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iPhone 11 outscores XS Max in DxOMark camera test, comes close to the 11 Pro Max

Posted: 23 Jan 2020 08:47 AM PST

The Apple iPhone 11 received an overall camera score of 109 from DxOMark, beating the iPhone XS Max in both the photo and video categories. It is also well ahead of its immediate predecessor, the iPhone XR. Compared to the current generation Apple flagships, the phone's video score is within 1 point of the iPhone 11 Pro Max result as it offers identical features and comparable image quality. Predictably, the iPhone 11 got docked a few points for the lack of a telephoto camera - the phone can't deliver the same quality zoom and portrait shots without it. This accounts for most of the...

Samsung Galaxy A41 will sport a 3,500 mAh battery

Posted: 23 Jan 2020 07:59 AM PST

The Samsung Galaxy A41 is due to arrive in the coming months and a new certification from safety Korea just revealed the phone's battery. The cell will feature a 3,500 mAh capacity and bears the EB-BA415ABY identification number which falls in line with the A41's own SM-A415 model number. The actual photo of the cell is not the best quality but multiple other accounts have confirmed the 3,500 mAh capacity to be true. According to rumors, the charging speeds will remain at 15W just like the Galaxy A40. We've already seen details which suggest the A41's main camera will have a 48MP...

Samsung Galaxy S20 Ultra said to have a stainless-steel frame

Posted: 23 Jan 2020 07:06 AM PST

Samsung has been using aluminum frames for its last five generations of flagships. Now, the fans are up for a surprise, because the Galaxy S20 Ultra is rumored to have stainless-steel frame. The leakster that brought us the first live images of the device has disclosed the new info in a tweet. Apple iPhone 11 Pro and 11 Pro Max are the only current flagships with stainless-steel frame Currently, only Apple uses stainless steel for its body. The last three generations of iPhones have all been implementing the design that in theory scratches less and provides an overall better...

Two Oppo phones visit Geekbench - with Snapdragon 765 and Helio P90

Posted: 23 Jan 2020 06:15 AM PST

The Oppo PCLM50 passed through TENAA - this seems to be a new version of the Reno3 or the Reno3 Pro. There was some uncertainty about the chipset, but Geekbench just cleared that up, it is indeed a Snapdragon 765G, the same chipset as the Pro. The non-Pro model uses a MediaTek Dimensity 1000 and has a 64MP camera instead of 48MP as on the PCLM50. However, the screen diagonal matches the non-Pro model, so it's not 100% clear if this will have the "Pro" label or not. Either way, the unit that ran the benchmark packed 8GB of RAM and featured Android 10, just as expected. Geekbench:...

Canalys: Bluetooth headphones will be the second biggest smart device category

Posted: 23 Jan 2020 05:24 AM PST

Canalys has released a new report predicting that personal audio will be the fastest-growing category of smart devices over the next few years, but smartphones will maintain their position as the leading smart device. According to the analysts, 3 billion smart devices will be shipped globally in 2023, up from 2.4 billion in 2019. Half of those will be smartphones, 1.5 billion, showing a small but consistent growth (meanwhile, PCs, laptops and tablets will decline). The next largest category will be smart personal audio. This includes everything from true wireless headsets (TWS) to...

Samsung Galaxy S10 Lite pre-orders start in India

Posted: 23 Jan 2020 04:33 AM PST

Samsung launched the Galaxy Note10 Lite in India earlier this week, and now it is Galaxy S10 Lite's turn. The phone is available for pre-order at Amazon, Flipkart and Samsung's own website for INR 39,999 (which is about $560/€505). Currently, Samsung offers only one version of the phone - 8/128GB, but at least all three colors are available - Prism Blue, Prism Black, Prism White. The price of INR 39,999 is a lot cheaper than the Galaxy S10 or Galaxy S10+, but is slightly more expensive than its sibling Galaxy Note10 Lite, which starts from INR 1,000 less. It is also more affordable...

Microsoft releases Surface Duo preview toolkit, giving us a look into its dual-screen future

Posted: 23 Jan 2020 03:41 AM PST

Back in October, Microsoft unveiled a pair of dual screen concept devices that grabbed plenty of headlines. The Surface Duo which is the brand's first dual-screen smartphone running on Android and the Surface Neo which is essentially a larger tablet version of the Duo with Windows 10X on board. Both are expected to arrive for the 2020 holiday shopping season but Microsoft is giving software developers a head start to optimize their apps. Today, Microsoft released its Surface Duo preview SDK complete with an emulator and Java frameworks, allowing developers to begin experimenting with...

