Samsung Galaxy Watch Active2 and Watch3 get system improvements with new updates

Samsung has released new software updates for the Galaxy Watch Active2 (SM-R820) and Galaxy Watch3 (SM-R840). Both are based on Tizen 5.5.0.2, but the update for the Watch Active2 comes with build number R820XXU1DUD1, while the firmware for the Watch3 has version R840XXU1BUD2. Samsung Galaxy Watch3 The build for the Watch3 includes system reliability...

Infinix Note 10 Pro appears in live images with quad camera

Last month, a leaked render of the Infinix Note 10 Pro confirmed the smartphone will pack a punch hole display. Now, we are looking at a couple of live images of the Note 10 Pro, which reveal the smartphone will sport a quad camera setup on the rear and come in at least two colors - one is purple, and the other has a reflective gradient design. Infinix...

3C certification reveals Samsung Galaxy Z Fold3 will come with 25W charger

New details about Samsung’s next folding flagship have emerged, this time from the 3C certification site. A listing matching the supposed technical model number of the Galaxy Z Fold3 reveals that the folding device will come included with a 25W fast charger. The included adapter has the model number EP-TA800 and is the same one that comes included...

Samsung Galaxy S21 FE mentioned on Samsung Mexico’s website

Following the buzz around the Samsung Galaxy S21 FE as of late, the latest leak comes from the actual phone maker. As first reported by Galaxy Club, Samsung Mexico had briefly displayed mention of the Samsung Galaxy S21 FE in its homepage. The website read “Conoce más sobre Galaxy S21 FE” which translates to “Learn more about the Galaxy S21 FE”....

Roku removes YouTube TV from its app catalog amidst contract disagreements

As Roku reached the end of its contract with Google to host the YouTube TV app on its channel store, Roku sent all its customers an email notifying them that they may lose the ability to use the YouTube TV channel on Roku devices. In this messages to consumers, it pointed at Google and accused it of “unfair and anticompetitive requirements” that...

Xiaomi Mi 11X Pro hands-on review

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See if the Huawei Mate X2 survives a durability test

Foldable smartphones are generally considered to be more fragile than 'normal' ones, unlike gaming phones for example - then again it turns out that among the latest batch of the latter, two out of three do snap in two or three parts when bent. So you may be thinking that foldables should fare even worse in such testing, but is that actually true?...

Xiaomi Mi 11 Ultra is finally reaching Europe on May 11

Xiaomi went all-in with the Mi 11 Ultra this year, producing what is its first proper mainstream flagship smartphone ever to be released internationally (as last year's Mi 10 Ultra was a China-only affair). The company unveiled the Mi 11 Ultra's European eye watering €1,199 pricing at an event in late March, but it stayed mum on a release date for...

Watch the Redmi K40 Gaming Edition get torn down on video

The Redmi K40 Gaming Edition is one of the most interesting new devices on the scene right now and Xiaomi thought it would be fitting to take us for a tour of its internals. The brand’s official Weibo profile shared a timely 2-minute teardown video revealing all the key components inside Redmi’s first gaming phone. The whole process starts by removing...

Apple found in breach of EU competition law over unfair App Store tax policy

Earlier today, the European Commission issued a preliminary view that Apple holds an unfair advantage in the music streaming space over competitors like Spotify. The basis of the finding lies in Apple’s own in-app purchase mechanism which sees Cupertino imposing a 30% tax on competitor’s earning through the App Store. The potential implications for...

YouTube is testing a new timestamped comment feature

YouTube has announced that it's currently testing a new feature that allows you to comment on a specific time in the video so anyone who's watching can see your comment to the relevant moment in the video. Since it's just an experimental feature, for now, only a handful of people have access to the new version of the app. The timestamped comments...

Samsung is being sued over the Galaxy S20 series' camera glass issues

Shortly after the Galaxy S20 series launched last year, numerous reports of spontaneous cracks appearing on the back camera glass emerged online. It's still unknown how widespread the issue is but the company has since acknowledged the problem and said that the users are not at fault. A US law firm, however, thinks that this isn't enough and Samsung...

Realme UI 2.0 early access program announced for C15 Qualcomm Edition, 7i gets Open Beta

A few days ago, Realme announced the Realme UI 2.0 early access program for the X7 Pro in India, and today, the company added another smartphone to the list - the C15 Qualcomm Edition. Additionally, the company also released the Realme UI 2.0 Open Beta for the 7i in the Asian country. If you own the C15 Qualcomm Edition and want to get a taste of...

