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Motorola One Vision brings 21:9 display, 48MP camera and Exynos chipset

Posted: 15 May 2019 07:38 AM PDT

Motorola just took the wraps off its latest phone - the One Vision. The mid-ranger runs stock Android as a part of the Android One program and brings several firsts for a Moto phone - 21:9 cinematic screen, punch hole camera, and even a Samsung chipset. At the front we have a 6.3-inch FHD+ display of the super tall 21:9 ratio. There's a hole in the upper left corner for the 25MP selfie cam. Going around the back, we find the dual camera setup featuring a 48MP f/1.7 main sensor with OIS alongside a 5MP f/2.2 depth sensor. The primary shooter uses the familiar Quad-Bayer filter...

Motorola One Vision review

Posted: 15 May 2019 07:35 AM PDT

Even though Motorola is not the dominant maker it once was it was never afraid to innovate and push the envelope. The company is even looking to release a foldable phone, reviving the RAZR series, but that doesn't mean it's overlooking its midrange lineup. The company wants to stay up to date with the current trends and offer a rare set of features for the asking price and it delivered the Motorola One Vision.

Customers who pre-ordered the Galaxy Fold are getting reward points

Posted: 15 May 2019 06:45 AM PDT

Samsung should announce a new launch date for the Galaxy Fold soon, but it seems that people who pre-ordered the foldable flagship are getting antsy. To keep them from canceling their pre-orders, Samsung is offering them reward points. The Galaxy Fold is $1,980 and Samsung offers 2 points for every $1 spent on smartphones. So, that's a total of 3,960 points. 200 points can be redeemed for $1, which works out to just under $20. If you pre-ordered, check your Samsung account to see if you received the reward points. You can redeem them at Samsung.com or the Samsung App store....

Redmi sends regards to OnePlus, but claims the Flagship killer title for the Redmi K20

Posted: 15 May 2019 06:00 AM PDT

Redmi's upcoming flagship got its name officially confirmed yesterday and now the company also revealed that it's coming to India soon. The self-proclaimed Flagship Killer 2.0 will feature the Snapdragon 855 and a 48MP camera without breaking the bank. We also got to learn that the internal name of the device is the "Demon King". Congratulations @OnePlus team! 👏 There's a new flagship in town.Flagship Killer 2.0: coming soon.. Hold my dragon! 🐲 pic.twitter.com/wnqaLbUTSw— Manu Kumar Jain (@manukumarjain) May 15, 2019 Xiaomi's VP Manu Jain decided to congratulate...

Samsung sold 5 million Galaxy A phones in India in just 70 days

Posted: 15 May 2019 05:00 AM PDT

Just 40 days after the new Galaxy A series became in India, Samsung reported that it has sold 2 million units. Now, 30 days later, that number has more than doubled to a total of 5 million units. The Chief Marketing Officer of Samsung India spoke with Reuters, saying that this generated a revenue north of $1 billion. Samsung reportedly expects the revenue for the fiscal year 2019 to reach $4 billion. Considering that Samsung's revenue in India for the fiscal 2018 (which ended in March) was $5.3 billion, it seems that Samsung expects most of its sales to be generated by the new Galaxy A...

Sony Xperia 1 + WH-1000XM bundle expands to UK, the Netherlands and Sweden

Posted: 15 May 2019 04:14 AM PDT

The Sony Xperia 1 bundles are spreading - in several countries pre-ordering the flagship nets you Sony's best noise-canceling headphones, the WH-1000XM3, for free. Today, we've dug up more deals. Express UK reports that Brits will be given a choice - the 1000XM3 headphones or a free PlayStation 4. Vodafone offers an Xperia 1, PlayStation 4 and Marvel's Spider-Man game for £49 upfront and £54 a month for 15GB of data. O2 and Carphone Warehouse will bundle the headphones instead. Dutch store Belsimpel has a special deal too - for €950, it will bundle not only the headphones, but a fast...

