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Acer is showing off a 55-inch 4K OLED gaming monitor

January 5, 2020
We all know someone who bought a big TV to use as a PC monitor, refresh rates be damned. Thankfully, Acer is joining the not-so select group of companies producing enormous displays that are actually suitable for PC gaming. The company’s Predator division is announcing the CG552K, a 55-inch, 4K OLED display that sports adaptive sync, NVIDIA G-Sync and a 120Hz refresh rate. It’s smarter than…
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Acer’s Spin convertible laptops get 10th-gen Intel chips

January 5, 2020
Acer’s Spin line of convertible laptops are really designed for people who need flexibility but don’t want to carry around too much stuff. They’ve never been outrageously heavy, but were never the lightest or prettiest devices. Which is precisely why the 2020 refresh…
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Lenovo's latest Legion gaming laptop relies on an external GPU

January 5, 2020
Lenovo is kicking off 2020 with a gaming laptop that needs a companion to thrive. It’s introducing the Legion Y740S, a slim 15.6-inch laptop (billed as Lenovo’s “thinnest and lightest” gaming model) meant to couple with the company’s first external GPU, the Legion BoostStation. It has some decent horsepower with up to a Core i9 processor, 32GB of RAM and a 1TB PCIe SSD, but you’re…
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MobileNews

Flashback: the Galaxy Alpha was Samsung's attempt at making an iPhone

January 5, 2020
By 2013 Samsung was one of the largest smartphone manufacturers in the world, but it had a reputation of building plastic phones at a time when Apple, HTC, Sony and others were pushing metal as the material of choice for flagships. Samsung was also at the forefront of a trend it started, that of extra large screens. The large, plastic Galaxys had little overlap with the small, metal iPhones.
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MobileNews

Samsung will unveil its latest Galaxy phones on February 11th

January 5, 2020
In case you’ve been losing sleep over whether that leaked Samsung invite video was real, fret no more. Samsung itself confirmed this evening that it plans to show off “new, innovative devices that will shape the next decade of mobile experiences” at a Galaxy Unpacked…
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Samsung confirms Galaxy S11 event for February 11th

January 5, 2020
The next Galaxy flagship smartphone from Samsung is indeed being announced on February 11th. After the date was discovered earlier today thanks to an unlisted video, Samsung has now confirmed that its Unpacked event will be held that day in San Francisco. There’s little…
GamingNews

'Fortnite' made a historic $1.8 billion in 2019

January 5, 2020
Fortnite won its chicken dinner in 2019 by grossing $1.8 billion in sales, more than any single-year sales total in videogame history. While the game itself is technically free-to-play, Epic Games offers a $10 per month Battle Pass as well as myriad in-game item purchases — from clothing and weapons to dance mores and player reactions — to keep the game’s 125 million active players coming…
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