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vivo IQOO Pro 5G will ship with Snapdragon 855+ chipset, other key specs appear on TENAA

Posted: 12 Aug 2019 08:00 AM PDT

The upcoming vivo IQOO Pro 5G gaming phone will feature the Snapdragon 855+ SoC, the company just confirmed via its Weibo account. The phone is scheduled to debut on August 22 and will reportedly boast faster performance than other competing Snapdragon 855+ powered devices. While it remains to be seen how IQOO team plans on accomplishing this, it will probably rely on some software tweaks similar to Huawei's GPU Turbo. IQOO Pro 5G Weibo post In the meantime the phone also appeared in a TENAA listing reveling the rest of the spec sheet. The display of the IQOO Pro 5G is a...

Samsung Galaxy Note10+ 5G tops DxO charts for both main camera and selfies

Posted: 12 Aug 2019 07:00 AM PDT

The Samsung Galaxy Note10+ 5G is the new camera king sitting atop the DxOMark charts with wins in both the main and selfie camera categories. Since the only difference between the 5G model and the LTE-connected Galaxy Note10+ is just the 5G modem, the score applies to that model as well. Let's start with the main camera. The overall score of 113 is one higher than what the Huawei P30 Pro got. Breaking it down, the Note got a Photo score of 118, which is just a point behind the Huawei. While the main camera is almost the same as that of the Galaxy S10 5G (which matched the P30 Pro's overall...

Realme X 256GB version arrives on August 18

Posted: 12 Aug 2019 06:00 AM PDT

Realme X arrived in May with its most expensive version topping at 8GB RAM and 128GB storage. Today, the company announced it now offer a variant with double the storage starting on August 18. The price of the phone will be CNY1,999, which is about $285/€250. Pre-orders for the phone have already started at major Chinese retailers JD.com, Tmall, and Suning. Once the promo ends, the phone will cost CNY2,099, which is an extra $20/€15 over the discounted price tag. Realme doesn't say how long the campaign will last, but if you are willing to buy a Realme X from China, now's the...

LG G8X images show a bigger screen with a smaller notch, 3.5mm jack

Posted: 12 Aug 2019 05:00 AM PDT

LG is teasing a dual screen phone ahead of its appearance at IFA - a followup of the LG V50 ThinQ and its second screen accessory. The LG G8 ThinQ might get a successor of its own and it will look like this. The LG G8X moves from a dual to a single selfie camera, which means a narrower teardrop notch. There's a regular earpiece near the lone selfie camera, so the G8X will not use the Crystal Sound OLED speaker tech. The screen grows a tenth of an inch to 6.2", so it will offer even more screen real estate. The phone grew along with it, measuring 159.3 x 75.8 x...

vivo Z1Pro hands-on review

Posted: 12 Aug 2019 04:54 AM PDT

HTC teases new phone ahead of return to Indian market

Posted: 12 Aug 2019 04:10 AM PDT

As expected HTC will make its return to the Indian market after pulling out in July of 2018. The company just teased a new phone on its official Twitter account and judging by the looks it appears to be the rumored HTC Wildfire which is believed to arrive with a 6.2-inch screen with waterdrop notch, dual cameras and the Helio P23 chipset. Hello India! Our journey of innovation continues. Can you guess what's coming next?#htcIndia pic.twitter.com/bTavBjvcUw— HTC India (@HTC_IN) August 12, 2019 The phone will compete in the highly contested entry-level segment but we still don't have an...

Samsung announces the Galaxy A10s - 4,000 mAh battery and fingerprint reader

Posted: 12 Aug 2019 03:17 AM PDT

Samsung has just taken the wraps of its latest A-series phone - as the name implies, the Galaxy A10s is a refresh of the original Galaxy A10 with a couple of key improvements. It adopts a larger battery and adds a rear-mounted fingerprint into the mix - something the standard A10 was missing. The phone features a 6.2-inch IPS Infinity-V screen (so a v-shaped notch) with a resolution of 720 x 1520px. It is powered by an octa-core CPU (4 cores clocked at 2.0GHz and 4 cores running at 1.5GHz). It also packs 2GB of RAM and 32GB of storage expandable via microSD. The camera setup...

