Oppo Reno Ace arriving on October 10

Oppo introduced three Reno2 smartphones in late August, but none of them were a true flagship specs-wise. At the end of the event the company VP Brian Shen actually revealed a new phone is incoming, called Reno Ace. Today, the Weibo account of the phone maker confirmed the device, revealing its launch date - October 10. Img The Oppo Reno Ace will have 65W fast-charging capabilities, which is 30% more than the current 50W SuperVOOC. This should mean a new name of the standard, something equally spectacular like MegaVOOC, although a simple SuperVOOC 2.0 would also do the job. Other...

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Week 37 in review: All about the iPhone 11, 11 Pro and the Google Pixel 4

What a time to be a smartphone fan! The IFA dust was still settling and Apple's iPhone 11 shook things up again. The biggest story of the week is of course the announcement of the iPhone 11, iPhone 11 Pro and 11 Pro Max, new entry-level iPad and details on Apple TV+ and Arcade. The iPhone 11 is basically an XR with a new ultrawide camera, slightly larger battery and A13 chip. The iPhone 11 Pro comes in 5.8-inch and 6.5-inch sizes, adds heftier batteries, a new brighter f/2.0 telephoto camera along with a new ultrawide one. Naturally, both come with brighter OLED screens (which Apple...

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Sony Xperia 5 in for review

Long live the Xperia Compact family! It appears that Sony heard our prayers and decided to release another compact flagship even if the new member to the family doesn't have "Compact" in its name. While the new naming scheme might not immediately give it away the Xperia 5 is actually a minimized Xperia 1. It's rocking the same high-end hardware and design. The resolution has been downgraded to 1080p and the battery capacity has been reduced slightly, but considering the smaller screen size we are actually expecting better battery life. Xperia 5 (on the left) and Xperia 1 (on the...

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Weekly poll: iPhone 11 family - hot or not

An iPhone launch is just one of those things that you really, really can't miss. Even if you are actually living under that proverbial rock that always gets brought up. Point here being that even if you don't particularly care about Apple's latest and greatest smartphones, these have become so interwoven into the tech realm and even beyond that the iPhone 11 family is just bound to have at least some effect on your life. Think about it. It's pretty eery in a more than a few ways, but also true. So then, seeing how the iPhone 11, 11 Pro and 11 Pro Max are a fact of life in such a...

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Weekly poll results: ROG Phone II, Xperia 5 and Nokia 7.2 voted best at IFA2019

IFA saw a pretty diverse and colorful set of phone announcement this year. Everyone seems to be working on a mostly separate agenda, or at leas different enough to make for some really stand-out devices. In this week's poll we asked you to pick favourites and its official, as far as flagships go the Asus ROG Phone II proved to be an over-achiever in yet another category - fan love. One of the best and most tricked-out smartphone on paper, the gaming monster already managed to pass our rigorous review process with flying colors. And now it's pretty clear that Asus stumbled upon or rather...

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Top 10 trending phones of week 37

You don't need to look further than our trending chart to know what the event of the past week was. Apple introduced its latest smartphone trio - the 11, 11 Pro and 11 Pro Max and it got everybody talking about it. The largest and most premium of the new phones leads from the compact 11 Pro with the vanilla 11 capturing third. The Redmi 8 Pro had to settle for fourth, while the Galaxy A50 managed to climb two spots to capture fifth. Nokia 7.2 is down to sixth, while the Galaxy A90 5G took seventh after another strong week. Sony Xperia 5 slips to eight, ahead of the returning...

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