Samsung organized a press conference at IFA to announce its arrival in the world of 8K resolution with its QLED TV. However, the mobile department needs to be reinvented, or else 2019 will be tough for the Galaxy S and Note series...
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In spite of past rumors claiming the contrary, Google will not be launching a Pixel Watch this year. The company has confirmed this through Miles Barr, its director of engineering for Wear OS, speaking to Tom's Guide in an interview today. The Pixel Watch was said to be unveiled alongside the Pixel 3 and Pixel 3 XL smartphones at Google's upcoming event in early October. However, the search giant says it wants to focus on its partners in the wearable space, and on improving Wear OS. It offers input to companies making watches using its platform, the latest of which was regarding the...
Huawei says its new Kirin 980 delivers faster performance, AI optimization, quicker Wi-Fi, future 5G connectivity, better gaming stability, increased camera quality and ALL whilst reducing power consumption by 40% - how is that possible?
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Google's Pixel 3 and Pixel 3 XL have been leaking a lot lately, even though their official unveiling date might be October 9. Today it's been revealed that they have passed through the FCC's certification process already - with most documents filed in early July, though some date back to late June. We're only now finding out about this because the confidentiality period for the technical reports has ended today. The two devices have been submitted to the FCC by Google itself, unlike in previous years when HTC (for both first-gen Pixels), then HTC and LG (for the Pixel 2 and Pixel 2 XL,...
Sharp's much anticipated re-entry into the European smartphone market has finally happened this year, and the Japanese company has unveiled a new member of its lineup at IFA today, following the launch of the Aquos C10 and B10 last month. The new model is the Aquos D10, and while it's the highest-end of the bunch, it's still far from a proper flagship. It features a 5.99" 18:9 1080x2160 "Free Form Display" with a claimed 91% screen-to-body ratio, and a rather prominent notch. It's an LCD panel, by the way, no OLED here. At the helm we find Qualcomm's Snapdragon 630, with 4GB of RAM...
You might not believe it, but you can still have fun on your phone without internet. Here is our tirelessly curated list of the best offline Android games. Perfect for long trips, these games will keep you entertained off the grid.
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Smartphones for gamers, that's the next big thing - says Asus at least. This is something up for debate, but ROG Phone will no doubt be hard to beat in this category. We tried it out, and came away very impressed!
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Xiaomi's Pocophone F1 has such an appealing price/performance ratio, it's a shame that it's only officially available in a handful of markets. But if you want to get it, it's easy to import, all for under $350 dollars too. Here's how to get the Pocophone F1 in your hands, wherever you are.
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While it didn't bring any new devices, OnePlus was at IFA, including co-founder Carl Pei. He revealed something potentially even more exciting than a phone - OnePlus will open a brick-and-mortar store in Paris soon. OnePlus has been all about efficiency since its inception, which means focusing on online sales. The OnePlus 6 already has some retail presence in France, due to a partnership with carrier Bouygues (the phone is in around 20 stores now, but will expand to many more). But this will be a true OnePlus store and it will open in time for the next major launch, says Pei, likely...
Samsung is prepping Prime versions of its Galaxy J4 and Galaxy J6 devices, as evidenced by the support pages it has up on its Vietnamese website. The devices have already been available in non-Prime form since this Spring. The Prime models will likely be powered by Snapdragon chipsets, instead of the Exynos 7570. Both the Galaxy J4 Prime and Galaxy J6 Prime will likely run Android 8.1 and not the Android 8.0 their Exynos-powered counterparts are running. Rumor has it that Samsung will release the Galaxy J4 Prime and J6 Prime this fall in Vietnam and the Netherlands. Source 1 |...
The terms RAM, ROM and internal memory can be confusing. All three refer to memory types and are often used incorrectly. In this article, we will explain the differences between the three terms from a practical point of view on your smartphone.
