Sprint rolls out Android 10 for LG G8X ThinQ

The LG G8X ThinQ units locked to Sprint's network are receiving the Android 10 update. The new firmware sports version G850U20f and is rolling out to units with model code LM-G850UM. LG G8X ThinQ The new update brings in dark mode and full-screen gestures to the G8X ThinQ. Besides, it also comes with clearer app icons and improved layouts for titles...

WhatsApp for Android gets Facebook Messenger Rooms integration with beta update

The Messenger Rooms feature launched by Facebook last month went live a couple of days ago, and now it's being integrated into Facebook-owned WhatsApp. According to a report by WABetaInfo, Facebook has integrated Messenger Rooms into WhatsApp for Android with the 2.20.163 beta update. The update brings a new "Room" option to the share menu inside...

Motorola Edge+ teardown reveals aluminum midframe, lots of copper inside

We've had the Motorola Edge+ at headquarters for a few days, but we're not in the habit of opening up our review units (the occasional 'Heat gun! Heat gun!' chants can be heard in the office, strictly when all other options have been exhausted). So we jumped at the chance to have a look inside the Edge+, presented to us by YouTuber PBKreviews. Before...

Samsung Galaxy A41 up for pre-orders in the Netherlands

The Samsung Galaxy A41 unveiled in March is now up for pre-orders in the Netherlands. It's priced at €299 and you can pre-book one from Samsung's official Dutch site. It has three color options - Prism Crush Black, Prism Crush White, and Prism Crush Blue. The Galaxy A41 is powered by the Helio P65 SoC and boots Android 10 with One UI 2.0 on top....

Redmi Note 10 with the upcoming Dimensity 820 chipset benchmarked

Mediatek is announcing a new chipset on Monday, a Xiaomi Redmi Note 10 got certified by TENAA recently and now the same phone has appeared on GeekBench with an as-yet unofficial Mediatek SoC - the stars are aligning nicely, we reckon. About a dozen entries in the benchmark's database feature the Xiaomi M2004J7AC, the specific model number we saw...

LG applies for 13 new Q-series device names including a new Q30 lineup in Korea

A report from My LG Phones points out that the South Korean phone maker has applied for 13 new device names in the Q-series of midrange LG devices. The applications were submitted to the Korea Intellectual Property Rights Information Service (or KIPRIS). The names included are Q31, Q32, Q33, Q51, Q51S, Q52, Q53, Q61, Q62, Q63, Q91, Q92, and Q93....

Sony releases video of pro photographer Nick Didlick praising the Xperia 1 II's camera features

On Sony Xperia's YouTube channel, a video was posted featuring the unreleased Xperia 1 II (one mark two) with pro photographer Nick Didlick talking about its camera. Didlick has 40 years of experience in photojournalism and sports photography, and he talks mostly about the Xperia 1 II's camera features. Didlick normally shoots with a Sony Alpha 9...

OnePlus truly wireless earbuds land in July, guess what they look like

Over the years OnePlus has launched a bunch of phones and a few Bullets branded earphones, but the company has yet to unveil its first pair of truly wireless earbuds. According to a new rumor, that's set to change in July. Coincidentally or not, the OnePlus Z is also expected around the same time, so don't be surprised if the most affordable OnePlus...

Microsoft Surface Duo specs leak

Microsoft is busy testing the upcoming Surface Duo internally, a device that has two screens on two equal sides, with a 360-degree hinge between them. So while neither display panel is foldable, that hinge gives you plenty of use case flexibility. The Surface Duo will be just 4.8mm thin when opened, and thus 9.6mm thick when shut. A bunch of specs...

Facebook buys Giphy for $400 million

Facebook just announced that it's acquiring the popular GIF-sharing platform, Giphy. Reportedly, the deal cost Facebook $400 million and its plan is to integrate the Giphy library in Instagram and other Facebook-owned services. The integration of Giphy, which is used for sharing but for making and editing GIFs, has started long ago as Facebook, Messenger,...

Realme Narzo 10 hands-on review

Earlier this week, Realme announced a new smartphone series called Narzo, which includes two budget smartphones - Narzo 10 and Narzo 10A. The Narzo 10A comes in So Blue and So White colors, while the vanilla Narzo 10 is offered in That White and That Green shades. We've received the That White variant of Narzo 10, so let's take a closer look at what...

Realme Buds Air Neo key features and renders leak

According to a pretty extensive leak, Realme is about to launch a more affordable alternative to its true wireless headphones, the Realme Buds Air. The upcoming pair is named Realme Buds Air Neo and will offer impressively long battery life on a single charge - 17 hours. However, the headphones will come with aging microUSB port on its case for charging...

