed at the launch. It will be available in Gunmetal (not Graphite) and Soft Gold colour variants, with the latter being made available shortly after launch. The company also announced that a new OxygenOS build based on Android 7.0 Nougat will be released for the OnePlus 3 and OnePlus 3T at the same time before the end of this year, and going forward, the two smartphones will receive updates simultaneously.
Getting to the exact differences between the OnePlus 3T and the OnePlus 3 - the newly launched smartphone sports a faster Qualcomm Snapdragon 821 SoC (two cores clocked at 1.6GHz and two cores clocked at 2.35GHz) compared to the Snapdragon 820 SoC on the original. It comes in both 64GB and 128GB storage models, compared to just a 64GB model on the OnePlus 3.
As for the improved front camera, OnePlus has doubled the resolution of the front camera from 8-megapixel on the OnePlus 3 to 16-megapixel on the OnePlus 3T – whilst also switching sensors from the Sony IMX179 with 1.4-micron pixels to the Samsung 3P8SP with 1-micron pixels. It also gets PDAF autofocus, rather than just a fixed focus setup.
Finally, the OnePlus 3T gets a larger 3400mAh battery compared to the 3000mAh offering on the OnePlus 3. It once again supports Dash Charge (5V 4A) fast charging technology.
Everything else about the two smartphones is identical. The OnePlus 3T bears the same anodised aluminium metal unibody design, the same fingerprint sensor on the home button, and the same Alert Slider apart from capacitive hardware keys. It also comes with the same USB 2.0 Type-C port, and a 3.5mm headphone jack. It sports a 5.5-inch full-HD (1080x1920 pixels) Optic AMOLED display with Corning Gorilla Glass 4 protection. The SoC is coupled with 6GB of LPDDR4
When Intel decided to take a crack at its first keynote at an automotive event, it swung for the fences. The company’s CEO, Brian Krzanich, took the stage at the Los Angeles Auto Show‘s Automobility event this morning to announce that Intel Capital would be investing $250 million in autonomous driving over the next two years.
Technologies that will benefit from the investment include connectivity, context awareness, deep learning and security. The goal of autonomous cars is to improve safety by removing as much human error as possible, which requires the vehicles and their data to be safe and reliable.
Intel’s processing power itself comes into play with the amount of data required for autonomous driving. Krzanich pointed out that cars are already equipped with a variety of sensors, cameras and controllers that create, gather and transmit data. He said the automotive industry needs to be prepared for 4 terabytes of data being generated by every car every day.
The fact that Intel chose to make this announcement at the LA Auto Show’s press days highlights the massive crossover that’s happening between technology and transportation. Representatives of every major car manufacturer were at CES 2016, one of the biggest shows for consumer electronics. The North American Auto Show will debut Automobili-D, its tech-focused event in January 2017. And this is the first year of Automobility, the rebranded tech event at the LA Auto Show.
As cars become devices that we drive (or not) and devices become more integrated with our transportation experience across modes, including bike sharing and public transit, cross-pollination between tech companies and auto manufacturers is becoming more than the norm — it’s becoming a necessity
Seagate announced today that its popular Backup Plus Portable line of external hard drives now comes in a massive 5TB size. The company is claiming that the new 5TB capacity option is the world’s highest capacity portable hard drive, and I can’t find any evidence that it’s wrong.
The new 5TB external drive uses the same technology as Seagate’s recently released 5TB BarraCuda hard drive — the world’s highest capacity 2.5-inch drive — in order to fit that much storage space into a portable drive. The advantage of that is unlike most external hard drives that use a larger 3.5-inch drive, the 5TB Backup Plus Portable doesn’t require a separate power source, making it a truly mobile device.
The 5TB Backup Plus Portable doesn’t trade any speed for storage, however, transferring data at up to 120 MB/s using a USB 3.0 connection. The 0.8-inch-thick case is relatively bulky at almost twice the thickness of Seagate’s 0.38-inch-thick Backup Ultra Slim and 0.4-inch Backup Slim drives, but you can take solace in the fact that the 5TB drive still out-stores two of Seagate’s smaller drives (which top out at a mere 2TB) put together.
