The publication claims the company has already begun working on its next flagship series under the alleged project name “DM”, with two sub-projects currently under active development. These are given the designation of DM1 and DM3, which TheElec believes are the respective codenames for the standard and Ultra variants of the Samsung Galaxy S24 smartphone line up. As you can already tell, mysteriously missing from the list is DM2, which is presumed to be the Plus model....

This morning, Samsung has announced that the third Unpacked event of 2021 will take place on 28 April. As per tradition, the company has also published a trailer for it: At first, it is hard to guess the product that is being referred to by the trailer although it seems to be pointing to a device with a clamshell form factor. The only real clue is that the Unpacked event will be featuring “the most powerful Galaxy,”....

The tablet’s announcement comes well ahead of MWC 2019. For context, Samsung would usually announce new smartphones and other mobile devices – such as tablets – during the convention in Barcelona, Spain. Specs-wise, the Galaxy Tab S5e isn’t decked out with the market’s most premium hardware. It comes with a Qualcomm Snapdragon 670 SoC, a RAM and storage choice between 4GB/64GB or 6GB/128GB. The storage is, by the way, expandable up to 512GB via microSD card....

According to Business Korea, Samsung has reportedly already taken its first steps towards its goal of becoming the top dog Android processor maker by teaming up with two tech giants, AMD and ARM. Samsung’s alleged partnership with AMD honestly comes as no surprise; back in June last year, AMD announced that it would be providing Samsung with its RDNA GPU technology for all its upcoming Exynos chipsets. It’s an area that Samsung’s Exynos SoCs has struggled with, and if the leaked performance metrics of its new RDNA-powered SoC are to be believed, it’s safe to say that Qualcomm could be forced to up its own game in that sector too....

Alongside the announcement, Sega also released a five-minute trailer for Lost Judgment. And it gives off the very typical Japanese police drama vibes, which is a good thing if you haven’t watched many of those. And it looks like it will be larger than the first game, while keeping the wacky combat that the first made use of. — RGG Studio (@RGGStudio) May 7, 2021 Also, in Lost Judgment, returning protagonist Takayuki Yagami will also be going undercover at a high school as part of the story....

Foreign vehicles are required to obtain a VEP before they are allowed to enter Singapore and according to the LTA, they have received 120,000 applications to date. Of that amount, about 50,000 applicants have received the outcomes of their applications ahead of the stated processing time while the organisation assures that the remaining applicants can expect the results within three weeks. Previously, the LTA said it had received around 76,000 VEP applications as of 7 April, which is apparently six times the weekly average before the land borders were closed....

Commenting on the decision, Snapchat’s head of messaging product Nathan Boyd says a web version of the service is necessary as its users are using desktop computers more frequently. In addition, users are provided with extra space to chat and call in the same web browser window, which eliminates the limitations of the platform’s mobile app. Further, Snapchat believes that the move could also allow it to replicate the experience of other apps like Discord, where users can engage with each other in voice or video chats while doing other activities online....

The comparison is certainly not doing the latter any favours. Going back to the document that SIE filed with the UK CMA, specifically on page six of the document, the company says that “Call of Duty is not replicable”. The company will go on to say that the series has been the top-selling game for “almost every year in the last decade”, and by far the most successful of the FPS genre....

“I don’t think demand is calming down this year and even if we secure a lot more devices and produce many more units of the PlayStation 5 next year, our supply wouldn’t be able to catch up with demand,” Sony Chief Financial Officer Hiroki Totoki told analysts, according to a Bloomberg report citing anonymous sources. In April, the electronics giant announced it had sold 7.8 million units of the highly anticipated console through 31 March....

On its official Facebook Page, Sony Malaysia has said that the Midnight Black and Cosmic Red PS5 console covers are now available at Sony Stores and authorised retailers. The post also lists its own official store, as well as its stores on Lazada and Shopee. Going to each of them indicates that the faceplates are priced at RM259. But a fair deal of them are also listed as being sold out, at least at the time of writing....

