Honor 20 Pro with Sony IMX600 sensor in the works

The Honor View 20 is doing great on the global market with over 1.5 million sales in its first month. According to rumors from China, the Huawei subsidiary is preparing another flagship device called Honor 20 Pro. It will have a new Sony IMX600 camera sensor and could arrive as early as April 25. Rumored specs from China The new devan ice will have a 6.1" OLED panel with an under-display fingerprint scanner, and it could be the first Honor phone outside China with the technology (it is currently available only on the Honor Magic 2, a strictly China-only smartphone). Chipset is...

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OnePlus 6T gets cheaper in China

The Chinese government recently passed a bill, reducing the tax for luxury goods, including smartphones. After Apple dropped the prices of the 2018 iPhones with CNY500, OnePlus followed suit and now the 6T is down CNY400 and now its price is just CNY2,999 or under $450. Currently the OnePlus 6T is offered in four colors - Midnight Black, Mirror Black, Thunder Purple, and Speed Orange, but only the first two got their prices slashed. The price of CNY2,999 is for the 6/128 GB variant, while the 8/128 GB phone is now CNY3,199 (less than $480) instead of CNY3,599 ($535). Similarly, the...

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Top 10 trending phones of week 14

Samsung's grip on our top 10 most popular phones has been easing off for the past two weeks, but the company still accounts for four phones on the list, which is the most by a single vendor. The Galaxy A50 retains the leader's position for the third week in a row followed the Huawei P30 Pro. The Redmi Note 7 moved up a slot to complete the podium, edging out the Samsung Galaxy A70. This week's new entrant - the Nokia X71 jumped straight into number five while another new name on the list - the Huawei P30 lite sits in eight. Between those, the Redmi Note 7 Pro and regular P30 slid...

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Week 14 in review: First Nokia with punch hole screen, Oppo Reno, Galaxy A90

It's been another busy week full of phone news so let's take a look back at the clutter and focus on the major stories. Samsung was in the spotlight with a couple of interesting relevations. The biggest was a video of Samsung's alleged first slider phone, the Galaxy A90. It has a slide-out rotating camera that's used both as the rear and the selfie camera. Additionally, a story broke that Samsung is working on two Galaxy Note 10 devices for the fall - one with a 6.4-inch display (same size as the Galaxy Note 9) and one with a larger 6.7-inch display. Next is an interesting report...

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Huawei P30 in for review

Huawei had a fabulous event in Paris where the star of the show was the Huawei P30 Pro with plenty of hybrid zoom and other nice features. The vanilla Huawei P30 got some of the spotlight, but its onstage time was rather limited. The phone that some might deter from calling a flagship, actually has plenty of things going for it, especially with its much more aggressive price of €749. The Huawei P30 comes with a 6.1" screen, and you might expect a rather compact device by today's standards. However, due to the chiselled sides, flat panel and thicker bezels in comparison to the Pro,...

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Weekly poll: is the Nokia X71 (8.1 Plus) great value for money?

The Nokia X71 was unveiled in China this week and will most likely be available as the Nokia 8.1 Plus globally. It's HMD's first phone with a punch hole selfie camera and its first with a triple camera. Sure, the Nokia 9 PureView has five cameras, but they all have the same focal length so they're used almost exclusively for computational photography. They don't support ultra-wide or telephoto shots natively. This is what makes the X71 interesting - with a 48MP main sensor, an 8MP ultra-wide module and a depth sensor, this could be the Nokia with the most versatile camera setup yet. The...

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Apple Watch saves a man's life

Someone posted in the /r/Apple subreddit an interesting story how his Apple Watch saved his life. It appears that the hear rate notification warned him right before things went "nuts". I was laying in bed, enjoying some TV and homemade brisket, when my Apple Watch told me that my heart rate was weird af, and then, told me my heart rate was stupid fast (thank you heart rate alerts) Called ER, when they arrived, they found me in serious trouble. Body went into shock, got rushed to the hospital in a stretcher, and got taken into trauma. I felt totally fine before everything happened,...

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Weekly poll results: Huawei P30 Pro is adored, P30 gets overlooked

The rear camera setup on the Huawei P30 Pro takes the best photos of any mobile camera, whether it's shooting in the dark or faraway subjects. And it's this superiority that led to a very positive vote in last week's poll. The triple camera is miles ahead of the competition in terms of telephoto camera and low-light photography, the ultra-wide camera is excellent as well (and it shoots great macros). Any one of these would have been impressive on its own, but to have all three on board means the P30 Pro is the unchallenged photography king. As a flagship phone, however, it's not...

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