Media player Winamp plans to make a comeback in 2019

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You may or may not remember Winamp but we sure as heck do, and it seems the media player we grew up on is making a comeback in the coming year. Its parent company Radionomy announced plans of bring a “completely new version” of the media player. While the original Winamp player still works, it was last updated in 2013. What Radionomy’s CEO Alexandre Saboundjian promises is it will let you “listen to the MP3s you may have at home, but also to the cloud, to podcasts, to streaming radio stations, to a playlist you perhaps have built.” How they are going to accomplish this is something he didn’t elaborate on. How it would work in the age of streaming services is going unanswered for now. And now we just have to wait and see when the revamped app is going to be like.

Source: TechCrunch

‘Pokemon Go’ AR+ mode comes to Android

If you’re on Android and still playing Pokemon Go, you might want to check if your device supports ARCore (Google’s AR kit). The game now supports AR+ mode, which scales the pocket monsters to their accurate dimensions as you move closer or farther to them. This mode also makes it easier for them to detect your movement, so you need to get close before you can throw that Poke Ball. Again, as we mentioned, this will only work if you have ARCore. And that is something you can download on the Play Store—if your device supports it.

Source: Nintendo Life

Essential lets go of 30 per cent of its staff

A year ago, Essential was the most exciting new entrant in the smartphone space. Their innovative yet undercooked Essential PH-1 brought a new level of luxury and design thinking to the market plus it had the smallest notch on a edge-to-edge display, something that's easy to overlook in today's notch riddled smartphone market.

Essential reportedly let go of 30 per cent of its staff as it continues to wrap up operations. The cuts were mostly to its sales and hardware divisions after the company was unable to find a buyer. Essential cancelled its follow up to the PH-1 and said it would focus on smart home product although nothing has materialized.

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Huawei's monster camera smartphone the Mate 20 Pro comes to Canada this fall

2018 has been Huawei's big year in disrupting the premium smartphone market mostly on the merit of their stellar Leica designed cameras. This year's P20 Pro was a standound flagship that challenged the likes of Samsung and Apple while leapfrogging the market with superb zoom functionality.

Launched yesterday at an even in London was the Mate 20 Pro which is reportedly coming to Canada in November with preorders starting on October 25. The Mate 20 Pro brings a slim, tall 6.3-inch profile, curved glass infinity-display and three camera array to the market.

Huawei follows Apple's footsteps by offering the second 7 nanometer mobile processor in the market (the first for an Android-powered device). As for the defining feature of this device, it's three camera array, Huawei has gotten rid of the monochrome camera that was a popular feature on on the P10 and the P20 Pro.

This time around we get a telephoto lens, a wide angle lens, and an ultra-wide angle lens. Stay tuned for first impressions of the Huawei Mate 20 Pro in the coming weeks.