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Every year Samsung launches an odd clamshell smartphone in China with two screens, top of the line internals, and a very high price. Following the W2016, W2017, and W2018, it's almost time for the W2019 to be officially unveiled. That should happen very soon, perhaps even in the next few weeks, given the amount of leaks we've seen about it recently. Samsung W2019 Today we have a bunch of new pictures showing the upcoming device in all its blocky...

Today Huawei has proudly announced that the Mate 20 Pro is shaping up to be its best selling smartphone ever in Western Europe. That is, at least, if we go by pre-order numbers. During the first ten days of pre-orders, the Mate 20 Pro managed to log 40% more of those than the P20 Pro did earlier in the year. The Mate 20 Pro is now Huawei's most pre-ordered smartphone of all time in Western Europe. Walter Ji, President of Huawei Western Europe's...

The OnePlus 6T isn't out yet as customers still have to wait until November 6 for sales to begin but we are now receiving an OTA update for our testing unit with some promising improvements. The OTA update upgrades the OxygenOS version to 9.0.4 and promises to deliver improvements mainly in the camera department by including the Studio Lighting effect when taking portrait shots and adds final touches to the Nightscape mode used for low-light photography....

With the launch of the Galaxy Note9 this year, Samsung brought a new version of its DeX feature, which didn't need a dock to enable the full desktop DeX experience - a USB-C to HDMI cable would do just fine. And according to the leaked Samsung Experience 10 beta software based on 9.0 Android, the Galaxy S9+ will get the feature as well. There's a catch though - if you choose not to use the DeX dock, you will be allowed to open only 5 windows instead...

After a long hiatus from the US market, ZTE is back with two new phones. The ZTE Blade Max View has a 6" 18:9 1080p display and a Snapdragon 435 chipset with 3GB of RAM. Its 32GB storage is expandable and there's a 4,000mAh battery inside. The Max View offers a 16MP + 2 MP dual camera on the back with the latter sensor serving only to collect depth information for the portrait mode. At the front there's an 8MP camera. ZTE Blade Max View The ZTE...

If you’re looking for a microSD card for your smartphone or any other device that accepts SD cards, Amazon.com has nice discounts running on Samsung’s Evo Select microSD cards at the moment. 32GB, 64GB, 128GB, and 256GB variants are all available for a considerably lower price than what they normally cost. Higher the storage, bigger the discount For $60 (40 percent off), you can pick up a 256GB class...

People are buying what OnePlus and T-Mobile are selling - the lines for the OnePlus 6T in front of the carrier's stores were longer than those for the new iPhones (according to a T-Mo employee quoted by Business Insider). T-Mobile stores are currently the only place in the world where you can buy a 6T, but that's not why the carrier has the best deal on the new flagship. By trading in an eligible phone (the list is quite long and even includes the...

Samsung posted its quarterly report for Q3 and again smashed its own record by reaching KRW65.46 trillion ($57.3 billion) in revenue and KRW17.57 trillion ($15.4 billion) in operating profit. However, the Korean company realizes the money flow will likely decrease going forward due to the end of a two-year boom in memory chips demand. The IT & Mobile Division, responsible for the Galaxy smartphones, recorded a 10% YoY decline in sales to KRW24.91...

Apple started rolling out iOS 12.1 yesterday with, among other improvements, a fix for the charging issues experienced by the latest batch of iPhones. Yet there was also a not so pleasant surprise for last year's batch - the "performance management feature" is back, despite early claims that it's not necessary. It is added to the iPhone 8, iPhone 8 Plus and iPhone X by the update. However, Apple notes that this management "may be less noticeable...

Clearly, next year's big thing will be foldable devices and LG wants in. Samsung promised to announce its flexible Galaxy phone soon, but its local rival might even beat it. According to the latest tweet from Evan Blass LG is looking to unveil its revolutionary smartphone at its own keynote at CES 2019. I can't speak for Samsung......but I do know that LG plans to unveil a foldable phone at its 2019 CES keynote.— Evan Blass (@evleaks) October 31,...

Bringing the small Pixel into the now with a tall display and less wasted space, we have this year's Google Pixel 3. Updated glass build and a couple of selfie cameras mark the other key changes compared to the 2017 vintage. Read More........

Samsung has been quite serious about bringing new camera features from its latest flagships to existing devices. AR Emoji, which debuted on the Galaxy S9, is now supported on the Galaxy S8, Galaxy Note 8, Galaxy A8 Star, and the Galaxy A7, just to name a few. It also made its way Samsung’s budget lineup with an update to the Galaxy J7 Duo, and we can rest assured we will see AR Emoji on new Galaxy...

