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The Huawei P20 Pro has been subjected to a series of stress tests on the JerryRigEverything YouTube channel. The device survives the treatment like many of its competitors, until the bend test, where the display cracks. This rarely happens during these tests on the channel, though they don’t necessarily represent real-world scenarios. The Huawei P20 Pro has been put through its paces in the latest durability test from YouTube channel JerryRigEverything.
The LG V20 has been officially unveiled, and we had the opportunity to go hands-on with this Nougat-powered flagship to see just how LG handled the device’s software design.
You heard that right. The LG V20 runs Android 7.0 Nougat right out of the box, making it the first phone to ship with Nougat, even ahead of Google’s upcoming Pixel phones. That said, you won’t feel much of a difference on the surface, because LG has their in-house UI running over the top, and they haven’t changed too much here.
Nook in-app purchases are coming, and they’re coming soon. According to a press release Barnes & Noble has sent out, thousands of games and apps that use in-app purchasing will be available “in the coming weeks and months,” and this will happen on tablets including the Nook HD and Nook HD+.
The partner Nook has decided to choose for its in-app purchasing efforts is Fortumo and, since the mobile payments provider is working in no less than 73 countries, this should open quite a few doors for the Barnes & Noble tablets and bring Nook users a lot of interesting new apps.
The latest quarterly App Annie report is out with its detailed breakdown of the worldwide app market. Google Play maintained its dominant position over iOS in terms of download numbers, racking up double as many installs as iOS, but iOS continues to dominate financially, with 90% more revenue than Google Play.
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The other big news in this quarter’s report is that while China was the biggest growth market year-on-year for iOS revenue, that honor was held by the U.
The Android vs iOS battle will continue until one of them is gone. Given that is slowly losing its grasp on the mobile market, we’d be willing to bet that it won’t be Android that goes down first. However, new studies have come out showing that Apple controls the web share by nearly 40%.Let’s observe the facts. Since November 2012, Android web share has fallen 13% while Apple’s web share as gone up 1%.
The Huawei P20 and P20 Pro have been on the market a little over two months now and I’ve been making good use of the impressive camera setup in that time.
It’s something that Huawei needs to address to turn a great camera into a truly excellent one, and it’s definitely not a “feature” that we want to see come to more of its upcoming smartphones.
The aggressive oversharpening, followed up by a tad too much denoise, produces an almost painted effect in some scenes.
In the early days of Android, a good mobile experience meant forking over $600+ for a flagship level device, as purchasing anything cheaper required users to accept a laundry list of compromises. Finally in 2013, this reality began to change, starting with the original Moto G. The Moto G proved that you could have a great Android experience without paying a fortune and this is a trend that has continued in full force ever since.
At IFA 2016 in Berlin, Huawei unveiled two new smartphones – the Nova and Nova Plus – as well as a new generation of its MediaPad M tablet line.
The MediaPad M3 is an 8.4 inch tablet with a WQHD+ display, fingerprint reader and a dual 1-watt speaker system co-engineered with Harman Kardon. On the inside the MediaPad M3 uses Huawei’s own Kirin 950 processor together with 4GB RAM and either 32GB or 64GB storage. There is also a microSD card slot which allows the storage to be expanded by another 128GB.
Following its leak last week, Sony has today announced the Xperia M5, the successor to the Xperia M4 Aqua which comes with a more impressive camera. The Xperia M5 has a 5-inch Full HD display, waterproof omnibalance design and a new 21.5MP Hybrid Autofocus camera. Sony is dubbing this handset as a ‘super mid-range’ phone, presumably in a bid to set it between the mid-range and the high-end flagship tiers.
The Xperia M5 key specs include:
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1. Elon Musk blows by Bill Gates to become the world’s second-richest personBill Gates has mostly been the richest person in the world for as long as I can remember, and even when he was unseated by the likes of Carlos Slim, it seemed like an aberration.
Now Gates is a long way behind Jeff Bezos who looks set (even after a costly divorce) to be the first person to reach $200 billion in net worth, not that the numbers feel like they mean anything at this point.