OxygenOS 9.5.8 rolls out to the OnePlus 7 Pro with May security patch, better touch sensitivity

OnePlus is rolling out software updates to its latest smartphones like crazy these days. Just yesterday it pushed out a new build for the OnePlus 7 Pro 5G, and now it's time for the 4G version of that phone to get yet another update. We're talking about OxygenOS 9.5.8 for the OnePlus 7 Pro, freshly baked and on its way to a unit near you. That said, this is a staged rollout as usual, so it will only reach a limited number of users today, with a broader OTA rollout planned in a few days, if no show-stopping bugs are found. The new release brings with it the May 2019 security patches...

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LG V50 ThinQ 5G lands at Verizon on June 20 for $999.99

Verizon is releasing the LG V50 ThinQ 5G on June 20. The carrier is continuing to expand its roster of 5G capable smartphones, and this will actually be the cheapest yet. It's still a 5G handset, though, so "cheap" in this case means $999.99 full retail. Of course you can use installments to pay $41.66 per month for two years instead. For a limited time, Verizon is offering up to $650 off if you port-in and opt for the device payment plan, $200 of that being a prepaid card and up to $450 is what you can get with an eligible trade-in. The $10 a month fee for accessing the 5G network is...

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New Motorola One Pro images show quad camera, three more colors

Back in April, CAD-based renders of Motorola's first quad-camera phone surfaced, showing a blue-gray paint job. Now additional images have been released, adding three more colors to the palette. The camera hump is rectangular, giving equal space to the four lenses (arranged in a square) and the Motorola logo. There's not enough room for the camera flash here, so it's off to the side of the hump. New Motorola One Pro renders The phone should launch as the Motorola One Pro, though it was originally meant to be part of the Moto Z4 line-up. The device will have a 6.2" screen and...

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Huawei nova 5 will feature new 7nm Kirin 810 chip

Huawei will become the first mobile phone brand with two 7nm chips in its portfolio. The news was announced in a Weibo post by He Gang, head of Huawei's smartphone division. The upcoming Huawei nova 5 will feature a new 7nm Kirin SoC, believed to be the Kirin 810 which will replace the popular Kirin 710 used in current Huawei midrangers. The other 7nm chipset in Huawei's lineup is the Kirin 980 which made its debut on the Mate 20 series last year and powers the P30 family as well. We are already familiar with the design and specs of the upcoming nova 5 but the processor was not...

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To improve data security, HMD is moving data from Nokia phones to Finland

Going forward, HMD-made Nokia phones will be sending activation and performance data to Google Cloud servers in Finland. This data will be under the EU's data privacy regulations, including GDPR. The first phones to make the move are the new Nokia 4.2, Nokia 3.2 and Nokia 2.2. Older models will join in with the Android Q update, which will start rolling out later this year and complete in 2020. The data will be collected on Google Cloud servers in Hamina, Finland. HMD has also partnered with consultancy firm CGI to analyze the data to look for ways to improve the user experience on...

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Xiaomi will be moving to a new HQ in Beijing

Some of Xiaomi's 20,000+ employees will be moving to the 8 buildings that make up its new headquarters called "Xiaomi Science and Technology Park". Inside, 210,000 square meters will offer plenty of room for the company's many projects, as well as dedicated space to speeding up AI development. Xiaomi will keep using the 4 buildings making up its current HQ, but some of the research will move out to the new place. Both old and new headquarters are located in Beijing. A photo of the new Xiaomi headquarters by Donovan Sung, Director of Product Management Late last year the company...

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Truecaller adds free voice calling to other Truecaller users

Truecaller has started rolling out its Truecaller Voice feature, which enables voice calls over the VoIP protocol. The feature started rolling out to Android devices on July 10 but the official announcement was only made today. The feature currently is only available only on Android for now. The iOS version is expected to get it over the coming weeks. Truecaller Voice works pretty much like any other VoIP app. If you're a Truecaller user, you will already be familiar with the UI, which already had the dialer and access to your contacts. You can now use the same UI to place calls...

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Unlocked Palm phone now available for pre-order in the US

When the Palm brand was resurrected by TCL in October with the Palm phone it was just used as a companion device meant to help you detox from your smartphone usage. Previously, the Palm phone was exclusive to Verizon but now the device is available in a standalone unlocked version which can work autonomously. Although its spec sheet is not that impressive the Palm phone runs the full Android OS and offers an 8MP selfie cam and 12MP main shooter alongside 32GB storage, GPS and IP68 ruggedness. The skin running on top of Android 8.1 is a nod to the webOS days complete with a full...

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Intel, Xilinx and Qualcomm argue in favor of lifting the Huawei ban

Intel and Xilinx argued against the Huawei ban during a meeting with the Commerce Department that took place in late May. Both companies make FPGAs (Intel acquired Xilinx rival Altera). Huawei used Xilinx FPGAs in its "accelerated cloud servers" to do real-time HEVC encoding for streaming video as well as speed up machine learning and data analytics by 10-50x. Qualcomm argued in favor of Huawei too, unsurprisingly. Earlier this year after the two companies reached an interim licensing agreement. Like Apple, Huawei was reluctant to pay the patent fees but later agreed to pay Qualcomm $150...

