Gadgetory

this episode of Android Weekly is brought to you by domain.com so you guys remember the cryptic teaser from oneplus called the game-changer well it turns out it might be a oneplus drone or an elaborate April Fool's joke no I don't know for sure whether this is real or just a joke but I can tell you something is fishy in a reddit ask me anything thread oneplus representatives explicitly said the company would be selling a drone next month according to one plus Carl PI and David s the quote game-changer product that the company has been teasing over the past few weeks is actually a drone dubbed dr1 no details about the device have been shared but PI offered as proof a screenshot showing a stylized drone icon suggesting the dr1 will resemble the parrots ar.drone 2.0 now consider the timing of this ask me anything thread besides the dr1 oneplus representatives haven't shared anything that's truly new it's almost like oneplus went through the trouble of doing this AMA to leak the dr1 ahead of April Fool's Day so yes this could be an elaborate pranked to pull on all of us now of course Google has been the king of April Fools pranks but the difference is that their pranks are clearly pranks once you actually think about it this here is like well it's sort it could be true but it's kind of suspicious the way they did it what do you guys think is it true or is it a prank now let me give you a little inside industry secret when you see a leaked image of a device that has truly Bessel if displays it is almost always not genuine except in this case published by my drivers the two images below and leged Lee show a new Oppo smartphone with an edge-to-edge screen in the vein of the sharp aquos crystal unlike the sharp phone from last year this device features ultra thin bezels only on its lateral sides with the larger bezels on the top and bottom though it is hard to tell from these frontal shots the phone seems to feature a metallic frame and a thin profile suggesting that this will be a high-end offering the fine 7 was released a little over a year ago so this device could be its successor in related news gsm arena recent reported on a patent request by oppo in China that details a method of creating the illusion of a bezel is display the schematic here shows how the beveled side of glass can refract light creating the illusion that the screen is larger than it is in reality and concealing the margin that houses electronic components now for those of you for whom the lack of micro SD card support on the galaxy s6 was a deal-breaker it turns out that the s6 active may be good news for you while we strongly advise you to treat this as a rumour one European redditor named Garr shil claimed that he had an interview with his Samsung European representative and in that interview there was some key details regarding the Galaxy s6 active there will be no fingerprint reader or heart rate monitor the camera will be of a lower resolution than the s6 but it may have oh is included it will be similar in specs to those of the s6 but there will be buttons on the front micro SD card support will be included and the battery will definitely be larger and it will be released approximately mid summer 2015 now although nothing was said about waterproofing on the s6 active we expect that this feature will be retained because it is the active after all now moving on the leaks about the LG g4 will it be plastic or metal the alleged early g4 renders showcase a back cover that looks to be removable while this doesn't mean anything for sure given the company's history of metal esque plastics as well as the G flex 2 sporting such hope for an all-metal make has dwindled now a new report unofficially confirms that LG will likely be shifting away from a plastic build with the LG g4 according to ZDNet Korea however the logistics are not yet in place that would allow for such construction and thus the g4 will likely still be plastic the report does offer some hope 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