News & Reviews:   future tech

A social media post by tech evangelist Robert Scoble states that Apple and Carl Zeiss are apparently teaming up to produce their own Augmented Reality glasses for the masses. Something akin to the Google Glass, the Apple AR glass may add a more immersive experience to the users of the iOS ecosystem.

A new patent that was filed by Samsung suggest that not only the company is hard at work making flexible screen displays, they are also seems to incorporate proven technologies used in new ways for their upcoming designs.

We are still looking and waiting for the foldable smartphone to come to fruition. We expect Samsung to be the first company to bring the foldable smartphone to the market – but according to a new patent filed by them, we may see a foldable tablet first instead.

A new technology was just announced by the maker of Snapdragon processor. Qualcomm announced the new Clear Sight dual camera processing tech, supported on the Snapdragon 820 and 821, which promises better images out of the box.

The upcoming Xiaomi Mi Note 2 is expected to announced and launched within the month of September, so we are looking forward to see how it is like in our hands soon. One of the reason is because a new report that came out recently suggests that the new device from Xiaomi may have 3D Touch technology built in.

We are in the midst of the big recall by Samsung, thanks to their Galaxy Note 7 – but that doesn’t mean the company is sitting still not doing anything. A new patent recently discovered may have revealed their next target – to run both Android and Windows 10 Phone in one single device.

Not wanting to rest on its laurels, ZTE is now hard at work in designing their next smartphone to be released worldwide. What makes it special however is the way they are getting the ideas. Project CSX is ZTE’s latest initiative for smartphone design, and they are asking help from the public to pitch in ideas on what they should build next.

Softbank, one of the world’s largest telecommunication conglomerate, just announced that they will agree to invest in ARM for USD 32 billion (~RM 127 billion). Just as a recap, ARM is the company that creates the basic chip building blocks for just about every mobile chipmaker out there.

We have seen the Sony Xperia X line of models in Malaysia – the Sony Xperia X, Sony Xperia XA and the Sony Xperia XA Ultra. We even tested one of them, with a bit of a bitter aftertaste in our mouth. Now though a new sighting of a new Sony Xperia design phone is putting our hopes back up for the Japanese company.