Nubia’s new wearable puts a 4-inch flexible smartphone on your wrist

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Less common is the idea of using flexible displays to bring together the form factors of the smartwatch and the smartphone. But that's exactly what Nubia has done with the Nubia Alpha, a smartwatch with a lot of the functionality of a regular smartphone. So what can the wearable smartphone do? Nubia plans to release a couple of different models of the Nubia Alpha. The first version of Nubia's wearable smartphone will be its black Bluetooth variant, which will be available in Europe and North America starting in April with an average global price of €449 (around $510).

Energizer\'s new foldable smartphone is unveiled

Another is a foldable prototype with specs to challenge Samsung or Huawei in the same regard. Energizer's coup de grace, however, is the Power Max P8100S. The Power Max P8100S is said to be powered by the Snapdragon 855 processor and 8GB of RAM. The new Energizer smartphones appear to run Android Pie; in addition, the Power Max P8100S may support 5G at launch and has a 10000mAh battery. The Ultimate U630S Pop will cost US$299, whereas the foldable model may be priced at above US$1000.

Are new smartphone disease trackers missing a key target: women? - Tech News

referring to YAOUNDE: The smartphone revolution has brought new ways of fighting infectious diseases in the developing world but women are missing out because they are much less likely to use phones. A new study published in scientific journal Nature says smartphones offer novel ways to diagnose, track and control diseases and improve the effectiveness of healthcare systems.

Lenovo's brand new smartphone is as big as a tablet, but it's not the foldable kind

You shouldn't be surprised to see the Lenovo Tab V7 hit stores before some of the foldable handsets actually launch. Image Source: Chris Smith, BGRWhat's not so great is that it's a pretty big phone. Image Source: Chris Smith, BGRThat said, the phablet does target emerging markets, where it'll start selling for around €249 ($282) this April. The Lenovo Tab V7, however, isn't coming to the US, at least not officially. Image Source: Chris Smith, BGR