» Without Label » GSMArena.com - Latest articles

GSMArena.com - Latest articles

–

GSMArena.com - Latest articles

Caviar wastes no time, decks iPhone 11 in meteorites

Posted: 19 Aug 2019 07:20 AM PDT

Apple is expected to unveil the iPhone 11 lineup in September, but the Russian luxury company Caviar already went ahead and started offering customized versions of the new flagships. The new design, based on a prototype, includes actual meteorite pieces, real pieces of the Moon, a handful of precious stones and an actual moving tourbillon on the back. The whole ensemble would cost the astounding $49,990 and only a single unit will be made. If you don't have that amount of spare cash lying around, you can always pre-order some of the cheaper variants, starting from just $4,400. The...

Apple Watch Series 5 will come with new titanium and ceramic casings

Posted: 19 Aug 2019 06:30 AM PDT

The Apple Watch is the most popular smartwatch on the market and alongside AirPods is turning into a key product category for Apple. The company will look to offer more options with its upcoming series 5 lineup including titanium and ceramic versions in both 40mm and 44mm casings. Spanish site iHelp BR discovered the upcoming options hidden in the latest watchOS 6 beta. Apple previously had ceramic versions of the Watch, but never offered a titanium one. Other than that we have no other details on what to expect from the new Apple watches. According to past rumors, the Apple...

Huawei's next flagship chipset to support 4K recording at 60 fps

Posted: 19 Aug 2019 05:45 AM PDT

Although Huawei has been known in recent years for its impressive camera performance and technology, video capture has been a weak points of its phones. More specifically, Huawei's flagship devices are not able to capture 4K video at framerates above 30 fps - something Apple introduced with the iPhone 8 and Samsung with the Galaxy S9. According to Neowin, attendee of last week's Huawei Developer's conference in Shenzhen, Huawei has confirmed that the next iteration of its high-end chipsets for smartphones - the Kirin 990, will be capable of recording 4k video at 60 fps. Kirin 980...

Redmi to introduce a 70" Smart TV on August 29

Posted: 19 Aug 2019 05:00 AM PDT

Redmi has been a success since it separated into a new entity with two impressive smartphone lineups - the Redmi Note 7 midrangers and the Redmi K20 flagships. Now, the company is ready to expand beyond the smartphone borders and on August 29 it will introduce a huge 70" Smart TV, the brand manager Lu Weibing confirmed. The sub-brand might be new to the TV business, but its parent company sure is not. It currently has plenty of Mi TV options across the globe, latest being the affordable 4A and 4C series. The six-month-old Xiaomi E65A is currently CNY2,999 ($425), we would...

Huawei to receive another 90-day extension to its temporary trade license

Posted: 19 Aug 2019 04:00 AM PDT

Huawei was banned from trading with US companies back in May this year, just to receive a temporary permit a few days later. The Shenzhen-based telecommunications giant had 90 days to trade with US partners and the reprieve is ending today. According to Reuters, the US Commerce Department is expected to extend the trade license for another three months, and hopefully, in this time the United States and China will manage to reach an agreement in their ongoing trade disputes. The agency quoted "two sources familiar with the situation" since none of the sides commented on the matter....

Samsung issues out first firmware update for Note10 and Note10+

Posted: 19 Aug 2019 03:03 AM PDT

While Samsung's new Galaxy Note10 and Note10+ are still yet to officially go on sale, the company has issued the first firmware update for the duo. Early units in Europe and India are already receiving it, while retail Note10s will likely get it when they are first connected to a network. Update chaneglog The new firmware is dubbed version N975FXXU1ASH5 and comes in at just over 307 MB. It includes several key enhancements including improved fingerprint recognition, camera quality and touchscreen performance. In addition, the update also adds the August security...

Redmi 8 appears in hands-on images

Posted: 19 Aug 2019 01:31 AM PDT

After passing through Chinese certification agency TENAA and revealing its key specs, the Redmi 8 was spotted in live pictures. In addition to showing us the design of the phone, the shots also confirm it will ship with the Qualcomm Snapdragon 439 chipset and run MIUI 9.7.11 on top of Android 9 Pie. Redmi 8 hands-on images Upfront, the Redmi 8 comes with a 6.21-inch HD+ LCD display with a waterdrop notch for the 8MP selfie cam. The bottom chin features Redmi branding. Around the back, we have a vertically aligned 12 MP and 8 MP dual camera setup and a fingerprint reader. The...

