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Motorola’s new One Hyper has a pop-up camera, Android 10, and a $400 price tag - Circuit Breaker

Nintendo is about to sell a whole lot more Switches - CNET

Posted: 04 Dec 2019 05:19 AM PST

The Nintendo Switch will be available in China next week.
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After months of negotiations, the Nintendo Switch is hitting a massive new market: China. Japanese game company Nintendo teamed up with China's Tencent to bring the hybrid console to the country's 1.3 billion people on Dec. 10. Preorders opened Wednesday, and the machine costs 2,099 yuan (around $300).

The launch will include New Super Mario Bros U Deluxe, with Mario Kart 8 Deluxe and Super Mario Odyssey hitting the Chinese market in the coming weeks, according to Reuters. The Switch Lite will also be released in China.

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Chinese authorities have become more open to games consoles in the last few years, letting Microsoft sell the Xbox One and letting Sony bring the PS4 to the market. The Switch has been available in most of the world since March 2017, and 41.67 million of them have been sold since then.

Last month, Pokemon Sword and Shield became the console's fastest-selling games, having sold 6 million copies worldwide over their launch weekend.

Neither Nintendo nor Tencent immediately responded to requests for comment.

First published at 4:51 a.m. PT.
Updated at 5:19 a.m. PT: Adds more detail.

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Apple confirms shutdown issue with the 2019 13-inch MacBook Pro - Engadget

Posted: 04 Dec 2019 06:47 AM PST

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Apple's MacBook Pro issues are still ongoing, as it recently issued a support document confirming an unexpected shutdown problem on the entry-level 13-inch 2019 MacBook Pro. According to MacRumors' forum, the model can suddenly shut down when it hits about 25 to 50 percent of its battery life and you can only turn it on again by connecting the charger.

Apple has issued a support document describing how to handle the issue if it pops up. Once your ‌MacBook Pro‌ drops below a 90 percent charge, you should connect it to a charger, quit all applications and let it sleep and charge for eight hours, minimum. After that, update to the latest version of macOS. If it continues to shut down after that, you should contact Apple to get it serviced.

It could just be a batch of these models that have had the issue, but it's worrying in light of Apple's ongoing butterfly keyboard issues. With its latest 16-inch MacBook Pro, Apple has dumped that keyboard, but the litigation might still linger for a long while.

Via: MacRumors

Source: Apple Support

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Motorola’s new One Hyper has a pop-up camera, Android 10, and a $400 price tag - Circuit Breaker

Posted: 04 Dec 2019 05:00 AM PST

Motorola has been experimenting the last few years with its One line of phones, which look to blur the line between midrange and high-end smartphones. The latest attempt is the Motorola One Hyper, which is essentially a budget version of a OnePlus 7 Pro.

Like the 7 Pro, Motorola is using a pop-up selfie camera to give the front of the device a completely screen-filled look with no notches (although there is still a bit of a bezel chin on the bottom). The net result is a 6.5-inch, 2340 x 1080 display that has a 90 percent screen-to-body ratio, which, if nothing else, looks great in the renders that Motorola has released.

There's also the headlining spec that gives the phone its name: 45W USB-C "hyper charging" that's among the fastest supported charging speeds we've seen yet on a smartphone. (The budget One Hyper actually beats the 30W charging OnePlus 7 Pro here.)

Unfortunately, the rest of the specs are par for the course for a midrange Android phone: 128GB of storage, 4GB of RAM, and a Snapdragon 675 processor. The bright spot is the 4,000mAh battery, which, when combined with the weaker processor, should lead to some better-than-average battery life. Motorola promises 38 hours of continuous use from a charge. There's also a 3.5mm headphone jack, which is always nice to see. On the software side, the Motorola One Hyper ships with Android 10, which is especially welcome on a midrange device like this.

The cameras are also fairly standard for a midrange phone. The One Hyper offers two rear cameras: a 64-megapixel main lens, which captures quad-pixel 16-megapixel stills, and an 8-megapixel 118-degree ultra-wide lens. The One Hyper also supports Motorola's usual suite of camera software, including the company's AI-powered night mode and shot optimization features. The pop-up selfie camera is a 32-megapixel lens (effectively taking quad-pixel 8-megapixel stills).

Compared to the 7 Pro's $699 price tag, the One Hyper doesn't look like a bad phone for the $399 price. But Motorola is launching the One Hyper in the middle of holiday sale season when the high-end 7 Pro is on sale for $549 (just $150 more than the One Hyper) — to say nothing of the various sales on other great Android phones like the Galaxy S10 — so the $399 One Hyper is a tougher sell.

The One Hyper marks the third Motorola One-branded phone that the company has released in the last few months, along with the Motorola One Zoom (which offered a four-camera system) and the Motorola One Action (which tried to build a GoPro-style action camera into a phone). The One Hyper looks nice, but it follows the trend of having a singular gimmick, which makes me wonder what kind of device Motorola could make if it focused all its innovations on a single great phone instead of splitting them into a trio of merely good ones.

The Motorola One Hyper will be available in the US starting on December 4th. It'll be sold exclusively on Motorola.com as a GSM unlocked device.

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