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Oppo is working on a successor of the A73 smartphone, unsurprisingly named Oppo A74. The device has a model number CPH2219 and has been certified at multiple organizations, including the FCC, the Bureau of Indian Standards, TKDN in Indonesia, the Eurasian Economic Commission, Wi-Fi Alliance, among others. Oppo F17 Pro All the listings gave us a sneak peek of the specs sheet. Multiple certifications confirmed the Oppo A74 will have Android 10 out...

Last month, we had exclusively confirmed that the Galaxy A52 will come with a 90Hz/120Hz Super AMOLED display. It was also revealed that the smartphone will have an IP67 rating for dust and water resistance. Earlier, both these features were largely limited to Samsung’s high-end phones. Now, another flagship-grade feature is reportedly coming to the Galaxy A52. Reliable leakster Roland Quandt (@rquandt) has revealed the camera specifications of the...

The Samsung Galaxy F62 only lasted a week on top of our trending chart with the newly introduced Redmi K40 Pro+ shooting straight to the top and pushing it down to second. Another new phone - the 4G version of the Galaxy A32 - completes the podium, pushing its high-flying Galaxy S21 Ultra sibling down to fourth. The Samsung Galaxy A12 is fifth, ahead of the Xiaomi Mi 11 and the vanilla Redmi K40. We then have the Galaxy M62 in eight with the Poco...

Oppo is mainly known for its smartphones, but the company has been slowly expanding its portfolio of audio products. Oppo launched a bunch of wireless earphones last year, including the Enco X that reached Indian shores just this year, and we have with us today. The Oppo Enco X are packed to the brim as they come with touch controls, noise cancellation, wireless charging, and IP54 rating. They also support LHDC - an advanced Bluetooth audio codec...

Realme introduced the Narzo 30A, Narzo 30 Pro 5G and Buds Air 2 TWS earphones a few days ago. On the occasion of the launch of these products, we spoke with Mr. Madhav Sheth - Vice President of Realme and CEO of Realme India and Europe - to learn more about the success of the company's Narzo lineup, its future 5G smartphones, and improvements to TWS products. You can read the full interview below for all the details. Mr. Madhav Sheth - Vice President...

Let's take a look back on the final week of February, which was a fairly busy one. Samsung announced that going forward it will offer at least 4 years of security updates to all smartphones launched after 2019. That huge list includes the Z, S, Note, A, M, XCover and Tab series. Xiaomi announced the Redmi K40 series. The Redmi K40, K40 Pro and K40 Pro+ all have 6.7-inch Samsung E4 AMOLED displays with 120Hz refresh rate and 360Hz touch sampling...

Over the past few years we've watched smartphone chipsets go from having a lonely CPU core to having ten. Display resolutions broke the HD barrier and currently top out at 4K. But progress has slowed down on both the chipset and display fronts. High refresh rate displays made things exciting again for a while, but that excitement is dying down too. Cameras, however, seem to keep getting better and better (and more numerous). And more often than...

Xiaomi unveiled three Redmi K40 phones earlier this week. Or did it? If you look at just the screen and camera, there’s only one phone. If you look at the chipset, there are two phones. And if you look at the cameras, there are three phones. That may sound like a magic trick, but a quick run through the specs should clear things up. Redmi K40 series highlight features and differences in infographic form All three K40 phones use the same 6.67” Super...

The Samsung Galaxy F62 became available in India on Monday, then a few days later it became clear that the model will go global under the M62 name. Samsung Thailand even listed all the official specs for the M-series variation (unsurprisingly, it’s a carbon copy). We don’t know the worldwide pricing, but in India the F62 starts at INR 24,000 ($330/€270). Which, judging by last week’s poll, is a bit too high for comfort – most voters like the phone,...

Say hello to the Samsung Galaxy A02s, an entry level phone that aims to deliver a decent smartphone experience at a €150 price point. The Galaxy A20s is well made and feels good in the hand. It comes with a cable and a 15W charger, which is more than you get with a Galaxy S21-series phone these days. We do regret the omission of a case, but at these prices it's no surprise. The back of the phone has a stylish prism finish, which captures the light...

In an extensive investigation carried out by a German security firm, Exodus, the popular password manager app LastPass was found to collect and send personal information of subscribers using the Android app. It does so with the help of seven different built-in trackers. Even though LastPass allows you to opt-out of those trackers, the very existence of the built-in software could pose a security risk for the users. The trackers collect data such...

