Month: September 2022

Redmi K60: will it come with Dynamic Island?
Rumours speculate that this flagship smartphone line-up will be available no earlier than 2023. In fact, information reports a debut for early next year. There should be models with Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1 and devices with Snapdragon 8 Gen 2. Unfortunately, the leaks end there.

Apple introduced the new iPhone 14 Pro and 14 Pro Max a few weeks ago with this unprecedented feature: the notch gives way to the Dynamic Island, an interactive system that features selfies, sensors and a pop-up notification system that changes size depending on the app. It is now only compatible with system apps and some third-party software, but should be compatible with all programmes in the future.

To date, the full list of compatible apps has been made public by the youtuber MKBHD; the guy also demonstrated how all the dynamic island options work. According to him, ‘in the coming months, many Android OEMs will copy this feature’.

Packaging and content
Apple’s packaging is familiar. Apart from the iPhone, all we find is the USB-C to Lightning cable and an Apple sticker.

Materials design and touch-and-feel
The materials of the Pro are glass and steel instead of aluminium, compared to which it is stronger but also heavier. The thickness is 7.9 millimetres and the weight 206 grams, but in the hand it holds well, the dimensions are just right and the grip is there.

Yes, we can finally say it for an iPhone too: the always-on display is there! Regarding connectivity we find 5G, WiFi 6, Bluetooth 5.3, dual-band GPS and, in the US only, satellite service to send emergency calls.

Display
The display is a 6.1-inch LTPO OLED with 120Hz refresh rate, Dolby Vision, and a peak brightness of 2,000 nits, which is flawless when set to minimum and is always clearly visible when set to maximum, even in direct sunlight, the sensor adjusting it automatically being dual. In short I would say the best display ever seen on an iPhone, on a par with Samsung’s tops with the only flaw, common to the iPhone 13 Pro, that when it gets really hot it goes into a sort of protection mode and reduces the maximum brightness.

Processor and memory
The processor is Apple’s 4nm A16 Bionic flanked by 6GB of RAM and 128, 256, 512GB or 1TB of non-expandable internal storage.

Battery
The battery is a 3,200mAh 12.4 Wh that charges at 20W, 50% in 30 minutes, or wirelessly at 15W. It might seem small, but combined with the new 4nm A16 chip and iOS 16 optimisation the result is great, reaching the end of my stress day with still 25/30% or 15% if we keep always-on.

Software and ecosystem
iOS 16 has several new features that we have already talked about but the real innovation here, both hardware and software is the Dynamic Island. Apple has managed to turn what would be a classic and ugly hole in the display into something pleasant or even useful. Useful because this ‘island’ that expands and adapts to incoming notifications or the main info of apps running in the background shows information that was previously not shown, or in any case makes it accessible only with a touch, acting as a shortcut.

Phone department
The phone department is excellent both in terms of reception and audio quality, whether capsule or speakerphone. What is really anachronistic now is the dialer, which does not allow a quick search among contacts and does not warn of possible SPAM numbers.

First of all, the first piece of advice we give you before you even get your hands on the settings of your PCs and smart devices, is trivially to perform a connection test, so that you can see what problems you are experiencing in both download and, possibly, upload. For this, we recommend Ookla’s Speedtest, which can be used free of charge at this address.

One of the first solutions you can possibly adopt in the event of a slow connection is to change the DNS servers, i.e. those servers responsible for translating the nodes of the network into IP addresses. If you have Windows as your operating system, simply go to ‘Network and Internet’ and change the value of the DNS parameter, filling it in with the following value, “8.8.8.8/8.8.4.4″, which corresponds to Google’s DNS.

If you have a MacBook with the MacOS operating system, on the other hand, you will need to go to Preferences, click on Network, continue on Advanced, and change the DNS parameter, both primary and secondary, again with the value 8.8.8.8/8.8.4.4 mentioned above. Changing the Wi-Fi channel can also be a good solution to avoid interference that would significantly slow down your Internet connection. In this case, you will need to turn to the settings of your router (reachable by entering the address 192.168.1.1 in the search bar of your browser).

If you use your wireless device far away from your home router (perhaps on a different floor from where the router itself is located), it is useful to make use of a wireless repeater, which connects to the router and extends the Wi-Fi connection, avoiding the risk of slowing it down due to distance. Even between browsers, surfing speed changes. If you are using Internet Explorer, for example, our advice is to try switching to Google Chrome, which allows you to open web pages faster.

The closure towards Nvidia, reported by Gamers Nexus and other sources close to the PC gaming hardware industry, has been explained with a number of points, which basically concern the actual sustainability of the production and sale of these cards. Reportedly, the problem concerns the inability to find better commercial agreements with Nvidia.

The Founder’s Editions of Nvidia GPUs cost less than EVGA models, and the latter cannot lower their prices too much and overlap with those offered by Nvidia due to legal agreements imposed by the video architecture company.

The inability to better regulate the price of the cards is reflected in substantial losses for EVGA, which is reportedly losing “hundreds of dollars” per card brought to market, prompting the abandonment of Nvidia’s GPU business despite the fact that it constitutes the vast majority of EVGA’s business.

iOS 16 has arrived, and in these early hours users are doing a lot of tinkering, especially with the new Lock screen.

One of the many new features is the ability to add widgets, both above and below the clock, and in this article we want to review the main applications that have already been updated to offer such widgets.

Lockscreen widgets are very convenient and will be even more so with iPhone 14 Pro because they will be visible even when the screen is turned off and will allow you to have various information at your fingertips, without even having to light up the screen. So download the applications that are right for you.