Samsung Galaxy Tab S7 design revealed through leaked images

We've been hearing about the Samsung Galaxy Tab S7 for the past couple of months now and today we get our first look at the Korean company's upcoming tablet courtesy of OnLeaks, who shared CAD renders of the Galaxy Tab S7 in partnership with French blog Pigtou. The Galaxy Tab S7 doesn't look all that different from its predecessor - the Galaxy Tab S6. The Tab S7 is rumored to come in two sizes - 11" and 12.4" - and the one we are looking at right now is the 11" model, which OnLeaks claims is 253.7mm long, 165.3mm wide and 6.3mm thick (7.7mm with the camera bump). On the right side of...

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Vivo S6 Pro 5G to bring better cameras, faster charging

The phone manufacturer vivo launched the S6 smartphone with 5G and Exynos 980 chipset earlier this year, and now a Pro version is incoming. According to a leak on Weibo, the phone will have a Snapdragon 765G chipset, four cameras on the back and two more on the front, and will arrive with 33W fast-charging for the 4,200 mAh battery. The vivo S6 Pro 5G will skip on the latest memory technologies - it will keep the DDR4X RAM and UFS 2.1 flash storage which is the standard for the past few quarters. However, unlike other midrangers, this one will come with a 60 Hz OLED panel, meaning the...

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Lenovo Legion gaming phone will arrive in July

After seeing several leaks about the Lenovo Legion smartphone, the company officially confirms that it will launch the upcoming smartphone next month. The news was mentioned in a teaser poster that the phone maker posted to its Weibo handle. Source: Weibo The Legion phone is a gaming smartphone with a unique layout of hardware. It has pop-up selfie cameras that stick out from the side, thus intending a mostly horizontal experience for the user. This horizontal experience was revealed in a teaser, and it has a very odd placement of the main cameras as well. We know the...

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OnePlus 8 and 8 Pro get Android 11 beta

Both Oppo and Xiaomi have proudly announced that some of their devices would be getting a beta build of Android 11 soon, but OnePlus has one-upped them. The company already has beta builds for both the OnePlus 8 and 8 Pro up for download by eager testers. According to OnePlus, this is "the very first Android 11 beta as part of the developer preview program", which doesn't sound confusing at all. Unlike Google's first Android 11 beta, which was released yesterday after a bunch of prior developer builds, OnePlus' seems to be much less suited for a daily driver. The company notes known...

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Sony unveils the PlayStation 5 and PlayStation 5 Digital Edition hardware

After months of secrecy, Sony finally revealed the design of its next-generation PlayStation 5 console. Actually, it unveiled two of them, a standard edition and a digital edition with no optical drive. The PlayStation 5 has a sleek, vertical design dominated by white panels on either side sandwiching a curved black interior. The center portion has what looks like a standard USB-A and a USB-C port on the front along with blue LED lighting and vents along the top curve. The back of the console remains a mystery for now. The PS5 is placed within a vertical stand, something Sony...

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AT&T's LG G8X also gets Android 10

The AT&T LG G8X units have started receiving the Android 10 update. The update brings a host of new features and improvements - a darker UI theme, new icons, full-screen gestures and much more. Sprint rolled out the same update last month, while the US-bound unlocked LG G8X received Android 10 back in December. Changelog for the Android 10 update on LG G8X If you own an LG G8X and use in through AT&T in the States, you should check to see if you have an update manually through the dedicated settings menu. And if you still haven't received a prompt, be patient. Here's our...

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Dish Network looking to renegotiate Boost purchase as T-Mobile looks for new buyer

A report from Fox Business offers some insight on what's going on behind the scenes as Dish Network is expected to purchase Boost Mobile from Sprint as part of an agreement that was made with regulators. T-Mobile and Sprint's merging required that a third-party purchase Boost Mobile, along with its customers and assets for $1.4 billion. Due to the pandemic, the value of these assets has fallen and Dish Network chair Charlie Ergen is wary of going through with the purchase of Boost Mobile. FOX Business has learned Ergen is balking at the sale price as the value of many assets...

