Honor 10 Lite to arrive on November 21

Huawei and its subsidiary Honor are among the top smartphone companies for a very simple reason - they produce devices that position throughout the whole price spectrum. If you want a flagship but the Honor Magic 2 slider is not your cup of tea, while Honor 10 is too expensive, there is a cheaper alternative on its way. The phone will be called Honor 10 Lite and will arrive on November 21 at an event in Beijing, China. It appears the new phone will be a completely new device and not just a rebranded Huawei handset. The back panel follows the design seen in the Honor 8C, Honor 8X...

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Samsung's foldable Galaxy F gets showcased in a cool concept video

After many, many years of leaks and rumors, Samsung is finally almost ready to ship its first foldable phone - at some point next year. The company has already unveiled the flexible display that it's using, and a few other details have been coming out recently too. Based on everything that's known about this phone which will probably be called Galaxy F, Concept Creator has gone ahead and created a mesmerizing concept video that imagines the upcoming device in all its glory, and portrays it from all angles. Please don't mistake this for a leak of the Galaxy F's final design or...

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Oppo's upcoming A7 shows its Snapdragon 450 on Geekbench

The Oppo A7 has been spotted in the Geekbench database, revealing its Snapdragon 450 chipset and Android 8.1 platform. While still unofficial, the phone featured in a few key leaks. It will pack a Snapdragon 450 chipset, 4GB of RAM, a 6.2-inch 1520x720px display and a 4,230mAh battery. The Oppo A7 has been spotted on Geekbench in two versions - CPH1901 and PBFM00, while previously we saw two more - CPH1905 and PBFT00. All are expected to be the same device for different markets. According to rumor, the Oppo A7 will be announced as the Oppo AX7 in Singapore. Source 1 | 2 | Via

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Xiaomi will bring its Pocophone F1 to South Korea on November 19

Xiaomi will start selling the Pocophone F1 in South Korea on November 19 through SK Telecom, KT and LG U+. The device will come in 6GB + 64GB variety and be priced KRW 430,000 (€340). Thus far the device had been available through retailers such as Expansys and it is even discounted at the time of writing to KRW 370,000 (€290). Xiaomi's aggressively-priced flagship is on sale in China, Europe and India and is selling rather well - it broke Flipkart's record for fastest-selling flagship with nearly 70 thousand units sold in 5 minutes. Source

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Realme starts pushing ColorOS 5.2 to its devices

Realme is going strong with announcements in 2018. Four phones have already mcome and we won't be surprised to see а fifth device by the end of 2018. With the growing number of sales, the amount of people asking for monthly updates is also rising and the Oppo subbrand is starting to deliver. The company announced on its own forum that ColorOS 5.2 Beta will start arriving this week with the stable release scheduled for November 25. There is also a November security patch in the pipeline which will start arriving over the air on Thursday. To keep its users updated Realme...

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Honor 8X review

The Honor 8X is yet another attractive offer from Huawei's subsidiary aiming to bring mid-range experience on the budget. But it sure is not the only Honor doing that and you'd be forgiven if the oversaturated market confuses you.

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Analyst lowers prediction of iPhone XR shipments by as much as 30%

Analyst Ming-Chi Kuo has been keeping his finger on the pulse of Apple component suppliers and that pulse is slowing - the total expected shipments of the iPhone XR have been revised down by as much as 30%. The early prediction was for 100 million units in four quarters (from Q4 2018 to Q3 2019). The new forecast is for 70 million, of which about half will be shipped this quarter (30-35 million). The numbers for the first two quarters of 2019 have been decreased by 25-30% to 20-25 million and 10-15 million for Q1 and Q2 respectively. Consumers in general are not as keen on the XR as...

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HTC midranger receives Wi-Fi certification

HTC might be struggling to turn around its smartphone division's sales, but it hasn't given up yet Last week a phone with the model number HTC 2Q72XXX with Snapdragon 435 received Bluetooth certification and it might be joining the ranks soon. Today, info from the Wi-Fi Alliance revealed the phone will be Wi-Fi certified for the 2.4 GHz b/g/n bands and will have Android 8.1 Oreo. HTC U11 Life With the model number being revealed, the phone is easily discoverable at Geekbench, which confirmed it to have 3 GB of RAM. The benchmark listing also lists the OS and chipset. While we...

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Xiaomi sold 6 million smartphones during Diwali, generates over $1B in revenue

Xiaomi sells a lot of stuff - both in terms of variety and numbers. The sales during the Diwali celebration saw the company claim the #1 spot in several categories, including smartphones. It sold a total of 6 million smartphones on Amazon India and Flipkart. The Redmi 6A was the best-selling product across all categories and all Top 10 best-selling phones on Amazon were Xiaomis. The Redmi Note 5 Pro was the top smartphone on Flipkart. Xiaomi topped the sales charts in India in multiple categories Xiaomi's holiday sales also included 2.1 million accessories from the Mi...

