Amazon India has great deals on tablets and new vivo phones

Tablets never killed off the PC, but they did take over some of its duties – especially when it comes to entertainment, but also casual web browsing and learning too. We picked out the more interesting tablet deals but also several phone offers too. The Samsung Galaxy Tab S7 FE has been replaced by the S9 FE, but it’s still a capable slate. It has...

OnePlus Open survives grueling bend test

The latest phone to be put through the now-traditional durability testing by Zack from YouTube channel JerryRigEverything is the OnePlus Open, OnePlus' first foldable smartphone. Unsurprisingly, the cover display has glass on top, which, like all glass, scratches at level 6 on the Mohs hardness scale, with deeper grooves at level 7. The inside screen...

Oppo Find X7 Pro teaser leaks

Oppo is obviously already hard at work on its next flagship smartphone, the successor to the Find X6 Pro from this year. The phone, which we assume will be called Find X7 Pro, will arrive in 2024 and be Oppo's entrant into the big leagues. Today, a tipster over on X has shared a leaked teaser image for the upcoming Oppo flagship, which shows part...

Samsung Galaxy A54 long-term review

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Check out the iQOO 12's camera samples from a weekend in Jaisalmer, Rajasthan

The iQOO 12 unveiled earlier this month in China is set to debut in India on December 12 as the country's first Snapdragon 8 Gen 3-powered smartphone. Beyond impressive performane the iQOO 12 also sports a triple camera system on its rear comprising 50 MP primary, 50 MP ultrawide, and 64 MP periscope telephoto units. The 50 MP primary and 64 MP periscope...

Xbox app for PC gets Compact mode for handheld gaming PCs

Microsoft has released an updated version of the Xbox app for PC, which comes with several changes and quality of life improvements. One of the new additions is Compact mode, which has been designed with the new wave of handheld gaming PCs in mind. The Compact mode enables a collapsible side menu, which lets you minimize it so only the icons are...

Google Messages reaches 1 billion RCS users, unleashes 7 new features to celebrate

RCS is officially big. 1 billion monthly active users big, in fact. Google announced the milestone today, and to celebrate it's giving the Messages app 7 new features. These will apparently "help your personality shine through". They won't make RCS bubbles blue on iOS, however. RCS, in case you've been living under a rock, is a new standard that's...

Apple announces its App Store Award winners for 2023

As is tradition around this time of the year, Apple announced its App Store Award winners for 2023. There are nine categories ranging from iPhone and iPad apps and games of the year alongside winners for Mac, Apple Watch, Apple TV and Apple Arcade apps. Apple also crowned generative AI as its Trend of the Year. It’s inspiring to see the ways developers...

Redmi K70 Pro already disassembled, here's the video

The Redmi K70 Pro was just unveiled for the Chinese market a few hours ago, and already a local channel has performed a teardown of the device, showing all of its innards in all their glory. This is undoubtedly the highest-end Redmi smartphone ever made, and it features what is currently the top chipset from Qualcomm, which is a first for the brand,...

Samsung hikes smartphone camera prices as market rebounds

According to industry sources close to a Chinese media outlet, Samsung has notified its hardware partners about CIS (Camera Image Sensors) component price increases. Starting next year, the Korean tech giant is bumping up the prices of some components by 25% and others by up to 30%. Samsung is one of the world's biggest CMOS sensor manufacturers...

Report: Apple abandons 5G modem development

Apple has been on a long and difficult path to develop its own in-house 5G modem and it seems that battle is not headed in the right direction. According to a new post on South Korean platform, Naver, supply chain sources close to Apple are saying that Cupertino is in the process of restructuring investments in its modem development department as...

OnePlus 12's global launch tipped to take place in India on January 23

OnePlus will unveil the OnePlus 12 in China on December 5, but the company is yet to announce the flagship's global launch date. The brand recently kicked off OnePlus 12's promo campaign in international markets, suggesting January 24 to be its global launch date. While we await an official confirmation on the OnePlus 12's international launch date,...

Redmi K70E will be rebranded internationally as Poco X6 Pro

As you may already know, Xiaomi sub-brand Redmi is getting ready to unveil a trio of new high-end devices for the Chinese market on November 29 - the K70, K70 Pro, and K70E. The brand has been teasing them in various ways on Weibo over the past few days, and maybe that's whet your appetite for one? Say, the K70E? Well, we have some good news in that...

Honor starts beta testing MagicOS 8.0 based on Android 14

While Samsung is already well on its way to reaching a dozen or more devices with the stable One UI 6 update based on Android 14, other manufacturers are only just starting their closed beta tests. Case in point: Honor. Starting today, the company's Magic4 and Magic5 series are eligible to participate in a closed beta of the upcoming MagicOS 8.0,...

