Motorola One Action to arrive in India on August 23

Last week Motorola One Action was unveiled with three cameras, one of them with an ultrawide angle lens with 1080 at 60 fps video recording and 16 MP sensor for shooting action videos. Now we learn the phone will hit India through Flipkart starting August 23. The new phone is a midranger sporting a 21:9 tall 6.3" LCD panel with Full HD+ resolution with a punch hole for the selfie camera and . It comes as part of the Android One program with the latest Android Pie and promises for regular monthly updates. On the inside ticks an Exynos 9609 chipset, coupled with 4 GB RAM and 128...

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Amazon Echo Show 5 review

The Echo Show 5 is the latest in the family of Alexa-based Echo devices from Amazon. The Echo Show 5 is the smaller version of the massive Echo Show and has a smaller 5-inch display compared to the 10.1-inch display on the larger Echo Show. At first glance, the Echo Show 5 almost looks like a phone placed on a kickstand. The design is similar to that of the larger Echo Show, with an angled display and a body that tapers backward with the speakers placed behind the display. The display does have a sizable frame surrounding it, which on our white review unit looked particularly...

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Samsung Galaxy Note10+: first Exynos 9825 benchmarks

The Exynos 9825 is the industry's first chipset built on a 7nm Extreme UltraViolet (EUV) process. Its predecessor, the 8nm Exynos 9820, as well as TSMC's 7nm offerings are built on Deep UltraViolet (DUV) process, but that has run out of steam. In the future, foundries will use EUV to drop below 7nm - 5nm chips are already on their roadmaps. So, Samsung Galaxy Note10+'s is just a proving ground for the new technology and is only a minor improvement over the 9820 chip inside the Galaxy S10+. Samsung claims that it has raised the clock speed of the GPU, but doesn't say how much. The CPU...

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Top 10 trending phones of week 33

For the second week running the a Samsung Galaxy Note10 series phone is leading our popularity chart, but this time it's the Plus model rather than the compact one. The Galaxy A50 also managed to split the two S Pen flagships, while their 5G versions dropped off the top 10 entirely. The Galaxy A70 and Redmi Note 7 took advantage of that and climbed a position each to fourth and fifth. Samsung Galaxy A90 is only a rumor at this point, but it's already gaining plenty of interest and placed sixth. The Xiaomi Mi 9T Pro retained seventh, as the returning Galaxy A30 climbed to eight...

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Week 33 in review: Galaxy Note10+ aces early tests, iPhone 11 rumors intensify

It's now a week after the Galaxy Note10 and Note10+ became official and the tech world is still buzzing with Note content. The reviews are not yet in but both Display Mate and DxO Mark were able to run the Galaxy Note10+ through their labs. Unsurprisingly, the Galaxy Note10+'s display is the best ever on a phone and DxO placed the Note10+ on top of the camera chart. Next up is a test of charging speed, pitting the Galaxy Note10+ and its 25W wired charger against the OnePlus 7 Pro and its 30W one. Surprisingly the Galaxy Note10+ got to 100% faster. Samsung announced its new 108MP...

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Flashback: Nokia N-Gage - the gaming phone ahead of its time

Sometimes a company launches the right product at the wrong time. The Nokia N-Gage is remembered simply as a failure today, but seeing how in 2019 companies are tripping over themselves to launch gaming phones, it's hard not to wonder if maybe Nokia was on to something. The N-Gage was released in 2003 as a competitor to Nintendo's Game Boy Advance (2001). In many ways it was a superior product, but in other ways it was deeply flawed. Among those flaws was the price - $300 was a huge premium over the $100 Game Boy. Nokia wasn't selling just a portable console, though, it was a...

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Weekly poll: What cameras do you use the most on your phone?

Excluding the odd iPhone XR or Pixel, every phone is doing the multi camera thing (and even those two are getting a second snapper soon). And that brings a lot of discussion as to which cameras we care about the most. Phones like the rumored Google Pixel 4 or the existing Samsung Galaxy S10e are great examples of the difference in taste when it comes to photography. The Pixel 4 will gain a telephoto camera instead of an ultrawide, while the Galaxy S10e has an ultrawide in place of a telephoto and that inevitably leaves people unhappy. The solution is simple - every phone should (and...

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