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Counterpoint Research posted its analysis of the global smartphone market for Q1 2020, and the numbers do not look good at all. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, shipments fell 13% on a yearly basis, with the total being under 300 million - a number that was last reported in 2014. There were only two major companies that did not suffer a yearly decline in shipments - Xiaomi and Realme. All the others saw a decrease, but the overall picture remained...

Samsung has announced that the rollout of Android 10-based One UI 2 update for its Galaxy devices in India has been delayed. The delay has been caused due to the nation-wide lockdown in India imposed by the government to curb the spread of COVID-19. This information comes from Samsung through its Members app, and it's a bit vague since the company says "we're experiencing a slight delay" without revealing how much the update schedule is affected...

With COVID-19 pushing many industries to continue to conduct business online through tele-conferencing platforms, there's a new demand for presentation and business tools online. HTC is announcing a new presentation tool for its VR platform: the Vive. The platform is called Vive Sync, and it lets people conduct presentations in a virtual 3D space. The first aspect of the VR platform that's different from video conferencing is the use of personalized...

The Galaxy M01, whose presence we confirmed last month, passed through the Wi-Fi Alliance’s certification process a few days ago. Yesterday, it appeared in the Google Play Console, revealing some of its specifications. Now, the upcoming entry-level smartphone has appeared in the FCC certification documents. It appears that the Galaxy M01 is just a variant of the Galaxy A01 with a larger battery. The FCC certification documents clearly mention that...

Xiaomi's gaming-oriented sub-brand Black Shark launched its latest devices in China in March, and now it's finally ready to bring them to Europe. Both the Black Shark 3 and the Black Shark 3 Pro will go on sale in Europe on May 8. Prices haven't been unveiled yet, but given Black Shark's past antics, expect them to be very competitive for the innards you are getting. And those innards are indeed nothing to scoff at. Black Shark 3 (left) and Black...

Intel has taken the wraps off its 10th generation lineup of desktop CPUs. Codenamed 'Comet Lake', these new parts are still technically based on the 14nm 'Skylake' process from a few years ago but with multiple refinements. First, let's get one thing out of the way. Intel today announced 32 new models in its 10th generation lineup, starting with the Celeron chips at the bottom all the way up to the i9 10900K. We are not going to discuss all of them...

We had reported earlier this week that the bean-shaped wireless earphones from Samsung that were leaked last month could be launched as the Galaxy BudsX. Now, the upcoming wireless earphones from the South Korean electronics giant have appeared in a new patent document. A new patent filed by Samsung with the USPTO (United States Patent and Trademark Office) confirms the branding of the company’s next wireless earbuds. The document reveals that...

CyberGhost is one of the most popular VPN providers. They are known for their excellent price/quality ratio. They work with 6300 servers world wide, meaning there’s always one close to you and you’ll get the best speed possible. You can connect 7 devices at the same time so one plan will work for your whole family. CyberGhost VPN works with a dedicated app that’s available for all platforms, including...

Following a seemingly endless stream of leaks, the Galaxy Tab S6 Lite was officially unveiled by Samsung a couple of weeks ago when the tablet launched on pre-order terms in numerous European countries including the Netherlands. The pre-order window came to an end today, and the Galaxy Tab S6 Lite is now officially available in the Netherlands in two color options including Oxford Gray and Angora Blue. Both the Wi-Fi and LTE variants can now be bought...

An unnanounced full-screen smartphone from Samsung had a cameo in a recent ad for the company’s new Wind-Free Air Conditioner series. While the mysterious device was shown running SmartThings, the app’s white interface revealed no display notch or punch-hole to speak of. The main takeaway here is the implied use of under-display camera (UDC) technology, a solution Samsung reportedly been working on...

Today, April 29, Samsung officially announced the Galaxy A31 for Brazil. The mid-range phone will be available for purchase in Brazil starting next week, with color options including black, blue, and white. As expected, the Galaxy A31 will have a higher-than-normal price tag in Brazil, and prospective buyers will be looking at spending 1,999 brazilian real ($375) for the device. Comparatively, the Galaxy A31 was released in Vietnam earlier this week...

Xiaomi announced the Redmi Note 9 Pro Max and the Redmi Note 9 Pro in India and later brought the latter to other markets at Redmi Note 9S. Today the company is announcing the official global rollout of the series and odds are we will get to see the vanilla Redmi Note 9 for the first time. The announcement is taking place online as is the norm these days and you can follow it in the livestream below. It starts at noon UTC. The Redmi Note 9 is expected...

