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Samsung Galaxy A70 sales to start on April 26

Posted: 10 Apr 2019 07:15 AM PDT

Samsung's event today may have been mostly about the Galaxy A80, but it also brought some news on the other members of its new A lineup. An important bit were the launch details of the Galaxy A70 . We already knew the 6.7" Galaxy A70 is going on sale in April, but now we have an exact date to look forward to - April 26. That's just over two weeks for now. The price is €419, which equals about $470. That's what the phone will cost in continental Europe anyway, but according to Samsung reps at the event the prices will be more or less the same in other markets to get the Galaxy A70....

Samsung Galaxy A80 promo videos show off its rotating pop-up camera in action

Posted: 10 Apr 2019 06:30 AM PDT

The Samsung Galaxy A80 jumped to the front of the pop-up camera design movement with an extra action - rotating the rear camera to face forward. This makes it the first smartphone to offer 48MP selfies. A triple camera experience that's ready for live. #GalaxyA80 #SamsungEventLearn more: https://t.co/bbVzsoWlIW pic.twitter.com/5nxXBNcdYO— Samsung Mobile (@SamsungMobile) April 10, 2019 The phone actually has a triple camera with an ultra-wide angle module and a ToF sensor that enables Live Focus. Here's how that works: Don't let the background get in the way of your story, even in...

Samsung Galaxy A80 and A70 hands-on review

Posted: 10 Apr 2019 06:00 AM PDT

Samsung Galaxy A20e unveiled with a smaller 5.8" screen, 15W fast charging

Posted: 10 Apr 2019 05:49 AM PDT

The A20 got a more petite twin - the Samsung galaxy A20e. It moves away from the 6.4" Super AMOLED display and uses a 5.8" LCD instead (the resolution is 720 x 1,560px in both cases). The Infinity V notch is still here along with its 8MP selfie camera. The rear camera has a 13MP main shooter (with a relatively bright f/1.9 aperture) along with a 5MP ultra-wide module, matching the larger model. Also on the back is a fingerprint reader. The Samsung Galaxy A20e is powered by the Exynos 7884 chipset (2x big + 6x small cores) with 3GB of RAM and 32GB storage, expandable with up to 512GB...

Samsung Galaxy A80 official with rotating pop-up camera for 48MP selfies

Posted: 10 Apr 2019 05:00 AM PDT

The Samsung Galaxy A80 is the perfect embodiment of the new "Era of Live" design philosophy for the revamped A-series. It does that with a motorized pop-up and a spring-loaded rotate mechanism that turn the rear camera to face forward for your selfie needs. This phone promises to deliver the best quality selfie photos and videos. To do that, the Galaxy A80 brings the highest resolution sensor of any Galaxy phone - a 48MP module with an f/2.0 lens. It features the Super Steady mode from the Galaxy S10 for videos. You see, the "Era of Live" leaves static selfie photos...

Watch the Samsung Galaxy A80 announcement live here

Posted: 10 Apr 2019 04:30 AM PDT

A Galaxy Event starts soon - it will be live in Bangkok, Milan and Sao Paolo as well as online. The event promises to introduce the latest Galaxy A-series devices (plural), which are designed for the Era of Live. Most of the revamped A-series is already live, it covers the Galaxy A10, A20, A30, A40, A50 and A70. But those are official already, the star of this reveal will be the Galaxy A80 and, perhaps, the Galaxy A60 (though rumors for the latter dried up a while ago). The Galaxy A-series is important as it takes over from the highly successful Galaxy J line. So, if you couldn't travel...

vivo X27 Pro goes on pre-order in China

Posted: 10 Apr 2019 04:00 AM PDT

Last month, vivo released the X27 and today the Pro version of the X27 went live on pre-order in China. vivo X27 Pro At first glance, the phones appear quite similar but around the back the X27 Pro's triple camera is aligned centrally. It has the same 48MP main and 13MP ultrawide sensor as the X27, but the depth sensor has been downgraded from 5MP to and 2MP. A more crucial difference is the elevating front camera which now comes with a 32MP module with flash compared to the flash-less 16MP one on the standard X27. The rest of the spec sheet matches the X27 with a 6.7"...

