Samsung teases a reveal for its foldable, dual-screen smartphone.


It sure seems like the Korean phone maker will show off the device at its developer conference next month.


Samsung is getting closer to taking the wraps off its foldable smartphone, a prototype of which has supposedly been in the works for years now. In a tweet sent late last week, the company teased a big reveal of the device, or at least a prototype version of it, describing its upcoming developer conference as “the crossroads between the present and the future” and showing a subtle graphic of two lines unfolding into a right-facing arrow.


WeÂ’ve been hearing for a while now that Samsung was close to showing off its foldable phone. Samsung CEO DJ Koh hinted in an interview with CNBC in September that the product could arrive as soon as this year, but we still havenÂ’t seen any hardware, even in just the prototype phase.




That looks like it could change as early as next month, with it now more likely than ever that either some form of the deviceÂ’s software interface or perhaps some actual hardware will be on display at the Samsung Developer Conference in San Francisco, which starts November 7th.


So far, all we have to go on is this 2014 concept video showing what such a device might look like and how it could be used to fold a phone in two and noticeably reduce its size. Prior to that, Samsung showed off a prototype flexible AMOLED display way back in 2012.


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Huawei and Oppo devices caught cheating in benchmarks, 3DMark promptly delists them

In-house tests by 3DMark show Oppo falsifying performance scores for its latest Find X flagship smartphone and more. The news further damages the reputations of Chinese smartphone OEMs at a time when the U.S. government is already suspicious of telecommunication devices from China.



Huawei and Oppo devices caught cheating in benchmarks, 3DMark promptly delists them (Source: 3DMark)

Dishonest marketing isn't new, but smartphone OEMs are becoming notorious for pushing things a bit too far. 3DMark has informed press outlets that it recently removed both the Oppo Find X and Oppo F7 smartphones from its database rankings due to "artificially high and misleading benchmarks scores". The Find X was previously listed as the fourth best smartphone in the Sling Shot Extreme benchmark, but it is now unranked.



To catch the fake scores, 3DMark runs suspect smartphones through public and private versions of the same benchmark. If the final scores in the public benchmark are significantly higher than in the private benchmark, then the smartphone is likely equipped with specialized software made to recognize specific benchmarks which would be against 3DMark's guidelines. In Oppo's case, the final score was 41 percent higher in the public benchmark when compared to the private benchmark even though both benchmarks are identical.

3DMark has informed Oppo of the misleading numbers and Oppo admitted to cheating the system. Nonetheless, the Chinese OEM is promising to "strive to distinguish between the requirements of undetected apps or the subjective needs of users".

The news comes one month after 3DMark caught Huawei falsifying benchmark scores on some of its top smartphones. The Huawei P20 Pro, P20, Nova 3, and Honor Play were all delisted for the same reasons.


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The new option on the Google keyboard is fu*king dope and the perfect size too!!! Being able to move it to the top helps holding the phone more centered and balanced in my hand. If you got an Android phone with a large screen, try it!! It's fun to try out and actually see how simple but great it is!! LMAO









The option is located by opening the keyboard and hitting the Google logo (look at previous picture, the logo is top left of keyboard) then hit the 3 dot menu and you'll see "floating"

Bad day to be an Apple Stockholm syndrome victim

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Lol its just crazy everyone is freaking out. This service has taken over our lives man.

Youtube goes down and basically it feels like the world has disconnected from all forms of media.

The Google Pixel 3 and Pixel 3 XL feature AMOLED displays that are dramatically improved over last yearÂ’s Pixel 2 XL. You all remember the drama that surrounded the Pixel 2 XLÂ’s blue shifting and possible burn-in, right? This year, those complaints havenÂ’t been there and thereÂ’s a good reason for it.

Google is using a Samsung OLED panel, according to a teardown by iFixit. Last year on the Pixel 2 XL, Google used a P-OLED panel made by LG and the reaction to it wasnÂ’t exactly pretty.

Iphone crushed it with video, no competition and photos were even pixel applies ultra sharpening while iphone softens so its preference also iphone applies warming while pixel applies cooling.

pound the iphone was better as its rear camera is overall better, while pixels selfie cam is superior this year but because pixel has no usable video capabilities it loses.

summary: iphone is better overall. for still the pixel is great while the iphone is good. for video the iphone is superior while pixel sucks.

so if you want a complete camera ecosystem it has to be iphone.

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