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Spotify reaches 100 million Premium subscribers

Posted: 29 Apr 2019 09:00 AM PDT

Spotify just announced that it reached a big milestone - 100 million paid users. That's almost half of the service's total users. Those listening on the free tier are 117 million. The official launch in India helped a lot last quarter as about million users signed up the first week and that number doubled in the next month or so. Unfortunately, though, even that's not enough to propel Spotify into profiting. The company lost about €142 million in Q1 2019, which is in contrast to December's €442 million in profit. At least it's less than last year's Q1 when Spotify lost €169...

vivo Z3x announced - it is the vivo Z1 with a new selfie camera

Posted: 29 Apr 2019 08:00 AM PDT

Last week another vivo smartphone was spotted on TENAA, and today the device is official. Although it looks a lot like the vivo V9 or the vivo Z1, it is actually called vivo Z3x, despite having almost identical specs. The phone has a Snapdragon 660 chipset, coupled with 4 GB RAM and 64 GB storage. The screen is 6.26" LCD panel with Full HD+ resolution and a notch that some would call retro. The cutout houses the earpiece and the 16 MP selfie shooter, sitting behind an f/2.0 aperture. The front-facing camera is the only hardware difference from the vivo Z1 that has been official for...

First Realme 3 Pro flash sale moved 170,000 units in 8 minutes

Posted: 29 Apr 2019 07:00 AM PDT

The Realme 3 Pro was introduced last Monday and today, as promised, the phone appeared for its first online flash sale. The company posted on Twitter that over 170,000 units were sold in just 8 minutes, with the amount expected to increase even more with a second and flash sales, all scheduled for today. The biggest fans of Realme could purchase the most powerful smartphone of the company in a blind order three days before the official announcement. The Oppo sub-brand also opened its first pop-up store on Saturday, where hardcore enthusiasts could purchase physically the device, as...

Xiaomi Mi 9 enters the UK tomorrow

Posted: 29 Apr 2019 06:00 AM PDT

Xiaomi's mainstream flagship, the Mi 9, has been selling like a hot cake in and outside of China. And no wonder - you are getting top-notch hardware at a reasonable price. Tomorrow, UK fans can get one too. The phone has been launched in other countries in Europe such as Spain and Italy, so it comes a bit late in the UK. Starting tomorrow, you can find the handset at Vodafone, Xiaomi's online Mi.com store and at the offline Mi store in London. The device will be available in two flavors - 64GB and 128GB. The first one will set you back £499 while the beefier version will cost £549....

Samsung Galaxy A50 update adds a couple of new features

Posted: 29 Apr 2019 05:00 AM PDT

Samsung's Galaxy A50 is gaining a lot of traction lately and owners can now benefit from the latest OTA update that just arrived in India. It focuses on the camera, fingerprint reader and Bixby. The new software version is A505FDDU1ASD6 and it's 666MB big. It brings a couple of new camera features like narrow 68-degree field of view for the front-facing camera, more background effects for the Live Focus mode and beauty video mode for the front and back cameras. More importantly, the firmware update addresses the under-display fingerprint scanner issues that some users are...

OnePlus 7 Pro's OLED aces DisplayMate tests

Posted: 29 Apr 2019 04:00 AM PDT

Rumors about the OnePlus 7 Pro's display sound promising and today's tweet from DisplayMate finally gives us some reassurance. It appears that the phone sports an excellent OLED panel, earning the highest test scores. The phone received A+, putting it side by side with flagships by Samsung and Apple. That's a big achievement for a phone that will cost considerably less than the competition, if the rumors are correct. DisplayMate's in-depth Lab Tests of the OnePlus 7 Pro OLED Display have just been completed, earning our Highest A+ Display Rating. Our in-depth Display Shoot-Out will be...

Motorola Razr V4 appears in press renders along with all the accessories

Posted: 29 Apr 2019 03:00 AM PDT

Motorola's take on foldable phones is arguably one of the most interesting of the bunch. The vertical fold, if done properly, could spark the renaissance of clamshell phones. And today's renders give us a pretty good look at the handset itself. The images appear to be in line with what we've heard so far and the retail box looks pretty cool. It could be a special edition package, though, judging by the number of accessories that it contains. We've got what appears to be a wireless charger, earbuds, USB-A to USB-C charging cable, a power adapter and a USB-C to 3.5mm audio port...

Redmi confirms flagship smartphone with elevating selfie camera

Posted: 29 Apr 2019 02:07 AM PDT

We've been hearing about a Redmi flagship for quite some time, and today the company confirmed such a device is arriving. We also expected the phone to have an elevating selfie shooter, and a video, posted by the Xiaomi sub-brand revealed it, ending all speculations and confirming previous spy shots. Redmi posted a short teaser on Weibo, showcasing a partnership with the latest Avengers: Endgame movie, meaning we might see a special version. However, this would clash with the already announced variant of Oppo F11 Pro, so we are eager to see what Redmi has in store for us. The...

