Today Acer has announces the new Swift 7 with a record in 9.98 mm thickness, at IFA in Berlin.The Swift 7 has a 13.3-inch IPS-display with a Full HD-resolution and protective glass Gorilla Glass, inside – Intel Core i5 processor seventh generation (Kaby Lake, Y-series) with very low power consumption.According to the manufacturer, while the laptop battery life up to 9 hours.
Acer Swift 7 weighs only 1.1 kg and is equipped with up to 8 GB of RAM and SSD-drive capacity of 256 GB. The notebook works absolutely noiselessly thanks to the passive cooling of the processor. Despite the small thickness of the shell, the engineers Acer managed to accommodate two-port USB-C 3.1. In Europe, the starting price of ultrabook – 1300 euros.
Along with the laptop, the record company released three model line. Acer Swift 5 to learn the 14-inch Full HD-display, Intel Kaby Lake chip, up to 8 GB of RAM and SSD 256 GB or 512 GB. On a single charge it will last as long as 13 hours, shell thickness increased to 14.6 mm, but the keyboard had backlighting, and available as an option for touch input support.
Acer Swift 3 with a 14-inch display (Full HD- or HD-panel) is available in variants on Intel Skylake processors and Kaby Lake. The amount of RAM and a solid state drive is the same as that of Swift 5, other features added fingerprint scanner, and the battery provides up to 12 hours.
Acer Swift 1 – the budget option with 14-inch display, Intel Pentium processor or Celeron, 4GB of RAM and a storage capacity of eMMC from 32 GB to 128 GB.
Sonos today unveiled software innovations including voice control and partner app integrations that make it easier than ever for listeners to navigate, discover and share music in their homes. The company also demonstrated how partners are building new connected home experiences on the Sonos platform, further bolstering its leadership in multi-room home audio.
“With the unprecedented growth in streaming, music has become abundant and immediate,” said Sonos Chief Executive Officer John MacFarlane. “Together with a growing ecosystem of partners, we’re making sure Sonos owners can easily play the music they love out loud in every room in the home, and intuitively control that experience using our app, our partners’ apps, touch and voice.”
Alexa, Turn It Up!
Sonos owners with an Alexa-enabled device such as an Amazon Echo or Echo Dot will soon be able to use Amazon’s popular Alexa service to control their Sonos sound system, the companies announced. The software integration – collaboratively built from the ground up using the Alexa Voice Service (AVS) SDK – taps into both Sonos’ and Alexa’s existing music capabilities, so owners don’t have to learn additional commands or key words. Simply ask Alexa to play your music from Amazon Music, Spotify and more and it will flow to any group of Sonos speakers in the home. By integrating Alexa into their Sonos sound systems, owners can use their voice to play, pause, skip, control volume and more.
“Our Amazon customers love listening to music. With Echo and Alexa, we combined that love of music with the ease of hands-free voice control, and today, music is one of the most-used features on Alexa-enabled devices,” said Mike George, vice president, Amazon. “We’re thrilled to collaborate with Sonos to combine the magic of Alexa with an incredible way to listen to music in every room in the home.”
“Our mission is to fill every home with music,” said Sonos President Patrick Spence. “We don’t care what you listen to, how you get to it, or in what room – we just want it to be effortless, quick and epic. Alexa on Sonos will be all that, and fun too.”
These new voice capabilities will be delivered in a software update that will work with new and previously purchased Sonos and Alexa-enabled devices such as Amazon Echo, Echo Dot, Amazon Tap and Amazon Fire TV. The companies will begin rolling out the experience through an invite-only beta test later this year, with general availability in 2017.
I Want My Spotify
Sonos also announced a Spotify Connect integration with additional functionality that will make it the only whole-home sound system that can be fully controlled directly from the feature-rich Spotify app, including play controls and easy access to grouping and ungrouping of rooms. Spotify will be the first music streaming service that allows Spotify Premium listeners to have full control of the music all over their homes outside the Sonos app.
