Review: Huawei Mate 20 Pro

By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

The Mate 20 pro isn’t a one or two feature update. It’s a revelation of innovation from a company that’s well poised to grab the smartphone market from today’s incumbents.

We’ve seen most of the expected flagship smartphone releases for 2018 and while many have been iterative and rather predictable, we’ve seen an overall increase in pricing and focus on the premium market.

What we haven’t seen much of this year is raw innovation. Smartphones with features that are so dramatically different, or better than the run of the mill, that they really deserve closer scrutiny.

Let’s face it, the latest flagship smartphones are more expensive, but they offer nominal upgrades and capabilities from previous versions. As consumers, we’ve been lulled into thinking that this is okay.

Then the Huawei Mate 20 Pro comes along and demands our attention and forces us to completely rethink how we look at today’s flagship smartphones.

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Insight Canada now allows corporate employees option to choose Apple products

Insight Canada will enable enterprises to offer employees choice to easily and cost-effectively deploy, secure and maintain iOS and macOS devices with its just lauched Insight Managed Services for Apple. Along with the new program, Insight Canada will now offer iPhone to customers, in addition to Mac and iPad.

Given that most employees are familiar with or prefer to use macOS and iOS products from Apple for personal use, making these an option for corporate deployment should help them be productive within familiar ecosystems.

“Apple users are passionate about iPhone, iPad and Mac, and companies need to be able to deliver the best experience at work,” said John Dathan, senior vice president and general manager, Insight Canada.

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Samsung tipped to be showing off its bendable smartphone at developer conference today

By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

Samsung is expected to give developers a peek into the future by revealing its foldable smartphone concept at the ongoing developer conference taking place in San Francisco. As seen by a three-year-old video above (a Lenovo concept device that folds from tablet to smartphone), the technology is not new.

If anyone can push such a concept into the mainstream (and charge $2,000 for it), Samsung is well poised to lead the charge. A folding Galaxy phone arriving in 2019 is the best way to commemorate 10 years of Galaxy devices. Samsung had done flexible and bendy phones in the past and has bought us edge displays and the like. A tablet with an OLED display that can do double duty as a smartphone or even triple duty as a DeX-enabled PC replacement is the gadget of our collective dreams.

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Netflix to launch six new animated films and series

With Disney gearing up to launch its own streaming service, Netflix is steadily adding its own slate of kid-friendly content. Right now, the streaming service is adding two new films and four series to its roster. The new films are My Father’s Dragon and The Willoughbys. The former tells the story of a young runaway who goes off in search of a captive dragon. It’ll be made by Oscar-nominated director Nora Twomey (The Breadwinner) and will be written by Oscar-nominated writer Meg LeFauve (Inside Out). The latter is an adaptation of a Lois Lowry novel about four children who have been abandoned by their parents. Production has already begun with big names—including Ricky Gervais, Maya Rudolph, Alessia Cara, and Jane Krakowski, to name a few—attached to the project.

As for the shows, there’s Jorge Gutierrez’s (The Book of Life) Maya and the Three, which he describes as “Mexican Lord of the Rings, but hilarious.” It’s going to feature a heroine, who’s half human and half divine. It’ll be set in a mythical Mesoamerican-inspired world. There’s also Craig McCracken’s (Powerpuff Girls) Kid Cosmic, which is about a boy who dreams of becoming a superhero but then struggles with his powers once he becomes one. There will also be Trash Truck and Go! Go! Cory Carson. Both are geared towards preschool-aged kids. All the six projects are expected to hit the service between the years 2019 and 2021.

Source: Variety