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The company hopes the day never comes. (Source: Gizbot)

Huawei confirms that it has built its own proprietary mobile OS...just in case

There have always been rumors that Huawei was working on its own OS. Those have now been confirmed by the company, with Huawei CEO Richard Yu affirming that the Chinese monolith has a working mobile OS all geared up and ready to g...
Ricci Rox, 17 Mar 2019 12:08
The Poco F1. (Source: BBC)

New Geekbench listing teases a purported Poco F1 Lite

A few days ago, a Geekbench listing showed what appeared to be a Poco F1 Lite running on Android Pie with 4 GB of RAM and a Snapdragon 660. We are leery of the whole thing, though.
Ricci Rox, 17 Mar 2019 12:08
Renders of the Xiaomi foldable phone. (Source: LetsGoDigital)

Xiaomi's upcoming foldable phone will cost half the price of a Samsung Galaxy Fold

Samsung's Galaxy Fold and Huawei's Mate X foldable phones may rightfully dominate the headlines but they come with the caveat of outrageous prices. Xiaomi is set to join the foldable race in the coming months and will, in typical ...
Ricci Rox, 16 Mar 2019 23:06
Renders of the Huawei P30 Pro. (Source: Techenguru)

The Huawei P30 and P30 Pro will feature OLED displays made by Samsung

The Huawei P30 and P30 Pro will be launched on March 26, and while the devices' selling points remain photography, both will still feature top of the line displays—in the form of Samsung-made OLED panels.
Ricci Rox, 16 Mar 2019 23:05
The Redmi Note 7 is the first Xiaomi phone to come with an 18-month warranty as standard. (Source: Xiaomi)

Xiaomi plans to make 18-month warranties a standard for its smartphones

Xiaomi usually offers a 12-month warranty for its phones to customers in its home country of China. However, this was turned on its head somewhat with the release of the Redmi Note 7. The company gave an extra 6 months' worth for ...
Deirdre O Donnell, 16 Mar 2019 16:00
Qualcomm has won a legal case against Apple. (Source: Qualcomm)

Qualcomm beats Apple in multi-million-dollar patent infringement case

Qualcomm has successfully pressed its latest legal complaint against Apple in a San Diego court. Its jury has ruled that the Cupertino company did in fact use 3 patents that did not belong to it in the making of its 2016-2018 iPho...
Deirdre O Donnell, 16 Mar 2019 15:25
Dell XPS 13 9380 (i7-8565U, 4K UHD) Laptop Review

88% Dell XPS 13 9380 (i7-8565U, 4K UHD) Laptop Review

Now with a standard webcam. What benefits does the Core i7 SKU offer over the Core i5 SKU? We benchmark the most expensive XPS 13 9380 configuration and compare it to the less costly Core i5 SKU to show all the differences users can expect. Update: 5 hours more with FHD.
Intel Core i7-8565U | Intel UHD Graphics 620 | 13.30" | 1.2 kg
Allen Ngo, 15 Mar 2019 19:45
This selfie camera's oneday successor may not even be visible within the display. (Source: AndroidPIT)

Samsung's next-generation displays are set to engulf and hide cameras completely

The Galaxy S10s are Samsung's first flagships in which the front-facing cameras peek right through their high-end OLED displays. However, their future replacements may not even require the cut-out in order to fit around a camera. ...
Deirdre O Donnell, 15 Mar 2019 18:58
Qualcomm's mid-range and high-end SoCs are ready to support the upcoming 64 MP and 100 MP cameras scheduled for late 2019. (Source: Blackberry)

Qualcomm's mid-range and high-end SoCs already supporting the 64 MP and 100 MP cameras scheduled for late 2019

Qualcomm's Sr. Director of Product Management Judd Heape revealed that a few OEMs are already planning to release 64 MP and 100 MP cameras in some late-2019 smartphone models, and these will easily be handled by the company's exis...
Bogdan Solca, 15 Mar 2019 18:46
The Sony Xperia 1. (Source: Sony)

The Sony Xperia 1 is now listed on Amazon US with a hefty US$999 price tag

The Sony Xperia 1 has now been listed on Amazon. The device is listed with a US warranty, so it's almost definitely the unlocked model for the US market. Sadly, it also comes with a US$999 price tag, and apparently doesn't ship un...
Ricci Rox, 15 Mar 2019 14:19
Facebook's temporary outage proved to be a blessing for competing services such as Telegram. (Source: Boostability)

