Xiaomi Redmi Note 7 pops up on Geekbench with Snapdragon 660

Xiaomi announced it is splitting the Redmi series into a separate brand, with the first phone being announced on January 10. We expect this to be the Redmi 7 phones, including a Redmi Note 7. The alleged device popped up on Geekbench, revealing a Snapdragon 660 chipset. While the results of 1462 for a single core and 4556 for multiple cores are in line with other SD660-powered phones, the new chipset is good news for itself. The Redmi Note 5 Pro and Redmi Note 6 Pro both sported the less powerful 14 nm process Snapdragon 636, meaning the Redmi Note 7 will be a true update of the...

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HP launches the first Chromebook with AMD processor

HP has launched two new models in its Chromebook 14 lineup. The interesting thing about these variants is that they are the first Chromebooks to run on AMD processors, which have so far only been running on Intel and ARM-based processors. The base model runs on the new 6W AMD A4-9120C processor, with 2 cores/2 threads, 1.6GHz base clock/2.4GHz boost clock, and Radeon R4 graphics. It has a 1366x768 resolution display. The more expensive models runs on the new 6W AMD A6-9220C processor, with 2 cores/2 threads, 1.8GHz base clock/2.7GHz boost clock, and Radeon R5 graphics. It has a...

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Week 1 in review: Sony Xperia XZ4, Galaxy S10, Nokia 9 and Redmi 7 on the horizon

We are now at the end of the first week of the new year! If you were thinking smartphone world will take some time off for the holidays you were wrong - week 1 was rather eventful. While there weren't many announcements in the week there were sightings of exciting upcoming products. The Samsung Galaxy S10, the Sony Xperia XZ4 and the Nokia 9 were the flagships that are expected to become official quite soon. The Samsung Galaxy S10 was photographed in the wild and we saw a purported Galaxy S10+ case snapped on a Galaxy S9+, revealing a very minor difference in size. The Nokia 9...

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iTunes Movies and TV Shows app coming to 2018 and 2019 Samsung Smart TVs

Samsung has announced that it will offer the iTunes Movies and TV Shows app and AirPlay 2 support on its range of televisions. It will be the first television manufacturer to feature this service and indeed the first non-Apple product to include it. Owners of these televisions will be able to access their existing iTunes movie and TV show library from within this app. They will also be able to purchase or rent additional content. Apple currently has hundreds of thousands of movies and TV show episodes and also the largest library of 4K HDR movies of any service. The app...

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Weekly poll: what's the ideal screen size?

Smartphone screens have been growing for years now, but recently they started growing in only one dimension - height. This led to taller and taller aspect ratios that redefined how large a 6" screen is. Here's a comparison: a 6" 18:9 screen is essentially a 5.5" 16:9 screen with an extra row on top (1.5cm or half an inch taller). This is largely because wide phones are uncomfortable to hold. But tall phones are not easy to use either, reaching elements on the top of the screen gets trickier with every added inch. A well-designed user interface can alleviate this to some extent by...

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Top 10 trending phones of week 1

The turn of the year brought some significant changes to our top 10 trending phones charting, including a new leader. The Xiaomi Redmi Note 6 Pro rose two spots to dethrone the Galaxy A8s, as last week's runner up Xiaomi Mi Play is all the way down in fifth. Samsung Galaxy A7 (2018) also made the podium as the Huawei nova 4 held onto the fourth spot. In sixth we find the upcoming Xioami Redmi 7, which has pushed its Pocophone F1 stablemate down to seventh. Further down the Honor View 20 makes a return to the chart to snatch eight, while the Galaxy S8 and Apple iPhone 6s just...

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