October is almost over and HMD Global rushed to deliver the OTA updates for the Nokia 6.1 and 6.1 Plus and so kept its promise. Technically, both handsets got their deserved OTAs right before the month ended - yesterday it was the Nokia 6.1 and today it's Nokia 6.1 Plus' turn. Juho Sarvikas, the CPO of HMD Global, took it to Twitter and announced that the Nokia 6.1 Plus is now receiving the 9.0 Pie upgrade. He even included a short clip that demonstrates...

The first foldable phone is a reality - the FlexPai. Well, it's actually a tablet as unfolded it boasts a 7.8" screen (4:3 aspect ratio). Folded, that drops to a more manageable 4". And get this, this device is the first to use the 7nm Snapdragon 8150! This is the "world's first foldable screen phone" released by Rouyu Technology, which will use the Snapdragon 8150 processor, but its design is very rough, just to seize the "first", this is a futures...

Following Huawei's lead with the Watch GT, Honor has unveiled a smartwatch based on the proprietary Light OS platform. The Honor Watch Magic is smaller and less fancy than the GT, but even more affordable. The Honor smartwatch has a 1.2" AMOLED display, compared to 1.39" for the Huawei one. In both cases the resolution was selected to deliver a sharp 326ppi pixel density. The battery is smaller as well, 178mAh, down from 420mAh. Honor claims that...

‘Tis the season of slider phones - the Honor Magic 2 arrived a week after the Xiaomi Mi Mix 3 and a day ahead of the Lenovo Z5 Pro. The new flagship by the Huawei subsidiary has six cameras (three front-facing, three on the back), Kirin 980 chipset and impressively fast 40W charging. Oh yeah, there are also no notches at the front, thanks to the sliding mechanism. The screen is a 6.4" OLED panel with Full HD+ resolution in 19:9 ratio with a curved...

Alongside the new iPad Pro 11 and iPad Pro 12.9 Apple also introduced a second generation Pencil. In case it wasn't clear, the new tablets are not compatible with the old stylus and the new stylus isn't compatible with the old tablets. A big part of that is charging - the new Apple Pencil is charged wirelessly from the new iPad Pros while the old one plugged into the Lightning port (which, by the way, the new tablets do not have). The second-gen...

Samsung has a new flip phone in the pipeline that it’s going to launch in the coming weeks. Some fresh SM-W2019 images have surfaced online today. They show off the device in all its glory. We have previously seen some leaked images of this device as well. It appears to be quite similar in design to its predecessor, the SM-W2018. The company is yet to confirm when this device will be unveiled. Whenever it arrives, it will only be available in...

Remember when last year Big Shaq taught us quick maths - two plus two is four, minus one that's three? Xiaomi went one step further and gave away calculators to people lining for the OnePlus 6T launch in New Delhi, India. They had to "do the math" how much cheaper the Poco F1 is compared to the new OnePlus flagship. Quick math Poco India even took the diss to Twitter, hijacking the OnePlus key slogan "Never Settle" and explaining that you can get...

The Galaxy S6 crossed its three-year software support period earlier this year, but as is par for the course, that isn’t stopping Samsung from releasing a new security update for the device. The Galaxy S6 is getting an update in South Africa at the moment, carrying software version G920FXXU6ERI1 and the October 2018 security patch. Galaxy S6 October security update released Since the Galaxy S6...

ZTE nubia X is finally here and as expected - the dual screen flagship went official earlier today. Arguably, the best feature is the main display achieving 93.6% screen-to-body ratio. It uses and LCD panel, while on the back you get a secondary OLED screen. The main display has a FHD+ (1080 x 2280 pixels) resolution and a 6.26-inch diagonal with a tall 19:9 aspect ratio. The secondary one stretches to 5.1" and has the same 19:9 aspect ratio but...

The Oreo update for the Galaxy S8 brought support for turning the phone’s display into a trackpad, removing the need for an external mouse to use the DeX Station. Then the Galaxy Note 9 came out with the ability to run in DeX mode with just a USB Type-C to HDMI cable, a feature the Galaxy Tab S4 supports as well. And thanks to Android Pie, DeX mode will be coming to the Galaxy S9 and Galaxy S9+. Galaxy S9 will offer desktop experience without a DeX...

Yesterday Apple announced the new iPad Pro in two iterations - an 11" model and 12.9" model with prices starting at $799 and $999. Verizon followed through with an announcement that it is launch pre-orders tomorrow, with the official launch taking place next Wednesday - in line with other channels that will offer the tablets. You can get the device with monthly payments and 0% interest, but there are promos if you purchase a plan along with the...

