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The Honor Play 40 was announced this Wednesday morning (17) as a new entry-level smartphone that focuses on cost-effectiveness, bringing balanced specifications for those looking for a basic device for browsing social networks and streaming. It features an elegant design, but without any noticeable emphasis on the look or construction.

As stated in the specifications, the device features a 6.56-inch TFT LCD screen with HD+ resolution (720 × 1612 pixels) and 20.5:9 aspect ratio with standard 90 Hz refresh. There is also a hole at the top for the 5 megapixel selfie camera, while at the rear there is a dual 13 MP (main) and 2 MP (depth) camera.

Moving on to the internal hardware, the platform that equips the Honor Play 40 is the Qualcomm Snapdragon 480+ — octa-core up to 2 GHz and 8 nm lithography — with the Adreno 619 GPU and two RAM memory options: 6 GB or 8 GB. GB. The internal storage, in turn, offers up to 256 GB with a slot for expansion via microSD.

The device’s connectivity includes 5G, Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac, Bluetooth 5.1 and a 3.5 mm P2 jack for headphones. Energy demand is met by a 5,200 mAh battery with slow charging of just 10W. The operating system running on the Play 40 is Android 13 under the modified MagicOS 7.1 interface.

Did you like the specifications of the Honor Play 40? Did it meet your expectations? Tell us, comment!

Buy Samsung’s 990 Pro SSD for €124.99 on Amazon

Given the increasingly impressive size of games, it will quickly become imperative to add a minimum of additional storage to the console. That’s where the Sony console’s M.2 port comes in: by inserting an SSD, you can gain 1TB or more in just a few seconds.

At the moment, it is offered at the reduced price of €124.99 instead of €199.99 on Amazon.

Reduce loading time and store more games on PS5 with Samsung’s 990 Pro SSD

Samsung has long invested in the hard disk market, in particular with a range of SATA SSDs which had already made an impression in its day with its quality and longevity of its products.

With its range of NVMe SSDs, Samsung is putting the cover back and offering you models with remarkable performance since this 990 Pro will allow you to reach read and write speeds that should save you maximum loading time.

Perfectly adapted for the game, it will be as good on PS5 as on a fixed PC gamer. It is indeed an NVMe PCIe Gen 4×4 SSD in M.2 2280 format, which is exactly what is needed for these two devices. On speed, it is capable of reaching 7450 MB/s in reading and 6900 MB/s in writingimpressive scores that are among the very best on the market.

To be fully compatible with your PS5, it lacks only one thing: a heat sink. You can find it on Amazon at only €7.99 to fill this gap and easily install it in your console. Once the heatsink is placed on your SSD (not mandatory for PC), installation in your console (or PC) will be very simple!

A recent post on Ed Boon’s Twitter page led Mortal Kombat fans to believe they’d be getting some sort of announcement or proper reveal for the next game this week.

While Boon is usually known for his teasing on Twitter, this latest tweet seems to be a lot more cryptic than his usual messages and trolls. He wrote: “This week should be fun” Spacing the letters line by line just makes us have to read them longer.