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Tech Time Podcast 10 – Huawei Mate 20, Samsung Foldable Phone and Paul Allen’s Passing
Chinese Tech Phone Maker Huawei Launches Mate 20 Pro Featuring In-Screen Fingerprint Sensor, Two-Way Wireless Charging, 3 Rear Cameras and 4,200mAh Battery
2 Slashdot / by msmash / 6 hours ago
Huawei’s new Mate 20 Pro has a massive screen,
three cameras on the back and a fingerprint scanner embedded in the display.
From a report: The new top-end phone from the Chinese firm aims to secure its place at the top of the market alongside Samsung, having recently beaten Apple to become the second-largest smartphone manufacturer in August.
The Mate 20 Pro follows Huawei’s tried and trusted format for its Mate series: a huge 6.39in QHD+ OLED screen, big 4,200mAh battery and powerful new Huawei Kirin 980 processor — Huawei’s first to be produced at 7 nanometres, matching Apple’s latest A12 chip in the 2018 iPhones.
New for this year is an infrared 3D facial recognition system, similar to that used by Apple for its Face ID in the iPhone XS, and
one of the first fingerprint scanners embedded in the screen that is widely available in the UK, removing the need for a fingerprint scanner on the back or a chin on the front.
The Mate 20 Pro is water resistant to IP68 standards and has a sleek new design reminiscent of Samsung’s S-series phones, with curved glass on the front and back.
The back also has an new pattern etched into the glass, which is smooth to the touch but ridged when running your nail over it.
On the back is a new version of Huawei’s award-winning triple camera system using a 40-megapixel standard camera, an 8-megapixel telephoto camera with a 3x optical zoom and new for this year is a 20-megapixel ultra-wide angle camera, replacing the monochrome sensor used on the P20 Pro.
The Mate 20 Pro runs EMUI 9, which is base
$1,214 USD.
Samsung Says Its Foldable Phone Will Be a Tablet You Can Put In Your Pocket
11 Slashdot / by BeauHD / 3 days ago
The CEO of Samsung’s mobile business, D.J. Koh, said you’ll be able to use its upcoming foldable smartphone as a tablet that you can put in your pocket. While the phone has been teased and hyped up for several months, Koh stressed that it will not be a “gimmick product” that will “disappear after six to nine months after it’s delivered.” It’ll reportedly be available globally. CNET reports: However, the foldable Samsung phone, like the Galaxy Round, will be Samsung’s testbed device to see how reviewers and the market react. The Galaxy Round, which bowed vertically in the middle, was Samsung’s first curve-screen phone. It’s a direct ancestor to the dual curved screens we see on today’s Galaxy S9 and Note 9 phones. The larger screen is important, Koh said. When Samsung first released the original Galaxy Note, he said, competitors called its device dead on arrival. Now, after generations of Notes phones, you see larger devices like the iPhone XS Max and the Pixel 3 XL, proving that consumers want bigger screens. A foldable phone would let screen sizes extend beyond 6.5 inches.
Read more of this story at Slashd
Paul Allen, Microsoft Co-Founder dead at 65
Paul Allen died today at 65 from cancer. He is best known for his partnering with Bill Gates to found Microsoft.
Paul Allen and Bill Gates met in Private School and would later drop out of college to pursue their High School software dreams.
Bill Gates stated that “Personal Computing would not have existed without Paul Allen.”
Paul Allen left Microsoft in the 80’s (before the 90’s boom) but not before he became a billionaire. He owned the Portland Trail Blazers and the Seattle Seahawks.
He also founded Vlucan; an investment firm for his philanthropy. He also founded the Allen Institute for Brain Science and the aerospace firm S...
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Chinese Tech Phone Maker Huawei Launches Mate 20 Pro Featuring In-Screen Fingerprint Sensor, Two-Way Wireless Charging, 3 Rear Cameras and 4,200mAh Battery
2 Slashdot / by msmash / 6 hours ago
Huawei’s new Mate 20 Pro has a massive screen,
three cameras on the back and a fingerprint scanner embedded in the display.
From a report: The new top-end phone from the Chinese firm aims to secure its place at the top of the market alongside Samsung, having recently beaten Apple to become the second-largest smartphone manufacturer in August.
The Mate 20 Pro follows Huawei’s tried and trusted format for its Mate series: a huge 6.39in QHD+ OLED screen, big 4,200mAh battery and powerful new Huawei Kirin 980 processor — Huawei’s first to be produced at 7 nanometres, matching Apple’s latest A12 chip in the 2018 iPhones.
New for this year is an infrared 3D facial recognition system, similar to that used by Apple for its Face ID in the iPhone XS, and
one of the first fingerprint scanners embedded in the screen that is widely available in the UK, removing the need for a fingerprint scanner on the back or a chin on the front.
The Mate 20 Pro is water resistant to IP68 standards and has a sleek new design reminiscent of Samsung’s S-series phones, with curved glass on the front and back.
The back also has an new pattern etched into the glass, which is smooth to the touch but ridged when running your nail over it.
On the back is a new version of Huawei’s award-winning triple camera system using a 40-megapixel standard camera, an 8-megapixel telephoto camera with a 3x optical zoom and new for this year is a 20-megapixel ultra-wide angle camera, replacing the monochrome sensor used on the P20 Pro.
The Mate 20 Pro runs EMUI 9, which is base
$1,214 USD.
Samsung Says Its Foldable Phone Will Be a Tablet You Can Put In Your Pocket
11 Slashdot / by BeauHD / 3 days ago
The CEO of Samsung’s mobile business, D.J. Koh, said you’ll be able to use its upcoming foldable smartphone as a tablet that you can put in your pocket. While the phone has been teased and hyped up for several months, Koh stressed that it will not be a “gimmick product” that will “disappear after six to nine months after it’s delivered.” It’ll reportedly be available globally. CNET reports: However, the foldable Samsung phone, like the Galaxy Round, will be Samsung’s testbed device to see how reviewers and the market react. The Galaxy Round, which bowed vertically in the middle, was Samsung’s first curve-screen phone. It’s a direct ancestor to the dual curved screens we see on today’s Galaxy S9 and Note 9 phones. The larger screen is important, Koh said. When Samsung first released the original Galaxy Note, he said, competitors called its device dead on arrival. Now, after generations of Notes phones, you see larger devices like the iPhone XS Max and the Pixel 3 XL, proving that consumers want bigger screens. A foldable phone would let screen sizes extend beyond 6.5 inches.
Read more of this story at Slashd
Paul Allen, Microsoft Co-Founder dead at 65
Paul Allen died today at 65 from cancer. He is best known for his partnering with Bill Gates to found Microsoft.
Paul Allen and Bill Gates met in Private School and would later drop out of college to pursue their High School software dreams.
Bill Gates stated that “Personal Computing would not have existed without Paul Allen.”
Paul Allen left Microsoft in the 80’s (before the 90’s boom) but not before he became a billionaire. He owned the Portland Trail Blazers and the Seattle Seahawks.
He also founded Vlucan; an investment firm for his philanthropy. He also founded the Allen Institute for Brain Science and the aerospace firm S...