LG posted its Q1 numbers and they paint a great overall picture. The company's consolidated revenue was KRW 14.73 trillion ($12.4b) on which it made KRW 1.09 trillion ($921.4m) in operating profit. This is just the second time in its history that LG has exceeded KRW 1 trillion in the first quarter of a year. LG's Home Appliance & Air Solution and Home Entertainment companies did well, posting KRW 8.39 trillion ($6.95b) in revenue. However LG's...

AMD’s first custom Radeon GPU set to power future Samsung flagships will easily beat the current industry-leading options. That’s what can be inferred from several benchmark summaries leaked out of South Korea. Samsung and AMD originally announced their mobile GPU partnership back in mid-2019, but the first fruits of their collaboration won’t make their way to consumers until at least 2021, AMD previously...

A few days ago we learned of a Honor 5G-capable mid-range smartphone with plenty of info regarding specs coming straight from TENAA. And now a trustworthy leakster shares a few more specs, saying that the phone will come with a custom Sony IMX600y sensor. The Sony IMX600 sensor has been used in a number of Huawei and Honor phones. Most recently, the 40MP imager was part of the Honor V30 Pro and the Huawei Mate Xs. The IMX600y custom sensor has the...

Samsung is now offering a complimentary pair of Galaxy Buds to everyone who purchases the unlocked version of the Galaxy S10 Lite in the United States. The deal that adds over $100 to the value of the overall package comes less than two weeks after the Galaxy S10 Lite released stateside with a $649.99 price tag. Carrier variants of the Galaxy S10 Lite aren’t encompassed by the new offer,...

Samsung has posted its quarterly report for the January - March 2020 period and it doesn't look that bad. The company met analysts' expectations and revealed a slight revenue decrease on a quarterly basis due to seasonality, but profits rose compared to Q1 2019. The mobile business reported less revenue than 12 months ago, but operating profit increased. Despite a decline in shipped units, the launch of the Galaxy S20 lineup and expanding its 5G...

The Cloud White variant of the Galaxy S20 Ultra appeared online once again ahead of its market debut. Speaking of which, its release date also came to light as it appears the new color option will be hitting the Chinese market tomorrow, May 1st. According to previous reports, this particular model sports 256GB of storage and will also come to Europe in the near future. A combination of a white rear panel and a black quad-camera module gives this...

Samsung revealed its plan to start the mass production of 5nm EUV chips before the end of Q2 2020 and start the development of the 3nm process this year. The company has reportedly increased its semiconductor output by about 40 percent while maintaining the same wafer input level, which means that Samsung has improved the efficiency of its production. The South Korean firm’s investment in semiconductors...

After releasing the May security patch for the Galaxy S20 series and the Galaxy Fold a day ago, Samsung is now bringing it to the Galaxy Note 10 and Galaxy Note 10+. The Note 10 duo is receiving a new update in several European countries, including Germany, France, Romania, Italy, Greece, Poland, and Switzerland. Only security fixes are included in the latest Galaxy Note 10 update The update features firmware version N97xFXXS4CTD1 and doesn’t...

While OnePlus successfully launched its 8-series flagships earlier this month, the company's midrange option - the OnePlus Z - is yet to see daylight. We saw recent reports claiming the device is due to launch in July and now we have our first alleged hands-on image thanks to the folks over at True-Tech. As expected, the phone sports a flat display with a single centered punch hole. Judging by the instructions on the display it will come with a...

vivo's gaming iQOO Neo3 was unveiled seven days ago and today the company held the first flash sale. In 30 minutes it generated more than CNY100 million in revenue, which means between 30,000 and 37,000 units were moved. The vivo iQOO Neo3 has not only the mighty Qualcomm chipset, but also a screen with 144 Hzrefresh rate, a 48MP main camera, and a 4,500 mAh battery with 44W fast charging. The phone was launched for CNY2,698 for the 6/128 GB option...

We had exclusively revealed the presence of the Galaxy M01 last month, along with its storage space and color variants. A few days later, the phone appeared on the Wi-Fi Alliance database. Now, the entry-level smartphone has appeared on the Google Play Console, revealing some of its specifications. The Galaxy M01 (SM-M015G) appears to be running Android 10, which means that it would most probably come with One UI 2.0. The device has an HD screen...

