Huawei Band 3 Pro and Band 3e now available in the US

Huawei's got two new fitness bands coming to the market. In the US you'll be able to get either the Huawei Band 3 Pro or the Huawei Band 3e. The Band 3e is $30 and features a detachable body that you can fasten to your shoe for advanced motion tracking to collect your running data. It's more of a barebones fitness tracker so you can use it to track steps and workouts and its battery lasts about 14 days with typical use. Note that the 3e doesn't have a heart rate monitor but it does support sleep tracking. Huawei Band 3e with removable body The Huawei Band 3 Pro is the better...

Read More

What is color science and why does it matter?

Color science is the latest term to hit the internet and thrown around by anyone who has an opinion on cameras. These days, you can't go through any camera review, whether of an actual camera or of a smartphone, without someone mentioning how good or bad the color science is. So what exactly is the color science of a camera and is it really as important as thecoolcameraguy69 says it is in some YouTube comment you saw online? Let's find out. What is color? Before we find out what color science is, we must learn what color is and how it comes about in a digital image. Color (or chroma...

Read More

Samsung's new Exynos chipset powering the Galaxy S10 gets unveiled next week

Samsung is announcing its latest high-end mobile chipset on November 14. This has been revealed today by the company's official Twitter handle for all things Exynos. The SoC will power the Galaxy S10 launching next year, and it's expected to be called Exynos 9820. Past rumors have said that it will come with a dual-core NPU, and an octa-core CPU that will be a tri-cluster affair, sporting 2 Samsung-designed Mongoose M4 cores, two ARM Cortex-A76 cores, and 4 efficient ARM Cortex-A55 cores. The chip will be manufactured using the company's 7nm EUV process. This will deliver up to 50%...

Read More

Xiaomi's Black Shark gaming phone arrives in Europe on November 16

Xiaomi's original Black Shark got unveiled back in April and now it's almost ready to launch in Europe. The handset will be available in 28 countries in the continent starting on November 16. You'll be able to pick one up from the company's dedicated online store, if you live in Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, or the UK. The Black Shark comes with a 5.99-inch...

Read More

Android Pie beta with One UI lands on Galaxy S9, S9+, and Note9 on November 15

At its developer conference earlier this week, Samsung announced that the Android Pie software update for its flagships will come with One UI, a redesigned skin that focuses on simplification and ease of use. The company announced that the first public beta build of its Android Pie update with One UI was going to be available for the Galaxy S9, S9+, and Note9 by the end of this month. If that timeline was too vague for your taste, Samsung's German arm has come to the rescue today. Through a support chat, a German publication was able to find out exactly when the beta builds will be...

Read More

Huawei P20 deals make it cheaper than ever in the UK and Germany

Huawei's P20 is seeing some interesting price cuts in Europe right now. The phone that launched alongside the P20 Pro earlier this year is now at a point in its life where its maker feels comfortable offering it to you for just £399 SIM-free and unlocked. That deal is already available in the UK at Carphone Warehouse, as part of its Black Friday sales. The price will stay the same until November 16, after which it goes back up again to £599. Over in Germany, one seller on Amazon has slashed a cool €184 off the device's usual price of €649, so you can now have one for just €465. It's...

Read More

Upcoming Galaxy A-series phones to have LCDs instead of AMOLEDs

The South Korean media outlet ETNews claims to have inside information regarding the 2019 Galaxy A smartphones. Reportedly, the upcoming Galaxy A50 and A60 smartphones will come with LCD panels instead of AMOLEDs while the A30, A40, A70 and A80 will retain the latter. The most obvious reason for this decision is the fact that the Chinese manufacturers are eating away the sales. And according to the report, the future Galaxy M series are getting the ax as well - most of the models will incorporate LCD panels although, there are a few planned to be with AMOLED. To remind you, the...

Read More

Samsung's W2019 flagship flip phone announced with two AMOLED screens

Samsung's China-only flagship flip phone was just announced and it comes with not one, but two AMOLED screens so you can use it without opening it but when unfolded, you will be greeted with the number dial pad and hardware navigation keys. But not all things are retro as the handset sports some modern and powerful hardware. A Snapdragon 845 does the number crunching with the help of 6GB of RAM and 128GB or 256GB of internal storage, which is also expandable. Both displays are Super AMOLED with conventional 16:9 aspect ratio, 4.2" diagonal and 1080 x 1920 pixels resolution. The...

Read More

Now the Google Pixel 3 is overheating while charging

In the latest installment of the notorious Pixel issues, the Pixel 3 and 3 XL are shutting down due to overheating. The issue has been reported by a few users - not enough to cause pandemonium, but enough to be considered a real issue by Google, which is reportedly sending affected users replacement phones. It seems like the trouble starts when the Pixel 3 is being charged and used at the same time. Some have reported that charging wirelessly on the Pixel stand while watching a video or taking a video call is causing the Pixel 3 to become really warm and shut down. Google Pixel...

