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IDC: Smartphone market expected to decline by 10.6% in H1 2020

Posted: 28 Feb 2020 07:32 AM PST

The detrimental effects of the Coronavirus on the smartphone market will be felt throughout the year and as per the latest IDC projections could lead to a 10.6% decline in shipments for the first half of 2020. On a more long-term basis, the epidemic is expected to result in a 2.3% decline in global shipments for the entire calendar year. The market was supposed to see growth this year based on early estimates before the outbreak but the situation in the last month forced a re-evaluation of the previous estimates. The main problems for smartphone manufacturers right now are the...

Realme 6 pops up on Geekbench sporting Helio G90 chipset and 8GB RAM

Posted: 28 Feb 2020 06:44 AM PST

After the Realme 6 Pro was spotted on Geekbench yesterday, its non-Pro sibling - the Realme 6 also passed through the benchmark tool. The phone is seen sporting the RMX2001 model number revealing it packs the MediaTek Helio G90 SoC, 8GB RAM, and runs Android 10 which will likely come with the company's Realme UI on top. Realme 6 Geekbench listing It managed 508 points in the single-core test and 1633 points in the multi-core department. These scores are fairly close to those of the 6 Pro as well as the Realme X2 which gives us an indication for the performance prowess. The...

Black Shark 3 Pro will have mechanical pop-up shoulder triggers

Posted: 28 Feb 2020 05:52 AM PST

The Black Shark 3 series gaming phones are coming on March 3 and with the fast-approaching announcement date, we are getting a clearer picture of what to expect. The latest teasers for the Black Shark 3 Pro reveal it will come with a pair of built-in mechanical shoulder buttons. We've already seen capacitive shoulder triggers on gaming phones but this is the first time a company is implementing a mechanical solution, which is bound to offer more precise controls and superior feedback. Black Shark 3 Pro mechanical shoulder triggers The triggers appear to sit flush with the...

Samsung Galaxy S10 Lite gets a 512GB storage variant

Posted: 28 Feb 2020 05:04 AM PST

The Samsung Galaxy S10 Lite originally came in two memory configurations - 6GB/128GB and 8GB/128GB. Today a third version joins them, with 8GB RAM and 512GB storage. This new model was announced in India for INR44,999 ($625/€565) and it will go on sale in the country from March 1 through the company's official India site, Samsung Opera House, leading online portals as well as retail stores. If that's too steep, you can go for the 128GB storage variant with 8GB RAM that costs INR39,999 ($555/€500). Samsung didn't launch the 6GB RAM model in India. The Samsung Galaxy S10 Lite is...

Realme Band features revealed: USB-A connector, IP68 rating, and heart-rate monitor

Posted: 28 Feb 2020 04:13 AM PST

Realme will unveil the Realme 6 series on March 5 but alongside that, the company will also launch its first smartband dubbed Realme Band. We don't know the price of the Realme Band yet, but the company today revealed a bevy of features on its official India site to build the hype. For starters, the Realme Band will feature a color screen which will display notifications for calls, messages and alarms. Realme Band will sport a color display The band will come with sleep tracking and real-time heart-rate monitoring and support nine sports modes, one of which is the Cricket...

Huawei P40 and P40 Pro certified with 22.5W and 40W chargers

Posted: 28 Feb 2020 03:22 AM PST

Huawei is set to introduce its flagship P40 line on March 26 in Paris and we got yet another bit of the P40 and P40 Pro specs. The latest entry comes from China's 3C and details the charging speeds of both phones. Huawei P40 listings The P40 (model numbers ANA-AN00 and ANA-TN00) will sport 22.5W charging speeds while the Pro variant (ELS-AN00 and ELS-TN00) will support up to 40W just like on the P30 Pro. Huawei P40 Pro listings If the rumors hold up, we should be getting a P40 Premium as well which could bring even faster charging speeds. Last week both the vanilla and...