Samsung unveils a huge 108 MP ISOCELL Bright HMX smartphone camera sensor

Posted: 12 Aug 2019 02:08 AM PDT

Last week Xiaomi said it will be the first smartphone company to bring a phone with a 108MP camera and today Samsung detailed the actual sensor. The Korean manufacturer announced the ISOCELL Bright HMX sensor for smartphones with 108 Megapixels. Its size is 1/1.33", which is 125% bigger than the 48MP ISOCELL Bright GM1, which lets it retain the same 0.8μm pixel pitch. Samsung said in a press release that with over 100 million effective pixels, the sensor will produce "exceptional photos even in extreme lighting conditions". It employs the Tetracell technology, meaning it's...

Meizu 16s Pro spec leak reveals 90Hz display and Snapdragon 855+ SoC

Posted: 12 Aug 2019 01:03 AM PDT

Meizu released its flagship 16s in April and the company will offer a refreshed version dubbed the 16s Pro soon. The specs and design of the upcoming device managed to sneak up on Meizu's website briefly before being taken down. The device will pack a 90Hz AMOLED display with a 120Hz touch sample rate and an in-display fingerprint scanner. The overall design of the Meizu 16s will be retained on the new model as it will mainly focus on upgrading the core specs. Meizu 16s Pro spec sheet This isn't the first time the 16s Pro leaks as it was also briefly listed on Chinese online...

Realme 5 series arriving on August 20 with 48 MP camera

Posted: 11 Aug 2019 10:52 PM PDT

The Realme 5 series are launching on August 20 - just 8 days from now. The company just sent out the invites for the event, confirming the arrival of its next gen phones. In a teaser posted on Flipkart, the company spoke of "joining the 5quad", hinting at the quad-camera setup that will debut on the 5. However the 64 MP shooter will not be a part of that as we understood in our hands on, as it's coming on a different device in time for Diwali, which is on October 27. Madhav Sheth, head of Realme India, confirmed the sensor with some clever math, revealing the 4-camera setup will...

Lenovo Z6 Pro in for review

Posted: 11 Aug 2019 07:00 PM PDT

Lenovo's Z6 Pro was launched back in April but is only now making its way outside of China. It comes with a well-rounded spec sheet featuring the Snapdragon 855, up to 12GB RAM and a quad-camera array all for a starting price of around €500. The phone made its way to our office and we're getting ready to put it through the usual testing course but before we do so lets quickly go through its key features and see what you can expect. Starting off with the packaging, it's quite nice with a sleek matte box and a fabric-like look. The design of the Z6 Pro itself is fairly standard with a...

Week 32 in review: Samsung Galaxy Note10, Note10+, Exynos 9825 are here

Posted: 11 Aug 2019 03:00 PM PDT

It's official - the holiday flagship season is open and it's been kicked off by non other that Samsung's iconic big phone - the Galaxy Note. But this year there's a little twist - Samsung unveiled the 6.8-inch Galaxy Note10+ alongside a smaller 6.3-inch Galaxy Note10 - the first time we've seen a second Note device since 2014's Galaxy Note 4 and Galaxy Note 4 Edge. The new Galaxy Note 10 duo is powered by Samsung's 7nm Exynos 9825, which launched a few hours before them, have a gyro-enabled S Pen, centered in-display selfie camera and no headphone jack. Samsung also made a few other...

Xiaomi Mi Smart Band 4 review

Posted: 11 Aug 2019 11:00 AM PDT

Intro Another year, another Mi Band from Xiaomi. Called Mi Band 4 in China and Mi Smart Band 4 on the international scene, the gadget sports an OLED screen with 16 million colors for the first time in the lineup. I had been using the Mi Band 3 on a daily basis, so switching to the Mi Smart Band 4 was a no-brainer. One trip to the Mi Store later, and here am I, staying with the current trends. Unboxing The new Mi Band has a tall retail box and you'd expect something massive to come out. In reality, half of it is empty - the top side is occupied by the rubber band and the...

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