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With any at scale and closely watched hardware launch, hardware defects and other problems will come to light as more people receive devices. For example, some Pixel 3a owners over the weekend reported random shutdowns, while others are now encountering crooked cutouts for the USB-C and speaker grill. Erica Griffin this evening shared a picture…
Pixels have always had a considerable amount of issues, making some phone enthusiasts wary of them. We’ve even dedicated an unofficial bug tracker for the Pixel 3 here at Android Police to monitor the problems we’ve encountered. With the Pixel 3a and 3a XL being far from Google’s first attempt at smartphone manufacturing, we’ve been…
Continuing with the bad news for Intel, Linux-specialist site Phoronix ran tests showing that the patches can significantly impact performance. Intel machines ran 16 percent slower on average with the new updates installed and hyper-threading enabled, compared to a 3 percent hit on AMD chips.To make matters worse, Apple and Google have advised Intel users…
Photo: Kevork Djansezian (Getty)It was a surprise to say the least last week when news broke of a vague agreement between Microsoft and Sony—normally arch rivals in the console gaming space—to team up on “new cloud-based solutions for gaming experiences”. If you think you were shocked, though, spare a thought for the PlayStation team.According to…
The Galaxy Watch Active is a pretty solid piece of wearable equipment, bringing together the best of the smartwatch and fitness band worlds, but obviously, it’s not for everyone. Not when Samsung still sells the crazy popular Gear S3, not to mention the “regular” Galaxy Watch that barely saw daylight last year.Apart from a significantly…