Pro Flagship

Former Huawei sub-brand Honor has announced the global launch of its latest flagship smartphone at Mobile World Congress 2023 in Barcelona. The star of the Magic5 Pro show is the rear triple camera array, which has taken the top spot in DxOMark’s global rankings. The “Star Wheel Triple Camera system” features a F1.6 wide main, a F2.0 ultra-wide and a […]

Pfizer Partners With Australian Company

Pharma giant Pfizer has shelled out nearly US$120 million to acquire a small Australian company claiming to have developed a smartphone app that can accurately diagnose COVID-19 by analyzing the sound of a cough. For around a decade small Australian digital healthcare company ResApp has been working on developing an algorithm that can diagnose respiratory illnesses by simply studying the sound of […]

Xiaomi’s 2-In-1 Convertible

Xiaomi is looking to take on the Microsoft Surface with its first 2-in-1 convertible. Designed for productivity on the go, the Book S is powered by Snapdragon, runs Windows 11 and can be had with an optional keyboard for the full laptop experience. The Book S essentially ships as a Windows tablet, with an 8.95-mm-thick (0.3-in) magnesium alloy body and […]

Custom Software Development Business Ideas For Leading Enterprises

There are several forward-looking custom software development business ideas for today’s leading tech enterprises. In the world of AI-powered applications, 4D printing, and other emerging technologies, innovation in the software sector is at an all-time-high. All across the globe, major tech ventures are investing in these solutions to supercharge productivity, maximize efficiency, and keep costs low. Plus, bespoke software resources […]

Pupil Tracking To Diagnose Dementia

A prototype smartphone app has been developed to screen for the very earliest stages of Alzheimer’s disease. The app tracks minute changes in a person’s pupil size, which previous research has shown can indicate pre-clinical neurological disease. In 2019 a team of researchers from UC San Diego demonstrated how pupil response tests could identify subjects with a high genetic risk of […]

App Calculates Genetic Risk

A new smartphone app called MyGeneRank has been developed by scientists at the Scripps Research Translational Institute. The app calculates a person’s genetic risk for coronary artery disease and directs those found to be at high risk to appropriate medical advice. Coronary artery disease (CAD) is the most common cause of death worldwide. Nearly 20 million Americans experience CAD, yet […]

Samsung Partners Exynos For Console-Like Mobile Gaming Experience

Unpacked event, promising to “change the way we experience mobile gaming.” The Exynos 2200 comes packing in-house graphics based on AMD RDNA 2 architecture with hardware-based ray tracing. Ray tracing is an image rendering technology that makes for more realistic lighting and reflection effects in virtual scenes, and has made its way into a number of computer graphics cards and […]

Checking Water Pollutants Using Smartphone

Even though it’s vitally important for people in impoverished nations to check drinking water sources for pollutants, they often lack the facilities for performing such tests. A new system could help, as it uses a smartphone camera to check up on tiny aquatic organisms. Developed by scientists at the Singapore University of Technology and Design, the setup can be used […]

Samsung Aims For Ultra High Definition Smartphone

We’re already seeing smartphone cameras that break the 100-megapixel barrier, but now Samsung is aiming to double that with the launch of the ISOCELL HP1 – a 200-MP image sensor destined for the flagship handsets of tomorrow. The HP1 image sensors makes use of 0.64-µm-sized pixels, and in brightly lit environments can take full advantage of that headline-grabbing megapixel count. […]

Reinkstone Paper Tablet

China’s Reinkstone has launched a 10.1-inch color e-paper tablet that runs on Android 11, which offers the kind of reading and doodling experience of the excellent Remarkable 2, but with the added draw of color. After using the PocketBook InkPad Color recently, trying to read comics or magazines on a grayscale e-reader just looks… wrong. That said, though electronic ink […]