Oppo Reno4 Pro renders leak in Black and White ahead of launch

On Friday, Oppo revealed a teaser video that confirms the Reno4 Pro will be announced on Friday, June 5. The Reno4 will also make an appearance, and we've recently seen photos of this phone appear in red and blue "Glow" models. A new set of high-quality renders were published on Weibo with the Reno4 Pro in black and white. The Oppo Reno4 and Reno4 Pro are 5G phones powered by the Snapdragon 765G chipset and have punch-hole selfie cameras with curved-edge displays. One will have dual 32+2MP cameras while the other has a 32MP selfie shooter. Both phones have three triple main...

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Samsung Galaxy Note20's battery could be 4,300 mAh after all

Samsung's Galaxy Note20+ will apparently have a 4,500 mAh battery, but what about the (slightly) smaller Note20? Back in April, word on the streets was 4,000 mAh. Now though, it looks like Samsung has managed to cram a bit more juice into the Note20's cell. After digging through the Chinese 3C's certification database, the enterprising folks at SamMobile have figured out that the model number for the battery that's going to be used in the Chinese version of the Note20 is EB-BN980ABY. Oh, and its capacity is 4,300 mAh. That's marginally better than what was thought before, and in...

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Samsung Galaxy A71s 5G UW is headed to Verizon

Verizon is getting ready to add another mid-range Samsung smartphone to its 5G roster, complete with support for its ultrafast mmWave network of course. This will be a reinterpreted Galaxy A71, except, unlike the already announced A71 5G, Big Red's model will be powered by a different chipset and have a different name. It's going to be called Galaxy A71s 5G UW, to fit with what seems to be Verizon's newfound naming scheme (read: tacking "5G UW" to the end of device monikers left and right, where "UW" stands for "UltraWideband" aka mmWave). The Galaxy A71s 5G UW may very well look...

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Sony to hold another PS5 event on June 4

Sony recently detailed much of PS5's specs but it's holding another next week and it gave us a short teaser. It will be held at 1:00PM (PDT) on June 4 and will be streamed via PlayStation's official website. Join us Thursday, June 4 at 1:00pm Pacific time for a look at the future of gaming on PlayStation 5: https://t.co/Yr8fafcOVd #PS5 pic.twitter.com/F0yBbDmOtC— PlayStation (@PlayStation) May 29, 2020 The teaser suggests that while the previous event was a bit more technical revealing most of the specs of the PS5, this one will be more game-focused. That's why I'm excited to...

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Realme X3 SuperZoom in for review

The Realme X2 Pro was launched last year, and its successor as the brand's flagship is actually the Realme X50 Pro 5G. However, the company decided to branch out its X family laterally and earlier this week unveiled the Realme X3 SuperZoom with Snapdragon 855+ chipset for the European market. We now have the phone with us and the review is already underway, but while you wait we though we'd share our initial impressions of this unique phone. The X3 SuperZoom is the first Realme device with a periscope telephoto camera - an 8MP sensor behind 122mm lens, which the company marks...

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LG ramping up production for iPad LCD panels

Industry insiders report that Apple has asked LG to ramp up production significantly of LCD panels for iPads. Reportedly, the surge in demand for big-screen devices during the pandemic in Asia has asked for an uptick in manufacturing. Initially, Apple lowered its orders to LG and its other suppliers as the company expected a significant drop in sales. But LG is forced to react fast to the changing demand so it doesn't fall behind the competition coming from Japan's Sharp and China's BOE Display. Source

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OnePlus is disabling the Photochrome mode on the 8 Pro globally

OnePlus 8 Pro's Photochrome mode, which used an IR camera that can see through some plastics and thin clothing, proved controversial, so the company decided to disable it temporarily. Originally, it stated that this will affect only 8 Pro phones in China, but now an international update is rolling out that also disables the feature. Oxygen OS 10.5.9.IN11AA has only one item in its change log, which says that the Photocrhome filter will be "temporarily removed for adjustment". It promises that the feature will be re-enabled some time in June. The Photochrome mode on the OnePlus 8...

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Samsung Galaxy Book S announced with Intel Lakefield chipset and LTE connectivity

Back in August last year Samsung introduced its Galaxy Book S which was a Windows laptop running on the Snapdragon 8cx chipset. Now, we get an Intel-powered version that relies on the power-efficient Lakefield SoC and Intel UHD graphics in the same fan-less ultrabook design. Upfront is a 13.3″ Full HD touchscreen LCD with a 1MP camera in the top bezel. The device weighs in at 950 grams and measures just 11.8mm at its thickest point. It also boasts a quad stereo speaker setup tuned by AKG and a built-in fingerprint scanner. The Intel Core i5-L16G7 Lakefield chipset is paired...

