Honor X30 will arrive on December 16

Honor launched the X30 series in late October, and while the lineup consisted of two phones, none of them was a vanilla version. This is finally about to change, as the brand scheduled a launch for the Honor X30 on December 16. The X phones might be just midrangers, but for Honor, they are the most important. They have been the driving force of smartphone sales for eight years, breaking records left and right with every new series sans the X20 that was caught in limbo during the breakoff from Huawei. We have no specs whatsoever on the Honor X30 yet, but we expect some teasers from...

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Top 10 trending phones of week 48

As we enter the year's last month there are fewer and fewer major announcements, which easily explains the relative stability in our trending chart. The Redmi Note 11 Pro leads from the Samsung Galaxy A52s and the iPhone 13 Pro, all three phones retaining their positions from last week. The fourth-placed Redmi Note 10 Pro is also exactly where we left it last week, with the first change coming in the fifth position that is now occupied by the Galaxy A12. The Poco X3 Pro has risen to sixth place as the Galaxy S21 Ultra slides down to seventh. The Redmi Note 11T and iPhone 13...

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Top 10 most popular reviews of 2021: Q1

We like to close out the year with a look back at some of the trends and major events. One great way to gauge the industry’s and fan interest in this year’s smartphone releases is to examine the most popular entries in our review section. The most popular device in our review section in the first quarter was Redmi Note 10 Pro, also known as Redmi Note 10 Pro Max in India. An excellent 120Hz AMOLED display, stellar battery life and stereo speakers, IP53 rating and a slew of little extras like an IR blaster, 3.5mm jack, FM radio, NFC, microSD - a solid all-round device, with just a...

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Week 48 in review: Snapdragon 8 Gen1 is here, Realme GT 2 Pro details emerge

Qualcomm unveiled its next flagship chipset for Android phones and it marks a deviation from the naming convention. For starters, it's not Qualcomm Snapdragon anymore, but just Snapdragon. Meet the Snapdragon 8 Gen1 – that’s the new naming scheme, digit for class (8 being flagship) and a generation. It is Qualcomm’s first 4nm chipset and the first to use this new generation of the CPU architectures. The CPU maintains the three cluster design, however, the cores are now based on the ARMv9 designs. This means that the prime core is a Cortex-X2 and it will run at 3.0GHz. Backing it are three...

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Week 47 in review: Snapdragon 8 Gen1 is here, Realme GT 2 Pro details emerge

Qualcomm unveiled its next flagship chipset for Android phones and it marks a deviation from the naming convention. For starters, it's not Qualcomm Snapdragon anymore, but just Snapdragon. Meet the Snapdragon 8 Gen1 – that’s the new naming scheme, digit for class (8 being flagship) and a generation. It is Qualcomm’s first 4nm chipset and the first to use this new generation of the CPU architectures. The CPU maintains the three cluster design, however, the cores are now based on the ARMv9 designs. This means that the prime core is a Cortex-X2 and it will run at 3.0GHz. Backing it are three...

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Weekly poll: who is getting an Honor 60 or 60 Pro once they launch?

The new Honor 60 series was unveiled this week and will go on sale in China on Friday. Afterwards it will probably take a few months to reach the global market (the Honor 50 series was announced in mid-June and reached Europe in late October). Who here is settling in for the wait before they can hit the "buy" button? Before we direct you to the poll, let's have a closer look at the new phones, their predecessors and their competitors. The Honor 60 Pro is clearly the favorite child with several improvements to the screen and performance and a fairly big advantage in the camera...

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