

Phones
QWERTY keyboard, Android and sleek design in black. There was a review of the canceled smartphone Punkt MC01 Legend
The Swiss company Punkt has been offering simple but expensive mobile phones for several years. For example, the MP01 model was estimated at the start at $300. As it turned out, the company had an MC01 Legend device with a QWERTY keyboard in development. It was canceled, but a review of the prototype appeared on the Web.
The device was built back in 2015, although even then such models were almost not in demand. But Legend was canceled not because of this, but because the company was unable to solve a number of problems related to Android, including the operation of the system with a screen with a 4:3 aspect ratio. Yes, the Legend was designed to be a smartphone, not the usual feature phone that Punkt now offers.
The second reason was that the company wanted to emphasize the privacy of user data, which entailed the abandonment of Google Play and Google Mobile Services. As a result, when working on Legend, the company realized that it was easier for it to deal with ordinary phones, and not smartphones, so Legend never came out, but other unusual models came out.

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These new features will initially be limited to the Galaxy S23 line of smartphones. There are details about the One UI 5.1 shell

Samsung Galaxy S23 smartphones will be presented in a few days, but only now information about the new features of the One UI 5.1 shell, which is just debuting on new flagships, has appeared on the Web.
Apparently, there will be a lot of changes. The current One UI 5.0, recall, could not boast of a rich list of innovations.
So, the list includes the following features:
- Faster access to Expert RAW in-camera mode
- An easier way to change skin tone for selfies
- Shared family photo and video album
- Improved automatic photo processing with shadow and reflection removal
- Swiping up on a photo opens a panel with detailed information about the photo
- Gallery search will become better and more functional
- Ability to select a folder for storing screenshots
- You can use AR Emoji Camera for three people in photo and video
- Brushes for AR Doodles are available on the main screen
- New battery widget
- New weather widget
- Ability to set different desktop wallpapers for different modes of operation
- Additional conditions when creating scripts
- Sharing Samsung Notes
- More convenient interface for adding users to the sharing list for albums, notes, calendar, and so on
- Advanced Pairing Options for Samsung Smartphone and Laptops
- Improved DeX multitasking
- Improved native browser search
- Faster initial smartphone setup
- Bixby text calls
Phones
$170 ZTE Blade V40 spotted in Bangladesh

The ZTE V40 family of smartphones will soon be replenished with the Blade V40 model – it has already lit up in Bangladesh, and immediately with a price: a version with 4 GB of RAM (expandable by 2 GB) and 128 GB of flash memory is estimated at the equivalent of $ 170.
The Blade V40 hardware platform is based on a 12nm Unisoc Tiger T616 single-chip system with 2 Cortex-A75 cores and 6 Cortex-A55 cores. OS – Android 12 with MyOS 12 interface.
The configuration of the device is a triple main camera (with a main sensor with a resolution of 50 megapixels), a 6.6-inch IPS screen and a 4500 mAh battery. A full premiere of the device is expected in early February.
Phones
Why overpay for smartphones with 5G? On the example of the Samsung Galaxy A14, you can see that we are talking about a huge difference in performance.

The Samsung Galaxy A14 5G smartphone was introduced at the beginning of the month, but the company is preparing a more affordable version with 4G support. And today we have all the main characteristics of this model and images.
The design of the younger version will be the same, except that instead of brown it will be silver. Many characteristics will also not change, although there will still be differences.
The main thing, of course, is the platform. Instead of the latest Exynos 1330, MediaTek Helio G80 is used. Compared to the Exynos 850 in the Galaxy A13 4G, this is certainly a very significant improvement. For comparison, the Exynos 850 scores about 145,000 points in AnTuTu 9, while the Helio G80 scores 230,000 points. True, the same Exynos 1330 is gaining more than 410,000 points, so the difference between the A14 4G and 5G versions in performance is enormous.
The screen of the Galaxy A14 4G will retain the size of 6.6 inches, Full HD + resolution, but there will be no increased frame rate, like the A14 5G. The battery with a capacity of 5000 mAh, the main 50-megapixel camera, 4 GB of RAM, 64 GB of flash memory will also remain, but charging will be only 10-watt. But the smartphone will receive stereo speakers.
The novelty will be released at the end of March. In Eastern Europe, they will ask for 200 euros for it.
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