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The Realme C3 is coming on February 6 but the company has already revealed most of its specifications. Now, Realme has announced that Realme C3 will boot Realme UI, making it the first Realme smartphone to run the company's newest Android 10-based skin out of the box. The Realme C3 is an entry-level smartphone, having the recently announced Helio G70 SoC at the helm. It will arrive in two memory configurations (3GB/32GB and 4GB/64GB) and sport a...

Foldable smartphones are certainly gaining a lot of attention as the new form factor challenges smartphone design as we know it. While we saw foldable smartphones and displays over the last year or so, they were all made with fragile plastic lenses atop the display panels. These are very easy to scratch and can easily cause damage to an otherwise expensive device. Rumors suggested that Samsung's upcoming Z Flip smartphone will use a new ultra-thin...

Over a year and a half ago, each of the four major US carriers was in some way involved with an incident that revealed how carriers were selling location data of its subscribers to whoever wanted to pay for them. It involved a couple of "middle men" companies who could eventually sell location data to whoever wanted to buy it. It eventually involved Securus, a prison company that used carrier information to track phones without owners' permission....

Samsung has filed a request to trademark "Super ISO" with the UK Intellectual Property Office. According to Ice Universe this will be featured on the upcoming Galaxy S20 phones. "ISO" here refers to the light sensitivity of the camera - if you've ever played with manual mode on a camera, you'll know that darker scenes require higher ISO. The problem with that is that higher ISO equals higher noise, which is probably what this feature is about. The...

After a slight upheave during the Q3 period, worldwide tablet sales have yet again declined in the fourth quarter of 2019. According to the latest IDC report, the tablet market is down by 0.6% year over year as a total of 43.5 million units were shipped during the October-December period. Unsurprisingly, Apple is still the runaway leader as it managed to sell an estimated 15.9 million units in Q4 2019. Samsung with 7 million and Huawei with 4 million...

Pricing and availability details for the Galaxy S10 Lite and Galaxy Note 10 Lite in Malaysia have now been confirmed ahead of an imminent release. The Galaxy S10 Lite and Note 10 Lite will cost RM 2,699 ($658) and RM 2,299 ($560), respectively, and they will be available for purchase in the company’s offline and online stores, as well as online through retail partners including Shopee, Lazada, and PrestoMall. The two new smartphones are listed on...

Razer is known for producing high-end gaming gear. This includes their gaming mouse: the DeathAdder Elite. This gaming mouse is the #1 selling product in its class in the US. The reason for selling so well is the excellent price/quality ratio as well as the specs. It offers a 16,000 DPI optical sensor which guarantees high precision. It also comes with 7 programmable buttons which you can assign yourself....

There’s little we don’t know any more about the upcoming Galaxy S20 series since almost everything has been leaked. We’ll continue to see such leaks before Samsung officially unveils the devices on February 11. A newly leaked image is making the rounds on Twitter in which you can see all three Galaxy S20 models lined up together. Some bits are blurred in this image but you can get a pretty good idea of the size difference between these models. This...

Members of European Parliament voted overwhelmingly in favor of a common charger, the resolution passed with 582-40. It urges the European Commission to adopt new rules by July that would make it so buyers don't necessarily get a new charger with each new device. A decade ago, the EU got major phone makers (among which Apple) to voluntarily move towards a common standard. Now MEPs believe that the voluntary approach has not worked out and new legislation...

Samsung’s Global Goals app is going to improve with new features by the end of the month. The company is updating the app with support for more payment options, new inspirational lock screen wallpapers, and several UX changes such as streamlined notifications and Facts and Figures on each Goal. In addition to these changes, Samsung Global Goals is getting an exclusive feature in South Korea, allowing customers there to learn about the Korean Sustainable...

Soccer fans and Samsung smart TV owners are in for a treat. Samsung has entered a new partnership with the Liga Nacional de Fútbol Profesional, known as La Liga for short, and through this deal, the sports-centric LaLigaSportsTV over-the-top (OTT) streaming service will become available for free to all Samsung smart TV owners around the world. LaLigaSportsTV streams soccer events from La Liga and...

