News and notes on the latest from Google.
Every year, we witness the unveiling of several chipsets powering the top-tier flagship phones from Apple’s A-series processors, to Qualcomm’s Snapdragon, to Samsung’s Exynos chipsets. Each chipset always aims to become the next king by bringing new improvements from more efficiency, to improved single core and multi-core tasks.
Continue reading “Samsung’s Exynos 9820 revealed, brings on-device AI processing”
Just last week, the first consumer-oriented foldable phone was announced by Royole Corporation, and exactly as was predicted, Samsung announced their vision of the foldable phone today.
Continue reading “Samsung’s foldable phone is here but not yet”
Today, during Samsung’s Developer Conference, Samsung is clearly still fighting to increase the popularity of Bixby in the voice assistant market. So far, Bixby hasn’t been a favorite for a lot of people (and all for the right reasons). From its slow response time to often returning the wrong results and not to mention the existence of the “Bixby button” in new phones, people often complained a lot on social media.
Continue reading “Samsung is opening up Bixby to developers”
The rumor mill surrounding us getting “foldable smartphones” has never been more prominent than today. Smartphones in 2018 are fast, powerful and have an almost edge to edge displays that make us think that we are living in the future. So naturally, we think to ourselves, after we are able to get pure, edge to edge notch-less displays, what comes next? You are right. Foldable smartphones.
Continue reading “The first foldable smartphone is here — and it’s exactly what we expected”
Google Chrome remains to be one of the most used browsers across all devices, and with the recent updates to Chrome, its appeal has increased. Now, additional features are being added in the latest update, v70.
Continue reading “Chrome v70 adds biometric authentication and more”
The smartphone market has never been as competitive as it is today. Whenever you decide to buy a new phone, you start by looking at the specs and then reading some reviews on how they stand out from the herd. However, the question always remains: “How will this phone perform after 2-3 years?”
That is why we have decided to revisit one of the best phones of its year: the Nexus 6P. Continue reading “Using a Nexus 6P in 2018 is a surprisingly okay experience”