The 5TB Backup Plus Portable will cost 59, 500 naria when it’s available later this month in Nigeria.
WhatsApp has upped the ante in the battle to be a one-stop shop for communication with the launch of video calling within its app. The latest update to the popular messaging app, designed to stem competition from the likes of Skype and Apple's FaceTime, means that users can call one another with real time video.
The one-to-one video calling will become available to all users on Android, iOS and Windows devices in the next few days, WhatsApp said.
With the update, users will be given the option to start a video or voice call when they tap on the phone icon in the top right hand corner of a conversation.
The new feature is the second addition to WhatsApp's video and photo sharing features in recent weeks. At the end of October, the billion-user messaging app added the ability for users to draw on images in a similar way that they can in Snapchat, Instagram and iMessage. The new feature is the second addition to WhatsApp's video and photo sharing features in recent weeks. At the end of October, the billion-user messaging app added the ability for users to draw on images in a similar way that they can in Snapchat, Instagram and iMessage.
"Over the years we've received many requests from our users for video calling," said WhatsApp. "We want to make these features available to everyone, not just those who can afford the most expensive new phones or live in countries with the best cellular networks."
WhatsApp isn't the only social app to lift features from its rivals. Instagram added Stories earlier this year, which are reminiscent of a Snapchat feature of the same name, while Snapchat now has video and voice calling. Google also launched two new communications apps recently, a video calling app called Duo and a smart messaging one called Allo.
WhatsApp's parent company Facebook is also investing in video calling on its Messenger platform, and 300 million people use its voice or video calling each month.
Facebook recently added Live Video to Messenger, which lets users send a silent stream of what they are doing at any given moment.
"We launched Instant Video a month ago that enables you to start a video stream with someone that's in a conversation at the same time you are," David Marcus, Facebook's vice president of Messenger, told the Telegraph at Web Summit last week.
"You'll see the little camera icon pulsating and if you tap on it you'll start streaming silently in another window to the person on the other side."
As the video stream is silent, users can open it when they are in a meeting or on the Tube, Marcus said.
Samsung really wants you to use its mobile-payment service -- so much so that it's willing to hand out prizes to frequent Samsung Pay users, just to keep them reaching for their mobile phones when it's time to pay for things.
On Thursday (Nov. 17), the company plans to launch a program called Samsung Rewards to encourage you to turn to Samsung Pay early and often at checkout stands. Under Samsung Rewards, you'll earn points every time you make a purchase using Samsung Pay. You can redeem those points for retailer gift cards, a Samsung Rewards Visa gift card and other Samsung products.
Samsung says it will also offer what it's calling Instant Win prizes to Samsung Rewards enrollees. The first Instant Win prize will be a trip for two to California's Napa Valley, the company said in its Samsung Rewards announcement.
The more you use Samsung Pay, the more points Samsung is willing to give you. A normal transaction will get you 10 points, but make five purchases in a month and you can double the points per transaction. Points triple after 20 Samsung Pay transactions, and quadruple to 40 points per transaction, when you use Samsung more than 30 times in a month.
Really, it sounds an awful lot like the rewards programs credit-card companies offer their customers. Every three months or so, an envelope will arrive from my credit-card provider containing special offers and deals, most of which I usually end up not redeeming as they're for things I don't want or need.
This is why it will be key for Samsung to offer actual rewards that people can easily redeem if Samsung Rewards is going to push people to use Samsung Pay with increased frequency. We've asked Samsung for more specifics on what kinds of rewards it's offering, and will update this story if we hear back.
To participate in Samsung Rewards, you'll need to activate and register the Samsung Pay app and enter a qualifying credit card. Devices that support Samsung Pay include the Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge, S6 Edge+ and Note 5 smartphones, as well as Samsung's Gear S2 and Gear S3 smartwatches.
Reviews for Google's Daydream View VR headset began to appear on Thursday, and the consensus among those who were able to test the new US$79 device appears to be two thumbs up.
Although it has limitations, Daydream could be a gateway to affordable virtual reality technology, they suggested. The headset, which is powered by the VR platform introduced in Android 7.1 Nougat, needs to be paired with Google's new line of Pixel and Pixel XL phones.