We've heard plenty of analyses in the past few days, and now we have another report to confirm that Huawei has overtaken Apple in the battle for the second place on the global smartphone market. Counterpoint Research revealed that Cupertino fell under 200 million shipments while its Chinese competitor reached almost 240 million. The analysts reported that switching 2019 strategies lead to improving some results, such as Samsung and its Galaxy A...

With the number of leaks and rumors flying around lately, there seems to be very little about the Galaxy S20 series that we don’t know. Pricing is one of those details that remain subject to change, but earlier today, Polish online publication Tabletowo claimed to have found out all about the costs of acquiring the upcoming Galaxy S20 models. The Galaxy S20 will cost the equivalent of €812 and it...

The three Galaxy S20 phones have taken their turn running Geekbench 5.1. The models headed to the South Korean and US markets, specifically, which are powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon 865 rather than a home-grown Samsung chipset (it seems that only European models will use Exynos 9830). Korean versions: Samsung Galaxy S20 • Galaxy S20+ • Galaxy S20 Ultra The trio packs 12GB of RAM (the value reported by the benchmark is lower as a part of RAM is...

Huawei announced the Mate X foldable smartphone last year in February and later in September, it filed a patent with USPTO (United States Patent and Trademark Office) for a new foldable smartphone with stylus support. Now, we are looking at another patent filed by the Chinese phone maker with EUIPO (European Union Intellectual Property Office), and it reveals yet another foldable smartphone which could be the Mate X2. Huawei Mate X The patent describes...

Samsung has become quite proactive these days in rolling out new security patches for its devices even before Google puts up the release notes. We have seen the company do this consistently over the past few weeks. Having already released the patch for the Galaxy Tab S3 this week, Samsung today started rolling out the February 2020 security patch for the Galaxy Note 10+ and the Galaxy Note 9. February...

The Nubia Red Magic 5G is shaping up to be a beast of a phone with a 144Hz refresh rate display, Snapdragon 865, dual-mode 5G and blazing fast 80W fast charging. Last week we saw a live demo of the phone's new low latency wireless screencasting feature and now the brand's president Ni Fei took to Weibo again to tease the new super fast charging of the upcoming gaming phone. Nubia Red Magic 5G charging test The photo shows a detailed charging log...

Samsung announced the Galaxy A51 last month and the company will soon follow up with its 5G version that has appeared on Geekbench sporting model number SM-A516N. The benchmark database reveals key specs of the Galaxy A51 5G - an Exynos 980 SoC, 6GB RAM, and Android 10. Geekbench doesn't confirm any other specifications of the Galaxy A51 5G, but from past rumors, we know the smartphone will have 128GB base storage and will be launched in South Korea....

Realme has released the stable build of Android 10-based Realme UI for the Realme XT. The firmware sports version number RMX1921EX_11_C.01 and brings along new UI and features to the Realme XT. The update is rolling out over the air, but those who can't wait to check out the Realme UI can install the update manually on their device by downloading the update package from here. Here's the complete changelog of the update: Visuals Updated UI to realme...

The Galaxy A41, one of the many 2020 A series phones Samsung is working on right now, has popped up on the Geekbench benchmark database. The benchmark reveals that the A41 is powered by a MediaTek processor, the Helio P65 to be precise. Samsung has partnered with MediaTek every now and then, and it seems the company is doing it again this year. Rumors also say Samsung could use MediaTek’s 5G chip on some of its 2020 Galaxy A smartphones, though that...

The Samsung Galaxy A41 that we've been hearing about since last November has passed through Geekbench, revealing key specs in the process. According to the benchmark database, the Galaxy A41, bearing model number SM-A415F, is powered by the Helio P65 SoC. It runs Android 10 and has 4GB RAM in tow, but there are likely to be memory options that are yet to be confirmed. Geekbench doesn't reveal any other specs of the Galaxy A41, but if rumors are...

