It’s turning into a decent week for Nokia fans. We’ve already taken a look at the Nokia X71 (not a spy-plane) and now we’ve got local details for the Nokia 9 PureView. Specifically its availability and how much it’s going to cost. And it’s surprisingly inexpensive.
The Nokia X71 might sound like the tech company is working on a spy-plane rather than a smartphone but that’s obviously not the case… unless Nokia’s hiding something from us. But no, the Nokia X71 is definitely a smartphone. One with a great many pixels at its disposal. We can get behind that. But before we get to check out the camera(s), it’s worth glancing at the screen. Taking a page from Samsung, Nokia’s dropped the screen notch for this one. Instead, we’ve got a hole-punch display for the front-facing shooter to peer out of. Hopefully, someone’s going to make…
If you’re curious about Activision’s take on battle royale, the Blackout mode found in Black Ops IV, but haven’t yet taken the financial plunge, you’re in luck. Call of Duty: Black Ops IV, or a significant portion of it, is free-to-play for the rest of April. And not just on a platform or two, on all of them. Whether you’re a glorious PC gamer, a PlayStation acolyte or a filthy Xbox One spawn-camper, you can drop into Blackout for free for the rest of the month. Terms and Conditions apply.
Educational toys have come a long way from the 90s, where anything that might teach kids something was routinely considered boring as hell. There may have been spreadsheets involved. Now, if you want to teach a small person something that might help their careers, you can just grab them a mini-robotics lab or something. The ‘or something’ bit nicely describe’s Lego’s new Spike Prime kit, an engineering, robotics and coding-focused aimed at younger folks than Mindstorm or Technic setups.
Huawei has officially introduced the final member of its P30 series of smartphones: the Huawei P30 Lite. We’ve already seen what the P30 Pro can do (except we haven’t really seen what it can do, yet — the low-light camera performance is said to be amazing) and the P30 is no slouch either. The P30 Lite, on the other hand… that’s the budget contender and it’s looking quite er… contentious.
Fuji’s Instax models are firmly rooted in the Polaroid days of yore but Canon’s got something a little more modern on the way. Called the Canon Ivy Cliq (or the Ivy Cliq+, if you’re feeling wealthy), these little image-spitting snappers are officially billed as “instant camera printers”.
We’ve been following the fortunes of the Bloodhound SSC, the rocket-powered car that was supposed to hit South Africa in order to break the land-speed record, almost from the very start. We thought that all was lost when the project was delayed, and then delayed some more, and then ran out of money but it’s back. Bloodhound SSC has become Bloodhound LSR (which stands for ‘Land Speed Record’) and has picked up a new sponsor: Ian Melett.
We’re already in the fourth month of 2019 and you’d be a fool not to get your hands on the freshest issue of Stuff Magazine. In our April 2019 edition, we’ve packed our pages with all of the most essential technology this side of a stargate. We’ve got gadgets great and small, as well as a few flexible options, and even a car or two for you to pore over this month. As always, though, it’s a lot more detailed than it looks on the surface. When it comes to smartphones, we’ve had a pretty good look at the menu…
This week on Light Start, we have a small games console, a self-driving car, a Swamp Thing, and Valve’s own version of virtual reality.
The fate of Apple’s AirPower charging mat, that was supposed to wirelessly charge an iPhone, AirPods, and an Apple Watch, is uncertain no longer. We’ve been expecting some kind of cancellation for a while and that’s unfortunately a correct expectation. Apple’s AirPower mat, rather than going into production, has been canned.
