Xiaomi Redmi Note 7 Pro specs leak on TENAA ahead of launch

Just yesterday, we saw images released by the TENAA containing the Xiaomi Redmi Note 7 Pro just as the phone is about to drop in China. That's before official renders leaked as well. Today, some new specs leaked from the same source. Let's take a look at what came about. The TENAA listed complete hardware specifications including weight and dimensions. The Redmi Note 7 Pro will measure 159.2 x 75.1 x 8.1 mm and weigh 186g. The listing also confirms a total of three cameras just as we saw the phone's vertically stacked dual-cameras yesterday. Also, there's mention of a CPU clocked at 2.0GHz...

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Xiaomi Mi 9 sells out in seconds during first flash sale

Xiaomi Mi 9 arrived on Wednesday in China and today was the first flash sale at its domestic market. The phone was launched at 10 AM sharp and all the available units were gone in 53 seconds, the company boasted on Weibo. Xiaomi Mi 9 comes with a 48 MP main shooter in the triple camera setup, UD fingerprint scanner, and slick design. Although the company did not announce the exact amount of units sold, we are pretty sure they were aplenty, it's just demand was higher than supply. The phone is among the first with a Snapdragon 855 chipset in the world and in our review we...

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iOS 12 is on 4 out of 5 mobile Apple devices

Apple has updated its iOS statistic numbers as it does every couple of months or so on its App Store developer page. As of February 24, 83% of all iOS devices introduced in the past four years are running on iOS 12 or newer. Meanwhile, 80% of all active iOS devices are running iOS 12 or later. In both charts, iOS 11 maks up 12% of users with the remaining piece of both pies making up iOS 10 and earlier. As 9to5Mac notes, the last time Apple ran these statistics on January 1, 75% of all iOS devices were on version 12 with 78% of all devices released in the last four years on the...

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Realme 3 first camera samples are in, just look at that dynamic range

Realme has taken a serious interest in photography for their upcoming Realme 3 phone. It allegedly introduces two new camera features that improve the dynamic range and low-light capabilities, respectively - Chroma Boost and Nightscape. To see the new features in action, we have some camera samples from the Realme 3, the Samsung Galaxy M20 and the Redmi Note 7. Chroma Boost enhances the dynamic range of photos - it's an HDR mode - however, the name highlights just how much this mode improves color rendering in shadowy areas. The Galaxy M20 holds its own in terms of fine detail...

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Realme 3 first camera samples are in, just look at that dynamic range

Realme has taken a serious interest in photography for their upcoming Realme 3 phone. It allegedly introduces two new camera features that improve the dynamic range and low-light capabilities, respectively - Chroma Boost and Nightscape. To see the new features in action, we have some camera samples from the Realme 3, the Samsung Galaxy M20 and the Redmi Note 7. Chroma Boost enhances the dynamic range of photos - it's an HDR mode - however, the name highlights just how much this mode improves color rendering in shadowy areas. The Galaxy M20 holds its own in terms of fine detail...

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Google Home app teardown reveals color control for smart lights

The latest ‘APK Insight' from 9to5Google tears down the newest version of the Google Home app (v2.9) and reveals which features we might come to expect in an upcoming update to the app. Currently, with the Google app on iOS and Android you can toggle lights within your home on and off and adjust their brightness. You can do the same thing with Google Home smart displays right after you give a vocal command that adjusts a light or group of lights. The difference is that you can also adjust the color of the bulb from a smart display. Source: 9to5Google The teardown of the app reveals...

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Report: Samsung Galaxy Note10 will have a four camera setup

Today, a new report comes from SamMobile with information about Samsung's next flagship. No we're not talking about the Galaxy Fold, but Samsung's other flagship, the Galaxy Note. A source tells SamMobile that the Note 10 is going to have a four camera system on the back. The supposed model number will be SM-N975F. What's strange about this number is that it does not end in a "0" like all previous Galaxy Note model numbers. The reason for this is speculated to be that the next Note could come in both 4G LTE and 5G flavors, given that 5G is not yet widely available. It isn't known...

