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In the world of today, technology is king and one of the most important technologies is our phones. You just can't deny that your phone(s) has in one way or the other been an important item in your life especially the younger guys but not exclusively the younger guys.

The things you can do with a phone are unlimited but we're are only allowed to use them for hours or at most a day plus, no matter how many Mah a phone might have there is always a case of low battery.
I agree that there are a lot of battery saving apps out there but at these apps can at most keep our batteries for minutes so I try not to bother myself with them.

In today's post I would be sharing eight tips on How to extend your battery life. There are so many ways to extend your battery life but I'd be keeping it at eight.

1.
Use Dark Wallpaper And Themes

Using dark wallpaper and themes can extend your battery life(if your phone has an AMOLED screen) because AMOLED screens only light up colored pixels, black coloured pixels are not lit, so the more black pixels you have on your screen, the less battery needed to light them up hence more battery is saved.


2. Turn Off Auto Brightness

As good as it may seem, don't use auto screen brightness. You would admit that using auto screen brightness makes your screen brighter than you need. Besides, if you check your battery usage stats you would notice that those 'huge screens' on your smartphones are huge battery suckers. It's better to manually set your screen brightness rather than letting your phones do all the work.


3. Update Your Apps Regularly

Update your applications as much as possible. App developers constantly release updates for a reason and some of the reasons are improved memory and battery optimization. Also delete and Uninstall old apps you nono longer use,most of these apps run background processes that suck up your batteries.


4. Reduce Screen Timeout

Screens of Android phones automatically dims and turns off after a while. It's advisable to set this interval as short as possible would have a great impact on your battery life.
The shorter the timeout interval the more battery that is saved.


5. Turn Off Vibrate and Feedback

Turn off vibration and feedback(vibration when you type) unless you need them.
It takes more power to Vibrate your phone than it does to make it ring.
It may seem cool but truly it does nothing other than kill your battery.


6. You Don't Have To Be Connected 24/7

Okay, this is the bitter truth, you really don't have to be online 24/7(we can make an exception for me tho').

Turn off features like 3G, WiFi, NFC, Bluetooth, GPS and Location when you don't need them.
Also, turning your 3G and WiFi on at the same time makes almost no sense because you only need one at a time.


7. Make Use Of Battery Saving Features

Almost all Android phones have a battery saving tool in the menu that helps conserve and save battery, mine has two, it has the power saving mode and Ultra Power Saving Mode, Sony has STAMINA mode and HTC has Extreme power saving mode.

My ultra power saving mode limits usage to just messaging, phone calls and clock meaning I can only make calls, send and receive messages and check the time when I'm in this mode and this increases my battery life by hours.


8. Use ONLY Original Batteries
Use only original, authentic batteries for your smartphone. If you use a fake battery then no matter what you do it would always be lacking. Buying a fake battery just because it is cheaper is one of the worst mistakes you can make because it MIGHT damage your beloved Smartphone and not to talk about the poor battery life.

These are tips you can use to extend your battery life and get more out of your phone.
If you know of any other tips that was not added here, don't hesitate to use the comment box below.

Digital Assistants are Application programs designed to make things easier for us, the things a Digital Assistant can do for you are just... Unlimited, from taking notes for example you can tell 'her' to remind you to get something from the store when next you go shopping.

It can also serve as an alarm you can tell it to wake you up in two minutes and it would!

They can also work as a unit converter.

There are a lot of Digital Assistants out there but I'd list just five of them of because they are the "BIG 5" owned by big tech company.

We've got Android's Google now

Apple's Siri

Microsoft's Cortana

We also have Facebook's newly introduced M

Oh! And lastly we have Amazon's Alexa

If you look closely at the symbol of alexa you will notice that it bears a striking resemblance to Cortana, but I wouldn't be going into that.

Allow me to stop there because if I were to list all the things you could do with a Digital Assistant I might end up not doing the tutorial anymore. I just wanted to have an idea of what a digital assistant is, at least for those of us that don't know.


