Samsung has just confirmed that their 5G-connectivity smartphone will roll out on April the 5th – in South Korea. We do not know when and where will this device come out afterwards. We also do not know how much will it cost, although some people speculate that it will have a price tag of over 1300 USD. We shall see. Tweet Vote on HN ...
Monthly Archives: March 2019
Xiaomi Black Shark 2, the gaming smartphone, is out in China
The most important thing about a gaming smartphone is what is under its hood, and in this area Black Shark 2 delivers. It comes with the Snapdragon 855 CPU, 12GB RAM & 256GB miejsca na dane (nice), OLED 6,39′ display with sensors dedicated to reading the strenght of finger pressing, 4000mAh battery with 27mAh quick charge, 48mpx + 12mpx main camera and 20mpx selfie shooter.Black Shark 2 is currently available in China for 499 USD. We do not know when will it be released in other ...
Samsung Galaxy A40, price, availability, specs
The device is currently available in Holland, where it costs 249 euro. It should be available in other European countries any day now. As for the specs, these include 5.9′ Super AMOLED FHD+ display with built-in fingerprint scanner, made using the Infinity-U tech, Exynos 7885 CPU, 4GB RAM and 64GB storage space, 25mpx selfie shooter, 16mpx x 5mpx main camera and 3100mah battery, all of it ran by Android 9 Pie with One UI. Tweet Vote on HN ...
The Outer Worlds, RPG made by people who made Fallout: New Vegas, will be an Epic Games Store exclusive
Newest game made by Obsidian studio will join a growing number of Epic Games Store exclusive titles, such as Metro: Exodus, The Sinking City or Detroit: Become Human. The Outer Worlds, as well as many other titles from this store, will appear on Steam, but only a year after staying on Epic Games Store. Here is to hope that our new Fallout-But-Not-Really will turn out to be a great cRPG. Tweet Vote on HN ...
Textalyzer will let the cops know if you were on a phone when driving
At least if you were on a phone when a road accident took place. The device is currently tested in the US state of Nevada. It is being used to check whether or not the driver/s taking part in an accident were using their phones when the unfortunate event occured. The device will be able to tell if we were talking on a phone, using Facebook or doing anything else. According to its producr, Textalyzer will not gather these information in any kind of data base: it will produce and show the results and then delete them.At the moment, drivers in Nevada are allowed to simply refuse to allow their ...
Getting a new display for a broken Galaxy S10 will be costly
According to a leak from Sammobile, these are the prices we can look forward to if we ever need to have our Galaxy S10 display changed:– 5350 taiwan dollars for Galaxy S10e, roughly 174 USD,– 6450 taiwan dollars for Galaxy S10, around 209 USD,– 7100 taiwan dollars for Galaxy S10 Plus, 250.50 USD.These will probably not be the exact exchange prices in your countries, but they do give us an idea of how expensive it will be. Galaxy S10 owners – do not drop the soap nor the ...
We have learned the possible release date of Huawei P30 Pro
Today’s information comes from an un/fortunate slip made by Amazon. The online sales website has accidentally posted a listing for the phone. It was taken down quickly but, naturally, not quickly enough for a fast-thinking web user to not save a screenshot of the offer. The listing states April 5th as the release date for the device.Whoopsies. Want to learn more about Huawei P30 Pro? Check out our latest posts on the subject. Tweet Vote on HN ...
Mobile shooter fans, rejoice, as later this year you will get to play Call of Duty: Mobile
The game, developed by Tencent studio Timi, will be basically a normal Call of Duty except made for smartphones. It will offer maps and game modes known from the main games’, so for example you will be able to play Team Deathmatch on the famous Nuketown map. CoD: Mobile will have various customization options (which will almost certainly make use of microtransactions). Judging by the end of the trailer, Battle Royale mode will be added some time after launch; Fortnite and Apex, beware.CoD: Mobile will be available in North America first, with South America and Europe following suit ...
Nokia 5.1 will receive the OS upgrade to Android 9 Pie
Although there is no word on when exacly will the upgrade take place, Juho Sarvikas, Chief Producer Official of HMD Global, has just tweeted that the upgrade is indeed coming, and soon too. The update will reach every Nokia 5.1 owner OTA, and may need to be downloaded manually. It weights over one gigabyte, so better make sure you have the room!Nokia 2.1 will probably be the next device that the company will upgrade to Android 9, although whether or not is it a good idea is anyone’s ...
Quake II RTX, graphical remake of an old classic, official
Back in January 2019 one Christoph Schied, an ex-employee of NVidia, have released a mod for Quake 2. That mod, called Q2VKPT, upgraded the game’s lightning to more modern standards. It now seems that NVidia saw Schied’s work and liked it quite a bit, because the company has just announced that it will release an official mod like that, only better. NVidia’s official mod is called Quake II RTX and will be a bundle of updated textures, animations & other things as well as, most importantly, new lightning, shadows and reflection techniques that will be supported by the ...