Dual Screen phones!
Now, while I use an iPhone primarily, this is cool:I’m super happy that phone makers have started to play with wildly different tech. Reminds me of back in the day Nokia nGages, Motorola swivel phones and the like. While they might not have been everyone’s cup of tea, someone needs to have a crack at these different designed to get us to move forward.
Intel might have a go at 3D graphics cards
While Intel has been making 3D video chips for a while (sort of,) they’re not what you would call high performers. If you want a decent 3D graphics card, you’re buying an nVidia or AMD card.However Intel have announced that they’ve hired Raja Koduri to work on new graphics tech for them. Raja is the current head of the Radeon graphics section of AMD, and has previously worked at Apple as well (he helped build the retina displays on the MacBook line.)
iPhone X the most breakable phone
There’s been reports out there that the iPhone is the most breakable phone, due to someone doing a “drop test.”Please don’t buy into that hype. There is no way a lab test is going to test for the exact scenario of you dropping your phone. Almost every smartphone out there today is just a huge sheet of glass with some circuitry attached to it. If you drop it without a case on it, and it lands in just the right way to crack the screen, it’s going to break. If you’re worried about it breaking, put a case on it. It’s that simple.
I’ve seen phones fall less than 10 cm and crack, and I’ve seen phones fall from metres up and survive. There’s just no way of telling.
Having said all that, the new iPhones do have glass backs, so it’s another sheet of glass to shatter of course. Apple chose to move to a glass back to allow for wireless charging (it won’t go through aluminium backs like the iphone 7 and 6 before it), but it would have worked just as well with plastic. And that wouldn’t have broken so easily.
Thanks everyone, and have a great day.
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