Huge Facebook outage results in 3 million new signups for Telegram

Facebook and its subsidiaries suffered a temporary outage of services yesterday leading to inconvenience for users and advertisers alike. The company clarified that the outage was a result of a server configuration change and is n...
Vaidyanathan Subramaniam, 15 Mar 2019 11:06
AMD's Radeon RX 590 is a competitive challenger for the new Nvidia GeForce GTX 1660. (Source: eTeknix)

AMD comes out fighting: Pick up a Radeon RX 590 for US$219.99; Vega 56 spotted again at US$279.99

AMD could be planning on some serious product discounting soon. A Gigabyte Radeon RX Vega 56 GAMING OC 8G card has been priced at a very tempting US$279.99 on Newegg for limited time sales, and there has been an RX 590 Special Edi...
Daniel R Deakin, 15 Mar 2019 07:42
ZOTAC's GAMING GeForce GTX 1660 is currently available for US$219.99. (Source: Newegg)

Turing technology for US$219: Nvidia announces the GeForce GTX 1660

Nvidia has officially announced the GeForce GTX 1660 graphics card, the latest addition to the company’s GTX 16-series. Like the GeForce GTX 1660 Ti, the new product is based on Turing architecture and comes at the competitive pri...
Daniel R Deakin, 15 Mar 2019 06:16
HP ProBook 430 G6 (Core i5-8265U, 8 GB RAM, 256 GB SSD, FHD) Laptop Review

84% HP ProBook 430 G6 (Core i5-8265U, 8 GB RAM, 256 GB SSD, FHD) Laptop Review

A cheaper EliteBook 830 clone. HP has updated its ProBook series for 2019 with a new design that looks much more like its EliteBook series than past ProBooks. Can the HP ProBook 430 G6, the smallest model in this series, compete against major competitors like the Lenovo ThinkPad L390? Read on to find out in this detailed review.
Intel Core i5-8265U | Intel UHD Graphics 620 | 13.30" | 1.4 kg
Benjamin Herzig, 14 Mar 2019 23:09
Samsung's new 12GB LPDDR4X module. (Source: Samsung)

Samsung is about to mass-produce its 12GB LPDDR4X mobile DRAM module

Samsung has announced that it is ready to start producing its highest-capacity RAM module for mobile devices. It has a 10-nanometer architecture and should deliver data speeds of up to 34.1 gigabytes (GB) per second. This 12GB low...
Deirdre O Donnell, 14 Mar 2019 21:57
Western Digital launches inexpensive SN500 NVMe SSD for the masses (Source: Western Digital)

Western Digital launches inexpensive SN500 NVMe SSD for the masses

NVMe technology is slowly trickling down to more affordable SSDs. The WD Blue SN500 will performance faster than any other drive before it in its family while costing less than a high-end WD Black SSD.
Allen Ngo, 14 Mar 2019 20:41
The Xiaomi Mi 9 also has a 'transparent' option. (Source: XDA)

Xiaomi cancels Mi 9 Transparent Edition sales at the last minute

Xiaomi had planned a sales event for the Mi 9 Transparent Edition, as well as the Mi 9 SE, for today (March 14, 2019) in China. However, reports that it has been abruptly cancelled have come in from that country. The OEM cited uni...
Deirdre O Donnell, 14 Mar 2019 19:42
The Oculus Rift VR headset was released in 2016. (Source: PCMag)

Oculus Rift is the most popularly used VR headset on Steam

The Oculus Rift virtual reality headset has been surveyed as the most popular VR hardware utilized by Steam users. The rival headset from HTC, the Vive, also has a commanding share of users, but it has seen the gap between itself ...
Daniel R Deakin, 14 Mar 2019 07:46
Upcoming TravelMate X514-51 will be Acer's thinnest professional laptop yet (Source: Acer)

Acer TravelMate X514-51 launching this June to replace the TravelMate X3410

The new 14-inch business laptop will have the distinction of weighing less than 1 kg while still offering Gorilla Glass touchscreen, 15 W ULV Intel CPU options, and a magnesium-lithium magnesium-aluminum alloy chassis that promise...
Allen Ngo, 13 Mar 2019 23:12
Can you get your phone back after it goes missing? (Source: Asurion)

An insurance company publishes its report on successful stolen or lost device recovery research