MIUI 12.5 Global Stable ROM testing program announced for Poco phones

Xiaomi announced its MIUI 12.5 back in December last year, but Poco phones are yet to receive the update. Now the company has announced a testing program for plenty of its devices globally and you need to be fast because slots are limited. Here's the full list of eligible devices and their respective regions. POCO F3 [MI, RU, ID, EEA] POCO X3 PRO...

Huawei P50 leaks in hands-on images

We’ve already seen plenty of rumors and renders of the upcoming Huawei P50 series and today we have our first live look at the vanilla P50. The images come courtesy of reliable tipster DigitalChatStation who shared them on his Weibo account. Huawei P50 (source: DigitalChatStation) We can see the display which is rumored to measure in at 6.3-inches,...

Asus Zenfone 8 Mini memory options and battery capacity leak

The jury is still out there whether Asus will be launching two or three members of the Zenfone 8 family and we are still unsure how Asus will call them. In any case, the alleged Mini model is subject to a big leak revealing not only battery capacity but memory variants as well. Asus Zenfone 6 and 7 Pro According to Dealntech's inside sources, the...

Xiaomi working on a Memory extension feature for MIUI

Memory allocation has been all the craze lately. Take the vivo X60 Pro+, for example. It gives you the option to extend the memory by allocating storage so you gain extra 3GB of RAM. Well, it seems that Xiaomi is working on such a feature of its own too. A tipster found buried deep in MIUI 12's source code a feature named "Memory extension". It does...

SA: Global 5G smartphone sales in Q1 2021 soar, Apple with 30% market share

Strategy Analytics has published its latest research on 5G smartphone shipments around the globe, and the numbers look mightily impressive, with increases between 114% and 1,165% among manufacturers. According to the report, the period between January and March 2021 saw 133.9 million sales, which is 458% more than last year’s mere 24 million. Company...

PUBG Mobile teased for the Indian market

After PUBG Mobile received a ban in India, the company behind the game said that it would release an Indian-friendly version in the future with reduced gore, violence and nudity. The adapted version was first teased back in November 2020, but PUBG Studio has been fairly silent since then. Until now, that is. A short teaser video of PUBG Mobile India...

Realme Watch 2 unveiled in Malaysia

Almost a year ago Realme announced its first smartwatch with the aptly named Realme Watch. Since then the brand has expanded with two more models in the Watch S series but now there’s a true successor to the original Realme Watch with the same square look. The Watch 2 brings an identical 1.4-inch touchscreen IPS LCD with 320x320 pixel resolution...

Honor Play 5 specs leak, to arrive with OLED screen

Yesterday we shared an exclusive render of the Honor Play 5 and reported the smartphone will come with a 64MP primary camera and 66W charging. Today we learn more about the Play 5 as reliable tipster Digital Chat Station revealed the smartphone's full specs. According to the tipster, the Honor Play 5 will be powered by the Dimensity 800U SoC and...

Redmi K40 Gaming sale goes through the roof with 100,000 units in one minute

Xiaomi’s brand Redmi has launched its own understanding of what a gaming smartphone should be under the name K40 Gaming. The device runs on Dimensity 1200 chipset and comes with the latest bells and whistles like UFS 3.1 storage, LPDDR5 RAM, 67W ultra-fast charging and several solutions for cooling and heat dissipation. With such specs, it is no...

Samsung Galaxy M32 key specs revealed by Geekbench

A Samsung device bearing model code SM-M325FV, and believed to be the Galaxy M32, has popped up on Geekbench with its key specs. According to the benchmark database, the SM-M325FV runs Android 11, has 6GB RAM onboard, and is powered by MT6769V/CT, which we know is a part of the Helio G80 SoC. Geekbench doesn't reveal any other specs of the SM-M325FV,...

New iPad Pro and iMac with M1 will be available on May 21, British retailer reveals

The global chip crisis keeps chugging along, and Apple has long been rumored to be affected in the production of its new devices. Case in point - the new iPad Pro 11 and 12.9 and the new iMac with M1 that the company announced at last week's spring event are going up for pre-order later than new devices usually do after an Apple event. And in a move...

OnePlus 6 and 6T will get Android 11 beta builds starting in August

The OnePlus 6 and OnePlus 6T both launched in 2018, at various points throughout the year, and so they're both more than two years old. Even so, the company is apparently working on Android 11 updates for them - but that's where the good news ends, unfortunately. OnePlus has unveiled that it expects the first beta version of its OxygenOS 11 software...

