Android news #16: Galaxy S8 review and knijpbare’ HTC YOU

Android Planet provides you seven days per week of the best news, but it can prevent you every now and then, a development fog. In this overview you will find the most important news of week 16.

Last year Samsung was the friend and the enemy by surprise with the Galaxy S7, a flagship that excelled on almost all aspects. The bright, colorful screen, the extremely good camera, the slim waterproof housing: closer to perfection was Samsung never come. The Korean company stuck with head and shoulders above the competition. Aloud we wondered how Samsung flagship still further improve. We have the new Samsung Galaxy S8 the last couple of weeks it has been thoroughly tested in the review you read our findings.

→ Read more in the Samsung Galaxy S8 review

HTC’s next flagship on may 16 officially announced. The smartphone is at 8 o’clock in the morning Dutch time officially revealed. The HTC YOU features knijpbesturing, by HTC renamed it the ‘Edge Sense’. By the edges to squeeze, you can apps startup or perform other actions. With the touch-sensitive side, for example, is it easier to take a picture: you no longer need the button on the screen tapping on it, but squeeze it just in the side.

→ Read more about the announcement of the HTC YOU

Although we are happy with the last generation of Nexus smartphones, the ouderdomsproblemen where the devices suffer from not particularly attractive. Mainly the Nexus 6P has problems with his battery. The battery can suddenly fail and Google, and Huawei don’t seem to do much to remedy this. Therefore, both firms have now filed a lawsuit their pants hanging. This lawsuit is not just about the well-known accuprobleem, but also to Nexus 6P-devices that are in a bootloop hitting and therefore be unusable. The prosecutors say that people who contact Google to Huawei, but Huawei, in turn, is not very helpful.

→ Continue reading about the battery problems of the Nexus 6P

On different sides is alarming and talked about our smartphonegedrag. Within two months appear no less than three books on the subject. ‘On/Off’ of Sydney Vollmer is about our dependence on digital technology. ‘Is anybody there’ by Wouter van Noort is about how obsessive smartphonegedrag affects us. And ‘Superverslavend’ of Adam Alter reveals why smartphones, apps and social media are so addictive and what we can do about it.

→ Read more in our achtergrondartikel about smartphoneverslaving

The Samsung Galaxy Note 8 features a dual camera on the back, so claims to be the well established analyst Ming-Chi Kuo. According to Kuo, the Galaxy Note 8, Samsung’s first smartphone with a dual camera on the back. One of the two lenses is the same 12 megapixel camera with a dual pixel sensor that’s already on the Galaxy S8. The other is a 13 megapixel camera with telefotolens. That provides 3x optical zoom. This way you can, just like on the iPhone 7 Plus, considerably zooming in with your photos with no loss in image quality.

→ Read more about the camera of the Galaxy Note 8

22 April 2021, 22:05 | Views: 201