Inside Time: Flexible Samsung, Android and mobile paid Photoshop
Devices / / December 19, 2019
The first Samsung smartphone with flexible screen will soon appear
It has long walk rumors that Samsung is working on the production of a smartphone with a flexible screen web. Recently, the newspaper The Wall Street Journal came materialClarifying the story.
According to journalists, we are talking about the smartphone screen which will develop along the lines of the book. Novelty is equipped with a 7-inch display, which can be folded in half. In addition, the phone you plan to use a special high-capacity battery, which is enough energy to power once the two halves of the screen.
Presentation of the smartphone, which has a code name Winner ( «Winner"), scheduled for the first half of 2019. Its price could be around $ 1 500, so there is a speech, most likely, the release of a small party, intended for a narrow circle of connoisseurs.
Android will be paid. But it is not exactly
This week it became aware of the decision of the European Commission, which has fined Google to 4.3 billion euros for the installation of a package of its own software for smartphones c OS Android. green robot response was voiced by the mouth of CEO of Google Sundar Pichai: "This decision could disrupt the carefully constructed so the ecosystem Android».
In the language of robots that means a threat. Until recently, the cost of Android development is more than offset by income from advertising, demonstrated through a browser, and credit default search engine. However, if Google is a monopoly in this area is broken, it is quite logical to look like the next step: Android will be paid.
To pay for the operating system will have all manufacturers to install it on your gadgets, which ultimately will lead to a rise in the cost of finished devices. So what is actually paid for everything, of course, end users. The dispute over the European Commission and Google - we will know soon.
Leagoo prepares affordable smartphone with a screen scanner
Now the sub-screen fingerprint scanners are used only in a few high-end smartphone range. However, the company Leagoo ready to make this innovation more accessible.
Smartphone Leagoo S10 has become widely available first device, which uses a fingerprint sensor and display large AMOLED-display with a diagonal of 6.21 inches. It is expected that the device will operate on the basis of Snapdragon 710 processor. The memory volume is 6 or 8 GB and constant - 64, 128 or 256 GB.
Official presentation of the new items will be held in September, and while the company began to raise funds on the platform IndieGoGo.
Other news
- Adobe plans to release a full version of Photoshop for the iPad in 2019.
- Smartphone Presentation Honor Note 10 will be held on August 30th. Its main feature - huge even by today's 6.9-inch screen.
- The new version of Skype will function record audio and video calls.
- AliExpress in the person of its local brand launches in Russia Tmall free shipping in one day. First, such an opportunity will only be available to residents of Moscow, and then spread to other major cities.
- Google can replace Android on fuchsia OS within five years. On the project employs more than 100 people. The head of Google expressed its support for the new OS.
- Vivo will launch the world's first smartphone with 10 GB of RAM. He will also get a built-in display is a fingerprint scanner and a triple main camera.