iOS 12.2 features hints of upcoming iPad models, new iPod touch

Apple has experimented a fair bit with the iPad line over the years, culminating with the new design and powerful internals on the pair of 2018 Pro models - iPad Pro 12.9 (2018) and iPad Pro 11. However, Apple's official store still carries the older iPad Pro 10.5 (2017) as well as the iPad 9.7 (2018), with a slightly older chipset and a lower price...

Save the date: Google I/O 2019 schedule and venue are official

The scarce, but still exciting details come from Sundar Pichai himself. He recently took to Twitter to drop the May 7 to May 9 time frame, along with a familiar location - Shoreline Amphitheatre. The Mountain View, California spot has been the venue of choice of Google I/O last three years in a row, making it pretty easily deducible info overall....

Nokia MWC event teasers showcase a mysterious punch hole selfie phone, along with the Nokia 9

Juho Sarvikas, Chief Product Officer at HMD Global, already made it clear that Nokia will be attending this year's Mobile World Congress. The date is set for February 24 and apparently, the company is also planning a public stream, so anybody interested can tune into. Neat! Although we do kind of wish the announcement came in a more formal or at...

More Xiaomi Redmi Note 7 carnage: watch it crush and get crushed by fruit

In case you are not in the loop on Xiaomi's latest escapades, these are very much focused on the recently-released Redmi Note 7 handset. In keeping with tradition, it is an affordable ($150 or so) phone, packing-in quite a bit of value, with specs like a large 6.3-inch LCD, hefty 4,000 mAh battery and a 48MP Quad-bayer main camera. But non of that...

Nokia 1 Plus leaks online with renders and an entry-level specs sheet

With MWC right around the corner and Nokia's presence at the event already confirmed everybody is understandably looking at HMD Global with high expectations regarding the long-elusive and eagerly-anticipated Nokia 9. However, that might not be the only new phone the Nokia teams brings to the convention floor. Industry insider sources have dug-up...

Galaxy Note8, S8, and S8+ Android Pie beta spreads to US unlocked units

In an unprecedented move, Samsung opened a public beta program for its Android 9 Pie update for its previous-gen flagships, namely the Galaxy Note8, S8, and S8+. For a couple of weeks or so this has been available in some markets, including the UK and the company's home of South Korea. Now though you can get a taste of Android Pie, with a sprinkling...

Facebook is working on integrating Messenger, WhatsApp, and Instagram

Facebook is currently working on integrating its three chat services - Messenger, WhatsApp, and Instagram. They won't merge, continuing to function as standalone apps, but their owner wants their users to be able to message each other across platforms. In order for this to work a huge amount of reconfiguration needs to be done by "thousands of Facebook...

Nokia smartphones are finally coming to carriers in North America

You can already get some Nokia smartphones unlocked in the US, but what if you simply can't imagine buying yours from anywhere but a carrier? Well, here's some good news. HMD Global has announced partnerships with both Verizon and Cricket, as well as Rogers in Canada, and those carriers will start offering one Nokia device each very soon. Don't get...

Apple's iOS 12.2 reveals that AirPods 2 are on the way

It looks like Apple is finally closing-in on unveiling the next-gen AirPods. The latest iOS 12.2 beta includes a setup interface for the 'Hey Siri' command for the Apple AirPods - a major feature of the next-gen truly wireless pair. The setup is not visible to public beta testers. Currently only the Apple iPhone and the iPad can be woken up with...

Huawei P Smart 2019 review

Larger screen with a trendy notch, newer chipset, bigger battery, and a current OS version - it sure sounds like Huawei has ticked a lot of boxes to bring an already successful formula to the year 2019. It's the Huawei P Smart 2019 we're talking about, the follow up to the smartphone that happened to be the star of one of our most read reviews last...

Honor View 20 disassembly video shows easy to replace battery, heatpipe

Honor View 20 or just Honor V20 in China went global the other day and the first teardown video is now live. The video goes through the disassembly process showing almost every step of the way. It reveals fairly easy to replace battery, but the screen is still a big hassle - you need to heat it up so you can pry it off. It's a useful video that might...

Nokia 9 coming on February 24

MWC 2019 is nearing and companies are racing to announce their appearance at the conference. Companies that have confirmed attendance include Sony, Xiaomi, LG, Huawei and Oppo. The latest manufacturer to join the fun is HMD Global and its Nokia smartphones after Juho Sarvikas confirmed February 24 as the date for the showdown. Instead of going for...

iPhone XR is Apple's top seller in the US, XS market share shrinks

The iPhone XR is often painted as a disappointment and Apple has been cutting production. Still it managed to become the best selling 2018 iPhone model in the last three months of the year in the US. During the first month of availability, it made up 32% of iPhone sales while the XS duo combined accounted for 35%, based on info by CIRP. The latest...

