Wednesday
Dec272017

Android 8.0 Oreo is now rolling out to the LG V30 in Korea

In its home country, LG started the public beta test of the Android 8.0 Oreo for the V30 a month ago. Now, it looks like the final build is ready for primetime, as LG just announced. For those in South Korea that haven’t gotten the update yet, LG says you can download LG Bridge from the company’s site and sideload the update from there. As for when the update is coming to other countries, there isn’t an official announcement when that is happening just yet. There isn’t any official word also if Project Treble also didn’t make the cut just like with the public beta version.

Source: Android Police

Wednesday
Dec272017

First 37 customers of the OnePlus 5T Star Wars Limited Edition will get a star named after them

OnePlus has one more gimmick for those who buy the OnePlus 5T Star Wars Limited Edition in India. The first 37 buyers will get a personalized “Star Wars” constellation named after them and will be given a certificate of ownership with the details about their own star. Whether you retain ownership of this star though is highly unlikely. As GSMArena points out, many of the stars that have been named could possibly not be recognized by the International Astronomical Union and the star you think is named after you might be registered to someone else. But at least you have a certificate out of it? And you also get a cool new phone with an Easter egg included in the packaging.

Tuesday
Dec262017

This is what it looks like to watch ‘Star Wars: The Last Jedi’ in space

We shared news a couple of weeks back about how the astronauts on the International Space Station are going to get to watch Star Wars: The Last Jedi. And it seems that time has come. NASA astronaut Mark T. Vande Hei just tweeted a photo of the space station crew sitting around a projector screen with drink bags and “bungee cord chairs” for movie night. There’s something endearing about the shot showing adults holding on to their drink bags and watching an iconic science fiction film. Word is out yet whether the real life astronauts enjoyed the movie.

Tuesday
Dec262017

Lenovo’s standalone Daydream VR headset passes through the FCC

Lenovo is one of two partners Google that’s working with to release standalone headsets that runs on Google’s Daydream virtual reality platform. There weren’t any significant updates on this front, except for the news that HTC (the other partner) dropped out of creating their own VR headset. But now it looks like Lenovo is forging ahead. Their headset, which is called the Mirage Solo, just passed through the FCC. And according to the FCC document, it’ll come with a 4,000mAh battery and Bluetooth 5.0. Not much else is known about the Mirage Solo but speculation is we might expect to see it at CES. Although there is no certainty in that rumour.

Source: 9to5Google