Realme GT Neo appears on Geekbench ahead of March 31 launch, Realme V13 to tag along

Realme is having an event on March 31, and we expect to see the Realme GT Neo get unveiled. The phone will have a Dimensity 1200 chipset, and thanks to a Geekbench listing, we also expect a 12 GB RAM option. Meanwhile, leaksters on Chinese social media claim there will be one more phone at the event, and it will be called Realme V13 5G. Realme GT Neo on Geekbench The new V series smartphone will run on Dimensity 700 5G chipset, built on the 7 nm process. It is the same chip in the Realme V11, but the V13 will have four cameras on the back and a punch-hole display. The...

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Top 10 trending phones of week 12

With close to two dozen new announcements it's hardly a surprise that our trending chart is totally different from what we saw last week. The Poco F3 emerged as our new leader, edging out the Redmi Note 10 Pro, while the OnePlus 9 Pro completed the podium. The three were separated by a few thousand hits in what was the closest three-way race in the past few years. In fact the first and eight place were less than 90,000 pageviews apart over the course of the week. The Poco X3 Pro ended up fourth with the India-exclusive OnePlus 9R completing the upper half of the chart. The Samsung...

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Hot take: OnePlus 9 series

The new OnePlus 9 family is here and this time around, it's even bigger with an R model joining the vanilla and Pro. Granted, it's availability is limited, but it may be big in what is quickly becoming the company's biggest market. There was a slight price increase but also an exciting partnership with Hasselblad and its $150 million overall investment in its camera R&D. Our early thoughts on the lineup follow. Camera is better, but not quite up there with the best We were lucky enough to get the OnePlus 9 and 9 Pro early and complete their reviews. The overall camera quality has...

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Week 12 in review: Poco duo, OnePlus 9 series, Realme 8 and vivo X60 debut

Week 12 of 2021 was one of the most action-packed in recent memory with two dozen smartphone announcement and a bunch of spicy leaks. Poco brought its F3 flagship and X3 Pro mid-ranger, while OnePlus announced its most numerous flagship line to date with the 9R, 9 and 9 Pro. Realme had its own announcement for the 8 series, while vivo started the global rollout of its X60 series. Black Shark 4 series went official as well as the Motorola G50 and G100, while Qualcomm debuted a new platform - the 780G - combining upper mid-range performance with flaghsip modem. The final major...

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Flashback: Xiaomi Mi Mix made jaws drop with its near bezel-less design

Half a decade later the Xiaomi Mi Mix is still one of our favorite devices. Its near bezel-less design made it look futuristic and it was practical too, fitting a huge 6.4” display. The attention-grabbing Mix introduced several new things to the smartphone world. The Xiaomi Mi Mix was a stunner However, the design wasn’t one of them, even though it is its most recognizable feature. It wasn’t new – this layout first appeared on the Sharp Aquos Crystal a couple of years earlier, complete with moving the selfie camera to the thick bottom bezel. This was a time before notches and...

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Weekly poll: the OnePlus 9 series shoots for the moon, but are you on board?

This week OnePlus started writing a new chapter in its history. It found a camera partner of its own to rival the Leica/Huawei and ZEISS/vivo joint operations. And it jumped to the front of the LTPO queue even though some heavy hitters like Apple are yet to adopt the new type of OLED display. But the company also cranked up the prices slightly. For example, the OnePlus 9 Pro starts at €900, last year you could have bought an 8 Pro for $900. OnePlus lost the pretense of selling “flagship killers” years ago, but pricing your phone above the Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra is a bold...

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The new phones of the week

As far as the smartphone world goes the past week was one of the most exciting in recent memory. We had nearly two dozens new announcements and you'd be forgiven for having missed a few. So here we are compiling a neat list and getting you up to speed. It was a relatively slow start with the China-exclusive iQOO U3x, but then it was time for Poco to take the stage and introduce the X3 Pro and F3. vivo and Realme gave us a couple of entry-level phones with the Y72 5G and C25 respectively, while Honor only aimed a bit higher with the V40 Lite and Tab 7. Another round of premium...

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Asus ROG Phone 5 Ultimate mini review

Introduction There is no point in pretending the ROG Phone 5 Ultimate is anything but a "flex". Nothing wrong with that either - Asus itself knows it too well and has stressed multiple times that the Ultimate edition of its already industry-leading gaming handset will only be available in very small numbers, likely to be used mostly as a promotional tool. A theory further backed-up by the fact that we and many other media outlets got one and it was accompanied, as promised, by a whole box of ROG "swag". A hat, some badges, a towel, a face mask and some Lego-style building blocks. You can...

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