Next Wednesday the officials of Portland will take a vote on whether or not to oppose rollout of 5G network in the city. The anti-5G sentiments in the city government are quite strong, as the anti-5G movement is headed by Mayor Ted Wheeler himself along with the Commissioners Chloe Eudaly and Amanda Fritz. Their motivation, at least officially, is a chance of 5G network causing yet to be discovered health issues. Less official reasons are suspected to be connected with both financial costs of the enterprise as well as 5G infrastructure being a so-called ”land grab” against other ...
Monthly Archives: March 2019
Honor 10i, pictures and specs
Until now we have heard pretty much zilch regarding Huawei’s Honor 10i smartphone; therefore it is very nice that the first leak regarding that device is also so large. The arguably most important part of the leak are the pictures, all four four being live pics. I must admit that the rear case of the device looks quite nice. Other than the pictures, Hi-Tech has also shared the phone’s specs:– 6.21′ display, tear-shaped notch,– HiSilicon Kirin 710 CPU, 8 cores,– ARM Mali-G51 MP4 GPU,– 4 GB RAM, 128 GB space,– 24mpx x 8mpx x 2mpx main ...
U.S. warns Germany to not take Huawei’s help in building its 5G network
Wall Street Journal reports that U.S. may withhold sharing intelligence with Germany if the latter country continues to co-operate with Huawei. U.S. Ambassador to Germany, one Richard A. Grenell, wrote a letter to German economic minister. This letter, according to the Wall Street Journal,”…marks the first known time the U.S. has explicitly warned an ally that refusing to ostracise Huawei could lessen security cooperation with Washington. Among other things, European security agencies have relied heavily on U.S. intelligence in the fight against terrorism.U.S. officials declined ...
Some of Motorola Razr specs leaked out
This device’s specs are not as impressive as those of Samsung Galaxy Fold or Huawei Mate X, but that may be a good thing: those two foldables will be very expensive, and Razr’s hypothetical low-ish price (perhaps only 1500 dollars) will make it a realistic alternative to them. As for the specs themselves, this is what the rumour says Razr will pack:– 6,2′ main display, 876×2142,– 800×600 secondary display,– Qualcomm Snapdragon 710 CPU, 2,2 GHz, 8 cores,– Adreno 616 GPU,– 4/6 GB RAM, 64/128 GB storage,– somewhat small 2730 mAh ...
Neffos C5 Plus, smartphone for people who do not need or cannot afford much
Chinese company TP-Link has just released its budget phone Neffos C5 Plus. This low-end device will be available in two variants with different memory space and price. For now the only colour variant available is grey, with red and blue reportedly coming soon. Its specs are as follows:– 5.34′ TN FullView display, 18:9 proportions, 960×480p resolution,– MediaTek MT6580M 1,3 GHz CPU, 4 cores, ARM Mali-400 500 MHz GPU,– 1GB RAM, 8 or 16 GB storage room (the 512MB RAM is also expected), microSD up to 64GB,– 5mpx main camera, HDR, LED flash, 2mpx selfie shooter with ...
Sony Xperia 1 available for pre-orders
Although currently only in the USA. The device’s price there is 999 dollars. We do not know how much will it cost abroad nor when will it become available there.Specs, in case you are interested:– 6,5′ OLED CinemaWide display, 21:9, 1644 x 3840 p,– Snapdragon 855 CPU, Adreno 640 GPU,– Dolby Atmos sound support,– triple 12mpx + 12mpx + 12mpx, wide-angle and telescopic lens, 2x optical zoom, LED flash,– 8mpx selfie shooter with LED flash,– Wi-Fi 802.11ac, Bluetooth 5.0, GPS/GLONASS, NFC, LTE modem, optional dual SIM,– USB-C,– ...
Samsung Galaxy A50 updated with March 2019 security measures
The update is now available in India, where the device was first released. It should reach other countries’ soon. Firmware version A505FDDU1ASC1 contains a large number of Android vulnerability fixes as well as well as 11 Samsung vulnerability fixes. Tweet Vote on HN ...
Borderlands 3 officially revealed soon
This will not be a release, merely an official confirmation that the game is being made. That glorious event will take place during Pax East 2019, on March 28th, and will be held by Gearbox, creators of the Borderlands franchise. Lets hope that Gearbox will somehow refresh the old formula of looter shooters in BL3; otherwise I doubt the game’s success. Tweet Vote on HN ...
Nintendo, old cartridges & drugs
Where if not in the US? Julian Turner, a die hard fan of old school NES games, have won an auction for two video games for that console. The cartridges have arrived at Turner’s home, and it was during the unboxing that things took a turn towards weird… First of all, the cartridges were much heavier than they were supposed to be; second of all, they turned out to be PAL versions released in Europe and Australia but not North America. Intrigued, Turner opened them up and was more than surprised when he found two small, tightly packed packages with unknown substance inside them. He ...
European price and release date of Samsung Galaxy A50 are known
According to a leak from an unknown source, European variant of Galaxy A50 will cost 350 dollars; possibly a bit more in the Eastern EU countries. The device’s release date is March 18th. For those of you who forgot, some of Galaxy A50’s specs will include 6,4′ Full HD+ Super AMOLED display, Exynos 9610 CPU, 4/6GB RAM, 64/128GB memory space, 4000mAh battery and 25mpx x 5mpx x 8mpx main camera. Tweet Vote on HN ...