German website winfuture.de has just uploaded a bunch of pictures depicting its upcoming Huawei Nova 4 smartphone. These pictures were released during the 18th birthday of the Chinese singer Jackson Yee – yes, Chinese are a tad odd. What they show us is a device with no notch, instead having a small camera hole in the top-left corner of the display. Lack of notch also means a smaller bezel. Another visible detail is a headphone jack on top of the device. None of the pictures depict Nova 4’s rear – it is believed to be similiar to that of Huawei P20 Pro.Nova 4 will be ...
Monthly Archives: November 2018
Fortnite: Battle Royale in 60 fps coming out for iPhone Xs, Xs Max i Xr
Until today, 60 fps Fortnite was only available on Xbox One and PlayStation 4 consoles. Its newest, released today, update allows to play the game in 60 fps framerate on mobile devices as well. Not all of them, though – that would be too good. For now, the 60 fps smartphone Fortnite is only out on iPhone Xs, Xs Max i Xr. Is it enough to make one buy a device that is twice as expensive as Nintento Switch? Maybe… no, definitely not. If you already are a happy owner of one of these iPhones, though, all you have to do is download the update and enjoy playing in high framerate.Epic ...
Nokia 7.1 is getting an OS upgrade
Chief Product Officer of HMD Global, one Juho Sarvikas, has just announced via Twitter that the Android 9 Pie rollout for Nokia 7.1 smartphones will begin soon. The update introduces such features as gesture controls, Adaptive Battery and Adaptive Brightness modes and more. Exact date of the rollout is unknown, but presumed to take place soon. Tweet Vote on HN ...
Autonomous cabs and buses making their way to the Great Britain
British government has announced that it has plans to make sure that the autonomous public transport vehicles are out and about in the UK and Scotland by 2021. The first auto buses are to be one-floor only, and will still have a driver onboard. They are to make their courses every twenty minutes and take up to 42 people. As for cabs, private taxi company Addison Lee will be financed by the government in order to roll out autonomous cars in the Greenwich area. London will also have a premium autonomous cab service in form of six Jaguar Land Rover Discovery cars. First tests of both options ...
Huge update for Motorola One Power
Starting today, Motorola One Power will be ran by Android 9 Pie OS. This happens in accordance to the Android One program that the device belongs to; program’s rule is that every smartphone in it receives OS updates for three years since its release. Security updates up the phone’s software version to PPK29.68-16-8. As usually, the update is released in waves, which means that it may or may not be available for your phone right now. You can always try to download it manually by going to Settings > System > System ...
Some of Samsung Galaxy S10 Plus’ specs appeared on AnTuTu
Model SM-G975F, which is believed to be the international release version of the Galaxy S10 Plus, has just appeared in the AnTuTu’s database. Thanks to it we now know more about the device’s specs. In case you cannot read them on the graphic above, they are as follows:– Android 9 Pie,– Exynos 9820 CPU,– Mali-G76 GPU,– 6GB RAM, 128GB ROM,– 2280 x 1080 resolution.The smartphone has obtained 325076 points in AnTuTu’s benchmark test. Other rumours surrounding it point out to specs such as dual main camera with LED flash, dual selfie shooter ...
Moto G7 Play leaks. A fine looking mid-ranger
Both specs and real-life photos of the smartphone have recently surfaced online. They show us a device in black and silvery blue colour variants, a rear camera sensor with LED flash, fingerprint sensor hidden under the Moto logo and a notch with a selfie-shooter in it. As for specs, most of them confirm what we have already heard about this product:– headphone jack,– USB-C. port,– 2820 mAh battery,– microSD card slot,– Snapdragon 632 CPU,– Adreno 506 GPU.Moto G7 Play is seemingly made with GSM carriers in mind, so it should work with carriers such as ...
Samsung Galaxy Note 9 available in Taiwan in new ”First Snow White” colour
December is nearly here, and with it all the commercial joy of Christmas – Christmas trees, Coca Cola trucks and, seemingly, snow white smartphones. Samsung Galaxy Note 9 has just launched in Taiwan in a brand new – well, as new as white colour can be – First Snow White colour variant. Seeing how Galaxy Note 9 is a popular pick in Taiwan, it can be expected that the First Snow White variant will also make it worth Samsung’s time. Phone’s specs will be just as normal Galaxy S9’s are, except that the only internal storage memory variant available will be ...
LG has patented a 16-lens camera smartphone
In the past, smartphone makes tried to one-up each other by having larger displays. Then ther was a ”thinner frames” craze going on. Today it is seemingly all about the camera lenses. Triple cameras are nothing new; we have heard of the 6x and 9x camera smartphones being made. Well, all of that is nothing compared to what the LG has just patented: a smartphone with sixteen camera lenses. According to the document, this model would have its lenses put in the matrix, under different angles; that would allow it to take pictures from different perspectives. There would also be the ...
Phone miners, or how chinese people make gold from scrap
China is plagued by a large number of illegal workshops dealing with extracting precious materials from old smartphones. Gold, silver and copper can all become a bounty of criminals crafty enough to know how to get them. One of such workshops has recently been raided by the chinese police. A whole family from one of China’s innumerable villages have taken part in the operation of illegal recycling. What is so bad about that? Well, nothing, except for litres of toxic waste that the recyclers usually get rid of in unsafe, nature-destroying manner. Primitive and irresponsible material ...