This inherently social listening experience also makes it possible for everyone in the home to control a listening session with both the Spotify and Sonos apps, which stay linked with one another. Friends coming over? They can connect to your WiFi and use their own Spotify app to instantly play music to your Sonos speakers without downloading the Sonos app. And as you can control your Sonos system when you’re away from your home WiFi, you can now have music playing for you as soon as you come home.
“Fifty percent of all Sonos households use Spotify,” said Sonos Vice President of Software Antoine Leblond. “By tightly integrating the Spotify experience with the Sonos system, we’ve created an easier way for Sonos owners to get music out of their phones and playing all around their homes.”
“We’re excited to partner with Sonos and enhance the at-home listening experience,” said Gustav Söderström, chief product officer at Spotify. “Spotify listeners can now seamlessly transition their listening throughout the day from their headphones, to the car, to their computers or to their Sonos system at home, with complete control of all their favourite Spotify features, directly from the Spotify app.”
This free software update will be available in October as part of the Sonos public beta programme.
Get ready to tune in this Friday September 2nd September at 6PM BST for the Global Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare Multiplayer Reveal. Be among the first to see and hear all the intel on Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare’s Multiplayer mode as it happens.
Call of Duty XP is the ultimate Call of Duty experience for any fan of the franchise and a celebration of our passionate community. From 2nd – 4th September, thousands of fans from the global Call of Duty community will assemble at the Forum in Inglewood, California for a three-day Call of Duty immersion.
Featuring the first hands-on for Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare multiplayer and Zombies in Spaceland modes, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Remastered multiplayer and new Call of Duty: Black Ops III Downloadable Content, it will also play host to the thrilling finals of the Call of Duty World League Championship, presented by PlayStation 4
Attending fans will also get to play the first Call of Duty PlayStation VR experience on-site and feel what it’s like to pilot and dogfight a Jackal, the personal fighter jet in Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare. Other experiences include Nuketown paintball, where players will be able to challenge each other in a frenetic paintball battle on a life-sized Call of Duty: Black Ops Nuketown multiplayer map, or team up with others in an intense laser tag experience inspired by Infinite Warfare’s Zombies in Spaceland game mode and more. The interactive experiences will be available for participation on Friday, 2nd September and Saturday, 3rd September.
The weekend will be brought to a close when multi-platinum selling artists, Snoop Dogg and Wiz Khalifa take to the stage at The Forum in Inglewood to perform a joint set.
For fans who can’t attend Call of Duty XP in person, select events from the celebration, as well as the Call of Duty World League Championship, Presented by PlayStation 4, will be livestreamed in HD on Twitch at www.twitch.tv/callofduty and on YouTube at www.youtube.com/callofduty
It’s been over eleven years since Square Enix last attempted to bring the world of Final Fantasy to the realm of film. Despite the amounts of money spent on the previous two computer-animated films, it’s been the case that they ended up being mainly viewed by fans of the video-games. Still, Square Enix isn’t one to throw in the towel as it prepares to release Kingsglaive: Final Fantasy XV a few weeks before the upcoming release of the highly anticipated Final Fantasy XV.
Enlist with an Elite arm of the Galactic Federation and protect the Galaxy in Metroid Prime: Federation Force, Coming to the Nintendo eShop for Nintendo 3DS this week.
Metroid Prime: Federation Force (Nintendo)
Nintendo 3DS
(Card/Download)
Nintendo eShop from 02/09/2016
€39.99/ £34.99 / CHF 51.90
Enlist with an elite arm of the Galactic Federation and protect the galaxy in Metroid Prime: Federation Force, only on Nintendo 3DS family systems. In this first-person sci-fi shooter, discover a new adventure in the Metroid universe and team up with marines nearby or online to take on action-packed co-op missions! The galaxy is not at peace. Following the destruction of Phazon and the corrupted world, Phaaze, the Space Pirate threat remains. As a recruit in the Federation Force, a best-of-the-best unit created by the Galactic Federation, it’s your duty to stamp out the Space Pirate menace. Suit up in specialised battle armour, known as a Mech, and head out to the desolate Bermuda system to investigate reports of suspicious activity, using your handy blaster to eliminate any enemies that get in your way!