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The list of smartphones with a slide-out camera is getting bigger by the day. It all started with the vivo NEX and Oppo Find X and now we are hearing that the Honor Magic 2 and the Xiaomi Mi Mix 3 are adopting the slide-out mechanism as well. It seems that Lenovo has been bitten by the periscope-like camera bug as well - the company's vice president just shared a video on Weibo showcasing a still unannounced Lenovo smartphone with extremely thin bezels, small chin and pop-up cameras in Find X style. Moreover, the video reveals that the phone will make use of an in-display fingerprint...
Sony has once again tapped Strategy Analytics to conduct an independent testing of the Xperia XZ3 screen. That's the new P-OLED screen with 1,440 x 2,880px resolution. For the competition, SA gathered what it considered the leading phones on the market. Here's the roster below. Note that the testing was done between August 21 and 23 so the Galaxy Note9 was not available yet. Sony Xperia XZ3 • Samsung Galaxy S9 • Apple iPhone X Sony Xperia XZ2 • LG V30 • Huawei P20 Here's what the 202 consumers that participated saw. The devices were concealed to eliminate...
The U12 Life, which is HTC's fancy way of denoting its lite devices, lives up to its name. It is a solid mid-ranger, equipped just well enough to go against some current popular competitors from the likes of Xiaomi or Nokia.
At Huawei's keynote at IFA 2018, the new Kirin 980 processor was presented, breaking seven world records. But that's not all. Naturally, the company is making new products with AI at the center.
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Oppo released its gorgeous mid-ranger, the F9 as the F9 Pro in India just last week. Pre-orders started the minute the device was announced and today the smartphone can be found in online and offline stores. Unlike some smartphones from the company, the F9 Pro can be found in more than one retailer - Amazon India, Flipkart and PayTM Mall. All prices seem leveled off and just to remind you, the handset ships with only one storage configuration - 6GB of RAM and 64GB of storage while color variants are Sunrise Red and Twilight Blue. The asking price is INR 23,990 ($338) and all the online...
Huawei just announced its next-generation HiSilicon Kirin 980 chipset along with new P20 and P20 Pro color variants and AI Cube smarts speaker and GPS Locator. Yes, we know it's not the most exciting keynote although, the chipset makes it worthwhile to some extent. On stage, Richard Yu, an executive director and CEO of the Huawei Consumer Business group, took the time to boast about the successful P20 and Mate 10 series launch at the beginning of 2018. He revealed that both flagship lineups exceeded the 10 million shipments mark worldwide. Yet, the P20-series milestone is a bit more...
The smartphone market is heating up this season. After Apple and Google, Huawei will also pull its next smartphone out of its hat, just in time for Christmas. CEO Richard Yu just announced the launch date of the Mate 20 Pro at IFA.
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IFA 2018 announcements are already rolling and Qualcomm joined the party. The San Diego company has just introduced the aptX codec for Bluetooth audio with Adaptive sound. The company introduced the platform with a promise for a robust, hi-res and glitch-free listening experience. The aptX Adaptive standard is designed to adjust depending on the content - be it gaming, video streaming or simply listening to your favorite songs on Spotify or any other music platform. It has simplified UI without extra gimmicky features and configurations. The new aptX version will bring easy...
The Huawei Mate 20 lite is official and it's the first newcomer from the series to hit the shelves. We've gotten a first-hand look at it and we'll share the device's pros and cons while we're waiting for the standard and Pro versions to arrive this autumn. Get the inside scoop in our review!
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Huawei has been great at bringing the premium features from its flagships to its mid-rangers. The Huawei Mate 20 Lite is practically dripping with AI functions and assists, most of which are photography-related.
During a keynote at the IFA show in Berlin, Huawei has confirmed that the Mate 20 series will be unveiled at a special event in London on October 16. Amusingly, Huawei has branded the Mate 20 as the first smartphone powered by the newly-announced Kirin 980. The Kirin 980 is no joke - it's the world's first 7nm chipset The Mate 20 series will consist of the Mate 20, Mate 20 Pro (perhaps a Mate 20 Porsche Design) and the Mate 20 Lite, which was announced last week. The Mate 20 will feature a 6.3-inch AMOLED screen with a water drop notch, triple cameras, 4,200mAh battery, Wireless...
