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LG Velvet image leaks, 10W wireless charging confirmed

Posted: 27 Apr 2020 08:35 AM PDT

Details about the LG Velvet keep trickling in. The latest comes from the Wireless Power Consortium, which just certified the phone with support for wireless charging at up to 10W. It's a Power Class 0 receiver, a standard that supports power up to 30W, but that's usually reserved for high-end offerings. And the Velvet is LG's attempt to revitalize its mid-range smartphone lineup. It created a new design language - the company is betting that it can differentiate its products on design rather than specs alone. LG Velvet gets its 10W Qi wireless charging certification Speaking of...

Samsung to release a Galaxy A phone with pop-up selfie camera

Posted: 27 Apr 2020 07:51 AM PDT

In collaboration with a reputable leakster @rquandt, Pigtou was able to obtain a set of renders depicting a Samsung Galaxy A smartphone with a pop-up selfie camera. Some basic specs are also in the report so here they are. Samsung Galaxy A phone with a pop-up selfie According to the leak, the smartphone will feature a display with around 6.5-inch diagonal, while dimensions are 160.9 x 77 x 9.2 mm. The back hosts a triple camera and a fingerprint reader, suggesting the display of the LCD variety and the scanner couldn't fit underneath. More renders of the...

Canalys: vivo beats Samsung to become second largest maker in India

Posted: 27 Apr 2020 07:03 AM PDT

vivo became the second largest smartphone vendor in India in Q1 scoring a 50% increase in shipments. The maker shipped 6.7M phones to capture 20% of the market. Samsung dipped nearly 14% compared to Q1 of 2019 for a total of 6.3M phones. Xiaomi remains the runaway leader with 10.3M phones shipped and 30% market share. Realme shipped 3.9M phones, which is a 200% increase over last year. The Indian market recorded an 11.5% increase in phone shipments, despite the country going into lockdown in the final week of March. A total of 33.5 million phones were shipped in the months January...

DJI Mavic Air 2 leaks: 48MP camera with pixel binning, larger battery, 8K Hyperlapse

Posted: 27 Apr 2020 06:17 AM PDT

The DJI Mavic Air is over two years old now and it is overdue for an upgrade. Version 2 is coming and it's borrowing some ideas from smartphones - it seems that the new 48MP sensor will have a Quad Bayer filter. DJI Mavic Air 2 leaked images The 48MP effective resolution can be binned to 12MP for better-quality photos. The sensor itself is larger than before too, 1/2.0" vs. 1/2.3". While regular video recording remains capped at 4K, the drone will be able to shoot 8K Hyperlapses. The field of view (84°) and aperture (f/2.8) are essentially the same as on the first...

OnePlus co-founders get together to unbox the OnePlus 8, talk about what inspired the phone

Posted: 27 Apr 2020 05:31 AM PDT

OnePlus co-founders Pete Lau and Carl Pei have gotten together to shoot an official unboxing video for the OnePlus 8. The video is in Chinese and YouTube's automatic subtitles haven't kicked in yet, unfortunately, but long story short, these two go into details about how the phone was designed and what inspired the team (while joking constantly, it's rare to see head execs have this much fun in an official video). They caution users not to use a knife as they may damage the contents of the box. The two also mention that the company uses recyclable paper and plastic and show off the...

Samsung Galaxy J2 Core (2020) unveiled: double the storage, still Android 8 Go

Posted: 27 Apr 2020 04:44 AM PDT

Samsung just introduced the Galaxy J2 Core (2020) in India - or rather it doubled the storage on the original J2 Core and called it a new phone. The 2018 model was already quite light on specs and two years later they seem even more restrictive. The one saving grace of the phone is that it runs Android Go Edition where both OS and apps are designed to squeeze the most out of even low-end hardware. Apps and content can be moved to a microSD card • Android 8.0 Oreo Go edition The phone is powered by an Exynos 7570 Quad, a 14nm chip with four Cortex-A53 cores and a Mali-T720. It has...

MIUI 12 officially announced

Posted: 27 Apr 2020 04:12 AM PDT

Alongside the new Mi 10 Youth, Xiaomi officially unveiled its latest custom Android user interface - MIUI 12. It's still based on Android 10 but brings a visual overhaul with a simpler flat look alongside plenty of new animations, an improved dark mode, new health app and more sophisticated privacy controls. Starting off with the visuals, Xiaomi has flattened pretty much all of MIUI. There are new app launch and closing animations that Xiaomi claims are faster and more fluid than before. Dark Mode 2.0 is another key addition that brings wallpaper dimming and font adjustment to...

Honor X10 specs and images revealed through TENAA and MIIT

Posted: 27 Apr 2020 03:05 AM PDT

Honor's X10 series was mentioned for the first time only yesterday and today we get a very detailed look at its first member - the Honor X10. Courtesy of certification listings on China's MIIT and TENAA we have a good outline of the Honor X10's specs and even images of the phone from most angles. The Honor X10 is powered by the Kirin 820 5G chipset, has a 6.63-inch IPS LCD of 2400x1080px resolution. There's a quad camera on the rear - the specs of the sensors are not revealed though. The phone measures 163.7x76.5x8.8mm and is equipped with a 4,200mAh battery with 22.5W wired charging...

