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Espresso Displays is running a crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter and hopes to begin shipping in February 2020. Displays are 13.3 and 15.6 inches, offer USB-C and mini HDMI ports and are designed to work with accessories that allow you to use them at home or on the go. The expected retail price of the 13.3-inch model will be about $ 320, while the 15.6-inch model will cost about $ 350.

Literally this morning, everything indicated a delay in launch, but now the press service of Samsung Electronics still announced the start of open sales of its first folding Galaxy Fold smartphone with a flexible screen in Russia. As the press service explained, the company managed to arrange the delivery of an additional Galaxy Fold batch for Russian customers on time. As a result, from today, everyone will be able to buy an unusual smartphone at a price of 159 990 rubles in silver or black cases to choose from. Galaxy Fold can be found in Samsung and M.Video brand stores. After Samsung opened the pre-order on October 4, Russian users managed to buy up the entire first batch of Galaxy Fold in just two days. Then Samsung had to announce the early completion of the collection period for new items. Now everyone who ordered a folding smartphone will be able to get the device on hand in the same store where the pre-order was issued.

Huawei has been credited several times with the intention to enter the automotive market. Given the company's popularity in its home market, Huawei could well have done this, for example, in collaboration with some local auto giant. However, vice chairman of Huawei Xu Zhijun (Xu Zhijun) said that the company is not going to produce cars. Instead, it will develop technologies that will find application in smart machines. At the same time, Huawei really had plans to build its own car just a year ago, so the rumors were justified. However, it decided that the market was overloaded, so it revised her plans. At the same time, cars will become more “smarter” every year, that is, require more and more specialized electronics. And here, Huawei may well occupy its own niche, especially considering its development in the artificial intelligence segment.

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Despite Huawei's multiple claims, HarmonyOS, as a system for smartphones, remains a dark horse. On the one hand, Huawei continues to claim that it will not give up Android, on the other, it states that it is ready to transfer its smartphones to HarmonyOS if the problem with sanctions is not resolved. The head of Huawei Ren Zhengfei (Ren Zhengfei) in a recent interview said that HarmonyOS does not have any problems with functionality, but will not replace Android. We will continue to use Android The head of Huawei also lowered his assessment of the company's possible losses due to sanctions this year. If earlier he mentioned losses of $ 20-30 billion, then in a new interview he called a different amount - 10 billion. The explanation for this is to reduce the impact of US sanctions on Huawei. Recall, recently the Chinese giant published a report on the results of the last quarter. And it turned out that Huawei, despite all the problems, managed to increase sal...

The most powerful version of Xiaomi Mi 8 received stable MIUI 11 firmware. Xiaomi has begun distributing a stable version of the MIUI 11 branded shell for users of Xiaomi Mi 8 Explorer Edition smartphones. This was reported by users in China. Interestingly, the most powerful variation at the time of the launch of the Xiaomi Mi 8 series joined the “Club 11” after Xiaomi Mi Mix 3, Mi 9 SE, Mi 8 SE, Mi Max 3, Mi Mix 2, Xiaomi Mi 8, Mi Mix 2S, Redmi Note 7, Redmi Note 7 Pro and Redmi 7, as well as Redmi K20 and Xiaomi 9 Pro 5G. While we are talking about stable Chinese firmware MIUI 11. Regarding the global stable version of MIUI 11, Xiaomi today announced that the first updates will begin only on October 22. The graph is presented for 27 Redmi and Xiaomi smartphones, as well as the Pocophone F1. It is interesting that Xiaomi smartphones are very few in the list, apparently, in the future, the company will open an update schedule for most models of the Mi line. The MIUI 11 shell br...

Google requires manufacturers to support the universal standard for fast charging with their new phones. For example, Google wants to prevent devices from only fast charging with the included charger. Fast charging for Android phones  Google is stricter with regard to the requirements for Android phones. The company does this in its contracts for Google Mobile Services (GMS) that it concludes with manufacturers. Those who want to launch an Android device with Google apps and Play Store must meet these requirements. From now on it is mandatory that telephones that work with their own, patented fast-charging technology also work with the universal standard for USB-C chargers: USB-PD. XDA Developers discovered that. Such phones that were launched in 2019 must now work with a USB PD. Google takes that decision to prevent third-party chargers with the USB-PD standard from working properly on phones that use their own fast-charging technology. This causes problems for those ...

Sharp announced today in Japan its new smartphone as part of the Android One program. What is known The device was named Sharp S7 and its main feature is autonomy. According to the manufacturer, the novelty will last from one charge up to 7 days. Interestingly, the smartphone has a 4000 mAh battery. By the standards of 2019, this is not such a large amount, but such results in autonomy were achieved by optimizing the system and the IGZO proprietary energy-efficient display. It is here with a diagonal of 5.5 inches and a resolution of FHD +. Under the hood of the novelty is a Snapdragon 630 processor paired with 3 GB of RAM and 32 GB of ROM (you can expand the memory card). By the way, the same chipset is in the new Sony Xperia 8. The main camera in the device is 12 megapixels (f / 2.0), and the front camera is 8 megapixels (f / 2.2). There is support for electronic stabilization (EIS) and AI functions. Sharp S7 also boasts IPX5 / 8 water protection, IPX6 dust protection, sho...

Back in the summer of this year, information appeared that HMD Global was preparing to release a new smartphone with a retractable front camera called Nokia 8.2. This smartphone will be aimed at fans of selfies, since the resolution of the front camera will be 32. The smartphone will be equipped with 8 GB of RAM and 256 GB of non-volatile memory, out of the box it will run on the Android 10 operating system. Our colleagues from the Nokiamob resource received information through their own channels that Nokia 8.2 uses a solution that is truly unique to the smartphones of this manufacturer, which is associated with the front camera. Details are not reported, however, this confirms the assumption that the camera will be at least retractable. For HMD Global, this is a truly new solution that the manufacturer previously avoided. There is, of course, an option with a sub-screen front camera, prototypes of which have already been shown by various manufacturers, but this is hard to beli...