Although not really a cube, Huawei's AI Cube smart speaker is an interesting addition to the company's portfolio and an unexpected one. According to analysts, the smart speaker market will reach 220 million in 2020, so Huawei wants to get into the action with a solution of its own. Just like all AI speakers, the AI Cube offers a smart assistant to take care of things you can't be bothered with by using your smartphone or PC. To our surprise, it's not Google's Assistant, but instead, the Chinese tech giant decided to partner with Amazon's Alexa voice assistant. To our question why...
Huawei P20 Pro was announced back in March during a glamorous event in Paris. When we reviewed the phone, we said it is the Huawei smartphone with the most complete package to date. After four months of heavy usage, we came out with the long-term review and the initial wow effect from the performance was gone. The Twilight color option was the key feature that relentlessly stayed with us. Huawei knows the design is a defining feature among flagships now and decided to introduce four new eye-grabbing color options at IFA 2018, two of them with leather texture. Yes, you read that right - the...
As per tradition, Huawei just announced its high-performance flagship SoC at this year's IFA in Berlin - the HiSilicon Kirin 980 that's expected to power up the upcoming Mate 20-series. The key selling point of is that it's world's first 7nm-based chip (manufactured by TSMC) promising plenty of power and efficiency gains over its predecessor and over the 10nm chipsets by the competition. The Kirin 980 uses an 8-core CPU design with 2x high-performance Cortex-A76 cores and 2x "power-efficient" Cortex-A76 cores. We assume those two power-efficient Cortex-A76 cores are clocked lower than...
ZTE's sub-brand nubia has showcased a smart bracelet with a curved screen that's so big, you can easily say that it's a smartphone on your wrist. The device is called nubia-α and according to the teaser video, it can do pretty much everything a normal handset could. Remember when Lenovo introduced a flexible wrist phone some time ago? It seems like ZTE beat it to the punch and we are not talking about a concept here - the Chinese firm plans to release a ready product as early as next quarter. The video shows a flexible OLED screen, cellular connectivity, apps (probably Android)...
Apple has announced the date for its 2018 iPhone event. It will present the new iPhone models in the Steve Jobs Theater, three of which are to be released at once. Also, a new iPad Pro, a new Apple Watch, the AirPods 2 are expected.
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Xiaomi launched its Redmi 5 series back in December 2017 and the Redmi Note 5 Pro made its way to India by February. In five days the country will finally get to see the next iteration of the affordable Redmi series, and one of the phones might be the Xiaomi Redmi Note 6 Pro. The Note variants aren't announced yet, but already appeared at numerous listings, including the EEC. Information coming from Weibo suggests the Redmi Note 6 Pro will make its way to India and will be powered by a Snapdragon 660 chipset. Screenshot of the taken down post The post, albeit already deleted,...
Android One and reliable long term updates, now available at Motorola! But does the Motorola One really have enough to compete in the highly competitive middle class? Let's find out.
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The alluring but always elusive gaming smartphone - many have tried to build it, even Razer, but no one did it perfectly. Now, Honor is also joining the gaming race but with a new concept. Instead of greatness, the new Honor Play is pursuing affordability. And that's a very welcome turn of events.
The motorola one and one power (apparently with no capital letters) have been leaking all over the web for the past few months and some of the recent reports even suggested that the newly launched Motorola P30 for the Chinese market is actually the motorola one for the global market. There's also plenty of evidence that the P30 Note equals to the motorola one power but today's quiet announcement from the company is here to debunk those myths. It appears that the motorola one and one power are entirely new devices even though they share similar design and hardware with their Chinese...