The MediaTek Dimensity 820 will reach 2.6GHz CPU clocks, will power a 5G Redmi

MediaTek has scheduled an event for Monday (May 18) to unveil a new 5G chipset. The Redmi Note 10 which surfaced on TENAA may be the first phone to use it and if it's not, there's a good chance that it will be the Redmi K30i 5G instead. Redmi General Manager and Xiaomi VP Lu Weibing reposted MediaTek's announcement, lending some credence to the rumors....

Our Moto G8 Power video review is up

Having completed the Moto G8 Power written review, it's now time to present you our findings on video. The phone excels in battery life, as the name implies - little surprise, seeing its massive 5,000mAh power pack. The handset also holds a big and bright 6.4-inch IPS display and a pair of loud and nice-sounding stereo speakers. You could say that...

Redmi Note 10 with 5G, OLED display and faster chipset shows up on TENAA

The Redmi Note 10 will be the first in the series to feature 5G connectivity. TENAA certified the phone with both NSA and SA support (as well as the usual LTE and older connections). The phone will switch from the LCDs typical for the affordable Redmis to a 6.57" OLED display with 1,080 x 2,400px resolution (20:9 aspect ratio). The punch hole design...

The US is trying to cut off Huawei's global chip supply, China threatens retaliation

Things are heating up between the US and China - the US Department of Commerce is tweaking its export rule to "strategically target Huawei's acquisition of semiconductors that are the direct product of certain US software and technology," reports Reuters. Last year, the Department of Commerce put Huawei on the so-called entity list, which effectively...

Huawei P40 lite 5G announced - a rebadged nova 7 SE for Europe

The Huawei P40 lite 5G is the latest member of the P40 family to make its way to Europe. The device is identical to the previously launched nova 7 SE and will be available for €400, making it one of the most affordable 5G phones in Europe. It's currently up for pre-order while official sales tip off on May 29. The P40 lite 5G features a 6.5-inch...

US president threatens local companies like Apple with extra taxes if manufacturing stays overseas

The president of the United States is planning to implement new taxes on American companies that manufacture their products abroad, like Apple. According to Donald Trump, taxation is an incentive - if the companies don't want to pay extra, they have to move their manufacturing at home. According to US officials from the Trump administration, this...

Xiaomi made a Redmi K30 Pro Explorer Edition but you can't have it

Xiaomi used to make special variants of its flagships that had semi-transparent rear panels. They called them Explorer Editions and made one for the Xiaomi Mi 8 and Mi 9. But they said they wouldn't release a Mi 10/10 Pro Explorer Edition, despite leaked images of just such a prototype in the wild. It turns out they made a prototype of a Redmi K30...

TSMC to build a 5nm chip factory in the United States

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) is planning to build a $12 billion chip factory in Arizona, US. The company will create up to 1,600 jobs and is aiming to manufacture products for US companies reducing the supply chain dependency on China. TSMC stated in a press release that "this project is of critical, strategic importance to a...

Nokia 6.3 to come with Snapdragon 730, camera details emerge too

The first report about the Nokia 6.3 claimed that it will be powered by a Snapdragon 67x-series SoC, but a new insider source now claims that the phone will actually be have the more capable Snapdragon 730 at its core. The insider claims to have a prototype of the device in hand and has shared a few additional details. The camera will be a quad setup...

Realme's first smartwatch and smart TV are arriving on May 25 with other accessories

A couple of days ago Realme announced that it will unveil eight new products on May 25 in China, with one of them being a gamer-centric smartphone dubbed Realme X50 Pro Player (Edition). Today, Realme's Indian branch announced that it will unveil the company's first smartwatch and smart TV on May 25, called Realme Watch and Realme TV, respectively....

Samsung Galaxy A21s now official

After several detailed leaks the Samsung Galaxy A21s is now official. It brings a similar design to the Galaxy A21 but with a better camera setup, more RAM options and a larger 5,000 mAh battery. The phone is built around a 6.5-inch HD+ AMOLED Infinity-O display. It boasts a 13MP selfie cam and a 20:9 aspect ratio. Around the back we find a 48MP...

Lenovo Legion Phone will be all about horizontal experience, teaser reveals

Lenovo's first gaming phone under the Legion brand has been the subject of a long teaser campaign, but we're yet to see a launch date or proper specs sheet from an official source. Today, the company's Weibo profile posted another short teaser, highlighting that the handset is meant to be operated in horizontal orientation. That was already hinted...

Kuo: 10.8" iPad coming in second half of 2020, all-new 9" iPad mini to arrive next year

According to noted Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo Apple will replace its base 10.2 iPad with a new 10.8-inch slate in the second half of the year. In addition, Cupertino is allegedly preparing an all-new iPad mini with a 9-inch screen scheduled to arrive in 2021. The mini's form factor hasn't been updated since the 2015 version. According to Kuo, Apple...

