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Gionee Max launched in India with dual camera, 5,000 mAh battery, and Android 10 at $80

Posted: 25 Aug 2020 07:37 AM PDT

The Gionee Max that was teased last week has arrived in India. It's an entry-level smartphone having Spreadtrum's SC9863A SoC at the helm with 2GB RAM. It runs Android 10 out of the box and has 32GB of storage onboard, but it also comes with a dedicated microSD card slot for storage expansion up to 256GB. The Gionee Max is built around a 6.1" HD+ display, that has a notch up top for the 5MP selfie camera. Around the back, we get a 13MP primary camera joined by a Bokeh camera of unknown resolution. The Gionee Max doesn't come with a fingerprint reader, but you do get Face Unlock...

Samsung Galaxy Watch3 and Buds Live get triple the sales of their predecessors

Posted: 25 Aug 2020 06:49 AM PDT

The Samsung Galaxy Watch3 and Galaxy Buds Live have tripled the sales of their predecessors during the first weeks of availability (they went on sale on August 6). This report comes from Korean agency Yonhap News, which adds that Mystic Bronze was the color of choice for the buds – half of the people who bought them picked the bronze version. The Buds Live reached 300,000 sales in the two weeks following the launch. You can read our review if you're wondering whether you should get a pair for yourself. The Galaxy Watch3 sales hit the 60,000 mark, triple what the Galaxy Watch Active2...

Samsung Galaxy Z Fold2 stars in its first review video

Posted: 25 Aug 2020 06:06 AM PDT

While the rest of us are eagerly waiting to get a glimpse of the coveted Samsung Galaxy Z Fold2, a Chinese reviewer has already published his review video. The video was also posted on YouTube through the Inspiration Institute channel and gives us our best look at the second-gen Galaxy Fold in just under 5 minutes. The tall 60Hz 6.23-inch cover display with its 25:9 aspect ratio is a major upgrade over the first gen Fold's 4.6-inch external panel. It offers all the functionality of a regular non-folding phone so you don't have to constantly resort to the main 7.6" panel. We can also...

Realme X7 Pro Geekbench scorecard confirms MediaTek Dimensity 1000+ chipset

Posted: 25 Aug 2020 05:07 AM PDT

The Realme RMX2121 – a phone that is allegedly the Realme X7 Pro – has done a round of Geekbench testing and the benchmark shows that it's powered by the MediaTek Dimensity 1000+ chipset. The company already teased some features of the X7 Pro, things like the 120 Hz OLED display, then it surfaced on TENAA, which filled in most missing details. Except the chipset as that's not listed in TENAA's tables. RMX2121 - likely the Realme X7 Pro - results from Geekbench 4 The Dimensity 1000+ supports 1080p+ displays with refresh rates of up to 144 Hz. It's equipped with four Cortex-A77...

Oppo A53 arrives in India: Snapdragon 460, 90Hz HD+ screen, and 5,000 mAh battery

Posted: 25 Aug 2020 04:13 AM PDT

The new Oppo A53 that went on pre-orders in Indonesia last week has arrived in India. The smartphone's powered by the Snapdragon 460 SoC and comes in two memory configurations - 4GB/64GB and 6GB/128GB. It also comes with a dedicated microSD card slot, which allows storage expansion by up to 256GB. The Oppo A53 packs a 6.5" HD+ display that has a refresh rate of 90Hz - a first for a smartphone with a panel of this resolution. The screen has a punch hole in the upper-left corner for the 16MP selfie camera. The back of the phone, which flaunts a 3D Iridescent Wave Design, is home to a...

Some Galaxy Note20's have vapor chamber cooling, others use graphite

Posted: 25 Aug 2020 03:25 AM PDT

It seems Samsung equipped some of its Galaxy Note20 Ultra and Galaxy Note20 units with copper-enveloped vapor chamber cooling and others with layered graphite thermal pads. This was discovered by iFixit during their teardown of the Galaxy Note20 duo. Both of their Snapdragon 865+ units come with graphite thermal pads (seen below) for heat dissipation, however they've found evidence in this teardown video of a Galaxy Note20 Ultra with a vapor chamber cooling solution. And it doesn't appear to be an Exynos vs Snapdragon issue, as Zack Nelson from JerryRigEverything states his Exynos...

