Transparent nubia Red Magic 5G finally arrives for pre-order

The nubia Red Magic 5G gaming smartphone was unveiled more than two months ago. The handset has been on sale across the globe, but only in its regular color options - Black, Mars Red, or Cyber Neon. A fourth option, called Transparent Edition, was initially introduced, but hasn't seen the light of day ever since. Today, this is changing - nubia has posted the device for pre-order in China for the price of CNY4,599 - that's the cost for the version with 12 GB RAM and 256 GB storage. Transparent nubia Red Magic 5G front, sides, and back The Transparent Edition doesn't...

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Razer announces Opus, a THX-certified pair of nice-looking, noise-cancelling headphones

Today, Razer is announcing a new product that's quite new for its fanbase. Razer's branding image is synonymous with RGB LEDs and the triple-snake logo, but the new Razer Opus headphones don't have either of these things. The Razer Opus is a pair of $200 headphones with an around-ear fit, sophisticated design, and noise cancellation with a THX certification for theater-life sound quality. Razer teamed up with THX and ran extensive testing in order for the Opus to earn its THX certification. "The result is a high-performance wireless headphone that delivers a rich, balanced...

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LG Stylo 6 goes official, now available at Boost Mobile

LG's Stylo brand of mid-range Android smartphones with a stylus is still going strong in the US. This is evidenced by the fact that the company has just made the latest member of the family official. The Stylo 6 is now available at Boost Mobile, and can be yours for $179.99 plus tax. If you use the code MEMORIAL2020 at checkout, you'll get the price lowered to $143.99, but this deal is only available until May 26. The phone has a 6.8-inch FHD+ touchscreen, a 13 MP triple rear camera (main, ultrawide, depth sensor), a 13 MP selfie snapper inside the U-shaped notch, 3GB of RAM, 64GB of...

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Verizon's Galaxy S20 5G UW with mmWave support arrives on June 4

So far Verizon has been missing one member of Samsung's Galaxy S20 family, the 'junior' S20. The carrier has been selling the S20+ and S20 Ultra, but the S20 has taken a longer time making its way to Big Red because of 5G. Namely, Verizon's mmWave flavor of 5G which it's marketing as 5G UW (or 5G UWB). The S20 models sold by other carriers don't support mmWave, and so Samsung has been busy making a special version of the S20 just for Verizon, with that connectivity baked in. This is finally almost ready to launch. Verizon is calling it the Samsung Galaxy S20 5G UW, and the carrier will...

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OnePlus 8 Pro's color filter camera will be disabled only in China

Following the privacy concerns that OnePlus 8 Pro's color filter camera raised, OnePlus made a Weibo post about a future update that would temporarily disable the module and will think of a fix that could fix the issue. In OnePlus' community forums, an official explained that the future update would affect only HydrogenOS, meaning the Chinese version of the phone. The international variant will keep the feature for the time being, but when a fix has been developed, OnePlus will implement it on the global model as well. To be honest, the feature works only with super-thin clothes and...

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The Samsung Galaxy Note20 family won't be getting 100x Space Zoom

According to one of the most reputable Samsung leaksters, the upcoming Galaxy Note20 lineup won't get the 100x zoom from the Galaxy S20 Ultra. Although not very impressive in terms of quality, the feature was impressive as no other phone offers 100x zoom. Note20 series no longer retains 100X zoom function— Ice universe (@UniverseIce) May 19, 2020 It looks like Samsung isn't very happy with the reception of the novelty feature so it has decided to go a different way. Samsung has decided to include a more modest telephoto unit, but it's unclear if the periscope lens or the high-res...

