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Vivo’s upcoming foldable flagship, the X Fold3, will be officially introduced on March 26, the Chinese company confirmed recently. Alongside the X Fold3, vivo will also take the wraps off two completely different products: a tablet and a pair earbuds.While we’ve learned quite a bit about vivo’s unannounced Pad3 Pro tablet, the company’s TWS 4 buds were a bit of a mystery until today. More importantly, vivo has already opened pre-bookings for the vivo Pad3 tablet and vivo TWS 3 buds on various Chinese webstores.Although we know when the vivo X Fold3, vivo Pad3 Pro, and vivo TWS 4 will…
We’re gearing up for this year’s Amazon Big Spring Sale. The merchant finally announced dates for its upcoming Prime Day-like shopping event. According to the official Amazon announcement, the event is happening this month, starting March 20 and continuing through March 25, 2024. The big sale event kicks off Wednesday at 12:01 (PT). Not unlike Black Friday, the savings spree will include discounts on a wide range of products sold by Amazon, including but not limited to fitness products, yardwork essentials, and tech. For the time being, the e-commerce giant hasn’t shared any brands that will appear during the six-day…
In photography, practice makes perfect, but a little studying never killed nobody. If you’re interested in (mobile) photography, you’ll have to find the fine balance between imitation and innovation. Apart from the prodigy cases out there who take stunning photos just like that, the rest of us need to scan and examine the works of others.It’s very important to be inspired and imitate, but beware becoming a mere imitator– in theory, one could learn how to take portraits exactly like Helmut Newton, but of what good is that!? At the end of the day, you won’t be Helmut Newton, you’ll…
“The term ‘immortality’ should never be part of our discussion… it’s a total pipe dream,” says Verdin, who personally hopes to live to around 95. “My worry is that it makes us like a cult.” Longevity doctors also tend to agree that, while longevity clinics are a pricey experience for the rich, they should eventually be accessible to everyone. “The clinics charge between $5,000 and $50,000 a year,” says Verdin. “It’s medicine for the rich, by the rich, which is something I deplore.” At the December meeting, attendees were offered the chance to win prizes. Stick your name in a…
Now that the weather is getting warmer and warmer, you’ll probably be spending more time outside. You’ll also be able to have big gatherings with your friends. And it’s always a nice touch to have a song playing in the background while enjoying lovely conversations with your besties. However, even if you own a phone with loud speakers, such as the high-end Galaxy S24+, currently discounted by $150 on Amazon, you may find yourself in need of something more powerful for your next gathering. And that’s precisely where this fantastic deal comes into play.Amazon is currently selling the budget-friendly JBL…
OnePlus keeps hyping up its upcoming mid-range smartphone, the Ace 3V. After teasing the phone’s powerful processor, OnePlus revealed that the phone will be introduced in China sometime this week.Over the weekend, the Chinese company confirmed that the OnePlus Ace 3V will be announced on March 21. This particular model is likely to remain exclusive to China, but the phone is expected to be launched in other countries as OnePlus Nord 4 CE. OnePlus has already confirmed the Nord 4 CE will be unveiled on April 1, although the handset maker didn’t mention the name of the Nord-branded phone to…
Do you know what goes great with a discounted Pixel 8, 8 Pro, or Pixel Fold handset and a nice pair of Pixel Buds Pro at a special price of their own? Yes, a marked-down Pixel Tablet. Google’s decidedly unconventional 10.95-inch Android slate is perhaps more compelling than ever right now, selling for a cool $100 less than usual in an entry-level 128GB storage configuration and an even cooler $150 under its list price with twice as much local digital hoarding room.The more affordable model has been available at this same discount several times before, including on Black Friday, Cyber…
Apple is going to have to face the music over the use of its AirTag item trackers as a tool used by stalkers to, well, stalk their victims. A judge in San Francisco ruled that Apple must take the role of defendant in a class action lawsuit that accuses the tech giant of negligence by allowing its AirTag to be used by stalkers. Yahoo says that even though the vast majority of the three dozen claims made in the class action suit were dismissed by the judge, he refused to grant Apple the dismissal it requested.US District Judge Vince Chhabria…
