Articles tagged "Misc"

Amazon has launched the updated Kindle Oasis, which comes with a new lighting system that allows you to adjust the color temperature of the display. With this model, you can choose to have the display light be either a cool white or a...

Some of Xiaomi’s 20,000+ employees will be moving to the 8 buildings that make up its new headquarters called “Xiaomi Science and Technology Park”. Inside, 210,000 square meters will offer plenty of room for the company’s many projects, as well as...

Amazon is now the world's most valuable brand, unseating Apple and Google, and ending the 12-year run of technology brands atop BrandZ's list. Amazon was the third most valuable brand in 2018, behind Apple and Google but rose to the top thanks to a...

Firefox is building a paid version of its namesake browser that's aimed for an Autumn release. This was revealed by Mozilla CEO Chris Beard, who said a paid version of Firefox could include a free VPN and cloud storage. While he didn't go...

There's a long-standing rumor that Apple will ditch the proprietary Lightning connector on the iPhones for USB-C and it seems like 2019 is the year rumors turn into reality. The latest bit that suggests the move is near is a recovery screen from...

Google will finally reveal the pricing of its cloud-based Gaming platform Stadia on June 6 at the first Stadia Connect event. We'll also get the spill on which games are coming to the platform and if the service will be a subscription one or a...

Samsung wants to rev up the charging speeds on its future devices with its brand new power delivery (PD) chips. Both the SE8A and MM101 feature built-in embedded Flash which allows for future firmware modifications and can supply up to 100W of power...

The latest phone to pass the JerryRigEverything's durability test is the Google Pixel 3a and it did so without breaking. The Dragon Tail glass covering the front performed just as well as any Gorilla Glass, scratching at a level 6. The phone also...

The ongoing US and China Trade War has been keeping Huawei in a perpetual state of emergency ever since the US placed it on its Entity List. Since then Google was forced to withdraw Huawei's license to Android (and has since overturned the...

DxOMark has published the Asus Zenfone 6 review and, interestingly, it decided to review the 48MP rotating camera as a selfie unit first. Hopefully DxO will publish its full review of the Zenfone 6's 48MP snapper as a main one soon. So as a...

The ripple effect caused by the US-imposed trade clampdown is continuing to spread, this time affecting chip designer ARM. The UK-based firm has reportedly sent a memo to employees to cease "all active contracts, support entitlements, and any...

The number one and two smartphone vendors in the World have reportedly settled their ongoing legal battle, as per Nikkei. Samsung and Huawei had been entangled in more than 40 different disputes concerning 4G and other patents spanning China, the...

The OnePlus 7 Pro will be promoted by one of the hottest movie stars in the world right now, Robert Downey Jr. As Avengers: Endgame is still on top of the box office (for the third week straight) and threatens to dethrone Avatar as the highest...

Early last year Samsung became the world’s largest chip manufacturer (taking the crown from Intel) largely thanks to the strong performance of its memory division. Today the company announced plans to invest $116 billion through 2030 in non-memory...

It's very hard to perform a perfect speed test where a single unresponsive app or a random stutter doesn't foil the entire test. But as speed tests go, the PhoneBuff-styled one is the most trustworthy around the web - it's done with mechanical arms...

There are very few topics that are as divisive as phone torture tests. Some people find them interesting and/or informative while others are utterly repulsed by them. We can't say we enjoy seeing phones that were created with so much thought,...

Apple has released a new video in the 'Shot on iPhone XS' series, titled "Don't Mess with Mother". The video features captivating landscape and wildlife footage to the tune of Megadeth's "Last Rites". It's a nice video, but again, 'Shot on iPhone...

Mt. Everest is a beautiful place, but most of us will never go there – we only have photos and videos shot by others to look at. And while some add bulky camera equipment to their already heavy luggage, others go up with just a...

After the new 11-inch iPad Pro got wrecked in JerryRigEverything's durability test, we weren't all that confident the iPad mini 2019 would survive the same test. But woe and behold, it did, even if only partially. The durability test goes as...

OnePlus is working on enabling DC dimming on its smartphones in a future update. This was revealed by OnePlus CEO Pete Lau, who was shown a demo of the feature. To clarify, at low brightness OLED panels will pulse and flicker due to a process...