OnePlus Nord receives an update improving the macro camera

Posted: 25 Aug 2020 02:33 AM PDT

The month-old OnePlus Nord is now receiving its third software update. The OxygenOS version is bumped up to 10.5.5 and delivers improvement to color accuracy and clarity to the macro camera, the low-light performance of the front-facing shooter and bunch of other fixes and improvements. The changelog mentions improved volume adjustment interface and the issue that some users had of a sudden reboot when free-form is enabled has been resolved. Additionally, OnePlus Notes is no longer constantly running in the background. The general power consumption has been lowered and the charging...

Nokia 5.3 and C3 make their way to India, 150 and 125 tag along

Posted: 25 Aug 2020 01:42 AM PDT

HMD has brought over two more smartphone offerings for the Indian market with the Nokia 5.3 and C3. Alongside them, HMD is bringing the Nokia 125 and 150 feature phones. Nokia 5.3 The Nokia 5.3 is built around a 6.55-inch HD+ IPS LCD with a waterdrop notch for its 8MP selfie cam. Around the back, we have a 13MP primary shooter alongside a 5MP ultrawide snapper and two 2MP modules - one for macro shots and one for depth sensing. The phone runs on the Snapdragon 665 platform with 4GB or 6GB RAM and 64GB storage which is expandable via microSD. The battery comes in at 4,000 mAh and...

Samsung Galaxy M51 press renders leak

Posted: 25 Aug 2020 12:54 AM PDT

Samsung is going to introduce the Galaxy M51 sooner rather than later as its model number SM-M515F stars in an ever increasing number of leaks. While early renders suggested a triple camera setup, a fingerprint scanner on the back, and a punch-hole in the left corner, now we have the official press images showing them to be fake. The Galaxy M51 will have four shooters in an L formation while the fingerprint scanner will double as a power key on the right side of the phone. The selfie camera will be in a punch hole, but the cutout is in the center rather than any of the corners, and here's...

TSMC is ready to deliver 5nm chips, 3nm scheduled for H2 2022

Posted: 25 Aug 2020 12:07 AM PDT

TSMC is hosting its annual Technology Symposium and has detailed its roadmap for the next two years. Currently, the company is already manufacturing chipsets on the 5nm process technology (codenamed N5), and expectations are Apple to be its main client and consumer with the iPhone 12 series. Speaking about the 3nm process technology (also referred as N3), the Taiwanese manufacturer revealed it will take a different path in architecture than its competitor Samsung and will begin mass production in H2 2022. There are several steps between the N5 and N3, the first one being N5P. It...

Huawei Y9a appears in banners with key specs

Posted: 24 Aug 2020 11:17 PM PDT

A render of the Huawei Enjoy 20 Plus leaked last week, which revealed the smartphone will pack a notchless display, pop-up camera, and a triple camera setup on the back. Today we are looking at another Huawei smartphone with similar design language - the Huawei Y9a. One of our readers from Iraqi Kurdistan sent us a couple of images of the ad banners placed by Huawei in their shop, which reveal the Y9a's design and key specs. As you can see, the Huawei Y9a packs a notchless display and features a circular camera bump on the back. But unlike the Enjoy 20 Plus, this one is home to four...

vivo X50 Pro+ in for review

Posted: 24 Aug 2020 09:54 PM PDT

Last month, we reviewed the vivo X50 Pro. It's a premium midrange smartphone with a first-of-its-kind gimball system built into the main camera. That phone was in the middle of its lineup and the proper flagship is the vivo X50 Pro+, which we've finally received in the office ready for review. The vivo X50 Pro+ comes with a Snapdragon 865 chipset and a higher-end camera setup) than the X50 Pro – well, minus the gimball system. There's a 6.56-inch FHD+ AMOLED screen with 120Hz refresh rate, Android 10 with Funtouch 10.5 out of the box, and faster UFS 3.1 internal storage is the...

Report: Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra to come with S Pen, Note series to be replaced by Z Fold 3

Posted: 24 Aug 2020 07:45 PM PDT

A new report from South Korea suggests that Samsung will do some serious rescheming of its flagship offerings. With the S20, Samsung launched three variants (S20, S20+, and S20 Ultra). Meanwhile, the Note20 came with two variants: the Note20 and Note20 Ultra. According to the report from The Elec Korea, the Galaxy S20's successor, referred to as the Galaxy S21, will come with an S Pen – but only on the Ultra variant. The S21 lineup is expected in the first half of next year. The Galaxy S21 is reportedly codenamed "Unbound" with variants: M1, N2, and O3. The S Pen will apparently arrive...

