Samsung unveils Star Wars Edition Galaxy Note10+ bundled with Galaxy Buds

With the holiday season coming soon, Samsung is announcing a new Star Wars Special Edition Galaxy Note10+. In anticipation for the December 20 release of Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, the Special Edition comes with a themed smartphone case, a collectible metal badge, and a themed pair of Galaxy Buds. The Special Edition Note10+ comes with exclusively themed wallpapers, shutdown animations, icon packs, and sounds. The S Pen is also themed, coming in a red finish while the Galaxy Buds come in a black charging case with a red interior and everything comes in themed...

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John Legere will step down as T-Mobile's CEO next May

As per a Tweet sent by T-Mobile CEO John Legere, a new T-Mobile CEO will succeed Legere starting on May 1 2020. The transition has been under development fora while and made public early Monday morning via press release before Legere Tweeted about it. Mike Sievert is committed to the successful Un-carrier strategy, demonstrating that T-Mobile will remain a disruptive force in US wireless marketplace to benefit consumers. John Legere will continue as CEO through end of his contract on April 30, 2020 and will focus on a smooth leadership transition and closing the Sprint...

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Honor V30 renders leak with dual selfie hole-punch and no headphone jack

Honor is going to announce its next flagship smartphone. The Honor V20 ("View 20" in Western markets) was the first Honor phone with a hole-punch selfie camera and among the first smartphones to have one. We've seen an alleged case render of the V30 just last week and today's leak from 91Mobiles shows the Honor V30 in official-looking renders. They also corroborate Honor's recent teasers of the V30. The V30 will bring dual-selfie cameras through a cutout in the display (presumably LCD). As seen in the renders, which offer the V30 from all angles, there is no longer a headphone jack...

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Realme 5 arrives in Europe on November 21, in time for Black Friday

Realme's recent entry into European markets debuted with the Realme X2 Pro last month, along with the Realme 5 and Realme 5 Pro. Today, Realme announces that the Realme 5 will become available in European markets starting on November 21, just in time to make sales this upcoming Black Friday (November 29). The Realme 5 is an entry-level quad-camera smartphone. The handset uses a 6.5-inch LCD display with 720p resolution protected by Gorilla Glass 3+. Driving that large display is Android 9 Pie with Color OS layered on top and powered by the Snapdragon 665AIE paired with 3GB or 4GB...

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iOS 13.2.3 released with additional bug fixes

Apple is now rolling out iOS and iPadOS 13.2.3 for compatible devices. The update is around 90MB in size but actual size will vary with device. The list of changes in this update include: Fixes an issue where system search and search within Mail, Files, and Notes might not work Addresses an issue where photos, links, and other attachments might not display in the Messages details view Fixes an issue that could prevent apps from downloading content in the background Resolves issues that may prevent Mail from fetching new messages, and fail to include and quote original message...

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Apple schedules another event for December 2 in NYC

Apple is sending out invites for a special event to be held next month. The event will take place in New York City on Monday, December 2. According to the invite, the event will honor Apple's favorite apps and games of 2019. That pretty much seems to be the extent of the event's description, which might not be much but that's actually a bit more verbose than Apple's usually cryptic invites. This seems to be the first time Apple has has scheduled a special event in recent memory centered entirely around apps. The company does host yearly Apple Design Awards for the best looking...

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Motorola Razr hands-on

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Report: TikTok hits 1.5 billion downloads, ranks third globally

According to a new report by SensorTower analytics, TikTok has managed quite a remarkable feat, surpassing the 1.5 billion downloads mark and claiming the third spot in the most downloaded non-gaming category for 2019. The Chinese social media app managed to break through Facebook's hegemony in the top charts on both the App Store and Google Play and only trails WhatsApp and Messenger while surpassing long-standing titans like Facebook and Instagram. TikTok app interface What's even more remarkable is that TikTok was launched just three years ago in 2016. The data shows that in...

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Official video teaser and rumored specs of Huawei nova 6 5G arrive

The Huawei nova 6 5G is coming soon to China, as per Huawei's own video teaser on Weibo. The clip shows the front of the phone and its punch hole dual selfie camera, teasing its ability to zoom out for a wider selfie. The video doesn't specify when the phone will get announced, but we know the nova 6 5G's doppelganger the Honor V30 is due for unveil on November 26. We know the Honor V30 has a triple camera on the rear, which is likely shared by the Huawei nova 6 5G. We also learned a bit more about the Huawei nova 6 5G's specs, thanks to a separate Weibo leak. It outlines a...

