OnePlus will launch its new flagship collection, the OnePlus 13, on January 7, 2025. It’s getting more and more tough for smartphone makers to distinguish or push the envelope, however OnePlus is not less than attempting. Its new telephone collection could have IP68 and IP69 scores.
IP68 certification means the machine has safety in opposition to submerging and dirt, the same old stuff, however the IP69 score takes water resistance a step additional, promising the machine can stand up to high-pressure jets of water — for all these high-pressure jet moments. The OnePlus 13 is likely to be the primary mainstream smartphone to get the certification.
The firm likes moist telephone tech. A couple of years in the past, it launched a Rain Water Touch characteristic within the OnePlus 12 and Ace 2 Pro. It used a particular chip to algorithmically decide the way you touched the display screen whereas working it within the rain or different moist circumstances.
The OnePlus 13 could have three colorways: Arctic Dawn, Black Eclipse and Midnight Ocean, with the latter additionally being the primary telephone to make use of micro-fiber vegan leather-based. And the Arctic Dawn version has a brand new glass coating that resists finger smudges — apparently one other first within the trade, in accordance with OnePlus.
— Mat Smith
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They’re Japan’s second- and third-largest automakers.
Honda and Nissan are reportedly discussing a merger. The Japanese publication Nikkei stated the 2 automakers are planning to signal a memorandum of understanding to kind out shared fairness stakes in a brand new holding firm. The potential merger would mix the belongings of Japan’s second- and third-biggest automakers, giving them a greater shot of competing with the nation’s market chief, Toyota. Bloomberg provides it might additionally put them in a greater place in opposition to Tesla and Chinese EV makers.
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Finally, the Exos M will go on sale after years of anticipation.
The Seagate web site introduced a brand new Exos M 30TM and 32TB exhausting disk drive (HDD), that includes 3TB per platter with 3 times the facility effectivity per terabyte in comparison with different exhausting drives. The new exhausting drive is Seagate’s first HDD to make use of heat-assisted magnetic recording. HAMR refers to a magnetic storage course of through which localized warmth is utilized to the disk materials throughout writing, which permits for smaller areas and more room per platter. These and different breakthroughs might sometime pave the way in which to a 50TB HDD.
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