Samsung Galaxy F12 pops-up on GeekBench and official support page before launch

Samsung is gearing-up for an affordable device launch in India on Monday (April 5), as already confirmed in official teasers. We expect to see two new phones as part of the release - the Galaxy F02s and the Galaxy F12. It's hardly a secret that F-series devices are typically just rebranded M-series ones. Hence, for details on the F02s, you can check...

Tecno Spark 7 is arriving on April 9 with a 6,000 mAh battery

Yesterday we gave you an exclusive first look at the Tecno Spark 7 and reported that the smartphone will launch in India next week. Now the company has announced that the Spark 7 will be introduced in India on April 9. The Tecno Spark 7 will be sold through Amazon.in and the e-commerce giant has set up a promo page on its website revealing that the...

Huawei Band 6 is now official

After a bit of a pause since the announcement of the Huawei Band 4 in 2019, Huawei is now ready with an update. The company is skipping number 5 and is jumping straight to 6. We'll just leave it up to you to decide whether that or the company's timing have something to do with Xiaomi's recent announcement of the Mi Band 6. Huawei Band 6 First things...

Lenovo Legion 2 Pro will come with a 5,500 mAh battery and 90W charging

Lenovo today announced that the Legion 2 Pro arriving on April 8 will pack a 5,500 mAh battery, which is 500 mAh larger than what its predecessor Legion Pro ships with. The company also revealed that the Legion 2 Pro's battery will support 90W charging, but it's yet to confirm if the implementation will be similar to what we've seen on the Legion...

vivo X60t announced with Dimensity 1100, 120Hz screen, and triple camera

vivo announced the X60 and X60 Pro last December and followed up with the X60 Pro+ in January. Now the company has added a new member to the lineup, dubbed vivo X60t. The vivo X60t looks similar to the vanilla X60 but comes with the Dimensity 1100 SoC under the hood, unlike the Chinese X60 that has an Exynos 1080 chip at the helm and the global X60...

Samsung’s new Galaxy SmartTag Plus is now available in the US for pre-order

Samsung first introduced the Galaxy SmartTag and SmartTag Plus back in January when it announced the Galaxy S21 series. The small device connects into Samsung’s SmartThings app and lets a Galaxy smartphone find that device or lets the device find the Galaxy smartphone. The Galaxy SmartTag Plus is finally available for pre-order from B&H Photo...

Samsung Galaxy Z Fold2 gets $200 / £200 cheaper in permanent price cut

From this point on, Samsung's Galaxy Z Fold2 will be $200 cheaper in the US and £200 cheaper in the UK. This is not a temporary offer or anything like that, it's a permanent price cut, which makes the company's foldable device slightly more affordable than before - albeit it's still solidly in "bonkers expensive" territory even so. So, the Z Fold2...

Apple Arcade adds over 30 games including some new and classic App Store titles

Apple has announced that it is adding over 30 new games to the service. This includes some brand new Apple Arcade Originals as well as some classic titles in two new categories. The first of the two new categories is Timeless Classics. This includes games such as Really Bad Chess, Sudoku Simple, Backgammon, Tiny Crossword, Solitaire, Checkers Royale,...

Poco F3 review

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Pixel 6 will reportedly use custom Google silicon

This year's Pixel devices will reportedly use custom Google silicon, according to 9to5Google. As per this report, the upcoming Pixel 6 smartphones — codenamed "Raven" and "Oriole" — will employ this custom SoC (system-on-chip). These devices are part of a platform known as "Slider", which also encompasses future Chromebook devices that will use this...

Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 2 dual batteries leak in listings

Samsung is due to release a pair of new foldables later this year as the successors to the Galaxy Z Fold 2 and Z Flip. We’ve heard a few rumors on the Z Flip successor and now we have more substantial info regarding the device’s battery thanks to certifications from Safety Korea, 3C, and the DEKRA agencies. DEKRA certification It appears the next...

Moto G60 and G20 leak in official looking renders

Motorola has been busy revamping its G-series lately and it seems we’re in for more. Renders of the upcoming Moto G20 and Moto G60/Moto G40 Plus have gone live revealing their designs. In addition, we get some more clarification on the specs for all three. The Moto G60 will sport a design reminiscent to that of the recently released Moto G50 albeit...

Xiaomi Mi Smart Band 6 gets sleep breathing quality tracking with new update

Xiaomi introduced the Mi Smart Band 6 earlier this week with an SpO2 sensor to measure blood oxygen levels. The sensor can also monitor sleep breathing quality - a feature Xiaomi talked about during the unveiling but is only now enabling through its Mi Fit app with an update. The new update bumps up the app version to 5.0.0, improves user experience,...

