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Nintendo announced the Switch Lite in July, and at a recent event in New York, we got a chance to test it out. The new console is a smaller and cheaper version of the original Switch: its price dropped to $199, but that’s at the expense of its ability to hook up to a TV.
Android TV’s Pie update has been finally hitting popular hardware such as the Nvidia Shield recently, and it seems another update is incoming. Xiaomi’s Mi TV 4 series is reportedly going to get an Android Pie update in September.
In India, Xiaomi…
The Samsung Galaxy M30s is set to be a huge upgrade over the already quite popular Galaxy M30. The first look at the camera cutout in a case had us worried that Samsung would be dropping a camera, but thats not the case the M30s will still have three cameras, though with a redesigned camera island.
The main camera will be upgraded to 48MP sensor, up from 13MP. The wider island now houses the…
Battery life is something that’s important to all smartphone users, but sometimes methods of squeezing out a bit of extra screen time are ill-advised. Nokia has just announced that it will get rid of a battery-saving method that aggressively killed background apps in…
The Switch Lite is the cutest console we ever did see
August 27, 2019
The Switch Lite is exactly what it sounds like: A smaller, more portable version of Nintendo’s latest console darling. It forgoes the ability to well, switch, between docked and portable modes, in exchange for a sleeker experience. Tl;dr: It’s a Switch that can…
Carriers have been in a push lately for anti-spam services. Today, Verizon is launching a big expansion of its free Call Filter service which will automatically enroll “eligible” Android users.
Verizon’s Call Filter app has been available for the better part of 2019, but the service has only been enabled if a user manually enables the feature. Starting today, Verizon…
LG is expected to launch a foldable device at IFA 2019, taking place in Berlin, Germany. Today, the company announced a specific web browser called Whale that was developed jointly with Naver, South Koreas largest search engine provider.
It will provide the LG Dual Screen…
NeuralCam is a new app for taking iPhone photos in the dark
August 27, 2019
NeuralCam is an iPhone app that aims to bring to the iPhone the kind of ultra-low-light capabilities we’ve seen in some recent Android smartphones.
Modern iPhones have gotten better and better at handling low-light photos. I put that to the test soon after I got my iPhone…
The story behind every Xbox One controller ever made
August 27, 2019
Microsoft is very, very fond of special edition Xbox One controllers, to the point where it encourages you to make your own. But did you ever wonder about the history behind a given controller, or how many models have never seen the light of day? If you did, you might just have your answer after today. Microsoft has produced a video where hardware designers Monique Chatterjee and Carl Ledbetter…
