Fancy a phone with a notch but don’t want to break your wallet? Asus could have just the thing for you with its 2018 ZenFone 5. Announced back at Mobile World Congress earlier in March, the midrange notch-design Android phone is now available in Taiwan and Singapore, the latter being an exclusive with Alibaba-backed regional e-commerce …
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Blockchain is all the rage right now, and you’ll soon see the world’s first blockchain-based phone. Finney, created by Sirin Labs, will be a phone that lets people store and use digital currencies without having to pay transaction fees, Bloomberg reported Wednesday. This means you won’t need to carry USB sticks along with your digital wallet. Instead, everything will all be …
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The best Clash Royale players in the world will soon fight it out for a hefty top prize. Supercell’s popular mobile game is venturing into pro esports with its new Clash Royale League, and it comes with a $1 million dollar prize pool that will be paid out at its World Finals event taking place in winter. With esports tournaments …
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A new phone wasn’t the only dish on Xiaomi’s new menu on Tuesday. At its press conference in Shanghai, the Chinese company also introduced a new entry into its line of Mi Notebooks, and this one comes with specs suitable for gaming. Clad in black metal, the Mi Gaming Laptop 15.6, as the name suggests, comes with a 15.6-inch display. …
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Xiaomi didn’t just show off its new Mi Mix 2S at an event in Shanghai today. It also blew away the competition for the wireless charging market with a 99-yuan ($15, £10 or AU$20) charger. Most wireless chargers cost quite a bit. And while there are cheap ones available, quality has always been a concern — many people prefer to …
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If you thought Huawei’s P20 Pro brought the heat with three cameras on the back, the Porsche Design Huawei Mate RS ups the ante with a fingerprint reader built into the display. That makes this mouthful of a phone the second to boast a trio of cameras on the back (after the Mate P20 Pro) and the first non-Vivo device …
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The Xiaomi Mi 8 has been officially revealed. It has a 6.21-inch AMOLED screen and dual 12-megapixel rear cameras. Xiaomi’s new Mi Mix 2S is an update to last year’s Mi Mix 2, and it comes with updated hardware to compete with a whole new generation of all-screen flagship phones. Oh, and it doesn’t have an iPhone-style notch. Announced in Shanghai Tuesday, …
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Xiaomi’s will be officially launching the Mi Mix 2S phone in Shanghai — and you can watch the unveiling live here. You can tell from the name that the Mi Mix 2S will likely be an updated refresh of its current Mi Mix 2, so chances are it probably won’t come with a notch — unlike other recent Chinese flagships. Not much else …
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The feature-packed Insta360 One camera just got even better. The 360-degree 4K camera impressed me with its range of tricks last August. And a new major update has now added a digital-stabilization feature called FlowState along with editing tools and smart tracking. FlowState claims to let you capture video that’s even better than using a phone on a gimbal. And if …
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When Creative called me up to ask if I was interested in hearing something incredible, I was skeptical but curious. After all, this was Creative we were talking about, the creator of the SoundBlaster, the default standard for audio in PCs in the ’90s and early ’00s, but the company as a whole hadn’t really had a major hit since. The …
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