Xiaomi Mi Mix 3 camera samples and teaser video appear

Next week Xiaomi is announcing its Mi Mix 3 flagship with a slider design. We've already seen the teasers about 5G support and 10 GB RAM, and we know the phone will have fast face unlocking features. Latest info comes from the company founder Lin Bin who posted two camera samples on his Weibo profile. They show the portrait mode in action, although they were clearly taken in a very dark environment so it's hard to just image quality based on them. Camera samples of the Xiaomi Mi Mix 3 We also got a teaser video for the Xiaomi Mi Mix 3. A short 15-second clip reveals the all...

Read More

Sony Xperia XZ3 is finally available in the US, yours for $899.99

Sony's Xperia XZ3 is available in the US in unlocked form starting today. That's quite a delay compared to the initially outed release date of September 24, but hey, better late(r) than never. The phone has been up for pre-order in the States for almost a month now. You can pick one up from Amazon or Best Buy. You'll have to pay $899.99 for the privilege of owning Sony's latest flagship smartphone. Obviously you'll be receiving an unlocked unit, but note that it will only work on GSM-based carriers such as AT&T, T-Mobile, and their sub-brands and MVNOs using their networks. No Sprint or...

Read More

OnePlus 6T will have a special night mode for better low-light photography

The OnePlus 6T is due to get official at the end of the month, and little tidbits about it are being outed daily at this point. Now a new report says we should expect to see a dedicated night mode in the camera app, which will aid in creating much better low-light shots. This information supposedly comes straight from a OnePlus representative, so it's as good as official. It's unclear exactly how it will work, since the rep didn't go into any detail. What we do know is that this will enable photos with "ample clarity and sharpness, with a good dark-to-light contrast, and negligible...

Read More

Xiaomi Mi Mix 3 will have 1080x2340 screen resolution

Xiaomi is officially announcing the Mi Mix 3 next week, and the company's teaser campaign for its next flagship smartphone is now in full swing. It's already revealed that we should expect the top version to come with a whopping 10GB of RAM. 5G support should also be in, in some form or another. Today the company's product marketing director for mobile phones, Zhi Zhiyuan, has outed another tidbit. The Mi Mix 3's screen resolution will be 1080x2340, making for a 19.5:9 aspect ratio. Unlike other handsets advertising that resolution, here you'll be able to take advantage of all pixels,...

Read More

Huawei Mate 20 Pro camera samples: testing out the new triple camera

The weather in London didn't cooperate, but we still managed to shoot some camera samples with the Huawei Mate 20 Pro in better light than we had at last night's event. The phone has three cameras and they offer a lot of versatility, regardless of whether or not you want to call it 5x zoom. So, let's see how close you can get to a subject. We start with the main camera - the 27mm in 10MP mode. Then onto the 80mm 8MP telephoto camera (which is a 3x zoom over the main cam). The third shot uses the 135mm hybrid zoom (a digital zoom that combines data from those two cameras). Note: the...

Read More

Huawei Nova 3i Hadir Dengan Empat Kamera

Huawei Nova 3i telah diluncurkan secara resmi beberapa waktu lalu, tepatnya pada selasa 31 Agustus 2018. Salah satu keunggulan utama dari smartphone ini adalah telah dibekali dengan empat kamera yang tentunya sesuai dengan kebutuhan generasi milenial yang tak ingin ketinggalan untuk selalu mengabadikan momennya di manapun. Smartphone ini hadir dengan layar yang begitu mantab, 6,3 inci […]

Read More

Nokia 7.1 spotted running Geekbench with Android 9.0 Pie

Nokia's mid-ranger, the Nokia 7.1, was announced just this month and it runs pure Android 8.1 Oreo out of the box. Some were disappointed to see the handset with Oreo instead of Pie given that the latter was officially released back in August but HMD Global assured swift update to the latest version. Just over two weeks have passed, and we are already seeing a Nokia 7.1 smartphone running Geekbench on Android 9.0 Pie. It seems like the company is right on schedule for a stable release of Android Pie next month as it initially promised. HMD also wants to deliver Android Pie for...

Read More

Xiaomi Mi Mix 2S starts receiving Android Pie

A new update was pushed to the Mi Mix 2S units in China and it's a big one - the official Twitter account of MIUI announced the phone is the first by the company to receive Android Pie. The Mi Mix 2S is getting performance and AI improvements like Adaptive Battery and Adaptive Brightness, thanks to the new OS. There are also smart suggestions for app features and Digital Wellbeing for monitoring your screen time. On top of the Android Pie, Xiaomi implemented "more refined UI" that utilizes tall screens better. The phone learns from your usage patterns and adapts to speed up...

Read More

Why Huawei's NM cards mean you don't get to expand the Mate 20 storage

Yesterday's event in London was a busy one for Huawei. The company announced 4 phones, a smartwatch, a smartband and a new memory card standard dubbed Nano Memory card (NM). Huawei's Mate 20 and Mate 20 Pro both come with the new standard to replace the microSD card. And it's a move that will cause plenty of inconvenience without any significant gains in the long term. The new cards were only announced alongside the phones and Huawei confirmed that it has collaborated with Toshiba, which promised to build them. But with the standard not coming before the launch Toshiba has quite a...

