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Samsung to bring back Pro Mode video recording with the Galaxy S20

Posted: 03 Jan 2020 07:44 AM PST

On earlier smartphones, Samsung used to let you capture photos and record videos in Pro Mode. But with newer updates, Samsung limited this feature only to photos and those using the feature weren't very happy about it. Well, it seems the Korean tech giant listened to the feedback and will bring back Pro Mode video recording. While digging through the Galaxy Note9's official One UI 2.0 update, the folks over at XDA-Developers found evidence suggesting the Galaxy S20 (previously rumored as S11) will mark the return of Pro Mode video recording, which will let you control various aspects of...

Realme X50 5G key specs revealed by TENAA, exec shares camera sample

Posted: 03 Jan 2020 06:53 AM PST

The Realme X50 5G coming on January 7 has received TENAA certification, revealing a few specs in the process. The Chinese authority's website reveals that X50 5G will sport a 6.57" display with a 4,100 mAh battery under the hood, which from previous official teasers we know will support VOOC 4.0 that will charge the cell from flat to 70% in 30 minutes. The listing further reveals that X50 5G will be 8.9mm thick and support dual SIM cards. Realme X50 5G with side-mounted fingerprint reader Realme hasn't officially revealed the full specs sheet of the X50 5G yet, but it has shared...

Samsung Galaxy S10 Lite and Galaxy Note10 Lite announced

Posted: 03 Jan 2020 06:04 AM PST

After a lengthy leak marathon today Samsung introduced the Galaxy S10 Lite and Galaxy Note10 Lite. Both are built around 6.7" FullHD+ Infinity-O displays and pack 4,500mAh batteries with 25W fast charging support. The Samsung Galaxy S10 Lite is powered by a 7nm chipset featuring an octa-core CPU that has its clusters running at 2.8GHz, 2.4GHz and 1.7GHz. While not explicitly confirmed it matches the Snapdragon 855 perfectly.The platform will be coupled with 6GB or 8 GB RAM and 128GB storage. A microSD card slot enables further storage expansion. Samsung Galaxy S10 Lite The...

Samsung reveals the European prices and availability for the Galaxy A51 and Galaxy A71

Posted: 03 Jan 2020 05:06 AM PST

The Samsung Galaxy A51 and A71 were unveiled in December and originally launched in Vietnam. Now the company has announced the release date and price of the two phones for Europe, starting with the Netherlands. The Samsung Galaxy A51 will be available at Dutch retailers and carriers by the end of this month. It will cost €370 and will come in Crush Black, Blue and White. France is also getting it by the end of January. Samsung Galaxy A51 in Crush Black, Blue and White The Samsung Galaxy A71 will cost €470 and will be available in Crush Black, Blue and Silver. Its sales...

Oppo patent reveals smartphone with side pop-up camera

Posted: 03 Jan 2020 04:13 AM PST

Manufacturer are working hard towards the full-screen smartphone design. We've seen notches, punch holes, pop-up and rotating cameras but a new patent from Oppo is giving us yet another interesting take. Up until now all pop-up cameras are usually found sitting at the top of phones but an Oppo patent found in the CNIPA (China National Intellectual Property Administration) database is giving us our first look at a side-mounted pop-up cam. Oppo side mounted pop-up cam design The patent sketches reveal the motorized camera module is placed on the right-hand side of the phone. The...

OnePlus Concept One feature teaser: invisible camera

Posted: 03 Jan 2020 03:15 AM PST

We still don't know if the OnePlus Concept One will be a foldable phone or not, but the latest teaser from the company reveals a unique "invisible camera" based on color-shifting glass. We're bringing the #OnePlusConceptOne to #CES2020, but you don't have to wait: you can get a sneak peek at it right here, along with its groundbreaking "invisible camera" and color-shifting glass technology. pic.twitter.com/elsV9DKctn— OnePlus (@oneplus) January 3, 2020 The camera lenses are concealed under what appears to be dimmable glass - basically a one pixel LCD. The tech is apparently borrowed...

Sprint rolls out Android 10 for the Galaxy Note10 and Note10+

Posted: 03 Jan 2020 02:34 AM PST

US carriers AT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile rolled out Android 10 for the Galaxy Note10 and Note10+ at the end of last month. Now Sprint too has joined the group by releasing the latest version of Android for the Galaxy Note10 duo. The new builds for the Note10 and Note10+ sport version numbers N970USQU2BSL7 and N975USQU2BSL7, respectively. They weigh around 2.3GB in size and bring along the December 2019 security patch in addition to Live Transcribe, improved gestures, Dark Mode and Digital Wellbeing. You can head this way to check out the detailed changelog. Alongside the...

