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Honor's Snapdragon 888-powered flagship will arrive in July

Posted: 15 Mar 2021 08:26 AM PDT

Honor's separation into a fully independent brand is complete and we can now focus on actual products rather politics. Such as its upcoming Snapdragon 888-powered flagship. According to sources from China, the new phone will arrive in July and will be part of the Magic series. Honor released its V40/View 40 series at the beginning of January, but the phone was developed under Huawei's supervision and arrived with a Dimensity 1000+ chipset, which while fast is not exactly cutting edge. Industry insiders revealed there are two main reasons why the new phone can't arrive sooner -...

Realme X9 Pro Concrete edition leaks in live photos

Posted: 15 Mar 2021 07:37 AM PDT

Over the weekend we saw a TENAA listing for an upcoming Realme device bearing the RMX3116 model number. The device speculated as the Realme X9 Pro/GT Neo packs a curved 6.55-inch display, a dual-cell 4,400mAh battery and measures 159.9 x 73.4 x 7.8 mm. RMX3116 TENAA listing According to previous speculations the phone will launch with the Dimensity 1200 chipset and now we get a closer hands-on look of the limited Concrete edition thanks to Chinese tech blogger WhyLab who shared several images on Weibo. Realme X9 Pro/ GT Neo "Concrete" hands-on This limited...

The OnePlus 9 phones will come with 2 years of warranty

Posted: 15 Mar 2021 06:49 AM PDT

CEO Pete Lau announced that the OnePlus 9 series will come with a two year warranty, instead of the industry standard 1 year. Some regions (e.g. the European Union) already have 2 year warranties for all electronics, but most of the world does not. The company looked at surveys and found that flagship buyers keep their phone for around two years before upgrading. This move will give buyers a piece of mind that any hardware defects will be handled without extra costs. The OnePlus 9 series will enjoy 2 years of warranty As for software, a few years ago OnePlus committed to 2 years...

Kuo: AirPods 3 not due until Q3 of 2021

Posted: 15 Mar 2021 06:04 AM PDT

As per renowned analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, Apple's third generation AirPods will enter mass production in Q3 of 2021, which means Q3 is the earliest they can become available. There has been a series of AirPods 3 rumors and leaks these past few weeks and insiders were hinting at a March 23 event where Apple would announce the AirPods 3. However Apple hasn't made such an event official and even if it did, it's now clear that it won't feature AirPods 3. We saw renders and even a supposed live image of the AirPods 3. They appear to have a similar design to the ongoing AirPods Pro, only without...

Motorola Moto G100 renders appear, confirm Edge S rebranding reports

Posted: 15 Mar 2021 05:17 AM PDT

Last month a phone called Moto G100 was spotted on Geekbench, suggesting it might be a rebranded Motorola Edge S for the global markets. Today a whole bunch of press renders of the very same G100 popped up, shwoing it's identical to the Edge S down to the button placement, camera alignment and colors. Motorola Moto G100 The Moto G100 will have a 64MP main camera, and it will be coupled with a 16MP ultrawide shooter and a 2MP depth sensor if we can trust the Edge S specs sheet. The front panel has two punch holes for the 16MP main and 8MP ultrawide cameras, while the display...

Caviar's Goldphone: an iPhone 12 Pro or Galaxy S21 Ultra that are basically 1 kg gold ingots

Posted: 15 Mar 2021 04:25 AM PDT

Say that you have $159,000 laying around that you want to invest in gold – but gold ingots don't have 5G connectivity or 5 nm chipsets. Booo-ring. Caviar has a fix for this issue with the introduction of the Goldphone. There's two of them, actually, one version is based on the Apple iPhone 12 Pro, the other is based on the Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra. The latter model is more expensive too, $169,000, even though both have the same amount of gold on them. Only 7 pieces will be made of the iPhone and of the Galaxy versions. Caviar Goldphone, a Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra with 1 kg...

Sony Xperia Pro has the largest vapor cooling chamber in a phone yet

Posted: 15 Mar 2021 04:16 AM PDT

Every time a new gaming phone is announced we hear a lot about the cooling – so it is surprising that the biggest vapor cooling chamber is not found in a gaming phone but in the Sony Xperia Pro instead. Zack from JerryRigEverything has taken apart his fair share of ROG Phones, Black Sharks, Red Magics and so on, so he knows what he is talking about. Sony used a plastic frame and plastic back on the Pro model rather than the metal and glass design of the Xperia 1 II. That may have improved durability (the plastic back is not going to crack easily), but it also complicated cooling. The...

OnePlus Nord's Android 11 update fixed, rollout resumes

Posted: 15 Mar 2021 03:11 AM PDT

The developers needed a few days to the fix issues in OnePlus Nord's Android 11 update, which was paused due to bug reports coming in. A hotfix is now rolling out to all Nord owners – both those who have the original Android 11 update installed and those who do not. The new update's firmware version is 11.1.1.1 and the changelog is almost the same as that of the original release. The key additions to the log are Optimized power consumption to increase battery life, Fixed the known issues and Improved system stability. A hotfix is rolling out for OnePlus Nord's Android 11...