Read More

Huawei patents phone design with a hole in the display for the earpiece

Holes are the new notches - Huawei is considering cutting a slit for the earpiece as revealed by a design patent filed with the USPTO. This is interesting, because the expectation was that holes will be used for selfie cameras (like in Samsung's Infinity-O design and teased with the Galaxy A8s). In fact, the patent doesn't mention the selfie camera at all. A Huawei design that leaked in July showed a camera in the hole and the earpiece on the bezel above it. That design also envisioned an in-display fingerprint reader while this patent seems to place it under the camera on the back. Huawei...

Read More

Samsung Galaxy A7 (2018) review

Isn't the Samsung A-series just a royal mess - even numbers, odd numbers, pluses sprinkled here and there, and a year stamp to top it all off. Let's go ahead and see what the Galaxy A7 (2018) is exactly and who it's for.

Read More

Here's what the new Apple MacBook Air looks from the inside

Apple finally updated its cult classic Macbook Air with a Retina display and added all the necessary niceties a 2018 Apple laptop should offer - thinner bezels, precision aluminum body, gargantuan force touch trackpad and Touch ID. The new Air also sits at the $1,200 entry price for an OS X laptop, which guarantees it will be a huge hit. So let's look at it from the inside, courtesy of iFixIt. The team at iFixIt have torn the new MacBook Air wide open and given it a repairability score of 3/10, which isn't that great, but it's unsurprising for a MacBook. One of the most...

Read More

Vive Focus standalone VR headset launches in the West at $600

HTC announced the Vive Focus - its first standalone VR headset - a year ago, but all this time it was available only in China. No more, the Focus is going global to match its "world-scale" capabilities. This headset will be available in 37 markets and will cost $600 in the US (note that the regular Vive for PC is $500). The Vive Focus Advantage service program brings up to cost to $750, but offers dedicated professional support and is aimed at businesses. The Vive Focus is powered by a Snapdragon 835, matching the new Oculus Quest ($400, Spring 2019). The 2,880 x 1,600px AMOLED...

Read More

Samsung is working on a Android Pie-based One UI for the Note8 and S8/S8+

After Samsung announced its brand new One UI during its SDC 2018, many were wondering which phones will be getting the new look. We are happy to see that the Galaxy Note8 will most probably receive the latest and greatest from Samsung as well, at least according to a report coming from the developers team in Korea. Reportedly, the developers are working on a software with build number N950FXXU5DRK4, the last four letters denote the version of the Android OS. The current build number of the Note8 ends with CRxx and "C" stands for Android Oreo so it only makes sense for "D" to be...

Read More

Kirin 990 to be built by TSMC 7nm process

Huawei introduced the Kirin 980 chipset with AI features, and 1.4 Gbps download speeds in September. The platform made its way to the Mate 20 series and is likely to appear in the next-gen Huawei P flagships. Although the SoC is still new, the Chinese company is already working on the follow-up, and according to industry sources, preparations for Kirin 990 has already begun. Reports from China claim TSMC will build the chipset on the 7nm processor. Industry insiders claim the subsidiary manufacturer HiSilicon has invested around CNY200 million in research and development, which...

Read More

Hold on tight to your Google Pixel 3 because Google can't repair it right now

It's been almost a month now, Google's latest Pixel 3 and 3 XL phones are on the streets and some users just like the feel of the frosted glass back and don't want to ruin their experience with a screen protector. But a case and screen protector might be prudent as numerous reports over the internet say that Google can't fix their broken Pixels. If you happen to be one of those users, you better think twice because breaking the back or the front of panel of your Pixel 3 or 3 XL would result in weeks or even months in a limbo before Google can take care of the broken handset. Even...

Read More

Xiaomi Mi 8 and Mi Mix 2S receive Mi MIx 3's Night Scene camera mode

Just two weeks ago the Xiaomi's Mi Mix 3 was announced and the company's co-founder, Lei Jun, promised to deliver the phone's excellent camera software to its other two flagship phones - the Mi Mix 2S and the Mi 8 since they all rely on the same dual-camera setup. The feature comes in the form of a MIUI 8.11.8 closed beta in China, which means that international rollout of the stable ROM is imminent. That's, of course, if no major issues arise. The only difference between the older Mi 8 and Mi Mix 2S, and the new Mi Mix 3 is the camera software. It makes all the difference when...

Read More

vivo X21s is official, it's actually the vivo V11

Three things are certain in life - death, taxes, and the vivo V smartphone being sold as vivo X in China. Such is the case with the vivo V11 (better known as V11 Pro in India) that just got introduced on its domestic market as vivo X21s. The phone has the same specs, same footprint and the same UD fingerprint scanner. Quietly appearing on the official website, the phone is available in Starry Night and Millenium Powder, which is a gradient between gold, pink and aqua blue with chequered texture. The screen is 6.41" AMOLED panel to let the fingerprint reader to do its job. Тhe...

Read More