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Google Pixel 3a proves that plastic can be very durable

Posted: 28 May 2019 07:15 AM PDT

The latest phone to pass the JerryRigEverything's durability test is the Google Pixel 3a and it did so without breaking. The Dragon Tail glass covering the front performed just as well as any Gorilla Glass, scratching at a level 6. The phone also survived the bend test, despite appearing to flex a bit too much. Here's the full video. The Google Pixel 3a aims to bring Google's great software and remarkable camera to a record low starting price of €399. That's quite a deal, especially if you you haven't heard of (or don't trust) phones from Realme, Redmi, Honor and the likes. It...

Samsung Galaxy Fold launch info to be announced in a few weeks

Posted: 28 May 2019 06:30 AM PDT

An official from Samsung Electronics has stated that the release schedule for the Samsung Galaxy Fold hasn't been decided yet, but it should be announced "in a few weeks". That means that pre-orders on Samsung.com will be canceled unless you specifically request otherwise (Best Buy already canceled all pre-orders). Samsung is still working to make the screen and hinge of its first foldable phone more durable, but that seems to be taking longer than originally expected. Due to Huawei's troubles, the Mate X launch has been delayed, which gives the company some breathing...

Redmi branches out into the laptop business with the RedmiBook 14

Posted: 28 May 2019 05:45 AM PDT

In addition to the Redmi K20 announcement today, Xiaomi's sub-brand also introduced a 14-inch laptop. And judging by the specs sheet, it's going to be a great performer without breaking the bank. Looks like Redmi wants to retain the same ideology with its notebooks - value being the top priority. The RedmiBook 14, as the name suggests, packs a 14-inch screen with a Full HD (1920 x 1080px) IPS panel boasting thin bezels and 81.2% screen-to-body ratio. You can choose from 8th Generation ultra-low voltage Core i7 or Core i5 chips (Core i7-8565U or Core i5-8265U) and no matter which...

First promo video shows Redmi K20 Pro's best features in one minute

Posted: 28 May 2019 05:00 AM PDT

The first promo video will tell you everything you want to know about the new Redmi K20 Pro in just one minute. It's the first flagship phone from Redmi and, interestingly, it tops the Xiaomi Mi 9 in some aspects while keeping the price lower. The video covers all the highlights of the phone - from the flagship Snapdragon 855 chipset and Game Turbo 2.0 to the 48MP main camera and 20MP pop-up camera. That pop-up camera is where the K20 Pro comes out ahead of the Mi 9 (no notch on the same size Super AMOLED screen). There are other advantages too, like the larger battery (4,000mAh vs....

Oppo Reno to get new Vibrant Orange color on May 30

Posted: 28 May 2019 04:15 AM PDT

If for some reason the standard Ocean Green, Jet Black, Nebula Purple and Pink Mist Oppo Reno colors were too dull for your liking, the company decided to spice things up with the upcoming Vibrant Orange colorway. The new paint job will make its debut during the company's event in Hong Kong on May 30. Oppo Reno Hong Kong event invite According to rumors the larger Oppo Reno 10x zoom will also get the new bright color but we'll have to wait and see if that holds up after Thursday's event. Oppo hasn't confirmed pricing and availability for the new variant and it might end up being...

Oppo Reno and Reno 10x zoom launched in India, first sale is on June 7

Posted: 28 May 2019 02:31 AM PDT

Today Oppo brought the Reno 10x zoom and the Reno to the Indian market. You'll have a choice of a Reno 10x zoom with either 6GB/128GB or 8GB/256GB memory with a price of INR 40,000 (€515/$580) or INR 50,000 (€640/$720), respectively. Both configurations can be pre-ordered today through Flipkart, Amazon India, PayTm Mall, Snapdeal and all Oppo stores, shipments and in-store purchases will begin June 7. The Oppo Reno, which lacks the 10x hybrid zoom camera and makes use of a Snapdragon 710, instead of a Snapdragon 855, among other things, is priced at INR 33,000 (€420/$480) for...