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Honor 9X Pro leaked specs point to four cameras on the back

Honor 8X was a massive success for the Huawei subsidiary - it managed to sell in over 10 million units since its launch in September. Now as the time nears for its successor to debut we hear we might see an Honor 9X Pro alongside. A leakster on Twitter with the handle RODENT950 posted a specs sheet of the rumored phone, revealing four camera setup on the back and a big battery with standard fast charging. Rumored Honor 9X (pro) specs6.5"-6.7" lcd screen ( guess)48 mp imx582 primary camera with 8 mp swa2mp macro and 2 mp depth20w fast charge4000mAh battery25mp front cam (punch hole...

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Hexa-cam Sony phone gets camera specs revealed

Last week we heard that Sony is working on an Xperia smartphone with a total of eight cameras - two on the front and six at the rear. Back then we didn't have any information about these snappers on the smartphone, but now a new leak aims to fill in the gaps. The source claims that the Xperia smartphone will sport a 10MP unit on the front paired with a 0.3MP ToF camera. And around the back, it will have a 48MP snapper with a variable aperture of F1.2/2.4. This will be joined by a 12MP module which too will have F1.2/2.4 aperture. This hexa camera setup will also include a 0.5MP ToF...

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Redmi K20 Pro's global rollout as the Mi 9T Pro confirmed once again

The Redmi K20 Pro is arguably one of the most disruptive smartphones this year so when the company only announced its non-pro version in Europe we were worried that it might remain confined to China. Well, today's report puts us as ease that a global launch is indeed happening. An XDA-developers forum member took dissected the MIUI camera app and found mentions of Xiaomi Mi 9T Pro. The watermarks correspond to three different variants of the K20 Pro - raphael, raphael_global and raphaelin. As you've probably guessed, raphael stands for the Chinese model, raphaelin corresponds to the...

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Huawei nova 5 Pro hands-on images appear online

Huawei is launching the nova 5 series on Friday and we'll even see a tablet alongside the smartphones. Two of the devices that are bound to arrive are the nova 5 Pro and nova 5, and both of them leaked - the former in real hands-on photos, the latter on AnTuTu. Both leaks pretty much confirm all the specs and features we already expected. Huawei nova 5 Pro The Huawei nova 5 Pro will have a waterdrop notch on the front and four cameras on the back. Unlike the nova 5 and nova 5i, here the fingerprint scanner is placed under the OLED screen. The phone will have Huawei...

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Huawei laptops are back in Microsoft store, but only until 'existing inventory' lasts

After quietly removing all Huawei Matebook laptops from its online store last month, Microsoft has once again listed them as available. In a brief note to TheVerge Microsoft reveals that it is "resuming the sale of existing inventory of Huawei devices at Microsoft Store", which hints that the store won't supply new stock if and when it sells out the current one. Huawei was reportedly ready to announce a new laptop at the CES Asia show a week ago but held out due to the current volatile situation with the US government and China. Source 1 | 2 | Via

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Stand-alone controllers for Google Stadia now available for pre-order

The "Founder's edition" pre-order bundle for Google's Stadia includes a Chromecast Ultra along with the controller and costs $130. Now you can get just the controller on its own in one of three colors. You may still want to get the full bundle even you already have the Chromecast, though. The controller alone is $70, so you're saving $60 - that's how much the Chromecast Ultra costs. However, the bundle comes with 3 months of Stadia Pro (normally $10 a month) and a Buddy Pass to invite a friend. The free tier of Stadia will not be available until 2020, so you can't use that to test the...

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Pixel 4 to have a taller screen, Pixel 4 XL to stay about the same, new report claims

Google responded to the leaked renders of the Pixel 4 by revealing the design of the back, confirming the square dual camera. But the rumors do not end there - @OnLeaks just revealed the likely dimensions of the new Google flagship. The small Pixel 4 will sport a 5.6-5.8" screen, up from Pixel 3's 5.5" screen. Note that this is likely due to a taller aspect ratio as the phone won't be any wider - it should measure 147.0 x 68.9 x 8.2mm. The larger Pixel 4 XL will have a 6.2-6.4" screen, so it should be nearly identical to the 6.3" 18.5:9 screen of the current model. The XL phone will...

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Samsung Galaxy Note10 screen protectors show centered punch hole

After we got to see some Galaxy Note10 Pro case images yesterday, now we have screen protectors for the upcoming Galaxy Note10 and 10 Pro. Previous renders already showed that Samsung is gearing up to ditch the top corner side cutout design of the S10 series and move the selfie camera in the center of the top. Noted tipster Ice Universe also posted a few Note10 screen protectors which don't feature the cutout for the selfie camera. Either way, given the Note10's presumed ultrasonic in-display fingerprint scanner the protectors will have to be specially designed for the Note10 in...

