Motorola Edge 20 Fusion's specs revealed ahead of August 17 launch

The Motorola Edge 20 Fusion will be introduced on August 17, and it will be available in India first. The teasers shared by Motorola revealed its design and a few specs, but thanks to Flipkart, we now have more details about the Lenovo-owned brand's upcoming smartphone. The Motorola Edge 20 Fusion will be sold in India exclusively through Flipkart, and the promo page set up by the online retailer on its website reveals the Edge 20 Fusion will be powered by the Dimensity 800U SoC. The smartphone will come with a total of four cameras in tow - a 32MP selfie shooter inside the...

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Xiaomi Mix 4 torn down on video

Just one day after Xiaomi pulled the wraps off the Mix 4, the phone has been fully disassembled on video. The teardown was performed by popular tech blogger Robin and posted over at Weibo. The phone’s body is made up of ceramic and uses a thin metal frame between the body and the display to allow for radio signals to pass through. The phone is made up of three sections: the upper section contains the SoC, memory, camera sensors, 5G antennas, and most of the logic boards. The mid-section contains the battery, NFC antenna, wireless charging coil, and dual cell battery....

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Asus ROG Phone 5S to be outed on August 16, specs leak

Now that the Snapdragon 888+ cat is out of the bag with the official unveiling of the Xiaomi Mix 4, it looks like other companies can't wait to use the new SoC too. And among the first in line will be Asus, according to a new set of leaks today. If the rumors are true, then expect the Asus ROG Phone 5S to be made official on August 16. As the mere addition of "S" to the name of an already existing device strongly implies, this won't be a huge upgrade compared to the ROG Phone 5 which launched back in April. Asus ROG Phone 5 In fact, the only two improvements seem to be the...

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Samsung Galaxy A10 gets Android 11 update in India

Samsung's quest to seed the latest One UI based on Android 11 to as many of its older devices as possible is still very much ongoing, and the latest smartphone to be graced with the new software is the Galaxy A10. According to a report, the update to Android 11 for the A10 is already rolling out in India, although this may be a staged affair as usual, meaning that it could take a few days (or more) for the notification to pop up on all the units out there in the wild. The new build is labeled A105FDDU6CUH2, and aside from the bump in Android version it also brings with it Samsung's...

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OnePlus teases new device announcement for tomorrow

On the eve of Samsung’s Unpacked event, OnePlus USA decides to tease a device of its own, one that it hopes will steal the spotlight from Samsung’s announcement of the Galaxy Z Fold3. The teaser is super vague and offers nothing aside from the teaser, along with the date and time. OnePlus will be holding an event for this mystery device tomorrow, August 11 at 10AM ET, which is the same time that Samsung Unpacked is set to kick off. 8.11 10am EThttps://t.co/mmPi4jlrhx pic.twitter.com/U6lPdrFnjf— OnePlus➕ (@OnePlus_USA) August 10, 2021 We’ve not seen or heard any rumors about any new...

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Samsung Galaxy Z Fold3 and Z Flip3 handled on camera ahead of announcement

Ahead of tomorrow’s Samsung Galaxy Unpacked event, Twitter user @Ricciolo1 has posted a short (and blurry) video of both the Galaxy Z Flip3 5G and Galaxy Z Fold3 5G being handled on video. samsung Galaxy Flip 3 & Galaxy Z Fold 3 Hands on#alwaysthesame #lol 😐 pic.twitter.com/NVZ5hF19h0— Ricciolo (@Ricciolo1) August 10, 2021 There’s a moment in the video around the 21-second mark that shows the internal display equipped with the under-display camera. Otherwise, the video doesn’t really show us what we have not already seen. Both devices have already leaked almost in full, complete with...

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OnePlus Watch Harry Potter Edition tipped to launch in the coming weeks

OnePlus unveiled its first smartwatch, dubbed OnePlus Watch, in March and later followed up with Cyberpunk 2077 and Cobalt limited editions. Now we hear the Chinese phone maker is gearing up to introduce yet another special edition, this time inspired by Harry Potter. The source claims that OnePlus will launch the OnePlus Watch Harry Potter Edition in India in the coming weeks with a new paint job and themes. It will also come with six exclusive watchfaces, including Hogwarts, Hogwarts Seal, Gryffindor, Slytherin, Hufflepuff, and Ravenclaw. OnePlus Watch Harry Potter Edition...

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Google One VPN is now available in seven more countries

Google One offers a VPN service to its users, but it was limited to the United States until now. Finally, Mountain View decided to expand to seven more countries in Europe and North America, but it is still limited to subscribers with at least 2TB in their plan. The lucky markets are Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Mexico, Spain, and the United Kingdom, and the price to switch is $9.99/mo or $99/yr. Users with the cheapest three tiers (Free 15GB, 100GB, and 200GB) can’t get the VPN service separately; the price is actually for a 2TB plan. While most VPN functions are pretty...

