Battery HT3 Replacement For HOMTOM Cell Phone Homtom HT3 / HT3 Pro

Find the right battery for Homtom HT3 / HT3 Pro to solve your power issues. Our HOMTOM HT3 batteries are manufactured to precisely fit just as your original battery.

We use the highest quality Li-ion cells and components that are lighter weight, charge faster and last longer.

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HOMTOM HT3 Battery For HOMTOM – Battery For HOMTOM Cell Phone Li-ion 3000mAh/11.4WH 3.8V/4.35V. Browse our various categories and find out why we have been the go-to source for our customers.

HT3
  • Chemistry: Li-ion
  • Voltage: 3000mAh/11.4WH
  • Capacity: 3.8V/4.35V

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HOMTOM HT3 HOMTOM battery is replacement for Homtom HT3 / HT3 Pro. The HT3 batteries equivalent is guaranteed to meet or exceed HOMTOM original specifications. All HOMTOM HT3 Battery are brand new, 1 year Warranty, 100% Guarantee Quality and Fully Test!

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HOMTOM HT3 HOMTOM Batteries

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  • Dependable high quality HOMTOM batteries
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  • 1 Year Warranty on all HOMTOM Cell Phone Replacement Batteries

6 tips to increase HT3 HOMTOM Battery lifetime

The performance of your HOMTOM depends largely on the performance of your battery. And his time of life depends on its users, and that you are. These are the principles that have guided the HOMTOM , at the head, so you can optimize the performance of HOMTOM Cell Phone battery.
New battery still fully charged HT3 sold. You must be on the first wheel to be conditioned for optimum performance. Loading and unloading of the battery 4 or 5 times is enough to determine.
The memory effect completely to avoid a full charge and discharge the battery, HOMTOM HT3 twice a month.
The dirt on the HOMTOM HT3 contacts of the battery can power the HOMTOM Cell Phone batteries. Clean with alcohol and cotton can look like and function like new.
This method is recommended for those using the AC adapter for long periods. We recommend that you use the HOMTOM HT3 battery at least once in two weeks. Batteries lose its charge when stored for a long time and you need the battery if it does break.
If he does not use a length of time, the HOMTOM HT3 battery will be stored protected from a clean, dry and cool, heat and other metals. A loss of business to charge the battery in time and need a break before reuse.
Power Management Features Battery HT3 enable the conservation of energy in the battery of HOMTOM Cell Phone. You can control the speed of the processor off, or you can adjust the brightness of the LCD screen to a minimum to ensure low power consumption. 

Why we have been the go-to source for our customers ?

We stock a wide range of rechargeable batteries for HOMTOM Cell Phone. Your HOMTOM Tablet PC is part of your everyday life. Successful communications on a HOMTOM begin with your battery. When purchasing a replacement battery for your HOMTOM HOMTOM, dependability and price are what we have to offer. We’ve been supplying reliable, high quality HOMTOM batteries for over 10 years. Our goal is to provide high quality aftermarket replacement batteries at a very reasonable price. All of our rechargeable Li-Ion HOMTOM batteries are backed by a one year warranty.

What is the run time of HOMTOM battery?

HOMTOM batteries have two main ratings on them: Volts and Amperes. Because size and weight of batteries is limited when compared to larger batteries such as car batteries, most companies show their ratings with Volts and Milliamperes. One thousand Milliamperes equals 1 Ampere. When buying a battery, select batteries with the most Milliamperes (or mAh). Batteries are also rated by Watt-Hours, perhaps the simplest rating of all. This is found by multiplying the Volts and the Amperes together. For example:

  • 14.4 Volts, 4000mAh (Note: 4000mAh is equal to 4.0 Amperes).
  • 14.4 x 4.0 = 57.60 Watt-Hours

Watt-Hours signifies the energy needed to power one watt for one hour.

Battery Nova Replacement For CUBOT Cell Phone Cubot Nova

Find the right battery for Cubot Nova to solve your power issues. Our CUBOT Nova batteries are manufactured to precisely fit just as your original battery.