Unlike Google's low-end Cardboard headset, Daydream is made of lightweight fabric and paired with a simple yet intuitive controller. As with any new technology platform, there is a chicken-and-egg challenge to overcome regarding software for the device, but Google already has lined up content from a number of partners, including The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, USA Today and CNN, in addition to its own offerings.
Early adopters will be able to make virtual visits to museums, faraway cities, other planets and more.
The View headset also can operate as a very personal home theater, providing a virtual big screen experience. Google has lined up partners including YouTube, Hulu, HBO Now and Netflix. Daydream also can be used as a VR video gaming platform
VR Done Simple
The Daydream View is a rather simple unit, but it provides a true VR experience for the budget-minded early adopter.
"The View might be significantly more wearable than a Google Cardboard viewer, but it's still essentially the same thing: a phone holster with some lenses in it," wrote Peter Rubin for Wired.
"One of the strongest points Daydream View has in its favor is the comfort of wearing it. ... Google has hit the mark with its design," noted Digital Trends' Julian Chokkattu.
Among the Daydream View's limitations are power consumption.
"VR apps and games will drain your phone's battery quicker than almost any other activity," wrote Nathan Olivarez-Giles for The Wall Street Journal.
Control Issues
The controller for the Daydream View, which reviewers mostly praised, is not without its issues. The consensus view seems to be that there is much room for improvement.
"It sometimes stops working," noted Chokkattu, in his case, possibly due to a lost Bluetooth connection.
"My controller's position sometimes drifted out of place, mostly during experiences that snap the cursor toward something on screen, pulling it away from the remote's real-world orientation," wrote The Verge's Adi Robertson.
The Reality of VR Today
VR technology is still in its early days, but Daydream View is a "much
more serious crack at bringing VR to mainstream audiences," said Roger Kay, principal analyst at Endpoint Technologies Associates.
"It is a great showcase for YouTube VR," he told TechNewsWorld.
However, Daydream View "is really still just the entry level to VR," observed Roger Entner, principal analyst at Recon Analytics.
"This is a device that the early evangelist will adopt, as it provides a basic VR capability,"
"Google Daydream View has the benefit of being Android device-agnostic as opposed to the Samsung Gear VR, and at a lower price -- $79 vs. $99," noted Stephanie Llamas, lead analyst for AR/VR technology at SuperData Research.
"The Google name also lends itself to brand visibility, which will attract the trust of many consumers," she told afritechsolutio
From Dream to Reality
Along with its many pros, Daydream View has some challenges to overcome.
One obstacle is its lack of compatibility with most phones on the market right now, suggested Super Data Research's Llamas.
"Users need to purchase a Pixel phone until more phones are compatible with Android Nougat and the device itself, and even then they will need to upgrade, which may exclude a lot of consumers for a long time," she explained.
That said, ubiquity is likely to be one of its strengths in the future, suggested Recon Analytics' Entner.
Many phones will have great Daydream capabilities in a short time, and it is Google's drive to build a standard," he pointed out.
The Daydream's content catalog leaves much to be desired, but by the time the adoption of compatible devices is realized, "Google will have rolled out more experiences that both come from reputable developers and reach a wider audience," predicted Llamas.
Even if it achieves compatibility among phone models, the mobile platform could pose difficulties.
"Mobile is still the weakness, as a phone doesn't have the horsepower to do VR right," Entner warned.
"This is really a VR-lite solution -- and while everyone can have it, the technology really can't hold a candle to a computer-based solution," he added. "Who wants to do VR if it isn't really fully VR?"
VR in the Real World
It can be argued that mobility isn't advantageous for a technology that disconnects users from their physical surroundings.
"VR needs to be used in a protected environment," said Entner.
"You are truly replacing your reality with a virtual one, and this can put you at risk when you can't see the real world," he cautioned.
"You need VR in a room with no obstacles and where people mean you no ill -- so mobile isn't the best way to go," Entner said. Still, "this is still the early days -- and for the early adopters, this is a way to wet the whistle."
HTC has released a brand new phone in the US, but it's not the HTC 11.