Redmi 7A brings Android Pie and a 4,000 mAh battery for $80

Posted: 28 May 2019 01:45 AM PDT

Earlier today the Redmi K20 and Redmi K20 Pro were introduced in China, but another phone was also made official on the stage - the Xiaomi Redmi 7A. Although it was already introduced several days earlier, now we know pricing and availability dates as well. The phone comes a 5.45" screen with notchless 18:9 screen and HD+ resolution. The top bezel has room for an earpiece, proximity sensor, and a 5 MP selfie camera, while the bottom is occupied by the Redmi logo. On the back we see a single 13 MP shooter with LED flash - there are no fingerprint scanners on the device. Inside the...

Redmi K20 Pro arrives with Snapdragon 855 and 48 MP camera

Posted: 28 May 2019 12:51 AM PDT

Xiaomi has just introduced the Redmi K20 and Redmi K20 Pro, dubbed the "Flagship Killer 2.0". They both come with 48 MP main cameras, OLED panels with UD fingerprint scanners and an elevating cameras. The vanilla K20 is powered by the Snapdragon 730, while the Pro version sports a Snapdragon 855. The screen is 6.39" in diagonal and comes with Full HD+ resolution and 19.5:9 tall ratio. It is pretty much bezel-less, and that's why the front-facing camera made its way to the pop-up mechanism from the top side. The Snapdragon 855 chipset was already teased, but now we know the K20 Pro...

Vivo Y15 is official with Helio P22

Posted: 27 May 2019 10:42 PM PDT

The Indian e-store of vivo has silently posted a new phone - vivo Y15. It is quite similar to the already announced vivo Y17 but comes with a Helio P22 chipset and just 64 GB storage, making company to the 4 GB RAM. The phone comes with a big 6.35" LCD panel with HD+ resolution and a waterdrop notch. The selfie shooter is 16 MP, a downgrade from the global vivo Y17 (although it has the same sensor in China, where the device is marketed as vivo Y3). The affordable phone has three cameras - a 13 MP main shooter, an 8 MP wide-angle lens with 120-degree FOV and a 2 MP f/2.4 depth...

The next iPhones could support streaming audio to two Bluetooth accessories at the same time

Posted: 27 May 2019 09:00 PM PDT

A new rumor today claims Apple is going to introduce yet another new feature when it launches this year's iPhones in the fall, and it's one that Samsung flagships have had since the Galaxy S8. Samsung calls it Dual Audio and what it does is easy: allow you to stream audio to two Bluetooth accessories at the same time. A lot of smartphones can connect to two accessories at the same time, but those accessories have to be using different Bluetooth profiles. So you can have two headphones connected, for example, but use one only for calls and one only for media. Apple is reportedly...

Asus Zenfone 6 update enhances the camera experience

Posted: 27 May 2019 08:00 PM PDT

The Asus Zenfone 6 was unveiled around a couple of weeks ago, and it's already receiving its first software update. This arrives over-the-air as version 16.1210.1904.115. Once installed, it will improve the performance of both Super Night Mode and HDR++ (aka HDR+ Enhanced mode) in the camera, resulting in better image quality and faster image processing speed. Volume key controls have also been added to the camera app. With these you can now control the flip camera's rotation, zoom, or capture a photo. You can pick which behavior you prefer in the Asus Camera settings. The smart key...

Bittium Tough Mobile 2 is "the world's most secure smartphone"

Posted: 27 May 2019 07:00 PM PDT

Bittium is a Finnish company with over 30 years of experience in advanced radio communication technologies and biosignal processing, creating products for tactical communications, providing mobile devices and cyber security solutions certified for use by troops on battlefields. And today it's unveiled its latest smartphone, the Bittium Tough Mobile 2. The company says this is no less than "the world's most secure smartphone", suitable for both professional and personal use. It has a "multilayered security structure", based on the hardened Android 9 Pie OS, with information security...

Motorola One Pro in the works alongside One Action, rumor says

Posted: 27 May 2019 06:00 PM PDT

Back in April famed leakster Evan Blass (aka @evleaks) revealed that Motorola was working on two new Android One smartphones - of those, the One Vision has already become official. As they say - but wait, there's more! According to Blass' April tweet, a Motorola One Action was also in the pipeline, and today he updated the list to add the Motorola One Pro. Unfortunately he hasn't provided any information about the specs of these models, so for now we're left guessing. Motorola One Vision Judging by the names alone, the One Action could be a rugged smartphone - remember those? They...

