Motorola Moto G6 Plus spotted on GeekBench, rocking a Snapdragon 660 chipset

After a few quite extensive leaks, it really did seem like there was little more to learn about Motorola's upcoming Moto G6 family. However, after both the Moto G6 and the Moto G6 Play made their respective pits tops at GeekBench, today the G6 Plus joined their ranks as well, with a slight twist. Instead of the Snapdragon 630, it was widely believed...

Blush Gold iPhone X certified at the FCC

Apple's recent announcement of a Product Red Special Edition variant for the iPhone 8 and the iPhone 8 Plus, left quite a few iPhone X fans disappointed. As per the latest info out of Cupertino, there isn't going to be one. Instead, Apple has launched a Product Red Leather Folio case for the phone, which features a deeper red finish and a contribution...

Xiaomi CEO spotted wearing new smartband, likely the Mi Band 3

Yesterday saw the unveiling of Xiaomi's new gaming smartphone - the Black Shark and naturally, Lei Jun, company founder, chairman and CEO attended the event. With flashy new logos and green accents flying all over the place, it was kind of easy to miss a mysterious new accessory on Lei Jun's wrist. It is, most likely, the Xiaomi Mi Band 3 - the new...

Upcoming Honor 10 said to feature innovative multi-scene detection for photos

If you've been keeping up with Honor rumors lately, then you probably heard the company is planing a successor, or update, of sorts to its quite successful View 10. Apparently called the Honor 10, the device is expected to rock the same Kirin 970 flagship chipset, like its sibling, borrow the Huawei P20's 12MP, plus 20MP dual camera setup and make...

Wireless support for Android Auto is now officially available

Google has officially announced the availability of Android Auto Wireless, a feature which allows your phone to connect to your Android Auto head unit using WiFi. The functionality is currently only available in North America, and the list of supported smartphones currently includes Pixels (both first and second gen), Nexus 5X, and Nexus 6P. "Additional...

Oreo finally hits SIM-free Galaxy Note8 units in the UK

If ever there was a perfect situation to use the "Better late than never" cliche for, this is it. SIM-free Samsung Galaxy Note8 units purchased in the UK are now finally receiving the update to Android 8.0 Oreo and Samsung Experience 9.0. The update has been rolling out in many markets for a few weeks, and it's now hitting one of the biggest in Western...

Our Huawei P20 Pro video review is up

Huawei's one-upped the entire flagship smartphone industry with the P20 Pro in one regard: the number of cameras on the back. While dual snappers are now incredibly prevalent, the Chinese company's gone with three shooters, one of which has a 40 MP sensor. It's a unique setup for sure, which we've detailed before. While that is definitely its headline...

AMD announced 2nd generation Ryzen desktop processors

AMD has finally announced the 2nd generation Ryzen desktop processors. Four models have been announced, two Ryzen 5 and two Ryzen 7, all of which are available for pre-order now and go on sale April 19. Today's launch comes with very little information. All we know for sure right now are the basic specifications of the four new SKUs. We are not entirely...

Huawei teases P20 Pro India launch on social media

Huawei has started teasing the launch of the P20 Pro in India. The official Twitter account for Huawei India posted the following tweet and although the hashtag says #HuaweiP20, the triple circle pattern in the video suggests it will either be just the more expensive P20 Pro or both, P20 and the P20 Pro. Is it a phone? Is it a DSLR? It is the best...

Samsung sued for $3B for biometric patent infringement

The latest lawsuit in the never-ending war of patents has hit Samsung. The Korean company is sued in a Texas court by PACid Technologies, a US data encryption company. According to the file, Samsung has infringed three patents on biometric data encryption. The compensation claims reach $2.82 billion (around KRW3 trillion), considering the sales of...

Samsung Galaxy S8 and S8+ get Oreo in China

The Galaxy S8 and Galaxy S8+ are receiving the Android 8.0 Oreo update in China right now. The update brings many bug fixes and optimizations along many new features. Samsung brings the new Samsung Experience 9.0 to the Galaxy S8/S8+ which is noticeably faster than the previous version. New features include Biometrics - it allows biometric (Face,...

Xiaomi commits to release Android kernel source codes within three month of device launches

If you clicked on the article, you likely already have a good understanding of what this news refers to and its potential implications. On the off change that you don't, the basic concept is this: The Android OS core is a Linux kernel, which is distributed under the General Public License v2 (GPLv2). That allows manufacturers to modify the code,...

Xiaomi's gaming brand is here: Meet the Black Shark

Xiaomi launched its gaming smartphone subrand today with the Black Shark coming to lead the charge. It is an entirely new device with customized hardware to bring out the best gaming performance out of a handset, including a new type of cooling system, new ISP, the latest Snapdragon 845 and a massive 4,000 mAh battery. Official renders of the Blackshark...

