Honor 10 Lite making its way to India

Honor 10 Lite was introduced in the end of November with gradient colors on the back and Kirin 710 chipset. It was initially launched only in China, but now the device is making its way to India where it will launch as a Flipkart Exclusive. The arrival date is January 15, or next Tuesday. Honor 10 Lite has Gradient Red and Gradient Blue options, but sadly, Indian customers will get only the latter, along with the plain Blue and Black variants. The Flipkart listing reveals it will be launched with two RAM options and 64 GB storage, meaning the most powerful 6/128 GB variant will...

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Xiaomi Mi Mix 3 is finally landing in Europe starting at €549

Xiaomi's Mi Mix 3 was announced in China back in October, and it definitely took its sweet time reaching European shores. Contrary to some speculation, the launch didn't happen last December. But the wait is now finally over. The Mi Mix 3 is available to purchase in Spain today, and will be out in Italy tomorrow in Sapphire Blue and Onyx Black. The phone is priced at €549 and you can buy it from the Chinese company's physical stores and its online store. What's more, in Italy, if you buy one tomorrow, on January 9, from the online store, you will pay just €499. Only the model with...

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ZTE nubia Red Magic Mars is coming to the US and Europe on January 31 for just $399

At CES ZTE has announced that its nubia Red Magic Mars gaming smartphone is headed to the US and Europe pretty soon - so the rumors were right. The handset will be available in those markets on January 31. Pricing has only been unveiled for the US, and it's $399 for the entry-level version which has 6GB of RAM and 64GB of storage. The higher-end models with 8/128GB and 10/256GB, respectively, are also likely to be offered in Western markets, but that hasn't been made official yet. If you're wondering what you get in exchange for $399 of your hard earned cash, here's a quick spec...

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HTC announces Vive Pro Eye and Vive Cosmos VR headsets

HTC's smartphone making arm may not be doing so well recently, but the Taiwanese company's Vive division is still one of the pioneers of the VR headset space. Today at CES it took the wraps off two new products: the Vive Pro Eye and the Vive Cosmos. The Vive Pro Eye natively integrates eye tracking, featuring gaze-tracking menu navigation and removes the need for controllers. HTC says it's "an evolution in the enterprise VR space" which tells you who it's aimed at. The point is that it should allow businesses to make better training simulations. The Pro Eye has "foveated rendering"...

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Sprint is launching the 5G Samsung Galaxy S10 in the summer

Rumor has it there will be more than one 5G version of Samsung's upcoming Galaxy S10, and that makes sense because it appears that at the beginning the new tech will require a customized model for each carrier using 5G. That's a pretty huge step back from the current state of 4G, but remember that LTE got started like that too. Anyway, one of those 5G iterations of Samsung's next flagship is headed to Sprint, the carrier proudly announced in a press release today. Well, the company stopped short of naming the device, but did reveal that "an innovative, standards-based 5G smartphone" is...

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Asus Zenfone Max M2 and Pro M2 receive another software update

Shortly after the previous update at the end of December, Asus is now rolling out another software patch for its Zenfone Max M2 and Pro M2 smartphones. The update is mainly focused on improving the camera experience. The Max Pro M2 patch, for instance, introduces several fixes to the camera interface and also improves the noise reduction of the FM Radio. New AI features are also to be expected. The regular M2 also gets EIS support for the front camera, which was promised during the announcement of the handset. The fingerprint sensor has been improved as well. The changelog also says...

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Redmi 7 appears on a leaked poster, reveals the color options

The Redmi 7 is all set to launch as the first smartphone under the independent sub-brand on January 10 and we know a lot about the phone days before the official release but now we have one more thing to add - colors. Well, thanks to a newly leaked poster, we can see all the colors of the upcoming Redmi 7. We've got black, blue and red with the last two being gradient colors mixed with purple. The poster also confirms the 48MP camera and the announcement date. Stay tuned for the full reveal in the following days. Source

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Canalys: Chinese smartphone market down 15%, iPhones start to dip, Huawei on top

You may have heard that Tim Cook pointed the finger at the Chinese market to explain the poor performance of the new iPhone models. Indeed, data by the analysts at Canalys shows that the Chinese smartphone market as a whole didn't do so hot as it fell 15% in the third quarter - from 119 million units in 2017 to 101 million in 2018. Apple holds the 5th spot in terms of units shipped, but the high prices of its phones put it in 1st place in terms of revenue. However, the new iPhone models didn't do much to improve sales. Apple tried to push them with trade-in deals, but the discounts...

