Google Pixel 6 Pro in for review

Google Pixel 6 Pro in for review One of the most awaited smartphones of the year – the Pixel 6 Pro – was officially unveiled earlier last week, and we’ve received one for review in the Stormy Black color. However, there are two more options to choose from – Cloudy White and Sorta Sunny.

The Google Pixel 6 Pro’s retail package includes a USB-C cable, a quick switch adapter, a SIM ejector tool, some documents and that’s that. Google followed Apple’s footsteps and removed the power adapter from the retail package.

That said, the Pixel 6 Pro is powered by Google’s homegrown Tensor chip, which is one of the headline…

Week 42 in review: Google Pixel 6 and 6 Pro, MacBook 14 and 16 Pro official

Week 42 in review: Google Pixel 6 and 6 Pro, MacBook 14 and 16 Pro official This week was a big one. Four major events unfolded and brought a variety of devices. Apple kicked things off with the unveiling of its new M1 Pro and M1 Max processors, which power the new MacBook Pro 14 and 16. The M1 Pro has an 8-core CPU, while the M1 Max can offer a 32-core GPU.

The new MacBook Pro’s have mini-LED Liquid Retina XDR displays, three USB-C ports, a full-sized HDMI port, an SDXC card slot, and see the return of the MagSafe charging port.

The AirPods 3 are here with 3D audio, a new water-resistant design, up to 6 hours of playback and a price of $199/€199.

The Google…

Realme Book (Slim) Review

Realme Book (Slim) Review It may feel like a decade, but it’s been only about 3.5 years since Realme launched its first product – the Realme 1 – and the company has quickly expanded its product portfolio since then with the launch of fitness bands, smartwatches, wireless earphones, Bluetooth speakers, smart TVs, vacuum cleaners, washing machine, a tablet, and a laptop, dubbed Realme Book (Slim), that we have with us today for review.

The Realme Book (Slim) is known as Realme Book outside India, and is not just Realme’s first laptop but also the first from the BBK Electronics group. The Realme Book (Slim) is…

Tecno Camon 18 Premier in for review

Tecno Camon 18 Premier in for review The Tecno Camon 18 Premier announced earlier this month has landed at our office for review in the Polar Night color.

Opening its retail package reveals a protective case, 33W adapter, USB-C cable, earphones, SIM ejector tool, and the usual paperwork.

The Camon 18 Premier is built around a 6.7″ FullHD+ AMOLED screen with 120Hz refresh rate and a peak brightness of up to 550 nits. The panel has a punch hole in the center for the 32MP selfie camera, but there’s no fingerprint reader underneath.

Instead the scanner is embedded in the power key on the phone’s right-side frame, and…

Weekly poll: Pixel 6 series is going on sale next week, who is getting one?

Weekly poll: Pixel 6 series is going on sale next week, who is getting one? It finally happened – Google bought modern image sensors to the Pixels! Previously it relied on its image processing magic, sometimes (but not always) backed by its custom chip, the Pixel Visual Core.

The Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro do have a custom chip inside them, the most important chip, in fact. The Tensor is Google’s first custom chipset for mobile phones, crafted with the help of Samsung and its 5nm foundries.

It’s an unusual chip, the first one we’ve seen with two Cortex-X1 cores (the Snapdragon 888 and Exynos 2100 only have one), plus it makes the odd decision to use the older…

Flashback: the story of OLED displays on mobile phones

Flashback: the story of OLED displays on mobile phones The first OLED displays to be used in mobile phones arrived in 2003 – almost all of them flip phones. And there’s a simple reason for that, the displays were tiny and were placed as the secondary screen on the outside of the flip.

Some of them were able to render 256 colors, though others were monochrome. Phones like the Samsung E700 and the LG G7030 had such color displays with 96x64px resolution, while the inner screen were 128x160px that could deliver 65K colors (16-bit).

Samsung E700 • LG G7030 • Motorola V303 • Maxon MX-7990

OLED continued to be used exclusively on…

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