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Tink Labs raises $125M to put its free-to-use smartphone in more hotel rooms worldwide
Tink Labs offers a free-to-use smartphone for hotel guests that lets them enjoy free services, and gives hotels a powerful channel to engage their guests. Xiaomi’s newest phones include dual-lens camera and under-glass fingerprint reader
Hot on the heels of the launch of the iPhone 7 Plus, Apple’s first smartphone with dual reverse-facing cameras, China’s Xiaomi has joined the double camera club with Mi 5s Plus announced today. Samsung said to sell its own refurbished smartphones in 2017
Samsung is looking to sell its own refurbished devices in order to make money on its premium smartphones a second time around, according to Reuters. The company will introduce a refurbished device sales program “as early as next year,” according to Reuters’ source, and will use inventory provided by customer who sign up to a year upgrade program in markets where it’s… Read More
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Samsung leads India’s smartphone market, as Apple’s iPhone SE fails to take off
India continues to be one of the rare growth markets in the global smartphone industry after lodging a 17 percent year-on-year increase in shipments in the second quarter of 2016, according to a new report from IDC. Gartner: Android’s smartphone marketshare hit 86.2% in Q2
What growth there is left in the smartphone market continues to center on emerging markets where consumers are upgrading from feature phones. The Instax Share SP-2 adds just enough modern magic to the instant print renaissance
Or at least, in terms of my appreciation of the memories they represent, that’s what it feels like. That’s why I was excited enough about the Fujifilm Share Instax SP-2 to go out and grab one as soon as it showed up in stock at my local camera shop. The SP-2 is a Wi-Fi picture printer, a device that harkens back to the glory days of Polaroid by giving you a pocket-sized,… Read More
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Tecla’s tech makes Pokémon Go more accessible for wheelchair users
Toronto-based B corporation Komodo OpenLab thought Pokémon Go using its Tecla product, an assistive hardware device designed to make it easier to use smartphones, tablets and users for people who might not generally be able to interact with these gadgets, including, for example, wheelchair users with spinal injuries or multiple sclerosis.
As you can see from the video above, the Tecla… Read More
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New Redmi Pro gives Xiaomi’s budget smartphone line a touch of class
Xiaomi dropped a surprise today when it outed its first laptop — perhaps predictably a cheap rival to Apple’s Macbook — at an event in Beijing, but it also made a more routine reveal: the Redmi Pro. Volkswagen throws in with LG on ‘Cross-Over’ connected car platform
Everyone’s picking teams for the coming connected car wars, and Volkswagen and LG have chosen each other. The new smart car squad announced a “memorandum of understanding” to collaborate on R&D related to a connected car platform to be developed “over the coming years” today. So what, exactly, does this partnership entail? It’s not just the premise for… Read More
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Apple has been looking at ways to extend the control power of stylus input methods, patenting a touch sensitive stylus which could allow for users to manipulate on screen objects depending on how and where they place their fingers on the stylus shaft itself.