Low-end Motorola handset gets 3C and TENAA certifications

Motorola will probably announce a bunch of new smartphones very soon, judging by all the certifications lately. The supposed Motorola Edge 40 Pro passed through TENAA and FCC this month, which will likely be accompanied by the vanilla Motorola Edge 40 as well. Today, 3C and TENAA listings surfaced, suggesting a third, another Motorola … Read more

World of Warcraft, Overwatch, and more Blizzard games will stop working in China in January

In a rather shocking turn of events, Blizzard has announced that come January 23, 2023, most of its games will stop working in China. This is a consequence of the company not renewing its 14-year-old licensing agreement for the Chinese market with NetEase, the second-largest gaming company in that country. Games such as World … Read more

Qualcomm unveils new Bluetooth LE Audio chips and platform for AR glasses

Qualcomm unveiled the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 and among all the performance figures were notes on much-improved Bluetooth audio. Here is the other half of that equation – the Qualcomm S3 and S5 Gen 2 chips for wireless headsets. There is a new platform for wearables, AR glasses in particular, that was also unveiled … Read more

Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 unveiled: faster, more efficient, with ray tracing and Wi-Fi 7

Today the Qualcomm team unveiled its new flagship – the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 chipset. Performance has been improved on all fronts compared to the Gen 1 model – performance that we will soon experience as the first devices based on the Gen 2 are just around the corner. This chip is formally known … Read more

Flashback: the Nokia X series or how the Android dream turned into a short snooze

You may have heard the tragic story of the Microsoft Kin devices – a whole new mobile platform was launched and discontinued in just 48 days. Today we want to revisit one of Microsoft’s slightly more successful mobile projects. Granted, that’s one of the lowest bars for success to be cleared. Do you remember … Read more