Weekly poll results: Honor View 20 is the most loved punch hole phone yet

Last week we asked you whether you think the Honor View 20 is hot or not. The results are in and they speak clearly - the Honor View 20 is hot. In fact, it may be one of the hottest phones around right now. It's not surprising because the Honor View 20 is the most powerful smartphone with a punch hole camera thus far. While the Huawei nova 4 and Galaxy A8s are good phones in their own right, they are midrangers, the Honor View 20 is a proper flagship that has Huawei's benchmark-topping Kirin 980 chipset and the brand new 48MP camera. The Honor View 20 is still unavailable outside of...

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Counterclockwise: computer makers fail at making phones time and again

Apple started as a computer company, but is currently one of the most influential smartphone makers out there (in fact, most of the company's profits come from the iPhone). However, Apple is the exception - most computer companies struggled and gave up the phone-making business. HP is the largest PC manufacturer in the world. It even found success in the mobile game early on with its iPAQ Pocket PCs (started by Compaq, which was acquired by HP). After those died off, the company regrouped and bought Palm. We saw a few webOS devices - phones and tablets - however, it was all over in a...

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Honor 8A is now official under the Honor Play 8A moniker

"All is fair in love and war" and the smartphone arena is currently a cut-throat theatre like few others. Still, we do feel like the resemblance between the recently unveiled Xiaomi Mi Play and the newly unveiled Honor Play 8A is taking things a bit too far. Of course, we can't really say who's copying who, but we did originally expect the phone to drop under the Honor 8A moniker. Why and how the "Play" part came to be is not really clear, but it's there. Make of that what you will. To be perfectly fair, we did already have a pretty clear idea as to the design of the Honor Play 8A....

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The Sony Xperia XZ4 will have a 21:9 display and here's what watching native aspect movies on it looks like

Sony Xperia XZ4 rumors and leaks are nothing new and frankly nether is the notion that he company's next flagship will sport an incredibly tall display, even by today's mobile trends and standards. The first batch of alleged renders we saw of the phone already talked of a 6.5-inch panel on a phone that would be essentially as wide as the Xperia XZ3, but stretch up to about 166.9mm, towering over most of the handsets in our database. Exclusive: I received the tempered film of the Sony Xperia XZ4.This phone is too long. After measuring, the length of the XZ4 screen is 15.2cm, which is...

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BOE demos foldable display with impressively small bend radius

Foldable displays are here and foldable panels in consumer electronics finally look right around the corner. To be perfectly frank, the wait has been excruciatingly long for anybody that boarded the original flexible "hype train" a good few years ago. But, of course, we understand that such major advancements take time to iron out. And we're not just talking about making the tech consumer viable, even at what will likely be exuberant initial price tags. There are plenty of technical and practical aspects to work through. Some, highly complex. While others more apparent from an end-user...

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LG Q9 pops up on GeekBench, while a Q9 One gets Bluetooth certification

There has been no shortage of LG Q9 leaks over the past few months and as CES 2019 draws nearer, the Korean giant is clearly expected to unveil its work on the somewhat odd mid-ranger at the event. As for the "odd" bits, the LG Q9 actually has a few of those going for it. First and foremost has to be the dated Snapdragon 821 chipset that is said to power the device. A new benchmark run from an "LGE LM-Q925L" unit on GeekBench pretty much confirms this rather unorthodox chipset choice. However, this has been the subject of speculation before. In fact, by most accounts, the LG Q9 is...

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Samsung Galaxy S10 line battery capacity, size comparison and chipset info surface in yet another leak

Another day, another batch of Samsung Galaxy S10 rumors and leaks. We would very much like to tell you that the bigger picture of Samsung's next flagship lineup is finally shaping up and making sense, but the truth is info is still all over the place. Under such circumstances reputation can actually count for quite a bit in the "leakster" realm and Ice universe has a fairly good track record in this regard. Revised Samsung Galaxy S10+ renders (unofficial) That being said, let's first assume that there will be thee main versions of the Galaxy S10, since that is a thing most...

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Honor View 20 India launch set for January 29, likely joined by Honor 10 Lite

Honor closed 2018 quite strong with the unveiling of its intriguing new View 20 flagship handset . Its trendy design, featuring a punch-hole selfie camera and impressive 48MP main shooter have been turning more than a few heads since. What better time to keep the hype going? Honor's thoughts, exactly, as evidenced by the speedy European unveiling of the device, already set for January 22 in Paris. Like they say, there's no smoke without a fire and the rumor mill is definitely blazing with Honor leaks today. One source claims to have info on the European pricing for the View 10....

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vivo NEX Dual Display Edition in for review

Back in October the ZTE nubia X arrived with two screens, later followed by vivo NEX Dual Display Edition. We were in Shanghai, China, for the unveiling of the new NEX, and we are finally back home to get on with the usual detailed review of the phone. But before heading into the labs, here's what made an impression right out of the box. When you think of a dual-display smartphone, the first thing you ask yourself is "why", but the NEX Dual Display Edition easily answers the question when you power it. Just like the NEX S with the periscope selfie camera, there is a massive Super...

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