Multiple Samsung Galaxy S10+ owners report LTE issues with their new phone

Samsung launched the Galaxy S10+ back in February and the device is already out and selling. Plenty of people decided to go for the phone with three cameras on the back, in-display dual selfie shooter and plenty of other impressive specs, but it appears the picture is not so bright after all. Android Police gathered plenty of complaints all over the internet where new owners complain about poor reception and other connectivity issues. Most of the posts online are about the signal strength on Sprint, however, AT&T and T-Mobile customers also claim to have poorer reception....

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Messages for Web appears on messages.google.com for the first time

Back in December, we reported about a commit in Chromium that would eventually direct users to a web interface for Android's default SMS app: Messages. The new commit would direct users to a new and previously unused address: messages.google.com. A Reddit user first discovered this happening when they were experiencing issues with the Messages for Web interface. Some users on the thread were experiencing the same issue but were soon redirected to the new web address. If you are redirected back to the Android.com domain, you can head directly to:...

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Huawei P10 receives Android 9.0 Pie update

While the P30 and P30 Pro are only now starting their life-cycles, Huawei hasn't forgotten its older devices and is issuing an EMUI 9.0.1 update bringing Android 9.0 to the P10. The update is live in several regions and comes in at a bit over 3 GB. It offers Huawei's latest design language as well as updates to several first-party apps like the Recorder and Huawei share. Other notable features include improved app launch times, reverse image search, screen time and overall stability enhancements. Released nearly two years ago, the P10 features a 5.1" FHD display alongside the...

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The latest Twitter prank is locking users out of their accounts

@TwitterSupport felt it necessary to warn users about a prank going around that is resulting in people being locked out of their accounts. The prank in question claims that changing your Twitter birthday to any day in 2007 will unlock a hidden color schemes menu in the Twitter app. Of course, when you do this, you essentially tell Twitter that you are under 13 years old and are immediately locked out of your account since Twitter requires users to be 13 years of age. If your account was locked after changing your Twitter birthday to 2007, please follow the instructions that were sent...

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Samsung explains how Galaxy S10's enhancing features work

"AI" as a buzzword appears everywhere in press materials for modern smartphones, but what does it actually do? Samsung published an explanation of some of the performance and battery-enhancing features of its Galaxy S10 phones. There are two systems that cooperate to launch apps faster. App pre-loading learns your patterns, e.g. after using the camera, you launch a messaging app. This system starts pre-loading the messaging app as soon as you launch the camera. The second system, vRamDisk, is what does the actual work - it pulls resources that apps need into RAM. The Galaxy S10 and S10+...

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Huawei Watch GT gets Active and Elegant editions

Huawei wasn't satisfied with only unveiling the P30 and P30 Pro, as well as the FreeLace earphones at its big event today. The company has also added a couple more options to its Watch GT family of smartwatches - the Active and Elegant editions. Huawei has sold over a million Watch GT units so far, since the initial announcement last year, making this its best-selling smartwatch ever. And now the family is growing to further drive those sales. The Active edition has the same 46mm watch face as the Watch GT Classic and Sport, while the Elegant edition has a smaller 42mm size and a...

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Huawei is working with Gentle Monster on camera-less smart glasses that look fashionable

Huawei's "one more thing" moment at its grand unveiling in Paris was the fact that it's working with Korean luxury eyewear company Gentle Monster on a range of smart glasses. Before you scream "Google Glass!", or "Snap Spectacles!", know that these will not have any cameras. Oh, and they'll also look like ordinary, and, dare we say it, fashionable glasses. So maybe that will help Huawei succeed where others have failed before? The future is now! Together with Gentle Monster we have joined forces to take your wearable intelligence to the next level with #HUAWEI X GENTLE MONSTER EYEWEAR....

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Xiaomi Mi 9X specs leaked, supposedly coming in April

Last week we came across an XDA report, which revealed three new Xiaomi device codenamed "pyxis", "bamboo_sprout", and "cosmos_sprout". All three feature in-display fingerprint sensors, with the latter two run on Android One, leading us to believe they will eventually go official as Mi A3 and Mi A3 lite. The "pyxis" should be the next Xioami X phone - a toned down version of the flagship following in the footsteps of the Mi 6X. And today we got to learn the specs of that alleged Mi 9X. According to the leak, the Mi 9X will feature a waterdrop notch 6.4" FHD AMOLED display with a 32MP...

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WhatsApp's latest Android beta gets Dark Mode

WhatsApp is one of the most popular messaging apps in the world right now, but it still lacks some useful features that are present on competing apps like Telegram - one of them being Dark Mode. WhatsApp is working on Dark Mode since last September. We even got a glimpse of what the Dark Mode would look like on WhatsApp for iOS. And now, we are happy to report that the company has started testing this much-requested feature on its Android app as well. WhatsApp has begun testing Dark Mode on its beta app for Android bearing version 2.19.82. However, as this feature is still under...

