The Huawei P20 and P20 Pro phones are off to a strong start, according to a press release Huawei recently shared with media, making roughly 100 million RMB (or yuan) in the first 10 seconds of a flash sale. That’s over $15 million, £11 million or AU$20 million. Huawei released the phones in its home …
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Virtual reality systems like the HTC Vive and Oculus Rift are so immersive that they require digital barriers so you don’t run into a real wall in the middle of an intense game. But there’s nothing stopping an attacker from changing what you see in VR, according to researchers from the University of New Haven in Connecticut. The researchers found …
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In a more perfect world, your phone battery would easily last all day, wouldn’t degrade over time and, most crucially, wouldn’t explode. This might sound like a pipe dream, but researchers at the University of Maryland have developed a new water- and zinc-based battery that could go some way to meeting all three of those criteria and could end up …
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Even Samsung may not be safe from the controversial notch. Samsung filed a patent application (PDF) with Chinese patent organization SIPO that shows off a few different phone designs each with a notch above the phone’s screen. The patent application was filed on March 30 and spotted on Monday by Dutch phone blog Mobielkopen. The phone in the patent application looks …
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You’ve likely seen artificial intelligence technology spread into apps, devices and services, doing things like recognizing your friends’ faces in photos and endowing smart speakers with human-sounding voices. Well, good news: The processor industry has noticed, too. That means we’ll see a slew of new chips that should speed up AI tasks not just on your phone or laptop but …
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Galaxy S9 Plus vs. iPhone X: It’s another battle of the camera titans. Samsung and Apple are continually pushing the limits in phone photography, and with the Galaxy S9 and Galaxy S9 Plus, Samsung has stepped up its camera game. Galaxy S9 Plus and iPhone X specs Galaxy S9 Plus iPhone X Wide-angle resolution 12 megapixels 12 megapixels Telephoto resolution 12 …
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What’s the Galaxy S9’s least loved feature? That’s easy: AR Emoji, the Samsung exclusive that whips up 3D avatars. It’s a pretty transparent imitation of the iPhone X’s 3D animoji characters — fox, monkey, swirl-capped turd — but with one major, absolutely crucial difference: You. While, yes, you can become a character like Donald Duck, you can also make Samsung’s …
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The dazzling, candy-apple Product Red iPhone 8 phones are now on sale. You could say that the timing is brilliant, revving up iPhone sales six months after the iPhone 8, 8 Plus and iPhone X first came on the market. Apple wants a second hit on an “older” phone. But I think Apple and other phone makers are going about its …
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Samsung’s latest Galaxy phone, the Galaxy J2 Pro, lacks one skill you’d expect any smartphone to be able to do: connect to the internet. That’s right. No 3G, no LTE, no Wi-Fi, no nothing. Samsung says the phone is intended for students and senior citizens as a way for them to make calls and use apps, minus the distractions or confusions …
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Looks like Arm doesn’t plan to buy part of Qualcomm after all. CNBC reported on Thursday that Qualcomm’s former CEO, Paul Jacobs, had been talking to strategic investors to help raise money to take the mobile chipmaker private. One investor name listed was Arm, the UK company that designs the architecture that’s the basis of most mobile chips. Its customers, …
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