Honor 7X Oreo Beta goes live in four EU countries

Today, Honor has launched its Beta program for Honor 7X owners in four European countries: France, Germany, Italy, and Spain. The program will let you test non-final builds of EMUI 8.0 based on Android 8.0 Oreo. New features will include a refined UI, improved performance and stability, as well as some of Huawei's AI features, though just the ones that don't require the Kirin 970's NPU. Honor 7X The Honor 7X will be receiving EMUI 8.0 Oreo sometime in Q2 of this year. So making the Beta available now shows the phone maker is on track for a Q2 release. If you have an Honor 7X in...

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Huawei P20 Lite leaks with 5.6-inch screen, dual cameras and a notch

As the major announcements from the MWC are getting discussed, Evan Blass tweets a photo of the alleged Huawei P20 Lite, even though it isn't even set to be announced for another month. For a while, Huawei's P20 was rumored to have three rear cameras, but when Blass tweeted the supposed picture of the P20 with a notch in the display and dual rear cameras, we can pretty much hold our breaths until we see a P20 Pro model, one that many hope will have three main cameras. Triple cameras aside, Blass has an amazing track record when it comes to smartphone leaks. Huawei P20 (with two, not...

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Check out our Nokia 8110 4G video hands-on from MWC 2018

Nokia is playing the nostalgia card again this year, following up on the reinvented iconic 3310 feature phone from 2017. This time around it's the banana phone redux - meet the Nokia 8110 4G, arriving on the scene 22 years after the original. The device famously used by Neo in the Matrix movie is reimagined for the modern world, with 4G LTE capabilities, alongside Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and even GPS. It's still unashamedly not a smartphone, as you'd expect from a handset sporting a 2.4-inch 240x320 display that isn't touch-sensitive. Still, you get 512MB of RAM and the Snapdragon 205...

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Possibly canceled LG G7 leaks in full, with hands-on images and specs

LG has revamped its smartphone strategy this year, vowing not to release new devices just to respond to competitors. Thus, the much anticipated G7 has apparently been canceled or rebuilt from scratch, according to past rumors. That, however, hasn't stopped it from leaking in full at MWC today. The images you can see below have been outed by Israeli publication Ynetnews, which also has a hands-on video up - hit the Source linked below to watch it. LG G7 (Neo) The G7 was codenamed Neo, and it features what's probably going to be 2018's top trend in the Android world: a screen...

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Our Galaxy S9 video hands-on from MWC 2018 is up

Samsung's Galaxy S9 has undoubtedly been the king of the show at this year's MWC, alongside its bigger and better-specced sibling, the S9+. Samsung's flagship duo stole the spotlight from many of its competitors, and rightly so given what they deliver. If you've already taken a look at our hands-on review of the S9 and S9+ in written form, perhaps now would be a good time to watch us deliver our first impressions on video. You'll find out about the most important features of the S9 phones in less than five minutes. While you impatiently sit around and wait for our full review of the...

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Unannounced vivo V9 appears on a billboard in Indonesia with a screen notch

Yesterday Asus outed the Zenfone 5 and 5z, identical smartphones on the outside that borrow heavily from the iPhone X in the looks department. But if you want a screen notch on a handset running Android, you will soon have another option: the upcoming vivo V9. This too comes with the polarizing feature, as the images below attest. They were captured by a reader of ours and they show the vivo store (and the billboard right above it) in Pangkal Pinang City, Bangka Island, Indonesia. vivo V9 billboard in Indonesia Besides the slim overall bezels of the phone, it reveals that you...

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Apparently the Sony Xperia XZ2 gets 6GB RAM in the US, UK and Canada as well.

Yesterday, we reported on a rather interesting find, regarding the memory configuration of Sony's latest flagship pair. Today, the plot thickens even further. Apparently, the US, UK and Canada listings for the bigger Xperia XZ2 all quote 6GB of RAM. Once again, that is 2GB more than the standard international version gets. The original scoop pertained to regional XZ2 and XZ2 Compact units for Hong Kong and Taiwan. We went over a total of four listing to confirm both phones would get the higher RAM loadout. However, while doing a follow-up sanity check on the matter today, it seems the XZ2...