Huawei announces its first desktop monitor

Huawei is officially part of the desktop monitor business now with the release of its 23.8-inch IPS monitor. It packs 1920x1080 pixel resolution and covers 72% of the NTSC color gamut with a 178-degree viewing angle. Another neat feature is the vertical tilt of the monitor which can go down by 5° or elevate to 22° depending on your preference. Huawei...

Lenovo Legion 2 Pro will have 6.92-inch 144Hz display, Snapdragon 888

Lenovo's Legion 2 Pro gaming smartphone is coming on April 8 and it will have a 6.92-inch 144Hz E4 AMOLED display made by Samsung. The panel will have a 2460x1080px resolution. Lenovo Legion 2 Pro will have a 6.92-inch display of 144Hz refresh rate We already knew the Legion 2 Pro would use a Snapdragon 888 chipset thanks to a Geekbench leak, but...

Xiaomi Mi 11 Ultra and Mi 11 Pro generate CNY 1.2B in a minute

Xiaomi's first sale of the just-announced Mi 11 Ultra and Mi 11 Pro has gone very well. The company announced on its official Weibo channel that the first sale generated over CNY 1.2B (€155M) in just 1 minute. The two devices saw its first batch sold out in China. The Xiaomi Mi 11 Pro and Mi 11 Ultra share a Snapdragon 888 chipset, a 6.81-inch 120Hz...

Realme X7 Pro Ultra announced: curved screen, triple camera, and Dimensity 1000+

Realme unveiled the X7 Pro last September, and today it quietly released, or Extreme Edition depending on which version of the machine translation from Chinese we go with . One might expect it to come with improvements over the X7 Pro, and it does, but we are also looking at some downgrades here. For starters, the X7 Pro features a 120Hz FullHD+...

Exclusive: Here's our first look at the Tecno Spark 7 launching next week

Tecno introduced the Spark 6 last September with a Helio G70 SoC, and it will follow up with its successor dubbed Tecno Spark 7 next week in India. A reliable source sent us an image of the Spark 7, which reveals the smartphone will pack a waterdrop notch display. Its predecessor came with a 6.8" HD+ punch hole screen, and it remains to be seen if...

Casio G-Squad Pro is the first G-Shock watch with Wear OS

It sure took some time but the first Casio G-Shock to run Wear OS is finally here. Say hello to the G-Squad Pro GSW-H1000. Bringing the iconic rugged design with up to date specs and an full smartwatch OS, the latest G-Shock watch is built to withstand the elements and track your sports activities too. You get a round 1.2-inch dual-layer display...

Dish calls out T-Mobile for wanting to shut down Sprint’s 3G network too soon

As part of the T-Mobile merger with Sprint, the combined company was required to sell off Boost Mobile, one of Sprint’s prepaid MVNOs, to a third party. Dish Network, a Satellite TV company, ended up being that third party that purchased and acquired the Boost Mobile brand and its millions of subscribers. In a letter obtained by Axios, Dish complained...

Redmi exec hints new devices will arrive in April

Following Xiaomi’s announcement of several Mi devices earlier this week including the Mi 11 Pro, Mi 11 Ultra, Mi 11 Lite 5G, Mi Smart Band 6, and Mi Mix Fold. Despite this announcement late in March, Redmi’s Product Direct Wang Teng Thomas hinted to a commenter that a new device will be launching in April. After a Weibo user commented that there’d...

Motorola One Hyper gets Android 11 update

Motorola has started sending out the update to Android 11 to another of its devices. This time it's the One Hyper, a smartphone announced in December of 2019 and launched in January last year. Android 11 is starting to hit One Hyper units in Brazil, which is one of Motorola's biggest and most important markets. The new version is build RPF31.Q1-21-20,...

See the OnePlus 9 Pro get torn down on video

The OnePlus 9 Pro became available in most regions yesterday, and today the folks over at iFixit are ready to show you an entirely new perspective on the phone. You get to take a peek at it from the inside, in a video teardown. So grab some popcorn and have a look - at the end you'll find out what reparability score the OnePlus 9 Pro gets. Spoiler...

Report: LG to exit mobile business after all

When your business has been operating at a net loss for the past six years, there are few ways you can go about staying afloat. In the case of LG Mobile, shutting down all further efforts now seems like the most likely scenario. A new report from The Korea Times citing industry sources claims LG will confirm its exit from the smartphone market as...

Hot Take: Xiaomi Mi 11 lineup

On monday, Xiaomi announced the remaining members of its Mi 11 lineup. What started with the Mi 11 back in December is now an entire series with five different models. But now that Xiaomi has put all its cards on the table, it's easier to make an overview of the company's premier series of smartphones and see how each of them stack up in the series....

