First images of iQOO Neo 8 and Neo 8 Pro appear online

The iQOO Neo 8 series will be introduced on May 23, and the vivo brand confirmed we will see a Pro member for the first time in the Neo history. The phone will have OIS, and according to images that appeared online, it might be the only one with the camera feature. Two phones were revealed on Twitter, one allegedly the iQOO Neo 8 and the other being the iQOO Neo 8 Pro, and only the latter has “OIS” writing on the back; the former has “Neo” in that place. vivo iQOO Neo 8 • vivo iQOO Neo 8 Pro These images also reveal the camera island will be rectangular and will not span across...

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Top 10 trending phones of week 19

Week 18 saw the official debut of a number of exciting phones and it's no wonder our trending chart looks very different from last week. The Samsung Galaxy A54 was knocked off the lead for only the second time since it went official in mid-March. In fact it was overtaken by no fewer than four of the new phones and is now sitting in fifth position. It was the Poco F5 that ended up on top this week, narrowly edging the Sony Xperia 1 V. The Sony flagship put up a great fight, but the fact that the Xiaomi phone had a two-day advantage proved decisive. Poco F5 Pro got the bronze medal,...

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Huawei FreeBuds 5 review

Introduction The FreeBuds range from Huawei has offered some great wireless earbuds over the years and the new FreeBuds 5 are the latest entry. They arrive with a bold new design, flagship-level features and a combined 30-hour battery life. FreeBuds 5 come as a successor to 2021’s FreeBuds 4, which were a solid pair of open-ear buds. The specs department looks quite impressive with 11mm drivers, an active noise cancelation system with three microphones on each bud, multi-point pairing, LDAC support and Bluetooth 5.3 connectivity. Can these oddly shaped buds compete with the premium...

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Week 19 in review: Xperia 1 V, Xperia 10 V, Pixel Fold, Pixel 7a, Pixel tablet debut

It was a week full of big announcements so let's recap. Sony unveiled the flagship Xperia 1 V and the midrange Xperia 10 V. Both have 21:9 tall-aspect displays, 5,000mAh batteries, 3.5mm headphone jacks, and expandable storage. The Xperia 1 V has a first-ever stacked CMOS sensor on a mobile phone that promises full-frame camera-like nighttime performance. The Xperia 1 V packs textured Gorilla Glass Victus on the back, a triple camera, a Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 chip, and a 4K OLED display with 120Hz refresh rate. The flagship is coming in late June, starting from €1,399/£1,299. The Xperia 10...

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Weekly deals: the best smartphone deals from the US, the UK, Germany and India

Google launched the new Pixel 7a in multiple countries around the world and in some places it is a better pick than the Pixel 7. Not everywhere, though, the older model has fallen to a similar price in a few places. In the US, there’s a gift for Mother’s Day, plus cheap older flagships from Samsung and OnePlus. In India, the iQOO 11 price is starting to fall, but the gaming phone got unexpected competition as the PS5 also got cheaper. Use the links below to jump to your region: USA Germany The UK India USA For Mother’s Day, Samsung is offering a free...

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Flashback: the phones that weren’t, part 2 - letting people design a phone

Henry Ford once said “If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses”. The authenticity of the quote isn’t 100% confirmed, but the point is clear – people can’t always come up with the best solutions to their problems. But there is another popular quote – “Vox Populi, Vox Dei”, which translates to “the voice of the people is the voice of God”. ZTE liked this one better and in 2016 it announced the start of Project CSX. The goal was simple, form a new online “Z-Community” who will help design a smartphone by suggesting cool features and later voting on them....

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