When Android launched in 2008, its already diverging flavours mostly shipped with a functional, but honestly terrible keyboard compared to the iPhone keyboard that shipped with Apples phones a year earlier. Swype came to the rescue! It's now been discontinued.

One of the things that made Blackberry devices so ubiquitous in what seems like an era gone by was that they could be used by enterprises without having to worry about fragmentation, patches and security. Yes, yes - the other thing was the cheap, perpetually available internet connection which made it so people could never get away from their damned emails and messaging. Google wants Androdi to be a suitable business choice.

New year new Samsung flagship. Set for a reveal on February 25, Samsung is teasing a camera reimagined for the S9 phone. It’s going to be a long wait for anyone who happens to have a severe case of technolust for such devices. Or you could just read on, as the entire phone spec sheet has already been leaked ahead of time.

Windows 10 is now available on ARM-based processors, and that’s pretty neat. By running the Operating system on effectively the same hardware that’s found in many smartphones, Windows 10 can utilise the battery-saving efficiency of the platform, allowing for laptops that can last an entire day or two on a single charge. They may be a little more limited than first thought though.

Thanks to local Azure implementation, Rainbow six Siege is getting local servers. It means many more games are likely to get them too.

Kevin Gammill, program manager for Microsoft's Xbox Platform Partner Group has teased on Twitter that 1440p support will be coming soon. He said that those on the higher tiers of the Xbox Insider Program will soon be "pleasantly surprised," which indicates that 1440p support is imminent.

Fujifilm is looking to evolve the camera even further, this time with an eye on a market that DSLR’s have managed to carve a particularly useful niche inside of and that mirrorless lens setups are especially versatile within: Video. The Fujifilm X-H1 mirrorless lens camera takes the advances made by the Fujifilm X-T2 and fine-tunes them even further. Quick specs reveal a 24-megapixel APS-C X-Trans III sensor that allows for proper 4K video recording at a bitrate of 200Mbps.

One of the facets of Assassin’s Creed that I love so much is the historical tourism. The artists and designers put so much effort into nailing the art and design of the old-world buildings, architecture structures and look of the digital worlds that players inhabit.