Oppo Reno and Reno 10x Zoom go official with shark fin-style selfie camera

Posted: 10 Apr 2019 03:05 AM PDT

After having been subject to weeks of teasers and leaks, the Oppo Reno and Reno 10x Zoom Edition have been finally unveiled at an event held in Beijing, China. Oppo Reno 10x Zoom edition The Oppo Reno 10x Zoom is the new flagship of the maker and comes complete with a 13MP F/3.0 periscope camera with 10x hybrid zoom. It's joined at the back by a 48MP F/1.7 main snapper and an 8MP F/2.2 120-degree wide-angle camera in a setup that aims to directly tackle the Huawei P30 Pro. In fact the periscope module is both of higher resolution and wider aperture than the Huawei flagship. The...

Lenovo Z6 Pro with Snapdragon 855 SoC coming on April 23

Posted: 10 Apr 2019 01:45 AM PDT

Lenovo recently confirmed that the Z6 Pro will be launched this month. Now, the company has announced that this smartphone will debut on April 23 at an event in Beijing, China. This information comes from Lenovo VP through Weibo where he also shared a video re-confirming features like Snapdragon 855 SoC and Hyper Video. You can check it out below. Renders of the Z6 Pro have also surfaced which reveal its design. At the front, the smartphone appears to have a notch-less display with the earpiece placed on the top bezel. However, it's possible that the Z6 Pro comes with a notch but...

Honor 20i official images surface ahead of April 17 launch

Posted: 10 Apr 2019 01:00 AM PDT

Huawei sub-brand Honor is all set to launch the Honor 20i smartphone on April 17 in China. The company hasn't revealed much about this smartphone other than teasing a waterdrop notch display and a 32MP selfie camera. Well, a week ahead of the launch, official images of the 20i have surfaced confirming its design. The Honor 20i has been listed on VMall with its images which reveal a waterdrop notch display, triple rear cameras, and a rear-mounted fingerprint scanner. These images also confirm that 20i will come in at least three colors. The Honor 20i looks the same as the Honor 20...

Samsung Galaxy A20 now on sale in India

Posted: 10 Apr 2019 12:17 AM PDT

The Samsung Galaxy A20 is now on sale in India. It's priced at INR12,490 ($180) and can be purchased through Samsung India's online shop as well as brick-and-mortar stores across the country. It will also be available on Flipkart from April 12. The Galaxy A20 is powered by an Exynos 7884 SoC which is paired with 3GB RAM. It's built around a 6.4-inch Infinity-V AMOLED display and sports a dual camera setup (13MP + 5MP) at the back. It has 32GB of onboard storage and ships with a 4,000 mAh battery.

OnePlus 7 Pro appears in the wild, might be the company's 5G phone

Posted: 09 Apr 2019 09:15 PM PDT

It's no secret OnePlus is working on a 5G phone, the company confirmed so at MWC. However we have very little information apart from its Snapdragon 855 chipset and X50 modem giving it 5G capabilities. Today, two photos of the alleged 5G OnePlus phone popped up on Weibo revealing some key specs and its curved screen design with minimal bezels. OnePlus 7 Pro The source calls the phone the OnePlus 7 Pro and bears the GM1915 model name. The about section in one of the images reveals the device is packing a 6.67" Super Optic display, Snapdragon 855 with 8GB RAM and 256GB storage. The...

Huawei Mate X will be available in June, was briefly listed on Vmall

Posted: 09 Apr 2019 08:00 PM PDT

The Huawei Mate X will be available later this year, but the company has been pretty vague about the launch date. A slip-up on Vmall (a Huawei-run online retailer) may have spoiled the mystery, however. A page for Huawei's first foldable phone (which is also its first 5G phone) went up, showing a June release date. That page has since been taken down. Officially, the Mate X will be available in mid-2019 at a price of €2,300. The specs of the phone are, of course, no secret - we even have a video preview if you want more details. Via 1 (in Russian) | Via 2 (in Chinese,...

We download older, more established apps but newer games

Posted: 09 Apr 2019 06:45 PM PDT

We're now mostly downloading apps that are around 5 years old, says Eric Feng - Founding CTO of Hulu. The Top 30 apps in Apple's App Store are, on average, 1,853 days old (5 years) compared to 625 days old (less than 2 years) in 2014. This means people are choosing to download more established apps in place of newer ones. Of course this is the place where you'll find the must-have Facebook, Instagram, Google Maps, Spotify and the like. The story is the same on Android where the Top 30 apps on the Google Play Store are, on average, 4 years old in 2019 and were 18 months old in...