Today, Motorola is celebrating a new hurdle pertaining to the popular Moto G series of smartphones. The company has officially sold 100 million units of the midrange smartphone. It was first introduced in 2013 (back while Google still owned Motorola) and offered a well-rounded package for a price below $200 - proving that cheap phones didn't have to suck so much. To celebrate the milestone, Motorola is offering BOGO deals on devices from Motorola.com...

Samsung is announcing the Galaxy S20 family alongside the Galaxy Z Flip at an event on February 11. If you were wondering how soon after that the phones would become available, the company's own website is here to help today. Samsung has created a registration page (see the Source linked below), where you can go and enter your email if you're interested in purchasing any of these upcoming smartphones - aka "the next Galaxy". And right there on the...

HMD Global has just started sending out invites for its MWC event in Barcelona, which is taking place on February 23 at 4:30pm local time (registration starts half an hour earlier, as depicted on the invite seen below). The company unsurprisingly isn't telling us what to expect specifically, but recent reports have made it clear that a new true Nokia flagship will only arrive later in the year. It might make up for the delay in release with a world...

It seems that the widespread Wuhan Coronavirus will affect a number of supply chains, including the one for the Samsung Galaxy S20 lineup's accessories. So customers seeking accessories such as cases and screen protectors at launch won't find anything for their brand new phones. MobileFun received a number of letters from manufacturers that there would be shipping delays due to the Coronavirus outbreak and the extended Chinese New Year holidays....

On Thursday, Apple Maps announced that it is now rolling out a new update to Apple Maps. The new update brings a new map design, and one that shows far more details than before. To start, users will be able to see far more details on land with building outlines to help you search and navigate better. Source: Apple There are now more comprehensive views of shopping malls, airports, parks, roads, and buildings. Apple promises faster and more accurate...

The Samsung Galaxy Watch Active 2 is one of the best smartwatches out there. It comes with an excellent battery that will give you up to 3 days of usage. The display is of excellent quality as well. The 360×360 pixel resolution Super AMOLED display gives a clear image with bright colors and deep, rich blacks. This watch has a silicon strap so you will be able to fit it perfectly around your wrist,...

It is that time of the year when Korean companies announce their financial reports. Samsung has just revealed the Q4 profit dropped on a yearly basis due to fall in memory chip prices and weakness in display panels. The mobile business in particular saw increased quarterly demand for phones and tablets, mostly because it was the holiday season. However revenue and profit decreased following extensive marketing expenses and the lack of any flagship...

Samsung was among the few companies that launched 5G smartphones in 2019. It ended up shipping 6.7 million 5G phones last year even though there were only a handful of 5G-compatible models in its entire lineup. The company sees great potential for growth in 5G and it’s counting on that to improve its fortunes this year. Samsung is in the unique position of benefiting both from the widespread consumer...

The Galaxy S10 series was the first to get the Android 10 and One UI 2.0 update, but that doesn’t mean the rollout has been completed for all variants by all carriers. Owners of the Galaxy S10 5G in particular have had to wait longer than those who own any of the standard Galaxy S10 models. For T-Mobile users, that wait is finally coming to an end. The un-carrier has released the Android 10 update...

It’s been repeatedly mentioned in all the Galaxy Z Flip leaks that Samsung’s new foldable phone will use the Snapdragon 855 processor from last year. The most recent leak suggests it will be the Snapdragon 855+, but the point remains: The Galaxy Z Flip will not have the latest and greatest internals. And while the Galaxy Z Flip is also expected to miss out on the 108MP camera that we will see...

Huawei has announced that it will launch a new smartphone called nova 7i on February 14 in Malaysia. However, this isn't really a new smartphone and is actually a re-branded nova 6 SE that was unveiled in China earlier last month. The Huawei nova 7i will have a Kirin 810 SoC at the helm with 8GB RAM and 128GB storage. It will run Android 10-based EMUI 10 out of the box, but due to the US ban, it will not ship with Google's services. The nova 7i...

