Articles tagged "Misc"

It’s official – OnePlus will no longer be making McLaren-branded phones as the partnership between the two companies has ended. Dating back to 2018, the short-lived partnership saw a few interesting releases. OnePlus' McLaren phones: the...

This morning, Jason Ronald, Director of Program management for Xbox Series X has made a blog post about the next-gen Xbox and its backwards compatibility with older Xbox games. From day 1, the Series X will be compatible with games across all four...

After teasing its upcoming pair of TWS earbuds last week, vivo has posted all of the details of its TWS Neo earbuds. The specs and features have been posted to vivo’s official website in China. Here’s what you can expect from the vivo TWS...

Here’s a blast from the past – an unreleased prototype of a Sony Ericsson Walkman flip phone has surfaced on eBay. It’s fully working too, here’s what could have been. The Sony Ericsson W707 “Alicia” features a small color screen on the outside,...

The Oppo Find X2 Pro is the latest phone to undergo the durability test by Zack from Jerryrigeverything and it survived structurally-intact, unlike its predecessor. The scratch test of the phone's Gorilla Glass 6 front is the usual "scratches at...

Today, Razer is announcing a new product that’s quite new for its fanbase. Razer’s branding image is synonymous with RGB LEDs and the triple-snake logo, but the new Razer Opus headphones don’t have either of these things. The Razer Opus is a pair of...

Qualcomm, Samsung and Huawei – three of the biggest smartphone chipset makers in the world – have agreed to support the MPEG-5 Essential Video Coding standard (EVC). The three giants will offer relevant patents under FRAND terms. EVC has a...

On early Wednesday, Samsung released a piece that looks deeper into the Galaxy Z Flip’s Hideaway Hinge. This is the second of two parts (so far) where Samsung explains how bristles are used in the hinge to keep foreign debris out of the hinge...

DxOMark has just released their review of the Samsung Galaxy S20+’s camera system. Unlike the S20 Ultra – which uses pixel binning in the 108MP main sensor, the Galaxy S20+ uses a 12MP sensor with large 1.6µm pixels. This camera array has three...

With COVID-19 pushing many industries to continue to conduct business online through tele-conferencing platforms, there’s a new demand for presentation and business tools online. HTC is announcing a new presentation tool for its VR platform: the...

Imint and Motorola have announced a new partnership, and the Motorola Edge+ is the first smartphone to benefit from the announcement. The Motorola Edge+ comes with four Imint Intelligence Vidhance features: Active OIS, Horizon Correction, Dynamic...

Last week, Verizon announced that it would continue to offer all wireless lines an additional 15GB of high-speed data through the end of May due to the COVID-19 situation that has many American with reduced or no income. On Monday, Verizon...

Why did Sony go with the “Mark Two” naming scheme? Why is it only the Xperia Pro that features mmWave 5G? Is it for professionals only or can regular customers buy it? Sony Mobile President Mitsuya Kishida answered these and many more questions in a...

OnePlus is now in a post-launch phase as the company is in the process of fulfilling pre-orders of its latest duo of smartphones: the OnePlus 8 and 8 Pro. As reported by Engadget which cites a number of sources “close to the matter”, OnePlus has...

Back in March, Verizon announced it was going to offer all of its wireless customers and Verizon Business customers 15GB of extra data for the month of April as part of a number of efforts to help customers through the COVID-19 crisis. Today,...

Editor in Chief of XDA-Developers Mishaal Rahman managed to get a hidden feature of Google Home devices to work and posted the screenshots to Twitter. Google and Nest Home devices that listen for the wake phrase: “Hey Google” will be given a new...

On Tuesday, WarnerMedia announced HBO Max, a new subscription service with over 10,000 hours of premium content. This will include both Warner Bros. and HBO content and the service promises to launch original content once the streaming service goes...

The base camp at Mount Everest now has 5G coverage, thanks to China Mobile. However, even at 5,364m above sea level (17,598ft), this is not the highest place on Earth that you can get a 5G connection – currently that is the Intermediate Camp at...

In a statement to Fierce Wireless, T-Mobile affirms that it is still carrying out the expansion of its LTE and 5G networks (and maintaining them), despite the COVID-19 situation – which limited many other industries operations as people all over the...

TIPA, the Technical Image Press Association, which is composed of many photography publications around the world, has awarded the Huawei P40 series the award for best Photo smartphone of 2020. These types of awards normally don't involve a lot of...