Samsung Galaxy A6+ (2018) gets Wi-Fi certification

The Samsung Galaxy A6+ (2018) has received a certification from the Wi-Fi Alliance, which suggests it will be released really soon. The model number of the Galaxy A6+ (2018) is SM-A605FN/DS, signifying there will be a dual-SIM version, as we already know. A day ago the phone was spotted in a HTML5 test, which revealed it will have a tall-aspect Infinity...

Xiaomi Blackshark shines in two new promo images

The Xiaomi Blackshark appeared in two promo images on Twitter, showing more of its design. It will come with a tall screen and minuscule side bezels, while the back will have an edgy design reminiscent of gaming laptops. The first picture shows the tall display of the front that early AnTuTu benchmarks suggested will have Full HD+ resolution. The...

Moto E5 Plus exposes Snapdragon 430 on Geekbench

Motorola is launching its mid-range G6 series next week and we just saw some cool renders of the trio. It's now turn for the entry level Moto E5 to take a trip around leakland as it visited Geekbench. Almost a month after the hands-on photos of the Moto E5 Plus, the phone popped on Geekbench, revealing primary specs. The chipset, listed as msm8937...

Moto G6 Play, Moto G6, Moto G6 Plus renders in all colors appear

Motorola is launching its G6 series on Thursday, but the three phones surfaced with press renders in all colors. The Moto G6 Play, Moto G6, and Moto G6 Plus will arrive on Thursday in Sao Paulo, Brazil with a tall screen and are also expected to have Android Oreo and quick charging support. Moto G6 Play The most affordable of the three phones is...

Xiaomi Black Shark gaming phone gets shown off in a three-second hands-on video

Xiaomi-backed Black Shark is getting ready to unveil its first smartphone. The eponymous device will be all about gaming, as Black Shark is meant to be a gaming-focused offshoot of the Chinese handset maker. We've already seen the Black Shark in a couple of benchmarks, a live image, and not one, but two teasers. Now though a hands-on video of the...

OnePlus 6 is fully revealed by a case maker

As OnePlus continues its teaser campaign for its next smartphone, a case maker has decided to fully reveal the device's design. You can see both the front and the rear of the OnePlus 6 in the renders below, which come from Olixar. All of these cases are already up for pre-order at MobileFun, with prices ranging from $7.49 for the gel cases and all...

Apple's HomePod sales fall short of targets

Apple's HomePod smart speaker is more speaker than smart. All early reviews praised its audio prowess but griped with its iPhone-reliance and many limitations. This plus the high asking price led to lower-than-expected sales from Apple's first speaker. Apple has reportedly even gone as far as to cut orders from one of its manufacturers. During the...

Xiaomi Comet and Sirius phones may have Always On OLED screens, Snapdragon 710

The industrious folks over at XDA-Developers have dug up info on two upcoming Xiaomi phones code named Comet and Sirius. And they will use a Snapdragon 710 chipset - part of Qualcomm's AI-focused 700 series - that appears to be a rebranded Snapdragon 670. The two phones are mostly the same. Both have OLED screens with Always On Display, both run...

Huawei Mate RS Porsche Design available for pre-order in the UK

The Huawei Mate RS Porsche Design is a beautiful phone - some like it better than the P20 Pro that it was based on what with the lack of a notch and the addition of an under display fingerprint reader. But beauty comes at a price, specifically a high one. Clove UK has started taking pre-orders at £1,692. As you can probably tell, this is for the...

OnePlus 5T is sold out in Europe

OnePlus just announced in an that the 5T is out of stock in the UK and the rest of Europe. The phone is currently unavailable to be purchased from the company website oneplus.com, but units can still be found at various retailers, including O2. The OnePlus 5T being sold out in Europe is a good thing, the company says as it helped it double its YoY...

Xiaomi sends event for April 25, may unveil the Mi A2 / Mi 6X

It's no coincidence that rumors of the Xiaomi Mi A2 / Mi 6X are intensifying - there's a good chance that the phone will be unveiled a couple of weeks from now. Xiaomi posted an invite for an April 25 event, which unfortunately doesn't give away much. Not that rumors didn't spoil the plot - we're in for an 18:9 refresh of Xiaomi's Android One phone...

TENAA shows what could be a Galaxy S9 with dual cameras

Samsung's product strategy not so gently steers you towards a Galaxy S9+ - without the new camera or extra RAM, the Galaxy S9 isn't a huge upgrade over the S8. So, if you want a compact Galaxy flagship, you're out of luck. Unless the SM-G8850 is what TENAA says it is - basically an S9 with a dual camera. But there's a catch. Two, in fact. The phone...