Honor's 2020 cameras will bring larger pixels, not higher resolution

Posted: 23 Jan 2020 02:23 AM PST

Honor's latest flagship is V30 Pro and it has a 40 MP main shooter (with Quad Bayer so effectively 10 MP), as in the Huawei Mate 30 Pro smartphone. Now, according to the marketing manager of the subsidiary, the company won't be following other makers who have either already released or are about to release phones 100MP+ cameras. Honor says that this obviously can't be achieved without maintaining the 0.8μm pixel size and that goes against its understanding that 1μm pixels are the smallest that can ensure flagship-tier image quality. According to Kailiang Shen, Honor will...

Poco F1 successor confirmed to launch this quarter

Posted: 23 Jan 2020 01:27 AM PST

With all the hype around the newly independent Poco brand, many are wondering when we'll see the true successor to the legendary Pocophone F1. Luckily, Poco India's General Manager Manmohan Chandolu spilled some interesting details in a series of interviews. The most important bit of information is the potential launch date for the new Poco device which is confirmed to come by March this year. In addition, Chandolu reiterated the brand's focus on delivering value-for-money smartphones with "high-end SoCs" and "large amounts of RAM". In terms of software, the new smartphones will still...

Upcoming Realme flagship smashes AnTuTu record

Posted: 23 Jan 2020 12:33 AM PST

Realme is expected to launch a Snapdragon 865-powered smartphone, and it just got benchmarked at AnTuTu. A mysterious device dubbed "realme RMX2071" managed to reach a result of 574,985, which is the highest any device by the brand has ever achieved. The phone could be named Realme X50 Pro as an upgrade over the Realme X50 5G, running a Snapdragon 765G chipset. Usually there are details around the device, tested at AnTuTu, but we have practically nothing on the specs side. However, the result itself is very impressive - in comparison the Realme X2 Pro scores 467,653 on AnTuTu 8 -...

New Oppo phone appears on TENAA, a slightly faster Reno3

Posted: 22 Jan 2020 10:58 PM PST

Oppo introduced the Reno3 and Reno3 Pro smartphones in the last days of 2019. It now appears another smartphone is expected to join the family. Oppo PCLM50 was certified at TENAA, and while there are no photos yet, the full specs sheet has been posted. The device has the same size and weight as the Reno3, but the CPU appears to be slightly faster, while the main camera is downgraded to 48 MP. The CPU of the Oppo PCLM50 can reach 2.4 GHz and comes coupled to a chipset with a 5G modem. Given the Oppo Reno3 is running on Mediatek's fastest Dimensity 1000 platform, we are probably...

DxOMark ranks the Sony Xperia 5 in the same class as the Galaxy Note8 and iPhone 8 Plus

Posted: 22 Jan 2020 09:17 PM PST

The latest smartphone tested by DxOMark is the Sony Xperia 5. Announced at IFA in September, the Xperia 5 is a midrange device with triple cameras, all with 12MP sensors. The Sony Xperia 5 was released a few months after the flagship-grade Xperia 1. Despite the former's mid-range position and hardware, it uses an identical triple-camera setup as the Xperia 1. Though there were improvements over the Xperia 1's cameras, DxOMark wasn't impressed with the Xperia 5. It received an overall score of 95 (the Xperia 1 got 91) with a 101 for photography and 83 for video. Slight improvements in...

POCO secretly teases its next phone will be called "POCO X2"

Posted: 22 Jan 2020 07:17 PM PST

It was just a few days ago that POCO has spring into an independent new brand. Following the news, POCO India posted a teaser video on Twitter offering a look into "Season 2" of POCO, hinting that upcoming smartphones from the brand are just over the horizon. #POCOIsHere and it'll give chills to others. IYKWWM 😉Season 2 is live now! Brace yourself for the impact. pic.twitter.com/wJPWgDgwCn— POCO India (@IndiaPOCO) January 21, 2020 In the first setup of the teaser, the name "POCO X2" is hinted at, but you need to look closely to see it. The characters of the name are scattered...