We use the highest quality Li-ion cells and components that are lighter weight, charge faster and last longer.

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CUBOT Nova Battery For CUBOT – Battery For CUBOT Cell Phone Li-ion 3200mAh/12.16wh 3.8V/4.35V. Browse our various categories and find out why we have been the go-to source for our customers.

Nova
  • Chemistry: Li-ion
  • Voltage: 3200mAh/12.16wh
  • Capacity: 3.8V/4.35V

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CUBOT Nova CUBOT battery is replacement for Cubot Nova. The Nova batteries equivalent is guaranteed to meet or exceed CUBOT original specifications. All CUBOT Nova Battery are brand new, 1 year Warranty, 100% Guarantee Quality and Fully Test!

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CUBOT Nova CUBOT Batteries

  • 100% OEM Compatible with your CUBOT Cell Phone.
  • Lithium Ion battery technology
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  • Dependable high quality CUBOT batteries
  • Satisfaction guaranteed or your money back
  • 1 Year Warranty on all CUBOT Cell Phone Replacement Batteries

6 tips to increase Nova CUBOT Battery lifetime

The performance of your CUBOT depends largely on the performance of your battery. And his time of life depends on its users, and that you are. These are the principles that have guided the CUBOT , at the head, so you can optimize the performance of CUBOT Cell Phone battery.
New battery still fully charged Nova sold. You must be on the first wheel to be conditioned for optimum performance. Loading and unloading of the battery 4 or 5 times is enough to determine.
The memory effect completely to avoid a full charge and discharge the battery, CUBOT Nova twice a month.
The dirt on the CUBOT Nova contacts of the battery can power the CUBOT Cell Phone batteries. Clean with alcohol and cotton can look like and function like new.
This method is recommended for those using the AC adapter for long periods. We recommend that you use the CUBOT Nova battery at least once in two weeks. Batteries lose its charge when stored for a long time and you need the battery if it does break.
If he does not use a length of time, the CUBOT Nova battery will be stored protected from a clean, dry and cool, heat and other metals. A loss of business to charge the battery in time and need a break before reuse.
Power Management Features Battery Nova enable the conservation of energy in the battery of CUBOT Cell Phone. You can control the speed of the processor off, or you can adjust the brightness of the LCD screen to a minimum to ensure low power consumption. 

Why we have been the go-to source for our customers ?

We stock a wide range of rechargeable batteries for CUBOT Cell Phone. Your CUBOT Tablet PC is part of your everyday life. Successful communications on a CUBOT begin with your battery. When purchasing a replacement battery for your CUBOT CUBOT, dependability and price are what we have to offer. We’ve been supplying reliable, high quality CUBOT batteries for over 10 years. Our goal is to provide high quality aftermarket replacement batteries at a very reasonable price. All of our rechargeable Li-Ion CUBOT batteries are backed by a one year warranty.

What is the run time of CUBOT battery?

CUBOT batteries have two main ratings on them: Volts and Amperes. Because size and weight of batteries is limited when compared to larger batteries such as car batteries, most companies show their ratings with Volts and Milliamperes. One thousand Milliamperes equals 1 Ampere. When buying a battery, select batteries with the most Milliamperes (or mAh). Batteries are also rated by Watt-Hours, perhaps the simplest rating of all. This is found by multiplying the Volts and the Amperes together. For example:

  • 14.4 Volts, 4000mAh (Note: 4000mAh is equal to 4.0 Amperes).
  • 14.4 x 4.0 = 57.60 Watt-Hours

Watt-Hours signifies the energy needed to power one watt for one hour.

Battery PAA4020 Replacement For Prestigio Cell Phone prestigio PAA4020 DUO Phone

Find the right battery for prestigio PAA4020 DUO Phone to solve your power issues. Our Prestigio PAA4020 batteries are manufactured to precisely fit just as your original battery.

We use the highest quality Li-ion cells and components that are lighter weight, charge faster and last longer.

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Prestigio PAA4020 Battery For Prestigio – Battery For Prestigio Cell Phone Li-ion 3200mAh/12.16wh 3.8V/4.35V. Browse our various categories and find out why we have been the go-to source for our customers.

