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 ...

– 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Realme 3 Pro debuted in India around five hours ago, but it took only eight minutes to sell out the phone’s first shipment of 170 thousand units. Impressive. Thankfully (if you are from India and want to buy 3 Pro), next shipment should arrive later today or tomorrow. As impressive as 170k units sold is, it fails in comparison to the initial sales of standard Redmi 3. which sold 2100k units. Then again, 3 Pro is a more expensive variant. Tweet Vote on HN ...

Sorry, Samsung, but you and your Fold did not make it. You are not the first company in the world to release a foldable smartphone; this honour belongs to the Royole and its FlexPai. The device was up for pre-orders ever since December 2018 – that, plus the fact that this is the first foldable device available on the market, combined into every single unit of FlexPai being sold out hours after the release. Sadly, we do not know the exact numbers. New units will reach store shelves on May 9th.Currently, FlexPai is only available in China. Its price ranges from, depending on the memory ...

AK-47, or Kalashnikov assault rifle – durable, dependable, efficient. These are the qualities that Kalashnikov will probably want to put into its newest project, the CV-1 electric car. The car might be looking as if it was taken out from an USSR street in the 70’s, but Kalashnikov was never about style; this producer aims towards simplicity and consistency instead. CV-1, recently presented during the military appliances fair in Moscow, is said to have good specs: it supposedly can travel 350 kilometers before having to recharge. Sadly, no more technicalities regarding this ...

Gaming smartphones are slowly becoming a more popular choice for those of us who like our video games, and Nubia is one of the producers out there who want to make a buck on that trend. The company has just released Red Magic 3, a smartphone made specifically with gamers in mind:– Red Magic Game Space 2.0 gaming dashboard– stereo speakers, DTS:X 3D sound– RGB lighting back panel– shoulder triggers– liquid cooling system with an internal turbo fan– 6.65-inch FHD+ ultra-widescreen display, 90hz refresh rate– Snapdragon 855 CPU with Adreno 640 ...

– Full HD+ display, 6.53 inches, waterdrop notch,– 16 mpx x 2 mpx main camera, LED flash,– Helio P70 CPU, 8 core. Mali-G72 MP3 GPU,– 6GB RAM, 128GB flash space, SD card up to 256GB,– 4020mAh battery, quick charge,– Android 9.0 Pie with ColorOS 6.0 overlay,– blue, violet and green colour variants,– price – 1799 juan,– available in China starting April 30th. Tweet Vote on HN ...