Samsung had shown off its foldable smartphone demo prototype last week, and while we’re waiting for the actual device to launch and become available, a YouTube channel called ‘Concept Creator’ has published a concept design of the Galaxy F, aka the company’s foldable smartphone. This concept design is shown in form of a video, of course, and that video is embedded down below, in case you’re interested, and it has a duration of about two minutes. Having said that, this concept device sports two vertically-aligned cameras on the back, below which you’ll notice an LED flash, and some other sensors, a heart rate sensor, perhaps. The phone itself is made out of metal and glass, and it has two display, one smaller, outer display on the front, and a huge panel when you unfold the phone. The hinge itself is located on the left-hand side of the phone (when folded), while the power / lock, volume up, and volume down buttons are also on the right, until you … [Read more...] about Galaxy F Concept Envisions Samsung’s Foldable Smartphone: Video
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Honor 8X Review: The Best Looking Sub-€250 Smartphone On The Market
The Honor 8X is a true successor to the sub-$200 Honor 7X, with a larger screen, more storage, better battery life, and an improved camera. Honor’s X lineup of smartphones have been crushing the budget and mid-range market over the past few years. Each one has outsold its predecessor, which is how it should work, but it doesn’t always work that way in the smartphone world. The Honor 7X was one of the year’s best budget smartphones, and the Honor 8X has some pretty big shoes to fill. Can Honor top the Honor 7X in its budget segment? Well, we’ve spent a little over a week using the Honor 8X, so let’s find out. Specs The Honor 8X sports a 6.5-inch display (making it the biggest screen in this price range), with a resolution of 2340x1080. That means that this is a 19.5:9 aspect ratio, and there is indeed a notch here. It’s an LCD panel as well, with a pixel density of 396, and 84.4-percent screen-to-body ratio. Powering the Honor 8X, there is the … [Read more...] about Honor 8X Review: The Best Looking Sub-€250 Smartphone On The Market
Smartphones are damaging the environment faster than we thought
As our devices get smaller and smaller, you'd be forgiven for thinking that the impact they have on the environment also gets smaller. After all, manufacturing the bulky PCs of old must have generated an enormous carbon footprint, and companies nowadays seem to more aware of the need for green manufacturing processes. Unfortunately, this is not the case, as researchers at McMaster University have discovered, with smartphones being one of the worst causes of environmental damage. Published in the Journal of Cleaner Production, the study analyzed the carbon footprint of PCs, laptops, computer monitors, smartphones, and servers from 2010 to 2020.They found that the overall impact of technology on the environment is getting worse, even as we have moved away from those bulky PCs to the sleek little smartphones in our pockets. A huge impactPerhaps most telling, is the fact that ICT (Information and Communication Technology) represented just 1% of the carbon footprint in 2007 … [Read more...] about Smartphones are damaging the environment faster than we thought
Samsung Galaxy F foldable smartphone release date leaks – but the price is BAD news
SAMSUNG'S foldable smartphone already has a name, release date and price according to a new report. The mysterious handset was partially unveiled last week, but is still mostly shrouded in secrecy. South Korean tech giant Samsung has been working on a foldable smartphone for years. And at last week's Samsung Developer Conference, a prototype of the device was briefly shown off on a dimly lit stage. It looked like a medium-sized tablet that could fold inwards to become a pocket-sized smartphone. Now South Korea's Yonhap News Agency suggests the device will be called the Samsung Galaxy F. During the big reveal, Samsung said it would begin mass production of the handset "in the coming months". And Yonhap reports that the phone will be properly unveiled in March next year, just after the upcoming Samsung Galaxy S10 smartphone. The bad news is that Yonhap suggests the phone will be extremely expensive – in the region of 2million Korean won, or £1,370. We recently spoke to an … [Read more...] about Samsung Galaxy F foldable smartphone release date leaks – but the price is BAD news
Samsung foldable smartphone release date may be in March 2019
According to a new report out of South Korea, the Samsung foldable smartphone release date might be scheduled for March 2019. Samsung showed off its Infinity Flex foldable display last week at its annual developers’ conference in San Francisco.Samsung mobile CEO DJ Koh has said that the company will produce one million units of the foldable smartphone initially. It will decide based on the market’s response if production is to be ramped up thereafter.Samsung foldable smartphone release dateSamsung didn’t unveil its much-awaited foldable smartphone at SDC 2018. It only offered a look at the foldable display as the actual device was obscured in a black box. The company will begin mass producing the foldable display in a matter of months. This obviously means that the handset won’t arrive before 2019.The report claims that the Samsung foldable smartphone release date will be set for March 2019. The Galaxy S10 is due to arrive in February while its 5G variant may be … [Read more...] about Samsung foldable smartphone release date may be in March 2019