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Sony's 5G prototype is being displayed at MWC

The MWC is ongoing in Barcelona where many smartphone makers have announced hardware and future technologies. Aside from folding smartphones from the likes of both Samsung and Huawei, 5G is at the forefront of most of the announcements which was mentioned by Xioami, Oppo, LG, and Huawei. The report comes from Pocket-lint who spotted the device at both Sony and Qualcomm's respective booths. Unfortunately, the 5G models being shown are not reflective of the final hardware intended for consumers and Sony hasn't officially said when it'd release a 5G phone. Adam Marsh, a member of...

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New 4G/5G flaws can reveal target's location and intercept calls

This report comes from TechCrunch where a group of university researchers have found three major flaws in the security of 4G and 5G technologies that are susceptible to hackers gaining location information, intercepting phone calls, and targeted phishing attacks. These vulnerabilities are said to affect 4G networks and the incoming 5G network that all phone makers and industries are raving about. The group is made up of researchers from the Universtity of Iowa (Mitziu Echeverria, Omar Chowdhury) and Perdue University (Syed Rafuil Hussain, Ninghui Li, Elisa Bertino). The first attack is...

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Weekly poll: vote for the best new flagship, including 4G, 5G and foldable phones

The major announcements of the MWC are essentially over - in the span of a few days we saw amazing things, including plenty of flagships. We each have our favorite, but we were wondering which one is yours. Note that we'll include everything from last week, including the Samsung, Xiaomi and vivo announcements. Technically, the MWC starts today, so we're going to be a bit loose with the time frame and include the phones from Wednesday and Sunday. Let's split things up in three categories: 4G flagship, 5G flagship and foldable phones. Starting with the 4G entries, we'll pick the Galaxy...

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Samsung Galaxy A50, A30, Tab S5e hands-on review

We're going to assume that we've all collectively taken-in Samsung's new Galaxy S10 line by now and enjoyed it in full.That's all fine and dandy, we never say no to some great tech eye-candy. But what if you don't really need the most bleeding-edge the Korean giant has to offer? Well, the "A"-series is traditionally where you should look.

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nubia Alpha is a foldable smartwatch that you wear like a bracelet, it's also a phone

Foldable phones are cool because they can fit a larger screen in your pocket. But what if the phone doesn't have to go in the pocket at all - what if you could fold it around your wrist and wear it like a bracelet? ZTE's nubia brand has made that "if" a reality with the nubia Alpha (also styled as nubia α). It's a smartwatch with a 4" flexible OLED screen, produced in a collaboration with Visionox. Since it aims for a watch form factor, the screen is relatively narrow and quite tall - its aspect ratio is 36:9. This is indeed a smartwatch, it's powered by the Snapdragon Wear...

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Google: Android One continues to grow, Android Go reigns the low-end

At this year's MWC, Google has shared some insight on how Android One has been performing over the past year. Well, for starters, the Android One presence in the low-end segment has grown 250% year-over-year. And it shows. The growing popularity of the much-optimized and stripped-down Android One has led to numerous announcements of Android One devices over the past year or so. Even here in Barcelona, Nokia announced three new Android One-powered handsets - Nokia 9 PureView, Nokia 4.2 and Nokia 3.2. In the meantime, Android Go has taken a huge chunk of the low-end segment as it...

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Lenovo Z5 Pro GT hands-on

We take a closer look at the world's first smartphone with the Snapdragon 855 chip. Introduction and specs Back in December Lenovo announced the word's first Snapdragon 855 smartphone - the Lenovo Z5 Pro GT. The device has the same mechanical-slider design as the Mi Mix 3, revealed earlier by Xiaomi, but packs a lot more punch inside. And it's on sale in China since January. Currently the Z5 Pro GT is available only in China, but Lenovo has brought this flagship at the MWC in Barcelona, so we suspect a global rollout might be imminent. And it has a lot to offer,...

