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Redmi K30 Pro coming end of March

Posted: 10 Mar 2020 08:31 AM PDT

We already know that the upcoming Redmi K30 Pro will arrive this month but the company still hasn't shared an official launch date. A Weibo post from last month by Redmi GM Lu Weibing, gives us an indication when we can expect the brand new Redmi flagship. Lu Weibing Weibo post Weibing says that the K30 Pro launch event will take place between the launch of the Huawei P40 (March 26) and that of the upcoming Honor 30 series which is believed to come in April. This means we should expect the Redmi K30 Pro launch event towards the end of March with early sales in China commencing in...

Huawei P40 Red Flag edition will celebrate China's new luxury car

Posted: 10 Mar 2020 07:41 AM PDT

When Huawei unveils a P-series or Mate flagship, there's usually a premium Porsche Design edition with a custom exterior and exclusive features. For the Huawei P40 phones, the company has also partnered with the domestic Hongqi brand. If you haven't heard of it, Hongqi is a marque of the FAW Group (one of China's Big Four car makers). This special edition is specifically inspired by the Hongqi H9, which was unveiled earlier this year - FAW's answer to the Mercedes S-class and similar luxury cars. In the promotional poster you can see both the Huawei P40 Red Flag edition and the Hongqi...

Google Pixel 4a stars in hands-on video review, most specs revealed

Posted: 10 Mar 2020 06:52 AM PDT

Yesterday, photos of the Pixel 4a appeared and as some of you in the comments pointed out, the phone was connected to a Cuban carrier. What is the next mid-range Pixel doing in Cuba? Well, starring in a hands-on review, apparently, never mind that it is yet to be officially announced The review is Spanish, but YouTube's auto-generated and auto-translated subtitles are pretty good. Plus, the most interesting details are pretty universal - a 5.81" 1,080 x 2,340px screen and Snapdragon 730 need no translation. Before you ask, it's a 60Hz screen this is the budget Pixel, after all....

vivo NEX 3S 5G arrives with Snapdragon 865, UFS 3.1 storage

Posted: 10 Mar 2020 06:04 AM PDT

vivo just announced a successor of the vivo NEX 3 5G, although it's more of a minor refresh than a proper replacement. It's called vivo NEX 3S 5G and it becomes apparent even from the name itself that the changes are cosmetic. The biggest upgrade is on the inside, where the NEX 3S 5G comes with a Snapdragon 865 chipset employing the 5G-capable Snapdragon X55 modem supporting NSA + SA. There's also a bump in the memory and storage speeds. The memory is now LPDDR5 instead of LPDDR4X offering a 29% increase in bandwidth while the storage inside goes up to 256GB and is of the UFS 3.1...

Honor 20 series and View 20 will receive Magic UI 3.0 update from March 15

Posted: 10 Mar 2020 05:14 AM PDT

Huawei sub-brand Honor has announced that it will begin rolling out the Magic UI 3.0 update for the Honor 20, 20 Pro, and View 20 starting March 15. It will also gradually release EMUI 10 for the 9X. Additionally, Honor said that Magic UI 3.0 for Honor 10, 10 Lite, 20 Lite, 8X, 9X Pro and V10 is under testing phase, but didn't share any timeline for its rollout. The Magic UI 3.0 comes with a new UX design that lets users navigate their smartphones more comfortably while minimizing the visual fatigue and increasing the legibility. Besides, the color saturation on the Magic UI 3.0 is...

Oppo Find X2 promo video shows the advantages of Omni-Directional AF over Dual Pixel AF

Posted: 10 Mar 2020 04:25 AM PDT

The Oppo Find X2 and Find X2 Pro use Sony's new sensor with 2x2 on-chip lens. Oppo calls this tech Omni-Directional Focus and with good reason. The company released a promo video touting the advantages of the new tech, though it aims more at entertainment than education. When Dual Pixel autofocus arrived, it was a massive improvement over basic phase detection AF. Essentially, in Dual Pixel every pixel is actually made out of two photodiodes. This means that every pixel can be used for focus detection, unlike regular phase detection AF where only a small number of pixels (around 5%)...

