hey james you want a folding phone yeah i'll just take out a second mortgage
oh i had a whole nother joke planned for that but i guess we're going with that yep folding phones are officially a
thing samsung unveiled the galaxy fold last week but this weekend at mobile
world congress huawei showed off their own design which has
what i think is an objectively better
design where samsung's model has a 4.6 inch exterior screen that opens up to
reveal a 7.2 inch screen with a notch the huawei mate x has a single 8 inch
screen when unfolded when it's folded that same display is divided into a 6.6
inch screen on the front and 6.38 inch screen on the back because the camera
assembly takes up some space on the rear having the display fold on the outside
saves huawei from having to include a gap like the galaxy fold does it also
means the device is much more usable in folded mode than samsung's offering oppo
also showed off a folding phone prototype that uses essentially the same
design and i don't blame them although it doesn't really matter which one i like more because it doesn't look like
the mate x will be coming to north america anytime soon which is fine
because as james alluded to it's expensive it's 2600
us dollars yeah i can't even conceive of
that with my canadian brain and i don't want huawei spying on me
anyway yeah yeah kind of crazy how fast things move though like i thought the
fold when we saw the galaxy fold i thought that was the future i was like well folding folds are here and now it's
like the full that's old tech old news boo
but huawei wasn't the only company innovating at mwc no microsoft showed
off the hololens 2 which improves upon the original mixed reality headset and
basically every way it's got a more comfortable fit and higher resolution
displays but most importantly the field of view has been more than doubled the
new model offers the same 47 pixels per degree of human vision but with a
diagonal field of view around 53 degrees per eye still not amazing more degrees
though more more degrees more better it has vastly improved hand tracking as
well so instead of pinching your fingers you can reach out and manipulate
holograms directly you can still pinch you can you like if you like the
pinching you can still pinch you want to grab it
and also has eye tracking and voice detection which can be used for things
like navigating browser Windows and dictating text while your hands are
otherwise occupied doing what james
you sicko the hololens 2 is being targeted at businesses first and
foremost and that's reflected in its price of 3
dollars which is actually less than the first gen hallways price of five
thousand but more than a folding phone why not both why not both
and lg had their own peculiar answer to the folding phone trend adding a second
screen the lg v50 thinq 5g why we'll be
able to attach to the dual screen case and turn your phone into an Android
nintendo ds essentially what are you talking about
don't understand this
the second display can be used as a keyboard gamepad or simply used to run
two full screen apps at once gotta say i almost like this better than the idea of
a folding phone high five lg oh whoops i just unlocked lg's other
flagship phone the g8 thin cue which has
a time of flight sensor that enables users to unlock the device with their
hand see what i went for a high five
of course you can also use your face but having a phone recognize the veins in
your hand sounds way cooler and creepy the sensor can also be used to recognize
a number of air motion gestures so you can control your phone while your little
thingies are covered in buffalo wing sauce or buffalo cauliflower james i'm
sorry i want to close apps by wax off
exxon swipe right damn girl thanks for talking to me see you later oh it's also
got a vibrating OLED screen that serves as a speaker cool stuff lg but you're
still not samsung getting close though it's time for quick bits brought to you
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we got leaks about sony's new phones with ultra wide 21x9 aspect ratios but
now they're out in the open the xperia 1 10 and 10 plus sport the new cinematic
4k OLED displays along with triple rear
camera setups and other snappy specs even if your friend's phones are more
popular at least yours will be taller because that's what you want in a phone
if you want you just want to beat your my friend my phone's better than your
phone is you know what they say about big phones
they're bet they're better apparently what nokia wants in a
phone is more cameras introducing the new nokia 9 pureview
five cameras with zeiss optics the nokia 9 pureview has also been leaked like
crazy and all of those leaks have been pretty accurate the device has five rear
cameras plus a flash and time of flight sensor developed in collaboration with
zeiss optics and what they do is stitch the resulting images together using
software developed by light that other company that makes tryptophobia-inducing
camera setups like taking photos but disappointed that your subjects aren't
nauseous enough nokia 9 pureview buy
today if you want zeiss one hey
htc didn't have many phones to show off at mwc but they did have a 5g hotspot
with em you're impressed
it's got a 5.5 inch touchscreen so you can use it as a heavy tablet so that's
cool and it's also got a 7660 milliamp hour battery so you can
use it as a power bank so it's like a hotspot and a bunch of other things and
it even has an Ethernet port so you can use 5g with a laptop if you're in a
pinch although chances are if you're in an area without
wi-fi there's also going to be no 5g so
htc what are we going to do with you go to business already
i liked you i you know i i still have some love for you in my heart but
and speaking of 5g t-mobile has announced the rollout of their 5g
network will be delayed as it awaits availability of devices that can use the
low band 600 megahertz spectrum sprint on the other hand announced they would
roll out 5g service to atlanta chicago dallas and kansas city in may 2019. as
for us up here in canada well we'll just wait until you guys down
there have all got 5g first we don't mind waiting our turn okay have a good
one well it's about that time i'm still talking like this because i wrote the
script this way i reckon there'll be a bit more tech news on wednesday so until
then i gotta take off see you later james
see you don't forget to send it i know
take care take care drive safe now