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Benchmarking the Asus ROG Phone II Ultimate Edition with Snapdragon 855+

Posted: 04 Sep 2019 06:30 AM PDT

The mobile chipset scene has always been rather unique. Unlike more traditional computing avenues like the PC ream, in the ARM world variety isn't really all that abundant on a year to year basis. That's how you end up with a sea of competing flagship handsets typically based around the exact same Qualcomm silicon. That has been the status quo for quite a few years now. So, in a sea of sameness, how can a "gaming" phone realistically differentiate while using the exact same internals as its often cheaper competitors? Well, turns out that not all Snapdragon 855+ chipsets are made...

Asus Vivowatch SP is the newest smartwatch with ECG capabilities

Posted: 04 Sep 2019 05:47 AM PDT

Asus announced the global arrival of ROG Phone II at IFA 2019, but the phone's availability was not the only thing the company unveiled today. The Taiwan manufacturer also introduced a smartwatch called Vivowatch SP with ECG capabilities that tracks your blood pressure and stress levels. The watch comes with GPS and an altimeter for more precise exercise data, especially when you are in areas with poor coverage. The gadget also comes with Asus HealthAI that should guide you based on your stats and habits and the company says the platform was developed with leading health...

Honor 20S goes official: a more affordable Kirin 810-powered version of the Honor 20

Posted: 04 Sep 2019 05:25 AM PDT

The Honor 20S has been fully unveiled. It's essentially the same phone as the Honor 20, except with a different chipset and one camera fewer - and a noticeably lower price tag. The 20S is powered by a Kirin 810 chipset instead of the Kirin 980 (both are 7nm chips). The major change is the GPU - a Mali-G52 MP6, down from a Mali-G76 MP10. The downgrade in CPU performance is smaller, as you get two Cortex-A76 cores (instead of four) and six A55 cores. Anyway, the phone comes with 128GB of storage and 6GB or 8GB of RAM. There's no microSD card slot. Honor 20S The triple camera on...

Asus ROG Phone II in for review, unboxing and key features

Posted: 04 Sep 2019 05:14 AM PDT

Asus has always had a rather particular PC-like approach to its smartphone business. While the effect from this have been far from universally positive throughout the years, there is simply no denying that the Republic of Gamers crossover in to the Android realm has been nothing short of spectacular. Benchmark and envelope-pushing are just some of the words that instantly spring to mind when talking about the ROG Phone II. A juggernaut of a device which just recently arrived at our office. With no shortage of fanfare, we might add, since like its predecessor, it shipped in a sizeable...

Realme 5 gets first software update with August security patch and camera improvements

Posted: 04 Sep 2019 04:56 AM PDT

The Realme 5 announced last month is receiving its first software update. The new firmware carries version number RMX1911EX_11_A.12 and weighs around 300MB in size. It bumps up the Android security patch level on the Realme 5 to August 5, 2019 and improves the system stability. The firmware also improves the resolution of the 12MP main camera while improving the portrait mode effect and the performance of WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger video calls. The update is rolling out over the air and should reach all the users in a week or two. But if you can't wait, you can try pulling...

Asus ROG Phone II goes global for €899

Posted: 04 Sep 2019 04:40 AM PDT

Asus revealed its latest mobile gaming masterpiece called ROG Phone II back in July. Today the company took the stage at IFA 2019 in Berlin and announced that the phone is going global. It will be offered with 12 GB RAM and 512 GB storage, but its price is going to be €899 (that's the equivalent of $990). Asus ROG Phone II The new ROG Phone II is a product to be enthusiastic about. It is officially the first smartphone with Snapdragon 855+ chipset and comes with 120 Hz 10-bit HDR screen. Asus equipped the device with a 6.59" AMOLED, now comes with an under-display...

