OnePlus 2 is Dancing After Receiving OxygenOS Update - http://clapway.com/2015/12/24/oneplus-2-is-dancing-after-receiving-oxygenos-update/

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iPhone Beats Out Samsung in Third Quater - http://clapway.com/2015/11/21/iphone-beats-out-samsung-in-third-quarter-earnings123/

Apple iPhone sales skyrocketed past the rate of Samsung smartphone sales, making Apple effectively beat out Samsung in third quarter earnings for 2015. The rate of iPhone shipments rose 21% since the last quarter, while Samsung trailed behind with a 15% rise.

Gartner Reports that Apple Beats Out Samsung

This doesn’t mean that Samsung is no longer the head honcho of the smartphone world, but Apple is definitely getting ahead. The total number of Samsung shipments for the third quarter was 83.6 million, while the iPhone numbered at 46 million with the iPhone 6S and 6S Plus models.

The success of the iPhone came with the launch of both models this past September, both in America and in China, which gave way to this significant rise in sales.  In total, Apple sold a total of 352.8 million units of both models.

What’s the Future for Both of These Companies?

Samsung and Apple have always been head to head in various respects, but its possible that with the release of the Samsung Gear VR headset, things may get shaken up once again. It’s yet to be seen how the iPad Pro will factor into the final quarter earnings for Apple. Both companies are currently in favorable conditions, so only time will tell what is in store for both.

 

iPhone Beats Out Samsung in Third Quater

Top 4 Medical APPs for iOS - http://clapway.com/2015/11/07/top4-medical-apps-ios/

Smartphones can be a source of distraction sometimes, but when used properly, can certainly have a positive impact on our lives. It feels more exciting when we realize that smartphones are starting to affect our health in a positive way. This is interesting, isn’t it?

My focus in this article is on the medical iOS apps. If you look in the App Store, you will find many attractive medical apps. To narrow the list a bit however, I chose to list the 4 best medical iOS apps. Those apps were chosen based on two criteria: (i) having a rating in the App Store close to 5 stars, and (ii) having a website.

Without further ado, let me show you those apps:

Instant Heart Rate

Instant Heart Rate is an award-winning app with over 35 million users, and is rated as the number one mobile heart rate measurement app in many countries. The app uses your camera’s flash to tell your heart rate, and provides you with detailed analytics through its Revolutionary StandupTest^TM (used by Olympic athletes and professional bodybuilders) about your heart’s strength, based on how hard your heart needs to work when you stand up.

Instant Heart Rate has been featured in the CNN, The New York Times, and The Guardian, and is trusted by Stanford’s leading cardiologists to be used in clinical trials.

Glucose Buddy

The Glucose Buddy app is ranked as the number one app by Manny Hernandez, co-founder of TuDiabetes and Diabetes Hands Foundation. This app allows users suffering from diabetes to enter their glucose numbers, carbohydrate consumption, insulin dosages, and activities. The user is also able to view all of his/her data on the glucosebuddy.com account.

Life

Life is a simple app that allows women to track their period, schedule cycle reminders, predict fertile days, in addition to other features.

Essential Anatomy

Essential Anatomy is used over 1.1 million times each month by universities and students around the world. It is also considered the gold standard in medical reference applications since it constitutes more than 8200 structures, and is highly accurate and visually stunning.

Now, it is your turn, what is your best medical app?

Top 4 Medical APPs for iOS

Has the #Spotify privacy policy gone too far? Will you #QuitSpotify? - http://clapway.com/2015/08/23/%e2%80%8bthe-spotify-privacy-policy-has-changed-the-internet-is-going-crazy-342/

Spotify’s new privacy policy has led its users to object to the streaming service that counts more than 20 million paid and 55 million free subscribers. With members threatening to leave the service over changes in terms and conditions, the Spotify chief executive, Daniel Ek, apologised publicly in a written blog post.

THE NEW SPOTIFY PRIVACY POLICY

The new terms and conditions of the music service include access to sensitive and sensor data, found on the users’ smartphones. Phone numbers, photographs, locations and other information stored in your phone have been sent to the Spotify servers if you’ve hit “yes” when the new Ts&Cs popped up.

Yep, that’s what you signed up for.

QUIT SPOTIFY

The hashtag #QuitSpotify has become trending after the announcement, and users all over the world express their complaints to the service with Markus Persson (also known as Notch), creator of Minecraft, tweeting to his 2.4 million followers that he was cancelling his own account.

