Understanding HDR: cameras and displays

HDR. You may have come across this term several times, perhaps even in the course of just today. It seems it is everywhere now and everyone is talking about it. But what is HDR? It's in your TV, it's in your phone. It may even be in your camera but is that even the same? And what even is color gamut? What do people mean when they say "whites are whiter and blacks are blacker" and who is this Dolby Vision person? It's time to find all that out. Understanding Dynamic Range To understand HDR or High Dynamic Range, we must first understand dynamic range. Dynamic range of anything is the...

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Samsung Galaxy Note8 review

The Note8 is here and we can't help but feel the tension rising, especially in Europe where this is the first Note device to officially land in two years. Some time it's been, so a lot is riding on the Galaxy Note8.

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Asus Zenfone V is official: 5.2" FullHD display, 23MP camera, Snapdragon 820

Asus has launched the Zenfone V in the US, and that might be the Zenfone 5 in Apple-speak, but here it's [vee] for Verizon. The carrier-exclusive smartphone isn't a rebadged version of an existing one, but rather a new device with a model name V520KL. The Zenfone V is built around a 5.2-inch FullHD AMOLED display - Asus doesn't make all that many phones with AMOLEDs. Even fewer have the Snapdragon 820 at the helm, just the Zenfone 3 Deluxe, and now this Zenfone V. Probably that's where the primary camera comes from too - a 23MP unit with an f/2.0 aperture lens and...

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Samsung's latest Galaxy Note8 ad has nothing to do with productivity

Samsung's Galaxy Note8 has just gone live in 42 countries on Friday and Samsung has released its first full-length television ad for it. What better way to appeal to an audience by invoking emotion? In the newest Galaxy Note8 ad, love is the theme and two actors portray a brand-new couple who are figuring out their feelings for each other. The couple communicates with each other using the new Live Messages feature, which offers a more personal touch to messages. By the end of the ad, the viewer becomes emotionally involved with the couple, in which the girl sends a message to the...

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Apple won't be able to match iPhone X demand this year, analyst predicts

Pre-orders are open for the iPhone 8 and in some markets shipping delays are already to be expected. Well, if the plain iPhone 8 and 8 Plus are so sought after, it would come as no surprise if Apple ends up unable to meet demand for the iPhone X later this year, as Ming-Chi Kuo predicts. A common source of intel on all things Apple, the analyst from KGI Securities expects that 40 million iPhone X units to be sold by the end of the year, but that would still leave some folks wanting a bezelless iPhone without one. That, however, would simply translate into sales next year, for a...

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Essential PH-1 now officially supported on Verizon

Just after Essential hosted an AMA on Reddit where customers and fans asked their most riveting questions about the smartphone startup, Andy Rubin confirmed that the Essential PH-1 is now officially compatible with Verizon's network. Wouldn't you know it, Andy Rubin tweeted out the following on Friday evening. Update: Verizon certification complete. Thanks for your patience. Might need to reboot your phone. Happy Friday!— Andy Rubin (@Arubin) September 16, 2017 In fact, just Thursday, Andy Rubin replied to a question in Essential's Reddit AMA about Verizon compatibility by...

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