Realme GT Neo2 teased in Black Mint color

The Realme GT Neo2 arriving on September 22 has appeared in a Black Mint color in a poster shared by Realme VP Mr. Xu Qi Chase. The Black Mint variant looks cool and has a vertical stripe on the opposite side of the camera island, which includes two flash modules and three cameras, with the primary unit using a 64MP sensor. The black stripe is home to the Realme logo, and above it is yet another stripe with the "Dare To Leap" text spread across the length. Realme GT Neo2 Black Mint variant Mr. Chase says the GT Neo2 Black Mint version's rear panel is covered with AG Glass and...

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Google's Pixel Superfans community sign-up form available to anyone in the US

Last month, Google had reportedly (and randomly) sent out invitations to Pixel owners to be a part of its Pixel Superfans community. Now, Google has just made its Superfans community public and has opened eligibility to all US residents. Google Pixel 4 XL, Pixel 5, and Pixel 4a Superfans will be able to participate in Q&A sessions, offer feedback directly to the Google team, and receive surprise perks like exclusive offers, gifts, and special access to events. We were inspired to create the Pixel Superfans community because we know many of you love Pixel as much as we do, and...

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Nintendo Switch lineup gets permanent price cuts in EU

Nintendo has officially changed its retail pricing for the different Switch models for Europe and the UK. The change in price is now reflected on Nintendo's UK and EU (Spain) websites. Nintendo Switch OLED (2021) The Nintendo Switch originally sold for €330 and £280 in EU and the UK. but now with the new price change, the standard Switch will run €300 and £260. The Switch OLED and Switch Lite are also getting price cuts. The OLED model, which isn't available yet, is also receiving a price adjustment. Here are the new prices for EU and UK: Nintendo Switch Lite: €220...

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Xiaomi Smart Glasses announced as a "wearable device concept"

Xiaomi is holding a huge event tomorrow, on September 15, where we can expect to see a bunch of new phones (and perhaps even tablets). But the company also had something to show us today - weird that this didn't make it as part of the event tomorrow, or maybe Xiaomi wanted to steal some of Apple's thunder? Anyway, digressions aside, we're talking about the newly unveiled Xiaomi Smart Glasses. These are, unsurprisingly, smart glasses, however the company bills them as "an engineer's look into an advanced future". They're a "smart wearable device concept", not an actual product with a...

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Realme may soon be launching a Google TV streaming stick in India

Flipkart is currently getting ready for its Big Billion Days Sale 2021, which is right around the corner - although the retailer hasn't confirmed exactly on what day this will start. Regardless, it's already posted a teaser telling you what to expect - there are a bunch of products listed there, and one that was listed for a short time and was then pulled. Luckily there's always someone on the internet quick enough to grab a screenshot when this happens, so here it is: That "Realme 4K Google TV Stick" isn't a product that Realme has launched anywhere else in the world, and the...

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Apple releases iOS 14.8, fixes major security loophole

Apple today is rolling out iOS 14.8 for compatible iPhones. This is one of those unglamorous security updates that doesn't bring much on the surface but does actually fix some important security loopholes and it's imperative you install it at the earliest. The iOS 14.8 update provides fixes for the CoreGraphics and WebKit vulnerabilities that Apple says may have been exploited. iOS 14.8 is out, and it's security fixes, including one that was reported by @citizenlab — which said in August that it found zero-click NSO Group attacks on Bahraini activists using current iPhones...

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Huawei launches the Watch GT 2 Pro Moon Phase Collection in India

Huawei today announced that it is launching its Huawei Watch GT 2 Pro Moon Phase Collection watch in India. The watch will be available starting September 18, exclusively on Flipkart. The GT 2 Pro debuted globally almost a year ago now. It features a sapphire glass for the display, titanium body, and ceramic rear case. The watch comes in two variants, Sport and Classic Edition, which vary in the color and material of the strap, with the Sport Edition featuring a black fluoroelastomer strap and the Classic featuring a gray brown leather strap. The GT 2 Pro features a circular...