Spotify has said in response that those changes are meant to improve the user experience. For example, new Spotify terms and conditions request access to how fast users move in order to help the Spotify Running app which matches beats per minute of songs it chooses to play, to the pace you run.

Related post: Amazon Launches Prime Music to Combat Apple Music and Spotify

THE PUBLIC APOLOGY

Mr. Ek apologised in a blog post and he promised an update to the new policy, which will clarify it, but he did not suggest that the terms themselves would be changed.

What he wrote was that the team should have communicated the meaning of these policies better and make clear how the information users share with Spotify will -and will not- be used. Also, he noted that Spotify will not access photos, contacts, GPS or sensor without the user’s permission.

THERE IS A SOLUTION

If you don’t wish to give access to any personal data but you still love using Spotify, the only thing you have to do is accept the new terms of service, and then deny access every time a Spotify prompt hits your screen.

However, Spotify does not want to collect your personal data just for fun or because of a spy-type “New World Order” game. Contacts are most likely to assist you in connecting with friends on the app, and photos and location data are collected to provide advertising agencies with useful, marketing information.

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#Data plans on #AT&T are undergoing adjustments - http://clapway.com/2015/08/16/att-next-in-line-to-adjust-its-data-plans-224/

AT&T has decided to join the club and change up the way it handles its data plans in an effort to keep up with the now rapidly changing wireless industry.

Introducing New Data Plans

On Friday AT&T announced a new set of Mobile Share Value plans which went into effect on Aug. 15. A lot of the changes are mostly positive. The company is giving more data for the same amount customers were paying before, and it’s adding free calling and texting to our neighbors on our borders (Canada and Mexico), but only for customers who are on higher tiered plans.

Details on the New Plans

AT&T’s new data plans aren’t quite as big a change as some of the other carrier’s. The best deal seems to be the $100 package: originally this offered 10GB of data, but now AT&T is offering 15GB of data for the same price. The $70 (6GB)plan has been nixed and a new $50(5GB) tier has replaced it. The last two changes are for power users or business owners. The 20GB data plan received a $10 price cut, so it now only costs $140, and a new 25GB tier has been introduced that will run $170. Here is a full rundown of all their plans:

$20 – 300MB

$30 – 2GB

$50 – 5GB

$100 – 15GB

$140 – 20GB

$170 – 25GB

For T-Mobile users, these prices might still seem a bit much, but AT&T has slightly undercut Verizon on just about every tier level they now offer.

Why AT&T is Changing Their Data Plans

Now these changes don’t really come as any surprise since it seems like every other mobile carrier has recently made major changes to their data plans, but there may be more here than meets the eye.

Previously AT&T offered 1GB and 3GB plans, so its 2GB plan is new. According to a report by analytics firm Mobidia, most users only use about 1.8GB of data. Now, that’s on average, so there are certainly times when a user may go over that amount, and for $20 more, AT&T is allowing users to purchase 150% more data, which seems like a great deal for the consumer, even if they never hit that amount. They’re purchasing a safety net, but AT&T is making that extra $20 off potentially millions of customers.

What AT&T has done is simply instilled a safety net feature into all of its plans that tries to convince users to upgrade to the next highest tier because it’s only that much more. Family plans also have a tendency to be difficult to move away from because they can be complicated since there are so many moving parts.

Either way you cut it, AT&T’s new plans are a good change for consumers.

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Verizon Kills off Contracts and Subsidies - http://clapway.com/2015/08/08/verizon-kills-off-contracts-and-subsidies-101/

Verizon has announced that it will officially be the second carrier to stop wrangling their customers into two-year contracts every time they purchase a new phone. Verizon subscribers will be able to choose from a new selection of cheaper plans (sans the subsidy fee), but that means customers will have to purchase the phone outright — by either paying for it in-full or through monthly payment installations.

Verizon Kills Subsidies

T-Mobile was the first wireless carrier in the US to cut ties with subsidizing phones for its customers, but in doing so they set forth a ripple effect that has convinced the other carriers to follow suit.

For customers, this means that they’ll now have to purchase phones outright, which incentivizes manufacturers to offer phones at more competitive prices and, hopefully, entices them to put smartphones on sale more often.

According to Verizon, the subsidy fee they charged in a two-year contract was about $19 a month. Multiplying that number by the number of months in two years means customers were paying around $456 a year. An iPhone 6 is currently $649 through Verizon, so if you tack on the $200 a user would typically pay for a subsidized iPhone 6 then it’s easy to see that users won’t really pay any more or less without a contract. Suddenly that subsidy doesn’t really seem like much of a subsidy.

