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LG Velvet image leaks, 10W wireless charging confirmed

April 27, 2020
Details about the LG Velvet keep trickling in. The latest comes from the Wireless Power Consortium, which just certified the phone with support for wireless charging at up to 10W. It’s a Power Class 0 receiver, a standard that supports power up to 30W, but that’s usually reserved for high-end offerings. And the Velvet is LG’s attempt to revitalize its mid-range smartphone lineup. It created a…
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Huawei’s AppGallery gets ‘HERE WeGo’ to replace missing Google Maps

April 27, 2020
Huawei’s past couple of major releases have lacked a huge selling point — Google apps. That’s a result of the ongoing situation with the US and, now, Huawei is building out its AppGallery store to fill the gap with one of its latest big additions potentially able to fill the place of Google Maps. Google Maps is the biggest mapping product on the planet, but it has healthy competition from…
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Samsung to release a Galaxy A phone with pop-up selfie camera

April 27, 2020
In collaboration with a reputable leakster , was able to obtain a set of renders depicting a Samsung Galaxy A smartphone with a pop-up selfie camera. Some basic specs are also in the report so here they are. Samsung Galaxy A phone with a pop-up selfie According to the…
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Amazon’s AI uses a microphone array to localize multiple speakers in a room

April 27, 2020
In a technical paper scheduled to be presented next month at the International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), a group of Amazon researchers propose an AI-driven approach to multiple-source localization, or the problem of estimating a sound’s location using microphone audio. They say that in experiments involving real and simulated data (the former from the…
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OnePlus co-founders get together to unbox the OnePlus 8, talk about what inspired the phone

April 27, 2020
OnePlus co-founders Pete Lau and Carl Pei have gotten together to shoot an official unboxing video for the OnePlus 8. The video is in Chinese and YouTube’s automatic subtitles haven’t kicked in yet, unfortunately, but long story short, these two go into details about how the phone was designed and what inspired the team (while joking constantly, it’s rare to see head execs have this much fun in…
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