Xiaomi, Oppo, vivo join hands to create cross-brand file transfer service

Posted: 19 Aug 2019 12:46 AM PDT

Xiaomi announced today the Inter-Transfer Alliance group, where it is joined by Oppo and vivo to create an AirDrop-like service for file transfer. The platform is currently in open beta and will allow devices from different manufacturers to exchange photos and documents with a simple swipe or click. According to the company, the exchange of files wouldn't use a lot of battery nor would it use 4G data or a third-party app - it is based on Bluetooth. Speeds would reach up to 20 MB/s, so a standard 720p movie would be transferred between phones in under two minutes. Currently, the...

Motorola One Action to arrive in India on August 23

Posted: 18 Aug 2019 11:40 PM PDT

Last week Motorola One Action was unveiled with three cameras, one of them with an ultrawide angle lens with 1080 at 60 fps video recording and 16 MP sensor for shooting action videos. Now we learn the phone will hit India through Flipkart starting August 23. The new phone is a midranger sporting a 21:9 tall 6.3" LCD panel with Full HD+ resolution with a punch hole for the selfie camera and . It comes as part of the Android One program with the latest Android Pie and promises for regular monthly updates. On the inside ticks an Exynos 9609 chipset, coupled with 4 GB RAM and 128...

Amazon Echo Show 5 review

Posted: 18 Aug 2019 10:38 PM PDT

The Echo Show 5 is the latest in the family of Alexa-based Echo devices from Amazon. The Echo Show 5 is the smaller version of the massive Echo Show, coming with a smaller 5" display instead of 10.1". At first glance, the Echo Show 5 almost looks like a phone placed on a kickstand. The design is similar to that of the larger Echo Show, with an angled display and a body that tapers backward with the speakers placed behind the display. The display does have a sizable frame surrounding it, which on our white review unit looked particularly distracting. We much prefer the blacked out...

Samsung Galaxy Note10+: first Exynos 9825 benchmarks

Posted: 18 Aug 2019 05:00 PM PDT

The Exynos 9825 is the industry's first chipset built on a 7nm Extreme UltraViolet (EUV) process. Its predecessor, the 8nm Exynos 9820, as well as TSMC's 7nm offerings are built on Deep UltraViolet (DUV) process, but that has run out of steam. In the future, foundries will use EUV to drop below 7nm - 5nm chips are already on their roadmaps. So, Samsung Galaxy Note10+'s is just a proving ground for the new technology and is only a minor improvement over the 9820 chip inside the Galaxy S10+. Samsung claims that it has raised the clock speed of the GPU, but doesn't say how much. The CPU...

Top 10 trending phones of week 33

Posted: 18 Aug 2019 12:00 PM PDT

For the second week running the a Samsung Galaxy Note10 series phone is leading our popularity chart, but this time it's the Plus model rather than the compact one. The Galaxy A50 also managed to split the two S Pen flagships, while their 5G versions dropped off the top 10 entirely. The Galaxy A70 and Redmi Note 7 took advantage of that and climbed a position each to fourth and fifth. Samsung Galaxy A90 is only a rumor at this point, but it's already gaining plenty of interest and placed sixth. The Xiaomi Mi 9T Pro retained seventh, as the returning Galaxy A30 climbed to eight...

Week 33 in review: Galaxy Note10+ aces early tests, iPhone 11 rumors intensify

Posted: 18 Aug 2019 08:00 AM PDT

It's now a week after the Galaxy Note10 and Note10+ became official and the tech world is still buzzing with Note content. The reviews are not yet in but both Display Mate and DxO Mark were able to run the Galaxy Note10+ through their labs. Unsurprisingly, the Galaxy Note10+'s display is the best ever on a phone and DxO placed the Note10+ on top of the camera chart. Next up is a test of charging speed, pitting the Galaxy Note10+ and its 25W wired charger against the OnePlus 7 Pro and its 30W one. Surprisingly the Galaxy Note10+ got to 100% faster. Samsung announced its new 108MP...
Disqus Comments

Popular Post