The new OxygenOS Open Beta 6 for the OnePlus 6 is now rolling out and it contains a number of new features coming straight from the newly released OnePlus 6T. This one doesn't come as a surprise because the company promised to bring the nifty camera features to the OnePlus 6 and since the latter uses the same camera setup as the 6T, there's no reason not to. As promised, the Open Beta 6 delivers the so-called Nightscape mode for hand-held long exposure...

An hour before the announcement we get a full scoop of Honor Magic 2 specs thanks to a TENAA listing. We already knew that Huawei's Kirin 980 chipset will be running the show, but now we can confirm it's paired with either 6 or 8GB of RAM. Storage options are 128GB and 256GB with no mention of microSD card support The display is listed as 6.39-inch with AMOLED panel sporting FHD+ (1080 x 2340) resolution. Honor Magic 2 in white The list continues...

Samsung posted record profits in Q3 2018 which were largely contributed by its semiconductor division. This has been the case over the past few years. Samsung’s mobile division hasn’t contributed significantly to its record profit run. It’s a similar story in Q3 2018. The company revealed today that its mobile division has reported a drop in earnings “despite solid sales of its flagship smartphones.”...

Xiaomi released the Pocophone F1 two months ago and it was an instant hit due to its flagship chipset and impressively low price. The device has MIUI for Poco out of the box, which is a simplified MIUI 9.6, based on Android Oreo. Today a closed beta ROM started going around the internet with a version number 10.8.30, based on Android Pie. Jai Mani, head of product at Pocophone promised yesterday at least Android Pie and Android Q will come to the...

Lenovo Z5 Pro is getting introduced tomorrow, and we know the phone is going to have a dual 24 MP + 16 MP main camera with dedicated AI Night Scene Mode. It is also expected to have a sliding mechanism for the selfie camera and ZUI, and now these have been confirmed by leaked live images of the flagship in its retail box. Lenovo Z5 arrived with ZUI 4.0, and the logical step is the Lenovo Z5 Pro to come with ZUI 5.0 or something similar, but apparently,...

Samsung released its Q3 2018 earnings guidance last month. It predicted record profits this past quarter compared to the same period last year. Samsung expected sales of 65 trillion won or $57.5 billion and 17.5 trillion won or $15.5 billion in operating profits. That would have smashed its record for the highest profit ever in a single quarter. The company today released its full earnings results...

Samsung has been bringing many camera features from its newest flagships to mid-range devices and existing flagship phones in recent months. Devices like the Galaxy A8 Star and Galaxy S8 were updated with the AR Emoji camera mode, and the feature has now come to Samsung’s budget lineup. The Galaxy J7 Duo seems to be the first J series phone to be getting AR Emoji support, although it remains to be seen if it will make its way to other existing Galaxy...

A new Energizer smartphone has been made official today. It's called E500S and right off the bat its most important spec seems to be the price: €99.99 SIM-free and unlocked. It comes with Android Oreo (Go Edition), the special version of Google's OS that is optimized to run well on very low-end hardware. The E500S has 4G support (including VoLTE), an 8 MP main camera with LED flash, a 5 MP selfie shooter, and a 5-inch 800x480 touchscreen. You get...

BlackBerry's latest smartphone, the KEY2 LE, was announced at IFA at the end of August as a toned down version of the KEY2, with lesser specs but also a more affordable price. This smartphone is now up for grabs from the company's own online store serving the EU. At the moment only the Slate color version is in stock, and you can buy a KEY2 LE in that hue with 32GB of storage for €399. The Champagne colorway is up for pre-order, and will start shipping...

Shortly after the announcement of the new OnePlus 6T, the company released the kernel source code for on GitHub so that developers can build ROMs and mods taking advantage of the full potential of the handset. In a community forum post, the OnePlus team reminds us that the tradition of unlocking the bootloader and giving away the kernel source code started with the release of the OnePlus 3. A big part of the community goes back to OnePlus every...

LG has filed design patents for a new phone, which sports a quad camera and a traditional fingerprint reader on the back. The design was submitted in three version, each with more rounding on the corners (of the screen and of the phone itself). LG's recent V40 was its first with three cameras and this new phone may go up to four. They are arranged in a square a la Huawei. No flash is indicated in the drawings, so it is possible that just like the...

Sony's mobile business cannot catch a break - last quarter it published its financial report, revealing only 2 million phones sold between April and June. The July-September numbers are out, and they are even less impressive - just 1.6 million, which is half the sales this time last year. In term of revenue the numbers are down from JPY172 billion to JPY117.8 billion, with an operating loss of JPY29.8 billion, half of it due to an impairment charge...