Chain Blaster (Joindots)
Nintendo 3DS
(Download)
Nintendo eShop from 01/09/2016
€4.99/ £4.19 / CHF 5.39
Nintendo 3DS
(Demo)
Free
Set in the future, a deadly virus infiltrates the world’s super computer and puts on standby the world’s nuclear weapons ready for launch. With the world on the brink of destruction, take control of an anti-virus ship and go head to head with the virus, taking on wave after wave of enemy ships in a fierce battle to save the world. Use special shots known as Chain Blasts to counter the virus ships as they swarm together in attack formations. Trigger a Chain Blast at just the right point to set in motion a combo explosion that will take out the entire chain of enemies. The more enemies you take out in one blast the higher your score. Upload your Top Score online and see how you stack up against players from around the world.
Inazuma Eleven The Movie
(Arait Multimedia)
Nintendo 3DS (Downloadable Video)
Nintendo eShop from 01/09/2016
€3.99/ £3.59 / CHF 5.60
80 years after Raimon Jr. High won the Football Frontier, football has gained a strong popularity. Team captain Mark Evan’s relentless spirit and his style of cherishing his teammates, which contributed to their victory, has influenced many people to love football. However, there are some people who aren’t happy with this situation. The revolutionaries, led by Seymour Hillman, believe football weakens the minds of children in the future. They think that the cause of this is the captain of Raimon Jr. High, so they formed the strongest team, consisting of specially trained soldiers, and called it Team Ogre. They send Team Ogre to the Football Frontier 80 years in the past to stop Raimon Jr. High becoming champions and to change history.
Axiom Verge (Thomas Happ Games)
Wii U (Download)
Nintendo eShop from 01/09/2016
Launch sale: €16.19/ £13.49 / CHF 17.10 until 08/09/2016, 22:59 UTC.
Regular price: €17.99/ £14.99 / CHF 19.00
This is the action-adventure you’ve been waiting for. After a lab accident, a scientist awakens in a mysterious, alien world. Is this a distant planet? The far future? Or a complex virtual-reality computer simulation? Plumb the recesses of a large, labyrinthine world in order to learn its secrets and uncover your role within it. Discover tons of weapons, items, and abilities, each with their own unique behaviours and usage. You’ll need your wits to find them all. Combat bizarre biomechanoid constructs, the deadly fallout of an ancient war, and the demons of your own psyche. And finally, break the game itself by using glitches to corrupt foes and solve puzzles in the environment. Life. Afterlife. Real. Virtual. Dream. Nightmare. It’s a thin line. It’s Axiom Verge.
Tetraminos
(Sanuk Games)
Wii U (Download)
Nintendo eShop from 01/09/2016
€4.99/ £4.49 / CHF 7.00
The classic arcade game is back in a supercharged version! For beginners or veterans, Tetraminos offers an easy-to-learn, limitless challenge. Give your brain a workout with the 50 Puzzle mode levels, survive as long as possible in Endless mode and rack up the combos and same-colour lines to climb to first place in the ranking. Challenge your friends in local Versus mode with up to 4 players and sabotage their boards in wild games.
Discovery Demo (Noowanda)
Wii U (Demo)
Nintendo eShop from 01/09/2016
Free
Explore a giant world made of blocks and modify it with your own creations. Construct your house, build villages, cities, monumental constructions or dig deep under the earth. Place torches or design complex electric circuits to light up your creations in the dark and enjoy beautiful day and night cycles. Build alone, or together with your friends or family members in cooperative mode.
WiFi range extenders are very useful devices if you have coverage issues in your home. Netgear have a new extender called the Nighthawk X4 WiFi Range Extender EX7300, and here is our review.
Extend any router’s existing WiFi with the Nighthawk X4 AC2200 WiFi Range Extender, delivering speeds up to 2.2Gbps. The powerful and compact X4 increases coverage up to 930 m² MU-MIMO lets you stream to multiple devices for faster speeds than traditional WiFi, while FastLane technology improves performance using both WiFi bands. High-power amplifiers and internal antenna array increase range for whole home coverage. Boost your WiFi to the Extreme with Nighthawk X4 Wall-plug extender.