Realme X, Realme 5 Pro start receiving Android 10 and Realme UI

Posted: 28 Feb 2020 02:33 AM PST

Realme promised most of its phones will receive the Realme UI with Android 10 and it's now seeding it to Realme X and Realme 5 Pro. Owners of both phones in India have been receiving notifications for the past few days that an update is incoming, bringing the latest OS and user interface. The package is named RMX1901EX_11_C.01 for the Realme X and RMX1971_EX_11_C.01 for the Realme 5 Pro and is the same in size - 3.51 GB. It brings new looks of the user interface, as well as some key features that Realme proudly introduced back at the official launch of its custom UI. One of the...

Huawei Enjoy 10e scheduled to arrive on March 1

Posted: 28 Feb 2020 01:42 AM PST

The Huawei Enjoy 10 family is about to get a new member. This Sunday, March 1, the Huawei Enjoy 10e will be introduced in China, bringing a big and powerful battery. The information was posted by the manufacturer on Weibo without revealing any specs whatsoever. The Huawei Enjoy 10e is likely to be the most affordable of the bunch, judging by the Enjoy 9 from last year. The Enjoy 9s had three cameras, the Enjoy 9 only two, and the Enjoy 9e had one shooter and pretty basic internals. Two days ago a mysterious Huawei smartphone with a Helio P35 chipset appeared on TENAA and...

vivo Z6 5G announced: Snapdragon 765G SoC, dual-mode 5G and 44W charging

Posted: 28 Feb 2020 12:51 AM PST

Chinese phone maker vivo launched the Z5 last July and today the company unveiled its successor, dubbed vivo Z6 5G. The vivo Z6 5G is built around a 6.57" 20:9 display of 2400x1080 pixel resolution. It's surrounded by slim bezels on three sides and promises a screen-to-body ratio of 90.74%. The screen has a 3.85mm punch hole in the upper right corner which houses the 16MP selfie camera. Around the back, you get a fingerprint scanner accompanying an L-shaped quad camera setup which is a combination of a 48MP main, 8MP ultrawide (112-degree FOV), 2MP macro and 2MP depth sensor...

vivo's APEX 2020 has a camera in the display and a zoom periscope on the back

Posted: 28 Feb 2020 12:08 AM PST

It was supposed to happen at a lavish event in Barcelona at the MWC, but the Coronavirus messes up vivo's plans. The vivo APEX 2020 concept phone is nonetheless official and we get a glimpse of the technologies the company has been working on. We've come to expect innovation that's borderline unreal from APEX concept phones and the APEX 2020 willingly obliges. It has a seamless body with no openings and instead relies on pressure-sensing capacitive buttons. Its 6.45-inch 2330x1080px FullView display incorporates a 16MP in-display selfie camera, while the sides end on...

Samsung Galaxy Tab S6 Lite appears in a press render with S-Pen

Posted: 27 Feb 2020 11:22 PM PST

After announcing the Galaxy Tab S6 and Galaxy Tab S6 5G, Samsung is expected to launch the Galaxy Tab S6 Lite soon. It recently bagged Bluetooth certification and now its press render has surfaced revealing its design. The Galaxy Tab S6 Lite looks similar to the vanilla Tab S6 and the image reveals it will retain the S-Pen. The tablet also has the cellular network icon in the status bar, meaning it will support LTE connectivity. But it's said to have a Wi-Fi-only variant as well. The Galaxy Tab S6 Lite is rumored to have 64GB and 128GB storage options, and according to Geekbench,...

nubia Red Magic 5G benchmark reveals it can do true 144fps gaming

Posted: 27 Feb 2020 10:24 PM PST

Smartphone companies have been racing each other to introduce a handset with a 120Hz screen, but nubia is about to one-up them all. The upcoming Red Magic 5G will have a whopping 144Hz panel and by the looks of it the Snapdragon 865 will have enough power to make use of it. GameBench got its hands on a pre-release nubia Red Magic 5G that has Snapdragon 865 chipset, 12GB RAM and 256GB storage. There is also active cooling to minimize thermal throttling. During the testing process, the nubia Red Magic 5G reached median 144 fps with minimum 142 fps while running Real Racing 3, the...

