Another Mate 30 Pro spy shot reveals an ingenious way to hide the camera setup

Yesterday we spotted one protective case of the Huawei Mate 30 Pro, suggesting a circular camera setup and sensor/speaker/ToF cutout on the side, lined in a vertical fashion. Today, the phone, wrapped in pre-production case, leaked in some more spy shots, revealing the front and a part of the back. While the screen will have curved edges with the bend nearing 90 degrees, the camera setup was hidden behind a window with a hinge. Huawei Mate 30 Pro, is that you? While we don't see the actual snappers, we can see a tall LED flash, way different than any other camera smartphone...

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Aura Blue Samsung Galaxy Note10+ is headed to Europe

Samsung has been doing weird things with smartphone colors for a long while now, especially when it comes to its flagships. Regional exclusives, carrier or store exclusives, the likes. Case in point: the Aura Blue color is available for the Galaxy Note10+, but not the Note10. And even if that's fine with you, so far the Aura Blue Note10+ has been exclusive to the US. Not just that, but you can only purchase a Note10+ in that color from either Best Buy or Samsung's own online store. Why? Who knows. The good news is that this is about to change. A couple of European online stores have...

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Huawei Mate 20 Pro receives new update that brings DC dimming

Huawei's Mate 20 Pro got the update to EMUI 9.1 starting at the end of June. This version of the company's UI skin atop Android made its debut on the P30 family. It's based on Android 9 Pie like EMUI 9, but has a bunch of additional features, like the new EROFS file system, GPU Turbo 3.0, and Moon mode for the camera. Starting today, the Mate 20 Pro's EMUI is enhanced with yet another feature, namely DC dimming. This is becoming more and more popular with every month that goes by, as Chinese smartphone makers left and right work to bring it to their devices that use OLED screens. DC...

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Huawei Mate 20 X (5G) gets over a million reservations in China

Huawei announced the Mate 20 X (5G) for the Chinese market on July 26, which is also when it started taking reservations for the device through its official online store, Vmall. The phone is scheduled to have its first sale on August 16. Up until this moment, Vmall has apparently logged more than a million reservations for the Mate 20 X (5G), which means a lot of people are interested in perhaps purchasing one. Reservations aren't like pre-orders as in you don't pay the full amount, or enter an agreement to be charged the full amount at a later date. As such, it's easy to make a...

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Apple's iPhone 11 event will probably happen on September 10

Apple released the seventh iOS 13 beta to registered developers today, and buried within the code is a huge clue as to when we should expect to see the next iPhones unveiled. An asset within the iOS 13 code is the image below, showing an iOS screenshot with the date of Tuesday, September 10. The asset's name is "HoldForRelease", which sort of cements the suspicion that this is the day when Apple will schedule its next big unveiling. Last year, the date on this asset was September 12, and guess when Apple held its iPhone event? A launch of the new iPhones on September 10 would...

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vivo iQOO Pro to be the cheapest 5G smartphone yet

vivo has been teasing the upcoming iQOO Pro 5G for a while now, ahead of the official announcement that's scheduled to take place on August 22. We've also already seen it pass TENAA certification, so we pretty much know all there is to know about it right now - except for one thing. The price. So far 5G devices have been significantly more expensive than 4G flagships, but perhaps the iQOO Pro 5G will be the first model to buck this trend. According to a new rumor from China, the phone will be the cheapest ever 5G handset when it launches. The Weibo post saying that has been...

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Google Assistant now lets you assign reminders to your family members or housemates

Google is adding a neat new feature to Assistant - the ability to assign reminders to someone else, like a family member or one of your housemates. The obvious upside here is that this theoretically enables more (and/or better) collaboration between you and your family or housemates, whether you're at home or on the go. On the flip side, this does mean your nagging relatives now get a new avenue to nag you some more. Then again, keep in mind that you can send and receive reminders only to and from people who are in your Google family group or those who have their accounts linked to the...

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A 30W wireless charger from Huawei goes through FCC

An interesting report from yesterday claims that the Huawei Mate 30-series will support blazing-fast 25W wireless charging. Today these claims are partially confirmed by the a Huawei application that went through FCC. The documents tell a story about a 30W wireless charger - 5W more than initially expected. However, the application hasn't been fully approved as the charger couldn't meet the requirements for a 30W power output. This could mean two things - Huawei will have another attempt with an improved unit in the near future before the Mate 30-series come out or it will...