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OnePlus 6T Thunder Purple coming to North America and Europe on November 15

OnePlus will be releasing its Thunder Purple variant of the new OnePlus 6T worldwide. The variant was recently launched in China where it got a limited time exclusive release. The new color variant will be available in North America and Europe starting November 15. In India, the phone will be available starting November 16. OnePlus 6T 'Thunder Purple' The Thunder Purple variant will only be available in the 8/128GB configuration and priced the same as the other color variants with the same memory. The other color variants available currently include the glossy...

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Realme tops Samsung, Xiaomi in Lazada's Single's day sale in Indonesia

Realme launched in Indonesia barely a month ago and it's already made its second big splash. This one came from the Single's day sale (11.11) in which the young brand outsold established players like Samsung and Xiaomi. Lazada, the local etailer, had its biggest Single's day sale and the Realme phones topped the phone segment. The Realme 2 Pro, Realme 2 and Realme C1 all took part, selling a total 40,000 units in 21 minutes. Realme were the best-selling phones at Lazada's Single's day sale Realme claims a triple title - the the highest total sales, the highest individual sales...

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OnePlus 5G smartphone to mark the start of a whole new lineup

Pete Lau, OnePlus CEO, announced plans for a 5G smartphone back in the summer. At the Hong Kong 4G/5G summit, hosted by Qualcomm, his co-founder Carl Pei said the company is on schedule for an early 2019 launch and we expected that the phone might be the OnePlus 7 (or whatever the OnePlus 6T successor is named). Apparently this isn't the case, as reported by as a OnePlus spokesperson announced the 5G device will not be a successor of the OnePlus 6T and will most likely arrive in a different category with a higher price tag. Cristiano Amon, Qualcomm president, and Carl Pei on the stage...

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Android 9.0 pie update for Nokia 7.1 plus / Nokia X7 begins testing in closed beta

HMD has started recruiting beta testers for the Nokia X7 to try out an early version of the Android 9.0 Pie update. That's the Chinese name of the Nokia 7.1 Plus, which was unveiled last month with Android 8.1 Oreo (the Android One branch). The recruitment is done on Weibo and wants people who are running the official software on their phones and have never unlocked/rooted them. Even with warnings that people should back up their data in case something goes wrong, volunteers are lining up. Nokia 7.1 plus (Nokia X7) This is a closed beta and even requires a signing a...

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Google Play User's Choice Awards: vote for your favorite app, game and movie

Time to vote for your favorite Android apps and games. Follow this link to the Google Play Store and cast your vote. Note that the voting is per-country (and not all countries are included). The voting ends in two weeks, the winners in each category will be announced on December 3. The selection of apps and games you can vote for differs per country. The US also has an extra category - favorite movie - which doesn't seem to be available in Europe (even though the service is available). User's choice ballot: Apps (NL) • Games (NL) • Movies (US) You need to be logged in to...

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Samsung's foldable phone to come in March for $1,770

Samsung previewed its foldable phone, focusing on the screen - the Infinity Flex Display - and the UI. Industry insiders believe that there will be another demo at the MWC in February before the final reveal in March. The phone is expected to cost $1,770 (KRW 2 million in its homeland), which will limit sales to the "money's no object" early adopter crowd. Even so, Samsung Electronics President DJ Koh believes that the flexible phone will ship at least one million units. The foldable phone is built like a clamshell with a 4.58" external display and a tablet-sized 7.3" display on the...

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OnePlus 6T sees an 86% jump in US sales over OnePlus 6

OnePlus 6T was announced at the end of October at several regional events, one of them in New York, United States. The US unveiling made the headlines with the partnership between the manufacturer and T-Mobile, revealing its support for both CDMA and GSM networks. The new flagship now supports Band 13, certified for use on Verizon Wireless. These improvements in usability led to 86% increase in first-day sales of OnePlus 6T when compared to its predecessor OnePlus 6. OnePlus 6 vs OnePlus 6T The information was reported first by XDA Developers, who also clarified that OnePlus...

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Xiaomi also increases prices in India

Last week Realme stopped offering its devices on their initial promo prices, announced at Flipkart and Amazon India. This weekend Xiaomi followed through with the Redmi 6 and Redmi 6A, along with two of its Mi LED TVs and a 10,000 mAh power bank. Manu Kumar Jain, director of Xiaomi India, took it to Twitter to announce the reason, and it is the same as the one given by Madhav Sheth, CEO of Realme - the price of the Indian rupee is falling, and the company has to adjust the pricing to the production costs. The Xiaomi Redmi 6 smartphone with 3 GB RAM and 32 GB storage was announced...

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