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Samsung Marketing – Galaxy S21 Virtual Pre-Order Waiting Room Opened
Like in Pirates of the Caribbean.
– “This is the key!”
– “No, something better. This is a drawing of a key. ”
Warning: the action is carried out by Samsung stores in the US.
Pre-ordering is a strange thing in itself, when you seem to have already bought an item, but you don’t know when it will get to you. And Samsung marketers decided to go even further. And they offer customers to book a slot for pre-order for free. Those. the user, even before the official announcement of the device, we are talking about the Galaxy S21 line, must provide his data in order to receive a notification about the start of pre-order. In general, the idea is probably not new, but quite interesting.
However, several questions arise. Pre-order bookings are limited, according to Samsung. Are Galaxy S21 smartphones so small that they will repeat the fate of the iPhone 12, PS5 and Xbox Series X, or God forbid, Nvidia RTX 30? In addition, future buyers, and so it is necessary to wait for the announcement, January 14, then pre-order, from January 15 to 26, then wait for delivery. And to all this “wait” one more thing is added. Somehow this is not very fair to Samsung fans. In general, who cares link to the pre-order booking page. And so, we are waiting for the middle of January 2021.
Source: engadget
Arm has announced a new family of GPUs aimed at the next generation of gaming smartphones. The first solution was a GPU called Immortalis-G715. This is a model that offers hardware accelerated ray tracing. At the same time, it was noted that the G715 will not replace the solutions of the Mali series.
Along with this, the company also introduced two new Mali GPUs with many improvements. For example, they support Variable Rate Shading (VRS) and other technologies, and offer 15% better performance and improved energy efficiency than previous models.
Arm didn’t say much about ray tracing in the Immortalis-G715. So far, no tests or full-fledged comparisons have been presented, so it is not yet possible to assess the quality of work and the number of frames per second. At the same time, ready-made solutions will have to wait until 2023. However, Arm still shared a video that demonstrates the capabilities of the new graphics solution.
Previously, a new super-powerful Cortex-X3 processor core was reported. Less productive solutions were also presented.
Phones
If you want to buy a smart watch for the iPhone, but not an Apple Watch. Wear OS 3 supports iOS even though the Samsung Galaxy Watch 4 doesn’t
iPhone users who for some reason don’t like Apple smartwatches will be able to use new models based on Wear OS.
The first and so far the only watch on Wear OS 3 is the Samsung Galaxy Watch 4. And it doesn’t work with iOS. But apparently this is an artificial limitation on Samsung’s part, as it has now become known that Wear OS 3 itself can work with iOS.
Qualcomm confirmed this by saying that the upcoming Montblanc Summit 3 watch will be compatible with the iPhone. This watch will be the first with Wear OS 3 after Samsung devices. True, it will be an expensive $1,290 watch, but there should be many more Wear OS 3 models on the market this year, so iPhone owners will have a choice.
Phones
Apple has not been able to create its own 5G modem yet. The company will continue to use Qualcomm modems in the iPhone 14 and iPhone 15 lines
Apple has yet to make headway in building its own 5G cellular modem for its smartphones and tablets.
Analyst Ming-Chi Kuo claims that Qualcomm will remain the only supplier of 5G modems not only for the upcoming iPhone 14 smartphones, but also for the iPhone 15 line. That is, Apple is clearly far from the final stage in its work on its own modem .
Kuo believes that Apple will not give up on this idea and continue development, but it is not yet clear when the modem will be ready. In any case, before the launch of 6G networks, Apple has many more years. In addition, a six-year agreement between Apple and Qualcomm obliges the former to use modems by the second minimum until 2024.
It is expected that this year Apple smartphones will use the Snapdragon X65 modem, and next it will be the Snapdragon X70.
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