Infinix Hot 8 goes official with 6.5-inch display, Helio P22 chipset and 5,000 mAh battery

Posted: 04 Sep 2019 04:00 AM PDT

Hong Kong-based Infinix just announced its latest entry-level phone - the Hot 8. It's a budget device that actually packs some impressive specs considering the initial starting price of INR 6,999 ($97). You get a 6.5-inch HD+ LCD display with a waterdrop notch and 20:9 aspect ratio. The selfie cam comes in at 8MP and the bezels are quite slim. Going around the back we have a vertically stacked triple camera setup with a 13MP F1.8 main shooter. The other two are a 2 MP depth helper and a dedicated low-light sensor. You also have a fingerprint reader and LED flash. Under the hood,...

Here's our best look yet at the Huawei Mate 30 Pro

Posted: 04 Sep 2019 03:25 AM PDT

CAD renders of the Huawei Mate 30 Pro arriving on September 19 have surfaced, giving us our best look yet at Huawei's upcoming flagship. These come to us through the usually reliable leakster OnLeaks who says the renders aren't 100% accurate, so the final product may have some differences. That said, the Mate 30 Pro will sport a waterfall display which is said to measure 6.6 inches diagonally and likely have a fingerprint reader embedded in it. The screen has curved edges and a wide notch up top housing three cameras. Around the back, we have a quad camera setup placed in a 2x2 grid...

OnePlus 7T with Android 10 stops by Geekbench

Posted: 04 Sep 2019 02:00 AM PDT

OnePlus is expected to launch the OnePlus 7T and OnePlus 7T Pro anytime soon and the phone allegedly popped up on Geekbench. A device with model number HD1990, rumored to be the 7T, reached a single-core score of 3,983, which is with about 15% higher than the OnePlus 7 Pro results in our review. However, the multi-core score is 10,943, which is pretty much the same as the current SD855-powered flagship. A tipsterfrom China that has already proven his credibility over time, said the device is OnePlus 7T, but the Chinese variant with Hydrogen OS (that's without Google services)....

Exynos 980 is Samsung's first 5G-integrated mobile chipset

Posted: 04 Sep 2019 12:30 AM PDT

Samsung is happily selling the Galaxy A90 5G, Galaxy S10 5G, Galaxy Note10 5G, and Galaxy Note10+ 5G with the Exynos 9820 and Snapdragon 855 chipsets, coupled with the Exynos 5100 and Snapdragon X50 modems. Today, the Korean manufacturer made a step forward and introduced its first 5G-integrated mobile chipset and it is called Exynos 980. The announcement might sound big, but looking at specs, the excitement lowers down a bit. The CPU of the new chipset is a main duo of Cortex-A77 units at 2.2 GHz and another cluster of six Cortex-A55 cores at 1.8 GHz. F or comparison, the...

First sale of Redmi Note 8 Pro exceeds 300,000 units

Posted: 03 Sep 2019 11:45 PM PDT

Last week Xiaomi introduced the Redmi Note 8 Pro with a 64 MP main camera. The device arrived for sale this week and it already smashed the brand's record for the first sale - it pushed over 300,000 phones in its first day on the market. For comparison, the predecessor Redmi Note 7 saw "only" 100,000 phones sales on the first day, even if they sold in under 10 minutes. The Redmi Note 8 Pro is truly an intriguing phone - the camera is one thing, but it also has Helio G90T chipset, octa-core CPU, 18W fast-charging for the 4,500 mAh battery and pretty much everything else you might...

Realme 5 Pro goes on sale in India

Posted: 03 Sep 2019 11:00 PM PDT

The Realme 5 Pro unveiled last month goes on sale today in India starting noon local time through Flipkart and Realme India's official site. It is priced at INR13,999 ($195/€175) for the 4GB/64GB variant and INR14,999 ($210/€190) for the 6GB/64GB version. The maxed-out model with 8GB RAM and 128GB storage is priced at INR16,999 ($235/€215). Realme 5 Pro The Realme 5 Pro is powered by the Snapdragon 712 SoC and features a quad camera setup which is a combination of 48MP main, 8MP ultra-wide, 2MP macro and 2MP depth sensor units. You can read our detailed written review of the...