Now, to the main reason for writing this post.
Personally, of all the Digital Assistants I prefer Google Now, but since we all have our different choices some might like Cortana better and would like to get Cortana on their Android devices and some like me just want get a taste of the two worlds.

There are however a few limitations placed on the Android version of Cortana, for example you can not wake Cortana up by saying 'Hey, Cortana'.

If you can live with that, then let's get on with it!

To Get Cortana on your Android phones first download This file, Install and run it.

You'd need a Microsoft account, if you have one Sign in and if you don't, Create a new account.

After signing in, set up your Cortana on your phone and that's all. You would have installed Cortana on your Android device.

Note: The app is still in its Beta testing stage so there are still a couple of bugs and glitches but it's nothing you can't endure.

Source - Naijatechs.com

tomiobj:
The cpu of this phone is very bad. Megapixels don't determine foto quality. U. Didn't say the pixel density of the phone. I can go on

3264 x 2448 pixels, 1920 x 1080 pixels

My mathematicians,
Abeg make una no vex o!
I made a mistake with the price..

What I meant was $119.99
Can you guys help me calculate that?

Besides, wouldn't you guys be happy if the price is of the dollar goes down to 120?

enigstil:
Hope they ship to naija?

Yea... They do

Oukitel K4000 VS power drill

http://youtube.com/watch?v=ss-cZXUJcR0

enigstil:
Bro abeg where person go fit see this phone buy o, man must get am.

[url=gearbest.com]gearbest.com[/url]

enigstil:
Men this is the bomb, all this for that price? Modes move this to front page o.This phone is gonna give other phones out there serious competition.

I swear down!

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Oukitel, it's not really a famous brand and at the same time they are not new in the market.

The oukitel K4000 is a 5.0 inch Android device that runs on Android 5.1 Lollipop, supports 4G connectivity, comes with RAM of 2GB and ROM (Internal memory) of 16GB, 13MP back camera 5MP front camera
And it is powered by a 4,000 mah battery.


Main Features
Display: 5.0 inch 2.5D Arc HD Screen (720 x 1280)
System: Android 5.1
CPU: MTK6735 64bit Quad Core 1.0 ghz
RAM & ROM: 2GB & 16GB respectively
Max. External Storage: 32GB
Back Camera: 8.0MP (interpolation to 13MP)
Front Camera: 2.0MP (interpolation to 5.0MP)
GPS: Yes, Supports GPS
Bluetooth: 4.0
SIM CARD: Dual Sim dual standby, dual Micro Sim cards.
Networks:
WiFi: 802.11 b/g/n, dual band, hotspot
2G: GSM 850/900/1800/1900MHz
3G: WCDMA 900/2100MHz
4G: FDD-LTE 800/1800/2100/2600MHz

Those are pretty amazing Specs but that's not why I called it the Craziest Android Phone Ever Made, the reason why I called it the craziest Android device is because...... You know what? I'm just gonna let the pictures do the talking. Check it out!

According to the description on Gearbest, it can also survive being run over by a car.

And the best part is the price.
The monstrous device is just $119.99 which is about N24,000

Do I still need to talk?

I'd probably be placing an order for this device soon.

Source : NAIJATECHS.COM

Zerodium Offers Bounty Of $3 million For Successful iOS 9 Jailbreak




ZERODIUM, a premium exploit acquisition company is ready to pay a whooping sum of $3,000,000 (yea! you heard right, three milli!) for a successful jailbreak of Apple's new iOS 9.



This is said to be the biggest Zero-day Bounty program tagged the: The million dollar iOS 9 bug Bounty



Apple's iOS is currently the most secure mobile operating system but we can all agree that secure doesn't mean unbreakable, it just means it's more complex, time consuming and cost a lot to achieve.

ZERODIUM said it's prepared to pay $1,000,000 each to three people or team who can successfully break into iPhones or iPads equipped with the new iOS 9

To win the prize money, hackers security researchers must use a Web page or text message to hack bypass the new software and discretely install an application on the iPhone or iPad.
In addition, these 'Bounty hunters' must work on a wide range of Apple devices including the newly launched iPhone 6S and iPhone 6S plus which dropped today(25th September). The Bounty program lasts till October 31st so aspirants have a little over a month to come with a successful jailbreak of the 'most secure mobile OS', good luck to them.


