iOS 13.1 to bring CPU throttling feature to iPhone XR and XS

This week, iOS 13 arrived to all iOS devices and the iPhone 11 and 11 Pro has officially gone on sale as well. Next week, iOS 13.1 is expected to arrive on September 24 and will add Apple's CPU throttling feature to iPhone XR and iPhone XS users. For those unfamiliar, Apple first admitted it throttled CPUs on older iPhone in 2017, which sparked controversy, which ultimately prompted Apple to issue $29 out-of-warranty battery replacements for those affected. Apple's reasoning for the feature was to compensate for random shutdowns that iPhones would experience with a weak, aging...

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Huawei CEO confident it will sell 20 million Mate 30 handsets despite limitation

Just yesterday, Huawei announced its Mate 30 lineup and as anticipated, it is launching without an official Google license due to the US trade ban that placed Huawei on a blacklist, barring American companies from doing business with the Chinese company. After the event, Huawei CEO Richard Yu told Android Authority "I think this ban will influence out out of China sales. But China sales will increase a lot because this is the most competitive 5G flagship in the world." Although Huawei expects global sales to drop, its expecting strong growth in its home market of China. In...

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Samsung's Galaxy A70s support page goes live ahead of launch, specs revealed on TENAA

We've been hearing about the Galaxy A70s for several months now. The latest news about the phone reveals more about the device in the form of the Chinese TENAA listing of the phone in question. In addition, the phone has been partly listed on Samsung's India support website. As revealed in the TENAA listing, the Galaxy A70s is going to come with a 4,400 mAh battery and features a large 6.7-inch display. It was previously reported that the device would come with a larger 5,000 mAh battery, but this is no longer the case. The listing also reveals the phone's dimensions as 164.2 x 76.7...

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Our Realme XT video review is up

Realme released a new midrange device not long after it launched the Realme 5 duo. The Realme XT is yet another device in a price range of about 200 bucks, but what makes it stand out is that it's the first device in its price range to have a 64MP sensor and is part of the phone's quad camera setup. Although Realme has released several phones in the last year, it manages to provide worthy updates between iterations. The Realme XT is meant to succeed the Realme X and it comes with a few upgrades on the surface. For starters, the phone has Gorilla Glass 5 on the front and rear - which is...

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Huawei Mate 30, 30 Pro, 30 RS hands-on review

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Reworked Samsung Galaxy Fold goes through a durability test

The Samsung Galaxy Fold is finally out and Zack from JerryRigEverything went ahead and did his signature durability test procedure on the second version of Samsung's first folding phone. The outside 4.6-inch display picks up scratches when faced with objects of level 6 on the Mohs hardness scale - same as just about any other phone out there. The main 7.3-inch polymer screen isn't doing nearly as hot though - a level 2 mineral pick was already enough to cause damage. The panel even got scratched by a fingernail. Moving on some sand placed on the Fold's primary screen managed to...

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Huawei explains how the palm rejection on the Mate 30 Pro works

The Horizon Display on the Huawei Mate 30 Pro is curved at an 88° angle and covers up a significant portion of the sides of the phone. This obviously brings worries about unwanted touches as you hold the phone, however Huawei VP Li Xiaolong explains that this will not be a problem. The screen is divided into three areas - the flat surface on the front and two smaller areas on the side. Touches from the side areas are ignored, so the touchscreen will function like a typical flat panel most of the time. The curved sides of the Horizon Display enable virtual media and game...

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AnTuTu's Huawei Mate 30 Pro performance splits S855 and S855+ phones

The first AnTuTu benchmark score from the Huawei Mate 30 Pro has been published and it shows that Huawei's in-house HiSilicon chip designer is catching up to the competition from Qualcomm and Apple, but there's still some way to go to first place. The phone tested was the LIO-AL00, which according to TENAA is the 4G version of the Pro. This matters because the 4G and 5G phones use slightly different versions of the Kirin 990 chipset. In short, the 5G chip is built on a 7nm+ EUV process, the medium Cortex-A76 cores are clocked 0.27GHz higher and there's an extra big core in the Da...

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Samsung's latest Galaxy Fold video reminds you to take extra care of it

After a rough initial launch push, the Samsung Galaxy Fold was finally released at the beginning of the month. Samsung's first foldable phone is already up for sale in South Korea and select European markets and the company is eager to remind you that you should take extreme caution of your new foldable phone. The video goes over all the main design elements like the specially crafted polymer screen and the complex hinge mechanism. Samsung makes sure to remind viewers not to apply excessive pressure to the screen as it's more susceptible to damage than traditional glass offerings....

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Realme X2 will come with a 4,000 mAh battery and 30W VOOC Flash Charge 4.0 support

The Realme X2, which will be unveiled on September 24, will pack a 4,000 mAh battery with support for the freshly announced 30W VOOC Flash Charge 4.0. Realme also shared an image on Weibo comparing the 30W VOOC Flash Charge 4.0 with 18W and 10W charging. With 30W charging, a 4,000 mAh battery went from 0 to 67% in 30 minutes, but with 10W charging, it could only reach 34%. And, with 18W charging speed, a 4,500 mAh cell reached 39%. Realme X2 will come with a 4,000 mAh battery supporting VOOC Flash Charge 4.0 Realme has already confirmed that X2 will come with a 64MP quad...

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iPhone 11 trio and the Apple Watch 5 go on sale

After a week of pre-orders the new iPhone 11 trio and the new Watch Series 5 are available for purchase in the first wave of countries. Sales begin at 8am local time and with how time zones work, fans in Japan, Australia, Singapore and other countries have already bought theirs. Here's a refresher on the pricing of the new phones. The iPhone 11 got a price cut from last year's XR, but it may be the third camera on the iPhone 11 Pro and iPhone 11 Pro Max that might prove more enticing (info from pre-orders points to just that happening). Sales of the new Apple Watch Series 5 have kicked...

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Xiaomi Mi Mix Alpha to have waterfall display, screen to body ratio over 100%

Ahead of Xiaomi's big event on September 24, the company revealed more details about the upcoming Mi Mix Alpha. This will, in fact, be the successor to the Mi Mix 3 and will offer a radically different design compared to its predecessor. Several teaser posters were published on the company's Weibo profile giving small hints at what we can expect at next week's event. The first poster details the naming for the phone as well as the ambition to continue innovating under the Mix line. The most interesting of the bunch shows us a side peek of the display on the Mix Alpha next to some books...

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vivo V17 Pro announced: Snapdragon 675 SoC, 6.44" AMOLED screen, and dual pop-up camera

Chinese phone maker vivo unveiled the Snapdragon 712-powered Z1x earlier this month and now it's following it up with the vivo V17 Pro a cool looking upper mid-ranger with a dual pop-up selfie camera. The V17 Pro is built around a 6.44" FHD+ 20:9 Super AMOLED screen, which vivo calls Ultra FullView Display. The screen comes with a fingerprint reader underneath and has no notch, because like we said, the phone has a dual selfie camera mounted on an elevating mechanism rising from the top of the frame. The dual camera setup comprises of a 32MP main and 8MP ultrawide angle units,...

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