Key Features
Extends 2.4 and 5 GHz WiFi signals from existing WiFi routers for better range
Dual band WiFi up to 2.2Gbps
Up to 10,000 ft² of coverage
MU-MIMO for simultaneously streaming to multiple devices
High power amplifiers and internal antenna array increase range
FastLane technology improves performance using both WiFi bands
Convenient wall plug design for easy, discreet placement
Works with any WiFi router
What’s in the Box?
The box contains the EX7300 extender and a Quick Start guide.
A Closer Look
Setting up the EX7300
You can easily set up the EX7300 using WPS by just pressing a couple of buttons. Or you can also set it up using the web interface. Make sure you have set the switch on the side of the EX7300 to determine if you want to use it in either Access Point mode or Extender mode.
The web interface configuration walks you through each step and only takes a few minutes.
Once you can finished the configuration you are good to go!
You can leave both networks running, or you can use Netter’s FastLane Technology which uses both WiFi bands to establish a single high-speed connection.
Or you can choose to use the FastLane Technology and select whether you want the Router-to-Extender to use 2.5 GHz and the Extender-to-Device to use 5 GHz or the other way around.
When you have chosen you can easily see the status.
You can also adjust the Wireless Output Power depending on the size of the area the extender is sitting in.
And this is what the EX7300 looks like running.
Final Thoughts
The EX7300 is quite large so you may need to look around for a suitable power socket to plug it into.
The setup and configuration of the EX7300 was very simple and fairly quick – in fact the longest part of the process was updating the firmware on it.
We tested out both the normal mode of operation and also the FastLane Technology mode and for our setup we found that the FastLane Technology mode worked best for us. That’s not to say it’s better than the normal mode, but for us it worked better, so make sure you test both modes to see which one works best for you.
The range worked great throughout the house – we always had a good signal and a fast connection, even in those usual hard to get a signal places!
Having an Ethernet port on the device made it even more useful!
All in all, if you are looking for a WiFi extender for your home and you want something fast and easy to setup, then take a look at the Netgear Nighthawk X4 WiFi Range Extender EX7300.
Our friends at TP-Link have given us one of their Vivid Series Ultra Compact Power Bank’s to giveaway.
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505 Games and Variable State, today announced VIRGINIA, the enigmatic first-person thriller, will simultaneously launch on PS4, Xbox One, and PC and Apple macOS via Steam, on 22nd September.
Influenced by the genre-bending drama, science fiction and horror TV shows of the 1990s (Twin Peaks, The X-Files, The Outer Limits [90s]), VIRGINIA is an interactive mystery told with a striking art style, cinematic soundtrack and a story that mixes the inexplicable, the absurd and the mundane.
Set in the last days of summer 1992, VIRGINIA is an original detective noir story, where players investigate the disappearance of Lucas Fairfax, a young boy in the rural town of Kingdom, Virginia, through the eyes of a graduate FBI agent assigned to her first case. As a rookie detective, you’re paired with an experienced partner whom your superiors instruct you to keep a watchful eye on.
As the story progresses, your partner’s trust in you will be tested to breaking point, all while your investigation takes on an increasingly sinister and supernatural turn, as the list of suspects grows ever larger and stranger.
VIRGINIA will be released via digital download on 22nd September for PlayStation 4 and Xbox One, and Windows PC and Apple macOS via Steam.
In anticipation of VIRGINIA’s release, Variable State has created a consumer demo, which can be downloaded for PC and Apple macOS via Steam at the following link: http://store.steampowered.com/app/374030/
Ravenscourt and Voxler today announce that NOW That’s What I Call Sing 2 will be available from 14th October for PlayStation 4 and Xbox One (Price: Solus £29.99 / 1-Mic £39.99).