Realme teases pop-up selfie camera in a new promo

Posted: 29 Apr 2019 01:00 AM PDT

Realme is officially expanding to China, as the Oppo sub-brand has already set up a local website with a landing page and is already on Weibo. Today the company posted a video at the social network, showcasing a new smartphone with a pop-up selfie camera in the center. The video is less than a minute and consists a repetitive upbeat melody that can easily stick in your head and leave you humming "it's me, it's me, it's Realme" for the rest of the day. It is the official theme song and the clip has young people having fun, taking selfies, dancing and other stuff to hype you about...

Another Honor 20 Pro leaked render confirms periscope camera

Posted: 29 Apr 2019 12:00 AM PDT

The Honor 20 Pro has already been spotted in Green/Blue color, then it appeared in Pearl White, and now a new render in Black confirms one more time the design and the camera setup. The phone will have three main shooters, with the top one being a 10x lens, spotted in the Huawei P30 Pro as well. The sensor sitting behind is likely the IMX600, and the whole setup will have a 3D ToF camera for all the variety of photos you need. The device will be launched in three weeks in London, UK - the exact date being May 21. We expect a non-Pro version called Honor 20 with three cameras -...

Oppo A1k arrives in India

Posted: 28 Apr 2019 11:00 PM PDT

Oppo A1k was made official last week in Russia. The phone with Helio P22 chipset was launched for the equivalent of $150, but now it arrives in India with a lower price tag. The phone is currently available at offline retailers and we're yet to hear if it will be available at the official online store of Oppo. The A1k offers some basic specs like an 8 MP f/2.2 main shooter and 5 MP front-facing camera. The screen is 6.1" LCD with HD+ resolution and tall 19.5:9 ratio with a waterdrop notch on top. There is only one memory option - 2 GB RAM and 32 GB storage. There is no fingerprint...

nubia Red Magic 3 arrives with 8K video recording and monster specs

Posted: 28 Apr 2019 10:10 PM PDT

Nowadays smartphone companies are offering a batch of nice specs, but compromising over others in order to have a lower price tag. ZTE decided to go the other way and threw everything it had to make a monster of a phone, called nubia Red Magic 3. The new gaming device offers flagship chipset and 12 GB RAM, but it stands out with a huge battery, two types of internal cooling, 8K and 1920 fps slow-mo video recording. Everywhere you look, the nubia Red Magic 3 has an impressive set of features. The 6.65" AMOLED display has a 90 Hz refresh rate and 240 Hz touch refresh rate. The panel...

Top 10 trending phones of week 17

Posted: 28 Apr 2019 09:00 PM PDT

A bunch of new phones debuted this week, but none of them managed to gain enough traction to seriously stir up our most popular phones' ranking. In fact, only two made the chart and they only took the final two spots - the Lenovo Z6 Pro is ninth, while the Redmi Y3 is tenth. On top we get the Samsung Galaxy A50, which has a comfortable gap to the Xiaomi Redmi Note 7 in second and the Galaxy A70 in third. The Huawei P30 Pro slid to fourth, while last week's runner-up Samsung Galaxy A80 is down in fifth. The Huawei P30 lite and the Redmi Note 7 Pro retain sixth and seventh for the...

Counterclockwise: wireless charging came first, but fast wired charging is more popular

Posted: 28 Apr 2019 05:00 PM PDT

The Palm Pre was ahead of its time - it introduced the mobile world to wireless charging. Unfortunately, for all its innovation, the phone didn't catch up. In fact, manufacturers would ignore wireless charging up until 2013 when they started pushing it more actively. "Fast" wired charging was born relatively late in the game - 2014. There's no firm definition of the term, so we're counting phones that can go above the 10W provided by plain USB. We've chronicled the fight between wireless charging standards before. Spoiler: eventually Qi by the Wireless Power Consortium emerged as the...

Week 17 in review: Samsung delays the Galaxy Fold, OnePlus 7/7 Pro are coming

Posted: 28 Apr 2019 01:00 PM PDT

Week 17 was circled on many a calendar because it was the week when you could pre-order a foldable phone for the first time (while in the US you could even have received one). Samsung's Galaxy Fold was finally coming but sadly due to some issues with the early devices Samsung decided to delay the release of the foldable phone until those issues are dealt with. It's a smart move, despite the outcry it faced. Samsung doesn't want another recall like the infamous Galaxy Note7 one so it's pulling back the Galaxy Fold before it gets into consumer hands. Hopefully it will be released soon and...

Weekly poll: will you buy a 5G phone this year?

Posted: 28 Apr 2019 09:00 AM PDT

EE announced that it will run a trial 5G network at the Glastonbury festival - a record 200,000 people are expected to attend, which might have been a great stress test that will show off the increased capacity over 4G. Except how many attendees will actually have a phone that can connect to a 5G network? A couple of weeks ago, Swisscom launched its 5G network in Zurich. Verizon and AT&T are operating 5G networks in the US. Telstra and Optus in Australia already have 5G networks too. SingTel in Singapore is running tests. 5G networks are here (or at least near), but are there any phones to...
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