You know those Christmas gifts you buy for your niece or nephew but secretly want to play yourself? Well, meet Anki Overdrive, which is somewhere between Mad Max with Hot Wheels. This supercar battle game is available on Amazon right now from just $74.
The Anki Overdrive Starter Kit lets you bring the game to life with a real track and AI-powered cars. The starter kit includes two cars that you drive through an app on your phone and weapons to battle your friends.
The test demonstrates just how scratch-resistant the special edition HTC U Ultra is. Zagg’s “Sapphire” screen protector? Not so much.
Sapphire glass 128 GB HTC U Ultra headed to Europe for €849
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Who doesn’t love JerryRigEverything? We recently shared his teardown videos of the Galaxy S8 and the LG G6 in which he shows you how to make a cool looking clear back for those devices. His latest video tests just how durable three different “sapphire” products are – a Tissot watch with flat sapphire crystal, the special edition HTC U Ultra with a sapphire display, and Zagg’s Sapphire Defense hybrid glass screen protector.
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Samsung will reportedly skip 3D ToF sensors on its Galaxy S22 phones. It’s believed the company is ditching the tech due to a “lack of clear advantages.” We saw 3D ToF sensors coming to smartphones back in 2018, allowing devices to more accurately calculate depth effects and augmented reality in theory. Samsung adopted the tech on the back of its phones too, before ditching it for the Note 20 and Galaxy S21 series.
Update: The LG V10 Android Nougat update has just hit the US, courtesy of T-Mobile, after first arriving in South Korea in late May. The update weighs a hefty 1.3 GB so be sure to have plenty of battery and available space for the update, and install it only over Wi-Fi. It bumps the V10 software to version H90130b and includes an E911 timer fix as well as delivering all the benefits of Android Nougat alongside the usual stability and performance fixes.
Android 10 introduced a ton of new features but one of the most important features was the changes to the permission system. Permissions have come a long way on Android and it’s a lot better now than the archaic days where we used to give apps a dozen permissions before downloading them. We’ll take a look at all of the new Android 10 permissions features and how to access and change permissions on your phone.
If the Xperia Z was Sony’s way of assuring us it’s still got it, the Xperia Z1 is Sony telling us that it’s done catching up and is now gunning for the first place, the position it owned undisputedly for so many years.
It takes more than a good smartphone to eclipse Samsung’s bright Galaxies. On paper, the Sony Xperia Z1 has it all – looks, build, specs, camera, software. But will the sum of these strengths outweigh the Xperia Z1’s weaknesses?
Qualcomm’s new Snapdragon 810 is already powering LG’s high-end G Flex 2 and will be the brains behind many a flagship smartphone this coming year. The Snapdragon 805 already sets a rather high benchmark for performance and features, so let’s examine how Qualcomm intends to improve its popular 800 series of mobile processors as it moves into the 64-bit generation.
Processing Power Snapdragon 810Snapdragon 805Snapdragon 801Cores
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Xiaomi’s Black Shark series offers gaming-focused features and powerful hardware for a reasonable price, and the brand is back with the newly announced Black Shark 2 Pro.
True to its teases, the new phone offers a Snapdragon 855 Plus chipset with a so-called “direct touch liquid cooling system.” This makes it one of the first phones with the slightly upgraded chipset, although the Asus ROG Phone 2 beat it to the punch.
Samsung has unveiled its latest ultra-premium clamshell phone at an event in Xiamen, China, and it’s an absolute monster. As is usually the case with Samsung’s flagship “flip phones”, the W2018 will only retail in Asia and is expected to cost upwards of $2,000.The South Korean giant’s new W-series phone is a successor to last year’s W2017, not the Leader 8 which was announced just a few months ago. The W2018’s launch also marks the range’s tenth anniversary, as well as Samsung’s 25th in the Chinese market in general.
Xiaomi took the wraps off the Redmi Note 4X Hatsune Miku limited edition smartphone in China today. Based on the information the company shared with the public, the newly announced smartphone is identical to the Redmi Note 4 (Indian version) but will appeal to all fans of the Japanese hologram pop star.
The company will announce pricing details closer to launch, which is scheduled for February 14. We do know some specs though: 5.5-inch Full HD display, Snapdragon 625, 4 GB of RAM and 64 GB of expandable storage.