PAA4020
  • Chemistry: Li-ion
  • Voltage: 3200mAh/12.16wh
  • Capacity: 3.8V/4.35V

Free shipping in most countries. click here to view detailed shipping costs.

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Prestigio PAA4020 Prestigio battery is replacement for prestigio PAA4020 DUO Phone. The PAA4020 batteries equivalent is guaranteed to meet or exceed Prestigio original specifications. All Prestigio PAA4020 Battery are brand new, 1 year Warranty, 100% Guarantee Quality and Fully Test!

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  • 100% OEM Compatible with your Prestigio Cell Phone.
  • Lithium Ion battery technology
  • Convenient and secure online purchasing
  • Dependable high quality Prestigio batteries
  • Satisfaction guaranteed or your money back
  • 1 Year Warranty on all Prestigio Cell Phone Replacement Batteries

6 tips to increase PAA4020 Prestigio Battery lifetime

The performance of your Prestigio depends largely on the performance of your battery. And his time of life depends on its users, and that you are. These are the principles that have guided the Prestigio , at the head, so you can optimize the performance of Prestigio Cell Phone battery.
New battery still fully charged PAA4020 sold. You must be on the first wheel to be conditioned for optimum performance. Loading and unloading of the battery 4 or 5 times is enough to determine.
The memory effect completely to avoid a full charge and discharge the battery, Prestigio PAA4020 twice a month.
The dirt on the Prestigio PAA4020 contacts of the battery can power the Prestigio Cell Phone batteries. Clean with alcohol and cotton can look like and function like new.
This method is recommended for those using the AC adapter for long periods. We recommend that you use the Prestigio PAA4020 battery at least once in two weeks. Batteries lose its charge when stored for a long time and you need the battery if it does break.
If he does not use a length of time, the Prestigio PAA4020 battery will be stored protected from a clean, dry and cool, heat and other metals. A loss of business to charge the battery in time and need a break before reuse.
Power Management Features Battery PAA4020 enable the conservation of energy in the battery of Prestigio Cell Phone. You can control the speed of the processor off, or you can adjust the brightness of the LCD screen to a minimum to ensure low power consumption. 

Why we have been the go-to source for our customers ?

We stock a wide range of rechargeable batteries for Prestigio Cell Phone. Your Prestigio Tablet PC is part of your everyday life. Successful communications on a Prestigio begin with your battery. When purchasing a replacement battery for your Prestigio Prestigio, dependability and price are what we have to offer. We’ve been supplying reliable, high quality Prestigio batteries for over 10 years. Our goal is to provide high quality aftermarket replacement batteries at a very reasonable price. All of our rechargeable Li-Ion Prestigio batteries are backed by a one year warranty.

What is the run time of Prestigio battery?

Prestigio batteries have two main ratings on them: Volts and Amperes. Because size and weight of batteries is limited when compared to larger batteries such as car batteries, most companies show their ratings with Volts and Milliamperes. One thousand Milliamperes equals 1 Ampere. When buying a battery, select batteries with the most Milliamperes (or mAh). Batteries are also rated by Watt-Hours, perhaps the simplest rating of all. This is found by multiplying the Volts and the Amperes together. For example:

  • 14.4 Volts, 4000mAh (Note: 4000mAh is equal to 4.0 Amperes).
  • 14.4 x 4.0 = 57.60 Watt-Hours

Watt-Hours signifies the energy needed to power one watt for one hour.

