Lenovo K10 Plus arrives with Snapdragon 632 SoC and triple rear cameras

Lenovo announced the K10 Note earlier this month, and now it's following up with another K series smartphone - K10 Plus. The Lenovo K10 Plus is built around a 6.22" 19:9 HD+ display that has a waterdrop notch up top housing the 16MP selfie camera. Around the back, it sports a fingerprint scanner joined by a triple camera setup placed in the top-left corner. This setup is a combination of a 13MP main, 8MP ultrawide, and 5MP depth sensor units. Under the hood, the Lenovo K10 Plus has a Snapdragon 632 SoC coupled with 4GB RAM. The smartphone boots Android Pie with ZUI 11 atop and...

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Redmi Note 8 Pro in for review

The Redmi Note line has always offered a great balance between affordable pricing and solid performance and that continues with the brand new Redmi Note 8 Pro. This year brings the first time in a while that Xiaomi goes with a Mediatek chipset. In this case, this is the all-new gaming-centric Helio G90T SoC. Elsewhere, the display has grown to 6.53-inches and comes with slimmer bezels, both the front and rear camera are upgraded and the battery is now 4,500 mAh. Let's take a look at the key features of the Redmi Note 8 Pro ahead of our full review. Our review unit comes in the sleek...

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Week 38 in review: Huawei's Mate 30 and 30 Pro, vivo NEX 3 arrive

This week Huawei unwrapped the Mate 30 series. The Mate 30 Pro, Mate 30 and Porsche Design Mate 30 RS are packed to the brim with the very best hardware but are limited to a Google Service-deprived Android. It's also unclear which markets are going to get the new Mate 30 devices. China buyers will be able to unbox their new Mate 30 and 30 Pro on September 28 with global sales potentially lined up for October. vivo introduced the NEX 3 5G with a Snapdragon 855+ and, because it came two days before the Mate 30 PRo, the first Waterfall Display. A new phone from Xiaomi's sub-brand Redmi...

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Top 10 trending phones of week 37

Last week it was Apple's event that shaped our trending chart and this time it's Huawei's turn to rock the boat. The newly unveiled Huawei Mate 30 lineup dominated the spotlight, capturing four of the top 5 positions. Despite the uncertainty caused by the lack of a Google license, the phablets are certainly exciting and many would clearly want to know more about them. Last week's leader Apple iPhone 11 Pro Max managed to split the Mate 30 versions, with the next best placed non-Huawei phone also being part of the new Cupertino family - the vanilla 11 is sixth. Samsung's Galaxy A50...

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Weekly poll: Huawei Mate 30 and Mate 30 Pro have great cameras, a great problem too

During Thursday's event Huawei took over an hour before addressing the elephant in the room - how can it sell the new Mate 30 phones in the West without Google Play Services. To its credit, the company made it clear that it will roll out support for those as soon as it is allowed with an overnight update. For now, however, we're looking at the Huawei Media Services and the AppGallery taking over. It remains to be seen if consumers will accept the downgrade in app selection - some might expect a large discount first. It's a shame that the new flagships are artificially limited as they...

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Flashback: Huawei P9 and the beginning of partnership with Leica

In 2016 fast-growing smartphone maker Huawei and legendary camera manufacturer Leica announced that they are joining forces to improve phone photography. Later that year the Huawei P9 and Huawei P9 Plus arrived on the stage. Huawei P9 • Huawei P9 Plus The story actually starts back in 2013 when Huawei tried reaching out to Leica, but the camera maker declined. Huawei persisted and eventually Leica agreed to a meeting. Soon execs from the two companies realized that this would be a mutually beneficial match - Huawei wanted better cameras to make its phones more competitive, Leica...

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Weekly poll results: iPhone 11 lineup doesn't get the best reception

Going through the comments in last week's poll we get the feeling that Apple's image as an innovator has slipped away. The response to the new iPhone 11 trio is strongly negative and that seems to be a combination of lacking innovation, high prices and features that may not be as useful in real life as they sound on a presentation. To be fair, Apple didn't raise the prices, in fact it lowered the price of the vanilla model. However, the iPhones remain some of the most expensive smartphones around and the 64GB of storage and 4GB of RAM are no match for the competition, which is keeping...

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