Nokia 2 to get Oreo update soon, but there's a catch

HMD's Pie update roadmap had a conspicuous absence - the Nokia 2. Juho Sarvikas, Chief Product Officer, got plenty questions about it on Twitter and posted an explanation of what's going on. The Nokia 2 is not getting Pie and while it's due for an Oreo serving, it comes with fine print. Since Oreo requires more resources, it will not run as smoothly...

LG to announce a 5G smartphone with Snapdragon 855 at MWC 2019

LG's next mainstream flagship phone won't come with 5G connectivity and the company will instead launch a separate 5G handset during this year's MWC at Barcelona. The information comes straight from LG, so it's official as it gets. The company also adds that the phone will feature a big copper vapor chamber, which will be 2.7 times the size of the...

Redmi Note 7 was used as a cutting board in latest stunt

Redmi Note 7 arrived with a 48 MP camera and Snapdragon 660 chipset, but the sub-brand CEO Lu Weibing decided to take the marketing into another, rather unusual, direction. Instead of speaking about the performance of the device, we saw it smashing walnuts, rolling down the stairs and being stomped. In the latest installment of the endurance videos,...

Apple's short movie 'The Bucket' is entirely shot on iPhone XS

Apple's short film 'The Bucket' is now out. It's a story about a man, his mom and the love of home, shot entirely on the iPhone XS in picturesque parts of China. The short film, made for the Chinese New Year (also known as the Spring Festival, on February 5) was directed by Jia Zhangke and is around 5:30 long. Apple has also shared two other clips...

Samsung Galaxy A8s arrives in South Korea as Galaxy A9 Pro (2019)

The year started with the promising news that the Samsung Galaxy A8s with Infinity-O display might escape China and hit other countries. Today the Korean company announced on its website that its domestic market would also see the phone, although under a different moniker - Samsung Galaxy A9 Pro. It will arrive on February 28 with a battery pack...

Google Coral device with Snapdragon 855 shines on Geekbench

The latest Qualcomm chipset is Snapdragon 855, and we expect plenty of 2019 devices to have it. One mysterious entry called "Google coral" appeared with the very same platform on Geekbench with 6 GB RAM and Android Q. Some assumptions might be made that this is an Alpha unit of the upcoming Pixel 4, but it is more likely a new Chromebook in the works...

Xiaomi launches ShareSave in India, a platform for buying products from China

Xiaomi has launched a new e-commerce app that will let you purchase ecosystem devices and products that are only available in China. Xiaomi has backed so many products from water bottles, to toothbrushes, desk lamps and smart bulbs. Xiaomi's aim is to expand the reach of its ecosystem products. The ShareSave app is first launching in India with more...

Nokia 5 receives Android 9 Pie update

HMD Global is now sending out an update to Android 9 Pie to the Nokia 5, a mid-range phone launched in 2017. The company is definitely among the fastest out there when it comes to updating handsets that aren't flagships to the latest versions of Android. The news was proudly announced on Twitter by Juho Sarvikas, HMD's Chief Product Officer. The...

Microsoft releases Office 365 on Mac App Store

Microsoft has finally released Office apps on the Mac App Store. All Office apps are now available to download, which includes Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, OneNote, and OneDrive. Customers will also be able to purchase an Office 365 subscription from within the apps directly, which is required to use the apps. Microsoft has updated the apps...

Samsung explains the improvements brought by the Exynos 9820 in pictures

Samsung unveiled the Exynos 9820 chipset late last year in preparation for this year's flagships. "The driving force behind the mobile experience's radical transformation is a mobile processor hidden beneath the surface", says the company in a post that details the brain inside the upcoming Galaxy S10. Tri-cluster CPU • The new GPU can deliver 40%...

Energizer at MWC: 26 phones, including foldable phone and phone with 18,000mAh battery

Energizer wants to electrify the MWC with a whopping 26 new models spread across four different product lines. One phone will grab people's attention with 18,000mAh battery, the largest ever on a phone. Read it again - 18 thousand milliamp hours. We'll believe it when we see it, however, as the Energizer Power Max P16K Pro was announced last year...

Motorola's website leaks the Moto G7 lineup

Motorola's Brazilian website accidentally uploaded the the Moto G7 lineup two weeks ahead of their official announcement. The pages contained specs and images revealing everything there's to know about the phones. The vanilla Moto G7 will feature a 6.24-inch display with a waterdrop notch and 1080 x 2270 pixel resolution. It's powered by a Snapdragon...

