Samsung’s phone setup is confusing. Even if you can keep the Galaxy S, Galaxy Note and Galaxy A series all separately in your head (the Galaxy S and Note families are certainly busy with a screen-sized tour war at the moment), let’s add further confusion with the latest leak .
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The Galaxy S20 Fan Edition that was unveiled this weekend is not another cheaper Galaxy A phone, nor is it a Galaxy S20 Lite – I think? The rumored device will still pack a multi-camera array, a large screen and what you would probably expect from a midrange phone. Just expect less premium features, like lower resolution cameras, even if you can still get the sleek 120Hz display like the original S20.
You may not even have to make a choice: This phone may never appear in its current state or even make it to the US. Rest assured, the coronavirus pandemic has not stopped Samsung from dealing with countless permutations of its smartphones.
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Instagram is starting to merge conversations with Facebook Messenger
Not that you can expect it to work, though.
Facebook, which owns Instagram and WhatsApp, is crawling to unify its multi-million dollar apps and services, whether you like it or not. Reports over the weekend suggest that Instagram offers the ability to message “friends who use Facebook” via Messenger.
While the drawing paper airplane icon for DMs has been replaced by the Messenger logo, I can not only notify Facebook friends yet, suggesting that the announcement may have come a little early. Continue reading.
Play the rare arcade version of ‘Quake’ on PC
No arcade cabinet needed.
As Quake with the latest ray-tracing graphics doing absolutely nothing for you, you may want to go back in time to 1998. The arcade edition of the 3D shooter, which most of us have probably never played, is now playable on your PC, with some help from Github.
Quake Arcade Tournament Edition was a light spin on the original game from id Software. It included the familiar single and multiplayer elements, and you could even play deathmatch rounds if there were multiple chests. It also included random “instaprize” gift boxes that will issue tokens for gifts around the world. Continue reading.
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Even older laptops can be problematic.
A report by Axios points to acute shortage of laptop as we move into the back-to-school season, especially for Chromebooks. Acer America President Gregg Prendergast warned that his company was “not even close” to providing enough Chrome OS laptops to support virtual classrooms. Acer has also just received government applications for “hundreds of thousands” of devices in California and Nevada.
Meanwhile, NPD Group analyst Stephen Baker also warned that laptop sales have been up 20 to 40 percent “every week”, and a cursory check from Best Buy’s site found that 24 of 28 cheap (under $ 400) Chromebooks were sold out.
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