Samsung Galaxy Tab A7 Lite listed on TENAA

We’ve seen Samsung’s upcoming Galaxy Tab A7 Lite in several renders so far and now we have a TENAA listing that confirms the tablet’s design and key specs. Samsung Galaxy A7 Lite The Tab A7 Lite (SM-T225C) packs a 8.68-inch LCD with a resolution of 800 x 1340 pixels and a 2MP selfie cam. The Helio P22T sits at the helm paired with 3/4GB RAM and 32/64GB...

Sony Xperia 1 III Chinese pricing revealed

In the past couple of years, Sony has followed an unusual strategy of announcing phones without pricing and availability. The same applies to the recently announced Xperia 1 III but now we have our second hint at pricing for the top dog in Sony’s mobile division thanks to a listing in a Chinese online shop. Sony Xperia 1 III leaked pricing and launch...

Samsung Galaxy A72 review

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Realme Buds Q2 are official with new design

Realme launched without much fanfare its latest audio wearable - the Buds Q2. The true wireless earphones retain the design as the first Buds Q but come with improved game mode, IPX4 water resistance, fancy design and a so-called Environmental Noise Cancellation (ENC) feature. The latter only works for calls and is not the much saught-after active...

New nubia Z30 render shows off a cool dual tone design, the phone may support 120W charging

The latest nubia Z30 leak (posted by C Technology) spices things up color-wise – the render shows the phone from behind at an angle that allows us to see both the rust-colored back and the gray front. The dividing line between the two colors goes around the frame. Well, we don’t actually see the front, not in this render. The display is supposed...

Realme sells 50,000 units in China on the first day of availability for the Q3 and Q3 Pro

Realme announced that it has sold over 50,000 units of its new Q3 series. The Realme Q3 5G and Q3 Pro 5G went on sale today and presumably made up a big chunk of that. The third member of the series, the Realme Q3i 5G, became available a week ago, just hours after the Q3 series was unveiled. The affordable line of 5G phones starts at CNY 1,000. That...

Samsung Galaxy Book Go is a €449 Windows 10 laptop with an ARM processor

Samsung laptop news just keep arriving these days. After announcing four laptops yesterday and another one today, Samsung looks set to premiere an affordable Windows laptop with an ARM processor. The Samsung Galaxy Book Go runs on an 8nm Qualcomm Snapdragon 7c chip and the ARM version of Windows 10. The machine is fanless, has a 14-inch 1920x1080px...

LG reports impressive Q1 results as mobile division heads for the exit

LG announced its mobile division will be closed this year since it cannot turn profitable in the current market. However, the company's report confirms all other branches have posted a yearly increase in sales, bringing the total revenue to KRW18.8 trillion - the most LG has ever recorded between January and March. Mobile Divison Performance Q1 2021...

Exclusive: This is the Honor Play 5

Honor recently announced its Play 5T Youth and now we have exclusive images of another device from the series called the Play 5. The phone will feature a flat frame design instead of the round corners found on more recent Honor phones. The front will house a waterdrop notch while the back features a quad cam setup with a 64MP main cam. The Honor...

OnePlus quadruples sales in Europe in Q1, two thirds of the revenue comes from the flagship series

OnePlus is soaring in Europe – the company posted a 388% growth in sales in the first quarter of 2021 compared to last year, revenue from the region increased by 286%. The OnePlus flagship models, including the new 9-series, accounted for 65% of revenue. The OnePlus 9 Pro was the best-selling smartphone on launch day on Amazon France and Spain. But...

Samsung's Galaxy Book Flex2 Alpha brings 11th gen processing for $849

Yesterday Samsung unveiled the Galaxy Book Pro and Galaxy Book Pro360 laptops (each in 13.3-inch and 15.6-inch flavors) alongside the 15.6-inch Galaxy Book Odyssey and 15.6-inch Galaxy Book. But it also quietly put up a new laptop up for pre-order on its US website. The Galaxy Book Flex2 Alpha is a successor to the Galaxy Book Flex and comes in the...

vivo V21 5G debuts in India, sales begin May 6

The vivo V21 5G unveiled a couple of days ago made its debut today in India. The smartphone has two memory options - 8GB/128GB and 8GB/256GB priced at INR29,990 ($405/€335) and INR32,990 ($445/€370), respectively. You can buy one in Sunset Dazzle, Dusk Blue, or Arctic White color starting May 6 through Flipkart, vivo India's website and offline stores,...

Samsung posts strong Q1 results thanks to solid sales of smartphones

Samsung has posted its detailed financial report for Q1 2021, and the numbers look great. The Korean company reported record-breaking revenue of KRW65.39 trillion (about $59 billion), mostly thanks to solid sales of smartphones and consumer electronics, making up for businesses like semiconductors and displays. Q1 2021 Q4 2020 QoQ Change Q1 2020...