Motorola's big upcoming event is scheduled for February 23 and will bring us at least four new phones. We've already gathered plenty of details about the Moto G8, G8 Power and the flagship Moto Edge+ but one of the big mysteries was the stylus packing Moto G Stylus midranger. Earlier today we got confirmation of its naming and suggested specs and now we have our first real images of the device. Twitter user Gustavo Gonzalez got a hold of a pre-production...

Samsung’s launch of its first commercial foldable phone, the Galaxy Fold, was turbulent. The company overlooked an important aspect of the Fold’s design and had to delay the device’s release for nearly six months. Many believe the design oversight happened because Samsung simply wanted to be first with a foldable device on the market, and they have a point. But being first to market does have its...

Samsung announced its quarterly results for the last three months of 2019 today, and in the report, the company has hinted that it will be launching multiple foldable smartphones in 2020. The Galaxy Z Flip will clearly be the first of them, and while Samsung doesn’t go into any details, it is clearly suggesting that the Z Flip is not the only foldable phone it will bring to market this year. And that...

The earnings estimate that Samsung released three weeks ago for the fourth quarter of last year showed that the company’s 2019 full-year profit would decline a whopping 53 percent compared to 2018. That was confirmed today when Samsung published its full earnings report for Q4 2019 and the fiscal year 2019. Samsung reported revenues of 230.40 trillion won ($193.7 billion) in 2019 compared to 243.77 trillion won ($221.6 billion) in 2018. Its operating...

Chinese phone maker Poco launched the Poco F1 (aka Pocophone F1 outside India) back in August 2018, and after a long hiatus of more than a year, the company is set to make a comeback on February 4 with its second smartphone - Poco X2. The Poco X2, like to be based on the Redmi K30, will be sold through Flipkart in India and the e-commerce giant has already revealed that X2 will boast a 120Hz RealityFlow display. Now Flipkart has also confirmed that...

The Realme C3 is arriving on February 6, but a wee ahead of the launch Flipkart has set up a landing page for the C3 on its site revealing most of its specifications. The Realme C3 will be powered by the recently announced Helio G70 SoC and come in two memory versions - 3GB/32GB and 4GB/64GB. It will also likely have a microSD card slot for storage expansion. The Realme C3 will boast a 6.5" waterdrop notch display, which is the largest yet in the...

Oppo held its Inno Day back in December, where it teased its upcoming smartwatch and true wireless headphones. Now, a Vice President at Oppo shared the first image of the Oppo smartwatch - it will have a square screen with curved edges and two buttons on the side. It bears a strong resemblance to the Apple Watch, but unlike Cupertino's wearable that has one crown and one button, the Oppo smartwach has two keys, with a hole in between them. We think...

2019 was a good year for Samsung, at least as far as ensuring it didn’t see its smartphone sales go on a downward trajectory is concerned. According to the latest data from Strategy Analytics, Samsung maintained its status as the world’s largest smartphone vendor in 2019. The company shipped 295.1 million phones over the entire year and claimed 20.9 percent market share. At the end of 2018, those figures stood at 291.3 million and 20.3 percent...

Xiaomi is about to launch the Mi 10 and Mi 10 Pro and we've been seeing multiple leaks for the past few weeks. The latest one comes from China, of course, and it is a screenshot of the About page of the Xiaomi Mi 10 Pro. The image suggests the phone will have 16 GB RAM and 512 gigs of storage, along with other impressive specs. We haven't seen a smartphone with 16 GB RAM yet, and there are just a handful of devices on the market that have 12 GB,...

HMD Global has postponed the launch of the next Nokia flagship smartphone in order to give it a better chance at competing in the 2020 market, according to recent reports. This means it will only be out sometime during the fall, which gives the company plenty of time to switch to the Snapdragon 865 chipset, which all of its competitors will be using anyway. This delay may also give HMD enough time to pull a first in the mobile world: an under-display...

In 2019, Samsung often released new Android security patches for its devices earlier than everyone else, including Google, and it seems determined to keep doing it this year as well. In Korea, Samsung is pushing out an update to the Galaxy Tab S3 that bundles the February 2020 security patch, two days before February actually begins. The update comes with software version T825N0KOU3CTA1 for the...