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The OnePlus and McLaren partnership is officially over

It's official - OnePlus will no longer be making McLaren-branded phones as the partnership between the two companies has ended. Dating back to 2018, the short-lived partnership saw a few interesting releases. OnePlus' McLaren phones: the 6T, 7T and Concept One The latest (and last) was the OnePlus Concept One with its disappearing camera and the McLaren signature Papaya Orange color. Before that was the OnePlus 7T Pro McLaren (a T-Mobile exclusive for the US) and the OnePlus 6T McLaren, which introduced Warp Charge 30, the company's first charger upgrade over the original Dash...

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Apple starts selling refurbished iPhone XR units in the US

Apple kept the iPhone XR around as a lower cost alternative to the iPhone 11, knocking its price down to $600 - a sweet $150 discount from the original price and $100 less than the 11. However, it took until now for Apple to officially start selling refurbished XR units. A refurbished iPhone XR with 64GB storage will cost you $500. Then it's $540 for the 128GB model and $630 for the 256GB one (all of them unlocked). The color selection is limited by the storage you're looking for. Of course, things have changed since the iPhone 11 trio was unveiled - the iPhone SE (2020) was...

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Infinix Hot 9 and 9 Pro launched with 6.6" displays, Helio P22 SoC and 5,000 mAh batteries

As expected Infinix unveiled its latest handsets in India today with the Hot 9 and Hot 9 Pro. The two phones are largely similar with the major difference being that the Pro has a 48MP primary camera instead of the 13MP shooter found on the vanilla model. Both the Hot 9 and Hot 9 Pro feature 6.6-inch displays with HD+ resolution, a 20:9 aspect ratio and a punch hole cutout in the top left corner for the 8MP selfie cam. Around the back we find a capacitive fingerprint scanner alongside a 13MP main shooter on the Hot 9 and a 48MP main camera on the 9 Pro. The three auxiliary cams are a...

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Pixel 4a XL back cover shows the dual camera that could have been

Someone is selling а "Google Pixel 4a XL replacement back cover" on eBay, never mind that this phone was never officially announced - and according to the latest rumors, it never will be. So, here are photos that were sent to 9to5Google for a look at what could have been. You should be pretty familiar with the Pixel 4a by now - we've seen anything from hands-on videos to camera photo shoots. We've made our peace with the fact that the 4a will have a single camera, but check out the XL case. 3.5mm headphone jack on top and fingerprint reader on the back It looks almost...

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Qualcomm's new FastConnect chips bring blazing fast Wi-Fi 6E, BT5.2 with high quality audio

Earlier this year the FCC allowed the 6GHz band to be used for Wi-Fi, this was dubbed "Wi-Fi 6E". Now Qualcommm unveiled its first two 6E modems aimed at mobile applications - the FastConnect 6900 and 6700. Wi-Fi 6E can use almost 1,200MHz of spectrum, a significant expansion of what was already available. Better yet, the spectrum is fresh, that is there are no legacy devices getting in the way. This also means that the spectrum is contiguous (it doesn't have to go around legacy stuff), so it can fit a whopping seven 160 MHz channels - the 5 GHz band has room for only two. That...

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Nokia C5 Endi, C2 Tava and Tennen announced

HMD quietly updated its entry-level lineup for the US and Cricket Wireless. The Nokia C5 Endi, C2 Tava and Tennen bring Android 10, triple camera setups and affordable pricetags. The C2 Tava and Tennen are essentially the same phone but the latter will be sold through retailers while the Tava will remain exclusive to Cricket Wireless. Nokia C5 Endi The Nokia C5 Endi is built around a 6.5-inch HD+ display with a waterdrop notch for its 8MP selfie camera and a chunky bottom bezel. It features a polycarbonate casing and a dedicated Google Assistant button on the left-hand side. Around...

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Honor 30 family hits Russia - it's first market after China

Honor introduced a trio of flagships earlier this year - Honor 30, Honor 30 Pro, and Honor 30 Pro+. 1.5 months after the launch in China, the lineup is finally going international and the first market to get them is Russia. However, only the Honor 30 and Honor 30 Pro+ are currently available - there's no mention of the Honor 30 Pro at all. The Honor 30 arrives with Kirin 985 chipset, flat 6.53" display, and a 40 MP main camera. Only one of its memory options is currently up for pre-order - 8/256GB. The initial price is RUB39,990 - that's about $565/€510 or 15% more expensive than it...

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