Elon Musk is known for, every now and then, coming up with something crazy. Sometimes it is a small thing, like Boring Company’s ”flamethrower”, other times it is something as huge as sending a ship into space. This time it is, I suppose, something in-between: middle level of crazyness, you could say. Sentry Mode is an upcoming feature for Tesla cars. Its purpose is twofold: first of all, it adds a 360 degrees camera to the phone, meaning that no violation against your electrical vehicle will go unnoticed; second is to loudly play the famous Toccata in D Minor by Bach in ...
Monthly Archives: January 2019
Redmi X, budget phone with fingerprint scanner
Chinese website Weibo have just published teaser of Redmi X, upcoming budget device by Xiaomi. Teaser informs us of device’s release date, which is supposed to be February 15th. Weibo journalist have also stated that the device will come with a fingerprint scanner onboard. No other specs of Redmi X are currently available; rumours and gossip suggest it will have dual camera and watermark instead of a notch. Tweet Vote on HN ...
Samsung M series officially announced. What do we know
The trailer for the new smartphone series can be watched here. The video itself tells us nothing, but the Internet has managed to collect a wide variety of leaks, rumours and gossip surrounding smartphones Galaxy M10 and Galaxy M20.– Infinity-V design that tries to change an ugly notch into a servicable watermark. Top bezel in general is very thin,– rear fingerprint scanner placed in the the top left corner of the back,– 6.22′ HD+/6.3′ FHD+ displays,– 3400mAh/5000mAh battery,– Exynos 7870/Exynos 7 Series 7904 CPU,– LTE modem,– 13mpx + ...
Samsung says it wants to be more eco-friendly
In order to decrease the amount of man-made waste in the world, de-clutter our bins and closets and generally make everyone’s life more pleasant, Samsung Electronics have announced that it will begin to replace plastic components of its products’ packaging with more easily decomposable and recyclable (btw, first time ever I use this word) materials such as paper or bioengineered plastics. Samsung’s plans include:- replacing plastic bags protecting its products with ones based on recycled and bioplastic materials,– using only paper fiber that is certified by select ...
Turns out Xiaomi ships more smartphones into India than Samsung
According to research by Counterpoint Research (doi), the number of Xiaomi smartphones shipped into India during the whole 2018 have exceeded that of Samsung devices. Xiaomi has experienced a very healthy 11% growth in units shipped when compared to least year. Currently Xiaomi devices cover 27% of Indian mobile market; in comparison, Samsung takes ”only” 22%. Tweet Vote on HN ...
Render and specs of Nokia 1 Plus leaked
Tigermobiles website have just released some potential information on the upcoming Nokia 1 Plus budget phone. The aforementioned info includes both the above render and some of the phone’s specs:– 960 x 480-pixel display, 2:1 aspect ratio,– Mediatek MT6739WW chipset, 4-core,– PowerVR GE8100 GPU,– 1GB RAM,– dual-SIM support,– Bluetooth, GPS, Wi-Fi, microUSB connectivity,– Android 9 Pie OS.Phone’s price is as of yet unknown. It will probably be officially released during this year’s MWC trade ...
Test version of new Windows 10 released. Many fixes, not a lot changes
Participats of the Windows Insider program have just received their test version of the new Windows 10 19H1 update. Most of the changes included within it are smaller or greater fixes of existing issues; the pretty much only new addition is that of adding RAW files support for Windows Explorer. Judging by the opinions online, most people prefer this minimalistic approach: Windows is already a robust and advanced operating system, and what it needs now is more polish. Tweet Vote on ...
Facebook wants to merge Messengera, Instagram and WhatsAppa into a single service
Mark Zuckerberg wants to integrate all three of his social network messaging services into one in order to, supposedly, assert his control over the increasing division between the three apps. This in turn will supposedly make it easier for Facebook to better fight against Internet evils such as fake news or hate speech. The plan is to continue operating three apps separately, but to connect them via an underlying technical infrastructure. Reconfiguration of the three social apps should be complete by the end of 2020. Additionally, this process will include incorporating an end-to-end ...
Redmi Note 7 is a decent chopping board
Redmi Note 7 is supposedly selling well, but it could always sell better. As everyone knows, nothing bumps up the sales as much as some good media coverage (well, nothing except delivering a quality product or selling it for competitive prices). Therefore, the only natural conclusion was for Xiaomi to publish a video where the company’s CEO, Lu Weibing, uses their smartphone as a cutting board. Yeah… The arguably entertaining video can be watched here.Redmi Note 7’s specification is as follows:– 6,3′ display Full HD+,– 8-core Qualcomm Snapdragon ...
Energizer is preparing a phone with a LARGE battery
Energizer seemingly wants to take a smartphone market by storm. The company plans to show us 26 different smartphone models during the MWC 2019, and while we will probably forget most of them the day they come out, a few of these models have a shot at being more memorable. One of them is one of the Power Max series (there will be four series, Energy, Hardcase, Ultimate and Power Max), which is supposed to come out with an 18000mAh battery. Other interesting models include a foldable one and retractable camera ...