Gaming-focused Realme flagship to be called X50 Pro Player

Realme executives showcased a new smartphone that will be introduced on May 25, and now we know the name - it will be called Realme X50 Pro Player (Edition). It was codenamed Blade Runner and will be a "speed king" with "impressive performance", according to the Weibo page of the smartphone brand. The Realme X50 Pro Player visually resembles the...

vivo X50 5G is coming on June 1

vivo recently unveiled the X50 Lite and the company today announced it will bring the vanilla X50 at the start of next month. The X50 5G will be announced in China on June 1 and while vivo hasn't revealed any details about the smartphone yet, an image on the company's official China site teases the smartphone as "professional imaging flagship" (machine...

Motorola Edge+ lands in India on May 19

The Motorola Edge+ will debut in India on May 19 at 12PM local time (6:30AM UTC). This information comes through Indian e-commerce giant Flipkart, which set up a page on its site to promote the flagship. The Motorola Edge+ is the first proper flagship from the Lenovo subsidiary in a long time. It's powered by the Snapdragon 865 SoC, has 12GB RAM...

Google Pixel 4a to undercut iPhone SE starting price with double the storage

The Google Pixel 4a is set to arrive soon, possibly in early June. Following an inadvertent leak of the phone and a video testing the phone's performance and battery life, we now get to learn more about the phone's pricing. It was initially rumored that the Google Pixel 4a will start at $399 just like the iPhone SE. Now according to 9to5Google's...

Deal: grab an LG V60 ThinQ with Dual Screen on Verizon for just $550

LG's latest flagship smartphone, the V60 ThinQ, has now reached mid-ranger pricing territory, which makes it a very intriguing device, considering the high-end innards. Verizon has, for a limited time, decided to shave off a whopping $400 off the usual price of the V60, thus taking it down from $950 to $550. Of course this being a carrier deal, you...

Facebook Messenger Rooms now live with free video calls for up to 50 people

Throughout all the social distancing (and isolation) we've seen because of the COVID-19 pandemic, Zoom has emerged as a household name, whereas before it was probably best known by some people for being the video conferencing tool at work. As more and more people have been using it for everything but work related purposes, it got to hundreds of millions...

Honor X10's night mode abilities revealed through samples

Just yesterday, Honor confirmed that the X10 is going to arrive with a 90Hz display and a 180Hz touch-sensing digitizer. In the same news day, the X10's camera details leaked along with information about a periscope camera. Today, a couple of photo samples were teased by Honor, some that were shot with the Honor X10. The photos were posted to Honor's...

Two key Google Pixel team members quit over Pixel 4 failure

According to a report, two key staff members have quit the Google Pixel division after apparent disappointment with how the Google Pixel 4 lineup turned out to be. Even during the development phase, the two key employees were not happy with most of the Pixel 4 and 4 XL specs. The two members are Mario Queiroz and Marc Levoy. The former has worked...

TCL 10 Pro and 10L go on sale in North America starting May 19

Initially unveiled back in January and properly announced in April, TCL's 10 Pro and 10L will officially go on sale in North America starting May 19. The TCL 10 Pro will retail for $450 while the 10L will be priced at $250. Both phones will be offered through Amazon initially, with BestBuy, Walmart and several carriers in Canada later this summer....

HTC U Ear true wireless headphones photographed by the FCC

HTC will soon join the lucrative business of making true wireless headsets (TWS), photos from the FCC already revealed the design of its first set. They have a glossy black exterior but other than that are pretty reminiscent of Apple's AirPods. These will be called HTC U Ear and so far very little is known about them. You can see the USB-C port for...

Google Pixel 4a benchmarked and battery tested

The latest detailed leak pertaining to the unreleased Google Pixel 4a shows the device running different games and benchmarks, painting a very complete image of what to expect from the phone when it finally launches. The video is posted by Cuban YouTube channel TechnoLike Plus, which has a pre-production Pixel 4a in hand. Gaming is smooth courtesy...

Motorola Edge+ in for review

You have to go back three years to find the last proper Motorola flagship. That makes the Motorola Edge+ a welcome return to form and one of the most exciting phones of 2020. The company is feeling good about its chances too, pricing the Edge+ at €1,199/$999, which pins it against some of the best phones in the market. So what do you get for that...

OnePlus 8 series gets Oxygen OS 10.5.7/10.5.8 updates

OnePlus has officially begun seeding the latest OxygenOS update for the OnePlus 8 series. OnePlus 8 owners are getting OxygenOS 10.5.7 while the version for 8 Pro is 10.5.8. The new updates change a lot of stuff under the hood ranging from display issues to camera tweaks and stability improvements and network connectivity optimizations. In addition,...

