Samsung sends out invites for August 23 event in India; Tizen-powered Z2 expected

Samsung has started sending out press-invites for a smartphone launch event in India on August 23. While the invite doesn't reveal the star of the event, it's being said that the South Korean company will make official the Tizen-powered Z2 on that day. Specs-wise, an official-looking video recently confirmed that the Z2 is powered by a quad-core 1.5GHz CPU and sports a 5MP rear camera unit. It comes pre-loaded with an app dubbed My Money Transfer, and also features the ability to adjust the flashlight's brightness. As for other key specs, rumors say it will sport a 3.97-inch or...

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Samsung Galaxy Note7 storage speed test

The Samsung Galaxy Note7 has 64GB of storage built-in, up from 32GB in last year's model. We're always happy to see base storage increase in capacity, but we got some questions about speed to we put our benchmarking caps on. The Galaxy Note7 has UFS 2.0 storage, the internal memory format used since the Galaxy S6. It's much faster than the eMMC storage commonly used in phones and much, much faster than microSD cards. People love expandable storage and were quite excited to see it return with the Galaxy Note7. But they worry if storing files on the microSD harms performance. Let's...

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Top 10 trending phones of week 33

The Samsung Galaxy Note7 is holding on to the first spot for third week in a row and the market release will certainly help it maintain a leading position for a while longer. The second most popular smartphone this week, the Galaxy J7 (2016), while the Xiaomi Redmi Note 3 holds onto third. The Galaxy J2 (2016) makes it three Samsung smartphones in the top 4, while the Redmi 3s maintains its fifth position. Next comes the OnePlus 3, which returns to our top 10, and slots right above the two Galaxy J5 versions - from this and last year. The Moto G4 Plus has climbed a spot to ninth,...

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Honor 5X currently going for $160 in US

If you're in the US, and are planning to purchase the Honor 5X by Huawei, here's a deal for you: the device is currently going for $160 in the country. Retailer Newggg is selling the phone (unlocked, silver variant) at that price. Although the handset is listed for $189.99, the price comes down to $160 upon using the coupon code ESCEMGE24EDU during checkout. For comparison, Huawei is officially selling the device for $200 in the US. Those interested in availing the deal can head to the Source link below. Source | Via

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NVIDIA announces GTX 1060 3GB edition

NVIDIA has announced yet another graphics card, the GTX 1060 3GB edition. But while it might just sound like a GTX 1060 with half the RAM, there is a bit to it than that. First of all, yes, the 3GB model now ships with half the VRAM from the 6GB GDDR5 on the full-fledged 1060 model. But NVIDIA has also made some cutbacks to the GPU. The 3GB edition gets 1152 CUDA cores compared to the 1280 on the 6GB model. The texture units have also been dropped from 80 to 72 on the 3GB edition. This is due to disabling 1 out of the 10 SM units on the GP106 GPU on the 1060. This drops the...

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Sony announces car audio system with Apple CarPlay and Android Auto support

Sony has announced its first smart car audio system, the XAV-AX100. The system is compatible with both, Apple CarPlay as well as Android Auto, so regardless of which smartphone you have you are covered. The double DIN system has a large capacitive touchscreen display up front with physical buttons to change the track and also a rotating volume dial so you can control basic system functions without taking your eyes away from the road. It also includes a 4x 55W amp with Sony's Extra Bass feature, and a 10-band equalizer. You also get 3 pre-out connectivity ports for connecting additional...

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