At the third annual Lenovo Tech World last week, the Chinese tech giant wowed attendees with the Lenovo Folio, a tablet with a screen that folds in half into a phone.

Before you start getting too excited, you should know that the Folio is a concept device, which means it may not be released as a consumer product anytime soon. Even so, that doesn’t make the device any less impressive.

The tablet has a 7.8-inch screen with 1,920 x 1,440 resolution, a Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 processor, and runs Android 7.0 Nougat. It’s not exactly peak performance in 2017, but that’s not why’d you want this thing — you’d want it for the bendable screen.

When folded, the tablet shrinks down into a 5.5-inch phone that could fit into your pocket. As you can see in the demo videos above and below, the display folds neatly in half with pixels filling all the space where a hinge would normally. The UI automatically adjusts to work as if there are two displays. It’s pretty bananas!

Mashable

8″ is the perfect tablet size IMHO – a real shame nobody makes them anymore either…

“Hier heb ik geen 1000 dollar voor betaald!”

Source: Samsung verrast gebruikers met advertenties op Galaxy S8 – Webwereld

They come with the gaming service which cannot be disabled or uninstalled unless you’re root. Considering you pay through the nose for the most breakable piece of hardware there is, this sounds like a great reason to not buy Samsung any more.

Samsung wants to keep you locked in the Bixby AI ecosystem in its fight against Amazon Alexa, Apple Siri, Google Assistant, and others.

Source: Samsung blocks ability to remap Galaxy S8’s Bixby button | ZDNet

And Bixby won’t work at all during launch. I’m actually not so very happy with Samsung deciding to ditch the hardware buttons, so not being able to remap at all sucks. Time to start looking for a new smartphone manufacturer: my S6 edge + wasn’t particularly great either. It’s battery life is half of what it was, the screen glass is cracked (and not repairable, even though the underlying LEDs are all fine) and the camera broke and had to be repaired. Not particularly impressive for a flagship phone.

Android-x86 Open Source Project

Source: ReleaseNote 6.0-r1 – Android-x86 – Porting Android to x86

Wow, open source Android?

DeskDock allows you to share your computer’s mouse with your Android devices via a USB cable. The app enables you to control your Android device as if it was an additional monitor for your computer. Simply move your computer’s mouse cursor over the screen boundaries to use it with your Android devices.

Source: DeskDock Free – Android Apps on Google Play

It’s just like synergy but for Android

Scan to search
To search a document, simply scan the page using your device’s camera.

The app then analyses the document and you’ll be able to search within it after a few seconds, just like you would with a digital document and CTRL-F on a PC!

Source: CTRL-F – Search, for the real world

This page lets you view, listen to and delete all of your Google Audio history. To delete all, find the 3 dots -> delete options -> advanced

Source: Google – Voice & Audio Activity

It will disable / block any system and third party application on your device with ease and allow you to enable / unblock the application just as easy. It also reads everything, real-time, directly from your device, so that there are no messy batch files, scripts and txt files, etc. that you have to maintain and keep track of for every device you own

Source: V3.90 Debloater(Lets remove all that carrier bloat !! Root not required..)

he first large-scale study of smartphones in everyday use by consumers has revealed that apps drain 28.9 percent of battery power while the screen is off. To address the problem, researchers have created a software tool that reduces the energy drain by about 16 percent.

Researchers at Purdue University, Intel Corp. and startup company Mobile Enerlytics studied the use of 2,000 Samsung Galaxy S3 and S4 phones served by 191 mobile operators in 61 countries.”This was the first large-scale study of smartphone energy drain ‘in the wild,’ or in everyday use by consumers,” said Y. Charlie Hu, a Purdue professor of electrical and computer engineering.

Out of the 45.9 percent of daily battery drain where the screen is off, 28.9 percent is due to apps that frequently wake up and run in the background. Out of this 28.9 percent, researchers have shown how to save 15.7 percent with a new system called HUSH, which is available for free at http://www.github.com/hushnymous

Source: New tool reduces smartphone battery drain by intelligently suppressing background activities – Purdue University

It’s not an app yet, but could be soon – hopefully.

Google Handwriting Input allows you to handwrite text on your phone or tablet in 82 languages. It supports printed and cursive writing, with or without a stylus. Google Handwriting Input also supports hundreds of emojis, so you can express yourself in any Android app.

via Google Handwriting Input – Android Apps on Google Play.

I’ve been trying this out on my tablet and my smartphone and I’m completely impressed! About time that Android got this basic Palm functionality 🙂

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/04/16/google_releases_handwritingrecogniser_for_android/

Some AMOLED screen powered devices are able to “turn off” those pixels which are showing black colour. This app will let you to turn off some pixels in order to save your appreciate battery by showing very small black points.
As newer devices comes with very high density screens those points will be insignificant to the user´s sight and will be offset by lower spending battery

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.anrapps.pixelbatterysaver

Office Lens takes pictures of pages and using OCR transports them to MS Office format. On Windows phone it’s been around for some time, on Android they are starting the technology.

Office Lens Preview – Android Apps on Google Play.

Xiaomi Mi Note: This Chinese Phone Is Great. Too Bad You Can't Use It..

Around USD 300,- much cheaper than any equivalents. They also sell better cheaper GoPro cameras!

No removable battery!?!?!

So sad, goodbye Samsung :'(

Your New Galaxy S6 Will Have a Built-In Expiration Date.

Google vs MS, the battle continues!

Microsoft to invest in Android firmware upstart Cyanogen • The Register.

There’s an iphone version of this and the pro version shows you the wifi hotspots all over the world.
WiFi Map Pro — Passwords – Android Apps on Google Play.

Basically they say they won’t touch anything older than the current OS and also smartphone vendors then need to update their old devices, which they won’t do either.

Google won’t fix bug hitting 60 percent of Android phones | Ars Technica.