Another vivo V19 with dual selfie punch-hole design heading to Malaysia

Posted: 10 Mar 2020 03:28 AM PDT

Earlier today the vivo V19 went official in Indonesia, but now we are seeing the same name on vivo Malaysia's Twitter. Not it's easy to suspect this is just a teaser for the launch of the same phone in a different market, but it's not how vivo goes about things. The teaser shows two cameras, clearly hinting at a dual selfie snapper. The new phone will "change the way you see the night" and will arrive soon. Change the way you see at night. It's coming.#V19 pic.twitter.com/vLE718CZE3— Vivo Malaysia (@vivo_malaysia) March 9, 2020 The dual selfie cameras indicate that the Malaysian V19...

Oppo Find X2 Pro breaks AnTuTu record

Posted: 10 Mar 2020 02:34 AM PDT

It seems every time a new Android flagship phone comes out, it almost certainly tops the charts on Chinese benchmarking platform AnTuTu. The latest one to do so is the recently announced Oppo Find X2 Pro which managed the highest score recorded on the platform at 637,099 points fueled by its Snapdragon 865 SoC. The phone also holds the top camera score on DxOMark and was recently granted an A+ rating from DisplayMate. For comparison, the previous highest-scoring Android phone on AnTuTu was the Snapdragon 855+ powered Asus ROG Phone II with its 507,284 points. We've also seen the...

vivo V19 debuts in Indonesia with quad-camera setup

Posted: 10 Mar 2020 01:44 AM PDT

Chinese phone maker vivo today announced the vivo V19, which is actually a rebranded V17 that was launched in India last December. The vivo V19 is built around a 6.44" Super AMOLED display of FullHD+ resolution, that has a fingerprint reader underneath for biometric authentication and a punch hole in the upper-right corner for the 32MP selfie shooter. Around the back, you get an L-shaped camera setup, which includes 48MP main, 8MP ultrawide, 2MP macro and 2MP depth sensor modules. The cameras on the V19 have features like Super Night Selfie and Posture Guidance in tow. On the...

Huawei P40 launch teaser confirms massive camera bump

Posted: 10 Mar 2020 12:55 AM PDT

Huawei is preparing its next flagship lineup - the P40 and P40 Pro and even the P40 Premium Edition. The CEO Richard Yu said the launch will take place on March 26 in Paris, France, and today the official teaser of the launch appeared on the company website. The teaser also gives us a sneak peek of the camera setup, which will sit on an impressively big bump that was rumored to hold at least five shooters. All the Huawei P40 phones are coming e with Kirin 990 chipset, although some of them might have the 5G variant of the SoC, depending on the market. According to earlier rumors the...

Nokia 5.3 appears in flesh again with a quad camera

Posted: 10 Mar 2020 12:04 AM PDT

Last month we saw a couple of pictures of the Nokia Captain America, which is rumored to be called the Nokia 5.3. Today we are looking at a new image of the alleged 5.3 that has surfaced online. You can check it out below. The source of the leak also claims that Nokia 5.3 will be powered by the Snapdragon 665 SoC and will come with two 2MP units (macro and depth) instead of 8MP. Furthermore, the smartphone won't come with a glass back, and it will be available in "Sand" color in addition to Charcoal and Cyan shades. Previously leaked image of Nokia 5.3 HMD is holding an...

Motorola Edge+ logo surfaces thanks to FCC filing, mmWave 5G support confirmed

Posted: 09 Mar 2020 07:11 PM PDT

Motorola's upcoming flagship is set to replace succeed the Moto Z4. The Motorola Edge+ is expected with a dual-curved display, 108MP camera setup, and an in-display scanner. The latest leak regarding the Edge+ is the logo that was found in the FCC filing. Slight update to the logo. Previous one was missing the + pic.twitter.com/XAchxSGpjF— Mishaal Rahman (@MishaalRahman) March 9, 2020 Along with the FCC filing, diagrams of the Moto Edge+'s antenna placement were also revealed, thus confirming the presence of mmWave 5G support - at least for the US version, which is likely coming to...

Xiaomi launched the Mi 10 Pro's 108MP camera into space in its latest ad

Posted: 09 Mar 2020 03:13 PM PDT

The latest ad, posted to Xiaomi's Twitter and YouTube channels, boasts the Mi 10 Pro's camera prowess with images of Earth shot from a space satellite with the Mi 10 Pro's 108MP camera. Xiaomi launched a satellite in 2019 with the same 108MP camera on board as the Mi 10 Pro's. Although the images look great, these only make up about 8 seconds of the entire 1-minute and 27-second commercial. If you want to see the samples, scrub ahead to 0:54 in the video. Perhaps the ad proves that smartphone cameras aren't idea for shooting photos of the Earth from space - I mean. It's not like...

