Video

Pro camera system with advanced low-light performance, macro photography, Cinematic mode, and more. Super Retina XDR display with Elevation. A15 Bionic, the world’s fastest smartphone chip.

Exceptional continuation of Ceramic Shield. A huge hop in battery life. This is iPhone 13 Pro.

Technical Device Video

Today Motorola announced the Motorola Edge+. This thing may be a full-fat flagship—it features a Snapdragon 865 SoC, mmWave 5G, and is $1,000. The Edge+ is coming exclusively to Verizon on May 14.

The phone features a 6.7-inch, 90Hz, 2340×1080 OLED display, 12 GB of LPDDR5 RAM, 256 GB of UFS 3.0 storage, a 5000mAh battery, only 18W wired quick charging, and 15W wireless charging.

There is a bottom USB-C port, NFC, an in-screen fingerprint reader, IP68 dust and water resistance, and—here’s a shocker—a 3.5 mm headphone jack.

The Moto Z was one among the primary big phones to get rid of the headphone jack (it pre-dates the iPhone 7 release by a couple of months), and now with the Edge+, the jack is back.

It seems like the Edge+ will have a troublesome time topping the OnePlus 8 Pro, which is $100 cheaper, features a 120Hz display, and 30W wired charging.

The « Edge+ » is known as for its curved display, an annoying smartphone feature that distorts the edges of the display and catches glare from overhead lights. The display is not just curved around the left and right sides; it is a « 90-degree Endless Edge display, » meaning it bends a full 90 degrees the side of the phone. Motorola apparently realizes the curved a part of the display isn’t a really useful display surface, so it added a software feature that allows you to double-tap the side of the display to maneuver text and other app content into the flat, usable portion of the display. Additionally, to turning off the curved display, you’ll also swipe down on the curved a part of the display to open the notification panel or swipe in from the side to open an app shortcut drawer.

On the front, the 25MP camera lives during a very Samsung hole-punch display. On the rear, you get three cameras, a 108MP main sensor, a 16MP ultra-wide/macro camera, and an 8MP, 3x optical telephoto zoom. There’s also a time-of-flight sensor.

The software is Android 10, and that I wouldn’t expect that to vary much over the years. Motorola features a history of being pretty terrible at software updates, so unless things change from the Moto Z4 policy, expect your $1,000 smartphone to lack monthly security updates. The Moto Z4 took six months to urge Android 10.

Entertainment Lifestyle Video

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle made their decision to step down from their royal duties to hunt an independent and more private life.

Prince Harry spoke out during private dinner in London, saying, « our hope was to continue serving the Queen, the Commonwealth, and my military associations but without public funding. Unfortunately, that wasn’t possible ». He referenced his mother as an element within the decision to step faraway from his Royal duties and thanked the public for « taking him under their wing » after her death.

He addressed the decision-making process, saying he didn’t take it lightly, but he was ultimately left with « no other option ».

« The decision that I even have made for my wife and that I to step back isn’t one I made lightly.

It had been numerous months of talks after numerous years of challenges.

And that I know I haven’t always gotten it right, but as far as this goes, there really was no other option. » he said.

« What I would like to form clear is we’re not walking away, and that we certainly aren’t walking faraway from you. Our hope was to continue serving the Queen, the commonwealth, and my military associations, but without public funding. Unfortunately, that wasn’t possible. »

« When I lost my mum 23 years ago, you took me under your wing. You’ve looked out on behalf of me for therefore long, but the media may be a powerful force, and my hope is at some point our collective support for every other are often more powerful because this is often such a lot bigger than simply us. »

Harry went on to notice his « utmost respect » for his grandmother, his « commander in chief »