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Poco TWS earbuds will be named Poco Pop Buds

Poco launched a Twitter poll yesterday where fans could vote on the name of the brands' first TWS arbuds. It wasn't really close, as one option was an overwhelming favorite - the name of the so-called ‘hearables' will be Poco Pop Buds. Are those the Poco Pop Buds? Over 21,000 users on Twitter cast their votes and Pop Buds was ahead with 42.4%, which is over 9,000 people. Second-best was Poco Funkz with 27.9% or nearly 6,000 votes, Poco Move Buds was third with 23.9% or about 5,100, and the least impressive name to the Poco fans was the Klip Buds moniker - only 5.8% chose...

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Celia voice assistant now available on the Huawei P40 series

Huawei introduced its own digital assistant called Celia alongside its flagship P40 trio and now it finally managed to make its way to more users thanks to the latest EMUI 10.1.0.121 update. The new firmware weighs in at 1.14GB and also brings the April security patch. Celia UI (Source: XDA Developers) Celia is available in English, French and Spanish and is currently exclusive to the UK, France, Spain, Chile, Mexico and Columbia. It can do all of your standard assistant tasks like check the weather, set alarms and help you use the phone's camera to translate text, search images...

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The Realme X3 SuperZoom will launch in Europe on May 26

It usually takes a couple of months for phones like these to reach Europe - but the Realme X3 SuperZoom will be presented to the Old Continent just a day after its May 25 event in China. That one will bring eight new Realme devices while the European event seems to promise just one. It's by far the best of the bunch, though, the X3 SuperZoom is a follow-up to the X2 Pro, which offered flagship specs at a modest price. The new model takes that recipe and adds a periscope lens to the mix - a 13MP camera with up to 60x magnification (optical zoom will be 5x or 6x). Every king has a...

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Realme X50 Pro Player sneaks off to run Geekbench, teasers talk cooling, audio and more

The Realme X50 Pro Player has been spotted running Geekbench 4.4 - as a gaming phone, performance is very important to it. In fact, most of yesterday's teasers were focused on its Snapdragon 865 chipset, LPDDR5 RAM and UFS 3.1 storage. So, how did it do? Well, it matched the performance of the Realme X50 Pro 5G perfectly, no surprises here as the relevant hardware is almost the same (the UFS version is different, but Geekbench doesn't test storage speed). JRGRAPH_EXPANDABLE_VERSION = false; GeekBench 4.4 (multi-core) Higher is better Realme X50 Pro Player ...

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HMD poaches the former Head of Marketing for OnePlus in Europe

The former European Head of Marketing for OnePlus, Adam Ferguson, is jumping ship and will take on the role of Head of Product Marketing for HMD Global, the company behind the resurrection of Nokia phones. Ferguson has previous experience in the industry, having worked at British carrier EE and before that he held senior marketing positions at Nestle and Unilever. Adam Ferguson, HMD Global's new Head of Product Marketing He will be tasked with dreaming up the overarching marketing strategy for the whole lineup Nokia phones. Ferguson will report directly to HMD's new Chief...

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Motorola Edge+ arrives in India, sales begin May 26

The Motorola Edge+ made its debut in India today. It's priced at INR74,999 ($990/€905) and will go on sale from May 26 through Flipkart with a single Thunder Grey color option. The Motorola Edge+ is a 5G smartphone having the Snapdragon 865 SoC at the helm. It runs Android 10 out of the box and has 12GB RAM and 256GB storage onboard. The Edge+ packs a 6.7" 90Hz Endless Edge display of 2340x1080 pixel resolution, that has a punch hole in the upper-left corner for the selfie camera and a fingerprint scanner underneath for biometric authentication. For photography, the Motorola...

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Apple releases iOS 13.5 GM to developers

After opening the public beta of iOS 13.5 back in April, Apple released the GM (golden master) builds today. They come alongside WatchOS 6.2.5 and tvOS 13.4.5 and they all should more or less be the final beta builds before the imminent launch for regular users later this week. The iOS 13.5 update brings a more polished version of the COVID-19 contact tracing app and also tweaks FaceID which can now easily unlock the user's device even if they are wearing masks. In addition, users are treated to other system bug fixes, improvements to the Mail app and tweaks to Group FaceTime...

