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Galaxy S9 series launches officially on February 25
January 26, 2018
It has become official. Samsung has sent invitations to the media to attend the upcoming Samsung’s Press event in Barcelona where the announcement of its newest flagship: Samsung Galaxy S9 will be made. The invitation itself shows a number 9 and the words: “The Camera. Reimagined”. With that we can expect a great improvement in Samsung’s camera. The S9 series phones are expected to look similar to their S8 predecessors; 18:5:9 Infinity displays and even thinner bezels. The new design has...
In-display fingerprint scanner phone Vivo X20 Plus UD goes official
January 26, 2018
Vivo has officially announced the X20 Plus HD – the first smartphone with an under-display fingerprint scanner. The phone has specs that match the existing Vivo X20 Plus as well as an AMOLED display that allows the Clear ID 9500 sensor to work. It comes with a 6.43” screen of 18:9 ratio and FullHD+ resolution of 2160 x 1080 pixels. The RAM is 4 GB and the storage is 128 GB and it can be increased with the usage of the hybrid slot if a second SIM is not needed. X20 Plus UD has a dual camera ...
Samsung's AI chips head to outstrip Huawei & Apple later in the year
January 18, 2018
Samsung is not letting itself get fallen behind in the latest trend of AI-focused chipsets in the mobile world and is working hard on a neutral processing unit (NPU) of its own. Apple and Huawei have already introduced us to their AI chipsets last year, namely the A11 Bionic & Kirin 970. Even though the company only started developing its NPU in the later half of last year, some sources in Korea claim that Samsung has already that caught up with Apple and Huawei in technologies, and will pr...
CES 2018: Samsung Bixby Learns To Get Your Food's Calories
January 10, 2018
Samsung Bixby virtual assistant has a surprising new feature. It now has the ability to identify your food and give you a calorie count of it. While this feature is not polished enough for a public release, it could do a pretty decent job in telling food apart; not to the extent of identify everything on your dinner plate. You need to point the phone’s camera to each food item to obtain the corresponding calorie counts. Samsung representatives say Bixby uses generic data for food items so the ...
Leak On Nokia 6 Before Official Announcement
January 05, 2018
Nokia 6 (2018) details have been leaked by Chinese retailer Suning. The leaked happened before the scheduled official HMD Global announcement. From what were revealed i.e. specs, images and renders, we know that the new Nokia 6 is equipped with the Snapdragon 630 chipset, a fingerprint scanner on the back, as well as modified accents around the edges and the camera. Nokia 6 stands at 148.8 x 75.8 x 8.15 mm with a weight of 172 g. The chipset is an octa-core CPU with four of the cores clocked at...