Sony Xperia phone launch scheduled for April 14

The 2021 Sony Xperia lineup will be introduced on Wednesday, April 14 at 5:30 PM UTC/ 1:30 PM EST. As usual in these times we’re living, Sony will host an online keynote which will be livestreamed on the brand’s official YouTube channel. What can we expect to see at this event? For starters the flagship Xperia 1 III. Rumors haven’t revealed a lot...

vivo X60 series scores twice as many pre-booking as the X50 family

The vivo X60 series is off to a strong start in India – vivo reports that it has received twice as many pre-bookings for the new phones compared to the X50 phones last year. And this only counts up to March 30, so it's missing the last two days of the pre-booking period. Highlight features: vivo X60 Pro+ • vivo X60 Pro • vivo X60 The X60 series will...

Samsung and Flipkart will launch the Galaxy F12 and F02s in India on Monday

Samsung and Flipkart will launch two affordable phones in the F-series on Monday. Their highlight features are already posted on the retailer’s site as a teaser of what is to come. It’s not a huge mystery, by the way, as the F-series tends to follow the specs of the corresponding M-series phone almost word for word. Source: https://www.gsmaren...

Oppo F19 unveiled, company sets April 6 launch event for India

After debuting its F19 Pro and F19 Pro+ last month, Oppo has now unveiled the third member in the series – the vanilla F19 in Sri Lanka. The Oppo F19 brings a 6.43-inch AMOLED display with FHD+ resolution and a standard 60Hz refresh rate. You get a punch hole cutout in the top left corner for the 16MP selfie cam as well as an embedded fingerprint...

Samsung Galaxy Galaxy A Quantum 2 leaks on Google Play Console

Back in 2019, Samsung released the curious Galaxy A80 on the scene with its unique flip-up camera that allowed you to have a full-screen experience and great quality selfies. As time went by we never quite got a true successor but the last few months we’ve seen several reports on the Galaxy A82 and now we get a Google Play Console listing revealing...

Xiaomi Mi 11 Ultra is coming to India on April 23

The Xiaomi Mi 11 Ultra unveiled earlier this week will debut in India on April 23, although it's currently unclear if it will be joined by the other smartphones in the Mi 11 series - the Mi 11, Mi 11 Lite 5G and Mi 11i (the Mi 11 Pro was confirmed to be exclusive to China). In the world of flagships, we're pushing further.The only #SuperPhone, launching...

Realme C20, C21, and C25 set to debut in India on April 8

Realme today announced it will introduce the C20, C21, and C25 in India on April 8. The launch event will start at 12:30PM IST (7AM UTC) and will be streamed live on the company's official YouTube channel and Facebook and Twitter accounts. The press note Realme sent says the C20 will be introduced as an "entry-level smartphone killer," C21 as the...

Realme 8 Pro gets April security patch and camera improvements with second software update

The Realme 8 Pro unveiled last week is receiving a new firmware with version number RMX3081_11_A.27. This is the second software update after a build with version RMX3081_11_A.24 was rolled out before the launch, which came with Starry Mode and Starry Timelapse features. The new build bumps up the Android security patch level on the Realme 8 Pro...

Samsung Galaxy M21 gets One UI 3.1 Core update

The Samsung Galaxy M21 announced last March with Android 10-based One UI 2.0 received One UI 2.1 in September and One UI 2.5 in November. The smartphone then picked up the Android 11-based One UI 3.0 update in January, and now it's receiving the One UI 3.1 Core update. The new firmware includes the March 2021 Android patch and improves the Galaxy...

Microsoft shuts down Cortana app on Android and iOS

Microsoft’s Cortana apps for Android and iOS have officially reached their defunction on March 31 2021. Microsoft’s voice assistant alternative to Google Assistant and Siri will continue to function on Windows 10. As explained in Microsoft’s Cortana support page, the mobile app is no longer supported as of Wednesday this week. Lists and reminders...

Huawei posts strong revenue in 2020 despite US ban

Huawei’s 2020 annual report has been published and the company reports that the numbers are in line with what was forecasted: “marginal growth”. Huawei’s sales revenue weighed in at CNY 891.4 billion ( $136.7 billion) with net profit CNY 64.6 billion ($9.9 billion). Revenue is up 3.8% YoY and profits are up 3.2% YoY. This is despite US sanctions...

Xiaomi Mi 11 Ultra stars in its very own video teardown

This Monday Xiaomi unveiled its top of the line flagship smartphone for 2021, the Mi 11 Ultra, alongside many other products. The Ultra is the successor of the widely praised (including by us) Mi 10 Ultra from 2020, which sadly never got an international release. The Mi 11 Ultra rectifies that error, albeit for an eye-watering price. If you were...

vivo X60t surfaces with Dimensity 1100 chipset

vivo's X60 family already has quite a few members, but soon another one will join, and thanks to a China Telecom listing, we have a lot of details about it. It's called X60t, and unlike all the other X60 series models which use Exynos and Snapdragon chipsets, this one has a MediaTek Dimensity 1100 under the hood, paired with 8GB of RAM and 128GB...