Dell XPS 13 (2019) Slays Benchmarks With 6-Core 10th Gen Intel Comet Lake

Intel officially launched its 10nm Ice Lake-U family back in August, and there have been a handful of systems shipping with the power-sipping processors. Among the first OEMs to jump onboard was Dell with the XPS 13 2-in-1 (2019) we recently evaluated. When that refreshed convertible launched, it was available with one of three processors:

Intel Core i3-1005 G1 processor (2C/4T, 4MB cache, up to 3.4GHz)

Intel Quad Core i5-1035 G1 processor (4C/8T, 6MB cache, up to 3.6GHz)

Intel Quad Core i7-1065 G7 processor (4C/8T, 8MB cache, up to 3.9GHz)

Not long after those Ice Lake processors were announced, Intel launched its 10th generation Comet Lake-U processors. Dell has since given us access to a new SKU of the standard XPS 13 that is rocking one of those fresh Comet Lake-U processors. More specifically, it is making available the Core i7-10710U, which is a 6-core/12-thread processor. Although Comet Lake-U is based on aging 14nm++ process tech, it still packs quite a punch within its 15-watt TDP.

The Core i7-10710U has a base clock of 1.1GHz, a single-core turbo clock of 4.7GHz, and an all-core turbo clock of 3.9GHz. With this new laptop in hand, we decided to put it through a few benchmarks to show what you can expect with respect to performance gains over the existing Ice Lake-U based offerings.

First up is Geekbench, where the 6-core Core i7-10710U puts up a strong showing against the 2-in-1 version of the laptop with a Core i7-1065G7 (Ice Lake-U) in the single-core benchmark. However, the Core i7-10710U really flexes its muscles in the multi-core benchmarks, where its extra two cores come in handy against the quad-core Ice Lake-U.

Moving along, we again see the Core i7-10710U coming up a little short in the single-core benchmark for Cinebench R20. However, it more than makes up for it in the multicore benchmark with a roughly 33 percent uplift over the Core i7-1065G7.

Finally, we decided to fire up BrowserBench, which focuses on web application performance. Here’s the Core i7-1065G7 managed to edge the 6-core Core i7-10710U by roughly 8 percent. 

We should stress that this is just an early look at performance of these new Comet Lake-U parts in the Dell XPS 13 and we hope to have an extended look at performance and battery life in a future article very soon, so stay tuned.

MSI is dishing up boot-shortening BIOS updates for its X570 motherboards

As the company previously promised, it has begun rolling out firmware updates based on AMD’s latest microcode (AGESA 1.0.0.4), for its X570 motherboards, some of which are on our list of the best gaming motherboards. According to MSI, these BIOS updates bring with them over 100 improvements and fixes, and can shorten boot times as well.

“The latest 1.0.0.4 Patch B BIOS (SMU v46.54) comes with a massive improvement at all points concerning debugs and optimization for the previous version. There is a loooooooooong list regarding improvements and amendments. The most attractive one to me is optimized system boot up procedure that allows us to shorten boot time and less waiting,” MSI stated in a blog post last week.

Compared to BIOS releases based on the previous microcode, MSI says it has seen boot times improve by as much as 8 seconds, after clearing the CMOS.

It’s always a good idea to back up your data before flashing the firmware, in case something goes wrong. Also take note of your BIOS settings—you may need to adjust the settings after flashing to maintain that overclock you spent time fine tuning, to avoid a broken RAID array, and avoid other potential problems.

Whether the allure of faster boots is enough to warrant a BIOS flash, you’ll have to decide that for yourself—SSDs are a boon for boot times and you may find Windows (or Linux) loads fast already.

Beyond faster boots, AMD’s 1.0.0.4 microcode is also supposed to increase all-core boost clocks on Ryzen processors, though to what extent is not known.

Looking ahead, MSI says it will have new BIOS updates available for its 400 Max series motherboards around the middle of November, and for all 400 and 300 series motherboards by the end of next month. Other motherboard makers are expected to release new BIOS updates soon as well.

Phantek Evolv Shift: A living room PC case?

The Phantek Evolv Shift is a Mini-ITX PC case that could easily fit like a piece in your living room and here’s why it a very matte black case, so it doesn’t draw too much attention to itself, and it is stylish because of the more verticle rather than the horizontal design of the case.

The Phantek Evlov Shift is a PC you could put in your living room and not be embarrassed about it!

So one of the main features of the case is that it is able to be completely broken down, you can take off all the side panes to easily service a certain part for either a replacement or an upgrade. The size of the footprint of this case are as small as 27cm x 17cm, meaning this can easily fit on your desk without your desk feeling cramped in any way.

