Clip on Mobile Wallets, Digital-First Consumer
Latin America’s online banking and payment ecosystem has expanded rapidly since the start of the pandemic, especially within Mexico, where rising rates of smartphone and internet penetration have pushed the adoption of digital wallets and related tools…
Dell Precision 5760 Mobile Workstation review: Portable power, at a price
Dell describes the Precision 5760 as its “thinnest, smallest and lightest” mobile workstation. Image: Dell When only the most powerful laptop will do, professionals reach for a mobile workstation. These don’t come cheap, but they do…
Vulkan 1.3 makes it easier to port PC games to mobile
The gap between mobile and PC gaming is constantly narrowing because of the improvements in mobile hardware. But as this gap closes, game developers need tools that can help them create titles that can work on multiple platforms without rewriting the…
India wants to make a homegrown mobile OS to rival Android, iOS
Eric Zeman / Android Authority TL;DR The Indian government has confirmed that it’s investigating the creation of a mobile operating system. This would potentially join the likes of Harmony OS and Sailfish OS. The smartphone world is effectively a duopoly…
NetEase releases Hyper Front, a game that looks like a mobile VALORANT
NetEase released Hyper Front, a 5v5 FPS similar to Riot’s VALORANT. (Photo: Riot Games; NetEase Games) Chinese developer NetEase has released a mobile game, similar to the Riot Games’ popular PC 5v5 FPS game VALORANT, in the Philippines,…
MediaTek’s Dimensity 9000 Is Now the World’s Second-Fastest Mobile SoC, Coming Close to A15 Bionic, According to New Benchmarks
Who would have thought that MediaTek, a manufacturer of low to mid-end smartphone chipsets, would surprise heavy-hitters like Qualcomm with its Dimensity 9000? The extent of this flagship SoC is so great, new benchmarks show that it comes close to the…
New York Mobile Sports Betting Sees $600 Million Wagered in Under Two Weeks
In sports, records are made to be broken and, in sports gambling, those records are made for crazy parlays you can brag to your group chat buddies about. Just two weeks after allowing sports betting on phones, New York (and New York gamblers) have…
App Annie: Smartphone users spent 3.8 trillion hours on mobile in 2021
Join gaming leaders, alongside GamesBeat and Facebook Gaming, for their 2nd Annual GamesBeat & Facebook Gaming Summit | GamesBeat: Into the Metaverse 2 this upcoming January 25-27, 2022. Learn more about the event. Smartphone users spent 3.8…
Rockstar Parent Company Wants Zynga to Turn Its Biggest Series Into Mobile Games
Grand Theft Auto parent company Take-Two just bought Zynga in a practically unprecedented $12.7 billion deal, and part of the reasoning is that it wants the opportunity to bring some of its biggest console and PC game properties to mobile. In an investor…
The future of mobile games in 2022
The mobile gaming scene is likely to get more games in 2022 that were also made for PC and console, TouchArcade editor-in-chief Jared Nelson tells Axios. Why it matters: Mobile is already the biggest sector in gaming, but what constitutes a mobile game…