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Samsung Galaxy S7 continues to work in spite of being submerged in lake water for two hours Earlier this year, the South Korean electronics giant, Samsung launched its flagship smartphones, Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge with water-resistant capabilities, a feature that was missing from its previous devices. The Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge boasts an IP68 rating, which means that its capable of withstanding submersion underwater up to depths of 1 meter for up to 30 minutes at a time without any damage and still work. IP68 certification is a really useful feature on any smartphone, since it means that the device could be used for clicking pictures or recording videos underwater. Further, to check the smartphone’s water-resistant capabilities, a YouTuber Max Lee had posted a video in which he threw his new Galaxy S7 into an LG washing machine with only a phone case to protect it. Surprisingly, the Galaxy S7 survived without any noticeable damage. Now, a Redditor with the user handle ‘a...

Nokia’s First Android Smartphones Could Arrive By End Of 2016 Recently, we had reported that Nokia is planning to launch two Android Nougat smartphones before the end of this year. According to a new report, the Finnish company plans to launch several smartphones and tablets by the end of this year. Nokia executive Mike Wang, president of the joint management team in China, has confirmed the news to local site ThePaper that three or four new Nokia-branded Android devices are set to be unveiled in the fourth quarter of 2016. These devices will be split between new smartphone and tablet launches. However, the devices may not hit the market until early next year. The upcoming products will be designed by the HMD Group, which comprises of ex-Nokia and ex-Microsoft employees. For those unfamiliar, Nokia sold its handset business to Microsoft a couple of years ago, and recently Microsoft sold the feature phone business to Foxconn. It was also reported on Tuesday that HMD has hired...

Essential keyboard shortcuts that will help you to navigate Windows 10 like a pro I know when you read the title of this article, you went Oh No! not another article with keyboard shortcuts. I already know all the Windows shortcuts! But I beg to differ from you. When Microsoft rejigged its Windows architecture for Windows 10, it added some quite brilliant keyboard shortcuts which I am sure you may now know. There are plenty of ways to navigate Windows 10, but sometimes using keyboard shortcuts is the most convenient and can save time and effort. You can click on the start button or tap it with your finger on a touchscreen to access the power controls or you can just hit the Windows button on the keyboard without lifting a hand. Using Windows shortcuts to call out menus in a jiffy is also a sure shot way impress your female friends or office colleagues. The Windows 10 keyboard shortcuts are so easy that once you assign them to your memory, it will take just two clicks with ...

Lenovo announces two VR ready Windows 10 desktop gaming systems The last few years has seen the sales and market share of laptops’ decline. Thanks to the arrival of smartphones, tablets and phablets. As a result, companies have been periodically launching powerful gaming laptops keeping the requirement of the gamers in mind. Now, Lenovo, the company, best known for ThinkPad and Yoga laptops, has unveiled two Windows 10 desktop PCs at the Gamescom event in Cologne, Germany yesterday that emphasize gaming power and virtual reality experience on the go: the IdeaCentre Y710 Cube and IdeaCentre AIO Y910 . “With VR, live streaming and lifelike visuals that dwarf consoles, PC gamers have completely new ways to experience and immerse themselves in games today,” said Johnson Jia, Lenovo’s Senior Vice President, PC & Smart Device Business Group, in a statement. “Our new IdeaCentre Y710 Cube and IdeaCentre AIO Y910 gaming desktops are the products of years of listening to the gr...

South Korea Has the Best Mobile Data Speed in the world, USA Lags Behind China and India comes last Today everything is driven by Internet and so speed becomes  much more important. Have you ever thought where your country ranks globally in mobile data speeds? Do you think that your country provides you the best mobile data speeds? If you compare your country with other countries of the world, you may find yourself wrong. OpenSignal, a company that specializes in wireless coverage mapping, today released their sixth Global State of the Mobile Network report on the global state of mobile networks. The information which was crowdsourced from users using their Android or iOS app and readings from mobile networks in 95 countries showed that South Koreans enjoy the fastest Internet speeds in both cellular and Wi-Fi connections, according to the report by OpenSignal. Among the 95 countries, 93 of them had 3G or better signal availability more than half of the time while the...

Gone are the days when one had to queue up in bank halls in other to perform some simple banking transactions like checking of account balance, transferring or sending of money from one account number to the other, paying of bills and lots more. Now, all these and more can be done right from the comfort of once room. Thanks to mobile banking Ecobank, one of the financial institutions with branches all over Nigeria and across the African continent lunched its USSD on the go service known as “Quick Balance”. With “Quick Balance”, Ecobank customers can conveniently check their bank account details right from their mobile phones without paying a visit to the banking hall or using an ATM. You can recall that Guarantee Trust Bank have a similar service with the GTBank *737# Code which can be used to check bank account balance, transfer funds, recharge cards, pay decoder bills and lots more.           ADVANTAGES OF QUICK BALANCE 1. It is very ...

Zip code is a group of five or nine numbers which are added to a postal address to assist the sorting of mail and delivery of goods within and outside a particular region. A mistaken or incorrect Nigeria zip code can cause your goods, letters and parcels to get missing or delayed in delivery, but with a correct zip code, your goods or documents will get to you faster and without issues. It's unfortunate that many Nigerians don't know and can't say their state postal code by heart. Some even say that it's not necessary anymore since no one is sending letters again because of the introduction GSM in the country. But the truth is this; it goes beyond sending of letters as you really need the postal codes if you have any dream of doing business online or even enrolling in some courses. Contrary to the popular misconceptions, all the areas in Nigeria do not have the same zip code, the popular number “234: used as Zip code for Nigeria is wrong, It is the phone dial...