Verizon to Offer a New Range of Plans

Starting on August 13, Verizon is also going to be offering a new set of plans that range from four main options: small, medium, large, and extra large. Verizon will be eliminating the subsidy fee, which will discount voice, text, and data plans by about $20 a month. The amount will depend based on each plan, however.

The different “sizes” refer to the amount of data each plan offers. A small plan only offers 1GB of data, while an extra large plan offers up to 12GB. Here is a quick price breakdown for single lines:

Small – $30/month 1GB of data

Medium – $45/month 3GB of data

Large – $60/month 6GB of data

Extra Large – $80/month 12GB of data

Grandfathering is Alive and Well

Current customers who don’t want to switch plans will still be able to keep the same plans they have now. Verizon mentioned that there would be some restrictions that may apply (perhaps with regard to the few still holding onto their unlimited data plans), but Verizon didn’t give any precise details about what the stipulations might be.

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Verizon Kills off Contracts and Subsidies

Nvidia Recalls 83,000 Shield Tablets After Reports of Spontaneous Combustion - http://clapway.com/2015/08/01/nvidia-recalls-83000-shield-tablets-after-reports-of-spontaneous-combustion-roll-in321/

On Friday Nvidia announced that it was recalling 83,000 Nvidia Shield Tablets because they have this strange way of spontaneously combusting.

Battery Suicide

Nvidia hasn’t spilled the details about what exactly is causing some of its Shield tablets to burst into flames, but as of right now the company is placing the blame on batteries that are overheating. According to the Consumer Product Safety Commission, there have been at 83,000 tablets recalled in the United States, but only four reports of devices that have overheated.

Despite the seemingly small number of incidents, Nvidia is urging customers who may have purchased a Shield tablet within the last year to stop using it immediately.

How to Check Your Shield

Shield tablets sold between 2014 and 2015 are the only ones reportedly affected, which is an interesting distinction to make since the device didn’t launch until July 2014.

Theoretically, all Shield tablets should be affected, but to check you’ll want to navigate your way to the device’s settings menu. After finding the settings, you’ll select the “About Device” option and select “Status”. The “Battery” category has two potential answers: B01 and Y01. B01 batteries are currently unaffected, but Y01 batteries will need to be replaced. If your device is affected, you can view the necessary steps to recall your device here.

A Well-Received Disappointment

For many Shield users, this announcement is met with some major disappointment. The device released with great critical reception and offers a lot of unique features for users who want to take their games with them via the Shield. Even with its great reviews, the device reportedly showed many signs of battery drainage and overheating issues — two telltale signs of issues that have since transpired.

Nvidia Chose the Wrong Battery

The Shield uses a lithium-ion battery, which has already been known to experience issues like thermal runaway. Given that the Shield was created for gamers to play battery-intensive games on, it seemed apparent that many tablets would experience frequent battery discharge and recharge.

The issue with lithium ion batteries is that they aren’t designed to support this type of usage. Inside these batteries are cells containing anodes and cathodes. Liquid electrolyte moves back and forth between the anode and cathode when it charges and discharges. When this is done in quick succession, it causes heat, which can melt insulators and cause short circuiting.

Unfortunately for Nvidia and Shield customers, this seems like a major design oversight.

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Researchers Find a Major MMS Security Flaw in Android That May Affect a Billion Devices - http://clapway.com/2015/07/28/researchers-find-a-major-mms-security-flaw-in-android-that-may-affect-a-billion-devices-343/

A new report published by researchers indicates that a severe security flaw has been discovered within the Android mobile operating system that has already infected nearly a billion devices.

How it Works

The concept of the flaw is surprisingly simple: a hacker could simply send a photo or video message — containing malicious code — to a user’s Android device. Like receiving any other MMS, the user doesn’t need to take any action in order for the code to accessing information on the device.

“This happens even before the sound that you’ve received a messages has even occurred,” said Joshua Drake, a security researcher at Zimperium.

The entire process utilizes a service within Android called Stagefright. The malicious code access this service, and once the service has been breached, a hacker has gained access to not only data but access to functions on the Android device like the camera.

Seeking a Solution

The good news is that Zimperium, the mobile security firm that first reported the flaw, doesn’t believe hackers are exploiting the security flaw. But that doesn’t mean fixing the issue isn’t imperative.

With the help of some patches from Drake, Google was able to patch the security exploit in less than 48 hours after the company was notified. Unfortunately, getting this patch out to millions of Android users is an entirely different problem that must be faced.

Getting Manufacturers and Carriers On Board

When it comes to Android, Google is just one piece of the puzzle. They work with both hardware partners and the wireless carriers in order to push out Android updates, which is part of the infamous fragmentation issue that plagues the mobile OS.