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Xiaomi announces Android 11 beta is coming soon to the Mi 10, Mi 10 Pro and Poco F2 Pro

After several delays Google finally announced Android 11 Beta 1 and Xiaomi is eager to try it out. "Soon" it will release Beta 1 for three of its flagships, though the company is mum on the exact timing. Owners of the Xiaomi Mi 10 5G, Mi 10 Pro 5G or the Poco F2 Pro will be among the first to test the new version of Android. This will probably include the first look at MIUI 13 as well - Xiaomi just started pushing out MIUI 12 to the Mi 10 duo, but that is based on Android 10, just like MIUI 11 before it. The Xiaomi Mi 10, Mi 10 Pro and the Poco F2 Pro can expect to test Android 11...

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ZTE Blade A3 Prime launches on Yahoo Mobile and Visible for $99 with removable battery

The latest budget phone from ZTE is the Blade A3 Prime. It's an entry-level smartphone with a $99 price that will be arriving to both of Verizon's MVNO networks: Yahoo Mobile and Visible. The phone is free on Visible through the network's SWAP program. ZTE Blade A3 Prime The Blade A3 Prime is equipped with a 5.45-inch 720p screen with 18:9 aspect ratio and powered by the MediaTek Helio A22. There's 2GB of RAM and 32GB of onboard storage with support for a microSD card. And here's something you don't see anymore: the phone has a removable 2,660 mAh...

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Light, the designer of the Nokia 9 PureView camera, leaves the smartphone market

The Nokia 9.3 PureView will not use a kooky camera setup from Light. In fact, no other phone will either as the company behind the penta-camera of the previous PureView model is pulling out of the phone business. It looks like Light is refocusing on the car industry where the superior depth perception of its cameras is a boon for self-driving vehicles. As for HMD Global, it will have to look for a new partner to develop a camera worthy of the PureView name. Rumors from January say that it's already doing that, likely having been informed of Light's plans earlier. In early 2019 Xiaomi...

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Amazfit Stratos 3 smartwatch with dual OS launching in India later this month

After bringing the Bip S and T-Rex smartwatches to India, Amazfit is set to launch one more smartwatch in the country this month - the Stratos 3. Amazfit hasn't revealed the launch date of the Stratos 3 yet, but we know it will be after June 20. It will be sold through Flipkart as well as Amazfit's official Indian site. Amazfit hasn't announced the price of the Stratos 3 but it's listed on Flipkart for INR17,999 ($240/€210). We reached out to Amazfit for confirmation and were told the price is incorrect and that the smartwatch will be priced lower. The Stratos 3 comes with four...

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Samsung working on a Galaxy S20 Lite incoming with OneUI 2.5

At the beginning of this year, Samsung released the Galaxy S10 Lite - a slightly cheaper member of the Galaxy S10-series, which brought an interesting feature set - large flat screen and huge battery. Well, according to new information obtained by SamMobile, the S10 Lite is getting a successor. A photo of the Galaxy S10 Lite As of now, there's not much to know about the handset except for some vague specs and model numbers. We can expect the phone to have at least 128GB of internal storage as a standard, it will run Samsung's One UI 2.5 out of the box and following the footsteps of...

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Xiaomi Mi 10 and Mi 10 Pro get stable MIUI 12 update in China

Xiaomi unveiled MIUI 12 in late April and then got to work on checking devices off its update to-do list. The latest to get the update are Mi 10 5G and Mi 10 Pro 5G units in China. What about the rest of the world? There are 47 phones scheduled to get MIUI 12, but only the 2019 Mi and Redmi flagships are getting it by the end of this month (e.g. the Mi 9T/Redmi K20 already got it). The timing of the global release for phones in the Mi 10 series is still to be announced, but it's probably not happening this month. MIUI 12 update notification • After the update Mi 10 and 10 Pro...

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Asus ROG Phone III gets certified by EEC, model number revealed

Asus is going to launch its next Republic of Gamers phone in July, and the phone was recently mentioned by the company in a press release. Later, a device rumored to be the ROG Phone III was seen on Geekbench, but today we have a clear confirmation this phone is indeed happening - it has been certified with the Eurasian Economic Commission (EEC). EEC certification of Asus ROG Phone III We are confident this is indeed the next ROG Phone since it has the model number ZS661KS - pretty similar to the ZS600KL of the first ROG Phone and ZS660KL of the second iteration. We do not have...

