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iQOO 7 5G in Monster Orange unveiled in India

Posted: 23 Jul 2021 07:22 AM PDT

While we're patiently awaiting the debut of iQOO 8, the brand announced a new color for its iQOO 7 5G dubbed Monster Orange. The handset will go on sale from July 26 via Amazon India and the iQOO store for a retail of INR 31,990 ($430). The phone was previously only available in Ice Blue and Storm Black colors. iQOO 7 packs a 6.62-inch AMOLED with a 120Hz refresh rate and FHD+ resolution. Snapdragon 870 chipset, 4,400 mAh battery with 66W fast charging and a triple camera setup. The main shooter utilizes a 48MP sensor with OIS alongside a 13MP ultrawide snapper and 2MP depth helper. ...

Honor teases its V7 Pro tablet, to run on Dimensity 1300T

Posted: 23 Jul 2021 06:33 AM PDT

In an official Weibo post, Honor shared a teaser video of its upcoming V7 Pro tablet, which may join the Magic3 series on stage on August 12. Following that the prolific Weibo tipster Digital Chat Station revealed that the tablet will run on a yet-to-be-announced Dimensity 1300T chipset. We don't know anything about a Dimensity 1300T, but we guess MediaTek will have more to share on it in the coming days. The teaser from Honor, however, is quite revealing on its own too. The edges are flat, the back will be clothed in leather and the camera module on the back seems big...

Realme is launching the Watch 2 and 2 Pro, headphones in India next week

Posted: 23 Jul 2021 05:44 AM PDT

Realme announced it is bringing a number of its accessories to India – two smartwatches, two neckband headphones and a TWS headset. None of these are new, we've seen them in other regions, but they weren't available in the country until now. That will change on Monday when all but one of the five accessories will become available. The Realme Watch 2 Pro will become available on July 26 (Monday) and will sell through realme.com and Flipkart, later expanding to other retail channels as well. The Pro model is priced at INR 5,000. Realme Watch 2 Pro If that's too much, the...

Motorola Edge 20 appears in renders with punch hole display and triple camera

Posted: 23 Jul 2021 04:52 AM PDT

Motorola is working on the Edge 20 lineup, which reportedly includes the Edge 20, Edge 20 Pro, and Edge 20 Lite. The first two were spotted on TENAA's website earlier this month with their pictures and a few specs. And today, renders of the Motorola Edge 20's global variant have surfaced, giving us our best look at the smartphone yet. The international Motorola Edge 20 is built around a 6.7" display surrounded by slim bezels on the left and right side and a chin, which the source says could be bigger than it appears in the renders. The screen has FullHD+ resolution, 120Hz refresh...

Huawei shares a P50 Pro camera sample

Posted: 23 Jul 2021 04:03 AM PDT

After Huawei officially confirmed the July 29 announcement of the P50 series, teasers started flowing in. The latest one is once again about the camera and comes in the form of a sample. Huawei's official Weibo account posted a single, low-light photo of two people fencing. The image, of course, has been compressed when uploaded to Weibo so pixel-peeping won't tell us much. However, the fact that colors look so good and the fast-paced subjects aren't blurred is quite impressive. For now, the full specs of the camera setup aren't officially confirmed but a previous teaser...

Gorilla Glass with DX and DX+ will protect the camera lenses of your next flagship

Posted: 23 Jul 2021 03:18 AM PDT

Corning announced a couple of new lens protective glass composites dubbed Gorilla Glass DX and DX+. These are technically not new as they have been covering smartwatch displays since 2018 but the transition to camera lenses required plenty of tweaking to durability and light transmittance. Corning states that its Gorilla Glass with DX and DX+ offers advanced optical performance, superior scratch resistance and durability compared to regular smartphone lens covers. The enhanced optical clarity is said to let in more light (up to 98% of ambient light according to Corning) pass through...

Samsung Galaxy A22 5G arrives in India with Dimensity 700 chipset, 2 years of OS updates

Posted: 23 Jul 2021 02:06 AM PDT

Three weeks after the 4G version of the Galaxy A22 arrived in India, the 5G model follows. It is available in two versions, one with 6GB of RAM and one with 8GB, both have 128 GB storage and a microSD slot. The former model sells for INR 20,000, the latter for INR 22,000. For comparison, the 6/128 GB 4G model is currently INR 18,500 on Amazon. The Samsung Galaxy A22 5G will be available online through Samsung.com and leading online stores as well as brick and mortar retailers. Here's the 6 GB model on Samsung.com, for example. Flipkart and Amazon are yet to update their listings at the...

