vivo Y95 lands in India

Earlier this month we saw the Snapdragon 439 make its way to a smartphone called vivo Y93. Later, the manufacturer slapped a fingerprint scanner on the back, called the new device vivo Y95 and launched it in the Philippines. Today, the affordable midranger made its way to the store shelves in India with an attractive price tag of INR16,990 or about $240/€210. The phone has only one memory option - 4 GB RAM and 64 GB storage, but at least it has microSD slot for up to 256 more gigs of storage. The chipset brings an octa-core CPU to the vivo Y95 with clock speeds up to 1.95 GHz. The...

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Top 10 trending phones of week 47

After ending up second for two weeks in a row, the Xiaomi Redmi Note 6 Pro used its launch in India to overtake the the Samsung Galaxy A7 (2018) for the lead. Meanwhile, the Huawei Mate 20 Pro held onto the last spot on the podium. In fourth we see the Samsung Galaxy A9 (2018), which is on the rise for a second week in a row now, while the Xiaomi Pocophone F1 and the Huawei Honor 8X stayed fifth and sixth, respectively. Samsung Galaxy S8 is another handset on the rise and took seventh. It's one of three ageing flagships alongside the Apple iPhone 6s and iPhone 6 that got their...

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Week 47 in review: Samsung dominated the headlines with its S10 and A8s

It was another week of Samsung-themed conversations in the tech world. Samsung's next flagship Galaxy S10 was again a regular in our news section. This week the Galaxy S10 talk is that Samsung will bring back the "flat" display for the entry-level model (quotation marks because the screen will likely still taper off to a 2.5D curve) while retaining the prominent edge curve for the higher-end Galaxy S10 models. Those same higher-end Galaxy S10 models could swap out the rear glass for ceramic, which will provide added scratch resistance to the phones while retaining the wireless charging...

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Weekly poll: are screen holes better than teardrop notches?

The tide of smartphone design may be shifting - the screen notch flooded the market, but a slightly less obtrusive option is on the horizon. Screens with holes cut out for the selfie camera sacrifice fewer pixels than the classics notch and could be nearly invisible with a black status bar. It looks like Samsung will lead the charge with Infinity-O screens on the Galaxy S10, but also with mid-range offerings like the Galaxy A8s as seen in these concept renders. There are some other ideas, like Huawei cutting a slot for the earpiece (the company also has designs selfie cameras as...

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