Huawei Y7 Pro (2019) is official with Snapdragon 450

Huawei is going strong in the quest for becoming the second biggest smartphone maker in the world. Just days after the launch of Huawei P Smart (2019) on the European market, its more affordable sibling called Huawei Y7 Pro (2019) made an appearance in Vietnam. Looking at the Y7 Pro (2019) you might think it is visually the same as the P Smart (2019). After a detailed inspection of specs, we notice plenty of differences. The chipset is Qualcomm Snapdragon 450, while the screen is 6.26" LCD panel with HD+ resolution, waterdrop notch and a 19:9 ratio. The phone has only 3 GB RAM and...

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These were our most popular videos of 2018

In the last days of 2018 we take a look back and see what we have accomplished in the past 12 months. A lot of thought and hard work went into our YouTube channel, so we decided to share the most popular videos of the year. Samsung introduced the Galaxy A8 (2018) early in the year and it has been watched and liked plenty of times. No wonder it gathered over a million views with its tall Infinity Display and properly-placed fingerprint scanner. The Galaxy S9+ flagship is a massive improvement over the Galaxy S8+ with its dual camera - one shooter with variable aperture and another...

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Counterclockwise: the touchscreen evolution

The human-computer interface has been a problem since the dawn of computers. As far as smartphones are concerned, the clear winner is the touchscreen. But how did we get here? The proto-touchscreen was the light pen, which was first developed in the 50s and 60s and was available to consumers as an accessory for 8-bit computers in the 80s. The light pen is a simple but clever solution that works only with CRT monitors - it senses the electron beam as it scans across the phosphor drawing the image line by line, pixel by pixel. When the beam is sensed by the pen, the computer just makes a...

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Camera test: The phone with the best Portrait mode

We've lined up the industry's cameraphone heavyweights - iPhone XS Max, Galaxy Note9, Huawei Mate 20 Pro, LG V40 ThinQ, OnePlus 6T, Galaxy S9, Google Pixel 3 to see how good phones have become in capturing portrait photos with defocused backgrounds. We'll also be taking some shots with a full-frame DSLR - the Nikon D750 - just to put things into perspective.

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Top 10 fan favorite phones of 2018

The year is almost over and it's time to reset the counter. But before we do that, let's take a look at which Android and iOS devices won the hearts of our readers. Note that we are not talking sheer popularity here, but number of likes - that is we only count The Xiaomi Redmi Note 5 Pro leads the pack and we can see why. It was the best mid-ranger for a large chunk of the year. It checks a lot of boxes while keeping the price reasonable and that helped it win more love than any other phone introduced in 2018. The next one is the OnPlus 6 - the first of the two most controversial...

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The punch hole screen camera is the way forward

My job at GSMArena is getting to the office early in the morning, usually before sunrise, to cover the latest news, leaks and rumors. I've been following design trends from their development stage all the way to the final products. One of the sadder solutions among smartphone manufacturers is the notch, introduced by Apple and the iPhone X back in 2017. I never got the hate it received as the cutout was just bound to happen. The notch eventually got smaller by the middle of 2018, when we saw the Oppo F9 with the new fashionable waterdrop notch, but by the end of 2018 we already have...

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Weekly poll: Honor View 20, hot or not?

It looks like punch hole cameras are going to be a big deal in 2019 and the most premium phone with a punch hole in the display just arrived with the Honor View 20. The Honor V20 for China or View 20 for the rest of the world builds on Honor's key strengths, matching the Huawei Mate 20 Pro in many regards and even outmatching it in some, like the 48MP main camera and the screen to body ratio. Honor announced the V20 this week for the Chinese market and will host an event for the View 20 in Paris on January 22 to mark its global launch. The Honor View 20 has a lot to offer. It has a...

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