Tuesday, October 10, 2017 at 8:36AM 
By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla
The most surprising smartphone of 2017 isn't made by Samsung or by Apple. It's not even the enigmatic Essential Phone or the Pixel 2.
I'm talking about the Huawei P10. This is a 5.1-inch device that's designed along the lines of the iPhone 7 (or iPhone 8).
Tuesday, October 10, 2017 at 12:22AM With December 15th fast approaching, we’re seeing more and more of what to expect from the latest Star Wars film. And there’s a lot happening in The Last Jedi. We see Rey training on Ahch-To with Luke Skywalker and him saying she’s only seen power like hers once (we assume he means Kylo Ren) and that it didn’t scare him enough then but it does now. We get a glimpse of General Organa and Kylo seemingly hesitating to blast his mother’s Resistance ship while talking about having to kill his past. Rey also looks like she’s talking to Kylo Ren asking about her “place in all this.” It’s a lot to take in but we’re excited. The movie also gets a new poster which you can see under the cut.
Monday, October 9, 2017 at 9:59PM 
It probably wouldn’t have saved the Windows Phone platform (which we now know is all but gone) but it would’ve put Microsoft ahead of the curve—at least in terms of design. Windows Central got their hands on a Windows Phone prototype device with a codename “Vela.” It was supposed to be the early iteration of the uninspired Lumia 435. It shows the now ubiquitous edge-to-edge display and has predated Xiaomi’s Mi Mix, which is considered the catalyst for the current bezel-less trend. What’s more remarkable was Microsoft was planning to sell this for under US$200.
The phone was going to be modest mid-range device with a 5-inch HD display, Qualcomm Snapdragon 200 processor, 4GB of RAM, and a 5-megapixel rear camera. Of course, its main selling point is still that screen. We can’t say why Microsoft decided to axe the design and we’ll never know at this point. But it does demonstrate what the company has been getting wrong in the mobile hardware space and how they let a good opportunity slip them by to separate themselves from the competition.
Monday, October 9, 2017 at 12:06PM 
Microsoft has acknowledged that it wasn’t getting anywhere with its Windows Phone platform and has decided to stop actively developing anything for it. Joe Belfiore, Microsoft’s corporate vice president for Windows, confirmed the news on Twitter. And like Bill Gates, he’s using an Android device, too. Microsoft tried to match up to the likes of Android and iOS but couldn’t lure app developers to work on its platform, leaving its ecosystem with hardly any apps that users would want to use. Aside from that, Microsoft couldn’t get third-party phone manufacturers to develop hardware for them, too.
