Huawei says it "can make the chin shorter" on its smartphones, but has chosen not to

Huawei can make the chin on its smartphones shorter but chooses not to, the company admitted in a recent interview. It believes that a thinner chin will result in devices that are less comfortable to use.

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Oppo patents new slider design that allows for a high screen-to-body-ratio

Oppo, which brought us the first phone to include a slider on top to house the back and front-facing cameras, has patented a new slider design. The new look features a dual camera setup on back that is always exposed, and a top slider that houses front-facing dual selfie snappers.

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New top story on Hacker News: Proposition HN 2.0: I will pay you $2000 and code the MVP for your side-project

Proposition HN 2.0: I will pay you $2000 and code the MVP for your side-project
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Premise 1: Investors/Incubators over-estimate their ability to pick good ideas/startups. Premise 2: Software by a lone developer is not pragmatically different from software by a big A-team. It’s the market fit and marketing / sales that makes or breaks the project. Premise 3: Most freelancers will not build and/or follow-through with their ideas, because they are not sure it will sell. Premise 4: HackerNews has a decent number of people who know how the world works, and how a little glue would make it better. Based on these premises I present The Proposition 2.0 (following version 1.0 [1]): I’ll pay you $500 for your “real-life problem that needs a software fix” idea and market validation / research. I will build the MVP and give you another $1500 to bring us our first paying customer(s). We split the resulting product 80-20 as co-founders. [1] https://ift.tt/2HR9hbV [2] https://ift.tt/2WBFcAM

Update to the Google Camera app adds a popular feature

Google is updating the Camera app to version 6.2. This will allow Pixel handsets to turn on a Dark mode for the app's settings; the update also includes new transition animation and more.

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Deal: Samsung Galaxy S10e is $150 off at Walmart (with AT&T, Verizon, or Sprint monthly installments)

Walmart lets you buy the Samsung Galaxy S10e for a sweet price if you get it with a monthly installment plan on a big carrier (excluding T-Mobile).

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Are Apple's services a new era for the company or just a filler before the next industry-changing product?

Apple is going through a transition period with the company's new services coming this year. Will that be a permanent change, or are the new software products meant to just keep things moving until the next ground-breaking Apple device?

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AT&T's real mobile 5G network is the first to hit this milestone in the U.S.

AT&T achieved a milestone as the company's 5G mobile service hit a download speed of over 1Gbps. That is five times faster than the speed the network achieved in December.


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