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Counterclockwise: searching for the meaning of max, mini, pro, plus and other such names

Posted: 19 May 2019 07:00 AM PDT

Is "Pro" better than a "Plus"? Which is bigger, "Max" or "Note"? Which has the bigger battery? How small is a "mini", anyway? Some of these qualifiers do carry some meaning, e.g. "note" always means a larger device. Larger than the company's average phone that is, there is no legal minimum for a phone to be get "note" in its name. "Max" is more vague - it could mean a large screen, large battery or both. Similarly, "Pro" and "Plus" carry connotations of a more premium device (which often means larger too), but again there are no rules to naming phones. Let's start by finding which...

The new phones of the week

Posted: 19 May 2019 03:00 AM PDT

Some week we had! A whole bunch of announcements took place over the past few days - some exciting, others even more so. It all started on Tuesday with the reveal of the OnePlus 7 Pro, and its vanilla 7 sidekick. OnePlus releases always make waves and this one was no different. The 7 Pro comes with a superb QHD+ 90Hz display, a trifecta of cameras on the back, and a motorized selfie cam. Be sure to have a look at our findings in the in-depth review. Then on Wednesday, Realme pulled the wraps off the X. The ultra affordable, yet properly well specced smartphone from Realme really...

Weekly poll results: Pixel 3a gets some love, the Pixel 3a XL not so much

Posted: 18 May 2019 11:00 PM PDT

Google's mid-range Pixel phones have a very specific target audience - if they find success somewhere, it will be in North America (and maybe Western Europe). They can only thrive in regions where the mid-range segment is sparse as the pricing is too high to compete with the likes of Xiaomi or Honor. The smaller Google Pixel 3a proved the more popular model by a wide margin. Price is part of the issue - you get the same camera and chipset whether you pay $400 or $480. And the camera is indeed the main draw of this phone. There are plenty of Android One phones out there, many with solid...

Top 10 trending phones of week 20

Posted: 18 May 2019 08:00 PM PDT

After the relatively boring week 19, this week properly shook things up with a bunch of exciting announcements, which really shook up our trending chart. The OnePlus 7 Pro went official and unsurprisingly took advantage of that to leap to the top. The new flagship was sitting just behind the Samsung Galaxy A50 for the past two weeks when it was still only a rumor and now that it's a real thing it had no trouble dethroning the Samsung mid-ranger. The vanilla OnePlus 7 didn't get as much attention previously, but it still managed to make the podium this week, pushing another Galaxy A...

Samsung Galaxy A70 in for review

Posted: 18 May 2019 07:00 PM PDT

Released just last month, the new Samsung Galaxy A70 quickly gained traction due to its well-balanced price and hardware. It can even be considered as an alternative to the considerably more expensive Galaxy Note9. We finally have it in our office so let's do a quick preview of what to expect in our full review. The handset is powered by a capable mid-range SoC - the Snapdragon 675 actually beats the Snapdragon 710 in terms of CPU power although it fails to match its GPU prowess. But when it comes to productivity, it's a very good middle ground that lets you save a few bucks without...

Google's Now Playing could start keeping track of location and activities

Posted: 18 May 2019 02:40 PM PDT

The Google Now Playing feature may be getting another significant update sometime soon, as evidenced by an app teardown by XDA Developers. Lines of code in the March beta release (1.0.229715350) of Pixel Ambient Services indicate that it may start tracking location and activity. Now Playing was introduced with the Pixel 2 generation of smartphones. It constantly listens to the ambient music and compares it against a database of popular songs - if it recognizes the one that's playing it shows it on the lockscreen and in the notification shade. With the Pixel 3 release, the feature...

Deals: Huawei P30 and P30 lite discounted at B&H, Sony WH-1000XM3 headphones $280 at Drop

Posted: 18 May 2019 11:39 AM PDT

If your consumerist self has urges to satisfy this weekend, there's a couple of deals that may be intriguing - if you're in the US, that is. B&H has taken some dollars off the regular prices of the Huawei P30 and the P30 lite. The high-end P30 can be yours for $570 as opposed to the regular $600 price tag. The lower-specced P30 lite goes for $280, and here the savings are even bigger at $40. B&H doesn't specify an end date for the discount but does warn of a 'Limited supply at this price'. Meanwhile, Drop wants to sell you a pair of Sony's WH-1000XM3 top-notch noise-cancelling...

Scrolling screenshots now planned for Android R

Posted: 18 May 2019 09:20 AM PDT

You know how people like 'stock' Android for its lack of bloatware and overall streamlined experience? Well, the flipside to that is that some actually useful features are missing from the Android that Google puts out. Some makers add extra bits on top of it into their custom overlays and years down the road those features make it to Android natively. Such was the case, for example, with multi-window multi-tasking - it was introduced on the Samsung Galaxy Note 3 back in 2013 (running Android 4.3 Jelly Bean), but it wasn't until Android 7 Nougat in 2016 that such a feature was implemented...
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