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Huawei P30 and P30 Pro announcement coverage wrap-up

Huawei's new flagships are proof that good things take time. The Huawei P30 Pro aims to become the new camera king, thanks to its 5x periscope zoom camera and one of a kind 40MP sensor with yellow sub pixels. The P30 Pro and the Huawei P30 use same Kirin 980 chipset and offer OLED screens with in-display fingerprint readers and 32MP selfie cameras inside a teardrop notch (the selfie cam is much better than Huawei's previous efforts, by the way). Now's the time to make sure you haven't missed anything from the announcement event. Huawei P30 Pro ...

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Samsung to miss market expectations in Q1 2019

As the first quarter of 2019 draws to an end Samsung delivered a warning to investors about lower-than-expected demand for chip sales and display panels. The component market is in a steady decline and Korean sources claim that instead of the earlier estimated KRW7.981 trillion, profit will be under KRW7 trillion, which is half the KRW15.6 trillion profit from twelve months ago. The display and chip market accounts for over 3/4 of the total revenue for Samsung Electronics. Competitors are providing better prices for LTPS LCDs, pushing manufacturers to ditch the OLED solution. The...

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Xiaomi pokes fun of Huawei P30 Pro

It's not just millennials, companies engage in meme wars too - earlier today Huawei took a swipe at Apple and has now itself come under attack from Xiaomi. As they say, it's an older meme, sir, but it checks out. 🤔 pic.twitter.com/dnHbuAnvV1— Xiaomi UK (@XiaomiUK) March 26, 2019 That is not to say that it is necessarily the truth. The Huawei P30 and P30 Pro use the Kirin 980, which is a 7nm chipset with Cortex-A76-based CPU cores. So, not unlike the Snapdragon 855 chipset that Xiaomi uses for its own flagships. Head over to the Performance section of our P30 Pro review to...

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Exynos 9710 specs leak, to be based on the 8nm node

An unexpected leak just appeared on Weibo giving away some details regarding an upcoming Exynos chipset - the Exynos 9710. The info comes from Ice Universe, who has solid track record with Samsung-related leaks. We are looking at a pretty powerful upper-mid-range chipset, to succeed Exynos 9610 from last year. It is expected to feature 4x Cortex-A76 cores clocked at 2.1 GHz and 4x Cortex-A55 cores ticking at 1.7 GHz. The GPU is Mali-G76 MP8 running at 650 MHz. Compared to the Exynos 9610, the 9710 offers CPU and GPU performance gains and since it's based on the 8nm process, it will...

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Huawei P30 Pro main camera tops DxOMark charts thanks to zoom and bokeh

The just-announced Huawei P30 Pro has shot up to the top of the DxOMark charts. With a score of 112, it leaves behind the three-way tie between the Mate 20 Pro, P20 Pro and Galaxy S10 Plus (all sitting on 109). The new flagship aced the photography segment with an untouchable score of 119. This high score is largely thanks to the high quality zoom and bokeh rendering. They rely on two new pieces of hardware on the Leica-branded Huawei cameras - the 125mm periscope camera and the 3D ToF sensor. The zoom camera is the best on the market and not just for its periscope design, the...

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Sony launches its second generation RX0 II compact, rugged camera for $700

Sony has launched the second generation version of its compact, rugged video camera, the RX0 II. The RX0 II is roughly similar in size and shape to its predecessor but features some notable improvements. RX0 II The main new feature here is a tilting LCD on the back. While the RX0 had a fixed display, the display on the RX0 II can be tilted up and down or flipped up completely so you can take self portraits from the front. Despite the addition of a moving display, the RX0 II is still water-resistant up to 10m, dustproof, shockproof up to 2m and crushproof up to 200kg...

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Huawei P30 Pro review

Huawei has completely blurred the lines between its signature Mate and P series by raising the bar higher and higher every six months. And it has done it yet again with the Huawei P30 Pro - now with an even larger AMOLED screen and a brand-new quad-camera setup that aims to become the new benchmark for the whole industry.

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Huawei P30 Pro official with 5x periscope, 40MP SuperSensing cameras

The Huawei P30 Pro can get you closer to the action than any other phone on the market - its 8MP periscope zoom camera reaches a focal length of 125mm. Optical Image Stabilization (OIS) helps keep photos looking sharp and videos smooth. Huawei and Leica also upgraded the two other cameras with exclusive features. Sony provided a custom 40MP sensor with a RYYB color filter arrays - Yellow takes the spot of Green for even better low light performance (Huawei was already a leader in this field). The maximum ISO is now double what the Mate 20 Pro could pull off and is further helped by the...

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Huawei P30 hands-on review

The P30 Pro may be the star of the show, but let's not ignore the non-Pro P30 - the slightly down-specced model in Huawei's just-announced P-series roster. While we had the P30 Pro for an extended time, the P30 we only managed to snatch for a brief hands-on, so here it goes.