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Xiaomi September 15 event: what to expect

As the summer months come to an end, tech companies are starting to pile up the calendar with events and product launches. Xiaomi is all set to hold a big event on Wednesday, September 15 where we’ll get to see the latest smartphones, tablets and other products in the maker’s pipeline. With that in mind here’s a breakdown of what to expect at the event. Xiaomi 11T and 11T Pro The star(s) of the show will be the brand new Xiaomi 11T series. We’re expecting a vanilla and Pro model and they will mark the first premium Xiaomi phones launched on the global stage without the Mi branding which...

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100 million devices have been updated to HarmonyOS 2.0

Ten days ago Huawei’s HarmonyOS 2.0 reached 90 million users, now the company has reached another milestone – 100 million devices have been updated to the in-house OS. These devices formerly ran Android, but their owners chose to leave that behind. Huawei is currently recruiting beta testers for the 6th wave of Android-to-Harmony updates. It is these updates that cause the number of Harmon users to jump up so suddenly. The company plans to transition 100 or so devices, a process that will continue into 2022. Currently the total is 106, of which 75 are phones like the P40, Mate 40...

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Infinix Zero X Pro in for review

Cheap, great camera, great chipset – pick any two. Unfortunately, that is the situation that most smartphone buyers are facing. Quite often smartphone designers pick a fast chipset over a capable camera when they have to hit a mid-range price point. That is not the case with the Infinix Zero X Pro, which was announced earlier today. We have one to review, so expect a more detailed report soon – for today, here are our first impressions. The first thing to mention is the 5x periscope. It is present on the Pro model, which will retail for around $320, but it can also be found on the...

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Meizu will unveil a new phone tomorrow, could be the Meizu 18x with Snapdragon 870

The Meizu 18 and 18 Pro were unveiled in March, both with Snapdragon 888 chipsets, and became available for international shipping later that same month. The company is working on a refresh as the Meizu 18s and 18s Pro cropped up on TENAA. Then, a couple of weeks ago, we also heard of a Meizu 18x with a 4,200 mAh battery and 36W fast charging. We bring it up because the company posted this video on Weibo, clearly teasing the arrival of an X model. In another post Meizu wrote “see you tomorrow”, which sets the unveiling date for the new phone. The Meizu 18x is expected to use a...

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vivo iQOO Z5 Pro passes through Geekbench, an unknown midranger tags along

A new vivo smartphone passed through Geekbench on its way to going official. The device with a model number V2148A was benchmarked with a Snapdragon 778G chipset, and according to previous listings at the Chinese Compulsory Certification (CCC or 3C), this model designation matches the iQOO Z5 Pro. vivo V2148A on Geekbench The vivo iQOO Z5 Pro will have an 8GB RAM option, the scorecard confirms. Alongside it a vivo V2129 also appeared, but we still know very little about this one. The listed cores match the Snapdragon 460 and it comes with 6GB RAM. vivo V2129 on...

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Google confirms the existence of Exynos Galaxy S21 FE

At first, the Samsung Galaxy S21 FE's very existence was threathened by the global chip shortage and later we heard it will only be available a limited number of markets. Yet the latest evidence point to broader availability with a twist - we are getting two versions of the phone with two different chips - Snapdragon 888 and Exynos 2100. The Exynos variant made an appearance on Geekbench recently and is now officially listed on Google Play Console with an Exynos 2100 SoC, 8GB of RAM and 1080p+ display. According to unconfirmed reports the S21 FE will run the Exynos chip for the...

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Spigen's teaser reveals iPhone 13's design once again

Apple will officially introduce the 2021 iPhones tomorrow but case maker Spigen decided to give us a sneak peek of the vanilla iPhone 13. The design is what we saw in two separate leaks previously - dual cameras, placed diagonally, onto a square island in the top left corner. How we’re getting ready for the #AppleEvent this week 😂 pic.twitter.com/MYxcgEZ7aP— Spigen (@SpigenWorld) September 12, 2021 The new iPhone 13 will stick to a 6.1” screen, just like the iPhone 12. We can also see it will support magnetic charging, which is hardly a surprise. The good thing is Apple has applied a...