Dell announces updated XPS 15 and a new larger XPS 17 laptops

Dell has launched two new models in its premium XPS lineup. We now get an updated XPS 15 alongside a new XPS 17 model for 2020. The XPS 15 is an update to last year's model and now comes with Intel's 10th generation CPUs. You have a choice between the 4 core/8 thread Core i5-10300H, 6 core/12 thread Core i7-10750H, or 8 core/16 thread Core i7-10875H...

Sony's Intelligent Vision Sensor is the first to have AI processing hardware on board

A few years ago Sony created the first image sensor with on-chip RAM, which enabled slow-motion video capture at very high frame rates. Now the company has created the first sensor with on-board AI hardware, which can do high-speed image recognition. The Intelligent Vision Sensor, IMX500, has a stacked design, consisting of a pixel chip (1/2.3",...

Huawei Watch GT 2e launched in India, pre-orders begin May 15

The Huawei Watch GT 2e unveiled in March has debuted in India. It's priced at INR11,990 ($160/€147) and will be up for pre-orders from May 15 on Amazon.in and Flipkart with three color options - Graphite Black, Lava Red, and Mint Green. Those who pre-book the Watch GT 2e on Amazon.in between May 15 and May 21 will get the Huawei AM61 Bluetooth Earphones...

OnePlus 8 Pro's color filter camera able to see through clothes, solid objects

First spotted by XDA-Developers' Max Weinbach, the OnePlus 8 Pro can see through certain surfaces thanks to its custom 5MP sensor that lacks the usual color and IR filters to produce artistic images. And it seems that it can do so with certain types of clothes too. pic.twitter.com/dysWJLE660— Max Weinbach (@MaxWinebach) May 13, 2020 In a short investigation...

Ross Young: Galaxy Note20 duo will have a larger ultrasonic fingerprint readers from Qualcomm

Ross Young is back with more on Samsung's upcoming Galaxy Note20 phones. He already covered some screen details (including the 120Hz refresh rate), now he says that the two Notes may be the first phones to adopt Qualcomm's new 3D Sonic Max fingerprint reading technology. It creates a sensing area 17x larger than before, covering 20mm x 30mm (a typical...

Samsung Galaxy A Quantum announced with quantum encryption technology

Samsung and South Korean carrier SK Telecom today announced a new 5G smartphone dubbed Galaxy A Quantum. The Samsung Galaxy A Quantum is the world's first 5G smartphone equipped with a quantum random number generator (QRNG) chipset, which is developed by SK Telecom's Switzerland-based subsidiary ID Quantique. The QRNG chipset is the SKT IDQ S2Q000...

Honor 30S in Butterfly Red is finally arriving

Honor launched the 30S midranger at the end of March, two weeks ahead of the Honor 30 flagships. At first, the phone was introduced in White, Green, and Black, while a fourth gradient color was only mentioned, but not shown. Today the company revealed it will be called Butterfly Red and will be finally available for sale on May 18. Тhe color is likely...

Analysts: Galaxy A51 was the best-selling Android in Q1, Galaxy S20+ only flagship in the Top 6

Four out of the six best-selling Android phones during the first quarter of this year were made by Samsung, shows data by Strategy Analytics. The other two were Xiaomi phones. The Samsung Galaxy A51 (the 4G version) was on top with a comfortable lead - with 6 million units shipped, it made up 2.3% of all Androids sold globally during Q1. The A51...

New Realme Watch teaser released, likely to be unveiled on May 25

We've had some pretty extensive leaks about the upcoming Realme Watch with one of them even revealing key software and hardware features. But none of them had any info regarding the announcement date. Well, it's now becoming clearer with the latest teaser from Realme. Watch me! Are you ready to join our journey in becoming India's Most Popular Tech-Lifestyle...

Xiaomi unveils Mi AirDots 2 SE - a cheaper version of the AirDots 2s

Xiaomi unveiled a more affordable version of its AirPod-like true wireless headset, the Mi AirDots 2 SE. They are available for pre-order in China and shipments will start on the May 19. At CNY 170 ($24/€22), they are less than half the price of the AirDots 2s. Xiaomi Mi AirDots 2 SE The main difference is that the SE does not support the high definition...

Amazfit Ares coming on May 19

Xiaomi's smart wearables subsidiary Huami is set to introduce its latest smartwatch dubbed Amazfit Ares next week on May 19. Thanks to a new post from the brands' official Weibo account we have our first look at the device complete with some of its features which will include sports tracking with 70 distinct sports modes. It features a rugged design...

Mediatek to introduce a new 5G chipset on May 18

Mediatek is introducing chipset after chipset for the growing 5G market. After we saw the Dimensity 800 and Dimensity 1000 back in January, a more powerful follow-up called Dimensity 1000+ was recently unveiled with the vivo iQOO Z1. Today, the Weibo profile of the company teased another 5G chipset, and it might be a Dimensity 800+ with a mightier...