SUBMISSIONS

All communications and submissions must be made through encrypted emails.
ZERODIUM reserves the right to decide if an entry is valid or not.
Payment of the Bounty includes purchase of rights to the submitted jailbreak and exploits.

To submit an entry, send an ENCRYPTED email to contact@zerodium.com

If you have what it takes to fall the Most secure mobile OS I suggest you pick up that laptop and get to work, because we're talking 'one million dollars' here. It's time to put that frowned-upon skill to 'good' use.

Source : Naija Techs

Few months ago, we heard news of an Android-powered Blackberry device that was set to drop. It started out as mere rumors but as time went on it started to look realistic as Leaked images and Leaked specs of the device started surfacing.

Blackberry Venice Blackberry priv specs and images

During the early stages, we called it the Blackberry Slider then later we got the codename Venice, but the real official name remained a mystery UNTIL NOW!


Blackberry's first ever Android device codenamed Venice is expected to launch officially in a matter of weeks and until now we've known it by its codename Venice but it seems we may have its official name.

According to long time tech tipster Evan Blass, a man who has been right on many occasions, it's going to be called Blackberry Priv.

He said in a tweet:


" At retail, Venice transforms into the......

Blackberry Priv"


The name may sound odd and weird now but with tome we'd have no choice but to stick with it, or as Evan said in a tweet "Names always sound weird until they don't" He also went to say "if you survived the Nintendo Wii, you'll certainly acclimate Priv .

Now to the pronunciation, we now know the official name but how do we pronounce it?

Would it be Priv pronounced pryv as in PRIVACY? Blackberry has always been acclaimed for its powerful mobile security. Or would it be Priv pronounced Preev as in REPRIEVE? Could they be asking for one last chance? Or was it meant to rhyme with EXPENSIVE! Which is what most Blackberry phones are!


The Venice Priv seems to be the last chance for Blackberry to prove that they're still worth the cash in our pockets, and also to win back users who ditched them for Android and Apple devices in the recent years.

We may all be using HTCs, Samsungs, Infinix' and iPhones now but we cannot deny the fact that Blackberry introduced us to the world of Smartphones.

In a previous post I highlighted a few specs of the Blackberry Venice oh, Sorry! I meant Blackberry Priv

Source naijatechs.com

veltany:
Mtcheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeew!

I have tried it and nothing happened.
Op, your nuts..

www.jamzcity.com

Really??
I think Google is there for a reason..

This is an official warning from Naija Techs, WHATEVER YOU DO, DO NOT TYPE THIS INTO GOOGLE CHROME BROWSER!
A bug has been found in Google's Chrome Browser, this string of characters can crash Your Browser when you click on it, mouse over it or enter it into your browser.

Google Chrome browser bug

When you click on "http://a%%30%30"( without the quotation marks) or enter it into your address bar and press enter could cause your current tab to close or crash the entire browser, taking anything you're working on with it!

This link bug was discovered by Andris Atteka a security researchers from Latvia, he reported the bug to Google on 18th of September 2015. The computer geek found out that placing null characters at the end of URL causes Google's Chrome Browser to instantly choke after attempts to rationalize the Web address.

Only the PC and MAC version of Chrome browser appears to be affected while the mobile version of the browser seem to bug-free.

Typing the same characters into other browsers like Firefox, Internet Explorer and Safari does not cause the same issue.

No reward was awarded to Andris for discovering this bug as this was deemed to be only a DOS vulnerability.

Google should be amidst fixing this bug but for Chrome users are advised to watch out for fake tweets, emails and messages tempting them to try the bug.

I know you might be thinking "let me try it out and see what happens" because I did the same thing!
When I heard about this bug first thing I did was try it out and see what it does. When I entered the link into my address bar and clicked enter, after a few seconds the entire browser crashed! So if you're willing to try it, I advise you save any work in progress first, or don't even try it at all.

Truth be told..