Apple Powerbeats 4 design revealed by FCC listing

Posted: 27 Feb 2020 07:45 PM PST

Apple's is preparing to release a new pair of wireless headphones called the Powerbeats 4. Late last month, we saw a glimpse of the earphone's design thanks to a set of icons found in iOS update 13.3.1. Powerbeats Pro (left) • Powerbeats 4 (middle) • Powerbeats 3 (right) Thanks to a new filing with the FCC, we are able to see more about the Powerbeats 4's design. It carriers a model number of A2015 and first began testing in November. A description in the filing reads the following: A2015 is wireless headphone with integrated battery, microphone, and antenna. It...

Realme 6 Pro stops by Geekbench

Posted: 27 Feb 2020 06:04 PM PST

Realme has already confirmed that it's launching the Realme 6 and 6 Pro in India next week, on March 5. The phones will be joined by the company's first fitness band. The Realme 6 Pro has so far been rumored to sport the Snapdragon 720G chipset, and today it's been spotted in the Geekbench results database. The model number RMX2061 has been associated with the Realme 6 Pro through a previous IMDA certification. The SoC isn't specified in the benchmark listing, but we do get to find out that at least one version of the handset will come with 8GB of RAM. It will also run Android 10...

Samsung Galaxy Note10 update improves face unlock and gesture navigation

Posted: 27 Feb 2020 12:21 PM PST

Samsung has started the global rollout of the latest software update for its Galaxy Note10 lineup with Germany and the update includes important refinements of the face unlock and the gesture-based navigation system. The firmware versions for the Note10 and Note10+ phones are N975FOXM2BTB3, N975FXXU2BTB5 and N975FXXU2BTB3 respectively, and are now being distributed to units in Germany. The update requires a download of around 260MB big and improves the facial recognition algorithm along with the gestures used for navigation. And if you haven't received the update yet, wait patiently...

New Nokia feature phone with XpressMusic looks revealed by TENAA

Posted: 27 Feb 2020 11:01 AM PST

HMD has revived several classic Nokia phones and TENAA shows that another one is in the works (model name TA-1212). It's a bar phone with a splash of red that reminds us of XpressMusic models - like the Nokia 5130 (but without the side-mounted buttons). This is a basic feature phone like the Nokia 110 (2019) and not one of the KaiOS powered devices like the recent Flip and Tough handsets. We can tell by the 0.36GHz single-core processor, mere 8MB of RAM and 16MB storage (note the M as in megabytes). It does have a microSD slot, supporting cards up to 32GB so it can work as a simple MP3...

CR: iPhone XR tops 2019 global best-selling chart, iPhone 11 comes in second

Posted: 27 Feb 2020 10:09 AM PST

The iPhone 11 proved a real hit for Apple. The successor to the iPhone XR is doing even better than its predecessor,dominating sales around the globe. According to the latest report from Counterpoint Research, the iPhone 11 was the second best selling phone in 2019 with 2.1% share of all global smartphone sales, trailing only the iPhone XR which commanded a 3% share. Keep in mind that the XR was available throughout 2019, whereas the 11 only came at the end of September. The Samsung Galaxy A50 rounds out the podium with 1.8% of all global sales. Apple and Samsung continued their...

Samsung is working on an update to improve the Galaxy S20 Ultra image quality

Posted: 27 Feb 2020 09:18 AM PST

Did you see our camera comparison starring the Samsung Galaxy S20 Ultra? The quad camera had us "cautiously excited but also underwhelmed" and we're not alone in this - Samsung has taken note of early reviews and has started working on an update to improve the camera. However, the company did not say what issues specifically it will focus on. "The Galaxy S20 features a groundbreaking, advanced camera system," it told The Verge. "We are constantly working to optimize performance to deliver the best experience for consumers. As part of this ongoing effort, we are working on a future update...
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