HMD Global, maker of Nokia branded smartphones, has been on a software update roll recently, sending out Android 10 to devices right and left. The company hasn't forgotten its cheapest and lowest-end smartphones either. Case in point: today it's started rolling out an update to Android 10 (Go Edition) for the Nokia 1 Plus. This phone doesn't have enough oomph in its specs to run the full version of Android, so it launched with the cut-down version...

The upcoming Samsung Galaxy M01 was certified by the Wi-Fi Alliance last month, and now it's one step closer to launch, as it's been spotted in the Google Play Console. As usual, the listing gives us some of the phone's specs. So, the M01 has a screen with 720x1520 resolution, 3GB of RAM, and the Qualcomm Snapdragon 439 chipset at the helm. The phone runs Android 10. The small image attached to the spec listing looks incredibly similar to the Galaxy...

Earlier this month Apple released the first public beta of the upcoming iOS 13.4.5, and today the company has made the third beta available for testing by people who enrolled their devices into the Apple Beta program. Here's the thing, though. It isn't called iOS 13.4.5 anymore, from this point on it shall be known as iOS 13.5. That's because this version includes a beta iteration of the new exposure notification API, which should aid health authorities...

Samsung currently selling the 128GB storage variant of the Galaxy S10+ in various European markets in three colors: Prism Black, Prism Green, and Prism White. If you long for the Ceramic Black or Ceramic White color variants of the phone, you need to shell out around €200 more and get the 512GB variant. However, that could change soon. According to Roland Quandt, who has an excellent track record...

The Pixel 4a has been leaking like crazy over many weeks, but so far Google has not made it official for whatever reason. In the meantime, Apple has introduced its mid-range contender for this year - the new iPhone SE - so now all eyes are on Google for the moment when it will decide to finally make its move. According to a new rumor out of Germany, the Pixel 4a may go on sale in the country on May 22. The information reportedly is from Vodafone,...

Imint and Motorola have announced a new partnership, and the Motorola Edge+ is the first smartphone to benefit from the announcement. The Motorola Edge+ comes with four Imint Intelligence Vidhance features: Active OIS, Horizon Correction, Dynamic Blur Reduction, and Field of View Correction. Active OIS is the Vidhance solution that uses both OIS and EIS (which uses the smartphone's internal sensors) to correct unwanted movement in video - which...

An upcoming vivo handset dubbed the G1 5G has appeared in the wild and we have a set of renders and preliminary specs thanks to noted Weibo tipster Digital Chat Station. The phone is largely identical to the vivo S6 5G which was launched earlier this month. vivo G1 details (machine translated from Chinese) We have a 6.44-inch FHD+ OLED display with a waterdrop notch for the 32MP selfie cam. The back features a circular cutout for the quad cameras....

Samsung is offering support to manufacturers of face masks struggling to ramp up their product outputs as South Korea continues its fight against COVID-19. The development is just the latest in a long series of moves Samsung made as part of its contributions to international relief efforts seeking to slow down the spread of the novel coronavirus strain. Just over a month ago, Samsung began closely...

The LG Premier Pro Plus (L455DL) first leaked in early January, but the company hasn't made it official yet. That can't be far off now as the Google Play Console already lists details about the phone and its User manual has surfaced online. LG Premiere Pro Plus • Phone details from the Google Console This is a basic phone with a 720p+ display and a MediaTek Helio P22 chipset (quad Cortex-A53 processor). It comes with 2GB of RAM and runs Android...

A Galaxy S20 Ultra in white – or at least a dummy unit – popped up in a live photo earlier this week along with reports that the phone should be launching in China soon. Now, it looks like the white model’s launch in China is drawing very near, as official promotional material is popping up on Twitter through unofficial sources. The Galaxy S20 Ultra 5G in white will ship with 256GB of storage, according to the render at hand. In most countries around...

The latest firmware update for Samsung’s Galaxy Buds may have crippled the very thing it was meant to improve – the wearable’s connectivity performance. Touted as a major upgrade that will allow users to go “completely wireless” by leveraging a number of features introduced with the newer Galaxy Buds+, the software revision wasn’t exactly met with the warmest of responses. A vocal portion of the Galaxy...

Predicting Samsung would release the Galaxy Note 20 and Galaxy Fold 2 in the second half of 2020 would have hardly been an act of clarvoyance at any point in recent memory. Regardless, that launch window is official as of just a few hours ago. The confirmation arrived as part of Samsung’s mixed Q1 financials, or more specifically, the company’s subsequent earnings call with analysts and investors. While...

