HTC Wildfire E Lite shows up in the Google Play Console, has specs uncovered

Earlier this month HTC made the Wildfire E2 smartphone official in Russia, with entry-level specs and a price to match. However, it turns out that the Taiwanese company is also working on an even cheaper, even more basic handset to be launched soon under the Wildfire sub-brand. This will be called Wildfire E Lite, and it has just showed up in the Google Play Console. The listing tells us that the phone has a screen with 720x1440 resolution, with a now quite uncommon 18:9 aspect ratio. As you can see from the tiny picture showing the handset's front, there are no notches or hole...

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vivo Y20 is on the way with the Snapdragon 460 at the helm

vivo is apparently working on the successor to the Y19 that it launched last year. The new phone is unsurprisingly called Y20, and it has recently been certified by the Indonesian authorities. This has given us the upcoming phone's model number, which is V2027. A little bit of digging has revealed that a vivo V2027 has run Geekbench on July 27, managing a 252 single-core score and 1,239 multi-core score. Information revealed by the benchmark listing and the page's source tells us that the vivo Y20 will be powered by Qualcomm's Snapdragon 460 chipset, paired with 4GB of RAM. It...

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Google wants to kill Duo and integrate it into Meet

Google has launched and killed so many communications services and apps that it's not even funny to joke about it anymore. Whenever a new one comes along, we inevitably wonder how long before the company will bury its features into something else it has, or just kill it entirely - only to then launch something similar a few months or years later. Well, the time has come for Google Duo to get the axe. At least that's what sources are telling 9to5Google. Duo was launched many years ago alongside Allo, which was supposed to be the text chat companion to Duo's video chat...

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Telegram finally adds video call support to all its apps

Telegram has announced that it is finally bringing video call functionality to all its desktop and mobile apps. The company made this announcement on the day of its seventh anniversary since it went live in August of 2013. The video call feature is currently being made available in an alpha state across all the apps. As with the voice calls, all video calls in Telegram are being end-to-end encrypted. The app will show four emoji on screen for you and your call partner. If both have the same four emoji, the call is encrypted. The voice call feature makes use of the...

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Check out the Surface Duo in action from Microsoft’s press event

The Microsoft Surface Duo was announced back in October though we had to wait untill this week to learn about its detailed specs and availability. It’s one of the more interesting devices in recent memory and now we have the full press event video with Panos Panay guiding us through the software and pretty much everything there is about the device in a 35-minute product brief video. The video starts off with a breakdown of the Surface brand and its journey leading up to the Duo with a clear emphasis on addressing users’ needs and thinking outside the box in terms of both software and...

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Samsung gets 117,000 Galaxy Note20 pre-orders in South Korea

The Galaxy Note20 series is already up for pre-order with official sales in some markets slated to begin on August 21st. One of those markets is South Korea and some early reports from local media are suggesting similar consumer interest in the new Note line to last year’s Galaxy Note10 series. Samsung has reportedly racked in 117 thousand for the Note20 series pre-orders which is a bit shy of last year’s 1.3 thousand figure for the Note10 duo though there’s still time to catch up. According to the new report, the Galaxy Note20 Ultra accounted for 65% of all Note20 pre-orders. We...

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Fortnite is still available at Samsung's Galaxy Store

After Epic Games tried to implement its own payment system in the Fortnite app, Apple and Google were quick to react and removed the game from their respective app stores as it violates the rules. However, Samsung's Galaxy Store doesn't have such restrictions so Epic Game's Fortnite remains available for owners of Samsung Galaxy phones. Also, Android users are still able to play the game by sideloading the 8.2GB APK from the company's website but the in-app purchases aren't working for now. Undoubtedly Epic Games is looking into the issue and will resolve the matter soon. As for...

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Redmi G gaming laptop unveiled: 144Hz display for just $760

Redmi just announced a new affordable gaming laptop. The Redmi G comes at a mind-bending $760 starting price and goes up to $1,000 without making any compromises with the hardware. Of course, those prices are for the Chinese market so if the device ever makes it outside of China, they may change. You get a 16.1-inch display with super-thin bezels forcing Redmi to move the webcam at the bottom bezel. What's more important, though, is the fact that the panel supports 144Hz refresh rate at 1080p resolution and has 100% sRGB coverage, no matter which configuration you...

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Microsoft promises three years of Android updates for Surface Duo

Google already provides three years of software updates for its Pixel smartphones, and last week, Samsung announced that it will offer three major OS upgrades to its flagships starting with the Galaxy S10. Now Microsoft confirmed that its recently launched Surface Duo foldable smartphone will also get three years of software updates. This promise includes OS upgrades as well as security patches. It's still not as good as what Apple offers to its customers, but considering how long people keep their phones it's probably close enough so as not to matter for most. The promise will also...

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Redmi moved 100,000 K30 Ultra units in one minute in first sale today

The Redmi K30 Ultra unveiled earlier this week went on its first sale in China today and the company sold 100,000 units in just one minute, before it ran out of stock. The K30 Ultra has a Dimensity 1000+ SoC at the helm and it comes in four memory configurations - 6GB/128GB, 8GB/128GB, 8GB/256GB and 8GB/512GB priced at CNY1,999 ($285/€245), CNY2,199 ($315/€270), CNY2,499 ($360/€305) and CNY2,699 ($390/€330), respectively. The K30 Ultra flaunts a 6.67" 120Hz FullHD+ notchless AMOLED display with a fingerprint underneath. The smartphone runs Android 10-based MIUI 12 out of the box and...

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Realme C12 debuts with 6,000 mAh battery, Helio G35 and triple camera

After unveiling its C15 last month, Realme brought an even more affordable version of its C-series with the new Realme C12 launched in Indonesia. It carries plenty of similarities with the C15 including a 6.5-inch IPS LCD with HD+ resolution, gigantic 6,000 mAh battery and the Helio G35 chipset. Realme C12 in Marine Blue and Coral Red The key differences between the two come in the camera department where the new C12 comes with two 2MP auxiliary cameras alongside the main 13MP shooter. The selfie camera housed in the waterdrop notch is also down to 5MP instead of the 8MP on the...

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LG Q92 5G full specs leak, image in tow

We’ve been hearing about LG’s upcoming 5G midrange phone ambitions for a while now including the LG Q92 5G which appeared in several leaks so far. Now, tipster Abhishek Yadav is providing us with a list of the Q92’s key specs complete with an image of the phone. The device will carry a 6.7-inch FHD+ display with a punch-hole cutout just below the top bezel. As expected, it will be powered by the Snapdragon 765G chipset paired with 6GB RAM and 128GB storage. LG Q92 5G image and specs Around the back, the Q92 will carry a 48MP primary camera alongside an 8MP ultrawide module as...

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ZTE A20 5G full specs and design revealed by TENAA

ZTE is soon going to launch the A20 5G with an under-display camera. The company hasn't divulged any details about it yet, but a ZTE smartphone bearing model code A2121 and believed to be the A20 5G recently got certified by TENAA, revealing its full specs and design in the process. The ZTE A2121 is built around a 6.92" FullHD+ OLED display that has a fingerprint reader underneath for biometric authentication. The 32MP selfie camera isn't visible in the image since the screen is turned off, but we can see that the smartphone has a quad camera setup on the back which is a combination of a...

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