Huawei has reportedly already shipped 1 million devices with its HongMeng OS

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As expected, Huawei isn’t waiting around for whether the US is going to lift its trade ban against the company. According to the firm Rosenblatt Securities, the Chinese company has shipped one million smartphones carrying its own operating system called HongMeng, which literally translates to Red Dream. It hasn’t been clarified if these phones are market-available products or development products. But the report claims Huawei’s in-house OS works with all Android apps and has “increased security functions to protect personal data.”

According to the China Daily website, Huawei CEO for its consumer business group Richard Yu said the OS “will be available as early as this fall or next spring at the latest.” And the company is preparing to install it on anything that needs an OS—whether that be a smartphone, PC, tablet, car, wearable device, TV, etc. The HongMeng OS has been in the pipeline for years, and it’s said the “HongMeng” trademark is already being acquired at multiple markets, including Canada, Mexico, Europe, and South Korea. As the trade ban reprieve is set to expire soon, we should expect to hear more about Huawei’s plans for its own OS in the coming weeks (or even days).

Source: GSMArena

You might be able to operate the Pixel 4 with hand gestures thanks to the Project Soli chip

Project Soli was first demoed by Google back at I/O in 2016 (you can check out the video above). The radar-based motion sensors will let you operate phones, smartwatches, and even smart speakers by using hand gestures. Now, reports suggest the Project Soli chip will be showing up in the upcoming Google Pixel 4 phone. In December 2018, Google got approval from the Federal Communications Commission to deploy and operate Project Soli sensors at high power levels and even aboard an aircraft, citing the fact that this will “serve the public interest.” The company applied for the waiver in March 2018 to let them capture motion in a 3D space using a radar beam, allowing for the touchless control of devices.

Is this just going to be a different take on what LG has tried to bring back with the G8 ThinQ? Would you want this on your next Pixel phone? The Pixel 4 is slated to come out in October, so we should hear more about this soon.

Source: CNET

‘The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild’ is getting a sequel

At the end of its E3 presentation, Nintendo made a surprise announcement. There will be a sequel to The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. The developer showed off a teaser for the game, which you can see above. It shows the return of the Link and Zelda from the previous title exploring a cave. There they encounter what looks like the corpse of Ganondorf beneath Hyrule Castle. What we don’t know is when the game is coming out.

Ubisoft releases preview of new roller derby game, ‘Roller Champions’

One of Ubisoft’s new announcements at E3 2019 is a new roller derby game called Roller Champions. And there’s a PC-only pre-alpha preview that’s playable until June 14^th. The game will launch in early 2020 on a free-to-play model. The developers describe the game as a team-based, player-versus-player sports game where the players need to work their way up from street derby leagues to championships. The pre-alpha version of the game features two arenas and six playable characters that will be grouped in teams of three.

Source: The Verge