Xiaomi Black Shark gaming phone gets shown off in a three-second hands-on video

Xiaomi-backed Black Shark is getting ready to unveil its first smartphone. The eponymous device will be all about gaming, as Black Shark is meant to be a gaming-focused offshoot of the Chinese handset maker. We've already seen the Black Shark in a couple of benchmarks, a live image, and not one, but two teasers. Now though a hands-on video of the phone has been outed, and you can see it embedded below. Sure, it's not the longest of videos - by any stretch of the imagination. Yet it does give us our first 360-degree view of the smartphone. It looks pretty big and bulky, as you can...

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OnePlus 6 is fully revealed by a case maker

As OnePlus continues its teaser campaign for its next smartphone, a case maker has decided to fully reveal the device's design. You can see both the front and the rear of the OnePlus 6 in the renders below, which come from Olixar. All of these cases are already up for pre-order at MobileFun, with prices ranging from $7.49 for the gel cases and all the way up to $35.49 for a combo of the toughest-looking one and a glass screen protector. OnePlus 6 inside various cases Once again the notch is unsurprisingly present on the front. You have surely also noticed how the...

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Apple's HomePod sales fall short of targets

Apple's HomePod smart speaker is more speaker than smart. All early reviews praised its audio prowess but griped with its iPhone-reliance and many limitations. This plus the high asking price led to lower-than-expected sales from Apple's first speaker. Apple has reportedly even gone as far as to cut orders from one of its manufacturers. During the HomePod's first three months in the market it managed to claw itself a 10% stake of the sales, trailing behind Google's 14%. But it's undoubtedly Amazon that's dominating as the affordable Echo accounts for 73%. Still the HomePod is an...

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Xiaomi Comet and Sirius phones may have Always On OLED screens, Snapdragon 710

The industrious folks over at XDA-Developers have dug up info on two upcoming Xiaomi phones code named Comet and Sirius. And they will use a Snapdragon 710 chipset - part of Qualcomm's AI-focused 700 series - that appears to be a rebranded Snapdragon 670. The two phones are mostly the same. Both have OLED screens with Always On Display, both run Android 8.1 Oreo with MIUI, both are dual-SIM phones with 3,100 mAh battery (or so), an IR blaster but no NFC. The major difference between them is that the Sirius model is set to have a notch on its screen and its selfie camera will offer...

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Huawei Mate RS Porsche Design available for pre-order in the UK

The Huawei Mate RS Porsche Design is a beautiful phone - some like it better than the P20 Pro that it was based on what with the lack of a notch and the addition of an under display fingerprint reader. But beauty comes at a price, specifically a high one. Clove UK has started taking pre-orders at £1,692. As you can probably tell, this is for the reasonable 256 GB version, the 512 GB one is not available (which would be over £2,000). Huawei Mate RS Porsche Design And it's only coming in Black, the Red version is exclusive to China. Units will be available in two weeks (starting...

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OnePlus 5T is sold out in Europe

OnePlus just announced in an that the 5T is out of stock in the UK and the rest of Europe. The phone is currently unavailable to be purchased from the company website oneplus.com, but units can still be found at various retailers, including O2. The OnePlus 5T being sold out in Europe is a good thing, the company says as it helped it double its YoY revenue to $1.4 billion. OnePlus said the 5T was the best selling device up to date. OnePlus 5T Pete Lau, CEO of OnePlus, thanked in the press release to the OP community for always communicating and constantly improving the phones. In...

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Xiaomi sends event for April 25, may unveil the Mi A2 / Mi 6X

It's no coincidence that rumors of the Xiaomi Mi A2 / Mi 6X are intensifying - there's a good chance that the phone will be unveiled a couple of weeks from now. Xiaomi posted an invite for an April 25 event, which unfortunately doesn't give away much. Not that rumors didn't spoil the plot - we're in for an 18:9 refresh of Xiaomi's Android One phone (which, will also run MIUI under the Mi 6X name). Yesterday it came to light that the Mi A2 will be powered by Helio P60 and will have an upgraded dual camera compared to the Redmi Note 5 Pro. The invite for Xiaomi's April 25 event The...

