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referring to The Chinese giant is making a new graphics subsystem, "GPU Turbo", available across its professional phones. Huawei claims GPU Turbo increases GPU efficiency by 60 per cent while reducing power consumption, and adding HDR for more depth and presence to video games, Gizmo China has reported. Google's Visual Core chip (source: iFixit)This spring, Google turned on the Visual Core chip in its 2017 Pixel 2 phones, adding HDR+ processing. Visual Core is Google's first custom silicon to ship, taking the workload off the Qualcomm Snapdragon SoC. Another way of putting it is that the hardware supply side is now more efficient than the software supply side – meaning the hardware is ready before the software can take advantage of it.

On Amazon Prime Day, save up to $300 on Huawei phones and wearables

Amazon Prime Day 2018 starts on 16 July and Huawei will be offering savings on phones and wearables as you plan your summer shopping. Amazon Prime Day is a good day for consumers who need something before Black Friday. This year, Huawei has a couple smartphones and three wearables with savings ranging from $20 up to $300 off of the MSRP. However, the Prime Day offerings are still lower than the current prices today so these are good deals for some compelling devices. The Huawei Watch 2 is one of the most powerful Android Wear watches with integrated GPS, dust and water resistance, and onboard music support.

as informed in Nicole Cozma/CNETVideoLAN, a nonprofit that builds open-source media player software, says it's blocking Huawei phones from downloading its free VLC for Android app from the Google Play Store. "PSA: @HuaweiMobile phones are now blacklisted and cannot get VLC on the Play Store. Their ridiculous policy of killing all background apps (except their own) breaks VLC audio background playback (of course)," the company said. The blacklisting apparently applies only to Huawei's newer phones, On Wednesday, Android forum site FrAndroid noted that it couldn't download VLC to the recently released Huawei P20 Pro, but could do so on the Mate 10 Pro and P9. Last week, Huawei crossed the 100 million shipments mark and CEO Richard Yu expressed hopes for the company to ship 200 million phones by the end of 2018, despite its fraught relationship with the US government.

Huawei phones 'blacklisted' by VLC media player

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