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Another Supposed Samsung Galaxy S III Leaked Picture [Rumor]
The folks over at BGR found this photo from a Polish blog OPDA.pl. The picture shows a mosaiced Samsung smart phone that looks a lot like a Samsung Galaxy S that did things with the Samsung ‘phablet’, Galaxy Note. Reportedly, the render came from someone who is currently testing Samsung’s latest mobile. One thing is for sure about this photo, it is indeed a Samsung device. But with regards to how badly the screen has been pasted on the background given the lines above the app drawer which don’t run parallel with the top of the screen; this so-called guy who is testing Samsung’s latest flagship product does not know anything about Photoshop.
Although we know next to nothing about Samsung’s upcoming flagship product, recent rumors like the existence of a ‘home’ button and a 5 column app drawer does make this render seem real but one thing as we all know about Samsung and its devices bar the Galaxy Nexus is that it will always come with Samsung’s debatable TouchWiz overlay which this clearly does not have. As for that thin elongated home button, it looks like it was stretched out using Photoshop as well. Lastly if you were to lean back and look at the photo from afar, you will see that even the bottom row of the app drawer pictured here does not line up with the bottom of the device. For now, we still do not have any concrete information about the much anticipated Samsung flagship phone since the SIII is probably coming soon, we’ll just have to wait and see. That is just an opinion of mine on a personal note, but do let us know what you think of this latest rumor with a comment below.
The Fairphone 2 was first unveiled in June earlier this year, where this particular handset carried a modular design while featuring majority of its components that have been sourced from conflict-free mines. It seems that this particular handset that you can purchase with a clear conscience has begun to ship to those who happen to live across Europe.
Fairphone announced in a blog post, “It’s been almost two years in the making, and some of the earliest buyers have been patiently waiting since July to receive their new phones. As community manager, I want to personally welcome the new batch of Fairphone owners to our community.” The initial 1,000 units are tipped to ship this month, before the other pre-orders follow in January 2016.
In terms of hardware specifications, the Fairphone 2 will run on a Snapdragon 801 chipset, has a 5″ 1080p screen with Gorilla Glass 3 protection, 2GB of RAM, an 8MP camera, with Android 5.1 Lollipop in tow. It will be a dual SIM capable handset with a microSD memory card slot and plays nice with 4G LTE networks, retailing for approximately €525 a pop.
It looks like the upcoming flagship model from Xiaomi will feature NFC support, at least based on a document that was released by China UnionPay. Just in case you are scratching your head and wondering who China UnionPay is, they happen to be the only domestic payment gateway supplier and card organization, and hence, to see them offer detailed support concerning the newly released NFC-based payment system points to the very real possibility of the upcoming Xiaomi Mi 5 featuring NFC capability.
After all, the Xiaomi Mi 3 was also mentioned on the list, which so happens to feature NFC, and there is no mention of the Xiaomi Mi 4 which does not come with NFC. Still, such a new payment system would be the ideal tool to see the reintroduction of NFC to the flagship model.
OnePlus did make an announcement in the previous month that the Ceramic variant of the OnePlus X will be released on November 24. True to their word, they did exactly that – although only a pitiful number of units were made available, and not only that, this was through a charity auction. Thankfully for the rest of the masses who are on the lookout for this device, it has gone on sale officially already.
Needless to say, this particular variant is available only by an invitation, although do bear in mind that standard OnePlus X invites are not good here – you will still need to snag yourself a specific Ceramic variant invite before you make a purchase. OnePlus is also on the lookout to offer additional methods of picking up this smartphone, although no further details were revealed.
The OnePlus X Ceramic will be available only in select markets, where among them include Europe, India, and Hong Kong. To date, we do know that OnePlus had made only 10,000 units of the handset available. A case of the early bird getting the proverbial worm here?