Allwinner A64 is a 64-bit chipset with 4K support and $5 price tag

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Allwinner A64 is a 64-bit chipset with 4K support and $5 price tag

The Chinese chipmaker Allwinner took the wraps off a 64-bit tablet-friendly chipset with incredibly low price tag. Allwinner A64 brings 4K display support to mobile devices for only $5.

The chipset consists of four Cortex-A53 CPU cores, coupled with support for various DDR memory types.Video decoding support includes H.265/H.264, while 4K display output is available through HDMI connection.

Support for Android 5.0 Lollipop, eMMC 5.0, and Allwinner’s patented SmartColor technology roundup the highlights of the chipset. The manufacturer will announce more details about its creation in the near future.

Samsung NX500 has a flip-out screen, 4K video and retro design

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Samsung NX500 has a flip-out screen, 4K video and retro design

Samsung’s latest mirrorless interchangeable lens camera is its most powerful yet. The NX500 employs the 28MP APS-C-sized sensor from the NX1 that’s capable of 6480 x 4320px stills and 3840 x 2160px (read 4K) video at 30fps.

The new camera features a retro design and a flip-out 3″ Super AMOLED screen that can rotate for seamless selfies and is touch-sensitive. The NX500 can capture 9 fps stills, its shutter can go as fast as 1/6000s and offers an ISO range of 100-25600 that’s expandable to 51200.

Borrowing the video capabilities of Samsung’s flagship NX1 the NX500 can capture 4K (3840 x 2160px) footage at 30fps, DCI 4K (4096 x 2160px) video at 24fps and 1080p all the way up to 60fps. The Samsung NX500 also has Wi-Fi and can be connected easily to your TV or smartphone and tablet but lacks GPS.

Huawei doughts if the 4K juice is worth the squeeze on smartphones over battery drain risk

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Huawei doughts if the 4K juice is worth the squeeze on smartphones over battery drain risk

Chinese manufacturer Huawei has made it clear that it won’t be using 4K displays in its smartphones in the near future. According to the company’s President of the Handset Product Line Kevin Ho, the advanced displays would result in a major compromises to battery life, something which the company isn’t willing to accept.

“4K needs a lot of power, so if you use it you have to make compromises. A 4K display on a smartphone may give you half a day of battery life but a 2K display can give you maybe one day or more,” Ho said. “4K has four times t9he pixels of Full HD so the power consumption is maybe 4 or 8 times as much as Full HD so the smartphone has to have compromises with battery life.”

Ho also asserted that while 4K looks impressive on large screens, it’s difficult to tell the difference between 4K and 2K on a smaller smartphone display of five to six inches.

However, he didn’t completely rule out the possibility of 4K devices in the future. “I don’t want to say there’s no chance for 4K on smartphones, but we need to think about compromise and whether our eyes can tell the difference.”