Gadgetory

so if you're keeping up in the news you may have seen this from Samsung and this from hallway and I've always been puzzled as to why this tends to trigger people's rants about how one company has copied another company because these businesses are not in business for the joy and pleasure of innovating they're in business to make bank to make cheddar so if Samsung makes a product that's new that customers tend to like while ways gonna copy that right away if you were Huawei you would copy Samsung more times than Apple says amazing amazing it's an amazing amazing amazing great pretty perfect amazing but Samsung does hope that you will find this amazing an alternative to the knotch Samsung teased several new notch styles during a keynote showing silhouettes of four phones with new screens labeled infinity u infinity V infinity oh and new infinity as the name implies there is simply a circular hole in the upper left of the screen for a selfie camera the screen covered glass though we may be looking at a screen protector has curved sides and rounded bezels that are characteristic of the galaxy line Chinese leaker ice universe predicts that these screens will be used on the upcoming samsung galaxy a8 as for the release date ice universe speculates that it could be as early as December in order to counter Huawei's first whole screen device now let's talk about Huawei and their circular cutout Huawei has posted a teaser of a phone with a circular camera cutout on its way both page with the camera island on the top left-hand corner of the screen the teaser image also seems to reference the month of December Huawei has since told the verge it would reveal more information on Monday December 3rd we don't know much else about this new phone but the purported leaked photo shows a device with the Alpher mention camera cutout and a headphone jack the Nova series is usually an upper mid-range offering so we're expecting either a cure in 980 or a cure in 710 chipset as well as a rear-facing dual camera setup there's only one camera cut out in the teaser image so we're not expecting the Nova threes dual selfie camera pairing now I know no one here wants to get political I get that but we got to talk about the fact that Trump may be making moves that will raise the prices of your phones President Trump has threatened to put a 10% tariff on mobile phones and laptops coming from China a move that could see prices rise significantly in an interview with The Wall Street Journal via Bloomberg Trump didn't seem to be too worried about the possibility of higher prices though saying and that quote I can make it 10 percent and people could stand that very easily unquote now if you're thinking yeah I could stand that very easily because I ain't buying no Chinese phones no you will you see putting tariffs on phones coming from China wouldn't only affect the price of Chinese brands according to counterpoint 74% of all phones and poor day into the US and 2017 came from China almost all phone manufacturers make their phones or at least some of their component parts of their phones in China and then export them from China to the US now that doesn't necessarily mean that we'd see a big price hike right away companies like Apple for example who have big economies of scale and large profit margins may choose to absorb those costs to keep cost down but how likely is that to last probably not very long now let's get back to leaks and rumors and talk about the fact that this whole dual display thing might actually be a thing recently kiddy owes on Weibo claimed to reveal a necks too that bears a strong resemblance to the new Bo X the photos clearly depict a vivo branded device with a large front panel that looks a lot like the original necks another screen graces the back of the device with three cameras resting above it including a second display certainly eliminating the need for a pop-up selfie camera however the first gen next didn't exactly fare well in terms of battery life during our review adding a second screen will definitely suck more juice all for the sake of maintaining a notch free front the original necks included a 4000 milliamp hour battery but even that wasn't sufficient to last into the evenings with any heavy usage this really brings up a fascinating topic about what is the next big thing in technology everyone in the smartphone industry is looking for that next best thing whether it's foldable displays dual screens augmented reality what's it gonna be if you look through history it tends to be something often that you didn't predict something completely out of context that we had no frame of reference for is it gonna be foldable displays I don't know feels kind of gimmicky cool but kind of gimmicky I just want to give an example how it applies to YouTube right for years YouTube has been the 800-pound gorilla when it comes to online video and it's still very much is and people I'm saying what is the next platform that's gonna take over YouTube is it gonna be Facebook is it gonna be Instagram with new videos are gonna be snapchat what's it gonna be and it turns out there's really not any of those things but YouTube is declining in views and what is taking over well it's not one platform it's the stream it's your Facebook stream your Instagram stream your Twitter stream its video that's consumed in the stream that is I believe the cause of YouTube's slight gradual decline in dominance in the online video space completely something that people wouldn't have expected we were expecting a YouTube competitor it wasn't that at all so applying that to smartphone technology is it gonna be foldable displays or dual screens or could it be something just completely out of our frame of reference let me know what you think in the comments below or on Twitter you know what software starts to do things it's not supposed to do who solves those problems it's the unsung heroes our developer teams in fact it's called incident 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