NOW That’s What I Call Sing 2 will allow players to choose from 30 smash hits across both single player and multiplayer, which will support up to eight players on PS4 and Xbox One. Huge chart-toppers such as Justin Bieber with “Sorry”, Charlie Puth with “One Call Away”, Coldplay with “Adventure Of A Lifetime” and Jason Derulo with “Want To Want Me” are included in the track list. Also, hits from the likes of Years & Years with “King”, Meghan Trainor with “NO”, WALK THE MOON with “Shut Up And Dance” and more will be featured in NOW That’s What I Call Sing 2.
Available for the first time in NOW That’s What I Call Sing 2 will be an online store, bursting with further song packs that players can access in-game. Additionally, wannabe popstars can easily and quickly jump into the game with the NOW Sing Game Microphone app for Android (4.0 or later) and iOS (iOS 7 or later) Smartphones.
FEATURES RECAP
Exclusive track list with top artists: 30 chart-breaking hit tracks exclusively selected for NOW That’s What I Call Sing 2
More songs in the new online store: Available for the first time – DLC’s from the new in-game online store will add more songs and variety to the track list, updated on a regular basis
All new Smartphone App available as a mic: The quick and easy way to jump into the game with the NOW Sing Game Microphone app for Android (4.0 or later) and iOS (iOS 7 or later) Smartphones
Sing against the computer: The mode lets the player add up to 3 computer opponents to compete with
Flashy and modern Current Gen Version: NOW That’s What I Call Sing 2 features HD Videos
Sing with your friends: NOW That’s What I Call Sing 2 is a party maker for up to eight players
Online: Showing the Top 3 of the player’s friends as well as the Top 3 scores worldwide
The fourth and final DLC has been named “Salvation”, for Call of Duty: Black Ops III, will arrive first on PlayStation 4 on 6th September, with other next-gen platforms to follow. The DLC called Salvation, delivers the reality-altering finale of the Origins Zombies adventure, and four action-packed multiplayer environments for fans.
“Without a doubt, this is the most epic season of DLC that we’ve ever created for fans of Multiplayer and Zombies,” said Mark Lamia, Studio Head, Treyarch. “At this point it goes without saying, that Zombies has been a true labor of love for the studio, and I’m proud to say that this will be a defining and epic experience for the fans who have joined us over the last 8 years.”
Salvation features Revelations, the long-awaited final chapter in the Origins Zombies saga. In Revelations, we meet up with the Origins characters after they’ve taken an epic journey through space and time – all of their struggles lead to this very moment. In this, the final chapter of the Zombies experience, Richtofen, Dempsey, Takeo, and Nikolai finally come face to face with the mysterious Doctor Monty in The House. Confronted by an ancient evil, our heroes must fight the zombie horde once more in the final battle to save their immortal souls.
“With the release of Zombies as an Easter Egg in 2008’s Call of Duty: World at War, Treyarch set forth on a journey or, really a conversation with fans, and Revelations is the final punctuation mark,” said Jason Blundell, Director of Zombies, Treyarch. “The secrets we laid out years ago will finally make sense – we’ve been waiting a long time for this.”
Call of Duty: Black Ops III Salvation is also loaded with four new action-packed multiplayer maps that jettison players from the ancient walls of a medieval fortress to the deceptively quaint setting of a backyard picnic.
• Citadel: Once home to a powerful medieval army, this ancient castle now sits broken and abandoned. Tight corners force close-quarters engagements, while the moat and drawbridge allows for unique player movement opportunities in this mid-sized map. The last trespassers didn’t make it out alive – maybe you’ll have a better shot.
• Micro: What’s better than a BBQ on a hot summer day? A miniaturized war zone that takes place on a well-stocked family picnic table, that’s what! Navigate this bite-size battlefield for a larger-than-life experience.
• Outlaw: Gear up for a showdown in Outlaw; a western-style re-imagining of the fan favorite map Standoff from Call of Duty: Black Ops II. This rough-and-tough medium-sized map brings classic engagements, flanking routes and strategic positions for long and medium ranged combat.