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iOS 13 beta 2 is now available for download

If you are an iOS developer or just want a taste of what's to come, you are probably running iOS 13 beta 1 and we've got some good news for you. The beta 2 software is now out and can be downloaded from Apple's developer portal. The update aims to iron out some performance and stability issues so you can keep on testing your apps in a more stable iOS 13 environment. We also expect the iOS 13 public beta to hit devices sometime in July, as per Apple's announcement during this year's WWDC conference but until then, Apple will most likely push another firmware update in the form of iOS...

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Pocophone F1 Android Q update confirmed as May security patch starts seeding

The Pocophone F1 received MIUI 10.3.4.0 update back in early April which brought in Widevine L1 support and Game Turbo to the phone. Now two months later, the smartphone is receiving MIUI 10.3.5.0 update which bumps up its Android security patch level to May 2019. The new build weighing around 390MB in size also brings in a customizable lockscreen clock which can be accessed by heading over to the Settings > Lock screen & password > Advanced settings menu. However, it's worth mentioning that this clock won't work with third-party themes. Besides that, MIUI 10.3.5.0 optimizes sorting...

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OnePlus 7 Pro selling ten times better than Galaxy S10+ in China

To say that the OnePlus 7 Pro is a success in China would be an understatement. The phone is enjoying the limelight and is apparently outselling rival Samsung Galaxy S10+ on Chinese soil by a factor of ten. According to sales data from popular online retailer JD.com, OnePlus sold 250,372 units while Samsung only managed to ship 23,266 units of its flagship. The obvious difference in price between the two handsets surely comes into play here as the OnePlus 7 Pro is CNY 2,490 ($359) cheaper than the S10+ even though it boasts 256GB storage compared to the 128GB on the Samsung flagship....

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Asus ROG Phone 2 coming on July 23

After unveiling the ROG Phone last year in June, Asus is reported to announce its successor - the ROG Phone 2 - next month on 23rd. This gaming smartphone will be launched at an event in Beijing, China. It's said to come in two variants, with the base model carrying a price tag of CNY4,399 ($635/€570). The Taiwanese phone maker will also promote the phone at ChinaJoy 2019 expo in Shanghai which will kick-off on August 1, showcasing it to around 400,000 eSports players. Asus ROG Phone The ROG Phone launched last year came with a 90Hz display, but the ROG Phone 2 will boast a 120Hz...

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Huawei MediaPad M6 to be introduced alongside the nova 5

Huawei is hosting an event on June 21 and we expected to see the nova 5, nova 5i, nova 5 Pro, nova 5i Pro. Now the tally goes up, as the Huawei Tablets and Notebooks account on Weibo announced the arrival of the MediaPad M6 on the very same day. The slate was already teased in China, but now we have an official confirmation. The MediaPad M series is the flagship lineup, and this time we expect thinner bezels, a Kirin 970 or Kirin 980 chipset, and a huge battery. Since the device is launching initially in China, it will have Google-less EMUI, but that might change if it makes it to...

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LG Stylo 5 image surfaces ahead of alleged July 15 launch

LG launched the Stylo 4 last June, and it seems the company will soon follow up with a successor - the Stylo 5 - as an official-looking press image has surfaced online. As you can see, the Stylo 5 looks identical to its predecessor. In fact, the only discernible difference between these two smartphones is that the primary camera and LED flash are now put together on the Stylo 5, instead of being placed separately as they were on the Stylo 4. Other than that, the Stylo 5, like its predecessor, has the fingerprint scanner on its back, with the power button on the right and volume rocker...

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Redmi 7A to cost €100 in Europe

Xiaomi Redmi 7A was announced twice - first its specs, and later its pricing and availability. The phone was initially only sold in China, but retailers in Czechia and Slovakia have already started listing it. The Redmi 7A is the most affordable member of the Redmi 7 family, with a Snapdragon 439 chipset and two variants of storage - 16 GB or 32 GB. It has one camera on the back, another one on the front in the top bezel. There are no fingerprint scanners, but a big selling point is the ample 4,000 mAh battery. The Redmi 7A is expected to sell for around €100. An official...

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Unreleased Vivo 1951 appears on Geekbench with Snapdragon 710 and 6GB of RAM

A new Vivo phone has surfaced on the popular GeekBench app with performance scores and reveals a Snapdragon 710 CPU paired with 6GB of RAM. The device in question is one with the model number 1951. At the current time, we don't know what this device's official retail name will be. The benchmark leak was initially reported by Nashville Chatter who cites a possible connection between the Vivo 1951 and another Vivo phone that recently went through China's 3C known as the V1913A. In any case, the Vivo 1951's scores were typically within what other phones with the same Snapdragon 710 have...

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