Samsung Galaxy Note 9 likely coming in August with updated Bixby features

There's still nothing quite like the Samsung Galaxy S9 in terms of power, size and functionality specially when you consider the SPen lacks any analogs or competing products. Reports say the Galaxy Note 9 will be launched by August and while it will look very similar to the Note 8, it will likely have updated specs and migth introduce a new and improved Bixby personal assistant.

The Bloomberg report says an event will be held in New Yotk to launch the device which will also have a brand new Qualcomm processor and improved camera hardware and functionality. What features do you want the next Note device to feature?

Source: 9to5Google

Apple reports profits of $ 8.72 billion and revenues of $ 45.4 billion for Q3 2017

Apple today announced financial results for its fiscal 2017 third quarter ended July 1, 2017. Apple posted quarterly revenue of $45.4 billion and quarterly earnings per diluted share of $1.67. To break down the numbers, The company sold 41 million iPhones, 11.4 million iPads, and 4.29 million Macs.

These results compare to revenue of $42.4 billion and earnings per diluted share of $1.42 in the year-ago quarter. International sales accounted for 61 percent of the quarter’s revenue. The big news this time around is the sudden surge of iPad sales with an increase of 15 per cent year over year. A spike for a product that's long been spiraling in terms of sales. The reason for this could be the availability of a cheaper base mode iPad as well as exciting updates to the premium iPad Pro line as well as operating system changes coming to iOS 11, which put the iPad Pro on par with notebook computers.

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New firmware coming to Canon 7D in August

Canon's popular 7D DSLR is getting a whole new bunch of functionality upgrades com August when a new version of the firmware will be made available. The free upgrade will increase buffer capacify to 25 RAW images, add In-Camera RAW processing and a bevy of advanced shooting options that should improve still and video capture. Hit jump for the press release from Canon.

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