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Google Pixel 6 Pro pops up on Geekbench, reveals its Tensor SoC

We are certain about a couple of things regarding the upcoming Google Pixel 6 and 6 Pro - the design, the fact that they will use a custom Tensor SoC co-developed with Samsung and that the Korean tech giant will also be supplying the 50MP main camera. However, we really didn't have much on what the Tensor chipset will be until now. A Geekbench listing has just popped up giving us some extra details about it. The single and multi-threaded scores aren't impressive but keep in mind that this is probably just a pre-production unit so performance will be largely different upon...

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Xiaomi 11 Lite 5G NE teased to arrive on September 15

We already know Xiaomi is hosting an event September 15 where we should see the debut of the Xiaomi 11T and 11T Pro phones. A new post on the brand’s official Twitter account over the weekend hints at another “Lite” device makings its way to the scene. This should be the rumored Xiaomi 11 Lite NE (New Edition) which was spotted in a TENAA listing at the beginning of the month. That certification also revealed the device will be known as the Xiaomi CC11 in China. Something new is right around the corner. ❄️ Get ready for the special date! 2021.9.15｜20:00 GMT+8 #XiaomiProductLaunch...

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Infinix Zero X, X Pro and Z Neo unveiled with periscope cameras

Today Infinix is trying to leave its comfort zone of entry-level and mid-range devices with the launch of the Zero X series – the company’s first three phones to feature periscope lenses. While periscopes are something typically reserved for the top model of the series, Infinix was so captivated with photographing the Moon that it equipped all three of them with a periscope with 5x optical and 60x digital magnification. It also developed an algorithm dubbed the Galileo Engine to control the camera while capturing images of the Moon and later processing the data to get a clear...

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Realme GT Explorer Master review

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Exynos 2200 completes first Geekbench run, features AMD GPU with an open-source driver

A few months ago one leakster claimed that the Exynos 2200 will beat the Snapdragon 898 and now we have early Geekbench results to look at. Emphasis on “early”. In fact, these may not be suitable for a comparison, let’s have a closer look. Ice Universe spotted a benchmark run from a Samsung SM-S906B, which should be the Galaxy S22+. It is powered by the S5E9925, which should be exactly the Exynos 2200. It has a Cortex-X2 prime core, three Cortex-A710 big and four A510 little cores, the first to support the ARMv9 architecture, plus an AMD RDNA2 Mobile Radeon GPU. However, the X2 is only...

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Android 12 AOSP release coming on October 4

Google released its final beta build of Android 12 last week and now XDA’s Mishaal Rahman shared an internal Google document which details the Android 12 source code will be published on Google’s Android Open Source Project (AOSP) on October 4. The Android 12 stable update may be released on October 4, as that's when Google plans to release to AOSP. This tentative release date was also mentioned by a 3PL. pic.twitter.com/PMN802gQj0— Mishaal Rahman (@MishaalRahman) September 12, 2021 In the past years, the AOSP release date coincided with the stable release of new Android versions for...

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Oppo’s ColorOS 12 unveiling scheduled for September 16

Oppo’s ColorOS is ready to hit version 12 and now the company officially confirmed that it will be introduced on September 16 in China. The latest version of Oppo’s OS will be based on Android 12 and a beta for the Find X3 series is expected to launch on the same date. The stable build is expected to arrive sometime in October. ColorOS 12 launch event posters (source: Weibo) ColorOS 12’s debut will be joined by several new Oppo product launches including a phone, tablet and smartwatch. Based on speculation we should see the debut of the Reno7 series and Oppo Watch Free while the...

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Oppo’s first Kodak phone is a limited edition Find X3 Pro

Oppo and Kodak are working together to bring us a new flagship with dual 50MP cameras, a report suggested earlier this month. But before that the partnership will bring us a new color for the Oppo Find X3 Pro. The new back panel is silver with black leather, an homage to the design of the Kodak 35 classic. We are confident this isn’t some sort of a Plus version with any other upgrades because the model number on the sticker is PEEM00 - the very same as the original Find X3 Pro. In the world of smartphones, there are already a number of partnerships between manufacturers and camera...

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