Brazil's Anatel lists batteries for all three Galaxy S10 models as 3,000mAh

Last year Anatel nailed the battery capacities of the Galaxy S9 and S9+. It has published its certifications for the Galaxy S10 batteries too, but something feels off. It lists all three models - EB-BG970ABU, EB-BG973ABU and EB-BG975ABU - which correspond to the Galaxy S10 Lite, S10 and S10+. However, all three are listed as 3,000mAh. That lines...

Redmi Go nearing a launch in the Philippines

Redmi Note 7 arrived as the first device by Xiaomi with 48 MP camera and now another first for the company is coming - the first Android Go phone. It was teased by Xiaomi's Philippines branch and according to one source, it will be called Redmi Go. Leaked specs suggest 5" screen with regular HD resolution, Snapdragon 425 chipset and Android Oreo...

Huawei will bring the world's first foldable 5G phone to the MWC

Huawei's pre-MWC briefing on 5G focused on its new Balong 5000 5G modem and the company's base station hardware. However, a curious bit of info was snuck in towards the end of the hour-long presentation - Huawei is bringing a 5G phone to the MWC. And not just any 5G smartphone, but a foldable 5G smartphone. That would be a world's first. The phone...

BOE surpases LG as main supplier of AMOLED panels for the Huawei Mate 20 Pro

BOE Technology, China's leading maker of AMOLED displays, has surpassed LG and is catching up to Samsung, according to industry insiders. The company is also planning a massive $6.85 million investment into a third production line for 6G flexible AMOLED panels. During Q3 of 2018, BOE's yield rates for 6.39" QHD+ AMOLEDs were just 10%. That means...

Samsung taps Disha Patani for Galaxy M teaser, she shows off the ultra wide camera

Samsung has tapped Bollywood star Disha Patani to promote its upcoming Galaxy M series. She receives an M-shaped box (we doubt that's the actual retail package) and takes the camera for a quick spin. She demos the ultra-wide angle camera in particular, here's how switching changes the field of view: Samsung Galaxy M: normal and ultra-wide angle camera...

Huawei unveils the 5G CPE Pro router with Wi-Fi 6, it uses the new Balong 5000 chipset

Huawei wants to be a one-stop shop for all things 5G. It unveiled the Balong 5000 chipset and the world's first 5G core chip, the Tiangang. The Balong 5000 is a multi-mode modem supporting 2G, 3G, 4G and 5G and will be used in anything from smartphones to cars. Its first application is in the Huawei 5G CPE Pro router. It supports both sub-6GHz 5G...

Samsung Galaxy S10 and S10+ live images surface

We are still a month away from the Samsung Galaxy S10 trio launch and this is by far our best look at the Galaxy S10 and S10+. A bunch of live images have surfaced revealing the design in great detail. Galaxy S10 and S10+ prototypes The first thing we've noticed about those prototypes are the bezels. They appear to be slightly bigger than those pictured...

Sexy vivo Apex 2019 unveiled with no buttons, all screen fingerprint sensor

The vivo Apex 2019 concept phone is here and it packs some serious tech. It's powered by a Snapdragon 855 chipset, has 256GB of storage, 12GB of RAM and 5G - the last two are firsts for vivo. Arriving just a day after Meizu announced its take on the portless buttonless phone, vivo's Apex 2019 is a rather different beast despite similar looks. For...

Realme teases new smartphone that's all about entertainment

Realme is announcing a new phone in India and it will be "all about entertainment". The company teased it on Flipkart as the device to have if you are into movies or photos but did not announce what the name will be. Chances are it is either the Realme 3 or the Realme A1 since both are expected to arrive soon. The most intriguing feature, however,...

Redmi Note 7 will come in India to turn your head around

Yes, your eyes are alright, Xiaomi really posted an upside-down photo of Lei Jun and Manu Kumar Jain posing with the Redmi Note 7. That is the announcement of the phone arrival in India without actually revealing any dates or pricing. What the tweet said was only the "head-turner" is coming and "disruption is guaranteed." The Redmi Note 7 is a follow-up...

More photos of the Samsung Galaxy S10 leak revealing a crypto currency wallet

More photos of the Samsung Galaxy S10 have surfaced, this time showing off a new feature. The Galaxy S10 in these images shows a Samsung Blockchain KeyStore where you can presumably store supported cryptocurrencies. The Galaxy S10 in these images have a single camera in the display cutout, so we're likely seeing the regular Galaxy S10 variant in...

YouTube TV is now available nationwide in the US

YouTube TV launched almost two years ago but was only available in select markets. As the months passed by, YouTube TV supported more markets around the United States including the four largest local TV broadcasters in 90% of all markets where YouTube TV is available. Today, YouTube TV has added 95 new markets which covers over 98% of all American...