Google has to send the patches over to the hardware manufacturers in order to implement them into all of their devices in a separate software update. Whether the manufacturers decide to implement the fix in a standalone update or incorporate it in an upcoming update is entirely up to them.

Once the manufacturers have a build, they must then take it to wireless carriers in order to go through a separate certification process for each carrier before finally being sent out in an over-the-air (OTA) update.

Some companies, like HTC, have already come forth and stated that they began implemented patches to fix this exploit in their Android headsets already.

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How Can Smartphones Detect Depression? - http://clapway.com/2015/07/16/how-can-smartphones-detect-depression997/

There is an application for everything. Leaving the house, without their smartphones, makes the majority of people feel naked. Checking restaurants reviews, maps, cabs, movies, and about everything, using the mobile devices is something people can’t live without.

Our phones can say who we are, by checking the music we listen to, the places we visit, the browsing history and all the apps we use. But what does spending too much time on smartphones, mean?

According to a new study, published on Wednesday in the Journal of Medical Internet Research, depression can be detected from a smartphone sensor data, by tracking the number of minutes a person uses his smartphone, as well as the daily locations.

Depressed People Don’t Have Energy to Be Active

When they are depressed, people tend to stay at home, having no motivation to go out. Many people use their mobile devices to avoid thinking about the things that disturb them, their feeling and relationships.

This kind of behavior is easily associated with depression. Therefore, the more time people spend on his mobile device, the more depressed they are.

Depressed Individuals Spend about 68 Minutes on Their Smartphones, Daily

The study was conducted by Northwestern University, and the researchers analyzed the GPS locations and phone usage for 28 individuals over two weeks. The sensor tracked GPS locations every five minutes.

Also, before the app started tracking them, all volunteers were asked to take a standard questionnaire. Psychologists used their answers to measure the level of depression.

According to their results, the volunteers showed signs of depression strongly connected to the time spent on their phones.

In seems that depressed individuals tend to spend an average of 68 minutes on their mobile phones while non-depressed people only use their devices for about 17 minutes.

Detecting Depressive People without Asking Questions

The study’s accuracy is quite promising for future diagnosing. With smartphones, both the type of depressive symptoms and the severity of those symptoms could be detected without having to ask people any questions.

Even if the study shows an important step in detecting early depression, researchers stated that they only tracked the time people spent on their phones, as well as the locations they used the device from. However, what the volunteers were doing, whether they were playing certain games, talking to friends or browsing the Internet was not monitored.

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Nokia to Make Phones Again Soon - http://clapway.com/2015/06/19/nokia-to-make-phones-soon-again876/

Nokia is back with a bang with its handsets in the global arena

If you thought Nokia‘s only place was in the history books, you were wrong. The company plans to hit the market soon with much vigor and innovation. Nokia, which used to be world’s largest smartphone maker, is planning to design and license its handsets in the market again. It is looking forward to the consent of its partner Microsoft and to getting started afresh in 2016. In recent times, Nokia has been fighting a major battle to keep its business going. The smartphone giant was taken over by Microsoft in 2014.

As per senior experts at Nokia, the company is looking for trusted partners and claims that they will be the ones to design the smartphones and make the Microsoft brand available for license.

Even after market failure, Nokia launched N 1 Android tablet to make its presence felt in the

It was 2014, Microsoft bought the phone business, as the company was failing to keep up its sales after Apple and Android brought about a major storm in the market. For a certain period, Nokia later partnered with a Taiwanese contract manufacturer, Foxconn, to come up with a new brand-licensed tablet. This was an initiative for Nokia to keep up with the tablet and smartphone revolution taking place on a global level.

Nokia is looking to come up with innovations beyond mobile phones

Nokia is searching for partners who can leverage their business and improve it. As per experts, it was expected that Microsoft would write off the entire handset unit it had bought. The financial loss left the company in a ‘money loss’ process, and it could have only 3 percent of the entire smartphone market. As a result, the then-leading Nokia chief executive wanted to to leave the company, because Microsoft was planning to go back to core software services.

Nokia is planning new ventures as it recently announced that it shall take over Alcatel-Lucent (worth $17.8 billion) in order to boost its network equipment. In addition, Nokia is planning to hive off its mapping business, which is already drawing attention from giants like Mercedes, BMW, Audi, and varied Silicon Valley and Chinese web and technology services. Let’s wait and watch the re-evolution of Nokia.

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Nokia to Make Phones Again Soon