Galaxy Buds Bean renders leak, suggest a radically new design

The Galaxy Buds+ are the latest and greatest true wireless earphones from Samsung. They keep a pretty much similar design to the IconX and the Galaxy Buds, but it appears that the look might take a sharp turn towards a completely new solution. Renders of the Galaxy Buds Bean leaked, suggesting the earphone will be shaped like a bean with the speaker looking straight into the ear canal and all the hardware being in the upper side. Samsung Galaxy Buds Bean According to sources, speaking to Roland Quandt, the earphones will be codenamed SM-R180 and will come with two small...

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Hands on: We try Imint's Vidhance Selfie stabilization

Imint Intelligence is a company based in Sweden that you likely haven't heard of, but its video stabilization algorithms are used by a whole bunch of phone makers today including Xiaomi, vivo, Oppo, OnePlus, and nubia, which is its newest partner. Imint's main product Vidhance, is incorporated in some way in many of these brands' phones. Imint also has other video-based solutions like Object Tracking, and their zooming solution (Stable Zoom) that does not stutter when zooming in like phones traditionally would. Vidhance Demos Imint reached out to us and offered to test its...

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vivo iQOO 3 5G in for review

This is the vivo iQOO 3 5G and it just arrived at HQ. We started our review of it, but while we're testing the phone, we decided to bring you a quick look. We have the Tornado Black model (which is kind of blue in real life), but we prefer the aesthetics of the Volcano Orange we had a quick hands-on with. It comes in a nice retail package with a 55W charger, headphones (with a 3.5mm jack), USB cable with a capsule type-C connector allowing you to game without a cable poking your palm and a quality-made silicone case. The vivo iQOO 3 5G has the makings of a great gaming phone....

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Top 10 trending phones of week 14

After the onslaught of new arrivals in week 13 things are starting to normalize in our trending chart. The top three have remained the same, but this time it's the Xiaomi Mi 10 Lite 5G that's taking the top step. The Huawei P40 Pro+ settles for the silver medal once more, while the P40 Pro is down in third. The Redmi K30 Pro has gained a spot to place fourth, just ahead of the Galaxy S20 Ultra, which was in tenth last week. The Xiaomi Mi 10 Pro 5G makes a return in sixth, while the yet-to-be-announced Reno Ace 2 captures the seventh spot. The Samsung Galaxy A51 is another well...

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Flashback: HTC One was a rebel with a unique camera and great speakers

The HTC One X was highly regarded, but sales weren't great so the company went back to the drawing board. What it came up with was 2013's HTC One - a phone that tried to change the way consumers think about mobile photography. We'll get back to the aluminum unibody and the audio features, but we want to start with the camera as it got some things right and some things wrong. HTC One official photos The key idea was that pixel size determines image quality, not resolution. Enter UltraPixels, HTC's marketing name for the 2µm pixels. There were only 4 million of them, 4MP...

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Weekly poll: the Nokia 8.3 5G marks many firsts for HMD, but is the price too ambitious?

HMD decided there's no time to wait for the new Bond film and revealed its first ever 5G phone - the Nokia 8.3 5G. This one also has one of the largest screens of any Nokia (even the Lumia 1520 was smaller), plus it's the first Nokia with a 64MP camera. And as you can tell by the ZEISS badge in the middle of the quad camera setup, this phone will aim to please cameraphone enthusiasts. Besides the 64MP sensor, the phone also packs a 12MP ultrawide cam (13mm), a 2MP macro cam and a 2MP depth sensor. Even though it isn't explicitly branded, the 24MP selfie camera also enjoys ZEISS...

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