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Planet Computers has today opened a crowdfunding campaign for its latest keyboard-equipped smartphone. The Astro Slide has a brand new slide design, but still keeps the Psion keyboard users love. The key change is the new ‘rock up’ slide mechanism that enabled Planet Computers to remove the external display and… [Click for more]
Huawei has introduced its latest MateBook D series, available in 14 and 15.6-inch guises. Part of Huawei’s new 2020 vision to ‘bring digital to every person, home and organisation for a fully connected, intelligent world’, these laptops will be part of a new ecosystem of products that will include new… [Click for more]
My relationship with Huawei goes way back. Back to a time when they were unknown by most consumers (just like HTC) but the company behind a considerable number of products people used all the time. My first real involvement was working on a supplement magazine featuring Huawei data products, amongst… [Click for more]
READ MORE Huawei goes all in with Huawei Mobile Services to offer a Google alternative
Lenovo launched the first laptop with integrated 5G at CES. The Windows 10 machine goes on sale this spring, but don’t expect to see it in the UK yet. The Yoga 5G is a 2-in-1 ultra-portable laptop, powered by Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8cx 5G Compute platform, with 5G speeds up to… [Click for more]
READ MORE Lenovo launches world’s first 5G laptop; on sale this spring from US$1499
Dell just reached out with a huge list of Black Friday deals. There’s no way I’ve got time to go through and tidy up this huge list, so I’ve posted the press release verbatim below. Pull up a chair, make a cup of tea and enjoy. Hopefully there’s a deal… [Click for more]
In addition to the Magic Watch 2, Honor has launched the View 30 and View 30 Pro, plus two MagicBook laptop PCs at its launch event in China’s capital. The Kirin 990 powered View 30 and View 30 Pro each come with 5G support and a SuperSensing AI triple camera,… [Click for more]
READ MORE Honor launches View 30 series and MagicBooks at China launch event (updated)
At the start of this year, Planet Computers (the company behind the Gemini PDA) showed off a prototype of its second-generation portable computing device that uses the classic Psion keyboard design, connected to modern-day hardware. The Gemini is still available to buy, but the Cosmo Communicator takes things to the… [Click for more]
READ MORE Hands-on with the Cosmo Communicator; virtually ready to ship to original backers
Samsung is bringing Galaxy S10 users some features recently launched on the Note 10 range, such as AR Doodle, a built-in video editor and Link to Windows integration. Handsets that will receive the update shortly include the S10, S10+, S10e and S10 5G. Upon completing the update, the camera application… [Click for more]
READ MORE Samsung brings Galaxy Note 10 features to S10 users
Huawei has used IFA, as it has done many times before, to launch its flagship chipset that will power a series of phones between now and next autumn. It also continues the theme of ending the year and starting the next with the most powerful chip. In this case, Huawei’s… [Click for more]
Huawei has shown the UK media its collection of 5G-enabled devices going on sale soon to complement the imminent launches of at least two 5G networks (with the other two following closely behind). The event wasn’t just to show off the 5G devices, but also a chance for Huawei and… [Click for more]
One of the other things I saw extremely briefly at Mobile World Congress was a 4G connected wallet that hopes to bring a single, Android-powered, device to manage all your mobile payments. This includes NFC-based contactless payments, peer-to-peer payment transfers, and even cards for travel in various locations (such as… [Click for more]
Huawei will soon reveal how Schubert’s Unfinished Symphony was meant to end; after a whopping 197 year wait. A wait matched only by how long it took my local council to rebuild my local bus station… Using the power of AI, the Chinese handset maker will reveal next week how… [Click for more]
READ MORE [Updated] Huawei uses Mate 20 Pro’s AI tech to finish 200-year old symphony
Huawei has today announced the launch of its 5G multi-mode chipset. Balong 5000 will support a large number of 5G products, from smartphones to home broadband devices, vehicle-mounted devices and 5G modules. Supporting 2G, 3G, 4G and 5G on a single chip, Balong 5000 reduces latency and power consumption, with… [Click for more]
READ MORE Huawei launches Balong 5000 5G chip ahead of MWC product announcements
Planet Computers has today announced its second Personal Digital Assistant with physical keyboard; the Cosmo Communicator. It follows the launch of the Gemini in 2017, which began shipping in quantity earlier this year. Interested parties will be able to support the Cosmo via crowdfunding, with units shipping from May 2019…. [Click for more]
Following last year’s IFA unveiling of the AI-enabled Kirin 970 chipset, Huawei has once again used the German consumer electronics exhibition to launch Kirin 980, which will soon find its way into a range of Huawei and Honor-branded devices. Only yesterday Honor stole the thunder from Huawei’s Kirin 980 announcement… [Click for more]
READ MORE Kirin 980: Huawei’s most powerful mobile chipset so far is unveiled at IFA 2018
I knew that having been in the game for so long would pay off eventually, as I finally got a hands-on with a device I’ve longed to see for almost 20 years! The new Gemini PDA, from Planet Computers, is the spiritual successor to the Psion Series 5 organiser from… [Click for more]
READ MORE Gemini PDA: 20 years on, meet the all new Psion Series 5
It’s so new it isn’t even in a phone yet, but already it has picked up its first accolade. Android Authority awarded Huawei’s new Kirin 970 chipset a trophy after its unveiling at a keynote speech at IFA, Germany’s biggest consumer electronics show. So what makes Kirin 970 so good,… [Click for more]
READ MORE Kirin 970 looks set to lead the way when it debuts in the Mate 10 next month
