Huawei nova 5 confirmed to have a 32 MP selfie camera

Huawei will announce the nova 5 series on Friday, and the company keeps teasing the new devices on its Weibo account. The latest information is that the phone will sport a 32 MP selfie shooter. Interestingly enough, the phone is displayed with a notch, instead of the punch-hole design we saw earlier this month, but we expect the same Samsung GD1 sensor in all the phones. Expectations are the Huawei nova 5i will have a hole on the LCD, while the nova 5 should keep the waterdrop cutout for the front-facing camera. The nova 5 Pro was also envisioned with a teardrop display, while a...

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Honor 20 reaches 1 million sales in 14 days

The Honor 20 series was introduced almost a month ago in the middle of the dumpster fire that is the Sino-US trade war, taking Huawei as a hostage in the negotiations. At the event in London, executive of the Shenzhen company refrained from announcing an arrival date. The Honor 20 is currently available only in China, and it looks like the sales are doing great - Huawei has just announced over 1 million pushed units of the Honor 20 in just 14 days. The sub-brand also used the announcement to introduce the Honor 20 Pro arrival at home, starting tomorrow. The Honor 20 Pro will be...

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Top 10 trending phones of week 24

Nokia 2.2's unlikely reign in our trending chart ended quality with another freshly announced phone replacing it at the top. The Xiaomi Mi 9T has a lot going for it so it's no wonder it got the attention of most of you this week. With all the changes at the front the one constant on the podium is the Samsung Galaxy A50, which this week takes second place. Behind it the Galaxy Note10 Pro, which is still months away from an announcement but a couple of major leaked boosted its popularity early on. Xiaomi Redmi K20 Pro missed on a global launch and dropped to fourth as a result....

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Weekly poll part 2: the best mainstream flagship of H12019

Flagships have gotten very, very expensive - they smashed through mental price barriers and didn't even slow down. So, you really have to ask yourself if the final few bells and whistles are worth it or if the vanilla version of the flagship is all you need. Whether it's called Redmi K20 Pro, Xiaomi Mi 9T Pro or Pocophone F2 Pro where you live, this is one of the best phones that money can buy - and not a lot of money, either (this is the most affordable S855-powered phone ever). You still get the uninterrupted Super AMOLED display and triple cam experience, plus a large battery with...

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Week 24 in review: Huawei's OS to come in the fall, we meet the dual-camera Pixel 4

Another week in which Huawei dominated headlines, this time because of its HongMeng OS, which is being tested on 1 million devices already. The final version is said to be coming in October, but the Mate 30 won't be running it. The other big story was the Google Pixel 4, which leaked in a variety of forms this week. At first we saw pictures of the device in the wild, showing a dual rear camera and a dual selfie camera cut into the display. Then we saw rumor-inspired 3D renders of it and finally Google pulled a curious stunt and tweeted an official press imgae of the Pixel 4, which...

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Weekly poll part 1: the best premium and 5G flagships of 2019 so far

Half of 2019 is over and it's time to reflect on the amazing flagships we've seen so far - and pick the best one! We're splitting this into two parts, starting with the premium models, the best of the best. We've split off the 5G phones into their own poll as the next generation networks are still very new and most carriers around the world are still running trials. But 5G is the future and future-proofing is the mark of a true flagship. A quick note on how we picked the contestants - only phones with the latest and greatest chipsets - Snapdragon 855, Exynos 9810 and Kirin 980. That's...

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Counterclockwise: the rise of Gorilla Glass and how it changed the phone industry

Back in 2007 a certain CEO got annoyed that the screen of his prototype phone got scratched up in his pocket. So, mere weeks before unveiling it, he decided to swap the plastic cover of the screen for chemically-strengthened glass. Plastic was the standard back in the day, it had done a good job for years. But that wasn't good enough for Steve Jobs. His decision changed the mobile landscape and made Gorilla Glass the standard. It is produced by Corning, which has a long history in specialty glass. It made the Pyrex cookware. It made the glass for the Hubble telescope's main mirror. It...

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