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SanDisk and Micron deliver world's first 1TB microSD cards

The day has come. Smartphones can now hold as much data as a mainstream laptop. As long as you are willing to pay a price premium for a 1TB internal storage on your new phone or put a 1TB microSD card inside. Yep, you read that right - 1TB microSD cards are now a thing. Micron and SanDisk unveiled their microSD cards during this year's MWC in Barcelona and while Micron brags about being the first commercially available card, the SanDisk alternative boasts about being the fastest one. Peak read speed is 160 MB/s vs. 100 MB/s for Micron's, but the latter beats the former when it comes...

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Redmi Note 7 Pro press renders leak ahead of launch

Redmi launched the Redmi Note 7 last month in China, and the company is all set to launch the Redmi Note 7 Pro with better specs this week. The smartphone has already popped up on TENAA with its images, but now, we are looking at some high-quality press renders of the Redmi Note 7 Pro which give us a better look at it. Press renders of the Redmi Note 7 Pro have been leaked by leakster Ishan Agarwal which show us that the smartphone looks almost the same as the Redmi Note 7. These renders also confirm that the Redmi Note 7 Pro will be available in at least three colors - Black,...

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OnePlus at MWC: the 5G phone was teased, it has a 21:9 screen

OnePlus came to the MWC not to announce a new phone, just tease one - its upcoming 5G-connected phone. It was demoing an installation that streamed a game over a 5G network (i.e. the game was running in the cloud, this was a demo of latency more than processing power). This installation showed nothing of the handset but its screen - make that its 21:9 screen. This could be OnePlus' first screen to go above 1080p, but the company didn't say anything official either way. That stretched out screen shows no sign of a notch. To be fair, the installation is set up in such a way that it's...

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Asus Zenfone 6 officially arriving on May 16

Two days ago we reported some journalists at MWC 2019 received magazines which had an advertisement, saying Asus will unveil the Zenfone 6 on May 14. Today the company decided to clear any misunderstanding and posted a teaser on Twitter, revealing another date for the official launch - May 16. The video goes through all previous five generations of Zenfone flagships from the Zenfone 5 to the Zenfone 5. According to Asus, "the revolution is coming" and the new Zenfone 6 (not to be confused with the old Zenfone 6) is going to "defy the ordinary", whatever that means. Trying to guess...

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Qualcomm Quick Charge for wireless power is official and features Qi interoperability

Few battles on the smartphone scene are quite as volatile as the charging one. We seem to be at an interesting juncture with many proprietary technologies, like Super VOOC outpacing more traditional players like Quick Charge in raw performance. All this under the constant pressure to adapt and standardize with the increasingly popular Power Delivery spec and the USB Type-C port. Even so, most of this action has been limited to traditional wired charging. The increasingly popular wireless charging has its fair share of issues and controversies as well. These just seems to be drawing less...

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Redmi Note 7 Pro is finally on TENAA with photos

The Chinese regulatory TENAA has finally listed the Xiaomi M1901F7BE phone that is said to be the Redmi Note 7 Pro. It has photos and some basic specs like screen size, footprint, and battery size. The new device will come with a 6.3" screen and a small waterdrop notch for the front-facing camera. On the back, we see a dual camera setup which is likely to bring 48 MP shooter with the Sony IMX586 sensor. There is also a fingerprint scanner, putting our hopes for a UD scanner to sleep. The dimensions of the Xiaomi M1901F7BE are 159.2 x 75.2 x 8.1 mm or exactly the same as the...

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ZTE announces the Axon 10 Pro 5G flagship and the Blade V10

Just like the big boys, ZTE isn't missing on the 5G action. The company announced two new phones one of which is a flagship device with 5G connectivity support called Axon 10 Pro 5G. The smartphone comes with Snapdragon 855 chipset along with Qualcomm's Snapdragon X50 5G-capable modem. ZTE has partnered with China Telecom, Hutchinson Drei, and Elisa carriers to ensure a global release within the first half of this year. Axon 10 Pro 5G In addition to the powerful SoC, the Axon 10 Pro 5G also boasts a 6.47-inch AMOLED display with 1080 x 2340 pixels resolution. There's also a...

