vivo iQOO Neo 5 to arrive in March with Snapdragon 870

vivo launched the iQOO 7 smartphone back in January, and according to leaksters, there is another phone in the pipeline - the vivo iQOO Neo 5, a successor of the SD865-powered iQOO Neo3. The new phone will arrive in the middle of March with a Snapdragon 870 chipset, a Samsung display, and some of the fastest charging rates on the market - 88W through the wire and 66W wirelessly for the 4,400 mAh battery. vivo iQOO Neo3 5G The screen will be a Super AMOLED panel with a 120Hz refresh rate and will have room for one 16MP shooter. While the screen is “confirmed information,” the camera...

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Top 10 trending phones of week 6

We have a change at the top of our trending chart for the first time since week 2 of this year with the Xiaomi Mi 11 reclaiming the first position from the Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra. The Galaxy A12 is an impressive for its entry level nature third, while the Poco M3 has dropped from the podium places this time round. The Redmi Note 9 Pro is fifth for the second week in a row, while the Apple iPhone 12 Pro Max has gained a spot to claim sixth position. The veteran Galaxy A51 follows, even managing to edge the Poco X3 NFC. Up next is the Galaxy S21, which continues its fall and is on...

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Review: Android 10 on the Nintendo Switch is just as messy and awesome as it sounds

It will hardly come as a surprise that us geek folk over at GSMArena love the Nintendo Switch. Less surprising still is the fact that we love Android. Put the two together, sprinkle-in a hefty dose of tinkering and you get a janky "fusion" recipe that is just hard to pass by. Running LineageOS on Nintendo's amazingly popular handheld/home console is actually nothing new. A bunch of amazing people who refer to themselves as the switchroot group have been working hard on getting alternative platforms running on exploitable Nintendo Switch units, including Ubuntu, forks of LineageOS,...

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Week 6 in review: Xiaomi Mi 11 goes global, Redmi K40 and OnePlus 9 phones leak

The past seven days were filled to the brim with Xiaomi-related news. The week began with the Mi 11's global unveiling, alongside the MIUI 12.5 release roadmap. The Chinese company also revealed it had become the third biggest smartphone brand globally, and it boasted with shipping 200 million Redmi Note phones. We also saw a bunch of upcoming phones on certification websites - Geekbench revealed the Asus ROG Phone 5 would have a 16GB RAM option, the Redmi K40 flagship, officially scheduled for February 25, shined on TENAA, as did a phone looking similar to the Mi 10 Ultra. The week was...

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Realme Buds Air 2 TWS earphones pop up in Realme Link app, launch imminent

Realme launched its first TWS earphones called Buds Air back in December 2019 and introduced the Pro variant last October. It then announced the Buds Air Pro Master Edition in December, and in an interview with us, Mr. Madhav Sheth - VP of Realme and CEO of Realme India and Europe - confirmed that the company will bring the Buds Air 2 in Q1 2021. Realme Buds Air We are yet to hear an exact unveiling date for the Buds Air 2 from Realme, but it seems the launch isn't too far away since the Buds Air 2 have popped up in Realme Link - an app that serves as the central hub for Realme's AIoT...

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Samsung Galaxy A12 in for review

The Galaxy A12 is among the cheapest members of Samsung's A-series and has been a frequent feature in our trending chart since its launch in December. It's quite different from most of its siblings since it's one of the few Samsung handsets to feature an IPS panel instead of AMOLED, the latter clearly being too expensive a part for the targeted budget. And while the panel didn't get the OLED upgrade the Galaxy A12 still brings quite a few upgrades over its predecessor. For instance, there's a slight bump in the display size - up to 6.5". The Snapdragon 450 has been replaced by the...

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Weekly poll: how much storage is enough?

Maybe the iPhone 13 Pro Max will have up to 1 TB of storage. Maybe Android Go edition and its slim apps are good enough to make even 16 GB work. Or maybe there’s a golden mean that actually makes the most sense for consumers. It has been a while since we last asked how much storage is enough. Back then, the answer was 64-128 GB. But a lot has changed in the last few years. For one, Google Photos will discontinue the unlimited free storage for all users this June. The search giant previously stopped offering unlimited original quality storage for new Pixels back in 2019. It’s not...

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Flashback: micro-USB brought order to charging and data transfer cables

We scoff at micro-USB today, but it was the best connector ever made – at least until USB Type-C, aka USB-C showed up. We’re more than ready to wave goodbye to it, but it does deserve a look back at what made it so good. If you don’t think micro-USB was ever particularly good, then you don’t remember the days of proprietary connectors – you can check out our extinct connectors write-up for the frustrating, incompatible mess that we had to deal with before USB took over. Remember, the U is for “universal”. First, let’s clear up this “micro” and “Type” business. Originally, USB had a...

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Weekly poll results: people say they want small phones, but that is not apparent in sales numbers

Last week’s poll concludes with an interesting result – the size categories are neatly ordered from smallest to largest. And the smallest categories are in the lead by notable margins. Is this the end of the nearly 7” slabs and the rebirth of the mini flagship? Not so fast. This may well be the result of a loud, passionate minority. Early sales data of the iPhone 12 line-up showed that the mini under-performed, it made up only around 6% of the volume. Contrast this with early expectations by analysts, which predicted that mini and Pro Max sales will be about even. The 6% data was...

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