This makes one of the main issues of these smaller cases less of an issue, serviceability, in my review of the Cougar QBX, I specified the “wing” feature which made servicing the part a lot harder to do. I also stated how I had to remove 3 – 5 parts just to get access to the pins for the power button and power light.

While most of these smaller cases are usually built with either specifically water-cooling or air-cooling in mind, this lands in the former being specifically designed to be in use with an AIO cooler. This makes the case makers worry less about airflow and more specifically where to put the Radiators and mounts for the fans, making the design team have to do far less work to get this masterpiece of a case.

Now since the case has this small of a footprint there are some downsides to it:

Mini-ITX Motherboard This means only one PCIe Slot from the motherboard

The Price tag for these smaller motherboards is usually very high, compared to an mATX motherboard counterparts.

Power Supply size is limited to SFX The size available for the power supply is an SFX only, meaning because of the smaller size the price tag moves up considerably, compared to the standard ATX power supply costs.

Overall, this case looks amazing and if you are trying to make a gaming station in your living room this could be the case to do it, just be aware that you’ll most likely end up paying more for some of the components of the computer to accommodate the size of the case. The Phantek Evolv Shift is currently on sale for $109.99 on Amazon, and it worth every penny.

Aorus’ New PCIe 4 SSD Gobbles Up 16 Lanes of PCIe, Might Make Your GPU Jealous

Even though it’s not really a secret anymore, Gigabyte now formally announced this week the Aorus Gen4 AIC SSD 8TB. This is a PCIe add-in-card which houses four 2TB PCIe 4.0 x4 NVMe SSDs, which turns it into, for lack of better words, an absolute storage monster.

Add those numbers up, and you’ve got an 8TB NVMe SSD that runs over the new PCIe 4.0 standard with access to 16 lanes. Gigabyte claims that it should manage a throughput (read and write) of about 15,000 MBps. The unit is rated at 430,000 random read IOPS and 440,000 random write IOPS.

Putting Things in Perspective

Let’s just put this into perspective. The typical 2.5-inch SATA SSD has a throughput of around 550 MBps, and if you’ve got a fancy PCIe 3.0 x4 NVMe M.2 SSD, you might have a read speed of about 3,500 MBps. This makes Gigabyte’s new AIC almost 30 times as fast as the SATA SSDs many users have.

Gigabyte’s new AIC SSD does need some cooling, though. It comes with a blower-style cooler that pulls air in and exhausts it out the back of the card, outside the PC case. On its way, it cools a copper heatsink placed over the quadruplet of M.2 SSDs installed inside the unit. Inside Gigabyte also fitted the unit with eight temperature sensors, which can be monitored from within the Aorus Storage Manager software. Interestingly, this SSD is one of the few Aorus-branded products that doesn’t come with RGB lighting (though we doubt that’s a primary concern of anyone looking at this offering). 

The M.2 SSDs inside the unit are built with Toshiba BiSC4 96-layer 3D TLC NAND, which enable a transfer rate of up to 800 MTps. The NAND on each SSD is brought together by a Phison PS5016-E16 controller. Durability is rated at 3,600 TBW per 2TB SSD. Because we expect this to be a rather costly purchase that any user would want to last, it’s fortunate Gigabyte offers a 5-year warranty with it.

This all sounds good, but is there is a caveat. As noted, the Aorus Gen4 AIC SSD 8TB runs on PCIe 4.0. So the only platform you can currently use this with is an an AMD X570 motherboard paired with an AMD Ryzen 3000 CPU. The Ryzen 3000 CPUs have 24 PCIe lanes – four of which are downstream to the chipset. Consequently, from the 20 lanes left, you’d eat up 16 with the Aorus SSD. That leaves only 4 lanes, which may be enough for a graphics card (given that PCIe 4.0 is effectively twice as fast as PCIe 3.0), but the PCIe 4.0 interface is so new it’s hard to know for sure without testing. 

