Author: Kevin Le

Initial Galaxy S21 Ultra benchmarking suggested the Snapdragon 888 may still have the edge over Exynos 2100 in power efficiency, but a new video suggests there’s more to the story. The 30 minute battery test itself is divided into several stages and some of them include stress tests and performance tests. At the end of the video, the Exynos 2100 ends up preserving the battery better. The margin is only 2% which suggests that it will be barely noticeable in real life. In addition, the phone batteries sometimes drop unevenly, so the result could have been different if the test…

  A customer at a branch of VPBank (VPB) in Hà Nội. Shares of VPB soared 7 per cent on Tuesday. Photo courtesy of VPB  HÀ NỘI — Shares rebounded strongly on Tuesday as a series of large-cap stocks hit ceiling prices bolstered by continuous buying demand. The benchmark VN-Index on the Hồ Chí Minh Stock Exchange gained 3.86 to end the session at 1,075.53 points. It had lost 2 per cent to end Monday’s session at 1,035.51 points. More than 602.6 million shares were traded on the southern bourse, worth VNĐ13.1 trillion (US$568.3 million). …

  Trần Phú Lữ, vice director of the HCM City Investment and Trade Promotion Centre, speaks at a seminar on exporting to Poland and the EU by taking advantage of the EU-Việt Nam Free Trade Agreement in HCM City. Photo courtesy of the centre HCM CITY — Poland is a promising export market for Vietnamese goods, especially with the EU-Việt Nam Free Trade Agreement taking effect last year, experts have said. Speaking at the seminar on exports to the EU in HCM City last week, Trần Phú Lữ, deputy director of the HCM City Investment and Trade Promotion Centre (ITPC), said: “With…

Last May, Huawei unveiled its FreeBuds 3i wireless earbuds which offered active noise cancellation and up to 17 hours of battery life. Now we have confirmation that Huawei is working on a successor dubbed FreeBuds 4i as it appeared on the website of the Bluetooth regulator SIG. List of Huawei Freebuds 4i Bluetooth SIG Upcoming headphones carry the model number T0001 and Bluetooth 5.2 connectivity. The headphones were also spotted in SGS Fimko and TENAA certification listings, which revealed that the Freebuds 4i’s charging case would contain a Li-ion battery and charge via USB-C. Source | Via Source: GSMArena

  January saw a broadly stable picture for Việt Nam’s manufacturing production. VNA/VNS Photo HÀ NỘI — The Vietnam Manufacturing Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI) was 51.3 in January, down from 51.7 in December, to signal a softer improvement in business conditions at the start of 2021. According to the latest survey from Nikkei and IHS Markit revealed on Monday, although business conditions in the Vietnamese manufacturing sector improved at the start of 2021, growth was softer than at the end of 2020. Production, employment and purchasing activity were all broadly unchanged in January, while new orders increased at a slower rate.…

  Planes of several airlines land at Nột Bài International Airport. — VNA/VNS Photo Huy Hùng HÀ NỘI — Amid the complex developments of the COVID-19 pandemic in many localities, local airlines have introduced some policies to help passengers avail of refunds and exchange airfares. According to the national flag carrier Vietnam Airlines, passengers who have booked flights on routes affected by COVID-19 can refund tickets or get a travel voucher with a 10 per cent discount of the price of the ticket if they use the voucher to book tickets later. This policy applies to domestic flights departing from January 29, for both voluntary refunds due…

Google released the February 2021 update for all Pixel phones running Android 11. In addition to the security fixes, this update brings a few important fixes. Don’t get too excited, it’s only Google fixing the things it broke. First off, the touch sensitivity issues on the Pixel 5 and Pixel 4a 5G are expected to be fixed with the new firmware. People started noticing that their phones screens sometimes lacked keys after installing the December 2020 update. The other patch covers all phones since the Pixel 3 – there was a long-standing issue with the sensors not being detected on…

   HÀ NỘI — The Vietnam Rubber Industry Group JSC reported VNĐ21.17 trillion (US$915.6 million) in revenue and VNĐ5.23 trillion in post-tax profit in 2020, year-on-year increases of 6.9 per cent and 36.4 per cent, respectively. It had earlier targeted over VNĐ24.64 trillion in revenue and pre-tax profit of more than VNĐ4.9 trillion for 2020. The company reported consolidated net revenue and post-tax profit in the fourth quarter of more than VNĐ9 trillion and nearly VNĐ3.2 trillion, up 27.1 per cent and 90.1 per cent year-on-year. As of December 21, it had total assets of over VNĐ79.64 trillion, up 1.4…

  Tuna exports in 2021 are unlikely to recover due to the developments of COVID-19. Photo thuongtruong.com.vn  HÀ NỘI – Việt Nam’s tuna exports increased strongly in the first month of this year, especially to the US market with many orders. According to tuna export enterprises in Khánh Hòa Province, in January, they saw an increase of 3-5 times in tuna import orders and even 10 times compared to December 2020, especially for the US market. Nguyễn Thị Thu Thanh, director of Bền Vững Seafood Co, Ltd., said the company received many orders to export tuna to the US in January.…

The Microsoft Your Phone app is cool, but running Android apps on your computer only works with Samsung phones (and the Surface Duo). If you have LG laptop, you can use Virtoo app to achieve similar effect. Note that the requirement here is an LG portable, you can use the app with any Android device and even iPhones (there is a “but” coming). Here are the download links for Virtoo for Windows, Android and iOS. It seems like you can only run one app at a time (unlike Your Phone). Basically, Virtoo mirrors your phone screen. And here’s the “but”…