The Realme GT 5G arriving on March 4 has appeared on Geekbench with Android 11 and 12GB RAM, corroborating previous rumors. The GT 5G, bearing model code RMX2202, has "lahaina" listed in the motherboard section, which is associated with the Snapdragon 888 SoC. The benchmark database doesn't include any other specs of the GT 5G, although Realme previously confirmed the smartphone will come with Snapdragon 888, LPDDR5 RAM, UFS 3.1 storage, and a 64MP...

Shortly after the Galaxy Watch Active2 and Galaxy Watch3 received an update unlocking the ECG feature for the European countries, Samsung is now delivering Galaxy Watch3-intrinsic features to the original Galaxy Watch and Watch Active. So far, the update is being distributed to the US and Korean owners but it will likely go global soon enough. The original Galaxy Watch bumps up the firmware version to R810XXU1FUB6 while Active2 is getting R500XXUF1UB5....

Samsung unveiled its first mid-range smartphone with a high-refresh-rate display, the Galaxy A32, yesterday. However, the company had only announced the smartphone’s pricing for the Russian market. Samsung has now revealed the Galaxy A32’s launch date for the Indian market, and it is happening next week. The Galaxy A32 will go on sale in India from March 05, 2021, and Samsung has already put up a dedicated microsite for its new mid-range smartphone....

Last year, Motorola's iconic Moto 360 smartwatch running on Wear OS made a comeback, but it was manufactured by one of Motorola's partners - eBuyNow. And it looks like the two companies are extending their partnership by bringing three more Moto-branded smartwatches later this year. In a presentation showing off the roadmap of future devices, we can see a Moto G smartwatch scheduled for a June release and as the name implies, we are probably looking...

As rumors surrounding the Find X3-series continue to take over the news section, today's one suggests when the stream of leaks will likely stop. And that's March 11. Oppo did say that it plans to announce its flagship Find X3 family sometime in March and the leaked poster looks like the real thing. It schedules a March 11 event at 19:30 local time. This is most likely a Chinese event we are talking about, so a global one will follow shortly after....

A press render of the Samsung Galaxy Xcover 5 we've been hearing about since late last month has surfaced, revealing its rugged design. The image was shared by leakster Evan Blass, who claimed the Xcover 5 is not a successor to last year's Xcover Pro, but a follow-up to the Xcover 4s launched back in 2019. While we are yet to hear anything from Samsung about the Galaxy Xcover 5, the smartphone has moved a step closer to the launch as it bagged Bluetooth...

Fancy yourself as a Samsung superfan? Take our quiz and see how many answers you can get right! This is a fun activity that we do with our readers every week to test their knowledge of the Korean giant. The quiz has a mix of easy and difficult questions that most fans should be able to answer without turning to Google. We make a new quiz for you every weekend so we hope that you’ll participate and...

Samsung released the One UI 3.1 update for the Galaxy Z Fold yesterday, and now it's the Galaxy Z Fold2 5G that's receiving the latest version of Samsung's custom Android skin. Samsung doesn't tell what countries it's seeding One UI 3.1 in, but it did detail the changes the update brings to the foldable smartphone. With One UI 3.1, multi-tasking becomes easier on the Galaxy Z Fold2 5G, since users can now quickly return to up to three previously...

Samsung's smallest and cheapest of its trio of early 2021 flagships is now cheaper than it's ever been before - but not smaller. We're talking about the Galaxy S21, of course, which normally retails in the US for $799.99 in its base configuration with 128GB of storage. Well, right now you can pick one up from Amazon for just $674.99, which is $125 less than usual and the lowest price we've seen for this model until now. But wait, there's more. If...

There are companies who are very good at timely Android updates, there are companies who are quite bad at that, and then there's LG. The Korean firm has only sent out an update to Android 11 to the Velvet so far, but even for that model the new software only rolled out in South Korea. Today marks the start of LG's second ever Android 11 rollout, this time for Verizon's V60 ThinQ 5G UW units. This is also the first LG device in the US to receive...

Yesterday Xiaomi's sub-brand Redmi introduced its flagship lineup for 2021, namely the Redmi K40, K40 Pro, and K40 Pro+. While the launch was China-only, rumor has it at least one of these will be available globally under the Poco brand. It's only been around 24 hours after the launch, but someone in China has already managed to disassemble the Redmi K40 and K40 Pro, and here's the video proof of that. Note that the audio is Chinese, unsurprisingly,...

2020 was a tough year for the European smartphone market, and although sales figures have recovered almost entirely by the end of the year, the smartphone market also experienced a massive sales decline of nearly 50% YoY in April 2020, three months after the number of COVID-19 cases started to rise, and one month after the first lockdowns were set in place. Of course, Samsung isn’t invulnerable and its market performance was affected by these events. According...

