Huawei Enjoy 20 and Huawei Enjoy 20 Plus officially arriving on September 3

The new affordable lineup by Huawei is going to be called Enjoy 20 and we finally have an official launch date - September 3, which is this Thursday. At the event we expect to see two smartphones - Huawei Enjoy 20 and Huawei Enjoy 20 Plus, and thanks to the official poster, we finally know how they’ll look. Having three or four shooters lined up like a stovetop isn’t something new for Huawei - the Mate 20 lineup introduced it first, but the square setup moved to the upper left corner with the nova 6 SE. The Enjoy 20 Plus also looks familiar - the circular design came with the Mate...

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Sony WF-1000XM3 wireless noise canceling earphones review

The Sony WF-1000XM3 were Sony's first truly wireless in-ear noise-canceling earphones. Launched in July of last year, they quickly became the most well regarded TWS noise-canceling earphones on the market. For many, it had the same combination of great active noise-canceling and good enough audio quality that the full-size WH-1000XM3 offered, but in a more discreet form. Now, over a full year later, Sony launched these earphones in the Indian market, which allowed me to do a full review on them. While I had tried them on previously after I briefly borrowed a pair from a fellow tech...

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Top 10 trending phones of week 35

The trending chart this week was mostly driven by the rumor mill as the phones coming in the next few days got the most attention. The Realme 7 Pro got the lion's share of attention, ahead of the Oppo F17 Pro - the two managed to dethrone the Xiaomi Mi 10 Ultra days before their official debuts. The former leader is now on the third step of the podium, just ahead of the Redmi Note 9 Pro, which retains fourth. The Samsung Galaxy Note20 Ultra has lost a lot of ground and is now fifth, as the newly announced Infinix Zero 8 enters the chart in sixth. The Redmi Note 9 is down to...

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Week 35 in review: Zenfone 7 duo is here, Xperia 5 II is coming

Welcome to this week's recap of the most exciting stories. Let's get started! Asus unveiled the Zenfone 7 and Zenfone 7 Pro and they're mostly identical. What sets them apart is the 7 Pro uses a Snapdragon 865+, has OIS on its main and zoom camera and has a 256GB model, while the vanilla 7 is SD865, has no OIS on its cameras and tops out at 128GB. The pair launch globally on September 1. Realme has two launches planned for next week. The Realme X7 and X7 and X7 Pro will be made official in China on September 1 with 120Hz AMOLED screens, while the Realme 7 and 7 Pro will go live in...

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Weekly poll: are the Asus Zenfone 7 and 7 Pro sleeper hits?

The Asus Zenfone 7 Pro is a significant improvement over the previous generation. The Zenfone 6 from last year was pretty capable too, but it had issues translating that into sales. Can the new generation do better? Let's start with the roomy 6.67” AMOLED display from Samsung with 90 Hz refresh rate, high brightness and excellent color accuracy. It only has 1080p resolution, though, while most premium models have moved to 1440p. Except gaming phones, but this isn’t a gaming phone. Unblemished 90 Hz AMOLED display with HDR10+ • Thanks to the flip-up camera It could be, as it has...

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Flashback: the Oppo N1 turned the camera around on you

Not long after phones first learned how to take photos came the first phones with dedicated selfie cameras. But the arrival of 3G networks meant that not just any camera would do – a core feature of 3G was the native video calls. Barely anyone did that, but we got some interesting phones out of it. Like the Sony Ericsson V800, for instance, which had a camera that normally pointed away from you to take photos, but could be rotated to point towards you too. Back then you had to rotate it manually, that was the norm. And it remained so until the Oppo N1 arrived. The phone is notable for...

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