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Xiaomi Pad 5, Pad 5 Pro aim for glory with 11" TrueTone displays, powerful chipsets

Following the introduction of the Mix 4 smartphone, Xiaomi officially unveiled of the Pad 5 series - its first tablets in three years. The lineup consists of a Wi-Fi-only vanilla Pad 5 and a Pad 5 Pro that has both Wi-Fi and a 5G-enabled version. The Pro runs on Snapdragon 870, while the Pad 5 settles for the Snapdragon 860, meaning they are among the most powerful Android tablets out there. Both tablets come with an 11” display of 2560x1600 pixel resolution and 120Hz refresh rate. The 10-bit panels come with support for Dolby Vision and HDR10 and promise up to 500 nits...

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Xiaomi Mix 4 debuts: under-display camera, Snapdragon 888+ and 120W charging

It took nearly three years but we finally have a true successor to the Mi Mix 3 and it’s a monumental leap forward. Welcome the Xiaomi Mix 4 – the brand’s first device to sport an under-display camera (or camera under panel as Xiaomi calls it) and arguably the largest leap forward in the series since the original Mi Mix shook up the smartphone world back in 2016. The big breakthrough here is hidden beneath the curved 6.67-inch AMOLED display where we find a 20MP selfie camera (1.6 µm sized pixels when the 4-in-1-pixel binning is applied) leaving the screen unblemished by cutouts. The...

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Realme GT Master Edition Europe launch set for August 18, retail package surfaces

The Realme GT Master series that was launched in China last month will debut in India on August 18, and Realme today announced it will also be introduced in Europe on the same day to celebrate the milestone of reaching 100 million users. The GT Master series consists of the GT Master Edition and the GT Master Explorer Edition, but it will only be the Master Edition that will make its way to the Old Continent and Realme's biggest market - India. Realme GT Master Edition • Realme GT Master Explorer Edition The launch event in India will begin at 12:30PM IST (7AM UTC), while the...

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Honor X20 5G official specs listed two days before announcement

There’s a few Honor phones set to debut later this week with the Honor X20 5G and Magic 3 series. The former has now appeared in a listing on the brand’s official online shop in China complete with a detailed spec sheet. Honor X20 5G in black, blue and silver X20 5G sports a 6.67-inch LCD with a 120Hz refresh rate and a pill-shaped cutout in the top left corner with a 16MP main cam. The device packs a MediaTek Dimensity 900 chipset paired with 6/8GB RAM and 128/256GB storage which is further expandable via microSD. The rear houses a 64MP main camera with an f/1.9 aperture...

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The vivo iQOO 8 Pro will have a 50MP main camera, 48MP ultrawide, VIS OIS

The vivo iQOO 8 series is coming on August 17 and the 8 Pro will bring a Snapdragon 888+ and Samsung's E5 OLED with an LTPO controller capable of 1-120Hz variable frame rate adjustment. Now vivo is teasing the cameras on the iQOO 8 Pro in a new poster. The main unit has 50MP resolution, while the ultrawide lens sits over the 48MP sensor, which used to be the main camera of the iQOO Pro from 2019 - a 1/2.0-inch sensor. The third camera could be a mid-zoom option, reaching up to 60mm, or about 2.5x. The main camera is equipped with vivo's VIS five-axis stabilization, covering all the...

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Honor announces partnership with IMAX, teases circular camera island for Magic 3

The Honor Magic 3 smartphone is expected to arrive on August 12 and will have a Snapdragon 888+ chipset. The brand has now announced a partnership with IMAX Enhanced on its Weibo page, where an image of a film reel was posted which looks a lot like a circular camera setup, similar to what we’ve already seen in previous leaks. Honor x IMAX Enhanced poster • Honor Magic 3 hands-on photo IMAX Enhanced is the product of joint work between IMAX, the proprietary system of high-res cameras, film formats, film projectors and theaters, and DTS, an American audio company. The Enhanced...

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Samsung’s Exynos W920 is a 5nm chipset set to power the Galaxy Watch4 series

A day before its big Galaxy Unpacked event, Samsung announced a new chipset for wearables dubbed Exynos W920. The SoC is set to power the upcoming Galaxy Watch4 series as well as future Samsung wearables to come. It’s built on a 5nm EUV process armed with two ARM Cortex-A55 cores and an ARM Mali-G68 GPU. Samsung claims a 20% CPU improvement over the preceding Exynos W9110 and a ten-fold graphics boost. The new chip also packs a dedicated Cortex M55 co-processor for handing Always-On Display use. Connectivity-wise the W920 brings a 4G LTE Cat.4 modem and a Global Navigation Satellite...

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Watch the Xiaomi Mi Mix 4, Mi Pad 5 launch live

Xiaomi is about to introduce its Mi Mix 4 flagship smartphone and Mi Pad 5 tablet. Both devices are bound to be flagship-tier, with the phone being the first in the world with Snapdragon 888+, while the tablet is aiming to be a direct competitor to the Galaxy Tab S7 series and the latest iPad Pro 11. The event is scheduled for 19:30 Beijing Time, which is 11:30 GMT. The event is taking place in China, so logically it will be in Chinese. This is also the first market to get the new device but hopefully the international rollout won't take long. We've embedded the video below but if...

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