Back in November the European Parliament passed the Right to Repair Act that requires some electronic products to be labeled with a reparability index score out 10 in a bid to reduce e-waste. Last month, France became the first country in the EU to bring these reparability indices to electronics including smartphones and laptops and now Apple’s French site officially supports the labels for iPhones and MacBooks. The actual reparability score only...

Samsung’s next rugged phone for 2021 is one step closer to going live. In case you missed it, the phone’s going to hit the shelves as the Galaxy Xcover 5, and it might also become the company’s first rugged device to boast 5G connectivity. It remains to be seen if that will indeed be the case, but for now, the LTE variant is apparently being readied for market release. Just like any other phone that’s getting prepared for the masses, the Galaxy Xcover...

The International Data Corporation (IDC) has posted its analysis on India's tablet sales for 2020, revealing an impressive 14.7% growth, totaling 2.8 million units. The demand was primarily for tablets priced under $200 - with over half of total shipments in this price range. Lenovo remained the leader in 2020 ahead of Samsung and Apple but lost a huge chunk of its lead. The company saw a 15% decline in overall sales, while Samsung grew 157%. The...

Oppo is expected to bring the Find X3 series next month, and it looks like China might be getting an exclusive vanilla version. Today the phone with model number PEDM00 was benchmarked at Master Lu, where some specs were confirmed - a Snapdragon 870 chipset with 3.2 GHz CPU, 8GB RAM and QHD+ screen resolution (3216 x 1440 pixels). Oppo Find X3 on Master Lu The Master Lu benchmark is used primarily in China and the result of 791,466 is quite good....

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The Galaxy Buds Pro are Samsung’s latest truly wireless earbuds. Soon after they were launched, the company sent out an update that added a very useful feature. The new hearing enhancement feature enabled users to boost the L/R sound balance for the earbuds. This allowed users to adjust the sound balance for the earbuds if they had any level of hearing loss in each ear. Samsung has now released an update for the Galaxy Buds Live which adds this feature....

Last week Samsung announced its plans to bring the latest OneUI 3.1 interface to its older devices. Yesterday we reported that the update reached 2019’s Galaxy Note10 line and now the Galaxy Fold has also begun receiving the update. According to reports from France, the new software bears the F900FXXU4EUBF build number and also brings the March security patch. The One UI 3.1 update brings minor enhancements including new camera modes, Private Share...

nubia is preparing to launch the Red Magic 6 lineup, and the two phones have popped up on TENAA. The listing only has images and no specs so far, but they are enough to confirm some key features - a thin top bezel with the selfie camera on the right side, while the back panel is similar to the nubia Red Magic 5G/5S. nubia Red Magic 6 The phones have model numbers NX669J and NX669J-P- the latter is likely the Pro, but we'll know for sure once the...

Late last year, vivo announced its X60 and X60 Pro phones in China powered by Samsung’s Exynos 1080 chipsets. So far both devices have remained exclusive to the Chinese market but yesterday we saw multiple certification listings and now we get more confirmation from the Google Play Console and a Geekbench listing. vivo X60 and X60 Pro Listings for the vivo X60 (V2045) and X60 Pro (V2046) reveal the global variants will come with different hardware...

Last month, Samsung unveiled the Galaxy A32 5G with a Dimensity 720 processor, a quad-camera setup, and a 5,000mAh battery. Earlier today, the company introduced the 4G variant of the Galaxy A32. One would assume that the 4G variant of the Galaxy A32 would either have similar or slightly weaker specifications than the 5G version, but that would be incorrect. The Galaxy A32, weirdly, is better than the Galaxy A32 5G in more ways than one. The Galaxy...

The Galaxy A8 (2018) might have turned three last month, but it has already started receiving next month’s Android security update. That would be the security patch level dated March 1st, 2021, which only began rolling out this week. The one for the Galaxy A8 is identified by release version A530FXXSICUC1. To check whether a new update is already available on your Galaxy A8, go to Settings,...

vivo has shared a poster on its official Weibo account revealing the rear panel design of the vivo S9 arriving on March 3. The smartphone looks similar to the vivo S7 5G and sports a triple camera setup. vivo didn't detail the rear cameras, but it did confirm that the S9 will feature a 44MP selfie shooter. The poster released by vivo also has text in the bottom-right corner, which confirms the brand will launch S9e with a 32MP selfie camera. While...

