Review: Microsoft Xbox One X

By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

In a way, the Xbox One X is a time machine. It is built for an ultra-HD future,while enhancing current games available today. It is also bringing gamers back in time with the ability to play older Xbox games without missing a beat.

Microsoft's Xbox One X is being touted as the 'world's most powerful console,' the long-awaited gaming console definitely leapfrogs its predecessor and seems to be built for a 4K and HDR gaming future.

What makes the Xbox One X so powerful? Microsoft has built-in a custom 8-core AMD CPU clocked at 2.3GHz. This is backed by 12 GB of GDDR5 graphic memory. Xbox One X's GPU is capable of 6 Teraflops. A teraflop is a unit of computing that represents a trillion floating-point operations per second. Hit jump for a full review.

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X marks the spot as iPhone X brings back the lines to Apple Retail stores

By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

Apple's anticipated iPhone X smartphone began shipping today and was available in Apple Retail Stores. Compared to the relatively small lines for the iPhone 8 last month, there were hundreds of people lining the Eaton Centre shopping mall in downtown Toronto. 

Some customers reserved the iPhone X online and were there to pick up their new phones while around 500 were waiting in line to pick up one of Apple's new devices. Each buyer was limited to two phones and Apple representatives said they made sure that everyone would be able to get the device they wanted. iPhone X is an all new design, features an all glass enclosure with a large 5.8 OLED display, a Face ID camera replacing the home button and the most advanced cameras ever shipped on an iPhone.

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Microsoft rolls out its Microsoft 365 Business for SMBs

Microsoft is bringing its centralized hub of IT solutions for small- and medium-sized businesses to its customers around the world starting today. Microsoft 365 Business caters to companies with employees of up to 300 people. It has Office 365 suite of productivity and collaboration tools as well as device management and security tools that can protect company information across all Windows 10 devices and apps. On top of that, Microsoft announced three new business apps—Microsoft Connections, Microsoft Listings, and Microsoft Invoicing—for Microsoft 365 Business and Office 365 Business Premium for their customers in Canada, the US, and the UK. Microsoft is also introducing its app for firstline workers called Microsoft StaffHub.

The three new apps have been designed to help small businesses acquire new customers, boost revenue, and help speed up billing and receivables. Connections lets you send professional-looking marketing emails. Listings helps you attract new customers by getting the business listed on the likes of Facebook, Google, Bing, and Yelp. And Invoicing provides estimate and invoicing tools to help speed up payment and manage cash flow.

Razer unveils its beast of a smartphone

It’s been rumoured and teased but it’s now finally here. Razer has finally taken the wraps off the Razer Phone, a smartphone the company is gearing towards gamers but can also handle any other needs you might have. It has a bunch of standout features but one of the big ones is it’s the first smartphone to come with a 5.72-inch display with a 120Hz refresh rate, meaning the screen refreshes super-fast for smoother animation/movement in games as well as scrolling through the UI. It looks almost like the darker cousin of the Nextbit Robin, which makes sense as the company bought Nextbit earlier this year to make this phone possible. But it has a matte black finish with the Razer logo in Chrome instead of the usual green we see (although there will be a special edition version with the green logo at the back).

Aside from the design and the display, the Razer Phone is no slouch in other respects. It runs on Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 processor, which is used by some of the big flagships now; Android Nougat 7.1.1, with Android Oreo 8.0 coming in the first quarter of 2018; a sizable 4,000mAh battery; 8GB of RAM; and 64GB internal storage with microSD expansion. It follows trends with a dual 12-megapixel rear camera setup with one a wide-angle lens and the other a telephoto one plus it has an 8-megapixel front shooter. Speaking of following trends, the Razer Phone doesn’t have a headphone jack, too. But the unit comes with a THX certified 3.5mm to USB-C DAC adapter. Razer said they needed to get rid of the audio jack for the battery and the speakers. One of the great things about the Razer is it retails for $699 in North America when you can expect it to break the $1,000 mark. The phone is expected to ship starting November 17^th.

Source: TechCrunch