If you’re planning to buy a phone later this year, you may not be able to avoid 5G. Qualcomm President Cristiano Amon last week predicted that by this holiday season or the Chinese New Year in early 2020, all major flagship phones will run 5G — and there may not even be an option to …
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March, 2019
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5 March
Samsung said to be working on two more foldable phones
Samsung’s family of foldable smartphones may be tripling soon. The South Korean electronics giant is developing a pair of new foldable handsets following its unveiling of its Galaxy Fold, people familiar with the company’s plans told Bloomberg. One of the devices would fold away from the user like the Huawei Mate X instead of inward, as the Galaxy Fold does. …
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5 March
Oppo F11 Pro takes to India with a 48
The latest phone in Oppo’s F series lineup is promising to dazzle you with beautiful photos. And its 48-megapixel rear camera lives up to that promise. That rear camera is paired with a 5-megapixel depth sensor. And together the F11 Pro’s cameras do a great job of capturing images with plenty of detail, letting you zoom right down to the pixels. …
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5 March
Facebook pages get face
If you think your Facebook page looks a bit different today, you’re not alone. The social networking giant appears to have rolled out a new page design on Tuesday, eschewing the previous three-column layout for one that incorporates only two. On the right is static information about the page, while the left side contains the feed of recent posts. Facebook …
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5 March
Samsung Health partners with Calm, adds tools to track sleep, manage stress
Samsung is teaming up with the Calm mindfulness app. The app’s maker said Monday that subscribers can now access Calm content through the Samsung Health platform. To set it up, tap the Mindfulness icon in your Samsung Health app. Follow the steps to sync your account or create a new Calm account. The integration makes for better ways to track …
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5 March
Tim Berners
Three decades ago, a young computer scientist named Tim Berners-Lee proposed an internet-based hyperlink system to allow the sharing of information among different computers, forever changing how people communicate and use the net. The idea behind what would become known as the World Wide Web was both simple and lofty, he told an audience Tuesday at an event marking the …
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5 March
The Razer Phone 2 hits an all
We live in the age of the Nintendo Switch, which delivers a pretty amazing mobile gaming experience for $300. That could be why gamers — who generally have no trouble paying a premium for the top gear — haven’t been clamoring for an $800 “gaming phone.” Ah, but $500? That might be a sweeter spot for the gaming-minded phone shopper. …
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5 March
Google Photos sharing to Android TVs shut down over privacy bug
Google has temporarily disabled Google Photo sharing to Android TVs while it investigates a privacy bug. The issue, discovered by Twitter user Prashanth, let hundreds of users’ accounts be visible to other users, Android Police reported on Monday. On Tuesday Google confirmed it had shut down the feature while it looked into the problem. “We take our users’ privacy extremely …
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5 March
Huawei P30 Pro’s pop
The P30 Pro, one of two phones Huawei will introduce in Paris on March 26, will have a pop-out camera powerful enough to capture details of the moon’s surface. According to an article published by Android Central, the phone features a “periscope-style” camera with “super-zoom capabilities.” The company declined to confirm the exact technical specifications, but previous rumors predicted that the camera …
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5 March
Alexa speakers can now talk to Roku streamers and TVs
If you have both an Amazon Echo and a Roku in the house, get ready to start talking to the TV. The new Roku skill, available now, lets Alexa speakers such as the Echo, Echo Dot, Echo Show and others accept your voice commands to control Roku streamers and TVs. You can now use Alexa to: Launch Apps (“Alexa, open …
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