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Garmin unveils LTE-connected vivoactive 3 Music smartwatch

Garmin has unveiled a new version of the vivoactive 3 Music - an LTE-connected smartwatch that works on the Verizon network. This is the company's first LTE-enabled watch. Anyway, you don't need a phone on Verizon's network or indeed any phone to use this watch. It can send and receive text messages, but not make calls. The main use of the 4G connection is LiveTrack - sharing your location with friends in real time. There's also an emergency mode that will alert pre-selected contacts when you hold down the button (the watch can also automatically detect an incident while you're walking or...

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LG Q9 is a G7 Fit version for South Korea, it features a Quad DAC, HDR10 screen

LG reintroduced the G7 Fit as a new entry into the Q-series - meet the LG Q9. The spec sheet is virtually identical, save for new color options. This phone is aimed at students and will cost KRW 500,000 in South Korea ($445/€390). The standout features of the phone are its multimedia capabilities and its durability. It features LG's trademark Quad DAC for high-quality wired audio and a powerful Boombox speaker if you want to play the music loudly. It goes without saying that there's a 3.5mm headphone jack (there's an FM receiver too). The 6.1" screen is pretty special too, it's sharp...

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Xiaomi Redmi 7 gets an unorthodox durability test

Xiaomi is officially announcing the separation of the Redmi brand on January 10 when a new phone with a 48 MP camera is expected to launch. The upcoming Redmi 7 series already arrived on Geekbench and TENAA, giving us a glimpse of what to expect regarding raw specs. We now get a different kind of teaser though - the phone that is yet to arrive received a check-up of its durability in a very unorthodox way - a group of people literally jumped on it. The video shows the phone's front and back panel can't be broken with a simple knock with the knuckles, but since virtually every...

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Huawei MateBook 13 and MediaPad M5 Lite hands-on

Although Huawei didn't introduce any new smartphones during this year's CES in Las Vegas, the company did bring something else to US shores - the MateBook 13 and the MediaPad M5 Lite. Both devices were introduced back in November and September, respectively but this is the first time they hit US shores. Huawei MateBook 13 hands-on Let's start with the more exciting MateBook 13. The laptop is a direct successor to the MateBook X 13-inch but boasts new hardware and improved design. It's positioned between the MateBook X Pro (14-inch) and the MateBook D (15-inch) and should satisfy...

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Belkin unveils first non-Apple USB-C to Lightning cable

Accessory maker Belkin unveiled the first third party USB-C to Lightning cable at CES. Prices start at $25 for the 1.2m (4ft) cable, the longest cable is 3m (10ft) and costs $35. Competition is good for consumers, but in this case Belkin's cables are not strictly cheaper. Apple's 1m cable is $19, the 2m one is $35 (there's no 3m cable). Still, as more third-party companies start offering such cables, the prices should fall. Belkin also unveiled a 20,000mAh battery bank with a USB-C port that delivers up to 30W along with a 12W USB-A port. Apple recommends a 30W charger for the...

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Huawei's MateBook 13 laptop and MediaPad M5 Lite tablet come to the US

At CES 2019, Huawei had some news for its Stateside fans. It's bringing its midrange MediaPad M5 Lite tablet and its slim and powerful MateBook 13 laptop to US buyers, starting this month. Huawei MediaPad M5 Lite The MediaPad M5 Lite has been official since Octoberbut will now bring competition to the 10-inch tablet market in the States. The MediaPad M5 Lite has a 16:10 10.1-inch 1920x1200px IPS LCD, a Huawei Kirin 659 octa-core chipset, 3GB of RAM, 32GB of expandable storage and a generous 7,500mAh battery. The MediaPad M5 Lite's party trick is a quad speaker setup with...