Gionee K3 Pro unveiled in China with Helio P60, weird fingerprint sensor location

Posted: 24 Aug 2020 05:43 PM PDT

Gionee made the K3 Pro official in China today, and we can't decide what's weirder about it: the fact that it runs Android 9 Pie or the location of its fingerprint sensor. Let's elaborate. It's 2020, and Google is going to release Android 11 in a few weeks. And yet this phone ships not with last year's Android 10, but Android 9 Pie from 2018, for some reason. Next - the fingerprint scanner. Look at the image above and try and guess where it's at. If you were thinking it's the bottom right circle in the camera island, you were right. We've seen scanners sort of integrated with camera...

Green tint strikes again: Galaxy Note20 Ultra, Tab S7 and S7+ affected

Posted: 24 Aug 2020 03:13 PM PDT

Here we go again – a new batch of Samsung devices are exhibiting the green tint issue that plagued the S20 Ultra (mostly the Exynos models). Now reports are coming in that the Samsung Galaxy Note20 Ultra (Snapdragon version), Galaxy Tab S7 and Tab S7+ are suffering from the same issue as well. The green tint appears below a given brightness value. Interestingly, this isn't exclusive to AMOLED displays as the Tab S7 uses an LCD instead. All three use the Snapdragon 865+ chipset, however. This may be tied to the screen refresh rate as one user reports that a tint is only visible in 120 Hz...

Caviar unveils monument-inspired Galaxy Note20 Ultra Eternity with marble and rose gold

Posted: 24 Aug 2020 02:03 PM PDT

Caviar took inspiration from four famous landmarks for its latest creation – the Eternity series of custom Samsung Galaxy Note20 Ultra phones. These combine natural marble with rose gold, a more premium interpretation of the Mystic Bronze color of the new devices. The four models are based on four monuments built centuries and even millennia ago. The Parthenon, famous for its white marble, inspired one version. Hagia Sophia was matched with black marble. The Forbidden City phone has green marble, a nod at the green jade that is prevalent there. St. Basil's Cathedral from the famous Red...

iPhone SE (2020) now assembled in India

Posted: 24 Aug 2020 12:47 PM PDT

Apple has been looking to India in a bid to diversify its iPhone production and provide tariff-free units for the local market for a while now. After the first-gen iPhone SE tipped off local iPhone assembly back in 2017, Cupertino has only furthered its local efforts over the years with models like the iPhone 6s, iPhone 7, XR and most recently - the iPhone 11. As of this week, Apple is also manufacturing the iPhone SE (2020) in India, making it the sixth locally procured phone in Apple's lineup. The news was confirmed by Apple in a statement to local tech outlet. The second-gen SE is...

Realme reports growth in H1 2020, lays out ambitious plans for the rest of the year

Posted: 24 Aug 2020 11:33 AM PDT

Realme has shared its H1 2020 results, and it sounds quite positive. The brand recorded 157% increase in Q1 2020 on a yearly basis, while the improvement in Q2 2020 was 11%, one of the few companies to actually remain in the black after the first wave of the global pandemic. The company managed to become one of Top 5 smartphone brands in at least nine countries on three different continents. Realme H1 2020 accomplishments Madhav Sheth, CEO of Realme India was quoted to say that Realme has become "the most popular tech-lifestyle brand in the world" and the proof is "the...

Oppo Watch review

Posted: 24 Aug 2020 10:37 AM PDT

Indian Moto G9 goes global as Moto G9 Play

Posted: 24 Aug 2020 10:28 AM PDT

Earlier today we saw the debut of the latest budget offering in Motorola's G lineup with the Moto G9 in India. Hot on its heels comes the international variant which will be known as the Moto G9 Play and brings identical specs to the G9 though with an exclusive Spring Pink finish. The G9 Play is slated to arrive in select European markets for €169 starting today. It's coming to other regions soon though they weren't listed just yet. You'll also find the phone in the Sapphire Blue and Forrest Green paint jobs. Like the Indian Moto G9, the G9 Play brings a 6.5-inch IPS LCD, the...
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