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Xiaomi to add back tapping gestures in MIUI 12

Posted: 28 Jul 2020 08:39 AM PDT

Deep inside the MIUI 12 beta code, XDA-Developers was able to unearth a back tap feature that was introduced in Apple's iOS 14 and is reportedly on its way to Google Pixel phones as well. But Xiaomi's implementation takes things one step further. From the screenshots below, you can see that there's a triple-tap on the back in addition to the double-tap. The list of supported tasks has been expanded so you can open up the control center, notification shade, the default camera app or take a screenshot by double or triple-tapping on the phone's back. Options for the back tap...

nubia Watch revealed alongside Red Magic TWS earphones

Posted: 28 Jul 2020 07:53 AM PDT

In addition to unveiling its Red Magic 5S, nubia announced two additional smart wearables with the nubia Watch and Red Magic TWS earphones. Starting off with the smartwatch, it takes a lot of cues from the ZTE Alpha smart wearable. It sports an elongated curved 4.01-inch AMOLED display with always-on functionality and a crown element on the side for touch-free controls. The body features a stainless steel and aluminum construction. The watch strap options include napa leather as well as a standard silicone. As with all new smartwatches, the nubia Watch can track a standard array of...

LG Velvet 4G (with S845) will be available in Europe this week

Posted: 28 Jul 2020 07:06 AM PDT

The 4G version of the LG Velvet – the one that uses a Snapdragon 845 instead of a 765G – is here. And, surprisingly, "here" is Europe. This phone was first spotted in Iran and there were some clues about a possible Brazil launch. That may still happen, but there's nothing on the official LG sites for those countries yet. For now it can be found in Germany and Hungary. In Germany, Saturn is asking €500 and says that the first units will be available on the 31st (this Friday). MediaMarkt will sell the phone as well, though there's no price or launch date yet. LG Velvet 4G in and...

Red Magic 5S debuts with improved cooling system, 144Hz refresh rate display and Snapdragon 865

Posted: 28 Jul 2020 06:15 AM PDT

The Red Magic 5G released back in March and now we have its successor with the Red Magic 5S which brings an overhauled cooling system with a silver-plated vapor chamber. The rest of the spec sheet, as well as the phone's design, are quite similar to the outgoing Red Magic 5G down to the dimensions. The big new addition to the 5S is the silver-plated cooling pad stylized as ICE Ag. It should deliver better results than the conventional copper heat pipes in most smartphones resulting in lower throttling. The phone also retains the 15,000 RPM spinning fan from its predecessor which also...

iQOO to show off a phone with 120W FlashCharge this week

Posted: 28 Jul 2020 05:24 AM PDT

During this year's China Joy, which is scheduled for July 31 to August 3, iQOO, is going to showcase a phone at its booth with impressive fast charging capabilities. According to the teaser poster, the company will demonstrate a phone that supports the 120W FlashCharge tech that was detailed earlier this month. It's not clear if this will be a market ready product or a prototype, though. Alongside that we'll also see an immersive 144Hz display. This one isn't unprecedented - even iQOO itself has phones with it, but perhaps there's a new twist to it. We'll report back with any...

OnePlus Nord pre-orders in India are now live

Posted: 28 Jul 2020 04:35 AM PDT

OnePlus' first midranger Nord is now making its way to different markets. Today the phone has finally landed in India where it can be pre-ordered at the local Amazon website, with shipping scheduled for next Tuesday. There are three options, with prices starting from INR27,999 ($375/€320). The OnePlus Nord with 8GB RAM and 128 gigs of storage is offered in both Gray Onyx and Marble Blue for that price. There is also an instant discount with a certain cards, and OnePlus offers six-month extended warranty and 50 GB cloud storage, which are part of a new program called Red Cable...

Realme C15 goes official with 6,000 mAh battery, Helio G35 and quad cameras

Posted: 28 Jul 2020 03:47 AM PDT

Realme's entry-level C-series has its newest member with the C15, which just debuted in Indonesia. The phone brings a beefy 6,000 mAh battery alongside quad cameras as well as the same Helio G35 found in the Realme C11 and Android 10 with Realme UI. Upfront we have a 6.5-inch LCD with HD+ resolution with a waterdrop notch cutout for the 8MP selfie cam. The panel sports a tall 20:9 aspect ratio and Corning Gorilla Glass protection. The back features Realme's Geometric Gradient design with a 13MP primary shooter, 8MP ultawide snaper and two 2MP modules - one for depth sensing and another...

