Samsung pushes Oreo update to Galaxy A9 Pro (2016) two months in advance

Back in the summer, Samsung said some devices that are over two years old would receive the Android Oreo update, starting December with the Galaxy J7 Neo, followed by over ten phones in January 2019. One of the devices on that list was the Galaxy A9 Pro (2016), but according to sources, some units in Vietnam have already started receiving the new OS, paving the way for all the other devices. The OTA package is 2.09 GB in size which might be troublesome for users that are already nearing their 32 GB storage capacity. The rollout is in stages, so it might take some time to reach everyone...

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Top 10 trending phones of week 41

The record keeps going and we mark sixth straight week of changing leaders in our trending chart. Xiaomi Redmi 6 Pro started hitting more and more markets and claimed the top spot from fourth last week. It edged out the Pocophone F1 that sits at second, while the three-cam Galaxy A7 (2018) completes the rostrum. The 1.5-year-old Samsung Galaxy S8 made a very surprising surge to fourth, overtaking last week's leader Nokia 7.1. Honor 8X made its European debut and that helped it join our weekly Top 10, while Week 40's runner up Realme 2 Pro is slid down to seventh. The final three spots...

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Amazon Echo Dot (3rd Gen) Review

The Amazon Echo Dot has been the runt of the litter among the Echo lineup. It's the most affordable model and the easiest way to get yourself in the world of voice assistants. And because all the Alexa smarts are based in the cloud, the Echo Dot could do almost everything that the bigger and more expensive models could. This year, Amazon launched the third edition of the little Echo Dot, giving it a fresh new look that is more in line with its fabric-lined brethren and also improved audio quality. Visually, the new Echo Dot looks like the second generation Echo Plus, just shorter. It...

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Nokia 7.1 in for review

The Nokia 7.1 is another mid-range smartphone from HMD, and one that has something unique to offer. And yes, we are talking about the screen - it's undoubtedly the centerpiece of this new phone. If you don't mind the notch, the Nokia 7.1 has an excellent IPS display that supports HDR10 and can convert SDR videos into HDR in real-time. Nokia calls it PureDisplay and it comes in a 5.84-inch diagonal and packs 1080 x 2280 pixel resolution. That's pretty hard to come across in the mid-range segment. The rest of the specs, however, do sound like your typical mid-ranger. We've got...

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Weekly poll: is the Razer Phone 2 the best gaming phone?

Razer kicked off the current "gaming phone" resurgence, but competitors that came later could pick a newer chipset. Not all of them did, but the bar was raised, anyway. The Razer Phone 2 arrived to answer the challenge with a Snapdragon 845 chip and a custom cooling solution. The company also added features that are considered flagship staples - fast wired charging (QuickCharge 4.0+), fast wireless charging (Qi up to 15W) and water resistance (IP67). Even better, it fixed up the display panel, boosting the brightness up to a maximum of 650 nits. The original Razer Phone could only...

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Week 41 in review: New phones from Google, Razer, Oppo, and Samsung

The last seven days marked the long-awaited arrival of the Pixel 3 and the Pixel 3 XL right along plenty of other Google hardware like the Pixel Slate and a new wireless charger called Pixel Stand. Just two days later Samsung uncovered the Galaxy A9 (2018) - a smartphone with four cameras, making it the first in the world with so many shooters on the back. There's a telephoto lens, a wide-angle camera, a regular snapper, and a depth-sensing cam. We are currently preparing our review, which should let us know if a phone really needs so many cameras, so stick around to know more about...

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