Tue, 04/14 - Seems Like Old Times! An Actual Smartphone Launch Event!

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🗓️ 14 April 2020

⏱️ 21 minutes

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We have an actual smartphone launch event to report on! Google is apparently close to powering it’s devices with its own custom-design silicon. Microsoft Teams is getting closer to Zoom in a good, feature-wise way. An update on the venture funding environment and new gaming ratings to alert people to loot boxes. Sponsors: LinkedIN.com/ride Plume.com/techmeme Links: OnePlus Announces OnePlus 8 & OnePlus 8 Pro: Step-Up 2020 Flagships (AnAndTech) ONEPLUS 8 PRO REVIEW: BIG LEAGUE (The Verge) Q&A: Apple and Google discuss their coronavirus tracing efforts (TechCrunch) iPhone China Shipments Rebound as Manufacturing Resumes (Bloomberg) Scoop: Google readies its own chip for future Pixels, Chromebooks (Axios) Zoom will let paying customers pick which data center their calls are routed from (The Verge) Over 500,000 Zoom accounts sold on hacker forums, the dark web (BleepingComputer) New Microsoft Teams features: Video to show 9 people on screen with more coming soon (ZDNet) Amazon to Expand Shipments of Nonessential Items, Continue Adding Staff (WSJ) VC Firms Raised $21 Billion Last Quarter Despite Pandemic Chaos (Bloomberg) ESRB introduces a new label to indicate that a game has loot boxes (The Verge) Links to job openings: https://botsociety.io/careers/account-manager or info@botsociety.com https://zen.ly/jobs Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Tech Mem Ride Home for Tuesday, April 14th, 2020.
0:07.0	I'm Brian McCullough.
0:08.0	Today we have an actual smartphone launch event.
0:11.0	Feels like old times.
0:12.0	Google is apparently close to
0:14.0	powering its devices with its own custom designed silicon. Microsoft Teams is
0:18.3	getting closer to Zoom in a good feature-wise way. An update on the
0:22.0	venture capital funding scene, and new game ratings to alert people
0:26.4	to loot boxes. Here's what you missed today in the world of tech.
0:38.0	Would you look at this an actual factual smartphone launch event? One Plus has debuted the $69.1 Plus 8 and the $899.9.8 pro with high refresh 6.55 inch and 6.78 inch
0:49.6	Whole Punch screens, wireless charging, Wi-Fi 6,
0:53.0	and an on-screen fingerprint reader.
0:55.2	To be clear, these are clearly two phones,
0:58.6	a high-end model and a low-end model,
1:00.2	but both of them are intended to be solid mid-range sub-thousand-dollar
1:05.8	smartphones, quoting an ant-tech. The new One Plus Eight Pro seems to be the company's
1:11.0	most prestigious flagship device ever, including a new Q-H-D plus
1:15.8	120-H-Hurt's display, a new generation camera sensor from Sony, along with interesting
1:22.0	ultra wide-angle and telephoto modules, the company's first time
1:25.7	adoption of wireless charging, all new features on top of the existing ones that made the
1:30.1	One Plus 7 Pro a great phone in 2019. The designs of the phones are iterative on last year's
1:36.6	1-7 Pro aesthetics, with the big difference being in the front camera design choice and mechanism.
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