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Huawei unveils the Kunpeng 920 - the most powerful ARM-based server CPU

Huawei announced its new high-performance ARM-based CPU for servers called Kunpeng 920. It aims to improve the overall performance and efficiency of computing in big data, distributed storage and ARM applications. The Chinese tech giant was able to put together a 64-core CPU ticking at 2.6GHz and since it's based on the 7nm manufacturing process, its performance per watt will be significantly improved. The chip is based on the ARMv8 architecture standard and can speed up branch prediction algorithms. Huawei claims that performance is 25% better than industry's standard and 30% more...

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Next OnePlus may feature UFS 3.0 storage, early benchmark shows huge improvment

UFS 3.0 was unveiled a year ago, but we're yet to see phones use it. Rumor has it that the next OnePlus phone will make the switch from the current UFS 2.1 to 3.0. @IceUniverse posted a screenshot of a storage benchmark and it looks quite impressive. Upcoming OnePlus with UFS 3.0 • OnePlus 6T with UFS 2.1 The new standard promises to be twice as fast (while using less power to boot). Here's a quick comparison with the current OnePlus 6T (UFS 2.1), the improvement is significantly higher than 2x. The sequential speeds and the random write in particular show massive...

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NVIDIA announces GeForce RTX 2060 along with support for FreeSync monitors

NVIDIA announced today the launch of the GeForce RTX 2060 at CES. The 2060 is the newest member of the new RTX family and will be priced at $349, making it the cheapest. The RTX 2060 is unlike the 2070, 2080, and 2080 Ti, wherein it's not based on a totally separate GPU. Instead, it is based on the sme TU106 that powers the 2070, but with a few modifications. The 2060 Founders Edition has 1920 CUDA cores and 37 RTX cores. It has a base clock of 1365MHz and boost clock of 1680MHz. It comes with 6GB GDDR6 memory with 192-bit wide memory bus. The GPU has a TDP of 160W. The 2060...

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Alleged 2019 iPhone renders surface, shows off three cameras

Yes, we know it's too early for 2019 iPhone renders but they come from a credible source - @Onleaks. The info was further backed up by leakster IceUniverse so they may be close to the real deal if nothing else. 2019 iPhone renders Unfortunately, we can only see the back side of the handset and it looks like the panel is made of glass and houses not two but three cameras in the upper left corner. Two of them are vertically aligned while the third one is placed on the right under the LED flash. The sensors and the LED flash all fit in a rectangular Mate 20 Pro-styled module. An...

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Huawei Mate 20 Pro in Red and Comet Blue arriving on January 10

Last week а rumor about Huawei launching a Red and Blue variants of the Mate 20 Pro popped up. We speculated that the phone might be scheduled for the Chinese New Year on February 5, but today the company revealed it would be available for pre-order starting Thursday, January 10. The device is listed at Vmall, Huawei's online store, and the price will remain unchanged for both colors. The Red and Comet Blue Huawei Mate 20 Pro will be available only in China initially, but we expect the new hues to appear on the global scene as well. Huawei Mate 20 Pro in Fragrant Red...

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CEO confirms Meizu Note 9 with Snapdragon 6150 and 48 MP camera

Meizu is preparing a new phone, called Note 9. The news was revealed by the company CEO Jack Wong who revealed in a post that the phone will be powered by the upcoming Snapdragon 6150 chipset. It will also have a 48 MP camera and will reach AnTuTu scores of around 170,000. It will be the first Meizu smartphone with a notched front panel, sporting a waterdrop cutout left for the selfie shooter. Posts and renders by Meizu CEO Jack Wong Rumors about a Meizu X9 were downed by Mr Wong after he announced the Note 9 moniker. While the Snapdragon 6150 chipset is not official, it...

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