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Weekly poll: Huawei Mate 30 and Mate 30 Pro have great cameras, a great problem too

Posted: 22 Sep 2019 08:00 AM PDT

During Thursday's event Huawei took over an hour before addressing the elephant in the room - how can it sell the new Mate 30 phones in the West without Google Play Services. To its credit, the company made it clear that it will roll out support for those as soon as it is allowed with an overnight update. For now, however, we're looking at the Huawei Media Services and the AppGallery taking over. It remains to be seen if consumers will accept the downgrade in app selection - some might expect a large discount first. It's a shame that the new flagships are artificially limited as they...

Flashback: Huawei P9 and the beginning of partnership with Leica

Posted: 22 Sep 2019 05:00 AM PDT

In 2016 fast-growing smartphone maker Huawei and legendary camera manufacturer Leica announced that they are joining forces to improve phone photography. Later that year the Huawei P9 and Huawei P9 Plus arrived on the stage. Huawei P9 • Huawei P9 Plus The story actually starts back in 2013 when Huawei tried reaching out to Leica, but the camera maker declined. Huawei persisted and eventually Leica agreed to a meeting. Soon execs from the two companies realized that this would be a mutually beneficial match - Huawei wanted better cameras to make its phones more competitive, Leica...

Weekly poll results: iPhone 11 lineup doesn't get the best reception

Posted: 22 Sep 2019 02:00 AM PDT

Going through the comments in last week's poll we get the feeling that Apple's image as an innovator has slipped away. The response to the new iPhone 11 trio is strongly negative and that seems to be a combination of lacking innovation, high prices and features that may not be as useful in real life as they sound on a presentation. To be fair, Apple didn't raise the prices, in fact it lowered the price of the vanilla model. However, the iPhones remain some of the most expensive smartphones around and the 64GB of storage and 4GB of RAM are no match for the competition, which is keeping...

nubia Z20 in for review

Posted: 21 Sep 2019 11:00 PM PDT

Full-screen designs are a thing now and every smartphone maker has its own take on the matter. Some prefer pop-up cameras, others are still stuck with notches (ahem, Apple and Huawei) while yet others are just slapping a second screen on the back of their devices. After the vivo NEX Dual Display, here comes the nubia Z20. The nubia Z20 has a unique twist to its secondary screen design. When the screen isn't on, the back looks like a standard curved glass panel with a flashy gradient paint job but once you turn on the secondary screen, the better part of the back lights up. The...

Huawei's Harmony OS is coming to Europe on the Honor Vision smart TV

Posted: 21 Sep 2019 07:00 PM PDT

Huawei's in-house Harmony OS and all its cross-platform prowess and "Android alternative" perceived reputation will be coming to Europe. Just not on a phone. In fact, Vincent Pang, Huawei Senior VP already made it pretty clear that Harmony OS won't be coming to a smartphone this year at all. So, TV's and potentially smart wearables running the platform is all we can hope for in the immediate future. Remember, Harmony OS is a huge and timely undertaking. Plus, one that will arguably fair better in the current tech climate if it lays low for a bit, so to say. Still, beyond Harmony OS...

Amazon Prime members now get exclusive free mobile game loot and perks

Posted: 21 Sep 2019 04:30 PM PDT

If Amazon's Prime offers weren't sweet enough already, the company is now adding yet another perk for gaming fans. Technically speaking, this promotion is part of Twitch Prime, which is where the content naturally fits in and takes its place amid other ongoing campaigns, like a year of Switch Online and free monthly games on PC. Unlike those, however, this new initiative is branching out to mobile gaming. The initial wave has an Infiltrator set of PUBG Mobile items up for grabs by Prime members. The first item from the set is already live, while the rest will come according to the...

Realme X2 will sport a Super AMOLED screen with UD fingerprint scanner

Posted: 21 Sep 2019 02:30 PM PDT

The Realme X2, that's all set to go official on September 24, will sport a Super AMOLED screen with a fingerprint reader underneath. This confirmation comes from Realme who took to Weibo to announce that X2 will have a screen-to-body ratio of 91.9%. The company didn't reveal the screen diagonal, but said that the fingerprint scanner underneath will unlock the smartphone in 0.36 seconds. Realme has previously confirmed many of X2's specs like the Snapdragon 730G SoC, 32MP selfie shooter, 64MP quad camera, and a 4,000 mAh battery with 30W VOOC Flash Charge 4.0 support. Let's see if...

New Xiaomi Mi Mix Alpha renders show a curved display extending all the way to the back of the phone

Posted: 21 Sep 2019 12:30 PM PDT

The "waterfall" display design, as seen on the vivo NEX 3 and Huawei Mate 30 Pro seems to be becoming a new trendy "thing" in the mobile realm. Whether it will be anything more than a trend, however, is still up in the air at this point. But what if somebody took things one step further? Here's the situation regarding Xiaomi and the new Mix phone as we currently understand it - There will be a big event on September 24, showcasing an ambitious new Mix handset with, in the company's own words, over 100% screen to body ratio. Now, this could be a waterfall display taken even further to the...

You can now share your WhatsApp Status to Facebook Story

Posted: 21 Sep 2019 10:30 AM PDT

Facebook-owned WhatsApp started testing a new feature back in June that would let users share their WhatsApp Status to Facebook Story. Well, it seems the testing has gone smooth as the company has begun rolling out this feature to its users. WhatsApp hasn't made an official announcement about the rollout yet, but several users took to Twitter to report the arrival of this feature. We've also got it on our Android smartphones with version 2.19.258 of the app in India. But our iPhone in India and Android smartphones over at the HQ in Europe are yet to receive it, suggesting this is a limited...
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