OnePlus 7 Pro appears in the wild, might be the company's 5G phone

It's no secret OnePlus is working on a 5G phone, the company confirmed so at MWC. However we have very little information apart from its Snapdragon 855 chipset and X50 modem giving it 5G capabilities. Today, two photos of the alleged 5G OnePlus phone popped up on Weibo revealing some key specs and its curved screen design with minimal bezels. OnePlus 7 Pro The source calls the phone the OnePlus 7 Pro and bears the GM1915 model name. The about section in one of the images reveals the device is packing a 6.67" Super Optic display, Snapdragon 855 with 8GB RAM and 256GB storage. The...

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Huawei Mate X will be available in June, was briefly listed on Vmall

The Huawei Mate X will be available later this year, but the company has been pretty vague about the launch date. A slip-up on Vmall (a Huawei-run online retailer) may have spoiled the mystery, however. A page for Huawei's first foldable phone (which is also its first 5G phone) went up, showing a June release date. That page has since been taken down. Officially, the Mate X will be available in mid-2019 at a price of €2,300. The specs of the phone are, of course, no secret - we even have a video preview if you want more details. Via 1 (in Russian) | Via 2 (in Chinese,...

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We download older, more established apps but newer games

We're now mostly downloading apps that are around 5 years old, says Eric Feng - Founding CTO of Hulu. The Top 30 apps in Apple's App Store are, on average, 1,853 days old (5 years) compared to 625 days old (less than 2 years) in 2014. This means people are choosing to download more established apps in place of newer ones. Of course this is the place where you'll find the must-have Facebook, Instagram, Google Maps, Spotify and the like. The story is the same on Android where the Top 30 apps on the Google Play Store are, on average, 4 years old in 2019 and were 18 months old in...

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Oppo F11 Pro climbs to the Mt. Everest Base Camp to shoot some amazing photos

Mt. Everest is a beautiful place, but most of us will never go there - we only have photos and videos shot by others to look at. And while some add bulky camera equipment to their already heavy luggage, others go up with just a phone. Spotting the Perfect Mountain • The Artistic Canvas • The Himalayan Landscape • The First Glimpse of Camp Dr. Nima Namgyal Sherpa and photographer Adam Meng trekked to the Everest Base Camp with an Oppo F11 Pro in hand and shared some of the photos they took. Porters along the journey • Wind so Wild The mountainscapes look...

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Counterpoint: Pixel 3 and OnePlus 6T adopters came over from Samsung

Here's an interesting stat - among Google Pixel 3 and OnePlus 6T buyers in Q4 of 2018 in the US, the most were former Samsung owners. Less than 20% were iPhone users. Now let's clarify a bit. According to Counterpoint Research data, some 51% of Pixel 3 buyers in the States were owners of a Galaxy smartphone, however 31% of them owned a three year old Galaxy S7. While 37% of OnePlus 6T buyers came from a Samsung phone, many of them used either a Samsung J2 Prime or the aforementioned Galaxy S7. Also worth noting is that 80% of the Pixel 3's sales came from owners of Android devices...

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Amazon's Spring Deals offer cheap iPads and Android phones

Amazon is doing a bit of Spring cleaning and that means low prices on some leftover electronics. Here are a few interesting offerings. In the US, you can grab an Apple iPad (128GB, Wi-Fi) for just $330. The 32GB version goes down to $250, but is currently backordered. In the UK, a large number of Android phones as well as iPhone 7 and 7 Plus units are discounted up to 35%. You can see the full list here. Long story short, an iPhone 7 (32GB) is £410, a Galaxy S8 (64GB) is £400 and a OnePlus 6 (64GB) is £390. A Sony Xperia XZ2 Compact may be the last of the petite flagships, it...

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Qualcomm unveils 11nm Snapdragon 665, 8nm Snapdragon 730 and 730G with improved graphics

Today Qualcomm took the wraps off its two newest mobile chipsets: the Snapdragon 665 and the Snapdragon 730 (which also gets a 730G bin, with 15% better graphics). Snapdragon 665 The Snapdragon 665 seems to be intended as the successor to the Snapdragon 660. Compared to that, it's made on a smaller 11nm LPP process, which means it should bring some battery life improvements to the table as well as some cost reduction. Like its predecessor, the 665 has four Kryo 260 cores, based off of the ARM Cortex-A73 microarchitecture, but these only go up to 2GHz compared to 2.2 GHz in the...