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Honor X1 TWS headset and Router 3 unveiled, MagicWatch 2 gets an Artist Edition

The Honor brand welcomes several new products - the MagicBook Pro (2020) laptop, a new tablet, the Vision X1 TV and now a few more things to use around the house (or outside it). We'll start with the latest additions, but there are a couple of important updates for the tablet and laptop. The Honor Router 3 is an affordable way to upgrade your home network to Wi-Fi 6. It will cost CNY 220 ($31/€28) when it launches globally in July. It has four external antennas (that can fold nicely if you need to move the router) as well as four gigabit Ethernet ports (one of which can accept a WAN...

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MIUI 12 goes global, coming to 47 devices starting next month

A month after it debuted in China, MUI 12 has made its way to the global scene and will be available in beta form as early as next week. Xiaomi's latest custom UI brings revamped visuals, improved dark mode and better privacy controls among other things. MIUI 12 also brings stock Android 10 navigation gestures, new quick reply feature, floating windows and a new universal casting feature that supports Miracast standard. It's scheduled to begin seeding to Mi 9, 9T, 9T Pro and K20, K20 Pro users by the end of June. A second, larger batch of phones is expected to get MUI 12 soon...

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OnePlus 8 Pro color filter sensor will be disabled in upcoming software update

Last week we came across a rather strange development with the OnePlus 8 Pro's 5MP color filter camera. It turned out it's capable of seeing through some solid objects and some clothing. Naturally, this quickly raised some questions which have now been answered by OnePlus as it will reportedly disable the controversial color filter feature in an upcoming update. OnePlus official statement from Weibo (machine translated) The lengthy statement comes from the brand's official Weibo profile but does not specify when this update is coming exactly. To recap, the 5MP Color Filter module...

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vivo X50 Pro to come with the new Samsung GN1 sensor

Vivo already teased its upcoming vivo X50 Pro on several occasions but today's Weibo post from the company's product manager in China revealed a bit more about the impressive camera setup the phone is supposed to bring. He shared Samsung's news about the just-announced ISOCELL GN1 sensor, which would suggest some of his company's products will use it and what better candidate than the X50 Pro. It goes well in line with another teaser from the company, which is all about the low-light performance of the camera on the X50 Pro. Moreover, Samsung said that the sensor is already in mass...

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Realme Watch design and features revealed: color touchscreen, camera control, and heart rate monitor

Realme will unveil its first smart TV and smartwatch on May 25. Yesterday it revealed a few features of the Realme TV, and today, the company gave us our first look at the Realme Watch while confirming some of its features. The Realme Watch will pack a 1.4" color touchscreen with the company logo below it. Realme says it will be the "biggest screen in India in the price segment". The screen will display time, date and day, along with weather, daily step count, burned calories and what might be the daily average heart rate. The smartwatch will have two types of straps - Classic Strap...

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Watch the MIUI 12 global live announcement here

Xiaomi unveiled its latest interface MIUI 12 alongside the Mi 10 Youth last month, but the event was for the Chinese audience. Now, the company will introduce its latest software to global fan - it begins at noon UTC and we've provided the YouTube stream below. The improvements include plenty of new animations, better dark mode, new health app, and more sophisticated privacy controls. The visualizations include a transformation towards flat design, but Xiaomi kept some animations and introduced a new app launcher. There are also some new live wallpapers, zooming in and out of a...

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Samsung announces 50MP ISOCELL GN1 camera sensor

Samsung has announced its new 50MP image sensor called ISOCELL GN1. It is the first one that has both Dual Pixel and Tetracell technologies and comes with 1.2μm-sized pixels. The latter means that the sensor is tailored to shooting in 4-to-1 binned mode, outputting 12.5MP images but effectively having huge 2.4μm pixels. According to Yongin Park, executive VP of the sensor business at Samsung, the ISOCELL GN1 is another way of Samsung to offer "high-performance image sensors that closely cater to increasingly diversifying market needs". Dual Pixel on the other hand, means...

