LAS VEGAS – Byton kicked off the automotive part of CES 2020 with a reintroduction of its M-Byte electric SUV, providing details on production and sales plans, news of a developer program (you know, like it’s a $50,000 phone), and the names of partners who will provide streaming video and minute-by-minute weather updates. CEO Daniel Kirchert said Byton has already produced several dozen M-Byte pre-production models at its Nanjing, China, factory. The company is on track to go into mass production by the middle of this year, Kirchert said, with deliveries to China this year, the US in 2021, and then Europe.
is one of the company’s most powerful gaming laptops. The Omen 17 combines a large 17.3-inch display with Nvidia’s powerful RTX graphics cards and an optional G-Sync display to create a highly competitive gaming notebook. But its secondary features may make it a less-than-ideal solution for some. Design and Configuration The entry level Omen 17 system comes equipped with an Intel Core i7-9750H processor and a GTX 1650 graphics card, giving it solid performance for 1080p gaming all for $1,049.00.
You can, for the first time, go out and buy a 5G-enabled phone on all the major US carriers. Whether or not you should is an open question, but a surprising number of people took the plunge in 2019, according to Samsung. The company says it shipped last year. Samsung claims it currently holds the majority of 5G devices worldwide at 53.9 percent. That also suggests we’re looking at roughly 13 million total 5G smartphones sold in 2019. Samsung currently has five 5G devices on the market: the Galaxy S10 5G, Note10 5G, Note10+ 5G, Galaxy A90 5G, and Galaxy Fold 5G.
Samsung’s budget phone lineup used to be a mess, but it started revamping many of those midrange devices under its A-series brand last year. The Galaxy A70 and A50 were widely praised, and now the successors are official. Markets across the world will start seeing the improved A71 and A51 in the coming weeks. These phones sit below the flagship Galaxy S and Galaxy Note series, but not too far below. The A71 (above) and A51 (below) still have features like edge-to-edge displays with integrated fingerprint sensors and a quad-camera array. The A71 even has faster charging than last year’s Galaxy S10 (25W versus 15W).
One of the improvements to the high-end monitor space over the last few years has been the inclusion of additional features in top-end displays rather than forcing gamers to pick between various capabilities. It’s become more normal to see capabilities like FreeSync and G-Sync, HDR, high refresh rates, and curved screens available on the same monitor SKU. Samsung’s new line of QLED-based gaming displays exemplify this trend. At the top of the stack, there’s the Q9 Odyssey, a 49-inch behemoth with a 32:9 aspect ratio, 5120×1440 resolution, HDR1000 support, a 240Hz refresh rate, G-Sync and FreeSync 2 support, and a 1000R curved screen (the lower the “R” number, the higher the amount of curve).
Ever since AMD launched its high-end Radeon 5700 and 5700 XT GPUs on 7nm, there have been questions about when Nvidia would make a similar move. Competitively, Nvidia was able to respond to the 5700 and 5700 XT by launching refreshes of its RTX 2080, 2070, and 2060 GPUs as “Super” variants of the original models, but kept using TSMC’s 12nm process for the new GPUs. The Taipei Times has that the Yuanta Securities Investment Consulting Company has issued an investment note to its clients advising them to expect big things from Nvidia’s next-generation architecture, codenamed Ampere. The note states: ” Nvidia’s next-generation GPU based on the Ampere architecture is to adopt 7-nanometer technology, which would lead to a 50 percent increase in graphics performance while halving power consumption.
is without a doubt one of the most feature-rich gaming monitors that money can buy. At $2,499, however, it costs more than most enthusiast system builders spend on their entire PC including the display. Is Acer’s champion gaming display really worth its extraordinarily high price tag? Let’s find out. Product Overview Acer’s Predator X35 is essentially a clone of Acer’s 2015 Predator X34, but with a few upgrades. At this price, you probably expected a 4K display panel, but instead, the Predator X35 features the same 3,440×1,440 resolution as the Predator X34. The screen is slightly larger at 35 inches though.
Watching fireworks on television is nothing like watching them in real life. Televised fireworks aren’t very attractive compared with the experience of watching them live, with dull colors and muted explosions. Best-case, they look flat and uninspiring. Worst-case, they can look like badly rendered CGI. A recent Wired UK article why fireworks are so hard to get right, even on modern television sets with high-end color processing and 4K displays. Fireworks, it turns out, are a nearly worst-case scenario for technology to capture. They combine a dark sky and black backgrounds with high-intensity, high-contrast light, which makes them very difficult to capture in the dynamic range that exists in modern TV sets.
At first glance, the US phone market looks competitive, with devices available from a wide range of vendors like Apple, Google, LG, Motorola, OnePlus, and Samsung. In practice, however, it appears to be anything but. According to a new analysis, over 90 percent of the devices sold at the four largest US carriers (AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile, and Verizon) were made by Apple or Samsung, with 95, 94, 91, and 94 percent of the market at each carrier (listed in the same order as above). There are a lot of ways to read this data, which PCMag in some detail.
