Unlike last year, Huawei is not coming to MWC with a new P-series smartphone, namely the rumored P20, probably due to Samsung unveiling its highly anticipated Galaxy S9 at the show. Anyhow, we are happy to see that the Chinese manufacturer is launching premium Android tablets instead, the MediaPad M5 series. And once again the rumored specifications were spot on. The successor of the MediaPad M3 introduced at IFA 2016, […]
Today is the 25th Anniversary of the iconic ThinkPad laptop, launched as the ThinkPad 700c on October 5th, 1992 by IBM. ThinkPad became a brand of the Lenovo portfolio when the China-headquartered company acquired IBM’s personal computer division in 2005. To celebrate the 25th birthday of its commercial laptops brand, Lenovo organized an event at the Yamato Labs in Japan, where the 700c was born and unveiled the ThinkPad Anniversary […]
#IFA2017 Sony is coming to IFA with a next-gen wearable, the Xperia Ear, a wireless headset packed with sensors and microphones. The best innovation of the Xperia Ear Open-style Concept is the ability to prevent the device to block your ear canal, so while you listen to your music, you can also hear the sounds around you. This is a great safety feature for people who love to wear headphone […]
#IFA2017 – Samsung is coming to IFA 2017 with a brand new smartwatch, the successor of the Gear S3 Frontier, the Gear Sport is a more affordable and fitness-dedicated smart timepiece. The Korean manufacturer thoroughly collected users’ feedback to figure out what is the most sought-after feature and which ones needed improvement. During the new wearable products presentation, David Ng, Product Manager, Wearable at Samsung explained that people are using […]
Mobile coverage and speeds can be iffy indoors but solutions do exist to help users get the most out of their mobile connections regardless of where they might be. Sprint has launched one such solution today. It’s called the Sprint Magic Box and the carrier says that it’s the world’s first all-wireless small cell that’s going to improve LTE coverage and download speeds indoors.
Qualcomm has just announced its latest Gigabit-class LTE modem called Snapdragon X20. It is a discrete modem (not integrated into a SoC processor) that can reach a theoretical speed of 1.2 Gbps (download), thus firmly bridging the gap between LTE and 5G. It does so thanks to an unprecedented use of carrier aggregation and introduces features like dual-SIM VoLTE (voice over LTE) that should be increase voice quality for […]
Brilliant Control is an innovative smart home controller equipped with a touch display that you can install in minutes by replacing on of your regular light switch with it, and… it does not require a smartphone! On the paper, the device looks way easier to install than smart home hubs such as Smarthings, which is compatible with over 200 smart devices and does not offer such an intuitive user experience. […]
If a new report out of Korea is to be believed, LG has teamed up with some of the biggest tech companies on the planet for foldable OLED displays. The report mentions that LG Display has signed Apple, Google, and Microsoft as its first customers for foldable OLED displays that it’s planning to mass produce in 2018.
Today, Omate, the company that made one of the first smartwatches powered by Android, unveiled the first Android-powered robot featuring Amazon Alexa. Equipped with a 5-inch HD tactile LCD display in landscape mode, Yumi provides access to the Android apps that work in that screen position mode, the user interface has been customized, and the start screen offers a wheel with the main menu categories (see the photos) Most importantly, […]
Everything and anything is now connected and we were expecting the bathroom would remain protected from the invasion of connectivity and the constant influx of information that goes with it… well, no. Today, HiMirror is born to provide people with the best information about their skin status in real-time. Basically, the device is a large (11” x 16.5” ) humidity resistant tablet, that runs Android, with a reflective coating on […]
BlackBerry recently confirmed that it’s no longer going to make its own handsets but the company is not completely bowing out of the handset market. It’s going to outsource production to third-party manufacturers and launch the handsets under its brand. The BlackBerry DTEK50 is the result of one such collaboration and the DTEK60 is going to be the second. BlackBerry has now listed the specs of this unannounced handset on […]