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Walmart’s cheap Onn Android TV UHD streamer picks up Auto HDR and performance improvements

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The Onn Android TV UHD streaming device is one of the most affordable 4K-ready media streamers around, having launched earlier this year for $30 and currently selling for just $20. And while one down side to buying many cheap Android phones is that they never received software updates, that hasn’t held true for this cheap […]

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Sony Xperia XZ2 Premium coming in July for $1000 (4K HDR display and video recording)

by Brad Linder 4 Comments on Sony Xperia XZ2 Premium coming in July for $1000 (4K HDR display and video recording)

Sony’s smartphones may not be as popular in the US as Samsung or Apple devices. But the company does have a habit of launching phones with a feature or two that no competitor has. Earlier this year the company unveiled the Sony Xperia XZ2 Premium, a smartphone with a 5.8 inch, 3840 x 2160 pixel […]

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Google enables Pixel 2’s Pixel Visual Core for third-party apps

by Brad Linder Comments Off on Google enables Pixel 2’s Pixel Visual Core for third-party apps

Snap a photo using a Google Pixel 2 or Pixel 2 XL with the default camera app and Google’s HDR+ technology helps you capture images with high dynamic range colors so that you don’t just get better photos in low-light settings, but you can capture dark and light accurately in the same shot. Up until […]

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$179 Apple TV 4K is Apple’s first TV box with… 4K (and HDR)

by Brad Linder Comments Off on $179 Apple TV 4K is Apple’s first TV box with… 4K (and HDR)

As expected, Apple is updating its Apple TV line of media streaming devices with its first model supporting 4K content. The cleverly-named Apple TV 4K is also the first Apple TV device to support HDR (high dynamic range) imagery. Apple will be selling 4K HDR movies through iTunes, for the same price as HD content. […]

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Sony launches Xperia XZ Premium with 4K HDR display (and a cheaper, smaller Xperia XZs)

by Brad Linder Comments Off on Sony launches Xperia XZ Premium with 4K HDR display (and a cheaper, smaller Xperia XZs)

After launching the well-regarded Xperia XZ smartphone a few months ago, Sony is adding a new model featuring a faster processor, a higher-resolution display, and a camera that can record video at up to 960 frames per second, for super slow-motion movies. The Sony Xpera XZ Premium will be available this spring. Sony hasn’t said […]

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NVIDIA pulls the wraps off Tegra 4 quad-core ARM Cortex-A15 chip

by Brad Linder 6 Comments on NVIDIA pulls the wraps off Tegra 4 quad-core ARM Cortex-A15 chip

NVIDIA’s next-generation Tegra processor will be a quad-core ARM Cortex-A15 processor with 72 graphics cores. The company says the Tegra 4 will be the first quad-core chip based on ARM’s most powerful design, and at a press conference today the company showed off a couple of things that the new chip can do. In a […]