Samsung is seemingly preparing a new Galaxy Buds+ color option for the market, at least judging by a video discovered by XDA-Developers in the SmartThings app. The marketing material showcases a 3D render of a ‘Deep Blue’ Galaxy Buds+ flavor, and the ‘Deep Blue’ moniker is also mentioned in the same app. As you may know, the Galaxy Buds+ are offered in four color options (sans the Thom Browne Edition) including white, red, Cosmic Black, and Cloud...

The Samsung Galaxy S20 Ultra is getting a new color without straying from its grayscale palette - it will soon be available in White. Cloud White by the looks of it, though these opalescent colors are quite tough to show realistically in a static image. Still, you can see a hint of color at the edge. The official launch is scheduled for May 1 and may be tied to International Workers' Day celebrations. Samsung Galaxy S20 Ultra in Cloud White Anyway,...

Samsung confirmed it’s doubling down on 5G smartphones in hope that they’ll help soften the impact of a full-fledged mobile crisis that’s now looming over its business. That’s not exactly a development many expected to witness at this point last year, but it does well to underline how unusual Samsung’s latest financial report was. Especially given how the company’s Q1 numbers are far from horrific. On...

Samsung has been expanding the Galaxy M31’s availability to more countries over the past couple of months, and the latest market to get the mid-range device is Spain. The company has officially announced that the Galaxy M31 will be available for purchase in Spain from May 6 via the company’s online store and Amazon. In fact, customers should be able to pre-order the phone from Amazon Spain starting today. The Galaxy M series has proven to be hugely...

Realme launched its 6 series in Europe a few weeks ago, but many were disappointed to learn that only the vanilla Realme 6 and the even cheaper Realme 6i were launched at the Old Continent - there was no Pro version in sight. The brand is finally changing that as the Realme 6 Pro will finally be launched and we even have an official date - May 5. Realme is promising a live stream for the online event that will take place at 10:00 AM (GMT +2). Fans...

External hard drives are a good solution for when you want to store a lot of data like media or documents that you want to backup. Conventional external hard drives are slow, due to their moving parts and way they store data. This SSD drive by Samsung is able to read and write with speeds up to 540 MB/s! This means you’re able to transfer your data fast and reliably. Now available at a massive 33%...

Samsung has launched the Galaxy A51 5G in South Korea. The phone is on sale through Samsung's own website in three colors - Prism Cube Black, Prism Cube White and Prism Cube Pink. The Samsung Galaxy A51 5G has a few differences, compared to the Galaxy A51. It's powered by an Exynos 980 chipset with a 5G modem, has a bigger 4,500mAh battery with 15W charging, and has 6GB of RAM, not 4GB. Samsung Galaxy A51 Otherwise the Galaxy A51 5G has the same...

In December the Xiaomi-owned company Amazfit announced that it's developing a smart band with a curved OLED display called Amazfit X, but gave us little in terms of specs. Now we have all the specs as the wearable went on pre-order through Indiegogo. Its asking price for early backers is $149, but the company says it will cost $329 when it launches in August 2020. The available colors are Eclipse Black and New Moon Gold. The Amazfit X has a 2.07-inch...

Samsung took a long time to bring Android 10 to the Galaxy Fold, but the company made up for the delay by updating its first foldable directly to One UI 2.1. As a result, the Galaxy Fold received a number of features that were introduced with the Galaxy S20 when it was updated to Android 10. However, the initial Android 10 release didn’t bring all of the Galaxy S20 features that were promised...

We've already heard about the Huawei P Smart 2020 and it appears its launch is fast approaching. The folks over at WinFuture have brought us a bunch of images along with the detailed specifications of the entry-level phone. The Huawei P Smart 2020 will sport a 6.21-inch LCD with an FHD+ (2340 x 1080 pixels) resolution and a waterdrop notch on top for the 8MP selfie cam. Around the back, we have a 13MP main shooter paired with a 2MP depth sensor...

Xiaomi will launch a new phone called Mi Note 10 Lite tomorrow - a more affordable alternative of the Mi Note 10 camera beast. It will have a similar front panel, but only four shooters on the back, lined up vertically, along with two LED flashes. There's not much info about the phone, but previous rumors suggested a 6.47" OLED screen with Full HD+ resolution. We are expecting a Snapdragon 730G chipset, and the same huge 5,260 mAh battery with 30W...