Vivo X60s 5G surfaces with Snapdragon 765G, 33W charging

Posted: 28 Jul 2020 01:58 AM PDT

A vivo smartphone with the model number V2006 has appeared on Geekbench, sporting a Snapdragon 765G with 8GB of RAM and running Android 10. That same model received Bluetooth certification at the beginning of June under the name of vivo X60s 5G. Additionally it was certified with the Danish UL (Demko), revealing it will support 11V/3A (33W) charging). So, rounding off the specs we have a vivo smartphone with a Snapdragon 765G, 5G support and 33W charging - which coincides with both the vivo X50 and the vivo X50 Pro. Rumors also point to this being the global variant of the China-bound...

First Motorola Razr 2020 images appear

Posted: 28 Jul 2020 01:07 AM PDT

After the Razr 2019 rekindled Motorola's iconic Razr series, the maker is set to expand its foldable ambitions in 2020. We've been hearing about a 5G successor to the 2019 Razr and now Evan Blass has provided renders of the device which appears to share plenty of similarities to the current model. We can see the overall dimensions of the phone will be similar to the Razr 2019 with the same notch at the top of the main screen though its chin has been slimmed down. The capacitive fingerprint scanner has also been removed which could mean it's moved below the screen or on the side power...

Sony brings RAW support for Xperia 1 II in Photo Pro mode

Posted: 28 Jul 2020 12:15 AM PDT

Sony introduced the Xperia 1 II as its ultimate camera smartphone and it has a Photo Pro mode that gives an abundance of features to be tweaked. One thing it was missing was RAW support, but now it is coming alongside the July security update in firmware update version 58.0.A.3.88. Xperia 1 II screenshots after the update The package is just about 75 MB and brings improvements to the front camera during video calls as well. However, there still isn't any sort of Night Mode, despite many manufacturers with cheaper lower-tier smartphones introducing the technology. The RAW...

vivo S7 render reveals camera design, it is similar to the X50 Pro

Posted: 27 Jul 2020 11:01 PM PDT

The vivo S7 announcement is scheduled for Monday, and today the manufacturer gave us another teaser, revealing the camera setup and one of the colors, and they both look intriguing. The S7 will sport a similar setup to the vivo X50 Pro - one main cam with a big lens in the upper side of a rectangle setup, accompanied by two auxiliary shooters. The big difference is we don't see a periscope cam, but the S series leans to the mid-tier price range, so it's not really a surprise. The color looks interesting, but it is hardly a surprise anymore - we've seen numerous different gradients...

Another Samsung Galaxy Watch3 fully unboxed in Mystic Bronze ahead of launch event

Posted: 27 Jul 2020 08:14 PM PDT

A new video has been published to YouTube by The Mobile Central which shows us a full unboxing, tour, and pairing process for the yet to be released Samsung Galaxy Watch3. According to the video, a retailer (presumably in the UAE) sold this watch ahead of its release date. We saw another video starring the Galaxy Watch3 surface just several hours ago, but this one isn't a spy or leak video, it's a full-on unboxing and setup. The Watch3 in this video is a Mystic Bronze 41mm version with model number SM-R850. Around the 1-minute mark, the host speculates the possibility of the...

Black Shark 3S 120Hz display compared to iPhone 11 Pro Max’s

Posted: 27 Jul 2020 04:33 PM PDT

To add to the news from earlier today that the Black Shark 3S is going to be announced on July 31, the company has released an official teaser video, revealing more about some of the phone's specifications. The display will support 120Hz refresh rates for smooth animations and high frame-rate gaming, while a 270Hz touch refresh rate digitizer ensures optimal touch response. The teaser also reveals a 6.67-inch AMOLED display with support for MEMC 3.0, which interpolates additional frames in any regular video, thus giving it the appearance that it is of a higher frame rate. This kind of...