A mobile insurance and device company, Asurion, has announced its findings on a study about missing devices and cases in which their owners managed to get them back. The company reported that having a lockscreen showing a contact ...
Deirdre O Donnell, 13 Mar 2019 19:32
The Your Phone app on the new Insider preview can mirror your Android's screen. (Source: Microsoft)

New Windows Insiders build allows for native Android screen-mirroring on PC; only works with certain phones so far

The latest build of Windows 10 available via the Insider program expands the functions of the Your Phone app on the OS. This service, which formerly gave Android users a more convenient way to move their files on their PCs, now su...
Deirdre O Donnell, 13 Mar 2019 17:48
The Redmi 7. (Source: GSMArena)

Redmi 7 billed for March 18 launch, retail box teased

Xiaomi's Redmi sub-brand is set to launch its fourth device this year, the Redmi 7, at an event in Beijing on March 18. The budget device will feature a Snapdragon 632, dual rear cameras, and up to 4 GB of RAM.
Ricci Rox, 13 Mar 2019 08:37
The China-only AMD Radeon RX 560 XT graphics card has 5.7 billion transistors. (Source: AMD)

AMD launches the midrange Radeon RX 560 XT graphics card for the Chinese market

AMD has announced the availability of the Radeon RX 560 XT graphics card for just the Chinese market. The GPU bridges the wide gap between the Radeon RX 560 and RX 570 and offers a base clock of 973 MHz and a boost clock of 1073 M...
Daniel R Deakin, 13 Mar 2019 07:13
The Asus ZenBook 14 has a Harman Kardon-certified audio system. (Source: Asus)

Asus launches ZenBook 14 (UX431) with Whiskey Lake CPUs and upcoming GeForce MX150 configuration

Asus has announced the ZenBook 14 (UX431). Two configurations of the laptop are currently available, with a third higher-specced option coming in the second quarter of the year. The usual slim ZenBook aesthetic is present with the...
Daniel R Deakin, 13 Mar 2019 05:33
The new Motorola RAZR logo? (Source: SlashLeaks)

The new Motorola 'RAZR' logo emerges in new leak alongside its alleged specs

A slew of leaks and speculations have pointed to the resurrection of the RAZR product line in the release of the first foldable under the Motorola brand. A new post on SlashLeaks consists of the new logo for this putative phone. I...
Deirdre O Donnell, 12 Mar 2019 18:21
The Moto G4 Plus. (Source: NDTV)

Update: G4 Plus, Android 8.1 | Eighteen months after the merry-go-round, the Moto G4 and G4 Plus are finally receiving the Oreo update

Motorola promised Oreo for the Moto G4 Plus when it launched in 2016 and went back on its word a year after. Media outcry over that betrayal forced the company's hands, making them promise Oreo as initially agreed. It's been eight...
Ricci Rox, 12 Mar 2019 12:27
Not shot by a P30 Pro. (Source: Huawei)

The Huawei P30 Pro's stunning promotional zoom photos were taken with a DSLR after all

Huawei released a bunch of promotional images for the P30 Pro last week. These images all showed incredible zoom and the public may have been fooled into believing them to be a display of the P30 Pro's purported 10x hybrid zoom. W...
Ricci Rox, 12 Mar 2019 12:27
The Huawei Mate 20 Pro. (Source: BGR)

In just five months, Huawei has sold 10 million Mate 20 phones

Huawei's Mate 20 phones may have given up their position as the best flagships on the market to the Samsung Galaxy S10 devices, but they've already sold in massive quantities. According to Huawei CEO Richard Yu, the company has sh...
Ricci Rox, 12 Mar 2019 12:25
HP ProBook 440 G6 (i7, 512 GB, FHD) Laptop Review

86% HP ProBook 440 G6 (i7, 512 GB, FHD) Laptop Review

Both visual and technical improvements. HP has presented its 14-inch office notebook with a new case and the most up-to-date Intel processor available. Some of its predecessor's weaknesses have clearly been corrected, but does this mean that the current ProBook 440 G6 is better than the last?
Intel Core i7-8565U | Intel UHD Graphics 620 | 14.00" | 1.6 kg
Sebastian Bade, 12 Mar 2019 09:56
The decline in global memory demand will affect Samsung's semiconductor business. (Source: BusinessKorea)

Intel expected to overtake Samsung as world's largest semiconductor supplier as memory sales plummet