It's the HTC Bolt and it's a reworked version of the HTC 10. The latest HTC 11 rumors point to a big, 1440 x 2560 curved screen and a familiar
camera spec.
The HTC 10 is something of a reinvention for the brand, sporting a new design, new features and upgraded specs. But in some ways it's still not enough of a change and still lacking.
That's not to say it isn't a great phone, but it's not quite the knockout hit it could have been and there are a number of areas where there's room for
improvement.
So we've created a list of the things we most want to see from the
HTC 11- a phone which will hopefully dial up the innovation and not just the number.
HTC normally launches its flagships early in the year and 2016 was no exception, though it skipped MWC.
For the HTC 11 we imagine we'll either see it at MWC 2017, which takes place from February 27 to March 2, or a little later in the year, but probably no later than April, as that will be one year after the launch of the HTC 10.
Information on the HTC 11 is thin on the ground so far, but a Weibo leaker has revealed some possible details.
Apparently the phone will have a 5.5-inch 1440 x 2560 curved screen, and if that sounds familiar it's because the Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge has exactly the same setup.
The source also states that the HTC 11 will have a 12MP rear camera - which is
the same spec as the HTC 10, but we'd imagine it will be improved in
some ways. The phone will also apparently have an 8MP front-facing camera,
and it doesn't sound like we'll be getting a dual-lens camera.
Other than that all we have to go on is a concept phone by one of HTC's
concept artists, known as the HTC Ocean, which was recently shown off with a 'Sense Touch' feature, which allowed users to control aspects of the phone by swiping or tapping the metal frame that ran along the edge.
This could be used for example to adjust the volume of your music or the brightness of your screen with a swipe, or to take a photo with a tap.
The iPhone and iPad - particularly recent models like the iPhone 7 and iPad
Pro 9.7 – are generally slick devices, but like any gadget
they can sometimes play up, or freeze, and on those occasions
restarting them can often fix the issue, and is usually the first
thing you should try.
That can be tricky if they’re frozen and not responding to your taps, but there’s a simple way to force a reset.
The exact process is different on the iPhone 7 and iPhone
7 Plus to older devices, but whatever iDevice you’re using you’ll
find a guide to resetting it below, along with the reason for the differences.
Resetting the iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus
With the iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus, Apple has changed the home button from something that you can physically press in, to a touch-sensitive pad that responds to the force of your touch.
One of the impacts of this is that it changes the way you force a restart of the phone, with the home button no longer being part of the equation, as it’s now software controlled and won’t work when the phone freezes.
The following three steps will guide you through what you need to do – if you’re using an older iOS device skip further down for instruction
To start the reset process on the iPhone 7 or iPhone 7 Plus, simply press the volume down button on the left side of the phone at the same time as pressing
the power button on the right edge.
Hold for several seconds Keep both buttons pressed until
the screen turns black and the Apple logo appears, this will take
several seconds and is a sign that the phone has started rebooting.
Wait for the phone to reboot Let go of the buttons and wait for your iPhone
to fully reboot. With any luck your iPhone will now be fully functional again,
but if not, check out how to troubleshoot an iPhone.
Resetting older iOS devices If you’ve not upgraded to Apple’s latest
phone the reset process is slightly different, but only in so much as
the buttons you have to press.
As you’ll still have a physical, clickable home button you simply press and hold that at the same time as the power button, until the Apple logo appears,
then let go and wait for your phone or tablet to reboot, hopefully solving any problems.
The Samsung Gear S3 has been up for pre-order in the UK for a while, but now Samsung has confirmed the actual release date of its flagship smartwatch.You’ll be able to strap it to your wrist from Friday November 18, aka a week from now
The watches will be available from select online and high street stores, as well as
direct from Samsung, and either one of them will set you back £349.
That’s a lot for a timepiece that could feel outdated in a couple of years,
but the Gear S3 is a high-end device, with an always-on 1.3-inch
360 x 360 circular AMOLED screen, a 1GHz dual-core processor, 768MB of RAM,
4GB of storage, a 380mAh battery and a water-resistant design.
It’s also packed full of connectivity options and sensors, including GPS, NFC, a barometer and an altimeter.