Newest Open Beta for the OnePlus 6 and 6T prepares them for the Android 10 update

Posted: 03 Sep 2019 09:00 PM PDT

Although OnePlus has yet to officially announce it, a new Open Beta build is now going out to the OnePlus 6 and OnePlus 6T. This arrives over-the-air for those who were already running the previous experimental build, as Open Beta 25 for the OnePlus 6 and Open Beta 17 for the OnePlus 6T. As you can see from the screenshot to the left, the sole purpose of this beta release, aside from bringing some unnamed optimizations for system performance, is to prepare the two phones for "major upcoming updates". Clearly that refers to Android 10. A few hours ago OnePlus outed the first beta...

Samsung Galaxy Fold pre-orders to ship on September 11

Posted: 03 Sep 2019 07:00 PM PDT

Samsung's Galaxy Fold is almost in stores, finally, after many months of delays. The Korean company has supposedly fixed the issues that surfaced during the initial batch of reviews, hopefully making the foldable phone sturdier. A new report originating at South Korean carrier KT says pre-orders of the Galaxy Fold in that country will start shipping on September 11. The company is expected to re-announce the Fold at IFA on September 6, and that is also when pre-orders may start. Samsung is apparently still pushing hard for a release in its home country this Friday, but that may be...

Realme Q teasers show off the Nightscape feature and macro camera

Posted: 03 Sep 2019 05:00 PM PDT

Realme keeps teasing the upcoming Realme Q phone - it's going to be a rugged version of the Realme 5 Pro. From the Pro, it inherits a quad camera with a 48MP main sensor. The Sony IMX586 is a Quad Bayer sensor whose pixel binning skills are leveraged for the Nightscape feature. Here's a promo video showing off Nightscape: The company also posted a couple of new camera samples from the main camera as it does occasionally. The first one was shot during the day, the second at dusk. Realme Q camera samples: 12MP shots from the main camera Realme Q's quad camera also...

Xiaomi Mi Mix 4 details leak, launch expected on September 24

Posted: 03 Sep 2019 03:00 PM PDT

Xiaomi is planning to release its highly-anticipated flagship smartphone, the Mi Mix 4, on September 24 with a few surprises. This is coming from a fairly reputable source, so we have a good reason to believe the info. Initially, the phone was planned for a mid-September release but since the release schedule is already packed with a couple of competitors, including the Huawei Mate 30 Pro, Xiaomi decided to push back the date a little. According to people familiar with the matter, the handset will feature the world's first 108MP sensor manufactured by Samsung. The camera sensor was...

Android 10 is rolling out to the Redmi K20 Pro and Essential Phone, OnePlus 7/7 Pro get open beta [UPDATED]

Posted: 03 Sep 2019 12:37 PM PDT

UPDATE: Unfortunately for owners of the Redmi K20 Pro, the rollout of stable Android 10 to this device turns out to have been just a false alarm, at least for the Indian model. We rushed to install the supposed stable release of Android 10 onto a unit we had lying around, and shock horror: it's a beta, and you need a beta authorized Xiaomi account to use it. So while things may be different with the Chinese version of the ROM (we don't have a Chinese K20 Pro to test on), for now if you're in India you're going to have to keep living with Android 9 Pie. Hopefully this beta testing period will...

Android 10 is now available for Pixels with Dark Theme, new gestures, better privacy

Posted: 03 Sep 2019 11:24 AM PDT

The rumors were right: today, Google has officially released Android 10 to the public. That is, the public that owns Pixel smartphones. The update to the stable build of the new OS version is going out now to the Pixel, Pixel XL, Pixel 2, Pixel 2 XL, Pixel 3, Pixel 3 XL, Pixel 3a, and Pixel 3a XL. It includes the September security patches. It's a nice surprise to see the original Pixels still supported even though they are out of the official window for receiving platform updates. As always with Google firmware rollouts, it's likely it will take many days, if not weeks, for the new...
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