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Dell is extremely aggressive this year with several key consumer product launches at CES 2017, not the least of which is an 8K monitor that packs in as many as 4 X 4K monitors into a 32-inch screen. That’s the Dell UP3218K, with a resolution of 7680 x 4320 (33 Megapixels), a pixel density of 280 ppi…
When Google tweaked its Android open source platform to make it usable for connected cars, everyone thought Android Auto was a nice concept, just not practical enough. But at least one car maker is convinced that it will add value to their own connected automobile efforts – Fiat Chrysler Automobiles. Google and FCA will jointly…
Despite reports that iPhone sales during the last quarter beat out all other phones in terms of activations, Apple has decided to cut iPhone production by 10% for the first quarter of 2017, says a report by Nikkei. This isn’t the first time Apple is doing this. When there was a surplus of iPhone 6s…
The “30% bug” that hit iPhone 6s variants as early as last year (that’s still 2015, by the way!) and forced Apple Inc. to publicly admit the issue seems to have now spread to the Google Pixel. A report by Redditor vrski_15 seems to have been the only evidence of this, but the 73 comments on the /r/GooglePixel…
Google is the third big-brand smartphone maker to face the heat of device malfunctions after Samsung and Apple this year. Reports are now coming in about Google Pixel smartphones freezing, and the virtual navigation buttons disappearing for a few seconds at a time. Several users have taken to Google’s forum saying their Google Pixels are freezing and then…
In many ways, Apple was one big reason why Google developed and launched the Google Pixel line of smartphones. But I’m going to leave you to digest that thought while I sketch a background to that assertion. Google’s hardware efforts in the smartphone market had, until now, been part failure and part success. The failure came…
Google has realized the value of making its own hardware. Unlike its partnerships with HTC or Huawei, the Google Pixel gave them strong leverage over their ownership of the Android operating system. They can now develop apps and functionalities alongside hardware improvements. They’ve shown that with the Google Pixel smartphones, and also with Google Home,…
According to a Lenovo executive who confirmed this to Tom’s Guide, next year there will be a Lenovo Yoga Book with a Chrome OS option. The details aren’t known at this point, but it’s straight from the horse’s mouth that Chrome OS will, in fact, come to the Yoga Book 2017 from Lenovo. Lenovo is…
If you’re one of several Apple users frustrated by the bugs and issues on iOS 10.2 that came out earlier this week, you’ll be happy to know that Google Drive now makes it easier than ever to switch to Android from an iPhone. Any guesses as to which Android device Google wants you to switch to?…
Finally, to compete on even ground with Apple Siri and Google Assistant, Microsoft has pushed its own Cortana V2.0.1 app to Google Play store for Android devices. The iOS version on iTunes is still 1.9.12, but we should see that coming through soon. Siri has been around for quite a while and Google has long had…
2016 has certainly been a year of ups and downs for smartphone makers as well as the smartphone industry as a whole. While Samsung was hit hard by the double-recall and subsequent pull-out of the ill-fated Galaxy Note 7 from the market, Google made its self-made smartphone debut with the Google Pixel and Google Pixel…
If all Google wanted to do was to create something far better than iPhone 7, they’ve already achieved that goal with the Google Pixel and Google Pixel XL. What remains now is for more and more consumers to realize that the undoubtedly iconic iPhone 7 is not the be all and end all of smartphones. But…
Google Pixel, Alphabet’s latest entrant in the luxury end of the smartphone world, is off to a flying start in India. According to research firm Counterpoint, Google Pixel, launched on October 25 in India, has already captured 10% of the premium smartphone market. Source: Economic Times Apple is still the leader of the segment with…
The Samsung Galaxy S8 scheduled for launch next year may not be a full-on copy of the iPhone 8, but from what we’ve seen and heard, it looks like Samsung will pack some very critical features to help them compete on an even level with the tenth anniversary edition of iPhone, presumptuously being called iPhone…
Samsung said in a press release earlier this month that it is partnering with Qualcomm Technologies to create the Snapdragon 835 mobile processor with Samsung’s 10-nanometer (nm) FinFET process technology. 10 nm is a chip manufacturing process which has evolved from the prevalent 14 nm technology, which means the half-pitch (half the distance between identical features…