Thankfully, the rumor mill has been working hard and the TRX40 platform for AMD’s Ryzen 3000 Threadrippper CPUs is set to launch next month. Given that the CPUs will carry similar specs as AMD’s Epyc line of CPUs, which have 128 PCIe 4.0 lanes, we’re confident that the Ryzen 3000 Threadripper will have a sufficient number of lanes for utilizing Gigabyte’s new Aorus Gen4 AIC SSD 8TB.

No pricing has been revealed yet.

CameraX: Google’s New Weapon in the Photography Wars

Ever since it introduced Android, Google has struggled to provide a camera framework for developers that allows them to both build camera-enabled apps quickly and take advantage of the advanced capabilities being offered by phone makers. Its first Camera API was limited, and the second version is complicated. Neither has a vendor-independent way to activate some of the advanced modes that have been added to phones for improving image quality and adding stylistic effects. Now, Google is launching CameraX, a library that provides not just a simplified way for developers to access Android’s Camera2 functionality, but provides extensions for additional capabilities.

CameraX Is a Simpler Way to Harness the Power of Camera2

CameraX is provided as a Jetpack support library, and the basic portion of its capability is usable on Android OS versions back to Android 5.0 (API level 21). Its wrappers provide a use-case-centric set of interfaces to Camera2, and add lifecycle awareness to help reduce programming overhead. Google also says it reduces device dependencies, so CameraX code should run across all types of hardware (there are also calls to ask whether a device has a particular capability like a front camera).

To work with CameraX a developer specifies a desired use case with configuration options. Listeners are then added to handle the data output by the CameraX library — which can be either in the form of a data stream or written directly to a file. Finally, the use cases are bound to Android Architecture Lifecycles, so that CameraX can handle some of the housekeeping associated with setup and teardown of resources for the application. One nice feature of CameraX is that multiple use cases can be run simultaneously, so a preview can remain live while images or video are analyzed and perhaps captured, for example.

CameraX supports several use cases: Preview, to get an image on the display; Image analysis, to get direct access to the image buffer; and Image capture, to save a fully-processed image or video. Google provides several sample applications for various use cases. As is the recent trend, the ones I looked at are written in Kotlin with alternate Java versions.

After a few lines of setup, CameraX commands are fairly straightforward. For example, to simply capture an image from the camera, there is a takePicture() method. Prior to calling it, another simple call lets an application select which camera to use, or to set other parameters. As you’d expect, CameraX requires the app to have CAMERA permissions, and WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE permission on versions of Android prior to Q if you want to capture directly to the file system.

Extending RAW Image Capture to Multi-frame Scenarios

It was a big advance in capability when Android phones started offering the option to save RAW images for later post-processing, instead of only allowing access to their pre-processed JPEG versions. But with smartphones increasingly relying on the sophisticated merging of multiple frames to create a single output, post-processing a single RAW frame isn’t always the best option. With CameraX, app developers can directly read the stream of frames coming from the camera. That’s important for applications like machine learning and artificial reality (AR). However, it is also a potential boon for those wanting to provide their own image processing pipelines — either on the device or later on a desktop computer or in the cloud.

CameraX Offers Extensions for HDR, Night, Portrait, and Beauty

One area that has made third-party camera apps less attractive is the difficulty they have harnessing the advanced computational imaging capabilities of newer-model smartphones. For devices that support CameraX extensions, applications can access their advanced modes including HDR, Night photography, Portrait mode, and Beauty enhancements with the simple addition of a few lines of code to an existing Camera2 application.

For an app to have access to an extension, the phone maker needs to add a hook to the CameraX library to the vendor’s own API. If a vendor doesn’t provide an implementation of a capability, CameraX just reports it as being unavailable. Currently, developers using the alpha version of CameraX can make use of extensions on the following phones:

Samsung (HDR, Night, Beauty, Auto): Galaxy Note 10 series (pictured, top)
(demonstrated at Samsung’s SDC19)

Huawei (HDR, Portrait): Mate 20 series, P30 series, Honor Magic 2, Honor View 20

CameraX Rollout

CameraX is currently in alpha, but it’s expected to get to beta status — meaning final APIs according to Google — in December. Samsung showcased its support for CameraX this week at its Software Developer Conference, and it co-hosted a session with Google on how developers can take advantage of both CameraX and its extensions on the latest Samsung phones.