Huawei MatePad Pro 11 2024 and MateBook D16 2024 unveiled

Huawei held a product launch event in China earlier today where it unveiled a new HarmonyOS tablet and its Windows laptop. MatePad Pro 11 2024 is the same device that popped up on Geekbench recently with an updated Kirin 9000s chipset while MateBook D16 2024 is configurable with up to an Intel 13th gen Core i9 processor. MatePad Pro 11 2024 The latest...

iQOO Neo9 is in the works, design sketch and spec details surface

The iQOO Neo8 and Neo8 Pro both landed back in May, and now it seems like the vivo sub-brand is getting ready to unveil their successors, the Neo9 and Neo9 Pro. According to a new rumor from usually reliable Digital Chat Station over on Weibo, the Neo9 will have a 6.78-inch "1.5K" resolution screen with narrow bezels, and will be powered by the Snapdragon...

Oppo Find N3 review

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Redmi K70 and K70 Pro emerge in live images ahead of announcement

Xiaomi’s Redmi line is ready to launch its K70 series on Wednesday, November 29 with no less than three smartphones. We're expecting a vanilla Redmi K70 alongside a K70 Pro and a more budget-oriented K70E. We now have a set of live hands-on images detailing both the K70 and K70 Pro complete with more specs clarifications. Redmi K70 Pro (black) and...

Redmi Book 16 (2024), Watch 4 and Buds 5 Pro key specs and design revealed

Xiaomi is set to launch its Redmi K70 series smartphones on Wednesday and as usual the phones will be joined by a slew of other devices including a new 16-inch Windows laptop, wireless earbuds and a smartwatch. Redmi Book 16 (2024) Redmi Book 16 (2024) will feature an Intel i5-13500H processor with 47W performance mode, LPDDR5 RAM at 6,400MB/s and...

Realme celebrates 200 million shipped smartphones

The journey of Realme began in May 2018 when Oppo launched the Realme 1 smartphone. After that, the brand continued its life in the smartphone market in its own semi-independent way, and today, it marked a major milestone. Realme reached 200 million shipments in just over five years, announced Sky Li, founder of Realme. Quick math reveals this is...

This is what the OnePlus 12 will look like, announcement set for December 5

OnePlus 12 will arrive in three colors – White, Green, and Black. Today, the company revealed the phone's appearance, and it doesn't bring huge surprises. It matches leaked images and doesn't stray too far from the OnePlus 11. OnePlus 12 The posters also said the launch is taking place on December 5 at 14:30 local time, meaning the December 4 keynote...

Top 10 trending phones of week 47

After a month of Xiaomi 14 Pro on top, the Samsung Galaxy A54 reconquered the top, further solidifying its reputation as the most popular phone in our database in 2023. The mid-ranger was in high-demand in the Black Friday sales, which certainly helped it back to the lead, while its premium sibling, the Galaxy S23 Ultra, took the second position....

Weekly poll results: the vivo X100 Pro is a star, some doubts hang over the vanilla X100

The vivo X100 Pro might be the new king of the hill, it certainly came out of last week’s poll with glowing results. The company hasn’t announced its plans for the rollout outside of China and that was one of the primary concerns that people had – vivo has a wide distribution, but it’s not quite global. So, the popularity of the X100 Pro will shift...

TCL 40 NxtPaper 5G unboxing

TCL unveiled its NxtPaper 2.0 technology early in 2023, which is a panel with a special coating that gives the device a paper-like feeling. One of the first phones with it is the TCL 40 NxtPaper 5G, and we finally have a unit with us. The phone is an affordable device with two key features – first is obviously the screen, the other is the next-gen...

Samsung Galaxy Tab S8 series and Galaxy A73 receive Android 14-based One UI 6.0 update

Samsung Galaxy Tab S8, S8+ and S8 Ultra are now receiving the latest One UI 6.0 update based on Android 14. Additionally, Galaxy A73 users are also reporting One UI 6.0 arriving on their phones. The Galaxy Tab S8 family update comes with the latest November 2023 security patch on board and if you are located in Europe, you may want to check for the...

Sony Xperia 1 VI and 5 VI to offer a digital signature feature to combat fakes

With each Sony flagship release, the company tries to introduce something never seen before in the mobile industry. In a way, Sony tries to maintain a tradition of "world's first" and a recent report from a Japanese news outlet with a fairly accurate track record regarding Sony-related rumors has an idea of what's coming next to the Xperias. Reportedly,...