Overview: Huawei P20 creates its own smartphone category

Text and photos by Emily Chung

The new Huawei P20 and P20Pro have come out as  solutions for consumers who want the high quality photos of a digital camera within their smartphone. This is one of the first AI powered camera available in a smartphone, and Huawei makes it very clear that it’s not trying to compete in the traditional smartphone category. They’ve gone beyond that, offering Leica’s triple camera system on the P20 Pro.

This system also achieved the highest overall DxOMark Score of 109. Huawei is making the distinction between their ‘professional photography’ versus ‘smartphone photography’ that's available with other brands.

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Overview: PlayStation VR

By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

PlayStation’s take on the Virtual Reality (VR) experience is a notable ‘tweener’ solution that sits right in between the high end tower-hungry PC-based rigs like Oculus Rift and the more popular HTC Vive and the smartphone-powered VR experiences like Google Daydream and Samsung’s Gear VR. 

The great thing about PlayStation VR is that if you already own a PS4, you’re halfway there. The addition of the VR Headset, controllers, camera and connector box is all you need to jump head first into the immersive and awe-inspiring VR experiences.

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SourceCode: Some facts about Windows 10

By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

I just went through a 30 minute overview briefing on Windows 10 with Marc Aube, Windows 10 Launch Lead at Microsoft Canada and have learned what this latest version has in store when it comes to market on July 29th.

Windows 10 is an important release for Microsoft, not just because it is a unifying OS that's designed to run on a variety of devices but also because Microsoft hopes it will convert millions of users who are still on older and unsupported versions (such as Windows 7 and earlier). Microsoft's target is to get 1 billon devices running on Windows 10. Hit jump for more interesting facts about Windows 10.

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Apple Beat: WWDC 2014 is about extending the ecosystems

Text and photos by Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla 

Today’s WWDC Keynote, the 25^th of a series, saw Apple going back to its roots as one of the most innovative software companies in the business. The event was a frills-free, hardware-free ode to the developer community and it celebrated the coming of age of iOS as well as the ascension of OS X as one of the best designed and most interoperable desktop operating systems in the market today.

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