Everything about the Pixel 4 has leaked
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·2020-05-05
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Do you ever have one of those days where you wake up and look in the mirror, but
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instead of your reflection, you just see a bunch of tech news because it turns
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out it's not a mirror at all. It's a teleprompter. I'm having one of those
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days right now. Yeah. So weird. You'll get over it. We've seen a steady stream
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of leaks about the Google Pixel 4 already, but those leaks have expanded
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into a full-blown whole breach. Videos, screenshots, and spec lists have all hit
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the internet, revealing the phone in clearly white, just black, and not
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coral, or whatever they end up calling it. I'm voting for close to coral.
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Anyway, we've known for a while that the phone will have an iPhone 11 like square
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camera module on the back and a substantial top bezel housing sensors
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for gesture recognition and face unlock. But now we also know the phone will
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boast a Snapdragon 855 processor, at least 6 gigs of RAM, a 90 Hz display,
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woo, and an 8x optical camera zoom. It
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also appears that both the Pixel 4 and Pixel 4 XL will have that top bezel, no
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notches in sight. The Pixel 4 is expected to launch October 15th, which
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is like, that's funny. We're over a month away and I think it's safe to say
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that we know more about this phone than we don't know. And the crazy thing is
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Google started the leaks themselves. It's It's funny. It's like it's like
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realizing, well, the boat is sinking. So like, dang it. If we're going to go
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down, we're going to do it on our own terms. Everyone start punching the
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hole. In case you were spending some time under the old rock yesterday, Apple
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unveiled their new iPhones. So, here's a super quick summary. At $6.99 US, the
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iPhone 11 is the successor to the iPhone XR with a 6.1 inch liquid retina LC
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liquid retina LCD display, dual rear cameras, and an extra hour of battery
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life. The iPhone 11 Pro and Pro Max have
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5.8 in and 6.5 in super retina XDR OLED
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displays, three cameras, and an extra four to 5 hours of battery life.
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Compared to last year's 10S, all three iPhone 11s run on the A13 Bionic chip,
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have an automatic night camera mode, and can take 4K 60 video on the front camera
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in addition to slow-mo selfies, aka slow fees. What was that?
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But there are some other stories that have crept under the radar. Apple Care
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is now available as a subscription rather than a onetime fee. Apple
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actually went off script a bit and made the Pro iPhones thicker to add more
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battery life. Woo! Woo! And the new U1
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chip will enable users to more easily airdrop files by pointing their iPhones
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at each other. I have got to see that one for myself. That might just be the
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least boring thing to come out of yesterday. It's like, you want this
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picture? Bang. You got me. And in other Apple news, the
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company's mysterious AR headset has seemingly been confirmed. Now, we've
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seen references to a code name Garta before. It's like Sparta's less cool
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like sis sister state. But now developer
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Steve Trotton Smith has posted more information including screenshots of
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Xcode 11 that describe apps intended to
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be run on an iPhone or in a headset.
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There's also descriptions of a handheld controller that could be used with the
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headset which uses a system shell called Starboard.
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There's even a readme file directed to Apple employees telling them how to run
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Starboard apps without using the headset. So, watch out Hollow Lens.
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Apples are coming for you. All six of
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the people who have a hollow lens. There's more than six. You know, some of
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those quits weren't very bit at all. But these ones are sort of everyone in their
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dog is launching a game streaming service. And apparently EA is someone or
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their dog because they're no exception. The company just launched a closed trial
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of its Project Atlas
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uh service with some members of the press being allowed to test it out on
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phones, tablets, PCs, TVs. They say it's
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okay, but there's a tiny bit of lag. Unfortunately, all streaming services
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are okay right now and have some lag.
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So, as usual, we're going to have to wait until Atlas enters the real world
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to say anything concrete about it. But chances are the conclusion is going to
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be that it's okay, but there's some lag.
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The Filmic app that was shown off at Apple's event yesterday was pretty cool,
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allowing user to record from multiple lenses on the same phone at once. But
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Roland's new 4X Camera Maker app allows you to sync four iPhones together to
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record something from multiple angles and switch between them on the fly or in
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post. That seems quite a bit more pro to me. Uh maybe that should have been at
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the event. Come on, Apple. It's not even
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pro. Nintendo is continuing its crusade
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against piracy. Good luck with that. Concerning its games and consoles, the
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company has just secured a court order from the England and Wales High Court,
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requiring the country's five major ISPs to restrict access to four websites
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known for providing resources for hacking the switch. I'm sure the pirates
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will not find a way around this roadblock.
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Yeah, that's a joke. Razer has made a case for the new iPhone
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11 lineup intended to help you game better. The case has a thermopen
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performance layer that transfers heat away from the phone and perforations
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that let heat escape gamers. The modification should help you avoid
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overheating when you're poning noobs in Fortnite mobile. That is to say, if it
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works at all. Um cuz like it won't
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really cool your phone per se. It'll just help you avoid getting roasted in
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real life. I can't say. What have you What have you What even have you written
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here? Might get roasted in game. Audi showed off a concept for an off-road
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vehicle with no headlights. Instead, drones would illuminate the path ahead
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of a car. Okay. Are you even being serious at this point? This is real.
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This is this is actual news. Periodically landing on the roof to
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charge back up. And that that my
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friends, once we're scraping the bottom of the barrel that hard, that's how you
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know the episode's over. See you guys on Friday for more tech news. If you'll
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excuse me, I'm going to go play the new Colonel Sanders Dating Simulator, which
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is also real news, by the way.