People test smartphones’ durability in many ways. Some throw them into hot or freezing cold water, others drop them on the pavement, hit them with a hammer or throw into a mixer. Redmi has decided that all these things are well and good, but it can do better. That is why it has shoot its Note 7 smartphone into space and let it fall back to Earth. Oh, and they also took some pictures with it.The phone has been covered by various sensors and attached to the baloon. Said baloon was then filled with helium, so that it would go as high up as possible. The sensors on the contraption took ...
Monthly Archives: May 2019
Xiaomi Mi Mix 4, what do we know about it?
– supposedly made under the name Hercules, unknown if it will be released as such,– speaking of launch, it will probably take place in autumn,– Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 CPU,– battery with wireless charging,– triple main camera,– in-display fingerprint scanner. Tweet Vote on HN ...
10 most popular smartphones of 2018 according to Counterpoint Research
Counterpoint Research, company specialized in analysing the mobile devices market, has just released a list of ten best selling smartphones of yesteryear. The list can be read here. If you cannot check it now then let me tell you what it shows: the 2018 market dominated by Apple smartphones, with Samsung phones taking the last few spots and Xiaomi Redmi 5A being right in the middle. Tweet Vote on HN ...
Hour long gameplay video of Borderlands 3 came out
The video can be watched here. In case you cannot or do not feel like watching it now, here is the gist of it:– as is usually the case with sequels, BL3 is basically the same as before, only more: more guns, new characters and skills, new regions to explore,– Sanctuary 3, space ship that will serve as our transport between planets as well as home base,– separate loot in co-op mode, that will also scale to each character’s level.Borderlands 3 will come out on September ...
Galaxy S10 5G went away in flames. Samsung claims it was not the phone’s fault
Ding dong, the phone is dead, which new phone, the Galaxy S10 5G. Or at least this particular unit is. A few days ago an image of burned Galaxy S10 5G smartphone was released online by a supposed South Korean consument. According to that person’s story, the phone was just sitting on the table when, all of a sudden, smoke started coming from inside it. After the smoke cleared out (heh), it turned out it was the phone’s battery that melt down.As of now, Samsung has stated that it believes the burning was not the device’s fault, but no one knows for sure. To be honest, this ...
Google Pay is now available in Switzerland
Google’s payment service will be supported by Cornèrcard, Bonuscard, Swiss Bankers and Revolut. This makes Switzerland the 29th country to support Google Pay. It is unknown if more banks will join the app: citizens of Switzerland prefer using hard cash to credit cards, which puts Google Pay’s future in that country in question. Tweet Vote on HN ...