Microsoft makes a HUGE phone!?
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·TechLinked
·2019-05-06
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sorry guys we tried to get yanny and laurel to host today but neither of them
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were available
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oneplus has officially unveiled the oneplus 6 at a launch event in london
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Linus is actually there and he already put up a hands-on video on Linus tech
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tips because he thinks he's better than us the oneplus 6 features a new all
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gorilla glass body and continues the bewildering trend of putting a notch in
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the display to house the earpiece sensors and camera which will support
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face unlock here's some specs for you it's got a 6.28 inch 2280 by 1080 amoled
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display snapdragon 845 chip 3300 milliamp hour battery 16 megapixel front
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camera and dual 16 and 20 megapixel rear cameras it's 529 usd for the six gigs of
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RAM and 64 gig storage base model with upgraded options also available oneplus
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also debuted their new bullets wireless earbuds for 69 they're magnetic and will
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pause music when you snap them together so that's neat for a full rundown watch
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his Linus video and tell him he's a right gobby chav for me because he's in
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he's in london stop it so
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but oneplus wasn't the only one launching a phone in london today huawei
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owned honor also showed off the honor 10. it's also got a notch and is covered
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with phantom glass which kind of changes color when you look at it finally this
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is a feature we've all been waiting for it also has a 2280 by 1080 screen but
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it's a 5.84 inch ips lcd one instead
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it's also got a kirin 970 chip 3 400 milliamp hour battery 24 megapixel front
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camera with a 16 and 24 megapixel cameras on the back and is a bit pricier
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than the oneplus 6 at around 540 bucks us for the 4 gigs of RAM 64 gig storage
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base model oh and the rear camera can identify things with ai i'm slapping
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that onto the end of the story just like companies slap ai onto products
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got him and microsoft felt left out of the whole
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phone scene so it launched a super huge one today
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just kidding it's the surface hub 2. the 2nd gen big tablet tv thing has a
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default 4k screen with a 3x2 aspect ratio to match up with the rest of the
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surface lineup and a rotating and swiveling mount so you can show more of
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your perfect business casual outfit on video calls multiple service hubs can be
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lined up and synced to create larger displays and multiple people can sign in
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at once to collaborate better it's so functional and beautiful that you'll
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want to place your hands gently on its metal legs like this woman from the
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video does for some reason surface
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hey that new oneplus 6 looks slick but it's so slick that it might slip right
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out of your hand and ruin all of the perfect fingerprints that you've left on the glass back so you should probably
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protect that thing with a premium skin from dbrand they've got custom developed
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materials simple installation unlimited customization and zero
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adhesive residue upon removal click the link in the description to get yours
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well what's that time for quick bits oh okay
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htc still makes phones guys in fact the next one will be a blockchain powered
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one called the htc exodus dedicated to decentralized apps and security with the
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exodus you can say let my data go
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Intel stealthily released its first 10 nanometer consumer processor inside a
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lenovo ideapad 330 sold in china analysts are saying the company is
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having trouble getting its 10 nanometer process node ready which sort of explains why they tried to slip this one
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out like they were climbing out of their girlfriend's window at 2 am well we saw
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you Intel nice job google has announced a new brand google one which promises to
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transform its cloud storage services but really it's just some price changes in
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rebranding for its google drive paid storage tiers the logo really makes you
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think it's more than that though slightly disappointing the latest Windows update
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has caused blue screens of death on pcs running some Intel and toshiba ssds so
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if you've been greeted with the azure harbinger of doom on your pc probably
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want to roll back until microsoft sorts that out researchers in beijing have
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found a way to make a super strong fiber out of
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carbon nanotubes
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what the new fibers could finally herald a
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way to use zetubes as i call them i don't call them that to make a material
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30 times stronger than kevlar or something i wasn't listening i was too
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excited and logitech have put their super fast light speed tech into a 60
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wireless gaming mouse the g503 although it's only got six buttons all together
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at least it's not trying to compensate for anything hey guess what that's it for this episode don't forget the design
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fine with being super super boring and slow and lame
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that's fine with me see if i don't care live your life man it's 2018. you can do
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whatever you want you know whatever that's fine i don't care
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you care i do he cares