Poco F3 GT announced with Dimensity 1200, maglev triggers and 67W charging

Posted: 23 Jul 2021 01:12 AM PDT

Poco just announced its F3 GT smartphone which shares plenty of ques with Xiaomi's Redmi K40 Gaming Edition. The two gamer enhanced devices share identical bodies down to the weight and size. There's a 6.67-inch 10-bit AMOLED display with a 120Hz refresh rate and FHD+ resolution upfront. The selfie cam sits in a centered punch-hole cutout up top. Gorilla Glass 5 covers both the front and back of the F3 GT while the right-hand side features physical pop-up gaming triggers. MediaTek's Dimensity 1200 sits at the helm aided by 6/8GB dual-channel UFS 3.1 RAM and 128/256GB UFS 3.1...

Samsung Galaxy F42 5G's key specs revealed by Geekbench

Posted: 22 Jul 2021 11:30 PM PDT

The Samsung Galaxy F42 5G that got Wi-Fi certified in May and bagged Bluetooth certification last month has now passed through Geekbench, revealing key specs in the process. The Galaxy F42 5G, bearing model code SM-E426B, is powered by the Dimensity 700 SoC. It runs Android 11 and has 6GB RAM onboard, but there could be more RAM options to choose from. Geekbench doesn't divulge any other specs of the F42 5G, but its Bluetooth certification revealed the smartphone is a rebranded Galaxy A22 5G. That means you should expect a 6.6" FullHD+ 90Hz screen, 48MP triple camera, 8MP selfie...

Panasonic announces 2-in-1 Toughbook G2 with 18.5h battery life and modular accessories

Posted: 22 Jul 2021 10:28 PM PDT

Panasonic just unveiled its newest 2-in-1 Toughbook G2. This is a Windows 10-powered detachable PC with three modular expansion slots called x-PAK's. The expansions offer extra functions like serial interface, thermal camera, barcode scanner, or a quick-release SSD. The new ToughBook G2 will be backwards compatible with "most Toughbook 20 and G1 docks". There's a 10.1-inch display capable of reaching peak 1000 nits of brightness, and its powered by Intel Core i5 and i7 v Pro processors preloaded with Windows 10. The Toughbook G2 is rated for 18.5 hours of battery life and the device...

OnePlus will add ‘optimized mode’ toggle in Oxygen OS 12 to address throttling

Posted: 22 Jul 2021 08:45 PM PDT

Following a performance vs optimization controversy this month, OnePlus has confirmed that it plans to address the debacle in the way that it should have done from the very beginning. A OnePlus employee confirmed through a OnePlus Forum thread that the Android skin will gain a toggle to enable/disable OnePlus' performance optimization with an early build of Oxygen OS 12. Earlier this month, OnePlus was delisted from benchmarking app Geekbench due to alleged performance manipulations. This sparked controversy and OnePlus was prompted to respond to the allegations. Although benchmarking...

Google clarifies which watches will get the Wear OS 3 update and when

Posted: 22 Jul 2021 06:17 PM PDT

On August 11 Samsung will unveil the first two watches running the new unified Wear platform which was developed by the Korean company in collaboration with Google. Today the search giant thankfully made some important clarifications about the platform, starting with its name: it will be called Wear OS 3, and not just "Wear" as Google hinted back at the I/O developer conference. Mobvoi TicWatch 3 Pro GPS Okay, now onto updates. The TicWatch Pro 3 GPS, TicWatch Pro 3 Cellular/LTE, and TicWatch E3 from Mobvoi will all be updated to Wear OS 3. The next wearables from Mobvoi will all...

Moto G100 launches in the US with $100 discount

Posted: 22 Jul 2021 04:02 PM PDT

Motorola initially released the Moto G100 back in April, after an announcement in March. For some reason, it's taken the company until today to bring its device to the US market. But, alas, the wait is over. You can now buy a Moto G100 in the US, and not just that but you get a $100 introductory discount if you purchase the handset as soon as possible from Motorola's online store. The Moto G100 is compatible with T-Mobile, Google Fi, and AT&T, but 5G will only work on TMo and its various sub-brands. The phone has a 6.7-inch 1080x2520 90 Hz LCD touchscreen, the Snapdragon 870...

