This Final Fantasy VII remake could have gone really wrong. There is my weight of expectation (I adored the original) and the awkward between-console-generation launch timing. Square Enix has also changed the core fight mechanics to (mostly) real-tim...Pre-orders for the 128GB version are now live in the country.
OPPO today unveiled the global variant of the Reno 3 Pro in India. The mid-range smartphone comes with quite a few unique features, including an impressive 44MP primary selfie camera and a 64MP quad-camera setup at the back.
OPPO's newest mid-ranger sports a 6.4-inch Full HD+ AMOLED display and a 90Hz refresh rate and an in-display fingerprint sensor. It is the world's first smartphone to be powered by MediaTek's Helio P95 processor, which was announced last week. While the chipset isn't a major upgrade over the Helio P90, it comes with an upgraded AI Processing Unit that brings a 10% performance improvement over the previous generation. The Helio P95 chipset in the Reno 3 Pro is paired with up to 8GB of RAM and 256GB storage.
The OPPO Reno 3 Pro has been priced at ₹29,990 ($415) in India for the 8GB/128GB version and ₹32,990 ($457) for the 8GB/256GB version. While the 128GB version will go on sale starting March 6, the 256GB version become available at a later date.
At the rear is a quad-camera setup featuring a 64MP primary sensor, an 8MP ultra-wide-angle lens, 13MP telephoto lens, and 2MP depth sensor. Keeping the lights on is a 4,025mAh battery with 30W VOOC Flash Charge 4.0 technology. The phone's pill-shaped hole-punch cutout includes a 44MP primary sensor and a 2MP secondary sensor. In terms of software, the phone runs Android 10 with ColorOS 7 on top.
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Renault's latest concept EV is literally a transformer that works for both city driving and long trips. The Morphoz EV in "City" mode normally has a 40 kWh battery that's good for 90 percent of driving in cities or suburbs. However, for the 10 percen...The P40 Pro is expected to have a quad-camera setup with an additional time-of-flight sensor.
Chinese smartphone maker announced the foldable Mate Xs phone last week, bringing a few significant upgrades over last year's Mate X. At the Mate Xs launch event, the folks at DigitalTrends got to spend some time with a P40 series prototype. Being an "early prototype," you can see that the phone has "Polarie" and "Blink" branding, instead of "Huawei" and "Leica". As noted in the report, Huawei usually uses codenames on prototype devices in this way.
Huawei is expected to launch at least two P40 series phones at its global launch event next month – the standard P40 and the P40 Pro. A third model called the P40 Pro Premium Edition is also rumored to debut at the same event. Going by the vertical triple-camera array at the rear, it appears the phone seen in these hands-on images is the standard P40. The Huawei P40 Pro, on the other hand, is expected to have a larger camera bump with an additional lens.
The report claims the P40 is roughly the same size as the P30 Pro, but features rounded off corners and sides, which make it more comfortable to hold in the hand. And while it features a curved screen, the sides aren't as dramatic as the Mate 30 Pro's waterfall screen. The phone has a total of three camera sensors at the rear, along with a time-of-flight sensor and an LED flash. On the bottom of the phone is a USB Type-C charging port, although a 3.5mm headphone jack is conspicuously missing.
NASA is enlisting whatever help it can get to make sure its crewed Moon and Mars missions go smoothly, and that might include help from schools. The agency is running a new round of its Moon to Mars Exploration Systems and Habitation Academic Innova...
You spend all day with your phone, setting it down on tables, chairs, public benches, bathroom counters, and even more unsightly places. Then there's the more visible grime that gets on or in your phone from dropping it in the dog park, leaving it in your sweaty jean pockets, or letting your child pour Cheerio dust all over it. Phones get dirty easily, but thankfully getting them clean again can be easy, too, if you know what to use.
Lysol or Clorox wipes might seem like an easy way to clean grime off a phone, but fight this instinct with every phone-loving fiber of your being. Bleach, vinegar, alcohol, and most harsh disinfectant chemicals can clean the sides and back of an Android phone, but those chemicals need to stay far away from the glass front of your phone (and glass back if you have one), as they will eat away at the oleophobic coating that your phone uses to help fight fingerprint smudges.
Compressed air can be useful since it blows dust out of hard-to-reach places. However, you need to be very, very careful when using it with a phone as compressed air can damage pinhole mics and other components quite easily with their precise, pressurized air blasts.
If you don't regularly use your headphone port — or just tend to acquire more dirt and lint in your ports than normal — consider investing in a set of dust plugs to help keep your port clear and clean when not charging. Also, if you'd like to cut down on grime accumulated on your screen when you use your phone, put your phone down for a few minutes and go wash your grimy hands before getting back to browsing Reddit.
Seriously, clean your hands, ya filthy animal!
There are solutions you can make by diluting isopropyl alcohol that can disinfect a phone, but again, you generally want to avoid alcohol and vinegar as they'll eat through your oleophobic coating. What's a girl to disinfect with instead? UV! Ultraviolet lights can kill bacteria and disinfect your phone with just a few minutes inside a doll-sized tanning bed.
There are a few versions of these UV phone baths out there, but the one I find the most practically sized and long-lasting is the PhoneSoap. It's roughly the size of hardback novel, features UV lights in the lid and base, and when you put your phone inside, it bathes your phone in germ-killing UV lights. Then the unit starts cleaning and the lightning bolt on the top of the unit lights up. When the light turns off, your phone is clean and you can take it out and be on your way.
I like to bathe my phone and case separately so that no grime can hide under the cracks and crevices of the case, but you can stick your phone in the case and kill all of the surface bacteria on your phone. If you're someone who tweets on the toilet — or knocks out a few rounds of a match-three game, like me — consider investing in a PhoneSoap and running your phone through it at least once a week. I also run my house keys through it every few weeks.
There are a lot of different products out there you can employ to clean a phone, and no one single item is required to clean yours. These are the products that have worked best for us, but you may also have products like these sitting around your house already.
The tips on these swabs are shaped to better seek out the dust and grime lingering in the nooks and crannies on your phone.
I keep a couple of these easy-to-use wipes in my bag for cleaning my screen after it gets all sweaty and grimy in the parks.
This phone-sized tanning bed uses UV lights to kill the surface bacteria on your phone to keep the germs on your phone from getting you sick.
Most people who buy Google smart speakers use them for direct streaming, but that hasn't been entirely voluntary for the past year. Ever since late 2018, people have complained that any Bluetooth connections (from phones or to other speakers) would...