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iQOO Z1 announced: Dimensity 1000+ SoC, 144Hz screen, and 48MP triple camera

vivo's gamer-centric sub-brand iQOO today announced the iQOO Z1, which is the first smartphone to have MediaTek's Dimensity 1000+ SoC at the helm. However, the iQOO Z1 isn't an entirely new smartphone. It's actually the iQOO Neo3 5G powered by the Dimensity 1000+. That means you get a 6.57" 20:9 LCD of 2408x1080 pixel resolution, that has a refresh rate of 144Hz and a punch hole in the top-right corner for the 16MP selfie camera. Around the back is a 48MP main camera accompanied by an 8MP ultrawide and 2MP macro units. The smartphone boots Android 10 with iQOO UI on top and has three...

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Samsung Galaxy Note20 design revealed by sketches

A pair of images, obtained by @IceUniverse show what the Galaxy Note20 will look like. The images seem to be schematics for a case design (which explains the huge bezels) and show a device with a centered punch-hole camera in the display and a triple camera on the rear. The squareish corners are reminiscent of the Galaxy Note10 series. Alleged Galaxy Note20, image source: Weibo This is a very early and unconfirmed first look and it could end up being off the mark. But it does come from a credible source so it's likely at least mostly accurate. The Galaxy Note20+ will come...

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Amazfit Ares announced, brings rugged design and up to 2 weeks of battery life

As expected, Xiaomi subsidiary Huami unveiled its latest smartwatch entry with the new ruggedized sports-focused Amazfit Ares. It comes with tracking for 70 sports modes, performance analysis via the Firstbeat platform, GPS and heart rate tracking. The watch is built around a square 1.28-inch reflective color touch screen with a 176 x 176 pixels resolution and Gorilla Glass 3 protection. It's made out of polycarbonate, weighs just 48 grams and boasts a 5 ATM water-resistant rating. Apart from its sports tracking abilities, the Ares also features a Biotracker PPG optical heart rate...

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YouTuber livestreams with Pixel 4a in hand, reveals dimensions and strong haptic motor

Julio Lusson is a YouTuber from Cuba who already gave us several leaks of the Pixel 4a, including camera samples, battery and performance tests, and an in-depth hands-on video of the phone back in March. On Sunday, Lusson hosted a live video celebrating his 10k subscriber milestone, but in the second half of the livestream (around the 40:00 mark), he answers some questions about the Pixel 4a prototype unit in his possession. Starting off, Lusson confirms the phone is indeed a prototype unit, which makes sense considering how long he's had it for and this is especially apparent by...

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Apple releases two new Pride Edition bands for the Apple Watch

Apple has launched two new Pride Edition bands for the Apple Watch. This includes a colorful new Sport Band and also a new variant in the Nike Sport Band series. The Pride Edition Sport Band has a striking design with the rainbow colors running across the entire length of the band. Apple says the band is "assembled by hand from individual strips of colored fluoroelastomer. The strips are then machine die-cut and compression molded together. This process results in subtle variations in the wavy rainbow design, making each band artfully unique." It comes in the usual two sizes,...

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Realme X3 SuperZoom specs confirmed by massive leak

It is not a secret that sometimes companies hand out phones ahead of their launch, so reviewers can complete their tests in time for the unveiling. However, the Thai website Tech Hangout jumped the gun and posted its full review of the Realme X3 SuperZoom a whole week ahead of the May 25 event. The article, now taken down and available cached through Google, reveals the phone will have a periscope camera and a Snapdragon 855+ chipset. Realme X3 SuperZoom The SoC will be paired with 12GB RAM and 256 GB UFS 3.0 storage. The screen 6.6" LCD has a 120Hz refresh rate and...

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