Energizer’s brick of a smartphone uses “world’s most powerful” phone battery

as informed in Yes, this is something like the 45th announced Energizer phone. The Energizer Mobile page is here, but it does not acknowledge the existence of the P18K anywhere. The report says the phone is 18mm thick, which is more than two normal-sized smartphones stacked together. For an 18mm thick smartphone, there are still a lot of design decisions here that seem inherited from size-constrained smartphones. There's no headphone jack, and I can't believe there isn't room for one on an 18mm thick smartphone.

Aston Martin's futuristic hypercar uses your smartphone as its touchscreen

Aston's new AM-RB 003 hypercar (formerly known as Project 003) is also a gas-guzzler. Curiously, though, the car will come without a dashboard touchscreen -- presumably in a bid to lightweight it as much as possible. Instead, owners will have to mount their own smartphone to the dash if they want to use navigation or play music through Spotify. The company has been a little vague on the specs, but it's likely to be on the road by 2021. On the outside, it's pretty futuristic-looking, which according to Aston boss Andy Palmer, makes it a car well-suited for tech entrepreneurs.

Amazon is working with Mexico's central bank on a smartphone payment system that uses QR codes

as declared in Mexico's central bank is in talks with Amazon.com to launch a new government-backed mobile payment system that would allow consumers to pay for online purchases using QR codes, the bank's head of payments said. The payment system, known as CoDi, is being built by central bank Banco de México, known as Banxico. CoDi will allow customers to make payments online and in person through smartphones free of charge using QR codes. MercadoLibre confirmed that its payments arm MercadoPago was in contact with the central bank about digital payment solutions but declined to comment further. Mexico's new leftist government under President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador is betting on financial technology to help lift people out of poverty.

collected by :John Smith