Google disables Assistant Mi Home integration after bizarre Xiaomi camera bug

Posted: 03 Jan 2020 01:44 AM PST

Following a Reddit thread about an issue with Google Assistant and Xiaomi-branded home security cameras, Google has indefinitely disabled integration with Mi Home, Xiaomi's smart home platform. Google is investigating a bug that caused a user with a Xiaomi Mijia security camera to inadvertently view camera feeds from other homes. Redditor Dio-V posted images in a post that detailed the issue. As per the post, when he asked his Google Next Hub to view one of their Xiaomi camera feeds, the Nest Hub displayed distorted still images from other homes, including one of a sleeping baby. The feeds...

Honor 9X is coming to India, will sell on Flipkart

Posted: 03 Jan 2020 12:53 AM PST

The Honor 9X is already selling in multiple markets across the world but is yet to hit India. This is about to be fixed after the Huawei sub-brand got a landing page on Flipkart, teasing the arrival of the smartphone. The page has a big X and an elevating camera, while the Twitter page of Honor India is trying to win the prize "Cheesy lines of the decade" with slogans such as "Do you have an X factor in you" and "Still have feelings for your X?" The biggest question, however, is not when the phone will arrive, but which version of the phone will arrive. Fans of Honor are hoping...

Survey: Over 90% of phones sold by US carriers are Samsung or Apple

Posted: 03 Jan 2020 12:07 AM PST

According to a market analysis performed by Wave7 Research, Apple and Samsung control over 90 percent of the United States smartphone market. According to the report, 94% of phones sold at Verizon and 91% of phone sold in T-Mobile stores were either a Samsung Galaxy or Apple iPhone. During the holiday month of December, the Apple iPhone 11 was the top-selling phone among the four major carriers (Sprint, AT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile). The top-selling Samsung phone was the Galaxy S10. Samsung Galaxy S10 Part of the reason is many of the popular brands globally aren't available at...

OnePlus 7 and 7 Pro get One-Handed Mode with the latest open beta

Posted: 02 Jan 2020 11:19 PM PST

Last month OnePlus released OxygenOS Open Beta 7 for the OnePlus 7 and 7 Pro that came with a Chromatic Reading Mode, optimized RAM management, and a few bug fixes. Now the company has released Open Beta 8, which brings One-Handed Mode to both smartphones. The One-Handed Mode can be enabled by heading to the Quick Gestures menu and activated by pulling the screen down with a swipe down on the left or right edge. However, OnePlus' implementation of one-handed mode is different from some other makers' since it doesn't minimize the entire screen. One-Handed Mode on OnePlus 7/7...

Samsung Galaxy Note10 gets January security update ahead of Pixels

Posted: 02 Jan 2020 10:02 PM PST

Slowly, but surely, Google is losing one of the key selling points for its Pixels - the fastest security updates on the market (in the Android world). While the search giant has inexplicably managed to glitch its rollouts of the past couple of such updates, Samsung is eating its lunch. The Galaxy Note10 got the December security patch in November, and now the same phone is receiving the January update already - days ahead of the Pixels, which are expected to have the rollout start next Monday (because Google sends these out on the first Monday of each month). The Note10's January...

Goldman Sachs predicts 200 million 5G phone sales in 2020, Xiaomi to invest $7 billion over next five years

Posted: 02 Jan 2020 08:55 PM PST

2020 is the year when 5G will go mainstream and a new report from Goldman Sachs is forecasting a hefty 200 million 5G smartphone shipments globally in the coming year. The estimate comes as part of a recently published report and is signaling a 20 fold increase compared to the 5G phone shipments for 2019. The largest part of those will be destined for the Chinese market and the high demand from consumers will also accelerate 5G base station deployment. Last week another prediction claimed Huawei alone will top 100 million 5G smartphone shipments in China during 2020. China is looking...

Sony will unveil a "unique vision of the future" on January 6

Posted: 02 Jan 2020 07:28 PM PST

Sony's CES 2020 presentation will start at 17:00 PST on January 6 (next Monday). The company promises a "unique vision of the future, bringing creativity and technology together like never before, to unleash new sensations and emotions." As always, Sony is light on specifics of what the show will be about. There's a very good chance that the PlayStation 5 will feature prominently - the next generation console is expected to launch for the holiday season this year. At last year's CES Sony revealed that it has sold 91.6 million PS4 consoles worldwide. It also showed off its first 8K TVs...

