Red OnePlus 6 goes official, sales begin next week

As scheduled, a new, red color variant for the OnePlus 6 has officially arrived. Specifically, the color option is called Amber Red, and has been made official in China, with sales beginning July 9 onwards. The new variant comes with 8GB RAM and 128GB storage, and carries a price tag of CNY 3,599 which currently translates into around $542. If you compare, pricing for the red option is same as other 8GB/128GB models. The #OnePlus6 Red revealed! ❤️Comment with a red emoji if you think this new color is The Red You Need. #OnePlus #NeverSettle #lifestylephotography...

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You can now ask questions in Instagram Stories

Facebook-owned photo and video sharing service Instagram is getting a new feature: ability to ask questions in Stories. The functionality is dubbed "ask a question," and has started rolling out at least for Android users. While asking a question, you can even use yes/no polls and emoji sliders, and as the image above suggests, you can use the feature to roast the story uploader as well. The roll out appears to be limited at the moment, but should pick up soon. Instagram Stories in itself has proved to be quite a popular feature among users. Recently, the company announced the...

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Week 26 in review: Redmi 6 Pro is official, Galaxy Note9 set for August 9

As scheduled this week Xiaomi announced the Redmi 6 Pro as the final piece of the Redmi 6 roster. Xiaomi also refreshed its tablet line with the Mi Pad 4, a slate with a Snapdragon 660, optional LTE and a superb starting price of just €150. Finally, Xiaomi released a Flame Red color variant of the Redmi Note 5 and a Mi 6X Hatsune Miku Special Edition. Now all of our attention turns to the Xiaomi Mi Max 3, which made the rounds this week revealing a mammoth 5,400mAh battery and a Snapdragon 710 chipset. It may go official as soon as next week, making these exiting times for all fans...

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Top 10 trending phones of week 26

We've got some new additions to this week's ranking as well as a reshuffled podium. Finally, the Xiaomi Redmi Note 5 Pro got dethroned by Oppo's latest flagship phone that created a lot of buzz for the past two weeks - the Find X. And it's not really a surprise given the absurdly entertaining slider camera setup and nearly bezel-less design. The Redmi 6 Pro is another popular new phone taking the third place. Samsung's Galaxy J6 now occupies the fourth place after being third in our last ranking. It's not hard to imagine why it retains popularity because it offers pretty good value. The...

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Under the microscope: Analyzing the Xiaomi Mi 8 benchmark scores

We recently published our in-depth Xiaomi Mi 8 review, complete with a full set of tests: display, audio quality, performance, you know the drill. For the most part, it was business as usual, except for certain performance aspects. Even though the phone comes with the latest Snapdragon 845 chipset, in most synthetic benchmarks it only seemed to perform at the level of a Snapdragon 835 instead. A lot of you were confused by the performance numbers we published. Some even thought our review device or its software was to blame. So we went ahead and re-tested the handset under more...

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Sunday Debate - Are sliders cool or just a hassle?

Oppo and vivo found an innovative way to avoid having a notch on their flagships. But is that the most amazing piece of innovation lately or are these sliders just an unnecessary complication of the smartphone design? Ivan: "A Slider creates more issues than it solves." Sliders - as in sliding mechanisms to hide the selfie or main camera, as seen in the vivo NEX S and Oppo Find X - are cool. Of course they are. They're innovative and they're out of the box. They've allowed Oppo and vivo to avoid using a notch on their flagship phones and as popular opinion dictates, notches are...

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Counterclockwise: celebrating the weird form factors of yesteryear

A couple of weeks ago we look at weird ways to mount a phone's camera. That inspired us to dive into weird form factors this week. Phone form factors generally fall into four categories - static, slider, flip and swivel. Static is the simplest, but that certainly doesn't mean boring. The Nokia 7280 is a favorite to bring up in this tip of articles - look at it - like a prop from a sci-fi TV show. Not that the 3650 or 7600 are any saner. Or the Siemens SX1. Nokia 7280 • Nokia 3650 • Nokia 7600 • Siemens SX1 The flip form factor is home to some of the most popular to some of...

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Top 10 fan favorite phones of H1 2018

Mid-range phones are becoming increasingly popular for the last couple of years and it shows in our statistics. For the first half of 2018, five out of ten phones in our top 10 favorite smartphones are affordable devices. High-value offers have always generated a lot of sales, but they are now starting to earn the love of a lot of people, which is a whole different level. Interestingly, Xiaomi seems to be dominating the table with four handsets, three of which are budget-oriented. As expected, the Redmi Note 5 Pro is one of them due to its outstanding value. For about €200, you get big...

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Weekly poll results: the Oppo Find X proves that fans love innovation

The Oppo Find X is awesome, that's the consensus from last week's poll. Even though we put an opponent in its way, the new flagship rose to the challenge thanks to its pop-up mechanism that lifts not only the selfie camera and 3D face scanning hardware, but also the dual camera on the rear. The Lamborghini Edition of the phone - the first phone ever with Super VOOC - got a respectable number of votes, just enough to push it over the vivo NEX S. The vivo flagship is a sibling to the Oppo phones and has its own strengths, including an under display fingerprint reader. However, its pop-up...

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