September 9 will be a big day for Realme since the company will unveil its first tablet, dubbed Realme Pad. The young brand will also introduce two new smartphones on the same day – Realme 8s 5G and Realme 8i. Leaked renders have already revealed the designs of both smartphones, but we’ve only seen them in one color – 8s 5G in purple and 8i in black. Today, a couple of posters…
Xiaomi has always treated MIUI with plenty of respect, care and attention, as technically its first and still one of its most successful products. Things are going great with the latest MIUI 12.5, as well as the later-unveiled 12.5 Enhanced Edition, which are already making…
Vivo V1 ISP chip photographed next to Snapdragon 888
September 5, 2021
Vivo’s upcoming X70 line is one of the more curious upcoming releases in recent memory. We are currently expecting a trio of devices in the family – a vanilla X70, a X70 Pro and a X70 Pro+ – all of which we are already quite familiar with, thanks to an…
Samsung Galaxy M22 launch imminent as support pages go live on Singaporean and Malaysian websites
September 5, 2021
Support pages for the Samsung Galaxy M22 we’ve been hearing about for a few months now have gone live on Samsung’s official Singaporean and Malaysian websites, suggesting an imminent launch.
The pages don’t include any details on the Galaxy M22 other than its model designation, SM-M225FV/DS, where “DS” denotes dual-SIM support. And while we await official word from…
WhatsApp chat data transfer from iOS to Samsung is now live
September 5, 2021
Last month on the day of Samsung’s official unveiling of the Galaxy Z Fold3 and Z Flip3 WhatsApp unveiled plans to support moving chat history from iOS to Samsung devices running Android 10 or 11.
Today this feature finally went live. So, if you have a Samsung handset…
Hands-on with the new Fujifilm XF33mm F1.4 R LM WR
September 5, 2021
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Fujifilm’s XF 33mm F1.4 R LM WR is the latest in a series of primes from the company that offer modern alternatives to some of the first optics in the X-mount system. I say ‘offer…
Apple’s Periscope Lens Plans Stymied by Samsung Patent: Report
September 4, 2021
Apple is reportedly hoping to integrate a periscope camera lens system into its iPhones as soon as 2023, but a new report out of Korea alleges that the Silicon Valley giant may have run up against a problem: a Samsung patent.
As some background, “periscope” is the term used to describe a “folded” lens system that can squeeze greater zoom capabilities into the tiny camera arrays found in…
Planetary Radar Observes 1,000th Near-Earth Asteroid Since 1968
September 4, 2021
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Planetary Radar Observes 1,000th Near-Earth Asteroid Since 1968
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Seven days after this historic milestone, a massive antenna at NASA’s Deep Space Network Goldstone complex imaged…
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Battlefield 2042 is launching soon. But publisher Electronic Arts and developer DICE still have a few things left to tell fans about the game before its October 22 release. For one, a beta test…
A Day Off Twitch gave the platform its lowest viewer hours of 2021
September 4, 2021
On Wednesday, streamers and viewers boycotted Twitch as part of an organized protest, A Day Off Twitch. Users wanted to highlight the platform’s issues with harassment, notably the surge in “hate raids.” The raid feature lets a streamer send their viewers to a channel. Some have abused this to target POC content creators with waves of racist and hateful messages.
With statistics from the…