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Exclusive: Honor 20 (or Honor 20 Pro) case render leak shows space for many rear cameras

Today a trusted source who wishes to remain anonymous but has been reliable in the past sent us an image of an upcoming official case for a yet unannounced Honor device. Here it is in all its glory: While seeing just the case doesn't give us a lot of information about the phone it's designed for, there are still some educated guesses we can make. First off, it looks like this handset will have a bunch of rear cameras, as the cutout for those is quite big. The design of the cutout itself makes us think of the Huawei P30 Pro's camera arrangement, with the LED flash placed to the right of...

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Meizu 16s press render leaks, showing off notchless display

Chinese phone maker Meizu is expected to announce the 16s soon. We've been hearing about it for the past few weeks and the smartphone recently got TENAA certification hinting at an imminent launch in China. Thanks to previously leaked images, we already have an idea of what the 16s will look like, but now, an official-looking render has surfaced which gives us our best look yet at this smartphone. This render shows us that the Meizu 16s will flaunt a notchless display surrounded by tiny bezels and a selfie camera above it on the right side. At the back, the phone has dual cameras stacked...

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A Galaxy Event: how to watch and what to expect (Galaxy A80 and A60)

Samsung will unveil a number of Galaxy A phones tomorrow, on April 10. The Galaxy A90 will likely be the star of the show, though it will go by "Galaxy A80". The other phone missing from the lineup is the Galaxy A60 and there's been a fair share of leaks about it too. Here's what to expect and how to watch the event live. We'll start with the event, for those who don't want spoilers. It begins on Tuesday at 12MP GMT and you can find links to the livestream here (we'll embed it below as soon as it's available). The latest unofficial renders show that the Samsung Galaxy A80 will have a...

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LG G8 ThinQ review

Even though the name states otherwise, the G8 ThinQ is actually a minor hardware refresh of last year's LG G7 ThinQ. Sure, it has the brand new Snapdragon 855 behind the wheel and a couple of neat (kind of) software and hardware features. But are they enough to battle the newly released Galaxy S10 trio or even the Huawei P30-series? After all, both Huawei and Samsung went along with not one but a couple of cutting-edge awe-inspiring features.

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Huawei Y5 2019 leaks with Helio A22

First, it was the Huawei Y6 Pro 2019 with Helio A22 in the Philippines. Then it appeared with less RAM as the Huawei Y6 2019, eventually getting rebranded as Y6 Prime 2019 in Pakistan. Now a similar phone with somewhat shorter screen and the name Huawei Y5 2019 popped up with a photo and some specs. The Huawei Y5 2019 is listed with MediaTek MT6761, which is the low-tier Helio A22 with quad-core CPU running at 2GHz and coupled with 2 GB RAM. There is also the screen with HD+ resolution of 1520 x 720 pixels, which translates to 19:9 ratio. The phone will come with Android 9, which...

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BOE Senior VP says more affordable foldable phones coming by 2021

Folding phones like the Samsung Galaxy Fold and Huawei Mate X but few will be able to afford it. The Fold is expected to retail for $2,000 while Huawei's offering goes even further at $2,600. There is always a price premium on first generation devices and most users will stick to traditional smartphones for the time being. Galaxy Fold (left) and Mate X (right) BOE is one of the world's largest display manufacturers and the main foldable display supplier for Huawei. Sooner or later display component prices will allow for more affordable folding phones and in a recent interview, BOE...

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Realme CEO shares photos captured by Realme 3 Pro

Realme's CEO Madhav Sheth believes in the abilities of the upcoming Realme 3 Pro's camera so much, that he's gone on Twitter to share some samples with the world. There are only three and they've been wiped of their proper resolution and EXIF data, but they do reveal some of what's to expect. One sample (likely from the front camera) has a resolution greater than 12MP (rumored to be a 25MP unit), while another sample hints at the HDR capabilities of the main camera. Realme 3 Pro camera samples Hope you guys had a wonderful weekend. I am @DelhiUniversity stadium with a...

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Samsung Galaxy A80 passes through Geekbench revealing key specs

Samsung has scheduled an event tomorrow where it's expected to announce the second wave of Galaxy A smartphones which will likely include the Galaxy A80 (or Galaxy A90 as it was formerly known). Just a day ahead of its expected unveiling, the Galaxy A80 has passed through a popular benchmark and appeared in its database along with its key specs. The Samsung Galaxy A80 has appeared on Geekbench bearing model number Galaxy SM-A805F. It is powered by SM 6150 which is believed to be a successor to the Snapdragon 675 SoC. The chipset is coupled with 8GB RAM, and the smartphone scored 2,488 and...

