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Leaked Vivo Patent Shows Outlandish Quad Front-Facing Camera Orientation
We've seen a lot of subtle design changes take place in the smartphone space over the years. Bezels kept getting smaller, leaving less space for front camera hardware. And then in 2018, we saw the hideous display notch make its debut. 2019, on the other hand, had a more sane approach towards maximizing screen real estate. Enter the hole-punch design that eliminated the notch by punching a hole in ... Read more
2020-01-02 19:25:23
Oppo A9 2020, hands on: A good-value large-screen handset with great battery life
Oppo made an impression in 2019 with handsets like the mid-range Reno 2Z (£329), RX17 Pro (£479) and Reno 10x Zoom (£450) earning plaudits from ZDNet's reviewers. Even the top-end Find X (£799) with its pop-up backplate housing the front and rear cameras was well received. To kick off the new year, we have the Oppo A9 2020, a handset costing just £220 (inc. VAT) that gives you an impressive amoun ... Read more
2020-01-02 19:25:23
Alienware is making a 25-inch IPS monitor with a 240Hz refresh rate
Just days before CES kicks off, Alienware announced a revamped version of its 25-inch AW2518HF gaming monitor. The size and specs of the upcoming AW2521HF are largely the same, except it swaps out the TN (twisted nematic) screen on the old model for a higher quality IPS (in-plane switching) panel without sacrificing any speed. That's to say it retains the same 240Hz refresh rate as its predecesso ... Read more
2020-01-02 19:23:59
Dell slathers on factor XPS 13 to reveal new shiny with... ooh... a 0.1 inch bigger screen
Dell is kicking off 2020 with a significant refresh of its XPS 13 laptops, including the Ubuntu-powered XPS 13 Developer Edition. The XPS 13 9300 boasts Intel's 10th generation Core processors, ranging from the i3-1005G1 on the basic model, all the way to the quad-core i7-1065G7. It's worth noting that the pricier XPS 4K ships with Chipzilla's latest silicon. However, the standard 1080p lineup ha ... Read more
2020-01-02 19:23:59
ASUS CHROMEBOOK FLIP C436 PASSES THROUGH FCC JUST IN TIME FOR CES 2020
Robby just spent the better part of the morning drawing out our exhaustive list of CES expectations as we gear up to head to the massive trade show in Vegas next week. If all goes as planned, this will be the biggest year yet for Chrome OS at CES with the possibility of multiple OEMs bringing next-get flagship devices to the party. Now, just days away from the kickoff of CES, one of the highly-ant ... Read more
2020-01-01 20:06:06
Google Pixel 4a renders have got gadget fans excited as 2020 kicks off
Google has got into the habit of releasing its own phones each year under the Pixel branding. And while the flagships Pixel 4 and Pixel 4 XL were met with lukewarm reviews, 2019’s more affordable Pixel 3a was highly praised. It took everything that was good about Pixel phones – namely the camera and the stock Android experience – and put it into a budget package that neatly undercut the likes of A ... Read more
2020-01-01 20:05:17
Inside Intel's Secret Overclocking Lab: The Tools and Team Pushing CPUs to New Limits
We get an exclusive tour of the facility where Intel pushes chips to their absolute limit. Intel says it loves overclocking, but saying it and proving it are two different things entirely. We here at Tom's Hardware certainly love overclocking, so we visited Intel's Jones Farm campus in Portland, Oregon, recently for an exclusive tour to see how the company designs and architects its chips for max ... Read more
2020-01-01 20:05:17
It’s not outlandish to think AMD will launch a 48-core Threadripper 3980X CPU
A 48-core Threadripper processor would slot in nicely between AMD's 32-core and upcoming 64-core options. When it comes to PC hardware, the period between Christmas and New Year's Day has historically been the quiet before the storm that is known as CES, the annual tech event that sees a blizzard of announcements. Will new a new Threadripper 3980X processor be among them? It very well could be, i ... Read more
2020-01-01 19:53:10
The MacBook Pro 16 Needs to Be the Future of Apple Laptops
If you’ve bought an Apple laptop in the last few years and you try out the new 16-inch MacBook Pro, you will be furious. It’s so good. It works precisely as a laptop should—the issues that have plagued Apple’s laptops in recent years seem absent. Everything about the device seems to follow an age-old Apple edict the company forgot: It just works. So while I’m delighted by the existence of the new ... Read more
2020-01-01 19:53:10
AverMedia hints at an external 4K60 HDR capture device coming in 2020
The new device would up the ante over the Live Gamer Ultra by supporting 4K HDR recording at up to 60 fps. The annual Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas kicks off next month, and that means a whole bunch of product announcements are right around the corner. Presumably, one of them will be a new external capture device with support for recording 4K HDR streams at 60 frames per second. AverMed ... Read more
2019-12-30 20:43:45