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Microsoft announces Azure Kinect, a new depth-sensing camera for enterprises that uses Azure cloud; pre-orders open now for $399 — Today's Mobile World Congress kickoff event was all about the next Hololens, but Microsoft still had some surprises up its sleeve.| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
HoloLens 2, sources say powered by Windows Core Operating System, focuses on promotion of Azure in enterprises, offers subscription bundles starting at $125/mo — Microsoft at Mobile World Congress took the wraps off of its HoloLens 2 and it has some hardware upgrades that'll help enterprise usage and the front-line workers using it.
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| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Microsoft unveils HoloLens 2 with an ARM CPU, more comfortable, lighter, and with 2X wider field of view than its predecessor, available for preorder for $3,500 — Designed to get work done — I am in a tiny room in a basement somewhere in Microsoft's Redmond, Washington headquarters …
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| Vlad Savov / The Verge: |
Among foldables unveiled in 2019, Huawei's Mate X feels the most complete compared to Royole FlexPai or Galaxy Fold, but questions about their software remain — A foldable that folds without a gap — Samsung's Galaxy Fold announcement isn't even a week old yet, and we already have a competitor …
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| Roger Cheng / CNET: |
Huawei announces Mate X, a $2,600 foldable 5G phone with a 6.6" front screen and a 6.38" back screen that unfolds for a combined 8" display, coming mid-2019 — The Galaxy Fold isn't the only foldable device in town. Say hello to the Huawei Mate X. — Richard Yu, CEO of Huawei's consumer …
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| Andrei Frumusanu / AnandTech: |
Huawei Mate X has a 4500 mAh battery, a folded thickness of 11mm and 5.4mm when unfolded, and a camera setup that can serve both as a selfie and main camera — Today at Huawei's press conference at MWC Barcelona, Huawei has something special to share with us.| Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: |
Hands-on with HMD's $699 Nokia 9 PureView with an in-display fingerprint sensor and five 12MP rear cameras, available in March — Screw everything, we're doing five cameras (for real this time) — HMD Global has a new Nokia flagship, and it might be the company's most ambitious phone yet …
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| Vlad Savov / The Verge: |
Hands-on with a prototype of Oppo's lossless 10x optical zoom system that the company says will ship on a retail device in Q2, 2019 — Going from 16mm to 160mm inside your phone — Oppo has come to Mobile World Congress this year not with a phone, but with a promise.
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Engadget, Android Authority, GSMArena.com, PCWorld, Android Central, NEWS.com.au, TechRadar.com, Android Beat, GSMArena.com, The Indian Express, XDA Developers, Firstpost, PCWorld, Gizchina, MSPoweruser, MacRumors, Pocket-lint, PhoneArena, Android Police, TechCrunch, SlashGear, and MSPoweruser
| New York Times: |
Lawsuit alleges a NYC Airbnb scheme bypassed Airbnb policy to generate $20M in revenues by creating more than 100 misleading host accounts and 18 corporations — Multiple misleading identities, more than 100 host accounts and 18 corporations were created to run an illegal hotel business in Manhattan …
Tweets: @swgs, @jeremyunger1, @sobendito, @clarajeffery, @adamconover, and @douglascarswell
| Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: |
Xiaomi says that its flagship Mi 9 is coming to Europe on Feb. 28 for €499, and an updated Mi Mix 3 with Snapdragon 855 and 5G modem launches in May for €599 — The Xiaomi Mi 9 went official in China just a few days ago, and now the company is announcing launch details for its latest flagship in Europe.
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XDA Developers, Reuters, London Evening Standard, Mashable, The Verge, AnandTech, Engadget, TechCrunch, GSMArena.com, and CNET. Tweets: @androidcentral
| Dan Seifert / The Verge: |
Huawei updates MateBook X Pro with faster CPU and graphics, launches lower end 14" MateBook 14, and adds AirDrop-like phone/laptop file transfer feature to both — The new lower-tier MateBook 14 also joins Huawei's laptop portfolio — Last year, Huawei released the MateBook X Pro …
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Windows Central, XDA Developers, VentureBeat, PCWorld, Android Authority, Engadget, Gizmodo, CNET, TechCrunch, Yahoo Finance, NDTV Gadgets 360, and Firstpost
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| Jon Russell / TechCrunch: |
From April 1, Viber to start charging chatbot operators $4.5K per month to send up to 500K messages, as part of a controversial new strategy — Viber, the messaging app down by Japanese e-commerce firm Rakuten, is poised to implement a controversial new strategy that will see it charge companies that run chatbots on its platform.Sponsor Posts
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