Weekly poll results: second screens are loved, as long as they don't cost too much

Dual screens are a potential solution to the selfie camera craziness - no notches, holes, sliders, pop-ups and so on, just use the rear camera and the second display as a viewfinder. In last week's poll dual screens proved more popular than foldable phones. Even a small second screen is fine, though there's a clear preference for larger panels. That said, a surprising number of people commented that they don't care about selfies and especially video calls. Well, we guess that should worry Instagram's management more so than phone makers. Anyway, by far the most popular option was...

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Counterclockwise: remembering the Doom ports on mobile phones

Once upon a time Doom was installed on more computers than Windows 95. Microsoft tried porting the game to boost the popularity of its new OS (an effort lead by one Gabe Newell), but Doom would be ported to just about every platform you can think of - including many phones. Our story begins before app stores were popular and worse, there were so many mobile operating systems. So this was a bit more complicated than putting a game up on the Google Play Store and the Apple App Store. CDoom was one of the earlier ports, published in 2001 for the Nokia 9210 Communicator (9210i and 9210c as...

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Budget Galaxy S10 pictured with a case, flat screen design confirmed

Samsung is doing a bold move by introducing a budget Galaxy S10 next year along with the regular premium versions and we've known for a while now that it's going to miss on the in-display fingerprint reader and will probably have a flat screen design to keep the cost low. Galaxy S10 Lite case renders The latest renders of the device further confirm the theory and show the device with a side-mounted fingerprint scanner and a flat screen design. We haven't seen those on a flagship Galaxy smartphone since forever. But while it skips a couple of cool features, the S10 Lite still...

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Japan also planning to stop using Huawei and ZTE equipment

Huawei and ZTE have been no strangers to security and espionage scandals in recent years. And while it is hard to fully grasp the whole picture and accurately judge on any of the official accusations, it is already pretty clear that the two Chinese corporations are under direct fire by the USA. In fact, things have been unraveling very rapidly on an international scale for the pair, with many other countries, including Australia, New Zealand and the UK taking preemptive steps of their own. Considering all this, plus the recent arrest of Huawei CFO it really comes as no surprise to...

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Google Phone app gets redesigned interface, it's all circles now

Google's been redesigning the interface of its software across platforms rounding off sharp corners wherever possible - just look at the address bar of the Chrome browser you're probably reading this on. The push for circles is now finally fully embraced on the company's Phone app for Android, too. Old vs. New The Favorites tab of the default dialer app on Pixel phones had two contacts per row until now, while the other tabs had already switched to circles. The latest update brings consistency between the tabs with circles, circles everywhere, and the contacts are now three in...

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Samsung's Galaxy S10-series screen sizes revealed

The famous leakster Evan Blass just published three renders that are supposed to be the upcoming Galaxy S10 lineup from Samsung. However, the post explicitly states that the images are based on a case manufacturer's expectations. According to the renders, the smallest and most affordable S10 Lite would have a 5.8-inch display with a punch hole for the camera in the middle while the regular S10 will sport a 6.1-inch panel with the same front-facing camera design. A case manufacturer's expectations for the Galaxy S10 lineup: pic.twitter.com/lrExjvalcb— Evan Blass (@evleaks) December 8,...

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