But the real selling point – or reason not to buy it, depending on your
perspective – is that the Gear S3 runs Tizen, rather than Android Wear.
It’s a polished operating system, which we were impressed by
on the Samsung Gear S2, but it’s not as well supported with
BlackBerry plans to move away from developing its own devices
and reposition itself as an enterprise software player, but CEO John Chen
confirmed it has one more “in-house phone” on the way.
“We have one keyboard phone I promised people… It’s coming,”
he told Bloomberg, adding that he couldn’t say when it would launch,
but “it will not be that long”.
It will have the company’s trademark physical keyboard which was one of
the most popular features of its traditional devices.
Chen had hinted at the phone in September, but hadn’t confirmed it until now.
In September BlackBerry said it would end its device hardware activities,
having failed to secure a future for the business in the smartphone market.
The news at the time did not come as much of a surprise: Chen said
that while efforts were being made to restore the business to profitability,
it was not a sacred cow – and the numbers have shown no evidence
that an improvement was on the cards.
Last month, BlackBerry unveiled its Dtek60 smartphone, with the hardware manufactured by TCL.
Has the power button of your smartphone completely broken? Give these tips a try to reboot your device even without using the power on/off button.
If the power botten of your andriod phone stopped working. As a result, restarting the device became a huge challenge. Luckily, some workarounds helped me overpower my broken power button on android phone.
When Your Android Smartphone is Off
At times, phones tend to boot up when plugged into a charger. Hence, plug your device into a charger.
In case the first trick doesn’t work, you need to plug your device into your computer/laptop using USB cable. Your handset may boot up. Use Volume and Home Button
Trying pressing both the volume buttons at once for a few seconds until the boot menu appears on the screen. Then, select restart to reboot your device.
Try to press the volume and the Home button simultaneously.
f Your Smartphone is in Sleep Mode
If your device has Home button, just press it to wake the screen.
Just in case, there is no physical Home button on your phone, tell one of your friends to give you a call.
Use Apps
There are a number of third-party apps like Gravity Screen that can help you reboot your smartphone without power button. This app will automatically turn screen off when you put your device into your pocket or on any desk. And, when you pick up your device, it will turn the screen on. It can be really helpful when the power button is not working.
But, it can’t provide the complete solution. Moreover, it will eat into plenty of power on your device.
Repair the Broken Power Button
It’s better to repair the power button. You can also contact the manufacturer for help.
It’s not unusual for the power button to stop working. Hence, getting it permanently repaired can provide the best solution.
Lenovo launched its smartphone Moto M in China on Tuesday and the smartphone has already been listed on company's website as well its China Store. the company has announced that as part of larger restructuring at Lenovo, all the future smartphones by the company will be named under its 'Moto' brand and not under its own name.
According to a report by Campaign Asia following Lenovo's earnings results last week, the company has decided to use the Moto brand for all its smartphones. This effectively means that there will be no unique identity of Moto brand in itself. Earlier, the company was releasing Moto smartphones separately from Lenovo branded phones to keep a distinguishing factor between both brands. as a result of this decision, all smartphones designed and manufactured by Lenovo will carry the 'Moto' brand.
The various series of smartphones under the 'Moto' brand such as X, E, and G might now be replaced by something like the recent smartphone 'M', to depict the merger of two brands into one.
I like weird. I like foldable phones, I like handsets made of crazy materials, smartphones with 64 GB of RAM and sporting endless battery lives. But this Nokia concept phone is a bit out there, as far as weirdness goes. It’s called Nokia Prism and it’s the creation of Vasili Sychev from Russia.
Don’t get me wrong, the execution of the Nokia Prism phone is flawless, but in the end what’s the point? This prism-shaped phone looks good only as a piece of art nouveau and only when seen from the back. I feels like the time when you tried to cut a piece of paper and it ended up being a trapeze instead of a rectangle. And then you started cutting again…
The problem with the Nokia Prism is that it has those sharp and angular corners and edges, making it not very comfy to hold, actually not comfy at all. And I’m not even talking about the resolution and the fitting of apps on the screen. It appears that the most prominent corner is reserved for the signal and notifications, while the “base” of the phone shows the rest of the UI and video playback screen.
