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A new smartphone app will reward good drivers with lower insurance rates


A new smartphone app will reward good drivers with lower insurance rates
It doesn't matter how educated or wealthy you are–if you're a lousy driver, you're still a lousy driver.A start-up called Root debuted in the U.S. on Tuesday to prove just that–and its technology could significantly change how much insurance companies charge their customers.Root plans to sell insurance entirely through a smartphone, and enable the best drivers to get "much, much better rates than is currently on the market, which we feel is the rate they deserve," chief executive Alex Timm told the trade publication Carrier Management,The app works like this.


BlackBerry rolls out new DTEK60, 2nd smartphone designed by partner company


BlackBerry rolls out new DTEK60, 2nd smartphone designed by partner company
BlackBerry released on Tuesday its second smartphone designed and built externally, the latest development in the company's push away from manufacturing handsets as it focuses more on its security software.The DTEK60 may be the last phone distributed by the Waterloo, Ont.-based company as it moves to outsource hardware design, manufacturing and distribution.TCL Corp. designed and manufactured the DTEK60, an android/" target="_blank">android/" target="_blank">Android-powered device that runs BlackBerry-developed software, though BlackBerry provided input in the design process.


Xiaomi reveals new concept smartphone with edge-free display


Xiaomi reveals new concept smartphone with edge-free display
Apple Inc.'s next iPhone is rumoured to feature an all-glass, edgeless design – but Xiaomi Inc. may have beaten it to the punch.This week the Beijing, China-based smartphone maker, the world's third-largest, revealed the Mi Mix, a concept smartphone roughly the size and shape of Apple's latest – but with a 6.4-inch edgeless display that Xiaomi boasts is 23 per cent larger than the 5.5-inch iPhone 7 Plus.To achieve this feat, Xiaomi's designers removed the earpiece speaker, proximity sensor, and front camera from the top of the phone, replacing the speaker with a ceramic drive unit that uses the phone's metal frame to generate sound; the traditional infrared sensor with a built-in ultrasonic one; and moving the front camera to the bottom-right corner, where it can be turned upside-down for selfies.






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