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Huawei plans to sell 5G modems to Apple

Huawei introduced the Mate X at MWC 2019. This is the first phone of the company with 5G capabilities, thanks to the Balong 5000 platform. Now, the Chinese company is now "open" to delivering its in-house chips to one more company - Apple. This claim might sound strange, especially after claims from January that the platform would be used only on smart products part of the Huawei portfolio, including phones and other IoT technology. Yet, the manufacturer was probably open to such a deal as Apple phones run iOS and it doesn't feel them as direct rivals to its Android phones. Plus if...

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Redmi GM confirms a Snapdragon 855 phone is in the works, but no pop-up camera

Lu Weibing, GM of the Redmi brand, has debunked the image that showed a phone dubbed Redmi Pro 2, which sported a pop-up camera. He does confirm that a phone with a Snapdragon 855 chipset is in the works, however, but its design will not be like the one shown in the render. Since the original leak was pretty light on details, this may be the end of the road for the "Redmi Pro 2" (a phone that's been rumored since at least 2017). Redmi's Snapdragon 855-powered phone will not look like this Whatever it is called, the phone will be quite a step up from the current most powerful Redmi...

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Titanium version of the RED Hydrogen One finally available

Camera maker RED's foray into the smartphone world has been rocky at best. Their first and only phone - the Hydrogen One was delayed, altered and turned into more of a gimmick than the revolution RED hoped to bring. Its holographic display faced issues and the different modules which were supposed to come in 2019 were simply scrapped off. And even with all those compromises it took until today for the titanium version to go on sale. Those who pre-ordered two years ago will now be getting their RED phones. Last year, users who pre-ordered the titanium version got an aluminum one instead...

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Verizon Samsung Galaxy S10 5G leaked image confirms May 16 release

Last week, a leak said that the Samsung Galaxy S10 5G will come to Verizon on May 16. Now we have another piece of evidence which strengthens that claim. A render of the Galaxy S10 5G leaked by Android Headlines has the Verizon Wireless and 5G branding visible in the status bar. It also has the May 16 date on the lockscreen which hints at the smartphone coming to Verizon on the said date. The Galaxy S10 5G was announced in February and it's the largest smartphone in the lineup with a 6.7-inch AMOLED display. It also has the most cameras - four at the back and two on the front - and...

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Honor 20 lite appears in leaked renders complete with specs

Honor will introduce at least three new phones in the coming months. Along with the flagship Honor 20 and Honor 20 Pro, we will also be treated to a lite version dubbed Honor 20 lite. The phone just appeared in a massive leak, including images and fairly detailed specifications. The appearance will follow Huawei's latest design language seen in the P30 lite and nova 4e with a 6.21-inch FHD+ waterdrop notch display with a 32MP selfie cam. There's a triple camera on the glass back with 24MP main, 8MP ultrawide, and 2MP depth sensors. There is a flash below the cameras and a fingerprint...

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Samsung officially confirms the Galaxy J series are done

Samsung introduced a bunch of Galaxy A smartphones this year and today the company officially announced that the more affordable of those are the direct successors of the Galaxy J series, which will no longer exist. The clip by Samsung Malaysia doubles as a product video of the Samsung Galaxy A30 and Samsung Galaxy A50, both already available in the Asia-Pacific country. "Built for the era of Live", the Galaxy A smartphones bring mid-range specs to affordable phone like a more powerful battery that should last a whole day. The new lineup of phones have dual and triple cameras (aside...

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Huawei P30 Pro and P30 Lite launched in India

The Huawei P30 Lite and P30 Pro just made their official debut in India. Just like last year the vanilla P30 is not part of the lineup. The P30 Pro is offered in a single 8GB RAM + 128GB storage version for INR71,990 ($1,035) and you can get the Huawei Watch GT worth INR15,990 ($230) with it by paying INR2,000 ($29) extra. The 4GB/128GB version of the P30 Lite is priced at INR19,990 ($287) while the 6GB/128GB variant costs INR22,990 ($331). Both smartphones will be sold through Amazon.in and Croma stores across the country starting next month. The Huawei P30 Pro is the...

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LG G7 Fit now available in the US

The LG G7 Fit that was announced last year in August is finally available in the US. It's priced at $429.99 (€382) and can be purchased unlocked from BestBuy.com. The G7 Fit is powered by Snapdragon 821 SoC with 4GB RAM. It has a 6.1-inch QHD+ notched display on the front along with an 8MP selfie camera. Around the back, it sports a 16MP snapper which is accompanied by an LED flash and a fingerprint scanner. The smartphone runs Android 8.1 Oreo out of the box and has 32GB of storage onboard, but you can further expand it via microSD card. Other highlights of the G7 Fit include IP68...

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