A customer at Camera West in California recently traded in an interesting piece of photographic history, the Calypso underwater camera. The 35mm film camera was the first of its kind that didn’t need housing to be used underwater.
The Calypso was the brainchild of legendary explorer Jacques Cousteau and Belgian engineer Jean de Wouters. The Calypso was released in 1961 as the first 35mm…
iPhone 12 Pro video teardown goes hunting for magnets
November 3, 2020
As usual, following his traditional durability test, YouTuber Zach from the channel then goes on to tear down a phone on video. In this case, we’re talking about the iPhone 12 Pro. The device’s Ceramic Shield front glass was found to scratch just like regular…
Huawei nova 8 SE will be unveiled on November 5
November 3, 2020
Huawei introduced the nova 7 SE back in April, and last month it launched the nova 7 SE 5G Youth. Today the company announced it will follow up with the nova 8 SE on November 5, which will be unveiled at 2PM local time in China.
Huawei’s post on Weibo also includes a…
vivo officially confirmed its upcoming Origin OS is coming to replace Funtouch OS just the other day. However, no specifics have been given at the time. Now an intriguing leak sheds some light on it.
He says that vivo’s future Origin OS will offer a switch to stock Android on the fly. At least that’s what we assume the machine translation wanted to tell. The other possibility is that…
Moment, the company that manufactures external lenses, apps and accessories for smartphones, is taking full advantage of the iPhone 12’s MagSafe technology. It just unveiled a line of MagSafe accessories that will let you attach your iPhone 12 to tripods or walls, and…
Less than 3 years after its inception, Realme reached the 50 million users milestone. The growing tech brand is still the fastest-growing smartphone company in the world and is celebrating the occasion with a blog post of how it got here.
It all started in May of 2018 with…
ZTE Blade 20 5G appears in listing ahead of launch
November 3, 2020
Even though we’re getting close to the end of 2020, ZTE is only now gearing up to introduce its first Blade series phone of the year. The Blade 20 5G which was previously spotted in China’s TENAA certification agency’s database has now appeared on China Telecom’s product library bearing the same ZTE 8012N model number.
ZTE Blade 20 5G listing
The new listing brings a more detailed…
Quick Charge Podcast: November 2, 2020
November 3, 2020
Listen to a recap of the top stories of the day from Electrek. Quick Charge is available now on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, TuneIn and our RSS feed for Overcast and other podcast players.
New episodes of Quick Charge are recorded Monday through Thursday and again on…
Gboard rolling out ‘enhanced voice typing’ with new Google Assistant on Pixel 5, 4/4a
November 3, 2020
After we first spotted in August, Gboard is now rolling out an “enhanced voice typing” experience that features the new Google Assistant found on the latest Pixel phones. However, it’s not working for most users.
Pixel 4/XL, Pixel 4a, and Pixel 5 users today are…
For its 2020 phone lineup, Made by Google is leaning especially hard into “5G,” often referring to the two devices as “#Pixel5G” on Twitter. The company is now taking that a surprising step further with the Pixel 5 $5G sweepstakes.
If you buy a Pixel 5 on the US Google Store from November 2-30, you’ll be automatically entered to win $5,000. There will be five “Grand Prize Winners,”…