• Rupture: The Call of Duty: World at War classic Outskirts is re-imagined as a high-tech facility, designed by a futuristic society desperate to repair the Earth’s atmosphere.
The Aiptek iBeamBlock is a modular computer projection system consists of an HD projector, Windows 10 tablet and battery, making it ideal for business, education and entertainment.
The three components are stacked together cordless like Lego bricks. Magnets and pogo-pins make sure all parts stay in place securely.
If required, the projector can also be used as a standalone device. With a brightness of 400 lumens, automatic keystone correction (for those times when you cannot get the projector level), integrated speakers, RGB LEDs and digital light processing (DLP) technology, the iBeamBlock provides crystal clear images.
Compatible with; Excel, Word, Power Point and PDF documents the iBeamBlock boasts an image of up to 120“ and a resolution of 1280×720 pixels. The projector is equipped with an audio port, DC-in and four menu keys for easy control as well as an HDMI interface to connect your external devices.
Thanks to the Windows 10 tablet, which has a Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, USB, micro USB as well as a micro SD card interface, data can be transferred quickly and easily. Furthermore, the powerful 4.5” tablet with multi-touch In Plane Switching (IPS) LCD acts as control unit.
The iBeamBlock weighs in at less than 1 kg and has dimensions of only 125x95x64 mm (LxWxH) making it ideal for use on the move, however it’s also perfect for home cinema, gaming and slideshows.
Available from the end of August, the iBeamBlock costs £585 from Amazon.
Sony Interactive Entertainment Europe (SIEE) has today announced that PlayStation Now (PS Now), the company’s game streaming service that leverages cloud-based technology is now available via PC.
PS Now brings a wide selection of PlayStation exclusive titles to PC for the very first time, alongside the best game experiences from third parties.
The service puts epic adventures, iconic characters and incredible PlayStation 3 games at players’ fingertips, allowing them to play immediately.
Players can download the PS Now Windows PC app from www.playstationnow.com and browse the game library before signing in using their Sony Entertainment Network account.
PS Now currently features over 300 games covering a wide range of genres available from Sony Interactive Entertainment Worldwide Studios (SIE WWS) and the industry’s best software developers and publishers.
Current titles include: Batman: Arkham Asylum (Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment), Beyond: Two Souls (SIE WWS), Bioshock Infinite (2k Games, Inc), Borderlands (2K Games, Inc), Crazy Taxi (Sega), Flower (SIE WWS), Heavy Rain (SIE WWS), Journey (SIE WWS), The Last of Us (SIE WWS), The Lego Movie Videogame (Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment), Ratchet & Clank: A Crack in Time (SIE WWS), Resident Evil Revelations (Capcom), Sonic Generations (Sega) and Unchartered Trilogy (SIE WWS).
PS Now is available on a subscription basis for £12.99/€16.99.
A free trial is available for those wishing to try the service before committing to a subscription.
Gritty action and high concept thrills combine in LEVEL UP, a British, contemporary and distinctly unhinged thriller starring Josh Bowman, which bursts on to digital download on September 5th and Blu-ray & DVD from September 19th 2016, courtesy of Universal Pictures (UK).
Matt (Josh Bowman – Revenge), a directionless 20 something and one half of a young couple living in London has an unsuccessful date night with his girlfriend, Anna (Leila Mimmack – TV’s Home Fires), and they go to bed on an argument. The next morning, masked thugs kidnap Anna as she leaves for work before assaulting Matt, locking him into a body vest containing a package and giving him a mobile phone. If Matt wants to see his girlfriend alive again he must follow the instructions being delivered by text message and deliver the package. Over the course of one, high-octane day Matt must make his way across an increasingly strange and sinister London as a host of characters and situations attempt to prevent him from succeeding in his mission to save Anna. All the while, Matt can’t shake the feeling he is being watched, or worse yet, played…
Written and directed by feature film debutante Adam Randall, Level Up is a unique adrenaline ride with an immersive reality gaming twist, led brilliantly by Josh Bowman, and supported by Neil Maskell (High Rise, Kill List, TV’s Utopia), William Houston (Sherlock Holmes)and Doc Brown (David Brent: Life on the Road).