LG V35 ThinQ with two 16 MP cameras incoming

LG just recently refreshed last year's LG V30 with more AI camera capabilities as the LG V30S ThinQ. Now new intel suggests the phone will get a hardware update with the LG V35 ThinQ. LG V30S ThinQ According to Android Headlines, the phone will stick to a 6" OLED FullVision panel with QHD+ resolution. However it will up the resolution of its wide-angle...

LG opens global Software Upgrade Center in South Korea to ensure faster updates

LG has announced that it is opening a global Software Upgrade Center in South Korea. The facility will be located in LG's new research and development campus in Magok-dong, western Seoul. According to LG: "The Software Upgrade Center will not only be charged with developing and delivering regular OS updates for LG smartphones, it will also be responsible...

Apple Music reaches 40 million paying subscribers

Apple Music has reached 40 million paying subscribers and has gained a new Vice President - Oliver Schusser. Schusser has worked at Apple for 14 years now and has been involved in App Store, iTunes' movies and TV sections, iBooks and Podcasts among others and will now move from Europe to California to head Apple Music and International Content, reporting...

Huawei Y6 (2018) is now official with Face Unlock and Android Oreo

Huawei keeps announcing affordable devices in its Y series - the latest addition is the Y6 (2018) that already started arriving in markets like the Philippines and Russia. The setup on the back might look like dual cameras, but in reality, there is only one sensor - 13 MP. Huawei Y6 (2018) The display panel is 5.7" in diagonal with a tall 18:9 ratio...

Samsung Galaxy A6 Plus (2018) to have Infinity Display

Samsung introduced the Infinity Display with the Galaxy S8 that later found its way to the Galaxy Note8 and to the upper midranger Galaxy A8 (2018) and Galaxy A8+ (2018). Now, according to the HTML5 benchmark website, the SM-A605FN popularly know as Samsung Galaxy A6+ (2018) will also get a taste of it, although it's unlikely to have dual-curved...

Instagram to soon allow you to download your own data

Instagram has revealed plans of allowing users to download a copy of their data, according to a report by Techcrunch. An Instagram spokesperson responded to Techcrunch after the latter published an article about the lack of data portability on the service. The details of this feature are yet to be finalized and Instagram did not go into any detail...

Huawei P20 Pro review

Huawei was among the front-runners in the dual-camera race with the P9 and then the Mate 10, so who better to take things to the next level? The Huawei P20 Pro one-ups all current major players and comes with three cameras on its back, each unique in its own right. Source: https://www.gsmarena.com/huawei_p20_pro-review-1747.p...

Motorola announces $60 Moto Stereo Speaker mod

Motorola has announced the new Moto Stereo Speaker mod for its Z series of smartphones. As with other mods, it is designed to work with all the Z series phones. Unlike the last two speaker mods that were built in partnership with JBL, the Moto Stereo Speaker mod is made by Motorola itself. It features stereo speakers and a kickstand to prop up the...

Unannounced second generation Snapchat Spectacles passes through FCC

A second generation version of the Snapchat Spectacles has seemingly passed through FCC for certification. While the FCC documents don't name them as such, the leaked packing label and the fact that it's called 'Wearable video camera 002' in the FCC filing doesn't make it awfully hard to guess what it could be. The upcoming arrival of a second generation...

Sony's Xperia XZ2 and XZ2 Compact will be available in the US on April 20

One US retailer started unofficially taking pre-orders for Sony's Xperia XZ2 and XZ2 Compact at the end of March, but now we have the official launch details for the Japanese company's latest flagship duo in the States. They will become available from Best Buy online on April 20. If you want to grab yours from a physical Best Buy store, you'll have...

OnePlus 6 gets officially shown off underneath a OnePlus 5T

OnePlus' teaser campaign for its next smartphone is already in full swing. Today we get a glimpse at the OnePlus 6's left side, courtesy of what has now become traditional for the company - namely, a shot of its current flagship sitting atop the yet to be released model. That's the OnePlus 5T's back you can see in the image, but underneath it is...

Nokia 3 joins the Oreo club - beta testing over, update rolling out

The Nokia 3 is done with living the beta software lifestyle and now awaiting delivery of the stable version of Android 8.0 Oreo. The update is rolling out today (over the air) so you should soon be seeing a notification with the good news. The affordable handset launched in February last year running 7.0 Nougat and leapfrogged the 7.1.2 version to...

