Honor 50 camera finally revealed in official teasers

The Honor 50 series is getting announced on June 16, and the company has finally revealed what the phone would look like from the back. Both our exclusive leaks are confirmed - the Honor 50 lineup will have two circles - one for the main shooter, the other for the auxiliary snappers. The phone in the promo image has three secondary cameras, which is most likely the Honor 50 Pro+, a step up from the Honor 50 Pro and the mightiest phone in the lineup. The phone in the photo has no writing around the main lens, but another image revealed a 100 MP main camera, which could very well be...

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Top 10 trending phones of week 22

Xiaomi retains its position as the dominant maker in our database for yet another week, manufacturing six of the tenth most popular smartphones in our trending chart. We have the exact same podium as last week with the Redmi Note 10 Pro ahead of the Redmi Note 10 and the Poco M3 Pro. A couple more Poco-branded phones follow with the X3 Pro and the F3. It's only then that we get tot he first non-Xiaomi phones - the Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra is sitting in sixth, ahead of its A52 sibling. The newly announced Realme X7 Max took eight as two yet-to-be-unveled phones complete the chart....

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Tecno Camon 17 Pro in for review

Tecno is a brand that serves developing markets and typically focuses on value-for-money devices. These phones are not just about getting the most bang for your buck, however, instead they are tailored to the specific likes and dislikes of several key markets. The Tecno Camon 17 Pro is one of the most advanced phones it had built to date, though it’s not quite on the level of the Camon 16 Premiere, which we reviewed last year. Both are in the top price segment of Tecno’s line-up with the 17 Pro priced at NGN 125,000 in Nigeria (that converts to $305 or €250). The good news is that...

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Week 22 in review: Huawei teases P50, brings HarmonyOS to 100 Android phones

Another week in the books, so let's recap. Huawei held a major HarmonyOS event at which it unveiled new tablets, new smartwatches, gave us a list of devices to be updated to HarmonyOS and even showed a teaser of the much-awaited P50 series. HarmonyOS is set to be available as an update from Android on Huawei's lineup of devices, starting in China. Huawei's latest devices like the Mate40 and P40 series can get the OS running right now, older devices will follow in Q3. A short video teaser showcased the dual-ring design of the Huawei P50's cameras. The P50 series promise a sleek design...

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Flashback: the Samsung Galaxy Beam put a cinema in your pocket with its built-in projector

While fitting a tablet with a 7” or 8” screen in your pocket used to be unthinkable, foldable phones make it possible these days. But can foldable phones fit a 50” screen in your pocket? That would have to be some crazy origami design. Yet a clever little phone from 2010 managed to do just that – the Samsung I8520 Galaxy Beam had a built-in DLP projector that could indeed create a 50” image on the wall. The room would have to be very, very dark and the image quality wasn't the best, but it was possible. The Samsung I8520 Galaxy Beam This is because the pico-projector could only...

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Weekly poll: is HarmonyOS as promising as Android or is it another Windows Phone?

Huawei wants to be in control of its own destiny and this week it took a large step in that direction – it announced HarmonyOS 2.0, which will replace Android on its smartphones, tablets and watches. And not just on new models either, the company announced plans to convert around 100 current devices (phones and tablets) from Android to Harmony. Strangely, right now we only know of plans to convert devices in China where the lack of access to the Google Play Services was essentially meaningless. The first batch of devices to come with HarmonyOS out of the box What will...

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