The latest technology news from around the world
With the Samsung Galaxy Z Flip launch just two days away in conjunction with the Samsung Galaxy S20 series, we already know most of the specs about the latest foldable from Samsung. The Motorola Razr was announced at the end of last year but launches properly in the next few weeks. With these being the…
Traditionally Samsung has always been the first company to announce a flagship phone of the year, setting the benchmark for all phones moving forward. Many Chinese brands have been trying to be first, and Xiaomi claimed to be the first with a 5G device last year with the Mix 3 5G. ZTE has finally pipped…
Video codecs are not the most exciting of things but they make a huge difference with the media we consume. Currently, when we watch Netflix they use the VP9 codec by default which was originally developed by Google. This codec is natively supported on Android in both software and the hardware. The hardware support is…
The MediaTek Dimensity 1000L is a very odd chipset when you look at its specification, it is not a mid-range chipset. It is basically a slightly cut down version of the flagship Dimensity 1000 adopting the same 4x Cortex-A77 & 4xCortex-A55 design as the full-fat version. The only noticeable difference on the spec sheet is…
Realme have confirmed that they will be launching new devices at MWC 2020 which will take place on 24th of February through to the 27th, this will the first global launch for the company. They have not announced an official launch date just yet, many companies do launches the 2-days before on the Saturday/Sunday but…
MediaTek has been on a roll for the last 6-months or so. It started at the end of July with the launch of the Helio G90 series which was then featured in the massively popular Redmi Note 8 Pro. Benchmarks indicated this was as good, if not better than the Snapdragon 730G. In recent months…
This new bypassed me a couple of days ago, but EnGenius has recently announced two new multi-gig switches that they claim will be affordable. With EnGenius being a business focussed company, the definition of affordable may be different from what home and SOHO users class as affordable, so we will have to wait and see….
An entry-level gaming orientated chipset seems to be a contradiction in terms, but recently MediaTek unveiled the Helio G70, which is technically the same as the Helio P65 previously released. Realme will be the first company to use this chipset with the Realme C3 which is set to arrive on the 6th of February, launching…
I was very impressed with the Huawei Matebook X Pro when I reviewed it back in 2018. Huawei also has a more affordable range of laptops with their D series which are powered by AMD CPUs. Like many other laptop brands, this has received its yearly update moving it from an AMD Ryzen 5 2500U…
Motorola has not had a good time in recent years, what was once one of the dominant phone companies, they saw a sharp decline in market share leading to years of loses and the eventual sale to Lenovo. Things started to look up last year, Lenovo revealed that its mobile business group – which houses…
A new report by Vice/Motherboard has revealed how much data Avast will collect on you if you opt-in on their data collection services. This is a perfect example of the privacy concerns we face in the modern era, and why freeware can be so bad. Avast is used by hundreds of millions of people around…
On 11th of February Samsung will likely be the first company to officially launch a phone with the Qualcomm Snapdragon 865 on their new Samsung Galaxy S20 series. With MWC 2020 a few days later it is expected we will see many more phones launching on the latest and greatest Qualcomm has to offer before…