Samsung shipped over 6.7M 5G phones in 2019, Galaxy Tab S6 5G coming in Q1

Posted: 02 Jan 2020 06:00 PM PST

Samsung dominated the 5G market in 2019, shipping the most smartphones of any brand with the faster connectivity. With more than 6.7 million shipped smartphones, Samsung captured around 54% of the total world market (as per data for January to November 2019, Counterpoint Research). Samsung's first 5G smartphone,the Galaxy S10 5G, came in early 2019. It was followed by the Galaxy Note10 5G and Note10+ 5G in the fall of the year, and finally the recently launched Galaxy A90 5G and Galaxy Fold 5G. Samsung will also premiere the world's first 5G-enabled tablet, the Galaxy Tab S6 5G, in...

The next Nokia flagship allegedly delayed to switch to a Snapdragon 865 chip

Posted: 02 Jan 2020 04:33 PM PST

The Nokia 9 PureView was unveiled in early 2019 with with a 2018 Snapdragon chipset. A leakster claims that HMD is trying to avoid a repeat of this situation, but that unfortunately means that the announcement of the Nokia 9.2 has been pushed back to the autumn season. That's right 9.2, even though there's no 9.1. That's likely just to keep the name of the new flagship in line with the rest of the Nokia lineup. Originally, the Nokia 9.1 was set to be unveiled in Q4 last year (or earlier), then it was pushed back to Q2 this year and now it has been delayed again. At least that's what...

Full Xiaomi Mi 10 and Mi 10 Pro specs and prices leak, to launch together

Posted: 02 Jan 2020 02:57 PM PST

Xiaomi is reportedly readying two flagship Mi 10 devices and, rumor has it, both will launch together unlike last year. The pair consists of the Xiaomi Mi 10 and the Mi 10 Pro and their likely arrival is allegedly targeted for the Mobile World Congress in late February. And it gets even better, thanks to an unofficial detailed specs sheet. According to it, the Xiaomi Mi 10 will have an OLED screen of at least 6.5-inch size with 90Hz refresh rate. Both the Mi 10 and Mi 10 Pro will be powered by the Snapdragon 865 with the non-Pro offering either 8GB or 12GB of RAM and the Pro coming with...

Deal: Realme announces New Year sale, discounts many devices

Posted: 02 Jan 2020 01:32 PM PST

New year, new chances for a hot deal from Realme. The company is launching a sale in India between today, January 2, and Sunday, January 5, with discounts on plenty of smartphones in all price ranges - from Realme C2 to Realme X. Phone Discounted Price in INR (USD/EUR) Original price (in INR/USD/EUR) Realme C2 5,999 ($84/€75) 6,499 ($91/€81) Realme 3i 6,999 ($98/€87) 7,999 ($112/€100) Realme 3 7,499 ($105/€93) 8,999 ($126/€112) Realme U1 8,499 ($120/€106) 8,999 ($126/€112) ...

Former Lenovo chief of mobile division joins Xiaomi

Posted: 02 Jan 2020 12:14 PM PST

You may remember Chang Cheng for his teasers while he was serving as Lenovo VP of the mobile division. He recently retired from the company, but in a somewhat surprising move today revealed he is joining Xiaomi. The Xiaomi co-founder Lin Bin posted an image on Weibo, sitting alongside fellow co-founders and the new acquisition to the team. The post was promptly reposted by Cheng with the words "Work hard for your dreams". Chang Cheng, second left, sitting alongside De Liu, Lei Jun, Lin Bin, co-founders of Xiaomi Chang Cheng is most famous with being president of the ZUK...

Upcoming Samsung Galaxy Tab A4S pops up on FCC, revealing more key specs

Posted: 02 Jan 2020 10:57 AM PST

Last week we got our first set of Samsung Galaxy Tab A4S specs - an upcoming mid-range tablet from the Korean manufacturer. The tablet was certified by the Bluetooth SIG bearing the SM-T307U model number and was previously spotted on the Wi-Fi alliance database. Samsung Galaxy Tab A4S FCC listings The new certification reveals the tablet will sport an 8.39-inch display and a 4,860 mAh battery with 15W fast charging. In addition, the Tab A4S will come with GPS, LTE and dual-band Wi-Fi 802.11 ac. The tablet measures 201.9 mm by 124.4 mm and runs Android 9 Pie. Samsung...
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