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HTC Desire 20 Pro appears in hands-on image

HTC is set to release its Desire 20 Pro midragner on June 16 and thanks to a new leak from Evan Blass we have our first hands-on images of the phone. Just like the leaked schematics predicted we have quad rear cameras and a fingerprint scanner on the back. We can't get a clear look at the front just yet but it's expected to fit a 6.5-inch LCD with FHD+ resolution and a punch-hole cutout in the top left corner. Thanks to a Geekbench listing we know the Desire 20 Pro will ship with either the Snapdragon 660 or 665 chipset paired with 6GB RAM. It will also be the first HTC phone to...

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Xiaomi releases 12/128GB Redmi K30 Pro in China, discounted initially

Xiaomi now sells a variant of the Redmi K30 Pro with 12GB of RAM and 128GB of storage. The model is on sale through Xiaomi Mall, JD.com and Xiaomi's own flagship store at a discounted price of CNY 2,999, down from its regular price of CNY 3,699. Once the initial promo runs out the 12/128GB Redmi K30 Pro will costs the same as the 8/256GB model. Xiaomi says it aims for improved multitasking and stutter-less gameplay with the added RAM. Otherwise the phone is unchanged - that means a notch-less 6.67-inch 1080p Super AMOLED, a Snapdragon 865 chipset and 4,700mAh battery with 30W...

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Sony PlayStation 5's Amazon listing reveal price

Sony is holding an online event later today to give us our first look at the PlayStation 5 games. The company has already revealed the PlayStation 5's specs but hasn't announced its price yet. However, the gaming console was listed on Amazon UK with a price tag of £599.99 ($760/€670), and while most of the listing is obviously a placeholder, the price is too specific for it to be random. What gives it even more credibility is that the listing was pulled down since. Some watchful shoppers took these screenshots that show the PlayStation 5 will come with 2TB storage and someone even managed...

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Oppo to introduce SuperVOOC 3.0 with 80W fast-charging in 2021

Oppo has been pushing the limits of fast charging in the past few years, and it's about to make another step forward. One leakster revealed on Weibo that the Chinese company is going to introduce SuperVOOC 3.0 with 80W rate in 2021. The charging battle becomes more and more fierce Currently, Oppo has SuperVOOC 2.0 at 65W available on a number of phones including Ace2, Find X2 and X2 Pro. The Realme X50 Pro implements the same technology under a different name - SuperDart Flash Charge. All these devices can top up their sizeable batteries in about 30 minutes. If the rumors end...

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Xiaomi Mi Band 5 debuts with bigger display and magnetic charger

The latest member of the world's most popular smart band family has arrived - Mi Band 5 is a major upgrade over its predecessor. And it achieves that while retaining the $26 starting price in China for the non-NFC version and $30 if you need the NFC. The first major upgrade would be the AMOLED display, which has grown to 1.1" from 0.95" and as usual, it can be customized with the large selection of official and third-party designs. Animated watch faces are also on the menu. The sensor set is unchanged - accelerometer, heart rate monitor, barometer and gyroscope with rumors of...

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Xiaomi Mi NoteBook 14 official with 10-gen Intel CPUs, Nvidia GPUs аnd great prices

Xiaomi unveiled its first ultrabook laptops in India with the Mi NoteBook 14 and Mi NoteBook 14 Horizon Edition. Both come with sleek 14-inch displays, magnesium-aluminum chassis, 10th gen Intel CPUs and pricing which undercuts the established laptop brands in the market. Both Mi NoteBook 14 models come with anti-glare FHD LCD panels with a 16:9 aspect ratio. The Horizon Edition gets slimmer 3mm bezels on the sides and top which give it a 91% screen-to-body ratio. The reduced bezels didn't leave room for a built-in webcam which is why Xiaomi is bundling its Mi Webcam HD with every Mi...

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Realme X50t 5G appears on Google Play Console with key specs

Realme's X50 series includes four smartphones already and a fifth one, dubbed X50t 5G, is expected to join them soon. The X50t 5G has already bagged a couple of certifications from Chinese agencies and now it has been spotted on the Google Play Console. The Google Play Console's listing reveals the Snapdragon 765 SoC, 6GB RAM, Android 10 and a FullHD+ screen. The Google Play Console doesn't reveal any other specs of the X50t 5G, but thanks to 3C we know it will come with 30W fast charging. While there's no word from Realme about the X50t 5G, the smartphone's global variant...

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