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Huawei P30 debuts with triple camera, AMOLED screen

The leaks marathon is finally over as Huawei P30 was officially unveiled. It doesn't have the 5x periscope zoom camera of its big brother P30 Pro, but still has plenty to offer. It is the first vanilla variant of a Huawei flagship with AMOLED panel and under-display fingerprint reader and now has three cameras on its back. Huawei P30 Huawei P30 runs on the Kirin 980 chipset and it arrives in four RAM/storage variants - 6GB/128 GB, 8GB/64 GB, 8GB/128 GB, and 8GB/256 GB. Storage can be expanded via a Nano Memory card that goes in the second SIM slot. The main camera is...

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Huawei announces Freelace wireless earphones with wind noise reduction

Along with its new Huawei P30 phones, the company also announced its wireless Bluetooth earphones called Huawei Freelace. These buds can either be used wirelessly or via the USB-C on the phone. The first time you plug them into the phone, the HiPair feature negotiates with the phone and pairs with it. They can then be charged or used for listening over the USB-C. The Freelace come with 9.2mm dynamic drivers and are designed with symmetrical controls on the left and right sides. The cable uses nickel and titanium alloy mixed with silicone, which results in tangle-free experience,...

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Oppo Reno front full-screen design leaks in hands-on video

Oppo will release the Reno on April 10, and we know it will have 10x zoom. It will arrive in three colors and will have plenty of hardware variants, but one of the big questions was the front panel. Thanks to a leaked hands-on video, we finally know the the phone will have a full-screen design - no notches, no holes. This means the selfie camera will likely be in an elevating mechanism, although we might be up for a surprise. Oppo Reno front and back Although there are two weeks until the official launch, we are already pretty sure the Reno will have a 5G variant with...

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Watch the Huawei P30 and P30 Pro announcement live here

Huawei really loves Paris - both the Huawei P20 and the Honor View 20 were introduced to the global audience in the French capital. Now the spotlight takes Huawei P30 and Huawei P30 Pro which will be announced at the Palais des Congres. The event begins at 2 PM local time and will be live streamed on all major social media platforms. We've already covered what to expect from the launch - new cameras with 10x zoom in the Huawei P30 Pro and a triple setup in the Huawei P30. Both will have waterdrop notches and UD fingerprint scanners. The chipset is most likely Kirin 980, while RAM +...

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Redmi Note 5 Pro gets Android Pie, system-wide dark mode in latest beta

The highly successful Redmi Note 5 Pro that was launched last February is receiving MIUI 10 Global Beta 9.3.25 update that finally upgrades it to Android Pie. In addition to that, this beta update also brings system-wide dark mode and the Game Turbo to the Redmi Note 5 Pro. The latter is actually the Game Speed Booster that Xiaomi introduced with the Mi 9. This update also comes along with a redesigned Settings page. However, do note that this isn't a stable update. If you couldn't wait to get Android Pie and other features on your Redmi Note 5 Pro, you can flash it to your phone,...

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Samsung Galaxy A60 full specs are now listed by TENAA

Samsung Galaxy A70 and Galaxy A60 appeared yesterday on TENAA, but only with pictures and basic specs. A day later the A70 was already announced, while the latter got its listing completed with all its specs. TENAA reveals that the Galaxy A60 will arrive with a 32 MP in-screen selfie camera, tall 19.5:9 screen and 6GB or 8 GB RAM. Samsung Galaxy A60 The screen is 6.3" in diagonal and has Full HD+ resolution. The CPU is listed as "2.0 GHz/1.7 GHz" which we assume is an unreleased octa-core Exynos chipset with two power cores at the higher frequency, and the other six...

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Truly wireless PowerBeats Pro found in iOS 12.2 code

Prior to the new AirPods announcement, rumors pointed that a more durable coating and black color option would finally grace Apple's wireless earbuds. While Apple did not bring those features to the second gen AirPods, it looks like the upcoming PowerBeats Pro will. The official design of the new wireless Beats and their charging case were found hidden in the brand new iOS 12.2 update. The new model features a charging case with a Lightning connector on the back, similar to the AirPods. We should expect identical pairing process and features like hands-free "Hey, Siri" thanks to the...

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OnePlus 7 leaks in colorful renders

Earlier this month we were treated to CAD renders of the OnePlus 7 which revealed its design. Today we are looking at some more renders of this upcoming OnePlus flagship that show it off in different colors. These renders of the OnePlus 7 have been created by YouTuber Waqar Khan and show the smartphone in four colors - two of which are gradients. In terms of design, these renders are in line with a previous leak by OnLeaks and in all likeliness they were based on it. Over two weeks ago, the OnePlus 7 was spotted on a retailer's website along with its specifications which include...

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Motorola One and Moto G7 reach India

As earlier announced, Motorola today launched the Moto G7 in India. But alongside that, the company also brought the Motorola One in the country. The Moto G7 is priced at INR16,999 ($247) whereas the Motorola One carries a price tag of INR13,999 ($203). Both smartphones are offered in Clear White and Ceramic Black colors and can be purchased through Flipkart, Moto Hub, and brick-and-mortar stores across the country. However, at the time of writing this, neither of these smartphones are listed on Flipkart. Motorola One • Motorola Moto G7 The Moto G7 is powered by Snapdragon 632...

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