The Galaxy S9 and S9+ Android 10 beta program has finally ended. Samsung is rolling out the final Android 10 build to those who participated in the beta program. The update that has been released for beta users has the same firmware version as the update that rolled out to Android Pie users earlier this week – G96*FXXU7DTAA. We can confirm that the update is rolling out in India, but it should also be available in other countries where Samsung carried...

Motorola's G series is its most successful ever, and over the past few years has been what's kept the manufacturer going. While the company is expected to soon reveal its first true flagship smartphone in years, the Edge+, it's also getting ready to expand the G family even more. Remember that recently leaked stylus-toting Motorola device? Because its official-looking render leaked so soon after the first ever mention of the Edge+, some people assumed...

Research firm Canalys frequently releases insight on how smartphone brands perform in various parts of the world. The latest report looks into the smartphone market in India, which performed quite well towards the end-of-the-year quarter. We also get a look at the total performance of 2019 and how it compares to the previous year. In Q4 of 2019, the Indian market grew by 14%, shipping 39 million smartphone units versus 34.1 million in the same quarter...

Kantar Group released its latest smartphone shipments report, covering the October-December 2019 period. The main takeaway is the solid sales performance of the iPhone 11 which did solidly in markets across Europe, the US, Japan and Australia. 24.3% of all smartphones shipped during the Q4 period in the five major European markets (France, Germany, Italy, Spain, United Kingdom) ran iOS. The iPhone 11 specifically accounted for an estimated 10% of...

The European Commission decided to allow 5G companies to deal with union members, provided they follow a set of risk-mitigating measures, simply called an EU toolbox. This means companies like Huawei and ZTE will be free to deliver 5G network equipment to each of the 27 members if the country's governing body is okay with the progress a company has done towards network security and transparency. The decition is said to be an important step in "what...

The Huawei Mate 30 Pro has one of the best mobile cameras that you can't have. And if this video by JerryRigEverything is any indication, the Mate 30 Pro is one of the best-built phones that you can't have. A signature feature of the design is the Horizon display, which wraps around the sides of the phone. It's an eye-catching design, though does the extra curviness of Gorilla Glass 6 make it more fragile? Not really, as it turns out. Though admittedly...

Samsung released an Android 10-based One UI 2.0 update for the Galaxy Note9 on New Year's Eve. The update was only rolling to beta users but was later expanded to non-beta users as well in a few countries. Now, the Korean tech giant is seeding the Android 10 update for its 2018 Galaxy Note flagship in the US. But, it's only rolling out to the devices locked to US Cellular, Xfinity Mobile, Spectrum Mobile, and Comcast's networks. The new firmware...

Samsung launched the Galaxy Buds last year and they quickly gained popularity. The primary function is to offer you a wireless audio experience and they’ve nailed that. The sound quality is clear and it the volume is nice and loud. The bass is good but not too heavy, so all in all a good balanced experience. Sound isolation is on-point as well meaning that you can have a good experience without any...

With the push for full-screen design on modern smartphones, many solutions have appeared to get rid of or hide the front-facing cameras. The mechanical pop-up cameras, punch-holes and all sorts of cutouts and notches are the stepping stones and many believe having the screen under the display would be the final and most elegant solution. Unfortunately, though, according to Xiaomi's VP, that's not happening anytime soon as there are still major technological...

Last week, Realme India CEO Madhav Sheth said that the company will roll out the VoWiFi feature for its smartphones starting this month. Now Realme has released a new software update for the X2 Pro that brings VoWiFi support for Airtel and Reliance Jio customers. Additionally, the new build brings the January 2020 Android security patch to the X2 Pro and squashes a bug that prevented users from uploading videos on Instagram. Besides, the update...

Yesterday we heard that the production of iPhones could be hampered due to the coronavirus situation and the practical shutdown of the Hubei province in China. Today, Foxconn, one of Apple's key partners, issued a press release, assuring there are measures to continue meeting global manufacturing obligations. Foxconn has a massive plant in Wuhan, the epicenter of the virus outbreak, but the facility is following holiday schedules and people will...