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Nubia's 'wearable smartphone' might be the next step for flexible displays
Feb 25, 9:38AM
The version of Nubia's "wearable smartphone" that was on display last year at IFA was an unwieldy thing. This year's model of the Alpha, however, is certainly a step in the right direction. It's still bulky, so far as smartwatches go, but at very least, you could probably walk down the street in the thing, […]
Behold the Samsung Galaxy Fold under glass
Feb 25, 9:10AM
Samsung decided to forgo the Mobile World Congress pomp and circumstance, instead opting to through its own part last week in San Francisco. I've been carrying around Galaxy S10 for a few days now, so more on that soon. In this meantime, here's the device everyone is really interested. As promised, the Galaxy Fold was […]
Qualcomm announces a new robotics development platform
Feb 25, 9:00AM
Robotics have long been a bit of a white whale for Qualcomm. The burgeoning field is a pretty logical next step for the chipmaker, which seems to have its foot in every other aspect of electronics, these days. We've seen a few robotics here and there that support the company's chips — Anki, Sony and […]
Qualcomm's new 4G, 5G platforms to bring improved telecommunication to vehicles
Feb 25, 9:00AM
Qualcomm today announced new 4g and 5g chipsets for connected vehicles. The chip maker sees the advanced communication platforms powering the next wave of in-vehicle experiences and telematics features including advanced automotive safety features and self-driving cars. Qualcomm says vehicles equipped with these chipsets are planned for production in 2021. The Qualcomm Snapdragon Automotive 4G […]
Qualcomm wants your phone to drive your next VR and AR headsets
Feb 25, 9:00AM
Qualcomm wants to create a new device category, XR viewer headsets, that combine the compute power of its current Snapdragon 855 platform with the speed of 5G on a smartphone to provide you with mobile VR and AR experiences — or ‘Extended Reality,’ as Qualcomm likes to call it — with six degrees of freedom […]
Oppo executive questions how foldable phones improve the user experience
Feb 25, 8:56AM
Oppo VP Brian Shen took to Weibo today to unveil the company’s foldable phone concept. It looks like the same kit used by Huawei and it’s unclear if Oppo will release the device. Shen notes the company doesn’t think a foldable phone improves the user experience, which is why the company is hesitant to move […]
KaiOS, now with 85M feature phones shipped, doubles down with Google, carrier deals and more
Feb 25, 8:25AM
As the rate of smartphone sales continues to slow down and decline, a software startup called KaiOS — which launched in 2017 from the ashes of Mozilla’s failed Firefox OS mobile project as a provider of an internet-based feature phone OS, feature phone apps, and corresponding HTML5 app store that all work over advanced mobile data […]
Google will bring its Assistant to Android Messages
Feb 25, 8:01AM
It’s only been a few weeks since Google brought the Assistant to Google Maps to help you reply to messages, play music and more. This feature first launched in English and will soon start rolling out to all Assistant phone languages. In addition, Google also today announced that the Assistant will come to Android Messages, […]
Google Assistant gets expanded language and device support
Feb 25, 8:01AM
At MWC Barcelona, Google today made a few announcements around its Assistant. A lot of these center around support for KaiOS, the operating system for low-end feature phones that Google invested in last year, and additional language support. While KaiOS, which was born out of Mozilla’s failed FirefoxOS project, may be for the very low […]
Sony goes ultra-wide for its new handsets
Feb 25, 7:45AM
Two years ago, aspect ratios were all the rage. These days, it's 5G and foldable all the way down, making the Xperia 1 a bit of a throwback. These days, the company's getting even longer, with a 21:9 display on Sony's new flagship. The idea is to make things as cinematic as is possible for […]
Netflix's 'Roma' wins three Oscars, including Best Director (but not Best Picture)
Feb 25, 4:23AM
“Roma” took home three Academy Awards tonight — though not Best Picture, which went to “Green Book.” Alfonso Cuarón did win an Oscar for directing the film. It was his second victory in the category, following his previous award for “Gravity.” And it marks the fifth time in six years that Best Director has gone […]
How Netflix is eating the Academy
Feb 25, 3:26AM
It’s Oscar night! Do you care? If you’re me, and/or the statistically average watcher, the answer is: a whole lot less than you used to. Last year’s viewership hit an all-time low. Whither Hollywood, which just does not dominate the cultural conversation the way it used to? Oh, at first glance it’s doing just fine […]
The Google Assistant gets a button
Feb 24, 9:30PM
Traditionally, the Google Assistant always lived under the home button on Android phones, but as the company announced at MWC today, LG, Nokia, Xiaomi, TCL and Vivo are about to launch phones with dedicated assistant buttons, similar to what Samsung has long done with its Bixby assistant. The new phones with the button that are […]
LG's latest flagship uses your hand veins to unlock
Feb 24, 6:45PM
We've already known about the G8 ThinQ for some months now. And a few weeks back, LG made the whole camera rig official, announcing that the handset would be getting a ToF image sensor on its front-facing camera, bring, among other things, advanced face unlock technology. The company did manage to save a few tricks […]
LG gets a 5G flagship, making the world's longest phone name even longer
Feb 24, 6:45PM
For a company with a two letter name, LG loves nothing so much as an unwieldy title. A form of overcompensation, perhaps? Whatever the case, the lengthening of LG phone names is one of this world's few constants, and as such, it ought to be no surprise that the company's first 5G handset happily continues […]
Microsoft promises an open HoloLens ecosystem
Feb 24, 6:12PM
At its MWC keynote in Barcelona today, Microsoft promised to keep the HoloLens ecosystem open. That means third-party app stores and browsers, for example, with Mozilla already announcing its Firefox browser for HoloLens today. “Developers will have the freedom to create their own stares as first-class citizens,” Microsoft’s HoloLens chief Alex Kipman said today and […]
Unreal Engine 4 support is coming to HoloLens 2
Feb 24, 6:10PM
Microsoft closed out today's big HoloLens 2 debut with a surprise appearance by Epic Games CEO, Tim Sweeney. The gaming exec was clearly impressed by the technology's future for both developement and consumer augmented reality. "I believe that AR is going to be the primary platform of the future for both work and entertainment," he […]
Microsoft and Trimble made a hardhat with HoloLens built-in
Feb 24, 5:57PM
Microsoft is really hoping to get down to business with the next version of the Hololens. In fact, the software giant announced a new customization program for the HoloLens 2. How, precisely such customized versions of the XR headset will look remains to be seen, but the company's first partner, construction hardware company Trimble, is […]
Microsoft announces an Azure-powered Kinect camera for enterprise
Feb 24, 5:25PM
Today's Mobile World Congress kickoff event was all about the next Hololens, but Microsoft still had some surprises up its sleeve. One of the more interesting additions is the Azure Kinect, a new enterprise camera system that leverages the company's perennially 3D imaging technology to create a 3D camera for enterprises. The device is actually […]
Say hello to Microsoft's new $3,500 HoloLens with twice the field of view
Feb 24, 5:25PM
Microsoft unveiled the latest version of its HoloLens ‘mixed reality’ headset at MWC Barcelona today. The new HoloLens 2 features a significantly larger field of view, higher resolution and a device that’s more comfortable to wear. Indeed, Microsoft says the device is three times as comfortable to wear (though it’s unclear how Microsoft measured this). […]
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