Samsung Galaxy M40 gets Android 10

Posted: 09 Mar 2020 12:32 PM PDT

Samsung's Galaxy M40 is the latest handset to receive the big Android 10 update complete with One UI 2.0. It's important to note that this is the Core build of One UI 2.0 meaning it lacks some features like the built-in screen recorder. The update is currently live in India and comes with the M405FDDU2BTB5 build number, weighing in at just over 1.7GB. It brings the March security patch and all the standard Android 10 features like the new gesture navigation, improved privacy and notification management as well as the new Digital Wellbeing. As usual, the update's availability will...

Galaxy S20 is more prone to breaking than S20+ and S20 Ultra, test shows

Posted: 09 Mar 2020 11:39 AM PDT

SquareTrade performed its usual "breakability" test on Samsung's new Galaxy S20 flagship family and found the smallest of the three to be fairly vulnerable. The difference is much larger than last year when all three S10 models scored about the same. You can watch the phones go through several tests in the video below. It's only 2 minutes long and it shows the damage each phone suffered. The Samsung Galaxy S20 had its screen completely shattered during the first drop from 6 feet (1.8m), the back didn't fare any better. The S20 was also the only phone of the three to malfunction...

Infinix S5 Pro review

Posted: 09 Mar 2020 11:07 AM PDT

Redmi Note 9 Pro specs leak

Posted: 09 Mar 2020 10:47 AM PDT

Last week we learned that the Redmi Note 9 series launch event will take place on March 12 at an online-only event. We also saw the phone in a Geeekbench listing which revealed 6GB RAM, Android 10 and an unannounced chipset bearing the "curtana" moniker. Now, noted tipster Ishan Agarwal came through with some more details on the hotly anticipated midranger. The Note 9 Pro is expected to come with a 6.67" LCD display of FHD+ resolution and a 20:9 aspect ratio. It will have a 16MP selfie cam while around the back will sit 48MP main shooter, 8MP ultrawide snapper, 5MP macro cam and a depth...

Xiaomi closes its first and only UK store less than two years after opening

Posted: 09 Mar 2020 09:56 AM PDT

Xiaomi opened a brick and mortar store in London in late 2018 and now (less than two years later) it has closed it. The associated Twitter account has also been shut down, the Mi Store page on the Westfield website is gone as well (Westfield is a large shopping center that housed the store). Note that this isn't a temporary shutdown in response to the coronavirus outbreak, this is a change in strategy by Xiaomi. Going forward, Brits can buy their Xiaomi stuff from the official mi.com/uk site as well as partners such as Amazon. Xiaomi still has many stores across Europe, the largest...

Apple Powerbeats 4 leak in press renders, will come with familiar design

Posted: 09 Mar 2020 09:07 AM PDT

Apple's upcoming Powerbeats 4 were spotted in sketches late last month giving us a vague idea of what they will look like. Today, the first set of press renders for the unannounced wireless earbuds give us a much clearer look at their design and colorways. Powerbeats 4 in white, balck and red The fourth iteration in the Powerbeats lineup looks identical to last year's Powerbeats Pro but with a physical wire connecting the two earbuds. The right one features a volume rocker while the left one appears to house the power/voice assistant button. According to rumors, the new...

The Oppo Find X2 and X2 Pro have three Nokia OZO-powered features

Posted: 09 Mar 2020 08:16 AM PDT

The new Oppo Find X2 and Find X2 Pro boast the advanced sound recording capabilities of Nokia's OZO Audio. This collaboration started with the first Reno phones and continued with the Reno 2 models. Three OZO features are supported: Audio 3D, Audio Zoom and Audio Windscreen. While the Reno 2 had the same features, this is the most advanced integration of OZO technology to date, says the company. It was designed and tested at Nokia's audio lab in Tampere, Finland by Nokia and Oppo engineers working together. Audio 3D allows devices to capture 360° sound with high fidelity audio. Audio...
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