Motorola’s foldable display RAZR leaks in first official-looking images

Perennial leaker Evan Blass has shared what looks like our first offical look at Motorola’s upcoming foldable display RAZR phone. In contrast to the fan render Motorola used to tease the phone back May, the image Blass shared appears to be an official marketing image. Unsurprisingly, the device looks a lot like the original RAZR, complete with a thick bottom lip. Thanks to the flip phone factor of the device, it looks like the front-facing camera will allow you to take both selfies and regular shots by folding out the display. There’s also what appears to be a front-facing fingerprint sensor on the chin.

Moments after Blass shared his photo of the RAZR, Dutch website Mobielkopen posted additional images of the phone, as well as specs. The phone will reportedly feature a Snapdragon 710 processor alongside either 4GB of RAM and 128GB of internal storage or 6GB of RAM and 256GB of internal storage. The website says the phone also includes a modest 2,730mAh battery.

While it’s best to treat any spec leak skeptically, you may want to be even more skeptical of this one. Qualcomm’s 700-series chips have mostly been seen in the Chinese market, and to our knowledge no US carrier has sold a phone with the Snapdragon 710. For a phone that’s reportedly supposed to be a Verizon exclusive, it would be a strange choice. There is always a chance that a European model may ship with a different processor to Verizon’s unit, just as Samsung’s flagship phones often do.

Motorola will likely officially announce the new RAZR on November 13th when the company hosts a press event in Los Angeles. The company hasn’t exactly hid the fact that it plans to bring back the RAZR. When it sent invites to the event, Moto said it would feature the “highly-anticipated unveiling of a reinvented icon.”

Canon Has ‘Moved On to HEIF,’ But Won’t Ditch JPEG Completely… Yet

A report by Digital Camera World earlier this week initially claimed that Canon was ditching JPEGs, replacing them with 10-bit HEIF files in the upcoming Canon 1D X Mark III, and possibly beyond. And while Canon eventually clarified that they are not getting rid of JEPG, the format may be (ought to be?) on its last legs.

The so-called “High Efficiency Image File Format” is a more efficient image format based on “High Efficiency Video Compression” or H.265. It rose to industry prominence in 2017 when Apple actually did ditch JPEG in favor of HEIC—the file name Apple uses for HEIF images captured by iPhones—because the format allows you to store twice the data as JPEG without increasing the file size. Additionally, HEIF supports up to 16-bit color, whereas all JPEGs are 8-bit.

Which brings us back to Canon.

The DCW report drew an understandable conclusion based on a statement by Canon UK product intelligence specialist David Parry, who said that Canon had “moved on to HEIF files” during a 1D X Mark III product briefing.

Once the news started gaining traction, Canon clarified that they “have no plans to abandon JPEGs just give users a new image option,” but this begs the question: why would someone shoot 8-bit JPEGs when they could capture more data at a similar file size with a 10-bit HEIF?

Google ran into this head-on earlier this month, when it was discovered that the iPhone’s original resolution HEIC files were so small they were getting around Google Photos’ limited storage parameters, allowing iPhone users to store unlimited full-resolution files on the service for free—a feature that was “exclusive” to Pixel users, and that Google was quietly doing away with.

DCW’s James Artaius drew the same conclusion after hearing from Canon that JPEG would still be around. Thanks to Apple, the format has enjoyed widespread adoption by developers for both Windows and Mac, so there are no longer any major compatibility issues. In Artaius’ own words, “with JPG being made quite redundant by HEIF, there is little practical point in actually using it.”

We would love to see this technology adopted by other brands, and wouldn’t be surprised if that happens sooner rather than later. Apple got the ball rolling two years ago, and now that the world’s largest camera company is embracing HEIF, we can only hope that it will be the format that JPEG 2000 and Google’s WEBP and every other “JPEG-killer” never quite managed to become.