Samsung has been spending more to buy the application processors (AP) it uses on its phones. That’s because Samsung has backed away from using its own Exynos chips and packs more of its high-end phones with Qualcomm’s Snapdragon chipsets and low-end handsets with MediaTek’s SoCs. Samsung shipped only 13 million Exynos-powered handsets during the fourth quarter of 2023, down 48% from the fourth quarter of 2022. As a result, Samsung took in 44% less revenue from its Exynos chipsets during Q4 2023 year-over-year.Per SamMobile, Samsung spent $8.87 billion on mobile chipsets in 2023, a 3.1% increase over what Samsung paid…
Now this is exciting. Leaker @Tech_Reve (via Wccftech) tweeted a roadmap of Apple products that was sourced from Samsung Securities. The latter is a subsidiary of Samsung Group and is a financial services company headquartered in Seoul, South Korea. So this seems to be more legit than an Apple roadmap that some random guy says was stuck to the bottom of his shoe. What makes this so interesting is that the roadmap reveals when we should see long-awaited products including a foldable iPhone and the AR-focused Apple spectacles.If the roadmap is a complete fake and has nothing to do with…
The Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act bill passed the House last week with approval from both sides of the aisle. The vote count was 352-65 in favor of the bill which now heads to the Senate where it faces a tougher time getting through. President Joe Biden already said that should the bill end up on his desk, he will sign it. The proposed legislation will ban apps that require U.S. users to submit a user profile and are under the control of U.S. adversaries such as Russia, China, North Korea, or Iran.U.S. Intelligence has no proof…
Can you think of a better deal than a Pixel Fold at an unprecedented $500 discount with no strings attached? How about a Pixel 8 available for 200 bucks less than usual and a Pixel 8 Pro marked down by $250, both without special conditions as well?Now those are some wicked offers for two of the best phones… with conventional designs out there. Of course, conventional doesn’t have to mean boring, and just because these bad boys are not foldable, you shouldn’t understand that there’s nothing exciting about them.Quite on the contrary, as hardcore Google fans and Android purists in…
The dust has barely settled on the Galaxy S24 and Samsung is basking in the success of the series, but rumors about the Galaxy S25 have already started surfacing. Samsung’s S series phones have stuck with the same look since 2021’s Galaxy S21, with minor changes here and there, and the design is admittedly long in the tooth. Samsung wants to change that with the next year’s phones, says a new rumor.Popular South Korean tipster yeux1122 has allegedly learned from company sources that the Galaxy S25 range will look significantly different than the Galaxy S24. They also write that significant…
Apple plans to release two new AirPods this year to replace the second and third-generation models. According to Mark Gurman, writing in this week’s Power On newsletter, Apple will release a new AirPods entry-level variant with the model number B768(E) and a new mid-tier version with the model number B768(M). Production of the pair will start in May at facilities owned by manufacturers GoerTek Inc. and Luxshare Precision Industry Co. The new AirPods should be released in September or October.The new AirPods will have a new design, and fit better in users’ ears, and the charging cases will feature a…
Foldable phones might be cool, but for most people, they aren’t exactly around $1,800 cool. They are impressive on a number of fronts though and in case you have been looking to pick one one, Google’s Pixel Fold has dropped to its lowest price.The Pixel Fold is a shockingly good foldable smartphone. Like other bendable devices, you get two screens. Unlike other foldable phones, the Pixel Fold provides the hybrid tablet/smartphone experience without weighing as much as competing devices or sacrificing camera quality. The device flaunts a 5.8-inch outer screen and a 7.6-inch inner screen. Its wider design has been such a hit…
By all accounts, Apple and Samsung are believed to be both working on a way to allow their smartwatches to offer a non-invasive blood glucose test for diabetics. This feature would be welcomed by the more than 200 million insulin-dependent diabetics worldwide who must give themselves a painful and expensive test before each meal to help them determine the dose of insulin they need to inject before eating.Currently, diabetics poke themselves with a short needle called a lancet to draw blood. A drop of blood is then placed on an expensive test strip which has already been inserted in a…