Switch on for this year’s most electrifying, home-grown thriller as Level Up bursts onto Home Entertainment platforms this September.
Today Honor has officially announced the Honor 8, at the event in Paris (very hot in Paris at the moment), with 280,000 sold within 4 hours when it went on sell in China.
The new Honor 8 smartphone has a 5.2-inch Full HD have (1,920 x 1,080 pixels) resolution display, which is an onsite HiSilicon Kirin 950 octa-core CPU, 4GB RAM and 32GB of internal program memory with the power it provides.
Encased in glass, which is made from fifteen layers of Process on the back, the handset’s sleek 5.2 inch design has an unrivalled finish. Within the layers are lithography and 3D grating coatings that come together to create lots of fine prism lines. Although invisible to the human eye, these generate bright colours for a stunning visual experience. Thanks to its 2.5D curves, the glass fits seamlessly into a diamond-cut metal frame making the device exceptional to hold, and acts as a protective layer against occasional drops and rough handling.
Following with previous models, the device holds a dual camera with two 12 MP sensors; one RGB sensor to capture colours and one monochrome sensor for detail. Minus an optical filter, the monochrome sensor captures three times more light than normal, improving the dynamic range of the image and reducing noise – even in darkness – delivering unparalleled picture quality. The two sensors also enable photographers to utilise a range of filters, from setting focus after the shot to changing the appearance of the Bokeh effect.
On top of this, the Honor 8 camera supports an extensive set of functions and filters, from light painting and beauty mode to panorama frames, slow-mo, food mode, HDR, super night and water mark. In a world where we now turn the camera on ourselves, the Perfect Selfie mode will enhance every smile, pout or pose which, when combined with an 8 MP shooter on the front, promises a shareable snap. Perfect every photo or finesse video content with a whole host of editing tools to make your content stand-out whether you post it on Instagram, add it to your blog or print it for your walls.
Power in your hands
The Honor 8 has been built with a Kirin octa-core CPU chipset containing an i5 co-processor, which work in tandem to increase processing speeds, response times and battery life, making sure you are powered-up when you need to be (4x 2.3 GHz). Supporting this further, the device supports Wi-Fi connections on both bands (2.4GHz/ 5 GHz).
Key specifications
Kirin 950 chipset in flagship-grade 16 nm FinFET production
Four 2.3 GHz high-performance cores and four 1.8 GHz high efficiency, energy saving cores
4GB of RAM and 32GB of onboard memory, expandable up to 128 GB via microSD card
3,000 mAh(Typ.), 2900 mAh(Rat.) battery
5.2-inch Full-HD LTPS display
12MPx2 main dual camera with separate RGB and monochrome sensor, capturing more, HDR mode, Slow-Mo, pro-mode, etc…
8MP front-facing camera
Smart features at your fingertips
Honor has made sure you can access a full set of functions in the blink of an eye with its unique Smart Key function: the fingerprint sensor acts as a multi-purpose button, where you tap, double tap or tap and hold to start apps like WhatsApp or Pokémon Go.
Everything you need to keep your daily routine ticking is at your fingertips. Its Type-C USB sets a new standard in charging ports, bringing an end to fiddling with cables, as the plug fits in no matter how you turn it, on top of enabling super-fast charging in only 30 minutes from 0-50%. Honor 8’s fingerprint sensor has a self-learning capability, meaning the more it is used the faster it will perform, reaching less than 0.4 seconds.
The Honor 8 is available from today 24th August via the Honor’s vMall site for £369.99, it will also include an anniversary package worth £69.99 (while stocks last). Shoppers can choose from three colours: Pearl White, Midnight Black and Sapphire Blue with Gold in the future.
Selected online retailers like Clove, Ebuyer and Expansys will also stock the Honor 8 Sim-free along with it being available on contract exclusively at 3 in the next coming weeks.
Fingers crossed we should have a Honor 8 in for review very soon.