HTC U11 finally starts receiving Android 9 Pie update

Posted: 27 May 2019 05:00 PM PDT

Earlier this month HTC shared some timelines for its Android 9 Pie updates, which have been very late - if you don't count the U11 Life's, and you shouldn't because that's part of the Android One program which handles things differently, with more control from Google over updates. HTC then promised to deliver the goods to the U11 first, by the end of this month. And here we are today, when the rollout has indeed started. The big caveat here is that the update to Pie for the U11 is currently only available in HTC's home market, namely Taiwan. We're hoping it will quickly spread to other...

Asus announces Zenfone 6 Edition 30 with 12GB of RAM, 512GB of storage

Posted: 27 May 2019 04:00 PM PDT

Given Asus' past antics, involving multiple variations of handsets that all had the same name, we were pretty surprised to learn that there's only one Zenfone 6 when it made its global debut a couple of weeks ago. If you too were rooting for another variant of the phone to become official, today the company has delivered. Meet the Asus Zenfone 6 Edition 30, just unveiled at Computex in Taiwan. To be fair, it's not just a differently specced version that will be sold under the same name, so Asus isn't actually going back to its old tropes. The name is longer because the point of this phone...

TikTok owner reportedly looking to make a phone with Smartisan

Posted: 27 May 2019 02:59 PM PDT

ByteDance, best-known for the TikTok video-sharing app, is reportedly looking to launch its own phone. It has a deal with phone maker Smartisan, it even hired some of its employees and acquired a patent portfolio (both companies are based in Beijing). ByteDance is one of the Chinese unicorns with over 800 million daily active users. Those come not just from TikTok, but also from the Toutiao ("headlines") news and information app (which is quite popular in China). Musical.ly was acquired in 2017 and folded into TikTok. It was a competing video-sharing platform that used short musical...

CEO posts Redmi K20 teaser video showing off the red color option

Posted: 27 May 2019 01:00 PM PDT

The Redmi K20 will be unveiled tomorrow and the brand is ramping up its teaser campaign. It started by posting an image of the red color and now CEO Lu Weibing has also shared the first teaser video for the phone (also of the red one, you can see the blue paint job here). This is just a teaser, we expect the full promo video to be a good deal longer. Still, this one does a great job of highlighting the special coating on the back, which creates reflections that seem to move as the light hits the phone at different angles. Note that this is the Redmi K20, not the K20 Pro (we expect...

Huawei founder talks US ban, says Huawei isn't going anywhere

Posted: 27 May 2019 11:00 AM PDT

The ongoing US and China Trade War has been keeping Huawei in a perpetual state of emergency ever since the US placed it on its Entity List. Since then Google was forced to withdraw Huawei's license to Android (and has since overturned the decision for up to 90 days) and the number two smartphone maker in the World has seen many of its major partners back away because of US pressure. We have a detailed timeline of events if you want to catch up. Huawei has issued statements on a number of the issues over the past week and a half but today we have the official two cents of Huawei's...

Asus Zenfone 6 gets the highest selfie camera score on DxOMark

Posted: 27 May 2019 09:30 AM PDT

DxOMark has published the Asus Zenfone 6 review and, interestingly, it decided to review the 48MP rotating camera as a selfie unit first. Hopefully DxO will publish its full review of the Zenfone 6's 48MP snapper as a main one soon. So as a selfie unit the Zenfone 6 tops DxOMark's chart, surpassing the Samsung Galaxy S10 5G as the overall best selfie shooter. The Zenfone 6 manages an overall score of 98 by matching its Galaxy rival's 101 photo score and the achieving the best ever video score of 93. DxO commended the Zenfone 6' use of the larger 1/2-inch Quad Bayer sensor for...

Samsung begins Android Pie roll out for Galaxy M30

Posted: 27 May 2019 08:00 AM PDT

Samsung announced that Android 9.0 will come to the Galaxy M trio in the beginning of June, but some are already reporting that the Pie update is arolling out for the Galaxy M30. The M305FDDU1BSEA update comes in at 1.14 GB and brings Samsung's One UI interface alongside the May 2019 security patch to the entry-level phone. One UI is a big overhaul in Samsung's design language with a focus on one hand usability and simplicity. There is a system-wide dark mode as well as the new Bixby Routines. The Android 9 update should arrive to more Galaxy M users in the coming week. Via

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