Xiaomi granted injunction in the US

Posted: 15 Mar 2021 02:22 AM PDT

In the early days of this year, Xiaomi was subject to an executive order ban by the US Department of Defense over allegations of being a "Communist Chinese Military Company". The action undertaken in the last days of President Trump's term prevented US companies from investing capital in Xiaomi and naturally raised concerns if more severe measures could be taken in a similar manner to Huawei's ban. In a sigh of relief, Xiaomi was granted a preliminary injunction by the U.S. District Court of the District of Columbia which lifts the investment restrictions for US companies. U.S....

HTC Wildfire E3 is official with four cameras and a 4,000 mAh battery

Posted: 15 Mar 2021 01:32 AM PDT

HTC has its glory days way in its past but it hasn't given up and today it had a new phone launch. It has released the HTC Wildfire E3 - an entry-level smartphone with four cameras, a big battery and a Mediatek chipset. The Wildfire E3 runs on Helio P22 platform with octa-core CPU running at 2.0GHz. It has 3/4 GB RAM and two storage options - 64GB or 128GB, with up to 128GB more through a microSD slot. The screen of the phone is a 6.5" LCD with HD+ resolution. There's no room for the fingerprint scanner on the front, so the sensor made its way to the back. Speaking about the...

Realme 8, 8 Pro blind sale scheduled to begin today

Posted: 14 Mar 2021 11:30 PM PDT

The Realme 8 series will arrive on March 24, but the brand is opening pre-orders early, at noon IST today. The campaign, called "Infinity Sale", will continue until the end of the week, and everyone who pre-orders will be able to claim their device on March 25 - just a day after the official unveiling. Pre-orders will be taking at Flipkart.com and Realme's own online store with an upfront payment of INR1,080 (about $15). The brand also promised a free gift during this blind sale, in which customers are technically pre-ordering a phone they haven't even seen. The remaining amount...

Realme 8 series is arriving on March 24 with 108MP Infinity Camera

Posted: 14 Mar 2021 09:30 PM PDT

Realme introduced the Realme 7 and Realme 7 Pro last September, and the company is now set to follow up with their successors Realme 8 and 8 Pro on March 24. Realme sent us a special media invite package for the Realme 8 lineup's announcement, which tells us that the March 24 event will mark the global debut of the Realme 8 smartphones, and it will be streamed live in India starting at 7:30PM IST. In the UK, the event will begin at 2PM GMT and at 3PM CET in France, Germany, Italy, and Spain. The package also comes with an actual 108MP Infinity Camera, which was detailed earlier...

Top 10 trending phones of week 10

Posted: 14 Mar 2021 06:49 PM PDT

The host of new announcements this week shook up the order of our trending chart. While none of the new additions was popular enough to dethrone the Redmi Note 10 lineup from last week, two of the new ROG Phone 5 series members made the top 10, while the Find X3 Pro also made the cut in seventh. The Xiaomi Mi 10S has also gained plenty of attention and is now sitting in fourth, while the rumored Huawei P50 sits in sixth, making this one of the most diverse edition of the chart in recent times. The Redmi Note 10 members take first second and fifth as the vanilla Asus ROG Phone 5...

Week 10 in review: Find X3 Pro, ROG Phone 5 launched; OnePlus to partner with Hasselbad

Posted: 14 Mar 2021 04:33 PM PDT

The past seven days saw the debut of some exciting new flagship phones as well as a fair share of leaks and rumors. Asus unveiled three ROG Phone 5 devices - a vanilla, a Pro, and an Ultimate version, all of them with a Snapdragon 888 chipset. The Oppo Find X3 series also went official with no less than four devices - Oppo Find X3 that is exclusive to China, the global flagship that is the Pro, Find X3 Lite that is a rebranded Reno5 and a Find X3 Neo that is an alter ego of the Reno5 Pro+. Huawei and OnePlus are also expected to launch new phones. The P50 family will have massive camera...

Flashback: Nokia's other taco phones and their surprise connection with Jay-Z

Posted: 14 Mar 2021 01:31 PM PDT

In a previous Flashback we lamented that the Nokia N-Gage was ahead of its time and that all of its potential went unfulfilled. It is now remembered only as a failure, which we think is a bit harsh. But did you know that there was another phone with this design? At least people remember the N-Gage (for better or for worse), but how many of you know that the Nokia 3300 existed? Well, there's probably a good reason for that – it just wasn't a very good phone. But our story doesn't start here. It starts in 2001 with the Nokia 5510. It's hard to mistake this phone for anything else, the...

Weekly poll: is the Oppo Find X3 Pro your flagship of choice?

Posted: 14 Mar 2021 10:21 AM PDT

Oppo had a busy week, announcing four Find X3 models. We want to focus on the Oppo Find X3 Pro for this poll as it's the most interesting phone of the three, plus it will be available this month (while the X3 Neo and X3 Lite are coming in April, the vanilla X3 is heading only to China for now). Oppo Find X3 Pro in Gloss Black and Blue Let us start by saying that this phone is quite different from its predecessor in some respects and quite similar in others. One omission that will raise eyebrows is that the 5x periscope lens is gone, instead the new phone has a standard 2x lens...
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