Oppo F11 Pro climbs to the Mt. Everest Base Camp to shoot some amazing photos

Posted: 09 Apr 2019 05:30 PM PDT

Mt. Everest is a beautiful place, but most of us will never go there - we only have photos and videos shot by others to look at. And while some add bulky camera equipment to their already heavy luggage, others go up with just a phone. Spotting the Perfect Mountain • The Artistic Canvas • The Himalayan Landscape • The First Glimpse of Camp Dr. Nima Namgyal Sherpa and photographer Adam Meng trekked to the Everest Base Camp with an Oppo F11 Pro in hand and shared some of the photos they took. Porters along the journey • Wind so Wild The mountainscapes look...

Counterpoint: Pixel 3 and OnePlus 6T adopters came over from Samsung

Posted: 09 Apr 2019 04:15 PM PDT

Here's an interesting stat - among Google Pixel 3 and OnePlus 6T buyers in Q4 of 2018 in the US, the most were former Samsung owners. Less than 20% were iPhone users. Now let's clarify a bit. According to Counterpoint Research data, some 51% of Pixel 3 buyers in the States were owners of a Galaxy smartphone, however 31% of them owned a three year old Galaxy S7. While 37% of OnePlus 6T buyers came from a Samsung phone, many of them used either a Samsung J2 Prime or the aforementioned Galaxy S7. Also worth noting is that 80% of the Pixel 3's sales came from owners of Android devices...

Amazon's Spring Deals offer cheap iPads and Android phones

Posted: 09 Apr 2019 03:00 PM PDT

Amazon is doing a bit of Spring cleaning and that means low prices on some leftover electronics. Here are a few interesting offerings. In the US, you can grab an Apple iPad (128GB, Wi-Fi) for just $330. The 32GB version goes down to $250, but is currently backordered. In the UK, a large number of Android phones as well as iPhone 7 and 7 Plus units are discounted up to 35%. You can see the full list here. Long story short, an iPhone 7 (32GB) is £410, a Galaxy S8 (64GB) is £400 and a OnePlus 6 (64GB) is £390. A Sony Xperia XZ2 Compact may be the last of the petite flagships, it...

Qualcomm unveils 11nm Snapdragon 665, 8nm Snapdragon 730 and 730G with improved graphics

Posted: 09 Apr 2019 02:00 PM PDT

Today Qualcomm took the wraps off its two newest mobile chipsets: the Snapdragon 665 and the Snapdragon 730 (which also gets a 730G bin, with 15% better graphics). Snapdragon 665 The Snapdragon 665 seems to be intended as the successor to the Snapdragon 660. Compared to that, it's made on a smaller 11nm LPP process, which means it should bring some battery life improvements to the table as well as some cost reduction. Like its predecessor, the 665 has four Kryo 260 cores, based off of the ARM Cortex-A73 microarchitecture, but these only go up to 2GHz compared to 2.2 GHz in the...

Exclusive: Honor 20 (or Honor 20 Pro) case render leak shows space for many rear cameras

Posted: 09 Apr 2019 12:00 PM PDT

Today a trusted source who wishes to remain anonymous but has been reliable in the past sent us an image of an upcoming official case for a yet unannounced Honor device. Here it is in all its glory: While seeing just the case doesn't give us a lot of information about the phone it's designed for, there are still some educated guesses we can make. First off, it looks like this handset will have a bunch of rear cameras, as the cutout for those is quite big. The design of the cutout itself makes us think of the Huawei P30 Pro's camera arrangement, with the LED flash placed to the right of...

Meizu 16s press render leaks, showing off notchless display

Posted: 09 Apr 2019 11:00 AM PDT

Chinese phone maker Meizu is expected to announce the 16s soon. We've been hearing about it for the past few weeks and the smartphone recently got TENAA certification hinting at an imminent launch in China. Thanks to previously leaked images, we already have an idea of what the 16s will look like, but now, an official-looking render has surfaced which gives us our best look yet at this smartphone. This render shows us that the Meizu 16s will flaunt a notchless display surrounded by tiny bezels and a selfie camera above it on the right side. At the back, the phone has dual cameras stacked...
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