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Samsung has released a new software update for the Galaxy Tab S3 in some countries. The update brings the March 2019 security patch to the device and is rolling out in Peru and Colombia with software version T825UBU2BSC2. The Wi-Fi-only variant doesn’t seem to be getting the same update yet, but it should be joining the party sooner rather than later. The usual security update with nothing else...

Huawei launched the P30 and P30 Pro on the global scene, but the phone is yet to hit India. Today the company posted a landing page on Amazon, preparing fans for the local market launch. Sadly, the website is yet to reveal any details like pricing, color options, pre-order and launch dates, etc. We only know the most powerful variant will be the 8/256 GB option for the P30 Pro, and we are likely to see the vanilla P30 arrive as well. Usually, the...

Samsung started a massive offensive with its refreshed Galaxy A and Galaxy M series. Last week we saw seven devices by the Korean manufacturer in our Top 10 list, but this time they got reduced to just six, making way for the newly announced Huawei P30 and Huawei P30 Pro. However, Samsung Galaxy A50 keeps its top spot, followed by the Huawei's flagship with 10x zoom and then by another new announcement from this week - Samsung Galaxy A70. The Redmi...

The star of the past week is definitely the Huawei P30 Pro that was finally unveiled in Paris, France. It was accompanied by the vanilla P30 and plenty of gadgets, while their more affordable sibling P30 Lite silently started popping up in random markets. Xiaomi tried to rain on Huawei's parade, mocking the P30 and P30 Pro for using a dated chipset, despite the Kirin 980 actually being the latest by HiSilicon. The company also posted another teaser...

Ever since the return of Nokia under HMD Global ownership in the beginning of 2017, everyone's been asking where the proper flagship is. The Nokia 8 was sort of that, but it failed to impress, and then the Nokia 8 Sirocco missed the mark too, if it was even going for it at all. In comes the Nokia 9 PureView. PureView is more than a brand - the moniker holds an iconic status among Nokia loyalists thanks to phones like the Nokia 808 and the Lumia...

Huawei redefined mobile photography this week with the unveiling of its P30 flagships. The phones also adopted OLED acoustic screens and reduced the size of the notch. Let's take a closer look. The 125mm periscope telephoto camera is the crown jewel of the Huawei P30 Pro. It has a fixed focal length, but advanced image processing and data taken from the high-resolution 40MP SuperSpectrum sensor provides a smooth zoom from 1x to nearly 5x (optical),...

Water was never a friend to electronics, but there have always been phones with an adventurous spirit that have protection against the elements. The Benefone Esc! from 1999, famous for being the first cell phone with a built-in GPS receiver, was shock and water resistant. But that was before phones were given official IP codes, so we'll fast forward to 2008. But first, a crash course on what the numbers mean. The first digit measures the protection...

While not a hot topic, tablets are still relevant - most people in last week's poll cast a positive vote. The three options are nearly even and while "No" has a lead of a few percentage points, "Yes" and "Somewhat" add up to a majority over 60%. Going through the comments makes things pretty clear - most people use tablets for media consumption. An old tablet performs this task just as well as a new one, especially if (as many of you recommend)...

Building on a highly successful 2018, Huawei came into the new year with a bang. Earlier this week the company officially unveiled its brand new P series flagships in Paris. The new phones offer refinements across the board compared to last year's models and are yet again attempting to revolutionize mobile photography. As one of the forerunners in the race to 5G, Huawei surprisingly didn't announce any upcoming 5G devices during the event but we...

The Meizu 16s has been a hot topic over the past month, with first live images appearing at the end of February and then another one some 10 ago, following a 3C certification. The latest piece of info on the upcoming handset comes from GeekBench. What is allegedly a Meizu M16s, but goes by the name 'alps m1971' for the time being, has had a crack at the popular CPU benchmark. The device is powered by the Snapdragon 855 chipset (the 'msmnile' in...

Google has accidentally leaked details about its unannounced product dubbed Nest Hub Max. It posted images on its online store revealing information about this product. The images have now been taken down, but the folks over at Android Police managed to take their screenshots before Google rectified its mistake. These images tell us that the Nest Hub Max will come with a 10-inch HD display, and the device will also sport stereo speakers. It will...

Samsung's rolled out another update for the Galaxy S8's global version (SM-G950F) with the changelog listing improved camera stability and a 'security patch update'. The second bit isn't strictly the March security patch as that was already made available with the previous update from March 18 - yes, today's Galaxy S8 update is the second in less than two weeks. As we point out every time, it may take a day (or a few) for the OTA to reach each and...

Chinese smartphone brand Oppo launched the Find X last year with a slider design that also led some other phone makers to follow suit. Now the company has been granted a patent for another slider design smartphone, but this one's a tad different from the Find X. The Find X came with three cameras - two at the back and one on the front - which were all concealed inside the smartphone and were accessed through a slider. However, the sketches of Oppo's...

The Samsung Galaxy A10 that was unveiled late last month has been launched in Pakistan with a price tag of PKR21,500 ($153). The Galaxy A10 has an Exynos 7884 SoC under the hood which is coupled with 2GB RAM. It's built around a 6.2-inch Infinity-V display having a resolution of 1520 x 720 pixels. The smartphone runs Android Pie out-of-the-box and has 32GB of storage on board with the provision to expand it by up to 512GB via microSD card. For photography,...