Explaining the tech behind Huawei P20 Pro's triple camera

Huawei and Leica put a lot of effort into building a unique camera. On paper, the Huawei P20 Pro camera should be the best on the market, though that paper may be tough to understand. So, let us quickly guide you through the three cameras of the Pro. The 40 MP camera is the major selling point. It features a huge 1/1.7" sensor, considerably larger...

vivo Y71 quietly debuts with entry-level specs

The vivo Y71 has been quietly announced in India with information about it being sent out to retailers. It packs a 5.99-inch 720x1440px LCD of the trendy 18:9 aspect ratio. At its heart the Y71 has a Snapdragon 450 chipset with 3GB of RAM and 16GB of built-in storage that can be expanded via the microSD card slot. There's a 13MP main camera and 5MP...

Original Pixel and Pixel XL head for greener pastures, no longer available from Google store

They had a good run, but now it is time to retire - the Google Pixel and Pixel XL are no longer available through Google's official store. The first Pixels, replacements of the Nexus line, launched in October 2016, meaning they were on sale for a year and a half. Google committed to 2 years of software updates for these two, meaning they will enjoy...

Samsung Galaxy Note9 tipped to come with 6.4" screen, larger battery

The Samsung Galaxy Note9 may have to launch early, but there is still time for some improvements. This is based on rumors coming out of Weibo from normally reliable leaksters, but we'd wait on some official sources before we're sure (the Brazilians love leaking battery capacities). The new Note may be slightly larger at 6.4" and of the same aspect...

ZTE Nubia Z18 mini is official with Snapdragon 660, Neosmart AI

ZTE has unveiled the its first Z18 Series smartphone - the Z18 mini. The phone is an upper midranger with a Snapdragon 660 chipset, 6GB of RAM, a 24MP f/1.7 + 5MP dual camera at the back and an 8MP f/2.0 front-facing unit with an 80-degree wide angle field of view. The Nubia Z18 mini is built around a 5.7-inch 2160x1080px 18:9 IPS LCD and has a glass...

Samsung unveils Galaxy J7 Duo on its website

Samsung just officially listed the Galaxy J7 Duo (2018) on its website, bearing all but the price. The page has since been hidden suggesting that someone over at Samsung India might have jumped the gun. As expected the Galaxy J7 Duo (2018) comes with 5.5" Super AMOLED screen of HD resolution, a 13MP f/1.9 + 5MP f/1.9 dual camera at the back and an...

nubia outs Red Magic gaming brand

Not to be outdone by the soon to be announced Xiaomi-backed Black Shark gaming device, ZTE sub-brand nubia is unveiling a gaming-related sub-brand of its own. It's called Red Magic and the company has sent us the teaser image you can see below. With nubia's support, Red Magic is preparing to launch an entire line of products that "provide a more...

HP announces Chromebook x2, a $599 Chromebook with detachable keyboard and stylus

HP has launched the Chromebook x2, a device HP calls the world's first Chromebook detachable. What it essentially is is a Chromebook tablet with a keyboard dock as well as stylus support. The HP Chromebook x2 has a 12.3-inch, 2400x1600 resolution IPS display. The display has support for a stylus and it comes bundled with the HP Active Pen. Another...

Deals: Samsung Galaxy S9 and S9+ get a 10% discount on eBay

The Samsung Galaxy S9 and Galaxy S9+ are new and exciting, but unfortunately this also makes them expensive. That's why you may want to be on the lookout for deals such as this one in the US. Samsung Galaxy S9 An S9 (Snapdragon 845, dual-SIM) goes for $670 - available here - while the S9+ (S845 again, dual-SIM) goes for $770. That's down from the...

Blackmagic Design announces Pocket Cinema Camera 4K for $1295

Launched in 2013, the original Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera became a success for bringing professional grade quality and control to a compact, pocketable design. Five years and many requests later, the company has finally announced the successor - Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera 4K. The new 4K model is completely redesigned and although it's probably...

Dual-camera BlackBerry with QWERTY appears in renders

The BlackBerry brand is enjoying its new lease of life under TCL Technology ownership. Last year we saw the rebirth of smartphones with QWERTY keyboards with the arrival of BlackBerry Keyone. After its market performance was dubbed as "Mission Accomplished", the device is getting a successor. According to leaked images from the State Intellectual...

Moto G6 Play handled on video

Despite a few delays, Motorola is still planning to release a new Moto series of affordable handsets. By all accounts, the launch event will be held on April 19, in Brazil and the lineup will include the Moto G6, G6 Plus and G6 Play. The latter of the three devices was spotted in a very short clip. Despite its mismatched title, we are pretty confident...

BLU Vivo One Plus has an 18:9 screen, 4,000 mAh battery

Whoever named the latest BLU phone must have had a terrible case of the flu that day. Meet the BLU Vivo One Plus - yes, basically a string of three fairly well known phone brands (although there is a space between "One" and "Plus"). So, what's the phone about? The official page uses some dubious superlatives. It starts with a 4,000 mAh "monster battery",...