Meizu M9 Note lands in mid-February with 48 MP main camera, 4,000 mAh battery

Meizu has just announced the Zero, a phone with no buttons or ports, but the Chinese company is also working on less revolutionary devices. A handset that is expected to become official in mid-February is the Meizu M9 Note. It will come with a dual rear camera system, with the main sensor being the 48 MP Samsung GM1. It's a big 1/2" sensor, with...

Deal: Save £150 when you buy a 256GB iPhone XS in the UK

Have you been meaning to buy an iPhone XS but haven't gotten round to doing that just yet? Are you in the UK or able to order from Amazon UK? Was the 256GB version the one you had in mind? If you answered yes to all of these questions, then you're in luck. Amazon has decided to shave a cool £150 off of the usual price of the 256GB iPhone XS. Hence,...

Huawei P10 and Honor 9 receive EMUI 9.0.1 update with January security patches

Today Huawei has started sending out a new software update to the P10, its flagship smartphone from the first half of 2017. Additionally, the Honor 9 is getting the same software, namely EMUI 9.0.1. Currently the rollout is happening only in China, but it's clearly only a matter of time before the new release hits other markets. EMUI 9.0.1 comes...

Honor View 20 review

Honor's View lineup is back and significantly better than before. For starters, it's got a much more attractive glass back and metal frame while the front no longer has a notch of any kind. The back of the phone is ultra-shiny and easily one of the best-looking smartphones around. Honor has innovated on pushing the glass back cover into something...

Huawei will reveal its 5G plans tomorrow

Huawei increased its R&D spending in preparation for the launch of 5G. Now the company wants to talk about what it has been working on with a "pre-MWC" briefing to be held on January 24 in Beijing (that's tomorrow). The event will be livestreamed and it will kick off Huawei's 5G efforts. The company wants to deliver a double-hitter by unveiling...

Samsung Galaxy M10 and M20 will get Android 9 Pie in August

The Samsung Galaxy M20 will reportedly have the new One UI, even though it will run Android 8.1 Oreo at launch. In fact, the Pie update is months away - it will be released in August. Samsung published a notice with the Pie update schedule and it included the still-unofficial Galaxy M10 and M20. Android 9 Pie update schedule for Samsung Galaxy phones...

Samsung pushes beta update to Galaxy Note8, updates Pie roadmap

Samsung has pushed a second Android 9.0 beta update to the Galaxy Note8 that fixes various issues such as camera app force-close when shooting slow-mo video, viewfinder freezing and undetected music stored on the microSD card. The firmware is a sizeable 705MB and carries the number N950FXXU5ZSAB. The Galaxy S8/S8+ will likely receive the same update...

Huawei P30 to go all-in on OLED, P30 Pro will feature periscope optical zoom camera

Reports from people using engineering samples suggest that the Huawei P30 will feature a redesigned front. For starters, both phones will use OLED displays now, instead of keeping the non-Pro on LCD. This is made necessary by the move to optical in-display fingerprint readers, which also means that the wide notch for the 3D face scanner is going...

Motorola releases pie for Moto G6+ and Moto Z3, adds support for 5G mod

Motorola has started rolling out Android 9 Pie to two more of its phones. The Moto Z3 is getting the typical Pie features and the January 1 security patch. You can read the full change log for more details. There's a detailed breakdown of the features here. The most interesting addition is support for the 5G MotoMod, which will make this one of the...

Apple releases iOS 12.1.3 and watchOS 5.1.3

Apple has released iOS 12.1.3 update for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch. The update is a minor one and mostly focuses on bug fixes and performance updates. The update includes: Fixes for an issue in Messages that could impact scrolling through photos in the Details view Fix for an issue where photos could have striped artifacts after being sent from...

Samsung Galaxy M20 early review praises the battery life

A self-professed long-time Samsung user and member of the Samsung Community forums was given a Galaxy M20 to review and they did - publicly. Summed up in two words, the conclusion is "battery matters". The Galaxy M20 (and Galaxy M30) will have a 5,000mAh battery. A 45 minute gaming session didn't drain much of the battery and it reportedly charges...

Samsung Galaxy S10 phones will support reverse wireless charging

Rumor has it that the Samsung Galaxy S10 trio will support reverse wireless charging and now there's some solid proof. This photo of what seems to be a demo booth (the top label reads "press button to experience") shows that this will be one of the major features. The first three buttons play an introductory video, then one about the cinematic display...

HMD Global shares its Android Pie update roadmap

Juho Sarvikas, HMD Global's CPO revealed the company's Android Pie update plans for the upcoming months. Juho just boasted on Twitter that the Nokia lineup were the fastest in moving to Android Oreo and that he hopes the switch to Pie will be completed in even shorter time. So far, eight phones have received the Android 9.0 Pie update with the Nokia...