Xiaomi Mi 11 Lite 5G in for review

Xiaomi announced a whole bunch of smartphones this week and the Mi 11 Lite 5G is the first phone on the market to boast the brand new 5nm Snapdragon 780G chipset. Our own review unit came by and these are our early impressions before the review team puts it through its paces. The first thing you notice about the Mi 11 Lite 5G is just how light it...

Motorola Moto G100 review

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New Samsung Galaxy S20 FE 4G surfaces on Geekbench with Snapdragon 865

When Samsung announced the Galaxy S20 FE last year it gave people a choice – a Snapdragon 865 chipset with the S20 FE 5G model, even in countries that normally get Exynos in their S-series, or an Exynos 990 with the 4G model (which was cheaper). Now it looks like things are about to become a bit blurred. The NBTC certified an SM-G780G / DS, labeled...

OnePlus 9 Pro 5G is now on sale in most regions

The OnePlus 9 Pro is now available, following the launch of its vanilla sibling a few days ago. It is in stock in multiple regions, ready to ship within 24 hours, though that is not the case everywhere. You can buy a 9 Pro today in the following countries: the UK, Ireland, France, Spain, Italy, Hungary, Poland, Sweden, Denmark, Finland and a few...

Canalys: Global TWS and wearables sales jumped 15% in 2020

The past twelve months have been turbulent for smartphone manufacturers, but the world of wearables and smart audio devices has been a positive beam in the world of technology. According to Canalys, the global market grew throughout 2020, with Apple being the leader in both fields. Strong consumer demand and health-conscious users drove the increase...

Google Pixel Buds A in the works as more affordable TWS entry in Google’s lineup

True Wireless Stereo (TWS) headphones are all the rage these days and Google is looking to bring some variety and more importantly affordable alternatives to its Pixel Buds lineup. According to a new report from 9to5Google the search giant is working on a pair of new affordable earbuds called Pixel Buds A. Like Google’s Pixel A-series smartphones...

ARM announces its next-gen ARMv9 architecture: focus on security, AI and vector processing

The ARMv8 architecture was announced in 2011, a full decade ago. It was a massive change as it moved from 32-bit to 64-bit. Over the last 5 years there have been more than 100 billion ARMv8 devices. The company is now looking at the future – ARMv9 will be the architecture that will be at the heart of the next 300 billion ARM chips. The focus now...

Kuo: iPhone 13 Pro Max to have f/1.5 main lens, whole lineup to use 7P glass

In a note to investors, renowned analyst Ming-Chi Kuo has revealed that the iPhone 13 Pro Max will have an outlier main camera compared to the rest of the 13 lineup. The iPhone 13 Pro Max will use a slightly brighter f/1.5 lens on top of its main sensor, whereas the iPhone 13, 13 mini and 13 Pro will use an f/1.6 lens for their main cameras, which...

ZTE Watch GT and LiveBuds SE unveiled

ZTE held a launch event in China earlier today where we saw the debut of its S30 series phones. Alongside those, ZTE announced its Watch GT smartwatch and a new pair of TWS earphones called LiveBuds SE. ZTE Watch GT The Watch GT comes with a traditional round watch casing and a 1.2-inch AMOLED display. The lightweight aluminum alloy build and helps...

Realme V13 5G is official with Dimensity 700 and a big battery

Realme introduced the GT Neo today with a Dimensity 1200 chipset, but it wasn’t the only phone on the stage - we also saw the launch of the Realme V13 5G. This new affordable midranger has some specs to get enthusiastic about - a big 5,000mAh battery, 90Hz refresh rate and ample storage for the class. The chipset of the Realme V13 5G is Dimensity...

ZTE S30 Pro comes with SD768G and 144Hz AMOLED display, the S30 and S30 SE switch to Dimensity and LCD

ZTE unveiled a trio of mid-range 5G phones with the new S30 series. Besides next gen connectivity, the three phones share a passion for display quality, photography and fast charging, it's just that some are better at those things than others. ZTE S30 Pro The clear leader of the pack, the ZTE S30 Pro derives its power from a Snapdragon 768G chipset....

Realme GT Neo arrives with a Dimensity 1200 chipset in a familiar body

Realme GT Neo just made its official debut with a Dimensity 1200 chipset and bold design of the back panel. The phone is almost identical to the Realme GT 5G, down to the measurements, cameras and screen. The Realme GT Neo is built around a 6.43” Super AMOLED screen with a punch hole in the right corner. It has Full HD+ resolution, 120Hz refresh...