Realme X review

Posted: 15 May 2019 02:31 AM PDT

Sony Xperia 2 appears in renders

Posted: 15 May 2019 02:30 AM PDT

While the Xperia 1 is still at the pre-order stage, the first images of its successor - the Xperia 2 - have surfaced online courtesy of OnLeaks. The renders show the device in its full glory with a detailed 360-degree look. The phone will feature a 6.1-inch 4K OLED display with a tall 21:9 aspect ratio just like the Xperia 1. The dimensions are 158 x 68.3 x 8.3mm, which while longer is narrower than the Samsung Galaxy S10e, so we can finally expect another compact flagship from Sony. Inside the phone will have the Snapdragon 855 processor with 6GB RAM and 128GB...

Realme X brings elevating selfie camera and 48MP main snapper, X Lite tags along

Posted: 15 May 2019 01:30 AM PDT

It's official - the Realme X is here and it's the most premium phone the brand has ever put out. Alongside it the company unveiled the Realme X Lite, which is merely the Chinese name for the Realme 3 Pro. Think of the Realme X as a Realme 3 Pro with a bigger, now AMOLED screen and the OnePlus 7 (non-Pro) cameras. Now let's dig in. The Realme X has a 6.5-inch 1080p AMOLED with an in-display fingerprint scanner and no notch. Realme has achieved this by tucking the selfie camera into a motorized pop-up mechanism behind the display. The in-display fingerprint scanner is an optical...

Oppo Reno Gundam edition surfaces

Posted: 15 May 2019 12:44 AM PDT

Hot on the heels of the F11 Pro Avengers Endgame edition, Oppo is bringing another limited edition phone dedicated to Gundam. Oppo Reno's Weibo account confirmed the partnership and thanks to some leaks we see the phone's design inspired by the Japanese robot anime series. The new device will bring a punch hole display with the selfie camera centered at the top (which would be a first) and minimal bezels all around. The back panel will have a sleek Gundam robot alongside a dual camera setup with flash. Given the absence of a physical fingerprint sensor in the photos, we can expect the...

Watch the Realme X announcement live here

Posted: 14 May 2019 11:30 PM PDT

Realme just turned a year old, but it has already made a significant impact releasing a series of aggressively priced phones and taking a big share of the market in some Asian countries. Today the company is going to add the Realme X to its lineup and it might be its most premium phone yet. Based on the Snapdragon 710 of the Realme 3 Pro, the X is expected to get rid of the notch by putting the selfie camera on a motorized elevating mechanism and finally make the switch to a USB-C port. It's also rumored to bring the first OLED screen in the series with a fingerprint scanner tucked...

Check out the official promo videos for the OnePlus 7 and OnePlus 7 Pro

Posted: 14 May 2019 09:00 PM PDT

OnePlus' big launch event is over and the company has unsurprisingly uploaded a few official promo videos for its new devices onto its YouTube channel, as all smartphone makers do. If you've already read through our comprehensive review of the OnePlus 7 Pro, then to whet your appetite even more here's the official introduction video for the new flagship smartphone. If you want a more condensed look, this one minute video - which could very well serve as a TV commercial - is happy to oblige. Last but definitely not least, let's not forget about the OnePlus 7 - for all intents and...

OnePlus 7 Pro aces scratch and bend test, doesn't get screen damage from an open flame

Posted: 14 May 2019 07:00 PM PDT

The OnePlus 7 Pro has only been announced a few short hours ago, but it's already been put through an extensive durability test by Zack from YouTube channel JerryRigEverything. He starts off his trademark stress test with scratches, and like all other phones using Gorilla Glass on the screen the 7 Pro scratches at a level 6 on the Mohs hardness scale, with deeper grooves showing at level 7. Note that the levels refer to the tools used for scratching. Next up, the motorized pop-up selfie camera - it's protected by glass too, which means it won't easily be scratched, although the area...

OnePlus 7 Pro's pop-up selfie camera can hold a 22kg slab of cement without breaking

Posted: 14 May 2019 05:00 PM PDT

The OnePlus 7 Pro is the first device from this company to feature a motorized pop-up selfie camera. Naturally, many of you will have concerns about the mechanism's durability, and OnePlus says it should be fine with at least 300,000 'pops' over the lifetime of the phone. But when popped out that camera sure looks fragile? Is it, though? That's what OnePlus' latest publicity stunt... erm, promo video wants to answer. Spoiler alert: this video involves a 49.2lb (22.3kg) slab of cement. So it's not for the faint of heart, for sure. Enjoy: You're probably not ever going to find...

