Asus ROG Phone 8 Pro's India price revealed

Asus unveiled the ROG Phone 8 and ROG Phone 8 Pro yesterday at the ongoing CES 2024. The announcement only included the US and European prices of the lineup, but we now know how much the Pro model will cost in India. The Asus ROG Phone 8 Pro comes in a single Phantom Black color with two memory options - 16GB/512GB and 24GB/1TB, priced at INR94,999 ($1,140/€1,045) and INR119,999 ($1,440/€1,320), respectively. The 24GB RAM version, called Asus ROG Phone 8 Pro Edition, will come bundled with the ROG AeroActive Cooler X, which will also be available for purchase separately for INR5,999...

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Intel announces new 14th gen Core HX and non-K Core desktop CPUs

Intel has announced a bevy of new chips for desktop and notebook devices at CES 2024 as part of its 14th generation of lineup. The company also announced a new Core U series for thin and light machines. Starting off, there is the new 14th gen flagship HX series, which includes five new chips, lead by the flagship i9-14900HX at the top. These are based on the refreshed Raptor Lake architecture, which is essentially the same as the 13th gen but with higher clock speeds. They also include support for Thunderbolt 5, Wi-Fi 7, and Bluetooth 5.4. i9-14900HX ...

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Google announces unified Quick Share system for Android in partnership with Samsung

Google unveiled a bunch of new features today at CES. Taking the cake is probably the new Quick Share system, developed in partnership with Samsung. This will replace Google's Nearby Share, introduced in 2020. It's interesting to see Google adopt Samsung's naming for what used to be its own similar service. The new Quick Share is billed as the best of both worlds. Google says it's "integrated the experiences" with Samsung and thus created the best default, built-in option for peer-to-peer content sharing across all types of devices that run Android or Chrome OS. Moreover, the...

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Samsung unveils 3,500 ppi screen for XR headsets

Today, among many other things, Samsung also unveiled a brand new screen for XR headsets, which features a very interesting technology: OLEDoS, or OLED on Silicon. This is apparently the world's first OLEDoS display with an RGB sub-pixel structure. It's created by applying organic materials onto a silicon wafer. It's 1.03" in diagonal, and square, and the company promises it has a whopping 3,500 ppi. While Samsung hasn't mentioned the resolution, some quick math shows it to be about 2,550 x 2,550. XR headsets would of course use two of these, one per each eye. As this doesn't need a...

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