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 ...
Samsung Galaxy A20 officially. Specs, price, availability
Never enough! Samsung has released yet another mid-ranger, offering a fair compromise between price and quality:– 6,4′ AMOLED Infinity-U display, HD+,– Exynos 7884 CPU,– 3GB RAM, 32GB flash space, microSD up to 512GB,– 13 Mpix f/1.9 x 5 Mpix f/2.2 main camera, 8 Mpix f/2.0 selfie shooter,– 4000 mAh battery,– rear-mounted fingerprint scanner,– FM radio, Bluetooth 5.0, no NFC,– Android 9 Pie OS with One UI,– dimensions: 158,4 x 74,7 x 7,8 mm.The device is currently available in Russia for roughly the equivalent of 191 euro. It should ...
Xiaomi Redmi Go is out in India. An ultra-affordable smartphone
If you are from India and you have 63 dollars that you want to be spent on a smartphone, now is the time. Redmi Go is an extra budget phone for those low on both cash and expectations: it offers a package of Snapdragon 425 CPU, 1GB of RAM, 8GB storage with microSD card slot, 5′ HD display, 8mpx main camera & 5mpx selfie shooter, 3000mah battey that will keep it all alive and Anroid 8.1 Oreo that will put it all to work. Device will be available via Flipkart, Mi Homes and Mi.com starting March 22nd. ...
Huawei P30 will be expensive
At least that is what the WinFuture journalists believe. According to them and their so-called trustful source, Huawei P30 will cost 749 euro, while P30 Pro will cost 999 euro. Both prices are for variants with 8GB RAM and 128GB memory. Whether or not these devices warrant such a high price, we shall learn on March 26th. Tweet Vote on HN ...
Inbox by Gmail app will be shut down on April 2nd
Sorry, Inbox, you have had your fun, now is the time to get off the stage. Inbox by Gmail was an experimental email app, a next step above Gmail so to say. It offered a variety of features unavailable in Gmail, like Smart Reply, putting e-mails on hold to be reminded of them later and high-priority notifications. The app has been going on for four years, and found some success, but ever since then Google has considerably built up the main Gmail app, even putting some of Inbox’s features into it. These changes eventually mounted up and made Inbox obsolete, and that is why it is going ...
Animated Diablo coming closer? Maybe
First rumours about the animated Diablo show have risen half a year ago, when screenwriter Andy Crosby accidentally tweeted about such project. Ever since then the radio has been silent on Diablo: The Animated Series – until now. Crosby has recently tweeted that he is ”working on a super exciting project that he cannot talk about because it is a secret”. Whether that means that animated Diablo will get officially announced soon or is it just another teaser is anyone’s guess – perhaps Crosby is not talking about Diablo at all.We shall see. I would love to see a ...
Bluetooth SIG documentary of OnePlus 7 leaked out
And it confirms the fact that this smartphone will have a Bluetooth 5.0 module installed. Other than that, we also know that OnePlus 7 will come with a 6.5′ OLED display, Snapdragon 855 CPU, up to 12 gigabytes of RAM (wow) and selfie shooter camera on a slider. Phone’s price is unknown. As for release date, it is supposed to come out between April and June.That is right, that is all. What, do you want me to write you a poem? Tweet Vote on HN ...