The motorola one and one power (apparently with no capital letters) have been leaking all over the web for the past few months and some of the recent reports even suggested that the newly launched Motorola P30 for the Chinese market is actually the motorola one for the global market. There's also plenty of evidence that the P30 Note equals to the motorola one power but today's quiet announcement from the company is here to debunk those myths. It appears that the motorola one and one power are entirely new devices even though they share similar design and hardware with their Chinese...
Meizu 16 was unveiled last month along with a Meizu 16 Plus, but the company CEO promised a more affordable device with Snapdragon 710 that will be called Meizu 16X. The phone now appeared with a model number M872Q at TENAA, revealing its front and back, along with all the specs. Meizu 16X on TENAA Since the Meizu 16 Plus was initially called M892Q and the vanilla Meizu 16 was M882Q, it is pretty safe to consider this phone as the Meizu 16X. We are also sure this is the Qualcomm platform since only the 710 has cores that clock up to 2.2 GHz. Meizu is one of the last...
A complete review of the yet unreleased Google Pixel 3 XL appeared online last week, just to be followed by another full-scale review a day later. They both concentrated on the bigger phone, saying nothing about the vanilla Pixel 3. Lo and behold, several days later live images of the phone finally appeared on Reddit, and by the looks of it, the phone will come with a 5.5" tall screen, no notch and dual selfie cameras. Google Pixel 3 live images Google is not big on the design changes - it looks like the phone will look a lot like the predecessor Pixel 2. The back will be...
Nikon has launched a new entry-level DSLR, the Nikon D3500, which replaced its previous model, the D3400, that was launched two years ago. The D3500 isn't remarkably different from its predecessor but does feature some notable changes. It has a different design that is both smaller and lighter than the D3400. The battery performance has also improved, and the D3500 is now capable of 1550 shots on a single charge. The price has also been reduced. The D3500 with a single AF-P DX NIKKOR 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6G VR kit lens will be available for $499. A dual kit lens including...
Olloclip has unveiled a new lens mount for your smartphone today. It's descriptively called the Multi-Device Clip, and it should work with most mobile devices. So you'll finally be able to use Olloclip's add-on lenses even if you don't have an iPhone - starting next month, when the Multi-Device Clip will become available for $60. Your purchase will include one of the Connect X lenses that the Multi-Device Clip is designed to be used with. Any additional lens will cost you $45. Your options are: super-wide (four-element lens with 120-degree visibility), ultra-wide (with 155-degree...
The well-known analogue snapshot brand Polaroid Originals presented a new camera with an integrated application for the smartphone at the IFA in Berlin, OneStep+. With it, taking pictures will be easier and more creative than ever. We were at the presentation and we told you all about it in our article.
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Jaybird has launched the new X4 Bluetooth wireless headset. It features improved design over the previous X3 model while maintaining most of the features and performance. The X4 features an IPX7 certified design, which makes it a lot more water-resistant than the X3 that were merely sweat-resistant. The X4 also features a new Speed Cinch cord design that lets you tighten the slack at the back of your neck for a more comfortable fit. Apart from the design, not much else has changed. It still has the same audio quality and the same 8-hour battery life. It also unfortunately has...
LG has launched a new smartphone called Candy in India. The phone is priced at INR 6999 ($98) and will be available starting September 1 across retail outlets. As you can tell from the price, the LG Candy is a budget Android smartphone. It features a 5.0-inch 720p IPS display with a 8MP camera on the back and a 5MP camera on the front. It's powered by a 1.3GHz quad-core processor with 2GB of RAM and 16GB of expandable storage. It's kept running by a 2500mAh removable battery. The phone comes with four different colors covers in the package. Black is the default but users can also...
The vivo X23 is launching on September 6 and it looks like it plans to leak every single day until that point. This time around, we get a shot of what is said to be a presentation slide listing the phone's specs. Given that the source has already removed the image, and the close proximity of the announcement itself, this may be legit despite containing one glaring typo. That's further solidified by the fact that these specs come to reconfirm what has already been outed about the X23. So, the device should have a 6.41" 1080x2340 Super AMOLED touchscreen with 19.5:9 aspect ratio and...