Xiaomi Mi 10 Youth is official with a 5x periscope camera

Posted: 27 Apr 2020 02:14 AM PDT

Xiaomi has officially announced the Mi 10 Youth 5G - the company's first phone with a periscope shooter. It comes with 50x zoom, Snapdragon 765G chipset, plenty of battery and screen at an impressive price - starting from $300/€275. The Xiaomi Mi 10 Youth 5G has a lot in common with the global Mi 10 Lite 5G - they are built around the same 6.57" AMOLED panel with the fingerprint scanner tucked underneath. The resolution is Full HD+, but the panel supports 180Hz touch sampling rate. The camera of the Mi 10 Youth 5G gained an all new 8MP telephoto camera with a periscope lens...

Poco F2 Pro spotted in Google Play listing, is a rebranded Redmi K30 Pro

Posted: 27 Apr 2020 01:29 AM PDT

Last month we came across a report which claimed that the Redmi K30 Pro might come to India as a member of the Poco brand. Then Poco India GM Chandolu Manmohan squashed the rumors by stating that there are no plans to bring the Redmi K30 Pro as the Poco F2 or X2 Pro. Now, a new listing on the Google Play list of supported devices shows that the Redmi K30 Pro will come as the Poco F2 Pro. We can see the device will sport the same "Imi" code-name like the Redmi K30 Pro but it remains to be seen which markets will get the Poco F2 Pro. Additionally, we can spot the Redmi K30 Pro Zoom...

Meizu 17 to have 90Hz screen and 64MP camera, Pro to bring wireless charging

Posted: 27 Apr 2020 12:42 AM PDT

The Meizu 17 will arrive next week, and today we got confirmation there are going to be at least two phones - a vanilla version and a Pro variant. The lineup will be introduced with a 90Hz screen, and a 64MP camera, according to official teasers. In the meantime, a trustworthy source from Weibo revealed the Pro option will come with Super wireless mCharge. Meizu 17 official teasers While the images, posted by Weibo, are pretty self-explanatory, the Meizu 17 Pro flyer reveals a bit more about the phone. It will also have OneMind 4.0 which is Meizu's spin of software booster for...

Unreleased Realme smartphone leaks in live images

Posted: 26 Apr 2020 10:00 PM PDT

Realme introduced the X50m 5G and is preparing to launch the X3 and Narzo lineups. We've already seen the design of these phones and know they will feature four cameras in the upper left corner, as well as familiar paint jobs. However, it appears that Realme is preparing a smartphone with a completely new device, according to one trustworthy source on Weibo. Is Realme preparing a new phone? The phone has three cameras, a carbon-like finish (which is more likely to be underneath a glass panel) and a vertical stripe from top to bottom. It might be an upcoming new lineup, given the...

Top 10 trending phones of week 17

Posted: 26 Apr 2020 06:33 PM PDT

Huawei's nova 7 event came a bit late in the week, but obviously the phones were hot enough to make up for the lost time and we have one of them on top of the trending chart. The nova 7 Pro edged the iPhone SE (2020) as the yet to be announced Mi 10 Youth completed the podium. The latter is one of the many rumored phones in this week's edition of the chart. Like the Redmi 10X sitting in fourth or the Realme X3 in seventh or the Redmi K30i that got the tenth position. These are clearly phones people are gonna be monitoring closely in the following weeks. The vanilla nova 7 is in...

Top 10 trending phones of week 16

Posted: 26 Apr 2020 12:11 PM PDT

It was an exciting week 16 for mobile fans as Apple and OnePlus officially unveiled new phones and it's hardly a surprise that those are among the leaders in our top 10. In fact the iPhone SE (2020) was already on top last week so it was expected that it will retain the lead in its launch week. OnePlus 8 Pro is also having is second week in the top 10 in its first week of officialdom, taking second, while the vanilla OnePlus 8 got fourth. In fourth we have the original Apple iPhone SE as people would innevatibaly compare specs between that one and its 2020 edition. Truth be told...

Flashback: the Motorola Droid started a proxy war with the iPhone

Posted: 26 Apr 2020 09:18 AM PDT

This is a story of rivalry between former partners - Motorola vs. Apple, Verizon vs. AT&T. We've already covered the first iTunes phone, the Moto ROKR, Steve Jobs could barely hide his contempt for the device when showing it on stage. This union was dissolved quickly as the team at Cupertino went on to make their own phone. A phone they will sell exclusively through AT&T. The carrier enjoyed an influx of new customers as the carrier was the only place you could buy the desirable iPhone. Verizon customers couldn't get in on the action until the iPhone 4 due to a technical limitation, the...
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