Mobile

For the past five years, the photo and video capabilities of smartphones have been the focus of every new device. That was great for consumers as cameras kept getting better on phones. However, are they good enough that you don’t have to do smartphone photo editing? That’s exactly what we wanted to find out with…

Opinion from Hadlee Simons I’ve been an Xbox owner for a little over a decade, dating back to 2007 and buying an Xbox 360. Fast forward to 2014, I gave my year-end bonus for an Xbox One at Microsoft from a platform that initially feels like a safe choice for a 360 owner. I’m more…

Samsung Semiconductor is currently one of the major players in the mobile photography space, belonging to Sony and Omnivision as the top three image sensor suppliers in the smartphone industry. The company is currently on the multi-camera wave and is increasing the use of 108MP sensors significantly. What’s next for the image sensor company and…

There are dozens of prominent Android smartphone manufacturers around the world, but in most areas, Samsung is the top dog. Samsung phones are the most popular Android-based smartphones in many markets, including here in the United States. By multiple metrics, Samsung is the biggest electronics company in the world. In fact, in its home country…

Back at IFA 2020, Honor announced a number of new products in its MagicBook laptop line. The range blurs the lines between premium features and lower prices and offers a slim design and powerful hardware for less than 900 euros. The Honor MagicBook Pro carries the flashlight at the upper end of the range. We…

The recently launched streaming service Peacock will finally be available on Roku-based devices shortly. The agreement was announced late today by Roku and Peacock’s owner NBCUniversal. Specific terms of the agreement were not disclosed. In July, NBCUniversal launched its long-awaited streaming service Peacock on a national scale. However, the service didn’t support the popular line…

The Trump administration is moving ahead with plans to ban Tick ​​tock and WeChat (although TikTok is getting a partial renewal), Unity goes public, and we’re announcing the winner of this year’s startup Battlefield. This is your daily crisis for September 18, 2020. The big story: The US TikTok ban is imminent The U.S. Department…

WinFuture has released new pictures of the upcoming Chromecast-based Android TV dongle and the associated remote control from Google. The supplied remote control has a different button layout than in previous pictures. In particular, it lacks a customizable star button. We’ve seen images from Google’s Android TV dongle with Sabrina Chromecast a few times before,…

Amazon is hosting an Alexa Hardware Device Event on September 24 at 1:00 p.m. Eastern. It just means there will be “some news”. The event is by invitation only and therefore may not be streamed to the public. Device announcements may vary widely during the 2020 pandemic, but that doesn’t stop Amazon from holding the…