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TENAA shows what could be a Galaxy S9 with dual cameras

Samsung's product strategy not so gently steers you towards a Galaxy S9+ - without the new camera or extra RAM, the Galaxy S9 isn't a huge upgrade over the S8. So, if you want a compact Galaxy flagship, you're out of luck. Unless the SM-G8850 is what TENAA says it is - basically an S9 with a dual camera. But there's a catch. Two, in fact. The phone has a 5.8" Super AMOLED screen, is powered by a Snapdragon 845 with 4 GB to 6 GB of RAM and has a dual 12 MP camera on the back. What more could you want? Well, the truth for one. @IceUniverse posted on Weibo that this is actually a new...

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LG V35 ThinQ with two 16 MP cameras incoming

LG just recently refreshed last year's LG V30 with more AI camera capabilities as the LG V30S ThinQ. Now new intel suggests the phone will get a hardware update with the LG V35 ThinQ. LG V30S ThinQ According to Android Headlines, the phone will stick to a 6" OLED FullVision panel with QHD+ resolution. However it will up the resolution of its wide-angle from 13 MP to 16 MP keeping the f/1.9 aperture lens in front of it. Google Lens support and the AI capabilities for scene recognition that got introduced at MWC 2018 will naturally be on board too. There is no info if memory will...

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LG opens global Software Upgrade Center in South Korea to ensure faster updates

LG has announced that it is opening a global Software Upgrade Center in South Korea. The facility will be located in LG's new research and development campus in Magok-dong, western Seoul. According to LG: "The Software Upgrade Center will not only be charged with developing and delivering regular OS updates for LG smartphones, it will also be responsible for ensuring a consistent user experience on LG devices by continuously testing the stability and compatibility between hardware and software after updates". LG says this facility will enable rolling out updates to countries where its...

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Apple Music reaches 40 million paying subscribers

Apple Music has reached 40 million paying subscribers and has gained a new Vice President - Oliver Schusser. Schusser has worked at Apple for 14 years now and has been involved in App Store, iTunes' movies and TV sections, iBooks and Podcasts among others and will now move from Europe to California to head Apple Music and International Content, reporting directly to Eddie Cue. Apple Music's 40 million milestone is very impressive but the earlier predictions that it could surpass Spotify in the US by the summer of 2018 were highly exaggerated. Spotify has some 70 million paying users...

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Huawei Y6 (2018) is now official with Face Unlock and Android Oreo

Huawei keeps announcing affordable devices in its Y series - the latest addition is the Y6 (2018) that already started arriving in markets like the Philippines and Russia. The setup on the back might look like dual cameras, but in reality, there is only one sensor - 13 MP. Huawei Y6 (2018) The display panel is 5.7" in diagonal with a tall 18:9 ratio and HD+ resolution (1440 x 720 pixels). The chipset is Snapdragon 450 that comes with octa-core CPU, clocked at 1.8 GHz and Adreno 506 GPU. Huawei equipped the Y6 (2018) with 2 GB RAM and 16 GB storage, but there is a...

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Samsung Galaxy A6 Plus (2018) to have Infinity Display

Samsung introduced the Infinity Display with the Galaxy S8 that later found its way to the Galaxy Note8 and to the upper midranger Galaxy A8 (2018) and Galaxy A8+ (2018). Now, according to the HTML5 benchmark website, the SM-A605FN popularly know as Samsung Galaxy A6+ (2018) will also get a taste of it, although it's unlikely to have dual-curved edges. The phone was listed with screen size 412 x 846 pixels, which is the resolution in which Galaxy phones with the Infinity Display report on that test. The phone will support pretty much everything available on the HTML5 platform with...

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