This ain't worth the price..
I'd rather buy an Infinix Hot note

8mp back camera
2mp front camera
1gb RAM
16GB ROM
4000MAH battery with fast charge..

Instead if this..
5mp back camera
2mp front camera
1gb RAM
8GB ROM
2000MAH battery

And hot note is 24k or so.. ..

Tallesty1:
[url=your link] Word[/url]

Okay thankz man!!

I really appreciate!!

Trying it out


It worked!

My fellow nairalanders, help me out..

How can I link in nairaland , I mean how do I do it that it would show the word instead of the link.

I tried using the regular HTML <a href="http:/njhy">Word</a> but It didn't work...

sukkot:
my bros it was a yoke now. i was yoking with my igbo brothers. hence the ' wink ' smilie after the post. i like yoking around. my oga at the top

I for say... All join shaa... .

I'm part of the igbo brothers... And we Dey o!

sukkot:
cool. yoruba boys doing big thangs. biafra how market

It's people like that's holding Nigeria back..
Must you turn everything into an ethical thing..
Na wa o!

Please I want to ask a stupid question, how did you do the 'word linking' in your signature as in how did you do it that it's showing words instead of the link..

I tried using the regular HTML <a href="http:/njhy">Word</a> but It didn't work...

The term 'non-removable' doesn't the battery can never be removed, what it means is that the battery can be removed readily like other phones, to remove the battery you'd have to meet a professional or if you're an expert in the field you can remove it yourself, there screws that hold the battery all you have to do is start loosing them NO BE ME SEND YOU MESSAGE O!

I'm currently using a fone with a non-removable battery (HOT NOTE) and my experience with it has be super cool.
The only problem with phones with non-removable battery is when the phone start to hang, you'd have to wait for eternity if that's when the phone decide to 'come back'. But in all the time I have been using my phone I haven't had thus kinda problem, the one time that my phone 'HANGED' the phone restarted itself after a few seconds.

I just hope it ls not like the drone used in THE MESSENGERS

deybholar:
Lucan Chambliss is now so muscular What happened to that cute 'mommy's boy look' he had back then?

Read my previous comments you'd understand..

kannymoore:
Those pictures are fake.

Think i'm lying?

Look closely@ the biceps and wrists of the first two pictures!!

Are you seeing what i'm seeing??!? !!


Meanwhile.... so u still expect a normal Naija boy.. several years after winning millions of naira to still look as young as that ba?

Lubbish!

Dude!!
You have keen eyes..

I'm seeing things!

Look at
DENNIS and EZEUGO
LUCAS and PASCAL

you would notice they have the same body, same vein lines, the clothes folded in the same way, their belle shook out the same way but different heads..
I for say, I know pascal wella one tiny guy who dash am chest and muscles??

Gulder Don carry their lie lie enta pictures again na wa o!

sunnyb0b0:
Igbos 8 out of 9.

Why?

Because no quota system.

Cos we're stronger.. And we like money wella! :-/

Chanchit:
This is Nigeria, you should be able to detect deceptions, I'm not suppose to explain further but I would just spare little of my time.
They evict any potential threat(contestant) who is showing traits of winning at d slightest opportunity, I noticed this from the second to the 4 edition, that was when I finally gave up on them, that's the most glaring one, there was also one final stage I watched, the other guy got to where the treasure was and was searching like a mad man, while the second guy just got to the spot and went straight to where the treasure was as if he kept it there.

ABI O!
That's the 'Pascal Edition'.. I think say na only me notice am. .

I watched all ten of them..

I particularly enjoyed enjoyed the first three editions because na those ones be confam.. The rest are just obvious fraud/Cheating/Ojoro

Imagine that Pascal own, Anyone that watched the final episode would clearly see say they don already select their winner. The guy didn't even search anywhere he just went start straight to the place the treasure was hidden (SOMETHING BURIED O!).. As they just said GO! The guy just run carry shovel begin and started digging, how did he know it was in that exact spot??
Even if una wan scam us at least the guy shoulda first acted as if he was finding it.. ah! Na wa o!

Anyways, PATIENTLY WAITING FOR GUS11