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Deal: SanDisk's 400GB microSD card drops to $190

If your phone has a microSD slot (which is quick becoming a rarity), you might want to check out the SanDisk 400GB microSD card. It started at a hefty $230, but you can now have it for $190. B&H Photo Video, Amazon and NewEgg have it at that price. Best Buy is charging $200. There are smaller cards too, the 256GB ones start at $100 if you don't need so much storage (there are faster, pricier versions of the 256GB card too). The 64GB and 128GB cards get you the most bang for your buck, we did the math: Capacity Price GB/$ 16 GB $9.90 ...

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CEO: Huawei Watch 3 is coming, but not soon

Huawei CEO Richard Yu wants you to know that his company is working on the a third generation smartwatch. No, it's not coming anytime soon, this is just an FYI. According to Yu, the Watch 2 sells well and there's no need to hurry. The Watch 2 was unveiled at MWC 2017 and some expected to see the 3rd edition this year. Clearly, this didn't happen and there were no new Huawei phones either (the P10 was another MWC 2017 announcement). The P20 phones are coming on March 27, but from Yu's comments it sounds unlikely that they will be accompanied by a smartwatch. IFA in September is the next...

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LG K10/K10+ (2018) and LG K8 (2018) hands-on at MWC

LG's official announcements at MWC this year were admittedly a bit light on the hardware front, with a major focus on AI instead. In case you missed it, the V30S ThinQ and V30S+ ThinkQ were unveiled at the Barcelona venue, with most of the focus falling on the company's new and ambitious smart platform, rather than the new V30 colors and memory upgrade. Still, that is not to say the Korean giant didn't bring any hardware to the venue. We just had to go looking for it around the showfloor. What we found were three new mid-rangers - the K10, K10+ and K8. Well, technically, two, since the...

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Asus Zenfone 5, 5z, 5 Lite hands-on review

The annual MWC event in Barcelona is almost over, but we can't call it a day before we handle all new Zenfones Asus had in store for us. The event last night brought us a whole bunch of new devices, some of them to be available in different variants in a typical Asus fashion. The notorious notch made an appearance, too, and it's shaping to be the next trendy thing after the "full-view" screens.

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Amazon Prime Music launched in India

After doing a soft launch last year with Echo, Amazon has now properly launched its Prime Music service in India. The service, which was earlier limited to the Echo devices, will now also be available on iOS, Android, desktop, Fire TV Stick and the Amazon website. The service includes millions of songs across 10 Indian languages. The mobile apps also include support for Alexa, so instead of typing you can just tell Alexa which song you want to play, although this only works within the app. Users will also be able to download as many songs as they want to play locally within the...

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Samsung Galaxy J8 spotted on Geekbench

Samsung decided to unify its naming scheme - first it was the Note, then the A-series caught up with the S flagships. Apparently, the affordable J series are next for rebranding, according to a new benchmark of a Samsung device with the model number SM-J800FN. The phone has Exynos 7870 chipset, coupled with 3 GB RAM and runs Android Oreo. The single-core score of the device is 728, while the multi-core result is 3683, although these results are comparable only with the alleged Galaxy J6 (2018) and the eventual Galaxy J4 (2018) due to the Geekbench version. The 7870 chipset,...

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Sprint to introduce 5G in six major US cities by 2019

Sprint announced it is preparing to deliver mobile 5G in the first half of 2019. Customers of the carrier in Chicago, Dallas and Los Angeles are promised to get "5G-like capabilities", later joined by Atlanta, Houston and Washington DC. In 2018 and 2019 the company will position thousands of Massive MIMO radios, increasing its network capacity across the country. As part of the coverage expansion, Sprint promises to connect "people, places and billions of things with blazing fast speed, ultra-reliable, low-latency wireless service". The press release asto states that "this breakthrough...

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Nokia 6 (2018) coming to US in May, HMD confirms

A few days back, HMD Global's CEO, Florian Seiche, confirmed the new Nokia smartphones (1, 6 (2018), and 7 Plus) aren't headed stateside. Then came reports that these phone may launch in the country in Q2 this year. And now, HMD has confirmed at-least the Nokia 6 (2018) is coming this May. The confirmation came from Juho Sarvikas, HMD's chief product officer, in a recent interview. The executive, however, didn't provide any info on pricing. In the interview, Sarvikas also commented on the company's decision to not go for carrier partners for their phones. "The trend is that the open...

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