Samsung wins class action lawsuit in South Korea over the Galaxy Note7

While Samsung is busy preparing for the launch of the Galaxy Note8, it’s still working on the aftermath that the Galaxy Note7 left in its disastrous wake. One of these is a class action lawsuit the company finds itself in its home turf. A group of Galaxy Note7 owners in South Korea filed a case against Samsung for the inconvenience the recall has supposedly caused to them. The claimants for the suit grew to 1,900 people with them claiming KRW 935 million (around CA$1.3 million, around CA$680 per person). But the local court ruled in Samsung’s favour saying that the recall and the inconvenience it might have caused wasn’t “unacceptable.” The company is also facing a similar suit in the US but that case is still ongoing.

Source: GSMArena

OneDrive for iOS gets major update with improved scanning and sharing

The OneDrive app from Microsoft for iOS has gotten significantly better. Now with improved image scanning as well as sharing features, OneDrive for Office 365 users offers the ability to scan multiple images and output them as PDFs, it is now easier to share folders and add expiration dates to those folders. Users now have more options with offline folders and a new Discover View makes it easy to find recent and shared files.

Source: Thurott.com

LG V30 will come with an f/1.6 lens, a first for smartphones

LG just doesn’t want anything to do with leaks anymore so ahead of its August 31^stlaunch of the V30 the company is sharing more information about the upcoming device. Hoping to give an even better photography experience, the V30 will be the first smartphone with an f/1.6 lens aperture. This means it’ll let in 25 percent more light than phones that have f/1.8 aperture (like the iPhone 7). Aside from this, LG says a glass lens will be added to the internal construction of the new camera to deliver more faithful and sharper images. We can’t say though if LG plans to bring it to both of its dual-camera setup. But it is clearer now that LG is making sure you still recognize the great multimedia capabilities of its V series.

As a recap, the V30 promises to be a smaller device than the V20 but will still sport a 6-inch OLED display with a 2:1 aspect ratio and 2,880 x 1,440 resolution. LG also claims it’s reduced the edge distortion of its wide-angle camera to lessen that fisheye effect.

Source: The Verge

Google rebrands its security features and calls it Play Protect

Some of you might notice something new in your Play Store app. Google announced back at I/O 2017 a new rebrand of its security features, which they’ve called Play Protect. Now, we’re seeing an instance of this show up on Google Play Store. Play Protect will be scanning apps before you download them to make sure you download apps that adhere to Google’s rules. At the same time, it watches the apps that run on your devices to see if they’re doing anything dodgy. If they are, you’ll get a notification and the app will be booted from the Play Store. You can see this in action or at least know you have it working on your phone under the “Updates” section of “My apps & games.” There you can manually scan apps and see if any of them have any issues. Some Play Store listings have also started to get “Verified by Play Protect.”

If you select the Play Protect button that has started to show up in the Play Store’s hamburger menu, it’ll then take you to the Play Protect settings page. From there you can opt to disable device scanning as well as the sending of unknown apps to Google. Now, if you disable this feature, the card under Updates will vanish but the menu items stay.

Source: 9to5Google