Following a restructuring that will see Sony's smartphone division merge with the TV, audio and camera operations into Sony Electronics Products and Solutions, job cuts are planned at what was Sony Mobile. A report out of Japan says that the Sony smartphone workforce will be reduced to half of the 4,000 people that are employed there now, and it will all happen by March 2020. Aiming to cut down on operating costs, the company will scale down the...

Motorola is expected to launch its first Exynos-powered smartphone dubbed Moto One Vision soon. Images and specs of the One Vision have already leaked, and now, the smartphone has been added to the list of ARCore supported devices on Google's website which hints at its imminent launch. According to leaked specs, the One Vision will be powered by Samsung's Exynos 9610 SoC and will run Android Pie out-of-the-box. It will be an Android One smartphone...

Samsung unveiled the Galaxy A20 smartphone last week, and the company is expected to launch its slightly toned down version dubbed Galaxy A20e soon. The A20e was listed on Samsung UK's website earlier this month, and now, its alleged case renders have surfaced revealing its design. These case renders show us that the A20e will look similar to the A20. It has a waterdrop notch display on the front with a dual camera setup located on the back in the...

Samsung bundles a fantastic wide-angle front-facing camera on the Galaxy S10, Galaxy S10+ and Galaxy S10e; however, they aren’t able to capture an outspread frame in all scenarios, it has been revealed — the South Korean firm locks down the field-of-view for aftermarket applications. What we mean by that is that the API (that’s the level of code that provides developers with access to core device...

We've reviewed the Oppo F11 Pro and our video summary is now live on YouTube. This is perhaps the cheapest device you can get that has a full bezel-less display, complete with a pop-up selfie camera - which is partly to thank for that. The Oppo F11 Pro has a beautiful gradient finish that would surprise you if you didn't know it was made of plastic. Meanwhile, the pop-up selfie camera sits right at the middle of the hardware, thus keeping the phone's...

On Tuesday, Nokia sent out event invitations for a device launch taking place in Taiwan on April 2. This is for the Nokia X71, which might launch as the Nokia 8.1 Plus for global markets. The very same Nokia X71 has appeared on Geekbench, revealing some of the innards of the device. The listing on Geekbench shows the "HMD Global Nokia X71" running a Qualcomm Snapdragon 660 AIE CPU. Paired with the processor are 6GB of RAM for lots of multitasking....

Some new information alleging to pertain to the Korean variant of the Samsung Galaxy S10 5G have surfaced. First spotted by Dealntech, the Samsung Galaxy S10 5G will be available in two memory tiers: 256GB and 512GB. Also, the dimensions and weight of the phone are slightly different from the global version's specs. The global variant is 162.6 x 77.1 x 7.9 mm and 198g. Interestingly enough, the Korean variant is said to be a teeny bit heavier at...

Eighteen months after it was first unveiled, Apple has announced that it is cancelling AirPower. In a statement emailed to TechCrunch, Apple's Senior Vice President of Hardware Engineering — Dan Riccio — said, After much effort, we've concluded AirPower will not achieve our high standards and we have cancelled the project. We apologize to those customers who were looking forward to this launch. We continue to believe that the future is wireless...

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Samsung Galaxy S10 users are reporting that the front camera of their phone can only be used in the cropped mode, rather than the full field of view that the lens is capable of when you use a third-party camera app. This seems to apply to all three devices in the S10 series. The Galaxy S10 has a wide-angle lens for the front camera on all three devices. However, the main camera app always opens in a cropped mode (6MP) offering a field of view similar...

The LG K12+ was quietly announced in Brazil yesterday and it packs a lot of features for an entry-level device. If it looks familiar to you, don't be surprised, we've already seen the device as the LG K40. The main selling points of the K12+ is that it offers plenty of features found on more expensive LG devices such as AI enhanced software and premium audio at a midrange price-point. LG K12+ in Moroccan Blue The K12+ comes with а 5.7 inch HD+ screen...

Just days after iFixit praised Samsung's Galaxy Buds for being quite serviceable (with a 6 out of 10 repairability score), they tore down the new 2019 Apple AirPods and got a completely opposite result. With a repairability score of 0 out of 10 the new AirPods are practically non-serviceable. You can't swap out the battery, you can't fix any inner part that has been damaged and they're nearly impossible to recycle because of the hard-to-get batteries....

No, the Galaxy S10e doesn’t have a heart rate sensor. This is something we here at SamMobile missed because, frankly, the heart rate sensor has been such a common part of Samsung’s flagships for so many years that we automatically assumed it would be there on all Galaxy S10 models. The S10e does have a small black hole with some kind of chip inside next to the rear camera flash, and we assumed the...

Another day, another jab on Huawei's expense by Western governments. According to an annual report from the UK's National Cyber Security Centre, the Chinese manufacturer still couldn't fix multiple issues and vulnerabilities, raising the question if any of its future products can be risk-managed properly. Although the UK watchdog did voice its concern, it stopped short of calling an outright 5G ban of Huawei's equipment across the United Kingdom....