Intel is expected to regain the title of world’s largest semiconductor supplier, according to initial forecasts from IC Insights. However, the swapping of places with Samsung seems to be more down to the South Korean manufacturer’...
Daniel R Deakin, 12 Mar 2019 07:37
Sprint's open letter was printed in the New York Times. (Source: Sprint)

Sprint's 5G fight with AT&T intensifies

The Sunday edition of the New York Times has published a full-page advert by Sprint in the form of an open letter to wireless consumers. In the letter, the telecommunications company berates its rival, AT&T, for the use of the ter...
Daniel R Deakin, 12 Mar 2019 01:33
Mellanox provided Nvidia's DGX-1 with InfiniBand Host Channel Adapters. (Source: Mellanox)

Update | Nvidia, Intel, and Xilinx in rumored bidding contest for Mellanox

It has been reported that Nvidia has joined the bidding contest for Mellanox Technologies. Other companies believed to be interested in acquiring the fabless semiconductor firm include Intel and Xilinx. Mellanox, which has corpora...
Daniel R Deakin, 11 Mar 2019 23:01
The Huawei Mate X's immediate successors may not be quite so expensive. (Source: Huawei)

Foldables may become much more affordable in the very near future

Huawei's CEO, Yu Chendong, recently conducted an interview with the German publication, Welt. The executive was tackled on many issues, including foldable phones and their current extravagant prices. He responded by projecting tha...
Deirdre O Donnell, 11 Mar 2019 19:54
Intel Cascade Lake official presentation, launch date allegedly set for April 2019 (Source: Wccftech)

Intel Cascade Lake (LGA 3647) coming next month, Cascade Lake-X (LGA 2066) in June

Although there is no official confirmation of the date yet, the latest rumors say that Intel will launch the Cascade Lake processors for the LGA 3647 socket next month. The Cascade Lake-X processors for the LGA 2066, on the other ...
Codrut Nistor, 11 Mar 2019 18:50
Google is offering 4 months' free YouTube Premium on Galaxy S10 devices. (Source: YouTube)

Some Galaxy S10 customers will get free trials of YouTube Premium & Spotify

The Galaxy S10 flagship series may have already demonstrated that it is having no trouble with its sales. However, Samsung has arranged a few perks to ensure that the new phones keep flying off shelves. They involve YouTube Premiu...
Deirdre O Donnell, 11 Mar 2019 18:41
Transparent OLEDs may become more common in the next few years. (Source: Pro Display)

The transparent display market could be worth over US$2 billion in 4 years

Some companies have developed transparent displays to the point where they may be the immediate future of head-mounted, heads-up and state-of-the-art shopfront technology. A new analysis has shown that their market may be worth US...
Deirdre O Donnell, 11 Mar 2019 17:47
LG G8 ThinQ flagship goes on sale March 22, 2019 (Source: LG)

LG G8 ThinQ pre-orders starting this Friday in South Korea

Although it comes with a quite a few innovative features and is powered by the Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 top-of-the-line processor, the new LG G8 ThinQ flagship has a lower price than its predecessor and is also cheaper than most si...
Codrut Nistor, 11 Mar 2019 10:15
Apex Legends was released at the beginning of February and is free to play. (Source: CGMagazine)

Apex Legends mods have already booted over 355,000 players for cheating

Jay Frechette, the Community Manager for Respawn Entertainment, has shared information about the company’s battle against cheaters, specifically in the smash-hit battle royale game Apex Legends. Apparently, over 355,000 players ha...
Daniel R Deakin, 11 Mar 2019 10:10
The 2009 Palm Pre Plus offered a form of wireless charging in conjunction with a Touchstone charger. (Source: Pocketnow)

Global wireless charging market could be worth over US$30 billion by 2024

It has been predicted that the global wireless charging market could reach a value of US$30.164 billion by 2024, according to a press release from Research and Markets. In contrast, 2018’s value was estimated at US$7.897 billion, ...
Daniel R Deakin, 11 Mar 2019 06:01
The Mi Max 3 is receiving an update to Android 9.0 (Source: Xiaomi)

The Xiaomi Mi Max 3 gets updated to Android 9/MIUI 10

The Xiaomi Mi Max 3, like all Mi Max devices, is sold with the unique feature of having a huge screen. This generation has a 6.9-inch FHD display, which is matched by few other phablets. Units of this model worldwide are now eligi...
Deirdre O Donnell, 10 Mar 2019 16:22
The Samsung Galaxy S10+. (Source: Samsung)