Samsung introduced a Galaxy A32 5G smartphone earlier this year, and now it has brought an alternative version for LTE-only markets. The phone is called simply Samsung Galaxy A32 and is already on sale in Russia. Differences between the two go beyond network support - the biggest change is the Helio G80 chipset replaces the Dimensity 720, but there's also a new screen, an improved main camera and a better selfie shooter. The Samsung Galaxy A32 has...

Smartphones with high refresh rate screens offer a relatively smoother and more fluidic experience while navigating around the UI, scrolling, swiping, zooming, and gaming. Samsung was late to the party when it comes to releasing devices with high refresh rate displays, but the company now has among the widest range of such phones and tablets. While most of the brands started off with 90Hz screens,...

Meizu is going to announced its latest 18 series on March 3 and the company continues to tease the phone’s features and specs. On Thursday, the company revealed some of the Meizu 18 and 18 Pro specs. Now, we have confirmation that the 18 Pro will come with a Snapdragon 888. Along with the high-end chipset, the 18 Pro will also feature LPDDR5 RAM, and UFS 3.1 storage. This means we should expect top of the line performance from the Meizu 18 Pro....

A video posted to YouTube briefly shows how the Huawei Mate X2 connects to a Huawei Matebook laptop. The video shows the user tapping the Mate X2 with the laptop using NFC. Once connected, the phone’s display is instantly thrown up onto the PC’s display. While this isn’t a new feature, what’s interesting is how the Multi-Screen Collaboration feature handles the secondary internal display. Once unfolded, the mirrored view of the screen is quickly...

Samsung is killing it right now in terms of software updates, and it’s not just for Android smartphones and tablets. The company has also been impressive in releasing updates to its Tizen-based smartwatches. Samsung is now rolling out major software updates to the original Galaxy Watch, which was launched back in 2018, and the Galaxy Watch Active. The Galaxy Watch and the Galaxy Watch Active are receiving new software updates that bring various Galaxy...

Various data is used by companies like Facebook to personalize ads to an individual person based on demographics, geographic location, interests, and activity. Late last year, Apple introduced its new privacy-centered changes that forced all app developers to explicitly ask users for permission to collect this data. Facebook was not happy (and is still not happy) about it. Apart from preparing a lawsuit to accuse Apple of anti-competitive behavior,...

After launching the Galaxy A32 5G last month, Samsung has finally made its LTE variant official. The Galaxy A32 is Samsung’s latest mid-range smartphone and it differs from the Galaxy A32 5G in a few aspects. The Galaxy A32 is officially the company’s first mid-range smartphone with a high-refresh-rate display. The Galaxy A32 (4G) sports a 6.4-inch Super AMOLED Infinity-U display with a 90Hz refresh rate, Full HD+ resolution, and an in-display optical...

This was never really in doubt, but Samsung is going to launch the Galaxy A32, A52, and A72 in India soon. We're talking about the 4G versions of the trio, as well as the A32 5G, there are no hints yet about whether any other 5G-capable new models in the A series are also headed to the subcontinent. The Korean company's Indian website now lists the A32, A32 5G, A52, and A72 in its support pages, identifying them by their model numbers: SM-A325F/DS,...

Twitter has announced two new upcoming features for its platform. The first is Super Follows, which is the company's first premium feature. The other is Communities. Super Follows allows users to charge their followers for access to special content. For a set monthly amount, the Super Followers will be able to, say, see exclusive content, get a subscribers-only newsletter, deals and discounts on your products, community access, a special supporter...

San Francisco-based company Framework has announced its first product, the modular Framework Laptop. The computer features multiple modular, replaceable, and upgradeable parts that are designed to allow the user to continue using the machine perpetually. The Framework Laptop features a milled aluminum housing that's 15.8mm thick and 1.3kg in weight. It has a 13.5-inch, 2256x1504, 3:2, 400 nits display, 1080p60 webcam, 55Wh battery, and a keyboard...

While we're patiently waiting for the Redmi Note 10 announcement to take place on March 4 a store in India has already begun selling the device. The store posted an image with multiple Note 10 units on its Instagram page as well as a short hands-on video detailing the design and key specs. All of the images and videos were later deleted. Redmi Note 10 units for sale The phone matches most of the leaks and we can see the sticker on the back of the...

According to leakster @RODENT950 the first 1” sensor built specifically for phones is coming soon and the Huawei P50 flagships will be the first to put it in action. The sensor in question is the Sony IMX800, which will allegedly be unveiled in April. As for the P-series phones, the leakster is teasing three camera configurations. The top dog, presumably the Huawei P50 Pro+, will have everything: a wide, ultra wide, tele and periscope lenses, plus...