Amazon looks to be putting Fire Phone to rest

Amazon looks like they’re putting the final nail on the coffin of its Fire Phone, the company’s first foray into the smartphone business. They haven’t announced it explicitly but stocks have run out on Amazon’s site and they didn’t indicate when they plan on restocking. The company was previously rumoured to have restricted its Lab126 hardware development division and laid off engineers who were working on the phone. No matter what Amazon did to try and sell the device, everything from cutting down its price to almost giving it away via telco contract. They weren’t to get the phone off the ground.

Source: PCWorld

Apple ‘iPhone 6s’ might come with always-on ‘Hey Siri’ functionality

Just ahead of the Apple Special Event, a source told Apple Insider that the upcoming phone from the company will come with always-on “Hey Siri” activation, much like “OK Google” service on Android. Siri can do that too but it must be connected to a power for voice activation to work. The current iOS 9 beta doesn’t support the unplugged “Hey Siri” feature making us speculate that they integrated it at the hardware level. Some Android phones have a specialized voice activation monitoring chip to support “OK Google” feature without it eating too much battery life. Well, we just have a few more hours to wait before we find out what Apple’s cooking in its kitchen.

Source: Apple Insider

Tech specs for Google Cardboard version 2.0 surface

Back in May, Google debuted version 2.0 of its Google Cardboard VR headset. Now, the company’s released the technical specifications and drawings for Google Cardboard v2. Those who have bigger phones and couldn’t fit in their devices before can do so now. The second iteration of the VR headset can handle larger phones. With the drawings up, you can start building your own headset. But we can also expect manufacturers to start building their versions, if DIY isn’t your thing.

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LG possibly making a device with a secondary ticker display

You’ve seen it on Samsung’s Galaxy Note Edge. Now, LG is supposedly trying their hand at having a secondary ticker display to show at-a-glance information. China’s TENAA regulator recently tested the LG V10, which is a phone that has a ticker display running on top. The front camera as you see seems to have been relegated to the upper left side of the photo. The Chinese filing has seen disappeared so we can’t say much about the specs.

According to Evan Blass (@evleaks on Twitter), the V10 will be a more powerful device than the G4. It’ll supposedly have a larger 5.7-inch Quad HD display, G4’s processor, RAM, and cameras, and 64GB expandable storage. And we supposedly won’t be waiting too long to see the device as it could ship as early as October.

Source: Engadget