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Six Garmin smartwatches leak, Vivomove Style has watch hands and color screen

Soon Garmin will expand its selection of smartwatches with several new models and we got an early look at all of them. Among them is a new product line, the Venu, and a premium version of the Vivomove watches. The Garmin Venu itself looks quite upscale with an interesting pattern on the bezel. It measures 43mm in diameter and offers a mix of Garmin's usual functionality. It features music playback (Spotify and Deezer) and Garmin Pay, plus showing notifications from your phone on the watch's color screen. Garmin Venu (43mm) The fitness tracking functionality includes modes...

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Leaked roadmap reveals big camera upgrades for Galaxy A lineup

Samsung's revamped Galaxy A series are extremely popular across the world because of their superb bang for buck ratio - great screens, great battery life, good design, decent cameras. And judging by this latest leak, next year's Galaxy A phones will come with at least three cameras and in some cases four. The roadmap below, shared by Sudhanshu Ambhore, details every Galaxy A phone scheduled for 2020 release and its camera configuration. There will be no less than 8 phones and 7 different main cameras - from 13MP to 108MP. Much like this year the ultrawide snappers will be a defining...

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Xiaomi VP shares production video of 64MP quad camera smartphone

Last week Xiaomi sub-brand Redmi announced that its 64MP camera smartphone will hit the market in Q4 of this year and it's gearing to make it widely available rather than a limited afair. Today, Xiaomi VP Lu Weibing shows a quick video, showing that the mass production has already started. The clip reveals that the camera setup, will feature three vertically aligned units, with the fourth one placed on the right. We can also see that there's no pop-up mechanism here, which means the smartphone will come with a waterdrop notch housing the selfie camera. Weibing also said that...

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Google Pixel 3 and Pixel 3a phones get another discount in Europe

Google is trying everything to clear its stock ahead of the Pixel 4 launch. We already reported some deals going on in the United States, and today fans across the pond get a promo as well. In the UK Google now offers the Pixel 3a and Pixel 3a XL for £349 and £419, respectively, both £50 down on their regular asking prices. The Pixel 3 and Pixel 3 XL are also discounted by £125 on the British site or €150 if you are shopping from Continental Europe. All colors and memory options are available, so you can order right away the phone you like. Source

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Huawei Mate 30 Pro case confirms circular camera design

Huawei Mate 30 and Mate 30 Pro are expected to arrive later this year. Early rumors suggested the new phone will have a rectangular setup on the back, but latest protection case, revealed on Instagram by famous leakster Ice Universe, shows a circular module, accompanied by another tall cutout on the side for sensors or speakers. View this post on Instagram Mate 30 Pro A post shared by Ice universe (@ice.universe) on Aug 14, 2019 at 7:04pm PDT Looking at the case, we can also see there will be one cutout on the bottom for the USB-C connector, while the top has...

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Huawei, Honor, Xiaomi and OnePlus grab 2019 EISA awards

The annual EISA (Expert Imaging and Sound Association) awards are in and for the second year in a row Huawei took home the best smartphone award with the P30 Pro succeeding last year's P20 Pro. The latest P-series flagship received high praise for its all-round capabilities and most notably spectacular quad-camera setup, powerful chipset and long-lasting battery. Another phone from the Huawei family also bagged an award with the Honor 20 Pro being crowned best "Lifestyle smartphone". The phone's gradient 3D glass finish paired with its flagship-grade camera and appealing price tag made...

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Canalys: Chinese makers take 62% of Southeast Asia's market in Q2

Chinese makers have dominated the Southeast Asian market in Q2 of 2019, netting 19.0m of the 30.7m total phone shipments, Canalys reports. Samsung retained its leading position, moving 7.7M devices but was followed closely by Oppo with 7.3M. vivo managed 4.1m and Xiaomi was fourth at 3.7M. Realme entered the top five for the first time with 1.6M. The Southeast Asian market is dominated by the mid-to-low-end smartphones - 75% of it consists of sub-$200 devices, which puts makers such as Apple far out of the picture. It's also notorious for its lack of brand loyalty. Looking at the...

