The latest speculation about the upcoming flagship iPhone for the fall adds a couple of twists: support for the Apple Pencil stylus and a 512GB storage option. That’s what TrendForce’s prognosticators predict in a press release issued by the analyst firm. If that sounds familiar, it’s probably because Samsung’s recently announced Galaxy Note 9 offers similar perks: …
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Information has been bubbling up within the developer community about “Campfire,” an update to Chromebook firmware that would allow people to securely boot the systems into Windows 10 in addition to Google’s Chrome OS. XDA Developers first noticed it mentioned within references to Google’s own Pixelbook, but has since seen enough code variations to imply that it will probably be …
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Although Alcatel released a legion of budget phones earlier this year, the Alcatel 7 was not among them; clearly eight is not too many. Now the company brings a MetroPCS-specific model of a 6-inch phone with a big 4,000mAh battery to market at a bargain price of $180 — $130 if you fulfill the fine-print conditions. On the surface it …
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At SIGGRAPH 2018, Nvidia announced its first processors built on its long-awaited Turing architecture, the Quadro RTX 5000, 6000 and 8000 graphics processors; Turing brings higher-bandwidth processing thanks to 4,608 CUDA cores along with support for high-bandwidth GDDR6 memory and the new one-cable VirtualLink VR. RTX adds new ray-tracing cores for high-quality, real-time rendering with global illumination. They’re slated to …
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The upcoming Galaxy S10 may not be Samsung’s first to incorporate next-generation 5G wireless technology. DJ Koh, head of Samsung’s mobile business, told journalists at its recent global Unpacked event that the electronics giant is working with Korean telcos to launch the first 5G model in the country — and that won’t be the Galaxy S10, according to ZDNet. 5G service is …
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The eagerly anticipated Red Hydrogen One — the phone with the holographic display and stereoscopic video-capture capabilities — got some firmer dates today. From Aug. 31 through Sept. 11, a limited number of models (Houdini) will ship out to preapproved beta testers. Folks who preordered will get it Oct. 9, and then it goes into full carrier release with AT&T, …
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Double the cores, double the fun! AMD’s highest-end processor jumps from 16 to 32 cores in the new Ryzen Threadripper 2990WX, based on AMD Zen+ architecture, slated to ship on Aug. 10. At the end of August, the current 16-core flagship, the 1950X, gets its 2nd-generation upgrade to the 2950X but a demotion to middle-of-the-line of AMD’s high-end processors. For …
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MoviePass has a new solution to its ongoing financial drama: simplification. One plan, three movies, $10 a month, starting Aug. 15. The change comes less than a week after MoviePass said it would raise its prices to $15 and drop blockbuster availability, which followed on the heels of a failed attempt to institute peak pricing and backlash when people couldn’t get …
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Update, Aug. 9: The Galaxy Note 9 is now official, and we’ve gone hands-on. Original story follows. A 30-second video that appeared to promote the as-yet unannounced Samsung Galaxy Note 9 briefly appeared online this morning. The video — one of those advertising spots that highlight a couple of features in a product — included information about the possible storage configuration and battery …
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Ready or not, here it comes. Blade’s Shadow desktop-in-the-cloud (but really focused on gaming) service that lets you play on any device makes its east coast debut next week, to be followed by a full rollout across the US in October. The company says it’s fixed a lot of problems that cropped up in its rocky California-only phase. Notably, it …
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