ZTE showcases Axon 10s Pro, confirms SD865 chipset and 5G

The beginning of the year was marked by the arrival of the first 5G phones and one of the pioneers was the Axon 10 Pro 5G. It was introduced at MWC 2019 and is currently selling all over the globe, including the United States. Today ZTE announced the successor on Weibo, and its name is Axon 10s Pro which will have 5G connectivity. While the official message did not include Snapdragon 865, the company account later replied in the comments below, confirming the new flagship platform by Qualcomm. It can be coupled with the Snapdragon X55 modem which can provide better bandwidth and...

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Weekly poll: are the Samsung Galaxy A51 and Galaxy A71 worthy of an A+?

This is a preview of the Galaxy S11 design or rather a mid-range interpretation of it. The new Galaxy A series targets a wider audience than the upcoming flagships and its real competition is the aggressively-priced premium mid-rangers coming out of China. You can view the Samsung Galaxy A51 and A71 as "vanilla" and "plus" models. Both feature Super AMOLED displays with 1080p+ resolution (20:9 aspect ratio) and a centered punch hole housing a 32MP selfie camera. Around the back, there's a new dedicated macro camera with a 5MP sensor - macro cams have been gaining popularity recently and...

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Week 50 in review: Redmi K30 5G arrives, Oppo demoes under-screen camera

The end of the year is nigh and we see plenty of companies going into the holiday mood so there's understandably fewer actual announcements happening. Xiaomi decided to go against the trend and introduced the Redmi K30 lineup in China - it includes a 5G phone with Snapdragon 765G chipset and a basic 4G option with Snapdragon 730G SoC. Companies like Sony and Huawei are already working on their next flagships, as evidenced by Xperia 3's arrival on Geekbench with Qualcomm's flagship platform Snapdragon 865, while renders of the Huawei P40 suggested a 6.57" screen. Oppo will introduce the...

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Best Phones 2019: vote in the preliminary round

We are reaching the end of 2019 - a year filled with phone announcements and plenty of exciting innovation. With all the dust settled it's now time for you, our beloved the readers, to choose the best phones to come out this year. We separated them into three categories - Flagships, Midrangers, Entry-level phones - and in this preliminary round included all the most popular representative in each. You can pick as many phones from each category as you want. The top ranking phones from each category with then proceed to the final round, where you we'll determine once and for all...

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Top 10 trending phones of week 50

The Redmi K30 arrived this week and immediately captured the top spot in our trending chart. Its 5G sibling has been in our specs sheet since before it went official, but it actually lost some ground and now occupies fourth. Between those we have midrange lineup of Redmi - the Redmi Note 8 and Redmi Note 8 Pro giving us yet another week of Xiaomi-dominated top 4. HMD Global introduced a new phone for the emerging markets - the Nokia C1. While its specs are hardly exciting its $59 price certainly is and it propelled it to fifth place. In sixth we have the never-fading Samsung Galaxy...

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Weekly poll results: the Motorola One Hyper will do fine in the right markets

It seems that Motorola has very carefully picked the launch markets for the Moto One Hyper - the US, Brazil and (soon) the UK. Spotty support for LTE bands along with import fees keeps the competitive Chinese brands out of those markets, which changes the value-for-money equation. The Hyper costs $400 - the same as a Pixel 3a (sans discounts). However, you're getting a larger screen (by about 30%), a newer chipset (Snapdragon 675 vs. 670), more storage out of the box and a microSD card slot to boot. The battery is larger (4,000mAh vs. 3,000mAh) and charges much faster (45W vs....

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