Canalys: Samsung sees record 76.5 million smartphone global shipments in Q1

Over 347 million smartphones were shipped in Q1 according to the global smartphone analysis report from Canalys. The figure represents a 27% increase compared to the same period last year. Samsung is yet again the runaway leader with 76.5 million shipments and a 22% market share. Apple comes in second with 52.4 million sales while holding 15% of...

CES 2022 scheduled for January 5-8, to allow in-person attendance

The pandemic, ravaging the world in the past year, has shut down many events and pushed companies to think of new ways to introduce products to the consumers. CES, typically taking place in Las Vegas, was an all-online event this year, but in 2022 the organizers will allow in-person attendance during the conference, scheduled for January 5-8. According...

Samsung Galaxy S20 series gets improvements to camera with the new update

The Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra 5G recently received a software update with the May Android security patch, camera improvements, and enhancements to Quick Share. Those same features have made their way to the Galaxy S20, S20+, and S20 Ultra with the new update. The new firmware also includes the May Android patch, carries version number G98xxXXU7DUDB,...

Black Shark 4 video teardown explores its insides

Today's a big day for Xiaomi-backed gaming-oriented smartphone brand Black Shark. First off, the Black Shark 4 is now available for pre-order globally, starting at just $499. And second, there's a teardown video out for those of you who love to see a phone from the inside. Zach from JerryRigEverything initially subjected the handset to his trademark...

Redmi K40 Gaming Edition may launch in India as the Poco F3 GT

Xiaomi loves rebranding devices between its various sub-brands based on market and... really, who knows what else. The company's lineup has grown increasingly confusing, naming-wise, in no small part thanks to the incessant rebrandings here and there, and it looks like it's not going to stop anytime soon. Today a new rumor claims that the Redmi K40...

Spotify now has 158 million paying customers, launches podcast subscription feature

Spotify has now reached 158 million paying customers. The music streaming leader grew in Q1 - 3% in total customers over Q4, 2% in paying customers over Q4 and 21% year over year. Revenue grew 16%. Spotify projects it will reach beyond 162 million paying users soon, despite the recently announced price increases in the US, UK and Europe - $1 increase...

Realme 6 Pro and 7 Pro get Android 11-based Realme UI 2.0 stable update

Realme has released the Android 11-based Realme UI 2.0 stable update for the Realme 6 Pro and Realme 7 Pro in India. It brings new UI and features to both smartphones, including three Dark Mode styles, Optimized Night Charging, Tone Tunes, and Sleep Capsule. The changelog of Realme UI 2.0 is the same for both phones. You can check it out below to...

Canalys: 37.1 million smartphones shipped in India during Q1 2021

The Indian smartphone market continues to grow with a reported 37.1 million shipments in the first three months of 2021 according to analyst firm Canalys. The figure represents an 11% jump compared to the same period last year with all major players recording increased sales. Xiaomi once again stood at the top with 10.5 million smartphone shipments...

Black Shark 4 available for pre-order globally, starts at $499

The Black Shark 4 duo was introduced last week in China but the vanilla version is already available for pre-order globally. The Black Shark 4 goes on open sale on May 6 for $499/€499/£429 in its 8/128GB trim. The 12/256GB model goes for $599/€599/£519. The first 100 buyers get a free Black Shark 4 FunCase as well as Black Shark FunCooler on the...

The Realme X7 Max 5G launch in India gets postponed due to the second COVID-19 wave

Realme was planning to celebrate its three year anniversary on May 4 with the launch of the Realme X7 Max 5G (aka GT Neo). This was revealed by CEO Madhav Sheth during the latest AskMadhav episode. However, the COVID-19 situation in India is becoming increasingly more serious, so the CEO decided it will be best to postpone the launch and any celebrations....

Samsung unveils four Galaxy Book laptops: two with AMOLED screens, one with RTX 3050 Ti graphics

Samsung unveiled four different Windows 10 laptops today, each fulfilling a different need. One is a sub-kilogram all-rounder, another brings out the artist in you, the third packs RTX GPU power, the fourth is an affordable yet still capable option. Samsung Galaxy Book Pro Portability is the name of the game – the 13.3” model weighs under a kilogram,...

Watch the Samsung PC Unpacked Event live here

Samsung is hosting another Unpacked event today and the talk will be centered around “the most powerful Galaxy ever”. We’re in for at least two new Galaxy Бook laptops according to recent leaks and past rumors. The event starts at 10AM EST/2PM UTC time and you can tune in to the official YouTube stream below. The new Galaxy Book Pros should offer...