The Asus ROG Phone 3 has a hidden 160Hz display mode

Posted: 27 Jul 2020 02:02 PM PDT

The Asus ROG Phone 3 has a lovely 6.59-inch AMOLED panel with a joint-fastest refresh rate of 144Hz on a phone. It turns out, the panel can run even faster - up to 160Hz to be exact. The guys over at XDA-Developers found an Android Debug Bridge command that enables the ROG Phone 3's panel to run at an experimental 160Hz for testing and everyone with basic ADB knowledge can enable it (instructions in the source link below). XDA has confirmed that the screen does indeed run at 160Hz and that some games, capable of 144fps, being technically fps-unlocked, can run at 160fps. We verified in...

Galaxy Unpacked teaser reveals all incoming devices

Posted: 27 Jul 2020 12:47 PM PDT

August 5 will bring us the latest Samsung flagship devices consisting of 5 products. The star of the show will be the Galaxy Note20 series but we're also going to see the Galaxy Z Fold 2 (the successor to the Galaxy Fold). Alongside these two, Samsung will debut the Galaxy Tab S7 series as well as the Galaxy Watch 3 and Galaxy Buds Live. The latest promo video for the event confirms all 5 devices will indeed launch at the keynote and gives us short previews. The video starts off with the new Mystic Bronze colorway which seems to be the new flagship color for Samsung's devices. We...

Xiaomi device with Snapdragon 865 crushes AnTuTu, is it the Mi 10 Pro Plus?

Posted: 27 Jul 2020 11:33 AM PDT

A mystery Xiaomi device with the model number M2007J1SC managed to score 687,000 on AnTuTu. To put that into perspective, in our testing the highest scorer on AnTuTu is the Asus ROG Phone 3 with X Mode enabled and with an active cooling fan strapped on and it only got 621,000. According to the source of the leak, the Xiaomi device in question is running a Snapdragon 865, and not the overclocked Snapdragon 865+ chipset. Benchmarks typically can't tell the two chipsets apart though because they share an identifier so we wouldn't read too much into this. The question is - which device is...

Galaxy M01 Core unveiled: the cheapest Samsung in India, running Android 10 Go edition

Posted: 27 Jul 2020 10:21 AM PDT

In the last 60 days, Samsung has launched three phones in India that cost under INR 10,000. The last of which is the new Galaxy M01 Core, an Android 10 Go edition phone and the cheapest Samsung in the country – it starts at INR 5,500. However, it's quite a bit different from the Galaxy M01 and even M01s. For starters, it's smaller – the Core has a 5.3" screen compared to 5.7" on the vanilla M01 and 6.2" on the M01s. The screen has 720p+ resolution, which is alright in this case as it works out to 277 ppi pixel density. Also, previous Core models had sub-HD screens, so again, not bad for...

The OnePlus Nord cracks during bend test

Posted: 27 Jul 2020 09:17 AM PDT

The newly-announced OnePlus Nord is cheaper than the OnePlus 8 and 8 Pro and as such, it has made some compromises with materials and components. It uses a less-powerful Snapdragon 765G chipset, has a slightly-smaller display, no telephoto camera and a plastic frame. The last one is the biggest differentiator to the metal-framed OnePlus 8 and 8 Pro when it comes to durability. The plastic frame cracked during JerryRigEverything's routine bend test. The frame's least structurally-sound spot appears to be, like on so many other devices, right underneath the volume rocker. The rest of...

Xiaomi Redmi 9 review

Posted: 27 Jul 2020 08:53 AM PDT

Samsung Galaxy Watch3 stars in hands-on video ahead of launch

Posted: 27 Jul 2020 08:28 AM PDT

The Samsung Galaxy Watch 3 series has often been in the rumor mill lately, revealing most of its key specs. The smartwatch is expected to debut on August 5 alongside the Note20 series, Galaxy Z Fold 2 and Galaxy Tab S7 series. Now we have our first hands-on video of the unreleased wearable which gives us a detailed look at its appearance, software and key features. The 41mm version of the Watch 3 comes with a 1.2 inch AMOLED display, 8GB storage and Tizen OS 5.5. The model in the video sports a leather strap though we'll also see metal and silicone options as well. We can also see the...
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