Sony rises up to Nintendo, also plans to release games on iOS and Android

Following Nintendo's foray into mobile gaming on smartphones, Sony has announced that it is releasing five new games on iOS and Android by the year ending 2018. This signifies a shift in Sony's mobile strategy, it's onw PS Vita handheld is five years old and while popular in hardcore gaming circles is seen as redundant to current smartphone gaming experiences. 

The games will come to Japan first,where mobile revenues account for over half of the country's games market. Sony is currently relying exclusively on PS4 games and accessories for revenue and recently jumped headfirst into the VR game with the Sony VR suite, but it needs other areas to compete in.

Source: AppleInsider

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Preorder page for a new Samsung Chromebook leaks specs and photos of the device

Rumours about a new Chromebook nicknamed "Kevin" started to circulate earlier this year and it seems we have more “news” about the said device. ChromeUnboxed found a series of retailer listings for what will supposedly be called the Samsung Chromebook Pro. There’s a preorder page on Adorama and a landing page was up for the device but has since been taken down.

Some of the specs of the Chromebook Pro include a 12.3-inch with a 2,400 x 1,600 resolution touch screen that can be rotated 360 degrees and comes with minimal bezels. It’ll have 4GB of RAM, 32GB of storage, an all-metal 12.9mm thick body, and 10 hours of battery life. Based on the listing on Adorama it’ll go for US$499 (around CA$650) and a since-deleted B&H product page for the device listed its availability for October 24.

Source: The Verge

There’s a software workaround when the iPhone 7’s home button doesn’t work

Aside from taking out the headphone jack, Apple also revamped the home button in the iPhone 7. Instead of having a mechanical button, a force sensitive static button is in its place. And at times it might not work. But there seems to be a workaround for that. A MacRumors forum user found that the iPhone 7 displays a home button on the screen when it sees there’s a problem with the button.

According to the user, the message showed up when the phone turned off while it was charging. When he restarted the device, he said “it worked at first then started spazzing out. The Haptic engine kept firing [three to four] times in a row for every ‘press’. I restarted [the phone] again and it’s back to not working.” With Apple supposedly planning to remove the button entirely for the 10^th-anniversary iPhone, this might be considered as a precursor for that.