Top 10 trending phones of week 24

The OnePlus Nord CE only lasted a week on top of our trending chart and this time around the Redmi Note 10 Pro has regained its leading position. The mid-range killer as OnePlus calls its latest smartphone still managed to get the silver medal with the Redmi Note 10 sitting where we left it last week in third. Poco X3 Pro retained fourth, while the Samsung duo of Galaxy S21 Ultra and Galaxy A52 has risen to fifth and sixth. The other Poco phone, the F3, sits in seventh, while the M3 Pro has dropped off the top 10 this week. The newly announced Honor 50 Pro is eight, ahead of...

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Huawei Watch 3 Pro review

Introduction Huawei Watch 3 and Watch 3 Pro smartwatches debuted a couple of weeks ago as part of the big HarmonyOS 2.0 announcement. We have had the Pro version with us for a review since, and now that we’re done with all the tests, we can tell you what went right and what disappointed us during the past two weeks. The Watch 3 series comes as a proper smart wearable that offers standalone calls without the need for a smartphone. The difference between the vanilla and the Pro is the design, build materials and the battery life, and we have the mightier version with us...

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Week 24 in review: Honor 50 series arrive, Windows 11 leaks, Realme GT Europe-bound

Another week down, let's recap. Nokia unveiled a couple of featurephones in the 110 4G and 105 4G, which promise years of network connectivity for as little as $15 (if their predecessors' prices are taken into account). Japan got another exclusive phone with a 1-inch camera sensor. The Leitz Phone 1 is a rebranded Sharp Aquos R6, the pioneer of the 1-inch camera in a phone that also launched as a Japan-exclusive. Covering up the camera bump is a special Leica cap and the exclusive phone is on pre-order for JPY 187,920 ($1,700). A few rumors, concerning the Galaxy S22 series broke out,...

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Flashback: flip phones are dead, long live the flip phone

Flip phones like the Motorola RAZR ruled the world once upon a time. They were stylish, compact and the ability to hang up a call with a flick of your wrist was one of the most satisfying things ever. However, the demand for larger screens would eventually kill the flip phone (and sliders and other form factors), leaving only the ubiquitous slab. Ironically, it is exactly the demand for larger screens that has brought flip phones back from the dead with devices like the Motorola RAZR 2019 and Samsung Galaxy Z Flip. Yes, we're talking about foldable phones. But they are only the most...

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Weekly poll: is the Honor 50 series the start of something great?

Honor is back, but is there still room for the brand that was once seen as Huawei Jr.? While it is now an independent company, it’s hard to deny that the dual circle design on the back of the new Honor 50 series is clearly inspired by the Huawei P50 design. That’s not necessarily a bad thing, Huawei has created some beautiful phones over the years. And once you look past the cover, you’ll see that this book tells a very different story. There is no Kirin chipset here, no EMUI either – and certainly no HMS Core. Instead, you get new Snapdragons (and a Dimensity) along with Magic UI with...

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Honor MagicBook 14 with Intel Core i7-1165G7 review

Introduction Honor is getting a lot of mileage out of the MagicBook 14 chassis – we reviewed it once with a Ryzen 3500U APU, then we looked at the upgraded 4500U model. With the AMD chips covered, time to have a look at the Intel-powered version of this laptop that was announced last month. The Honor MagicBook 14 is back, this time with an 11th generation Intel Core processor There are two options – an Intel i7-1165G7 or an i5-1135G7. Both are 11th generation mobile chips (Tiger Lake) built on a 10nm SuperFin litography. Both have four hyper-threaded cores (i.e. eight threads...

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