2019 Winners and Losers: Apple

This year the mobile phone market saw the rise of many new trends - from high refresh rate screens through 108MP image sensors to periscope cameras. The first foldable phones went on sale, charging speeds went through the roof, displays got curvier and grew punch holes. Some brands used these trends to their advantage and grow in the market, others missed the mark. In this series we look at what each company got right in 2019 and where their efforts came short. It's now Apple's turn to stand in the spotlight. Apple ends a decade of dominance on a high but left us feeling it's saving...

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Top 10 most popular reviews of 2019: Q2

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Top stories of 2019: Q2

As the year winds down it's a great time to reflect on the top stories of the past 12 months. This is the second of four installments where we look at the stories that shaped this year. Here are the top stories of Q1 in case you missed those. It's now time to look at the second quarter of 2019, which had a good amount of capable smartphones released and also a good amount of drama that is still not resolved. The reasonably-priced flagship segment got a kick in Q2 with the release of the ubiquitous OnePlus 7 and 7 Pro and the Redmi K20 and K20 Pro from Xiaomi. OnePlus was first...

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2019 Winners and Losers: Samsung

This year the mobile phone market saw the rise of many new trends - from high refresh rate screens through 108MP image sensors to periscope cameras. The first foldable phones went on sale, charging speeds went through the roof, displays got curvier and grew punch holes. Some brands used these trends to their advantage and grow in the market, others missed the mark. In this series we look at what each company got right in 2019 and where their efforts came short. We'll start with the world's largest manufacturer - Samsung. It's time to look at the smartphone leader and the year it had....

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Top 10 most popular reviews of 2019: Q1

We already did the news section and now it's time to focus on the most popular reviews we did in 2019. These are the phones everybody was most eager to learn more about. What a great tech year 2019 was. It seems that every brand made its phones better, while some, like OnePlus and Samsung, made more of them this year. Samsung significantly improved its midrange lineup and it shows, a number of our most popular reviews were of Samsung's Galaxy A line. So let's look at the most popular reviews of the first three months of the year - January through March. This is where we tested the early...

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Top stories of 2019: Q1

As the year winds down it's a great time to reflect on the top stories of the past 12 months. This is the first of four installments where we look at the stories that shaped this year. The first quarter of the year is a very important one. It hosts the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, where we usually see a lot of the flagship phones that will shape the mobile landscape until the summer. But this year we got more than the usual square slabs of premium tech. MWC gave us our much-anticipated glimpse of the first foldable phones! Samsung and Huawei showed off, initially at a...

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Huawei nova 6 SE now available for purchase

The Huawei nova 6 SE unveiled earlier this month is now available for purchase in China at Huawei's own online store. The smartphone comes in a single 8GB/128GB trim priced at CNY2,199 ($315/€285) and is offered in three colors - Magic Night Black, Snow Sky, and Forest Green. The nova 6 SE is powered by the Kirin 810 SoC and runs Android 10-based EMUI 10 out of the box. It's built around a 6.4" LCD of FHD+ resolution that has a hole in the top-left corner for the 16MP selfie shooter. Huawei nova 6 SE in Magic Night Black, Snow Sky, and Forest Green colors Around the back, the...

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Samsung Galaxy M31 passes through Geekbench with an Exynos 9611 SoC

Samsung announced the Galaxy M30 and Galaxy M30s in February and September, respectively, and it seems the company will soon introduce a successor called Galaxy M31, since it has just passed through Geekbench. The phone with a model number SM-M315F, scored 348 and 1,214 points in Geekbench's single and multi-core tests, respectively. The benchmark database reveals that the Galaxy M31 will run Android 10 and have 6GB RAM onboard. The listing also reveals the device will be powered by an Exynos 9611 SoC, which contradicts a previous leak that claimed the phone will have a Snapdragon 665...

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Realme Q and X2 Pro get Dark Mode toggle and December security patch with new updates

Realme has released new software updates for the Realme Q (aka 5 Pro) and Realme X2 Pro in China, which bump up the Android security patch levels on the two smartphones to December 2019 and add Dark Mode toggles in the notification center. Realme X2 Pro The new firmware for the Realme Q, bearing version number A.11, comes with power consumption optimization for games King of Glory and Peace Elite and updates the nightscape algorithm for the front camera to fix the probable black spot issue. Here's the complete changelog of the update for Realme Q: Safety ...

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Samsung Galaxy M30s review

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Samsung Galaxy Fold 2 appears in a live photo, the Galaxy S11 could be called S20

One of the most notorious Samsung leaksters, Ice Universe, just tweeted out three unexpected leaks regarding Samsung's most anticipated flagship devices in 2020. The first one is about the Galaxy S11, which could be renamed to Galaxy S20, marking the beginning of a new era/decade in 2020. This, in turn, could mean that the S20 will pose a significant upgrade over the S10-series. Next year is 2020, and 20 is a new beginning.— Ice universe (@UniverseIce) December 24, 2019 More importantly, though, Ice Universe also posted a photo of a clamshell-styled foldable smartphone, which is in...

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