OnePlus 7 Pro 5G is official too, exclusive to EE in the UK

Posted: 14 May 2019 02:39 PM PDT

You may already know that OnePlus unveiled new smartphones today - the OnePlus 7 Pro, its new flagship, and the OnePlus 7, a more affordable option for those on a budget. But these in fact weren't the only handsets to make their global debut at the company's grand event. They were joined by the OnePlus 7 Pro 5G, because it can't be a smartphone launch event in 2019 without the "5G" buzzword being present, it seems. And Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon on stage saying "5G is here", even though so far that hasn't been true for most places across the world. As the name implies, the OnePlus...

OnePlus 7 Pro has a "record setting impressive" screen according to DisplayMate

Posted: 14 May 2019 02:18 PM PDT

As teased a couple of weeks ago, today DisplayMate has published its full in-depth review of the OnePlus 7 Pro's 90Hz QHD+ Fluid AMOLED screen. And also as teased, it turns out it's one of the best panels ever put in a phone, receiving DisplayMate's highest A+ display rating. In the company's own words, "the OnePlus 7 Pro has a very impressive excellent world class smartphone display", "one of the most innovative and highest performance" it's ever tested, setting or matching a whopping 10 smartphone display performance rating records. These are: highest absolute color accuracy (0.8...

Honor 20 passes by Geekbench

Posted: 14 May 2019 01:00 PM PDT

The Honor 20 is coming on May 21 alongside a Pro version and today the it stopped by Geekbench, revealing some of its specs in the process. The Honor 20 manages to push out a 3278 single-core score and 9709 in the multi-core department. These numbers are similar to last year's Mate 20 series, which isn't surprising given the Honor 20 utilizes the same Kirin 980 chipset. The phone tested has 6GB of RAM, but we've also heard of an 8GB version. The Geekbench listing reveals that the Honor 20 will run on Android 9.0 with EMUI 9.0 on top, but that's hardly a surprise. Source...

OnePlus Bullets Wireless 2 review

Posted: 14 May 2019 11:00 AM PDT

The Bullets Wireless 2 are OnePlus' new set of wireless earphones. They follow last year's Bullets Wireless, which, although quite good were hardly ever in stock for people to buy. This year we have the promise of better supply so that should be much less of an issue. But apart from that, there are also a few other key changes to talk about so let's get into that first. Design The design of the Bullets Wireless 2 is very similar to that of the original Bullets Wireless. It's only when you pay closer attention do you notice all the things that have changed. The speaker...

OnePlus 7 Pro jumps onto the DxOMark podium with its triple rear camera

Posted: 14 May 2019 10:20 AM PDT

DxOMark teased its upcoming review of the OnePlus 7 Pro's cameras a couple of weeks ago, and today it's gone live. The Chinese company's latest flagship smartphone has made the podium of the DxOMark rankings. Its 111 overall score is just one point shy of what the two devices tied for the lead have accomplished - the Huawei P30 Pro and Samsung Galaxy S10 5G both got 112. As you'd expect from the score being so close, the OnePlus 7 Pro boasts excellent results in almost all photo and video sub-scores of DxOMark. The phone has a wide dynamic range that preserves highlights as well as shadow...

OnePlus 6T remains available, gets a price cut

Posted: 14 May 2019 09:40 AM PDT

When the OnePlus 6T was unveiled, the older 6 remained available (still is in some markets), contrasting with the company's previous strategy of discontinuing the old model as soon as a new one comes out. Now the 6T itself is getting the same treatment. Starting on May 17, OnePlus will reduce the price of the 6T by $30. Note that the base 6/128GB model is getting killed off, which will make the 8/128GB version the new cheapest option. OnePlus 6T Old Price New Price 6/128GB $550 (discontinued) 8/128GB $580 $550 ...
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