New Atlas

Mobile Technology Audio available

Your next Samsung phone could have 1 TB of storage as new chips roll out

David Nield January 30, 2019

You'll soon be able to buy a smartphone with 1 TB of storage space built right in, as Samsung has announced it's working on 1 TB embedded Universal Flash Storage (eUFS) chips. We might even see it appear in the upcoming Samsung Galaxy S10, scheduled to appear on February 20.

The successor to the Galaxy Note 9 could have 1 TB of internal storage

Mobile Technology

Folding screen phones from Samsung, Sony, LG and more on the horizon

David Nield January 24, 2019

You might have heard that one of the smartphone trends of 2019 is going to be foldable phones, devices with displays you can actually bend in half. What you might not realize is just how many of these devices are on the way – so we're listing all the phones currently in the pipeline here.

Samsung has shown off its folding phone in prototype form

Mobile Technology Audio available

Meizu Zero wants to banish a smartphone buttons and ports completely

David Nield January 23, 2019

If you're wondering where minimalism in smartphone design will lead, Meizu has an idea. The Chinese phone maker just unveiled the Meizu Zero, a seamless slab of ceramic and glass that has no buttons, no speaker grille, and no charging port. No holes at all, in fact – with two very small exceptions.

As yet we don't know where the Meizu Zero will be available, or how much it's ...

Health & Wellbeing

Cambridge-developed brain-training app claimed to improve attention and concentration

Rich Haridy January 21, 2019

A new brain-training app has been shown to improve attention and concentration after just one month of use. The smartphone game, developed by scientists from the University of Cambridge, is now commercially available, but not all experts are convinced of the app’s purported beneficial effects.

The Decoder brain-training app is currently available for Apple devices through a developer called Peak

Mobile Technology Audio available

Oppo to launch world-first 10x lossless zoom smartphone tech

Loz Blain January 16, 2019

Chinese smartphone company Oppo has confirmed that it's working on "10X lossless zoom" technology that would give you a 15.9-159mm equivalent zoom capability on a handset to be released sometime this year. There's also wide-zone biometrics allowing the whole screen to be a fingerprint sensor.

10x optical zoom and whole-screen fingerprint recognition will debut on Oppo phones in 2019

Mobile Technology

Doogee S90: Affordable, waterproof, rugged smartphone with a modular twist

Loz Blain January 15, 2019

Chinese company Doogee has hit Kickstarter with an affordable and feature-rich rugged Android smartphone. The S90 is waterproof, shockproof, dustproof and highly modular, with clip-on accessories for night vision, walkie-talkie, extended battery and gaming use.

Snap-on modules take the rugged Doogee S90 in a bunch of different directions

Mobile Technology

Moza ups the ante on smartphone gimbals with foldable, extendable Mini-S

Loz Blain January 8, 2019

Moza has hit CES with a new smartphone gimbal, the Mini-S, that aims to take flexibility to the next level. The Mini-S folds down quite compact to travel, then extends to 18 inches (46 cm) to make it almost a selfie stick or give you the ability to rise above a crowd.

The Moza Mini-S smartphone gimbal folds for carrying, extends for extra reach

Good Thinking

Huawei app lets blind users hear other people's emotions

Ben Coxworth January 2, 2019

Most people will agree that phone conversations are more awkward than face-to-face chats, since you can't gauge the other person's mood by seeing their facial expressions. This is a constant challenge for the blind, which is why Huawei has developed the "face-reading" Facing Emotions app.

The Facing Emotions app detects and displays peoples' emotions, plus it alerts blind users to them ...

Mobile Technology Audio available

Huawei helps usher in the age of the hole punch notch display with the Nova 4

David Nield December 17, 2018

First came the rectangular notch, and now we have the much smaller hole punch notch. The Nova 4 from Huawei is one of the first smartphones sporting such a display, but it's unlikely to be the last, with handsets from Samsung, Xiaomi, and others likely to follow the trend in 2019.

Get used to the hole punch display seen on the Huawei Nova 4 – you're going ...

Mobile Technology

OnePlus adds supercar style and faster charging with the 6T McLaren Edition

David Nield December 11, 2018

Having only just launched the OnePlus 6T back in October, OnePlus isn't resting on its laurels as 2018 draws to a close – it just announced a special edition of the phone in partnership with McLaren, offering a new carbon fiber pattern, faster charging, more RAM, and more storage.

The McLaren Edition follows two months after the original OnePlus 6T