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microSD Express announced with up to 985MB/s speeds, better power effiency

Less than a year after the SD Express standard was announced, the fast PCIe-based technology has come to the tiny microSD form factor. It will use the second row of pins of UHS-II style cards to enable NVMe v1.3 connectivity. microSD Express cards will deliver speeds of up to 985MB/s. For comparison, the fastest UHS-I cards go up to just over 100MB/s, the fastest UHS-II push that to a bit more than 300MB/s. With support for the low-power sub-states (L1.1 and L1.2) of PCIe v3.1, the new cards will actually use less power than classic microSDs, despite being much faster than...

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Sony's press videos for the new Xperia 1, 10 and 10 Plus are up on YouTube

Whether you personally appreciate it or not, there is no denying that Sony has a fresh and bold new design direction for its latest batch of handsets. 21:9 cinematic aspect, of course, being the spotlight feature shared across most of the new lineup, including the premium Xperia 1, as well as the mid-range Xperia 10 and 10 Plus. However, 21:9 is just the tip of the feature iceberg, especially when it comes to the Xperia 1. And it's Sony's marketing job to convey that to prospective buyers as best it can. The set of YouTube videos it just dropped is a pretty good...

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Samsung Galaxy A50 and Galaxy A30 are official with big screens and batteries

Samsung officially announced two new midrangers, called Galaxy A50 and Galaxy A30. They come with Infinity-U displays, 4,000 mAh battery and a so-called "3D Glasstic" design on the back. Both of them have a fingerprint scanner, but the A50 has it under the screen, while the A30 comes with the sensor mounted on the back. Samsung Galaxy A50 in Black, Blue, Coral, and White The official specs confirm a leak we found two weeks ago - Exynos 9610 chipset and a 6.4" Super AMOLED screen with Full HD+ resolution for the Galaxy A50. The Galaxy A30 comes with the same display and...

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Lenovo announces the Tab V7 - a 6.9" budget smartphone with 5,180 mAh battery

Lenovo announced a tablet-like smartphone at this year's MWC for users looking for a huge screen on a budget. The Lenovo Tab V7 - as the name suggests - houses a huge 6.9-inch IPS LCD screen and a whopping 5,180 mAh battery to keep it alive. Even Lenovo markets it as a phone-tablet hybrid. It's powered by the low-end Snapdragon 450 chipset aided by 4GB of RAM and 64GB of internal storage. MIcroSD card support is at hand and you can stick up to 128GB. The display itself has a surprisingly high resolution given the price point and the nature of the product - 1080 x 2160 pixels, which...

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Honor Band 4 Running edition is now up for sale in India

In keeping with its original market plans Honor is bringing yet another one of its wearable out of China and into the vast India market. A couple of months after the Honor Band 4 was listed on Amazon India, it is now joined by the Honor Band 4 Running edition. And the price is pretty tantalizing at just INR 1,599 ($23). As a quick reminder, the Runners edition is somewhat of a "cut-down" version of the vanilla Honor Band 4 - a product that is already quite affordable at $30. It features a monochrome POLED unit and a smaller 77 mAh battery, compared to the Band 4's 0.95" color...

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vivo iQOO specs arrive on TENAA

We've seen plenty of Chinese companies have a spin-off of their own brands into sub-brands, and vivo decided to join the party. The company is introducing its first iQOO smartphone on March 1 and we already know the specs of the phone, thanks to the device being listed on TENAA. In the same time the Weibo account of the company showcased the first teaser of the phone, revealing the back panel in Blue and Red (or is it Orange), along with the already expected three-cam setup. The vivo V1824BA and vivo V1824A listings give us a glimpse of what to expect on Friday. A tall screen...

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