vivo X90 series is getting announced on November 22

The vivo X90 series was initially expected to arrive in December, but vivo has pulled the event as the subsequent leaked video predicted. The new lineup will be introduced on November 22 at an event in China. According to rumors, all three expected phones will be available with a Red color and will have a 512GB storage variant. The vivo X90 is expected to run on the Dimensity 9200 chipset. It is said to have four memory variants - 8/128 GB, 8/256 GB, 12/256 GB, and 12/512 GB. It will be available in Black, Red, and Blue, the latter being reserved only for this vanilla...

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Top 10 trending phones of week 45

The Redmi Note 12 Pro+ extended its streak on top of our trending chart to three weeks in a row, but its stablemates kept losing ground. The Redmi Note 12 Pro is down two spots to fourth, while the vanilla and Explorer models are out of the top 10 altogether. The Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra is back in second place and the Apple iPhone 14 Pro Max follows it closely in third. Yet another phone to benefit from the Redmi Note 12 hype dying down is the Galaxy A53 that now ranks fifth. The aging iPhone XR and older still iPhone X take the sixth and seventh places. Behind them the...

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Week 45 in review: Dimensity 9200 is here, Infinix Zero 5G 2023 official

Another week in the books, let's look at the top stories from the past seven days. The Xiaomi 13 is going all flat. The new design was revealed in renders and we also have dimensions - 152.8 x 71.5 x 8.3 mm. The camera bump takes it to 10.3mm of thickness. The phone is also reported to be running on the latest generation Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 chip. We also saw renders of the Xiaomi 13 Pro and it has Xiaomi's current design language with a slim, contoured frame and a curved glass panels on either side. The Xiaomi 13 Pro is expected to pack the same 1” IMX989 sensor as the 12S Ultra....

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Weekly deals: the best smartphone deals from Amazon in Canada, Germany and the UK

The holidays are approaching, which means a never-ending stream of discounts and offers. These can get hard to track, so here are the best deals we found on Amazon from Canada, Germany and the UK. As usual, we focus on smartphones, but also look at tablets and smartwatches. You can also check out our Deals page, which can be filtered by market (the page tracks more markets than are listed here). Just make sure to set up the filter at the top of the page. Canada Germany The UK Canada Samsung US has cut the prices for the Z foldables and S flagships as an early...

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Weekly poll: if you're looking for a mid-ranger, will you buy the Realme 10?

The Realme 10 was made official earlier this week and if you haven’t already, you should read our review (or watch our video review). If you’re in the market for a mid-ranger, is this one to get? Or did Realme drop the ball? Being a mid-ranger, the Realme 10 had a limited budget for hardware. For this generation the company decided to use a more powerful chipset than the one in the Realme 9. However, to stay within the budget the company had to use a smaller, lower resolution sensor for the main camera (50MP 1/2.76” vs. 108MP 1/1.67”) and it had to drop the ultrawide camera...

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Poco X5 5G spotted in FCC and BIS listings

Word of an upcoming Poco X5 5G phone has been spreading through the rumor mill lately. The phone was initially spotted over a month ago in a few listings that mentioned two model numbers in particular - 22101320I for the Indian version and 22101320G for the global one. Rumor has it that Xiaomi is also planning to launch a 22101320C phone in China under the Redmi brand. We still don't know much about the Poco X5 5G, but recent listings on the FCC and BIS websites do reveal a few bits of information, namely that the phone will have a 4,900 mAh battery, which will most likely be marketed as a...

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