Right on schedule! HMD promised to release the OTA update to Android 9.0 Pie for a the Nokia 6.1 and 6.1 Plus this month and it's now happening. Users report that their beloved Nokia 6.1 is now getting the fresh new look and functionality of the 9.0 Pie. The update is 1,462MB big and carries a slew of changes - both visual and under-the-hood. You can expect Android's new gesture-based navigation system, Adaptive Battery optimization, new camera...

Google Pay is a payment method for Android devices with NFC in over 20 countries that allows you to leave your credit and debit cards at home. Today the number of markets it's offered in grew by four after banks in Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Denmark enabled the service for its customers. Google Pay is already rolling out to users Although we have four more countries, the initial number of banks and platforms in Scandinavia is pretty basic. Nordea...

A recent report about the Galaxy S10 suggested that its front camera might be under the display. The company has teased this implementation of the front camera already. It has shown off others as well which give us an idea of how Samsung will go about killing the notch. The company was never one to adopt the notch. It continues to stick to its guns even though many of its rivals have gone the notch way. The upcoming Galaxy A8s might show us how it...

Japan often gets cool tech gadgets first, but not this time - it just got its first phone with an in-display fingerprint reader and it's late to that particular party. The phone itself is quite interesting - the Oppo R17 Neo. For the most part it's based on the Oppo R17. That means a 6.4" AMOLED display with a teardrop notch and 1080p+ resolution, which houses the fingerprint reader in question. The back is painted in two new gradient colors. The...

A TENAA listing from last month gave us a pretty good idea of what to expect from the nubia X smartphone with two displays so the latest leaks serves as more of a confirmation of what the phone will bring tomorrow. The Master Lu benchmark listing shows a respectable 311,411 score that's typical for a Snapdragon 845-powered flagship. It's paired with 8GB of RAM and the screenshot also lists the main screen with 1080 x 2280 resolution. We've seen...

The OnePlus 6T was announced yesterday but it will go on sale in a manner of days around the globe. This is OnePlus' biggest launch ever, bringing in T-Mobile and Verizon in the US as well as all major carriers and retailers in the UK as partners. So when will the new 6T become available in stores and how much are you going to pay. The when is November 1 in the States and India and November 6 in Europe. OnePlus impressed us when it came to price....

If the new MacBook Air is the new MacBook, then the new iPad Pro is the new MacBook Air. Apple says it's more powerful than 92% of laptops out there and it's running the full-blown versions of Adobe Photoshop and Autodesk AutoCAD and, yes, it could easily transform into a laptop-like device with keyboard or even a desktop with an external monitor. There's so much to cover, but we have to start with the new screens. With thinner bezels, Apple fit...

Apple just announced a long-awaited hardware refresh of the Mac mini. The mini desktop computer was overdue for an update as the last one was four years ago. So it's only natural to make the new one considerably faster and more refined. But does it deserve your hard-earned money? The new Mac mini comes in a familiar enclosure with improved cooling to support the considerably more powerful hardware. It's also made of 100% recyclable aluminum and...

Today Apple will seed the final iOS 12.1 firmware to supported iPhone and iPad models. The firmware enables the dual-SIM support of the iPhone XS, XS Max and XR, brings Group FaceTime calls with support for up to 32 people at once and adds some 70 new emoji characters. It also fixes the charging woes of some devices and brings an end to the soft selfies that were coming out of new iPhone XS, XS Max and XR units. Finally iOS 12.1 adds depth control...

The rumors were right: Apple has finally decided to update the very long in the tooth MacBook Air. Apple's best selling laptop (and cheapest one, incidentally) has been in need of a refresh for years, and today we finally got it. The new MacBook Air has a 13.3" 2560x1600 Retina Display with 50% narrower bezels than its predecessor, and a modern-looking design that has glass coverage up to the edges. The screen can show 48% more color, and the FaceTime...

OnePlus 6T got unveiled yesterday and now the phone is having a separate introduction in New Delhi, India. The global launch was broadcasted on YouTube and this one will be live and freely available as well. The stream will be live at 8.30 PM IST when the event begins. Although we know the OnePlus 6T comes with an UD fingerprint scanner, waterdrop notch, and Snapdragon 845, we are expecting to see prices and availability dates for the Amazon Exclusive...

The Pocophone F1 is a great value for money phone and the value just got better - Jai Mani, Head of Product at Poco, has confirmed on Twitter that the F1 will get "at least" Android 9.0 Pie and Android Q. The Pocophone launched with Android 8.1 Oreo and was spotted testing Pie over a month ago. There's no release time frame, though. "Q", the Android version after Pie, is yet to be named, but if Google keeps the schedule, it will be delivered in...