Deal: T-Mobile OnePlus 6T is on sale for $349

Posted: 22 Jan 2020 05:01 PM PST

OnePlus is currently running a sale on the OnePlus 6T. The OnePlus site in the US, the brand is selling off the T-Mobile variant of the 6T for $349 - a full $200 off the original price. In case you're wondering, that's for the Mirror Black T-Mobile variant with 8GB of RAM and 128GB of storage. Remember that OnePlus phones don't offer expandable storage and in case you were wondering, the 6T is no longer available directly from T-Mobile. Although the phone is already over a year old at this point, the OnePlus 6T was still one of the fastest smartphones of its time thanks to the...

Amazon tops brands value chart, Google and Apple complete podium

Posted: 22 Jan 2020 02:48 PM PST

The latest Brand Finance Global 500 report is out and for the third year in a row Amazon tops the chart as the most valuable brand, its worth estimated at $220.7 billion. This is also the first time a company has surpassed the $200 billion mark and in Amazon's case a 17.5% improvement over its 2019 result. Top 10 Most Valuable Brands (Brand Finance) The growth is attributed to the company's expansion in cloud computing, streaming services, consumer electronics and logistics. Skimming through the top 10 list, Google comes in at the second spot with a sizeable $159.7 billion...

Xiaomi Mi 9 long-term review video

Posted: 22 Jan 2020 01:02 PM PST

It seems like the original Xiaomi Mi 9 flagship was released forever ago. Well, it has been almost an year, but the current mobile industry pace is what really managed to bury this otherwise still interesting phone rather quickly. Our own Angie has been daily-driving the Mi 9 for a few months now and has a few things to share from her experience. Now, we definitely won't go as far as to try and convince you or ourselves that none of the newer devices that succeed the Mi 9 are a better deal in 2020. Some of these are really hard to disregard, like the Mi 9T Pro or the Redmi K30,...

FCC confirms the Samsung Galaxy A01 is headed to the US

Posted: 22 Jan 2020 11:42 AM PST

Samsung has really been expanding the Galaxy A family lately if not necessarily in the most straight-forward and easy to understand way. The Galaxy A01, quietly announced last month, is at least doubly confusing. Not only are we still lacking specifics on certain aspects of its internals, like the chipset, but that naming convention seems really odd. Samsung Galaxy A01 There is still little official word on when and where the phone will be made available too. Thanks to a couple of FCC pages, we now at least have a hint as to the "where" part of that question as the Galaxy A01...

Huawei P40 Pro render shows off new mint green color

Posted: 22 Jan 2020 10:44 AM PST

The past two weeks have been rich in leaks for the upcoming Huawei P40 series flagships. Yesterday brought us our first live images of the P40 Pro and now we have a new render of the same phone in a new mint green color courtesy of Evan Blass (evleaks). Last week we learned that Huawei is planning to bring three P-series flagships this time around with the P40, P40 Pro and P40 Pro Premium. One of the main differentiating factors between the three will be their rear camera count with the Premium edition packing up to 5 sensors while the Pro will settle for four. The main camera...

Motorola Razr foldable US launch pushed back to February 6

Posted: 22 Jan 2020 09:51 AM PST

It's been a few months since Motorola officially unveiled its Razr modernized foldable screem take on the iconic Razr V3 design. Delays in release schedule for the nostalgia-infused handheld followed almost instantly but now the release is finally in sight. We are sure high interest in the product is only half of the story here, especially now with word of Samsung's Galaxy Z Flip also on the horizon. Regardless, Motorola appears to be following through with a US release for the Razr. As per the latest info, the official US schedule for the phone has January 26 set as the pre-order...

Sony to unveil several 5G phones at the MWC

Posted: 22 Jan 2020 08:59 AM PST

Sony is expected to unveil its first 5G phone - or phones - at the MWC in late February. The rumors are still shifting, so some details are uncertain. Even the name of the new flagship is yet to be settled, we've heard everything from "Sony Xperia 1.1" to "Xperia 0" and "Xperia 3". It will pack a 4K HDR screen and will feature a Snapdragon 865 chipset with X55 5G modem. The camera department on the back will be upgraded to a quad setup with the addition of a ToF sensor. The main camera sensor is expected to go up to 48MP (or even 64MP) and it will be joined by two 12MP sensors for...
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