I used to game a lot on a desktop, but now that I work at home, I kinda hate sitting in front of a PC. I wasnt playing a lot, but then got a steam deck at launch, and now I'm gaming a ton again.

I like the switch, but I really like how backwards compatible PC gaming is.

I REALLY wish these companies would drop the extra sensors. It's just for the look, to make it LOOK more expensive. It's better than when cheap brands would put fake lenses on the back of a phone, but not by much.

I try to tell people to "upgrade in place" and save money, unless they WANT to try new things on their phones. If you WANT to try playing more graphics intense games or edit video/podcasts from a phone (and you werent don't that already on your current phone) it makes sense to shop a more powerful replacement. Otherwise, let's say you have a three to four years old premium phone, and you want to keep doing the same things with it, then replacing it with a mid-ranger should still be a slight performance upgrade, move you down a price tier.

If you can skip premium phones from this year, you'll get noticably better battery life. The Samsung fabbed Snapdragon 8Gen1 is kind of a dog. 8+Gen1 and 8Gen2 were fabbed by TSMC, and deliver a significantly better performance per watt.

We keep seeing these "record breaking" articles about Samsung selling more phones than some previous high watermark, but increasingly, Samsung can't seem to sustain interest in their products past the first surge of pre-orders.

The S8 and S8+ went on to sell 41 million units according to analysts. That doesn't include a Note.

I'll lay the prediction out that Samsung will sell fewer Galaxy S phones with three models this year than they did with two models back in 2017.

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Awww... Simpler times...

We saw a glimpse of some great mobile awareness in Cortana. Contacts and location reminders were amazing on windows phones.

"Next time I talk to my wife, remind me to ask bout the dogs medication." Phone call, text, or email, I'd get a reminder.

"Next time I'm at the store, remind me to buy bread." "Which store?" "Any grocery store."

Phone assistants have basically been going down hill since windows 10.

Google is using an order of magnitude more electricity to basically copy Siri. Neat.

And for how expensive portable consoles can be, I'm not calling anything a "steam deck killer" until I'm also confident it can be repaired and upgraded for years after I buy it.

I think it's going to be HIGHLY cost dependent. It makes sense that a foldable, with space constraints, and a MUCH higher price tag can incorporate some more expensive bits. You use THAT sensor when the price makes sense, and it helps the Open catch up to the 12. If you don't have that price buffer, then a larger camera bulge and a faster aperture can match that newer sensor tech. Moving this tech to other sensors will likely be staged as premium tier manufacturers start asking for those capabilities, and the prices on the devices can buffer the increased component costs. It makes more sense for the sensor on a telephoto camera, maybe less so for the sensor on an ultra-wide.

I really want to try the withings. The new fossil hybrid is more like a Pebble. It's a solid little notification machine.

Can't blame them. Google cut mobvoi and fossil off at the knees, while courting Samsung. Why would they stay? I hope they try another hybrid watch.

Seems to me that Android as a platform was healthier when there was broader competition, and a wider range of designs and features. Samsung peaked with the S10, and sales have plummeted the more they copy Apple.

The only benefit to Netflix games is that these games have no ads or IAP.

Direct report from the FTC. ISPs are DIGGING into your web behavior. https://www.ftc.gov/reports/look-what-isps-know-about-you-examining-privacy-practices-six-major-internet-service-providers

Oh that's true. I typically try to shoot one "tier" above what the expected output should be when using consumer cameras and codecs. I wrote a piece a LONG time ago about that on Pocketnow, shooting 4K for 1080p playback. Beyond editing, even just simple playback is improved going one level up. 4:2:0 4K video (played at full res) looks better on a 1080p TV than 1080p video looks. The same is also true for 8K, but the direct gains are smaller just playing back a clip. But your point is spot on. If you're finishing a video in 4k or 1080p, and you're going to incorporate footage from a phone, then 8k is REALLY handy to work on.

4K120 is the most useful "extreme" video mode, and it's a shame more companies haven't supported it, just ZTE, OnePlus, and Sony. It's crazy flexible. Can be easily dropped to 60 or 30 fps, and makes for absolutely stunning slow motion. It's such an easy edit in something like LumaFusion to time stretch it. Even silly little family videos look so much cooler at that resolution in one quarter time. When done right, at a good bitrate, it looks much better than most phones' potato quality 1080p slow motion. Sony absolutely chose right offering 4k120 over 8k24.

I have my daughter's first steps in 4K. That was roughly seven years ago. Shot from an old LG. That little clip is amazing, and it looks so much better than what 1080p at the time would have looked like.

I honestly thought they already had...