The iPhone 11 Pro, its triple rear cameras, Night Mode and new selfie camera are surely meant to be Apple’s photography antidote to Android’s three camera kings, the Huawei P30 Pro, Google Pixel 3 and Samsung Galaxy Note 10. But the newest iPhone also has to show existing iPhone owners that there’s a step up …
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Why Steven Soderbergh needs to upgrade to the iPhone 11 Pro for his next film
The new iPhone 11, iPhone 11 Pro and 11 Pro Max will undoubtedly appeal to a broad swath of people, but the shiny new Apple phones seem aimed at two people in particular: filmmaker Steven Soderbergh and myself. Soderbergh is the Academy Award-winning director behind such films as Ocean’s Eleven, Magic Mike, Erin Brockovich and Sex, Lies, and Videotape. I, on the …
Read More »Surface Duo, Galaxy Fold and every dual
Microsoft wants to succeed where Samsung, LG and others have failed. With the Surface Duo, a dual-screen phone, the software giant wants to make dual-screen phones successful. That is, if Microsoft even acknowledges that the Surface Duo is a phone at all. Read more: Forget the Galaxy Fold: This zigzagging foldable phone from TCL bends into thirds The announcement came on Wednesday (along with …
Read More »Microsoft says its Surface Duo phone isn’t really a phone
Update, Sept. 22, 2021: Microsoft held its 2021 Surface event on Sept. 22, and unveiled the Surface Duo 2. The new folding phone features a faster processor, better cameras and many other upgrades compared to the Surface Duo. Microsoft doesn’t want you to think of the newly announced Surface Duo as a phone. And the reasons are far from technical. …
Read More »Samsung expects steep drop in Q3 profits, but it’s better than feared
Samsung’s being hit hard by a slowdown in tech. The company on Monday projected a 56% drop in third-quarter operating profit to about 7.7 trillion won ($6.4 billion). It also said its revenue slid 5.3% to 62 trillion won ($51.8 billion). Both amounts are slightly better than what analysts expected, according to Thomson Reuters, but they mark a sharp reversal …
Read More »iFixit Galaxy Fold teardown shows the improvements Samsung made
After its first teardown was taken down at Samsung’s request, iFixit is back with a new look at Samsung’s updated Galaxy Fold. In the new teardown, the disassembly experts have taken apart Samsung’s updated Fold to see just what changes were made to the updated version of the phone-tablet hybrid. As expected, considering all the issues that popped up during …
Read More »Microsoft Surface Pro X vs. Samsung Galaxy Book S: Arms race
The days of Windows and Intel walking mostly in lockstep may be coming to an end. Two high-profile new PCs this year have been announced using Arm processors, similar to the ones that power modern smartphones. They join a small handful of Arm-plus-Windows machines from the past two years. The Samsung Galaxy Book S claims to offer 23 hours of …
Read More »Android exploit leaves some Pixel, Galaxy phones vulnerable to hacks
Google’s security researchers said Thursday that they have found a new Android exploit that lets hackers take over a person’s phone. The Project Zero team discovered the vulnerability in late September. They’ve already seen evidence of the exploit being used in the real world before it could be patched, making it what’s known as a zero-day vulnerability. The exploit is in …
Read More »Galaxy Fold lasts for 120,000 folds in CNET’s livestreamed test
Our livestreamed test is over and the results are in: Samsung’s new Galaxy Fold didn’t make it all the way through our durability test, but it survived around 120,000 automated folds. After an attempted launch this past spring marred by complaints of screen problems on preproduction review units, Samsung’s foldable phone was released Sept. 27 with key design changes and a more …
Read More »Windows 10X OS will work with new dual
Microsoft on Wednesday unveiled the Windows 10X operating system, which will work with the new dual-screen Surface Neo devices, expected to be available in late 2020. Windows 10 X is part of Microsoft’s multiyear journey to change the architecture of Windows and make it more modular, as we’ve already seen with the HoloLens 2, Surface Hub and Xbox. The OS is …
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