MobileNews

NVIDIA ray-tracing on 'Minecraft' looks surprisingly cool

August 19, 2019
Minecraft‘s blocky world might be the last place you’d think would need more realism. However, NVIDIA and Microsoft have announced that they’ve done exactly that, bringing RTX ray-tracing powers to the world-building game. “In normal Minecraft, a block of gold just appears yellow,” said Minecraft’s Saxs Persson, “but with ray tracing turned on, you really…
Read more
MobileNews

Motorola One Action to arrive in India on August 23

August 19, 2019
Last week Motorola One Action was unveiled with three cameras, one of them with an ultrawide angle lens with 1080 at 60 fps video recording and 16 MP sensor for shooting action videos. Now we learn the phone will hit India through Flipkart starting August 23. The new phone…
MobileNews

Samsung Galaxy Note10+: first Exynos 9825 benchmarks

August 19, 2019
The Exynos 9825 is the industry’s first chipset built on a 7nm Extreme UltraViolet (EUV) process. Its predecessor, the 8nm Exynos 9820, as well as TSMC’s 7nm offerings are built on Deep UltraViolet (DUV) process, but that has run out of steam. In the future, foundries will…
MobileNews

Comment: Is the Reminders app ready to be considered a true task manager in iOS 13 and macOS Catalina?

August 18, 2019
I made the decision a few weeks ago to install the beta of macOS Catalina. It’s still pretty buggy, but since I enjoy testing out new features (and writing about them), I am willing to deal with the crashes and incompatibility throughout the summer. One of the biggest surprises for me has been the changes in the Reminders app. Over the years, I used several to-do/GTD/project management/task…
Read more
MobileNews

Flashback: Nokia N-Gage - the gaming phone ahead of its time

August 18, 2019
Sometimes a company launches the right product at the wrong time. The Nokia N-Gage is remembered simply as a failure today, but seeing how in 2019 companies are tripping over themselves to launch gaming phones, it’s hard not to wonder if maybe Nokia was on to something. The…
MobileNews

Motorola One Action promo videos show off the ultra wide Action Camera

August 17, 2019
The Motorola One Action was just announced and its unique feature, the Action Cam, is the focus of the first promo videos. You can read our review for an in-depth look into the phone and its cameras, but if you only have a minute, check out this video: It’s shot in 21:9, of course. That’s the aspect ratio of the phone’s screen and you can set the Action Cam to record 21:9 video too, which…
Read more
MobileNews

Samsung Galaxy M21, M31 and M41 key specs leak

August 17, 2019
Samsung revamped mid-range portfolio was a huge success this year and it will certainly be a major part of the company’s 2020 portfolio. Yesterday we learned about the major camera upgrades that will be coming to next year’s Galaxy A series phones and today…
MobileNews

Two new Xiaomi smartphones pop up on 3C, one of them has 18W charging

August 17, 2019
Xiaomi has just got two new phones certified by the Chinese 3C, and they are likely members of the upcoming Redmi 8 series. The devices with model numbers M1906G7E and M1906G7T have received China’s Compulsory Certificate mark, alongside an 18W charger with a serial number MDY-10-EC. CCC certification The second line reads that another phone with two model numbers (likely different memory…
Read more