A couple of hours ago, we reported about the Oppo Reno which appeared on TENAA with its images and detailed specs. Now, the smartphone has appeared on popular benchmarking database AnTuTu corroborating its key specs. Oppo Reno Two models of the Oppo Reno with model number PCAM00 and PCAT00 were listed on TENAA, and out of those, the former has passed through AnTuTu with a score of 166,935. The benchmark database also confirms Snapdragon 710 SoC...

From being mocked for its utilitarian designs to turning into a benchmark for premium smartphone design, Samsung has come a long way in the last few years. It showed its design prowess once again with the recently launched Galaxy S10 series that has been receiving praise from all quarters. The Korean company took its critically-acclaimed flagship design from last year and refined it further to stay ahead of the rivals. In an interview published on...

Facebook-owned WhatsApp rolled out Picture-in-Picture (PiP) Mode for its iPhone app last year in May, and it extended this feature to its Android app later in December. However, the PiP Mode on Android app has a limitation - it plays video only inside a chat. Well, WhatsApp fixes that with the latest beta update. With beta version 2.19.86 of WhatsApp for Android, the company has improved the PiP Mode so that it works similar to how it does on an...

Huawei made the P30 Pro official at an event in Paris three days ago, and while the smartphone is yet to go on sale, it has already received its first software update. The update carries version number 9.1.0.124(C431E4R2P2) and weighs just over 400MB in size. It optimizes the camera performance of the P30 Pro in certain scenarios and also brings a fix for an issue that causes the audio and video to go out of sync when playing Instagram videos recorded...

The nubia Red Magic 3 has gone through the Master Lu benchmark with its Snapdragon 855 chipset. The tested unit only had 8GB of RAM, though we know that there will be configurations with up to 12GB RAM. This particular unit sported 128GB of storage. The screen will have a resolution of 1,080 x 2,340px. 1080p displays are the norm for gaming phones as they prioritize performance. ZTE has been working on a high refresh rate screen, "higher than most...

Samsung launched the Galaxy S10 5G without a price tag. However, a report from South Korea revealed the price of the device and that it is already being prepared for a launch next week, including a variant with 8/512 GB memory. Prices for the 8/256 GB phone will be KRW1,39 million (around $1,220/€1,100) but can increase to KRW1,55 million ($1,360/€1,215) if you need to double the storage. The launch on April 5, which is exactly seven days from today,...

The Galaxy S10 5G and Galaxy A70 are the first Samsungs to support 25W wired charging (vanilla S10 models stick to the old 15W standard). Here's a look at the charger that will be bundled with these phones. The EP-TA800 is a USB Power Delivery charger that uses a USB-C to USB-C cable to connect to phones. It tops out at 25W, but supports the Programmable Power Supply (PPS) mode, which allows the phone to control the power output of the charger for...

Samsung’s second software update for the Galaxy S10 lineup brought with it improvements to Wireless PowerShare, and it turns out that the company has made a very useful change. The heart rate sensor on the back of the Galaxy S10 and Galaxy S10+ will now light up to indicate that Wireless PowerShare is being used. Notice that we don’t mention the Galaxy S10e here, and that’s because the S10e’s heart rate sensor is almost completely hidden behind the...

The Galaxy S10, S10+, and the Galaxy S10e have been recognized as the three best smartphones in a research conducted by Roskachestvo, the Russian non-profit organization for quality checking. Samsung’s latest flagships replace the Galaxy Note 9 from the top spot. Seven Samsung phones in top ten Roskachestvo, together with the International Consumer Research Association (ICRT), has presented an updated list of the best smartphones. The organization’s...

The Samsung Galaxy S9 and the S9+ are truly amazing devices. The best case for your Samsung Galaxy S9 should be something which shows the true majesty of the device. It should also be strong and sturdy enough to provide good protection against any possible accidents. Thus, in order to help you figure out the right case for your phone, we have gathered a list of the five best Samsung Galaxy S9 cases that you can buy online. SamMobile cover We’re...

We brought back our live YouTube sessions with a bang (and a new name) two weeks ago. We know many of you have been waiting for the next episode so don’t forget to tune in today for Episode 2 of SamMobile TV. There is a lot that we’re going to discuss in this episode. First and foremost, we’ll be discussing in detail all of the Samsung news from this week, including last night’s announcement of the...

Oppo is all set to make the Reno official on April 10, and as we inch closer to that date, we keep hearing more about this smartphone. A leak from yesterday gave us a pretty good look at Reno's design, and today the smartphone has appeared on TENAA with its detailed specs and images. Oppo Reno has been listed on TENAA with model number PCAM00 and PCAT00. This is the Snapdragon 710 variant we are looking at, but there will be a Snapdragon 855-powered...

T-Mobile's acquisition of Sprint is a major change in the telecom landscape in the United States, and several state attorney generals are worried this might hurt competition. According to Bloomberg, California and New York are leading a group of over a dozen states that would file a lawsuit if the Department of Justice does not challenge the deal. Initially, T-Mobile offered $26.5 billion to acquire Sprint and all its market presence, making it...