Apparently, Samsung Galaxy S10 sales are off the charts

Samsung's newest flagships, the Galaxy S10 trio, were some of the most anticipated devices before they were launched. It would appear that such interest has translated directly into sales, with the devices breaking pre-order recor...
Ricci Rox, 10 Mar 2019 13:54
Many gamers, especially PS4 owners, have been reporting a critical bug in Anthem that causes a hard reset. (Source: PlayStation/Sony)

Update | Critical bug in Anthem is causing PS4 consoles to shutdown; PC and Xbox users also reporting hard crashes

Anthem, the new action RPG game from BioWare, is apparently causing hard crashes on PlayStation 4 consoles. A growing number of gamers are taking to both Reddit and Electronic Arts’ Answers HQ to complain about issues with PS4 shu...
Daniel R Deakin, 10 Mar 2019 07:34
Some promotional material for 5G via SK Telecom. (Source: SK Telecom)

South Korea now faces 5G roll-out delays

The South Korean Ministry of Science and ICT has warned that South Korea is likely to miss the current approximate deadline at which 5G should be available in the country. This was estimated to be at the end of March, but now may ...
Deirdre O Donnell, 09 Mar 2019 15:14
It seems Eve-Tech may be struggling to fulfill orders for Eve V convertible computers. (Source: Eve-Tech)

Growing concerns over Eve-Tech's unfulfilled orders for Eve V computers

Eve-Tech has just had another flash sale for its Eve V device, with potential customers likely enticed by discounts ranging from US$300 all the way to US$600 for the i7-7Y75 variant. However, there seems to be a growing number of ...
Daniel R Deakin, 09 Mar 2019 12:30
Proton's offices are based in Geneva, Switzerland. (Source: Proton)

The company behind ProtonMail has been awarded €2 million from the EC to develop encrypted services

Proton Technologies AG, the company behind the popular encrypted email service ProtonMail, has issued a press release to reveal it has been awarded €2 million in funding from the European Commission (EC). The company plans on usin...
Daniel R Deakin, 09 Mar 2019 08:07
OneCoin has been called a get-rich-quick scheme. (Source: Bitcoin Exchange Guide)

Leader of OneCoin cryptocurrency pyramid scheme arrested by US authorities

The US Department of Justice, in conjunction with the US Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York, has announced the arrest of Konstantin Ignatov, the so-called “leader” of the supposedly fraudulent OneCoin cryptocu...
Daniel R Deakin, 09 Mar 2019 03:23
Nvidia will end critical updates for Kepler laptops on April 2020 (Source: Nvidia)

Nvidia will end critical updates for Kepler laptops on April 2020

Still sporting a 7-year old GeForce GTX 880M gaming laptop? Nvidia has just announced that it will stop delivering security updates for its mobile Kepler-based GPU series in the next 12 months. Desktop Kepler GPUs, however, will n...
Allen Ngo, 09 Mar 2019 01:01
CineBench R20 benchmark now available, is 8x more demanding than CineBench R15 (Source: Maxon)

CineBench R20 benchmark now available, is 8x more demanding than CineBench R15

Maxon is doubling down on CPU benchmarking at the cost of GPU benchmarking. The mostly useless OpenGL test is gone for a more demanding CPU benchmark scene requiring SSE3, 4 GB of RAM, and Intel Embree ray-tracing support.
Allen Ngo, 09 Mar 2019 00:49
This render represents the upcoming OnePlus 7 on a sales listing page. (Source: GizTop)

The OnePlus 7 surfaces as a product on a retailer's website

Months ahead of its launch, the OnePlus 7 has appeared in sale-page form on the retail website GizTop. It contains a list of specs with many details that may be plausible for this new release. On the other hand, there is no guaran...
Deirdre O Donnell, 08 Mar 2019 19:01
The Samsung Galaxy S10e also introduces this color to the flagship line. (Source: Samsung)

The Samsung Galaxy S10e is available on Boost Mobile from today

The Samsung Galaxy S10e is one of the new additions to the flagship series. It has the smallest screen (and price) of all its variants, yet retains many of the new features associated with it. The S10e has been made available on B...
Deirdre O Donnell, 08 Mar 2019 18:22
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