But one of the things he shared spelled a grim future for the Xperia Compact line of phones. Mesa told Digital Trends, “We stuck with Compact for a very long time, because of the ease of use. There’s always room for different sizes, but people want a lot more surface area for their content now.” Truth to be told, Sony Xperia Compact devices were among the very few that maintained a form factor that’s closer to five inches....

Known as Gran Turismo Sophy, the AI is made to be the best driver possible in the series. It has all the racing basics down pat, from racing lines to taking split second overtaking opportunities. And it does this while maintaining racing etiquette, so it won’t be ramming others off track or cut corners. Though that last one may be up for debate, if you watch some of the demonstrations of the AI driving....

It’s no secret that the reception of Sony’s Xperia lineup in its current form has been less than stellar, especially when its put up against other major, powerhouse brands like Samsung and Apple. However, with the Xperia 1 IV, it seems like the Japanese electronics brand is hoping to disrupt the smartphone camera market again by introducing something most of its rivals’ phones don’t have: continuous optical zoom. The question then is: does that particular digital camera function actually make the Xperia 1 IV worth splurging RM6000 for or is it, like most other devices, just a passing gimmick?...

The Xperia 5 IV looks almost indistinguishable from its predecessor, with a 6.1-inch OLED display and a 120Hz refresh rate, although it is now 50% brighter, or so Sony claims. The phone is protected by Corning Gorilla Glass Victus on both sides and retains IP68 water and dust resistance. Under the hood, the phone runs on the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 chipset from Qualcomm, together with 8GB of RAM, 128GB of storage, and a microSD card slot for storage expansion up to 1TB....

The video render was uploaded on YouTube by serial “render specialist” TechConfigurations. In it, the renders show what the specialist believes might possibly be the final outlook of Sony’s next generation flagship smartphone. Based on whatever information has been released about the phone to-date. On that note, the phone video render does seem to include most of the features that we’ve reported before. For a start, there’s the rumoured triple main camera setup that’s built into the back of the phone....

The leaked benchmark score for the phone, according to GizChina, belongs to the AnTuTu benchmark program, and shows that the phone scored a whopping 395721. Way higher than what current high-end chipsets are capable of. And that includes Huawei’s Kirin 980 SoC. The new high score also points to the possibility that the Xperia XZ4 could be sporting Qualcomm’s new Snapdragon 855 SoC. Even then, the score is significantly higher than the chipset’s initial benchmarks when it was still internally referred to as the Snapdragon 8150....

The specs sheet was reportedly picked off either from the Chinese or Taiwanese edition of Sony Mobile’s official site. It’s unsurprising that the specs sheet shows that the Xperia XZ4 will be housing new Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 SoC. What is actually interesting is the rest of the hardware that the phone will supposedly ship out with. If the information is valid, then the Xperia XZ4 will be carrying 6GB RAM, 128GB of expandable storage (up to 512GB via microSDXC), and weigh in at 191g....

Sources told Bloomberg that the changes will be implemented by the second quarter of this year. Developer Steve Moser also informed the news outlet that evidence of the change was found in the beta version of Spotify’s iOS app. According to reporter Ashley Carman, the Greenroom app will live on as a backend for creators to organise their content to upload to Spotify. This isn’t the first time the platform has gone through rebranding as it was initially known as Locker Room before it was acquired by the streaming giant and later relaunched as Greenroom....

That said, while the yellow lightsaber is unique to the big screen, it’s something we’ve seen before in the extended Star Wars canon, namely in the animated series The Clone Wars. There a group within the Jedi Order known as the Sentinels (a school of thought that sought a balance between practical skills and knowledge of the Force) wielded yellow lightsabers. Interestingly enough, a new Star Wars comic has revealed that Luke Skywalker too once wielded a yellow lightsaber....

In an interview with IGN, Valve’s Pierre-Loup Griffais explains that the Steam Deck is targeting 30fps gameplay at its native resolution of 800p. He explains that the company has tested the device with all the games released this year, and it managed to run them “without issues”. He also attributes “industry trends” of favouring stable framerates over high resolutions as being in the handheld’s favour. Which is quite a thing to say, considering both metrics are just about a single step below what gamers would call the standard....