Moment’s various smartphone lenses are tons of fun. If you’re a pro photographer, you probably have a whole slew of professional DSLR lenses in your gear bag, but amateurs (and pros looking to travel light) can get a lot out of these snap-on pieces of glass. The newest lens in the line is the Moment Fisheye 14mm.
As one would expect, the new lens creates a distorted effect by increasing your smartphone camera’s field-of-view to an insane degree (170 degrees, to be exact).
4K video is the latest buss word in technology and streaming media, and today MediaTek announced new technology that will offer a faster way to stream 4K video from a smartphone to a 4K-ready television or to a supported TV set-top box. The technology is called UltraCast and it will be available on its MediaTek Helio smartphone processors, along with the company’s 4K Ultra HDTV chipsets.
Report: MediaTek Helio X30 chipset built using 10nm process
BlackBerry has certainly been witness to better days, but fans of the once iconic brand had something to get excited about when the company announced its first Android smartphone last year. The BlackBerry Priv offers specifications that are at par with high-end competition, and the slew of BlackBerry features that are baked in to the software experience not only serve to evoke a sense of nostalgia, but actually prove to once again be very useful.
Aukey Omnia 65W PD GaN chargerThe Aukey Omnia 65W PD gallium nitride charger combines portability with versatility to enable high-speed dual device charging. The charger runs cool, and can ramp up to as high as 65W watts to charge most 13-inch laptops with ease. Gallium Nitride chargers are the single biggest innovation to come to the relatively staid world of charging bricks. The size advantage can’t be overstated. Combined with USB-C, it makes using a single charger for all your devices a very realistic solution.
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Samsung has a new pair of ads aiming at Apple. The two brief spots compare the Galaxy S21 Ultra and iPhone 12 Pro Max camera systems. Samsung’s no stranger to spewing fire at rival smartphone brands, and its latest marketing campaign takes aim at its nemesis — Apple. A pair of ads recently aired pitting the Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra‘s camera chops against the iPhone 12 Pro Max.
Sony’s TVs just got a lot more interesting. The company has teamed up with Amazon by bringing Alexa support to quite a few televisions it has on offer. What this means is that you can now control Sony’s Android TVs with Alexa-powered devices such as the Amazon Echo, Echo Dot, and Echo Show.
The feature is currently in beta and allows you to control certain functionalities with voice commands. You can turn the TV on or off, change the channel by number or name, control the volume, change input, and control playback for DVR or streaming content.
Google and YouTube are making some major design changes for both its mobile and desktop apps. However, the biggest change of all is an all new logo for the online video service. As you can see above, the logo ditches the red color inside the “Tube” part of the name, and places the now familiar play icon to the left side of the YouTube name. Google says the change allows the YouTube logo to work better “across a variety of devices, even on the tiniest screens”.
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Motorola has announced a new over-the-air charging solution. It is capable of charging a device placed 1m away. The tech could appear on future Edge series Motorola phones. It seems like over-the-air charging will be the new smartphone trend for 2021. Xiaomi just detailed its Mi Air Charge technology today and now Motorola has also jumped on the bandwagon.
Moto’s air-to-air charging solution was announced by Lenovo China’s General Manager Chen Jin on Weibo (h/t XDA Developers).
Technology is amazing, but sometimes it’s more distracting than it is helpful. On average, people get distracted from what they’re doing every three minutes, which adds up to 31 days of distractions every year.
Thankfully, technology is also here to help. You can take on your distraction with the FOCI focus-boosting wearable, and it’s on offer this week. All you have to do is pop it on your waistband and get started with your day.
The Google Play Edition of the LG G Pad 8.3 is now receiving the Android 5.0 Lollipop OTA update. Your typical rollout schedule is in place, so it may be a few days before it lands on your G Pad, but you can celebrate that you are the first GPE device to receive the Lollipop update.
It appears the update runs a little over 400MB and requires that you have another one hundred MB of free internal storage beyond that to make the install.