Main insides of the week: The most powerful smart phone, iPhone 2019 dog tracker calories from Xiaomi

The main event this week was the E3 game show in 2018. It presented a lot of promising games, including The Elder Scrolls 6, Assassin's Creed: Odyssey, Just Cause 4, Beyond Good & Evil 2, Battlefield V and so on. Judging by the abundance of numbers in names, basically we are going to entertain the sequels and remakes already familiar game series.

It seems that the major developers of computer and console games are experiencing a crisis of fresh ideas or just afraid to experiment. However, they can be understood: the production of modern computer games AAA-category value complexity and cost is comparable to Hollywood blockbusters, so that the risk can be expensive here do.

Against this background, the mobile gaming market looks young and vigorous. He gushes with fresh ideas, not afraid of crazy projects and daring attempts. Yes, in appearance mobile games still lag far behind the computer counterparts, but the gameplay is often such that just do not pay attention to all these shaders and pixel. Especially that the mobile iron also goes on.

Asus ROG Phone recognized as the most productive smartphone

We already reported about the imminent release of the smartphone Asus ROG PhoneDesigned specifically for gaming. And now there is information that this device is the most productive smartphones in the world. Slightly lower in the ranking were Xiaomi Mi Mix 2S, OnePlus 6, HTC U12 +, Sony Xperia XZ2 / XZ2 Compact and Galaxy S9 +.

The popular benchmark Geekbench 4.1 Smartphone Asus ROG Phone scored a record 2547 points in the single-core test and 9534 points in multi-core. Recall that it uses a modified version of Qualcomm Snapdragon 845 which differs dispersed from 2.8 GHz to 2.96 GHz operating frequency. For it was developed by a special cooling system that allowed this chipset to fully develop their capabilities.

The official announcement of the device is planned for the third quarter of this year.

The new iPhone will plug USB Type-C

After many years of use of the iPhone brand connector Lightning, Apple company may switch to a common USB-port Type-C. The news came from China, where the analyst firm DigiTimes He analyzed the supply chain from the manufacturer of this component.

Recall that in 2016 Apple MacBook Pro is fully translated notebooks connectors USB Type-C, explaining the decision by considerations of ergonomics and unification. The output of new iPhone and iPad with connector USB Type-C, scheduled for next year, will greatly facilitate the lives of users of Apple devices, eliminating their use different plugs on the need and adapters.

Surprisingly only that it is a sensible solution came in the developer's head so late, because today even the cheap Chinese smartphones are equipped with this connector.

Xiaomi Mi Max 3 camera receives Flagship

Before the start of sales of smartphones in China is being registered in the public register. The data from this registry are open, so he always becomes a source of information about the technical characteristics of fresh smartphones.

New Xiaomi Mi Max 3, according to this data, will be equipped with a huge 6.99-inch screen with a resolution of Full HD + and possess an aspect ratio of 18: 9 and thin frame. Inside the chip will work together with 710 Snapdragon 4 or 6 GB of RAM.

Photo meets the dual-core camera that uses Sony IMX363 sensor with a resolution of 20 megapixels. Interestingly, in the open flagship Xiaomi Mi 8 is installed the same camera, which allowed him to enter the top five of the best camera phones on the version DxOMark site.

The novelty will receive the battery capacity of 5500 mAh, as well as support for fast charging Quick Charge 3.0. Powered smartphone running Android 8.1 Oreo with MIUI 10 shell.

Home sales Xiaomi Mi Max 3 is expected in July.

Other news

• Samsung has managed to topple the iPhone X from the pedestal of the most sold smartphone, which he held in the first quarter of 2018. This was made possible with the release of models of Galaxy S9 + and Galaxy S9, which now occupy the first two rows in the ranking of sales.
• Uber Uber Lite released a lightweight version of the application, which weighs only 5 MB, saves bandwidth and works even on a budget smartphone with a slow connection. The program is available now only in India, but will be available soon on Google Play and other countries.
• mobile "Google Translate"Android and iOS now supports neuronal machine translation in the offline mode. This feature is available for 59 languages, including Russian, Belarusian and Ukrainian. According to the developers, this should significantly improve the quality of translation.
• Google has officially confirmed that the next version of Android will be able to use the dark theme.
• Huawei has developed a technology that allows it to run on smartphones full desktop Windows 10. It is realized by connecting the machine to the virtual cloud Huawei Cloud PC. Feature is available only in China.
• Xiaomi released Petbit - Smart Collar for Dogs, which helps to keep track of their location. In addition, the device counts steps and calories burned, which is useful in the event that the vet has prescribed your pet to move more.