Week 44 in review: Galaxy S22 enters mass production, USB-C iPhone on sale

Week 44 in review: Galaxy S22 enters mass production, USB-C iPhone on sale Another week down, let’s recap. The Galaxy S22 and S22+ have reportedly entered into mass production and we saw detailed renders of the pair, based on early information. They’ll look quite similar to their predecessors, only be smaller in stature, thanks to reduced screens – 6.06-inch and 6.55-inch for the S22 and S22+, respectively. That’s down from the 6.1-inch and 6.7-inch of the S21 and S21+.

The Galaxy S22 Ultra is also in production and we even saw the first live images of the phone this week. It looks a lot like a Galaxy Note20 Ultra, only with a matte black finish. It has an S Pen…

Flashback: iPod touch – the almost iPhone

Flashback: iPod touch – the almost iPhone Apple changed the portable music player world in 2001 with the launch of the original iPod. It wasn’t the first portable MP3 player by a long shot – Internet folklore still remembers early criticism like this post on Slashdot (by CmdrTaco himself): “No wireless. Less space than a nomad. Lame.”

“Nomad” refers refers to Creative’s Nomad series of portable MP3 players. The Nomad Jukebox, the latest entry in the series at the time, had just come out in late 2000 and had 6GB of storage – one more than the iPod. Anyway, today’s story isn’t about these two, but about an important Apple product…

Weekly poll: do you still want depth and macro cameras on your phones?

Weekly poll: do you still want depth and macro cameras on your phones? Back when the HTC One (M8) added a second camera on its back – used to calculate distances using the parallax effect, better known today as a depth camera – it was an innovative new feature. But things quickly turned cynical.

We’ve always known that tech companies love to advertise large numbers. Sometimes (quite often, in fact), those large numbers don’t make a lot of sense, but it has been decades and engineers still haven’t been able to get the marketing department under control.

This is how we got to today where depth cameras are added as a +1. If a phone has only two cameras, wide…

Weekly poll results: the Sony Xperia Pro-I is well received, but not everyone needs a professional phone

Weekly poll results: the Sony Xperia Pro-I is well received, but not everyone needs a professional phone While the meaning of “Pro” has been watered down over the years, people still believe there is a place for truly professional smartphones like the Sony Xperia Pro-I.

It’s not a phone for everyone, that’s clear enough in last week’s poll. But it wasn’t meant to be, it is aimed at a particular subset of professions – vloggers, along with anyone who would benefit from high-quality 4K 120 fps video. You may think that $1,800/€1,800 is pricey, but the Pro-I is meant to slot in between regular smartphones and professional cameras (now those are really pricey).

Okay, chances are that…

Some Google Pixel phones are randomly calling people on their contact list

Some Google Pixel phones are randomly calling people on their contact list Let’s be honest here, Google’s Pixel phones are sort of infamous for experiencing issues. It’s actually become a bit of a meme within the industry and a self-fulfilling prophecy in recent years, though definitely for good reasons. The shiny new Pixel 6 and 6 Pro are no exception either. It didn’t take long after their launch for the first reports of green screen tint, flickering and punch hole weirdness to start pouring in.

Now in a fairly new and still very much developing situation some users have been reporting that their Pixel phones are randomly placing calls to people in the…

Honor 50 in for review

Honor 50 in for review Just as we welcomed the Honor 50 series in Europe we get to add the Honor 50 to our review queue. This is the better of a pair of Honor 50 devices, the other one being the Lite model, both of which have official Google Play Services support out of the box.

Let’s get the unboxing out of the way and we’ll go over the Honor 50 highlights. The phone ships with a 66W charger, a cable, a case, USB-C earbuds, and a SIM tool.

The Honor 50 is more or less the same phone as the Huawei nova 9, pictured below, but it has a 108MP main camera, instead of the 50MP of the nova 9, and naturally,…

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