Read More

Check out this neat Oppo R17 promo video

Oppo R17 appeared with a tiny notch and an under-display fingerprint scanner back in August and appeared in stores in early September. The phone was initially available for purchase in China, but now it's preparing to go global. Or so we assume, going by today's video on the official YouTube channel that highlights some of the key features of the R17, including Google services. The funky 30-second video looks like a TV ad since it focuses on the most prominent features like the gradient design, the tiny notch on the massive display and the fingerprint scanner beneath the OLED...

Read More

Short video demos Xiaomi Mi Mix 3's face unlock feature

The Xiaomi Mi Mix 3 will be unveiled a week from now, but we've seen the phone many times already. Here's another look at it, complete with a new trick. The third generation Mix will keep the trademark bezel-less design and continue to avoid notches by moving the camera to a manual slider. The phone will support face unlock and, as you can see in this video, it's pretty quick. If you're curious how the phone unlocked the laptop, it's the Dynamic Lock feature in Windows 10. The phone connects over Bluetooth and automatically locks the laptop when the connection drops out. It can then...

Read More

MediaTek's Helio P70 coming soon with more advanced AI hardware, insiders claim

The Helio P60 was announced this February and proved to be a popular chipset (it's already used in 15 phones), but MediaTek will reportedly introduce a sequel by the end of this month. The Helio P70 will be very similar to the P60 - it will be built on the same 12nm process and will feature an octa-core processor (four A73 and four A53) plus a Mali-G72 GPU. Details like CPU clock speed or GPU core count are not known yet, but that's not the key upgrade. The P60 was billed as MediaTek's AI-focused chipset with an "AI processing unit" (APU). The P70 will use a Neural Processing Unit...

Read More

Xiaomi Pocophone F1 US pre-orders open, but you don't get LTE

Xiaomi Pocophone F1 arrived in August with a Snapdragon 845 and a hard-to-believe price tag of $300. Eventually, it went up to €370 for the 6/128 GB variant in Europe, and now the phone made its way to the United States. The most affordable SD845-powered phone appeared on B&H Photo Video's website for $370 with 6 GB RAM and 64 GB storage. Sadly, the global version that's on sale is incompatible with the CDMA networks of Verizon and Sprint and worse still, it lacks the LTE bands to operate on AT&T and T-Mobile's 4G networks. The Xiaomi Pocophone F1 should work with US...

Read More

Montblanc Summit 2 is the first watch with Wear 3100 chipset

The Montblanc Summit 2 is the first smartwatch to use the new Snapdragon Wear 3100 chipset. The watch design is inspired by the 1848 chronograph and comes in a 42mm unisex case. The Summit 2 features a 1.2" AMOLED display with 390 x 390px resolution (327ppi). It features exclusive watch faces inspired by the 1858 timepieces, but also business, feminine and sporty watch faces. Montblanc Summit 2 Even with the new 3100 chipset, the 340mAh battery doesn't last very long - you're looking at a full day use in smartwatch mode and an extra 4-5 days in time only mode. The watch...

Read More

Xiaomi officially confirms: Mi Mix 3 will have 5G support and 10GB of RAM

Remember that cryptic teaser poster from yesterday? Well, it didn't take long for Xiaomi to confirm that we read it right - the Mi Mix 3 will be among the first 5G-supporting smartphones on the market as well as the first one to feature 10GB of RAM. The first official confirmation of the 5G support comes from Xiaomi Spain while the 10GB of RAM rumor was backed up in a Weibo post. Here are the two posters that also subtly hint of the slide-out cameras. The posters from Weibo and Xiaomi Spain Facebook page Let's face it, 10GB of RAM is excessive, and will likely mostly serve as...

Read More

Asus launches ZenFone Lite L1 and ZenFone Max M1 in India

Asus has launched two new budget smartphones in the Indian market, the ZenFone Lite L1 and the ZenFone Max M1. The two phones will go against the current segment leaders, the Xiaomi Redmi 6A and the Redmi 6, respectively. The ZenFone Lite L1 is priced at INR5,999 ($82) at launch, which is the same as the Redmi 5A price. The ZenFone Max M1 is priced at INR7,499($102), which slightly undercuts that of the more expensive Redmi 6. The pricing is introductory on both devices, with the ZenFone Lite L1 set to cost INR6,999($95) and the ZenFone Max M1 to go to INR8,999($122) after the launch...

Read More

Huawei officially launches EMUI 9.0 beta for 9 phones

Huawei officially announced the launch of the beta program for EMUI 9.0, based on Android Pie. The company took it to Twitter to say which devices will be the first to receive an update to the latest version of the platform. The list includes six Huawei and three Honor phones, all powered by the Kirin 970 chipset, since the Kirin 980-powered Mate 20 series smartphones already run the EMUI 9.0 out of the box. Here's the full list of first-wave phones: Huawei Mate 10 Huawei Mate 10 Pro Huawei Mate 10 Porsche Design Huawei Mate RS Porsche Design Huawei P20 Huawei P20 Pro Honor...

Read More

Xiaomi Black Shark 2 shows up on Geekbench running Android 8.1 Oreo

Xiaomi is all set to launch the follow-up to the Black Shark gaming smartphone released in April this year - it has an official landing page up, it has the TENAA clearance and supposedly a launch date as well. A Geekbench listing, however, is here to reveal some specs of the upcoming handset. According to the score sheet, the Black Shark 2 will ship with Snapdragon 845 and at least one of the version will feature 8GB of RAM - no surprise here. But the sheet also reveals Android 8.1 Oreo running out of the box. With Android 9.0 Pie out since August that's somewhat disappointing but with...

Read More