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Samsung Galaxy W20 5G shows off its new paint job in an unofficial video

The Samsung Galaxy W20 5G phone will be unveiled in China tomorrow - it's a slightly-tweaked version of the Galaxy Fold 5G. A and a couple of teasers have cropped up before the official event, offering a sneak peek at the (not so) new foldable device. Someone recorded a short hands-on video with the phone, showcasing the most visible change - the white color of the exterior. The closest that the regular Galaxy Fold comes to this color is Space Silver. You can also see the phone in this image on the Chinese branch of the Samsung Members site. If you wait a few seconds, the...

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European pre-orders for the Motorola Razr 2019 start next month, here's the price

Europeans are looking at a €1,600 price tag for the Motorola Razr 2019 - slightly less than a leaked report suggested. However, Motorola leadership didn't offer more details, saying only that "select markets" will get it. Here's what we know so far. British carrier EE has claimed exclusivity on the phone in the UK. Pre-orders will start in December, but the phone won't ship until January. The SIM-free price in pounds is still TBD (it should be around £1,400). Motorola Razr 2019 pre-orders in Italy are set to start on December 4, sales will likely kick off in January again. We haven't...

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Samsung to offload a fifth of its production to Chinese ODM

Samsung will aim to offload a fifth of its smartphone production to Chinese ODM Wingtech next year. According to a report by Reuters Samsung plans to manufacture some 300 million devices in 2020, out of which around 60 million will be manufactured in China by Wingtech. These will likely be Galaxy A devices. Furthermore Samsung plans to keep producing its flagship smartphones in Vietnam and India. Wingtech makes phones for Huawei, Xiaomi and Oppo, and has made phones for Samsung in the past as well. Earlier this year Samsung closed its final factory in China, in a move to scale...

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Realme 5s passes by Geekbench ahead of November 20 launch

Last week, Flipkart confirmed the upcoming Realme 5s and we got to see some promotional images and most of the preliminary specs of the device as well. Now a Geekbench confirms what we saw earlier and leaves little unknowns ahead of the November 20 launch event. Realme 5s Geekbench listing The device was spotted with the realme RMX1925 model number and packs the Snapdragon 665 SoC paired with 4GB RAM. It managed 314 points in the single-core test and 1,386 points in the multi-core department, running on Android 9 Pie. Previously we got confirmation that the devices will come...

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Motorola Razr 2019 European prices leak

The new Motorola Razr has been in the spotlight over the past days and for the right reasons. With its mix of throwback clamshell design and unique horizontal folding screen, Motorola's first foldable has certainly brought excitement in the smartphone world. We already knew the new Razr is coming with a $1,500 asking price in the US but a new report suggests European users will have to shell out €1,680 (that's around $1,860) for the unlocked variant. The report also details that the new Razr will be available from January 24 in Sweden. Other European countries like the Netherlands...

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Alleged roadmap suggests 4 flagship Sony Xperias alongside 3 midrangers in 2020

Even though its smartphone sales continued to fall, Sony finally brought some much-awaited revisions to its Xperia lineup this year. The most striking of which was the updated design language with the 21:9 aspect ratio displays. According to a new leak, Sony is gearing up to expand its focus on the flagship segment with a total of 4 new devices in the coming year alongside at least 3 more in the midrange market. All four flagships are believed to be powered by the upcoming Snapdragon 865 chipset and will come with 5G connectivity while some of the midrangers are expected to run on the...

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Samsung Galaxy S11 to bring Director's View, Night Hyperlapse and slimmer bezels

Thanks to yet another dig into Samsung's beta code more of the Galaxy S11's upcoming camera features have been uncovered. The 2020 flagship will feature 8K video capture and a few new camera modes like Director's View, Night Hyperlapse, Single Take Photo, Vertical Panorama and custom filters. Director's view will reportedly allow you to use multiple cameras and switch between them while shooting video. You'd have a subject locked onto in the main camera and possibly a close up second subject for the telephoto. Night Hyperlapse likely meshes some sort of night mode with a hyperlapse...

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Galaxy Note9 about to join Android 10 testing fun as Note10 gets second beta

After getting their first taste of Android 10 in late October, the Galaxy Note10 and Note10+ are now receiving the second beta build which aims to iron some of the initial bugs and bring the whole thing closer to release. Note10 second beta changelog Version N97*FXXU1ZSK8 is live in South Korea and India and comes in at 771MB. It also brings the November security patch. The major changes here include a fix for the screen flickering issue and always-on display, alongside improvements to Bluetooth stability and gesture navigation. In related news, an official post in the South...

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