HarmonyOS 2 public beta released for a bunch of Honor phones

Posted: 22 Jul 2021 01:32 PM PDT

Honor might be an independent company now, but the phones released before its split are still being supported by Huawei. Now, a bunch of those have been added to the HarmonyOS 2 public beta eligibility list. As of now, owners of the Honor 30, 30 Pro and 30 Pro+ along with the Honor V30 and V30 Pro can apply for a HarmonyOS 2 beta update to test out the new system and give their feedback. The Honor Play4 Pro and the Honor V6 tablet (only the one with model number KRJ-W09, KRJ-AN00A) are also on the list. It looks like Huawei will be able to reach its goal of 100 million devices...

Poco X3 GT's design confirmed through renders, Dimensity 1100 also verified

Posted: 22 Jul 2021 12:19 PM PDT

The Poco X3 GT has been in the rumor mill for quite some time and one of the first things we've heard about the device is that it will come out as an international version of the Xiaomi Redmi Note 10 Pro 5G in China. And the latest leaked renders and teaser coming straight from Poco seem to confirm that. Poco X3 GT Not only does Poco X3 GT look identical to the Redmi Note 10 Pro 5G for the Chinese market but it's also confirmed to run on the Dimensity 1100 5G SoC, which powers the Redmi too. One of the images even shows the available color options - Blue/Green, Black and...

Lava Z2s announced: an Android 11 Go phone with 6.51" IPS LCD, 5,000 mAh battery

Posted: 22 Jul 2021 10:59 AM PDT

The Lava Z2 was unveiled this January, an Android 10 Go edition phone with an INR 7,000 price tag. Now the company has brought out the Lava Z2s that costs INR 7,100. And this is a limited time offer, mind you. And yet things haven't gotten better since the Z2, in fact, the "s" model has lesser camera hardware. It has a single 8 MP camera on the back (1.12 µm pixels, f/2.0 aperture) with an LED flash and the ability to record 1080p videos at 30 fps. On the front is a single 5 MP camera (f/2.2). Lava Z2s announced with 8 MP main and 5 MP selfie camera • 5,000 mAh battery For...

Oppo unveils new charging technologies

Posted: 22 Jul 2021 09:37 AM PDT

Today Oppo announced its new charging technologies, which aim to ensure battery safety during fast charging. Oppo claims that using its hardware and AI software, a battery will have lost only 20% of its capacity after 1500 cycles, which exceeds the requirements by 300%. Starting with internal string double cell, which is grouping of two cells in one battery enclosure. A layer of polymer allows the two cells to work independently from each other. A battery safety detection chip is self-explanatory. It will look for abnormal voltage dips and alert you if you need to have the battery...

OnePlus Buds Pro bring adaptive noise cancellation and up to 38 hours of endurance

Posted: 22 Jul 2021 08:35 AM PDT

Alongside the brand-new Nord 2 5G, OnePlus went ahead and unveiled its first Pro-tier earbuds – the OnePlus Buds Pro. As you may expect the Pro moniker brings adaptive noise cancellation to the mix thanks to three on-board microphones on each bud that cancel up to 40dB of surrounding commotion. OnePlus Buds Pro in black and white Buds Pro features a two-tone design with a matte in-ear part and glossy stem. They come in simple black and white colors. The buds are packed with 11mm drivers and support Dolby Atmos. Pairing happens over Bluetooth 5.2 and OnePlus is touting a 94ms...

OnePlus Nord 2 5G review

Posted: 22 Jul 2021 07:53 AM PDT

OnePlus Nord 2 5G debuts with Dimensity 1200 AI SoC, 50MP OIS main cam and 65W Warp Charge

Posted: 22 Jul 2021 07:50 AM PDT

What should a flagship smartphone experience entail and how much should it cost? OnePlus is bringing up this debate with the launch of its Nord 2 5G - the true successor to last year's highly anticipated original Nord. The term flagship killer is being mentioned here again and Nord 2 certainly brings some high-end specs while still keeping pricing in midrange territory. OnePlus Nord 2 Nord 2 packs a 6.43-inch AMOLED with a 90Hz refresh rate and FHD+ resolution to the table. There's a single 32MP selfie cam instead of the dual-cam setup on last year's model which is great for...
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