Top stories of 2021: Q2

Welcome to our recap of the top news articles of 2021. This is Q2, you can also take a look at the top stories of Q1, Q3 and Q4. It's now time to look at the months April through June, which were defined by a myriad of phone announcements as well as looming phones from further down 2021. Sharp officially brought a 1-inch sensor to a phone with the Japan-exclusive Aquos R6. It had more going for it with a 240Hz refresh rate display, another first. But as with all of Sharp's innovations, this one never came out of Japan. Sony unveiled the Xperia 1 III, 5 III, and 10 III in Q2, all of...

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iQOO 9 Pro to bring Samsung E5 LTPO AMOLED, ultrasonic fingerprint scanner

The latest iQOO 9 Pro teasers are in and they are all about the upcoming flagship’s display. The phone will come with a curved Samsung E5 AMOLED panel of the LTPO 2.0 variety refreshing at up to 120Hz and with a 1,000Hz touch sampling rate. The teasers also confirm a 2K resolution which is a marketing term used to describe QHD+ panels in China. The panel will bring a 517 PPI count and will reportedly crank out up to 1,500 nits peak brightness. iQOO 9 Pro display and fingerprint scanner official teasers In addition, iQOO 9 Pro will offer an ultrasonic fingerprint scanner...

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It's not just EE; Vodafone and Three are bringing back EU roaming charges inn 2022 too

It’s not just EE, the other two major British carriers will also reinstate roaming fees for those who travel in the EU – there will be £2 a day fee if they want to make calls and use data. This will apply to new customers and those upgrading their plan. Vodafone is set to start collecting the fee from January, EE was also looking at the fist month of 2022, but pushed that back to March. Three will add back the fee in late May. The EU dropped roaming charges within the Union back in 2017, but UK carriers are no longer subject to that after Brexit. Both EE and Vodafone will allow...

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Vivo Y21T full specs sheet leaks, confirms resemblance to Y33s

The vivo Y21T is expected to launch on January 3 with a Snapdragon 680 chipset. We suspected it is not an entirely new handset, and we were right - it is indeed the vivo Y33s with a Qualcomm chipset and some other minor changes. The full features list of the Y21T appeared online, revealing the company changed the selfie camera and the SoC and slapped a new name. The vivo Y21T will have a 6.58” LCD with Full HD+ resolution. There is a waterdrop notch for the 8 MP selfie camera, unlike the 16 MP sensor in the vivo Y33s. The trio of cameras on the back is the same, thought - 50 MP f/1.8...

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Samsung Galaxy Fold and Note 10 series also receiving stable One UI 4

Samsung is continuing to seed its stable One UI 4 update to more of its devices and the latest ones on the list are the first-gen Galaxy Fold and Galaxy Note 10 series in both its 4G and 5G trims. Samsung’s firsts foldable gets the F900FXXU6GUL9 update build which is reported by users in France and also comes with the December 2021 security patch. The 4G variants of the Galaxy Note 10 and 10+ get the N97xFXXU7GULD update builds as spotted by users in Switzerland while the 5G models receive version N976BXXU7GULD alongside the January 2022 security patch. One UI 4 and Android 12 will...

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OnePlus 10 Pro benchmarked with 12GB RAM

The OnePlus 10 Pro launch is just around the corner, and the phone is already seemingly getting benchmarked. A phone from the brand, model-numbered NE2210, was spotted on Geekbench, and tipsters claim it is indeed the Pro variant. The device will have 12 GB RAM, Android 12 out of the gate, and a Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 chipset - none of these specs are surprising. What surprised us is the actual score this OnePlus phone yielded - 976 for a single core and 3,469 for multiple cores. These results are nowhere near the 1,100+ and 3,600+ we got for the OnePlus 9 and OnePlus 9 Pro back in...

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Huawei Mate X2 Collector’s Edition goes on sale in China

Last month, Huawei announced a more premium version of its Mate X2 foldable phone featuring leather backs. The device dubbed Collector’s Edition comes in black, white and red colors and Huawei has now opened sales for the limited edition foldable in China. The phones come with 12GB RAM and 512GB as standard and retail for CNY 19,699 which converts to $3,090/€2,734. Apart from the premium back finish, Huawei is also using a nano-crystalline enforced glass material on the outer screen which should be more durable. The rest of the specs are in line with the regular Mate X2 – an 8-inch...

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