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Motorola One Action going official tomorrow

The Motorola One Action is going official tomorrow, August 16. Motorola Brazil posted a video on August 13 with the caption "In 3 days, everything you know about filming and shooting using cell phones will change." The clip also says "Capture Action", giving a subtle hint that the Lenovo subsidiary will unveil the One Action tomorrow. Em 3 dias, tudo o que você sabe sobre filmar e fotografar usando celulares vai mudar. Estão preparados? pic.twitter.com/1eZPHHfxRl— Motorola Brasil (@MotorolaBR) August 13, 2019 This speculation is further corroborated by industry tipster Roland...

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Realme 5 price confirmed by Indian CEO

Realme 5 and Realme 5 Pro will make an official appearance on August 20, with quad-camera setup with a 48 MP main shooter. Madhav Sheth, the CEO of Realme India, said today the company is bringing next week "the world's 1st quad camera smartphone under 10k", effectively confirming the price of the Realme 5. The new phone will clearly match the launch price tag of its predecessors at INR9,999. Some achievements on our technology journeyA. 1st to bring 48MP Quad camera smartphone in IndiaB. World's 1st Quad camera smartphone under 10k 1st in IndiaC. Powerful Qualcomm chipset 1st time...

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Dual-camera iPhones accused of patent infringement

Israeli-based camera technology company Corephotonics has filed a lawsuit against Apple claiming that current iPhones are using dual-camera tech that infringes several of its patents. The Israeli company has filed several lawsuits over the years and the latest one is another attempt to sort things out. According to Corephotonics, the two companies have been in negotiations since 2012. Throughout the years, Corephotonics has discussed the dual-camera modules in detail with Apple's engineering team. What's more, Apple was granted access to the five-element telephoto lens back in 2012,...

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Xiaomi's second 5G flagship coming soon, could be the Mi 9S 5G

Xiaomi is looking to expand its 5G portoflio, which currently only includes the Mi Mix 3 5G. The company announced that it will unveil its second 5G flagship soon. Xiaomi made the announcement on Weibo and said that it has received certificates from three certifying authorities in China, effectively confirming the first market to get the phone. Xiaomi didn't reveal anything about its upcoming 5G flagship but in all likeliness it's M1908F1XE, that appeared on 3C and TENAA last week. Xiaomi Mi 9S (5G) photos by TENAA This device is said to be the Mi 9S 5G having...

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Vivo NEX 3 sketch reveals design of the upcoming flagship

Late last month, Oppo showcased its waterfall display concept phone with 88-degree curved edges. Several days after that vivo's product manager Li Xiang posted a picture showcasing the upcoming NEX 3's curved display panel which also features quite a pronounced curve resembling Oppo's prototype. Oppo Waterfall screen Now, Xiang went ahead and revealed a sketch of the vivo NEX 3, which shows the design along with its inspiration. One of the key elements is the display which looks to feature minimal side bezels and a sharp fall reminiscing of a waterfall. The phone won't...

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Huawei Mate X coming in November, a follow-up is already in the works

During a press event in Shenzhen, Huawei discussed the future of the Mate X and we have some good news and some bad ones. The foldable phone's release date has been pushed back from September to November and the phone will have a slightly tweaked design. There are still some challenges to overcome, so Huawei is taking it slowly to ensure a smooth launch in November. Some of the refinements include an altered Falcon hinge and a slimmer power button. The good news is Huawei also shared its plans for a successor, which is due to come out as early as next year. It will have more...

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Realme 5, 5 Pro design and key specs revealed

The Realme 5 and 5 Pro will be unveiled next week on August 20 with a quad camera setup, including ultrawide angle, super macro, and portrait modules. The company has already confirmed that the Pro variant will ship with a 48MP Sony IMX586 unit as the main sensor, and now some more details about this pair have been revealed. Indian e-commerce giant Flipkart has set up a landing page on its site for the 5 and 5 Pro giving us a glimpse of their design. Both smartphones will flaunt a diamond-cut design similar to the one we've seen on the Realme 3i announced last month. Realme 5...

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