You can learn a lot about people from the gadgets on their person, history has taught us, and that includes their movements. In a paper published on the preprint server Arxiv.org (“A Semi-Supervised Deep Residual Network for Mode Detection in Wi-Fi Signals“), researchers at Ryerson University in Toronto, Canada describe a neural network (i.e., layers […]
Julian Chokkattu/Digital Trends Any discussion of the best budget smartphones is going to include entries from Motorola and HMD Global, which makes Nokia phones. The Moto G line has been our default recommendation for years, but recent Nokia phones have dethroned Motorola. Can the Moto G7 win back the crown as the best budget phone? […]
From left to right: The Moto G7 Play, Moto G7 Power, and Moto G7. Ron Amadeo The Moto G7. The more expensive phone has the most modern design. Ron Amadeo A notch closeup of the G7. Ron Amadeo The G7 back is Gorilla Glass. On all the devices, the rear Motorola logo is a fingerprint […]
Samsung’s foldable smartphone, which it (sort of) showed off last year, may have been spotted in a leaked video accidentally published to the Samsung Vietnam YouTube channel. In the video, a number of futuristic devices are shown alongside the Galaxy S9. They include augmented reality mirrors and windows, bezeless tablets, an ultrasound scanner, and a […]
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Antutu is one of the most popular smartphone benchmarking apps around, with more than 100 million downloads globally. It attempts to measure hardware performance objectively with a battery of tests, the results of which it averages together to generate an overall score. Before this week, the gauntlet touched on CPU, GPU, UI, and memory. Starting […]
As smartphone shipments drop globally and in most individual markets, including the U.S. and China, at least one region is reporting an unusual, growing appetite for handsets: India. About 145.2 million smartphone units shipped in India in 2018, a 10 percent year-over-year growth over the 132 million smartphones units that shipped in 2017, according to Counterpoint. […]
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Alcatel has been launching affordable phones with decent specs for some time now — and now the company is back with another. Alcatel has announced that the Alcatel Onyx smartphone will be available on Cricket Wireless for $ 120. The phone may be cheap, but it has a lot going for it. Here’s everything you […]
Make no mistake, in 2019 we’re going to see more than a few folding smartphones, and one is possibly going to come from Chinese maker Xiaomi. The company’s president and co-founder Bin Lin has shared a video online showing a prototype of its folding smartphone; but it’s not the same design we’ve seen from Samsung […]
Yamaha Ever since the addition of electronic fuel injection and lightning-fast computers, motorcycles have become faster and more reliable than ever. The downside of this is that the simple days of “tinkering” are gone. Modern bikes are simply too complex for the average rider to tune in their garage, but while the ability to pull […]
Antonio Villas-Boas/Business Insider Samsung had a 5G smartphone prototype on display at CES 2019. It’s the closest official look we have to future smartphones from Samsung that come with 5G compatibility. A variant of Samsung’s upcoming Galaxy S10 is said to come with 5G support. Strolling innocently through Samsung’s massive booth at CES 2019 in […]
Foldable phones from Samsung and Huawei have already made headlines, and it appears that Xiaomi could be the next gadget maker to get in on the trend. Notable leaker Evan Blass yesterday tweeted a video that shows a tablet-like device running Android that folds backward in two places to turn into something that looks like […]
Huawei has had a tough year on a number of fronts, with the U.S and other countries leading efforts to ban its networking equipment on cybersecurity grounds. But the Chinese giant hasn’t had a bad year in the consumer realm. Today, Huawei revealed it has shipped more than 200 million smartphones in 2018, including its […]
I’ve been looking around a smartphone game to show off my Apple iPhone XR, and I’ve found it in Command & Conquer: Rivals, the new real-time strategy game from Electronic Arts. It turns out it’s also a good game to show off what the iPhone XR can do. I’ve played with both the game and […]