The Philips SmartSleep promises to improve the quality of your sleep, but can this smart headband really deliver. Oh, and did we mention it looks bizzare!?
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Google's Assistant has become the first service of its kind to gain bilingual abilities. At the moment, you can talk to it in any combination of English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, and Japanese, while more languages are going to be supported for this new feature "in the coming months". The company's demos show full sentences spoken in each language, to which the Assistant responds appropriately. So it seems like you can't mix and match languages within the same request you make to it, but this is still quite the technical accomplishment, part of Google's multi-year effort to make...
The first renders showing the upcoming iPhone XS and its bigger sibling (possibly to be called iPhone XS Plus) weren't it in terms of Apple-related leaks for the day. We've also got an official looking render of the Apple Watch Series 4. At first sight it's got a familiar look, and it's even expected to have the exact same length and width as its predecessor. The difference, however, is in the screen. Specifically, the fact that the Series 4 will employ a bigger display in the same chassis, by trimming the bezels. Past rumors said the new panel would be around 15% bigger. The...
While this year's three new iPhone models have been leaking a lot as we get closer to the September 12 event during which they'll get official, there's been some controversy around their names. Not anymore, according to a new report from 9to5Mac. The successor to the iPhone X, with its similar looks and 5.8" touchscreen, will allegedly be called iPhone XS. This is a certainty, apparently. What's less clear is what the bigger, 6.5" model will be called - iPhone XS Plus perhaps? Anyway, here they are, one on top of the other, in the first leaked render depicting two thirds of Apple's 2018...
Here we go again - the Pocophone F1 does not have Widevine L1. Technical details aside, this means that you won't have access to HD quality videos from streaming services - Netflix, Amazon Video, Hulu, BBC, all the major players rely on it. Widevine is a DRM system that ensures a video stream cannot be copied illegally. There are three levels, but essentially any stream with 720p resolution and above requires L1. The phone does come with L3, which enables 540p streaming, but even on a mobile screen it doesn't look great. Widevine is not something you can just install, even an OTA update...
Lenovo is expanding its entire range at the IFA 2018 and has more to offer than just laptops and computers. The areas of smart home and augmented reality are also in fashion among the Chinese, and a very exciting product is finally making its way to the UK and Europe.
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ZTE has been branching out its mobile business quite a bit lately. Experimenting with various concepts, like the nubia Red Magic, just to see what sticks. Still one family has been notably missing form the Chinese manufacturer's lineup for quite some time.
Mere hours have passed since BlackBerry made the KEY2 LE official but already the phone can be ordered in the UK and the Netherlands by eager early adopters. Retailer Unlocked-Mobiles has the KEY2 LE up for pre-order at a price of £349 for a Black 32GB model with shipping estimated for September 10. Dutch retailer Belsimpel also has a pre-order up for the KEY2 LE with a price tag of €429 and a supposed shipping in 2 weeks. BlackBerry's latest phone will cost $449 in the US, CAD 579 in Canada and €429 in the rest of Europe. If you're not up to speed with what the BlackBerry...
The date is set - Apple will unveil its new iPhone lineup on September 12 at the Steve Jobs Theater in Cupertino, one year to the date from its last iPhone event. The star of the show will be the new iPhone and more specifically the new iPhones. We're almost certain there will be three iPhone models - an updated 5.8-inch iPhone, a new cheaper 6.1-inch LCD iPhone and a 6.5-inch flagship within the dimensions of the current iPhone 8 Plus. The event could show new iPad Pro's. Rumor has it both the iPad Pro 10.5 and Pro 12.9 will get thinner bezels, Face ID and more streamlines...
If you're new to Android and would like to start downloading leaked apps and customizing your Android experience, you need to know about APK files.An APK is the package file format used for distribution and installation of mobile apps. We explain what APKs are used for, and how to download and install them.
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