An AIR-COOLED Gaming Phone!?
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·TechLinked
·2019-05-06
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1,037 words · ~5 min read
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now is when the tech news starts go
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apple hosted their worldwide developers conference today instead of fixing our
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imac and the butterfly keyboards in their macbook pros yeah if you're new
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here i'm a little harsh on old macintosh they can take it
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they got lots of money first off iOS 12 when it launches this fall it'll make
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siri slightly less useless with shortcuts essentially a macro app where
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you can trigger specific actions using custom voice
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commands that already exist on bixby yeah exactly
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bixby iOS 12 will also get grouped notifications like Android app usage
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dashboard and time limits like Android customizable animoji and the ability to
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facetime up to 32 people and multiplayer
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ar experiences on top of it apple is also working with pixar and adobe on a
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new standardized ar file format called universal scene description or usd zed
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which will enable easy importing of assets from apps like photoshop into ar
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carplay will finally get google maps and waze support good to see you learning
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your place apple maps it's in the dumpster next up macOS
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mojave i thought we were sticking with the mountain theme here but i guess
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deserts work too mojave will bring a dark mode and app store redesign and
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desktop versions of the news voice memos home and stocks apps from iOS desktop
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stacks are basically folders for the desktop but they automatically collect
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random files of the same type so your screen is less cluttered you'll also be
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able to do some basic editing and markup using quick look in the finder that's
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actually kind of cool finally watch os5 it's got
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automatic workout detection a walkie-talkie mode so you can feel like
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buzz lightyear and you'll no longer have to say hey siri the assistant will start
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listening when you simply raise your wrist it'll be a revolutionary way to
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accidentally send your friends an audio clip of you talking about them behind their back sorry if i just activated all
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your home pods which all of you definitely have wall
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okay that's enough apple onto our kind of event computex ASUS showed off a ton
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of new hardware today including the rog phone a six-inch powerhouse for gamers
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you better believe you can game so hard on this thing
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it's got a 90 hertz display powered by an overclocked snapdragon 845 with an
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adreno 630 GPU which could run hot so there's a game cool vapor chamber
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cooling attachment it's got ultrasonic trigger buttons usable in landscape mode
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but if that's not enough you can use the twin view controller dock to turn it
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into a shield-like device the mobile desktop dock to game using your pc
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peripherals or the y gig dock to stream to your tv and then play on the third
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party game vice controller good gravy
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ASUS you really want this gaming phone to be a thing huh the question is who
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will be able to afford this that wouldn't just buy a switch or maybe i'm
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crazy if you guys are actually interested in this phone leave a comment below let us know it's time for quick
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the details what does that have to do with uber though
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the cars ah quick bits the rog phone wasn't the only hardware ASUS showed off
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at computex they also presented three new high-end monitors two versions of
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the rog strix laptop one for FPS and one for mobile players the baltius led mouse
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pad with phone qi charging the delta type c gaming headset with a built-in
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dac the company's first all-in-one liquid CPU coolers the ryuio and ryujin
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i can't say that a lineup of ax wi-fi compatible routers and a full lineup of
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tough branded products including a mouse keyboard headset laptop and a pc case
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that's a lot of gear good gravy i already said that i already said that
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earlier good gravy you can be sure Linus tech tips will have coverage of a lot of
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those maybe all of them i wouldn't know NVIDIA unveiled isaac a platform powered
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by jetson xavier a system on chip intended for ai at the unveiling when
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asked about when we'd see the next g-force cards ceo jensen huang said a
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long time from now but he's he's got to be bluffing he's got to be
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bluffing good gravy microsoft has acquired code hosting service github for
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7.5 billion in stock but if you're concerned about their tyrannical rule
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don't worry github will still operate as an independent company and will remain
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an open platform or so they say good
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gravy famous overclocker kingpin has worked with evga to develop an
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all-in-one liquid CPU cooler that uses liquid nitrogen and automatically
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overclocks chips it won't be heading to consumers anytime soon but it's super
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cool just like that gamer phone
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this thing rocks hard man
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stop it and on a lighter note marc jacobs is
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releasing a fashion focused smartwatch called the riley touchscreen
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that's my name do you think he's a fan of the show
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maybe hey that's it for this episode of tech link there was a bit too much tech news
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today for my liking so i have to go recover subscribe to the channel if you
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want to hit the bell icon if you feel like it it's time for me
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to have a burrito bowl