Essential Phone is down to $224 at Amazon US

Tired of overpriced flagships that are slow to get upgrades? The Essential Phone is neither of those things - for one, it already runs Android 9.0 Pie. For another, it's currently $224 over at Amazon in the US. You can find it here, the deal is specifically for the exclusive Halo Gray color without the 360 camera or headphones. If you do want the camera, that's under $50. The Essential Phone is down to $224 The Essential is pretty awesome - clean Android and Snapdragon 835 power make it similar to the Pixel 2 XL, it has plenty of storage (128GB) and good camera. It's one...

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vivo X23 teased with under-display fingerprint scanner

The Jovi voice assistant teased an August 20 appearance of vivo X23 and the AI platform did not disappoint. The new phone has just arrived as a teaser on the official company website, revealing the key marketable specs of the device. The new vivo X23 will have a fourth-generation under-display fingerprint scanner. The dual camera setup on the back will have a super wide-angle camera, while the front will have a teardrop notch and reportedly a 91.2% screen-to-body ratio. Promo image from the vivo website The design of the vivo X23 is really similar to the vivo V11 Pro and we...

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Xiaomi Pocophone F1 with 8 GB RAM appears on Geekbench

Xiaomi is announcing a new smartphone series called Pocophone and the first device from the portfolio will be called F1, according to numerous leaks. It is arriving in India on August 22, but just days ahead of the unveiling the phone popped up on Geekbench with 8 GB RAM. This is the second appearance of the Pocophone F1 at the benchmark after last week's listing with 6 gigs of RAM. The single-score result of 2451 and the multi-core score of 8998 are on similar levels with other Snapdragon 845-powered phones like the OnePlus 6, Xiaomi Mi 8, HTC U12+ etc. The listing actually...

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Oppo R17 price revealed ahead of launch

Oppo listed the R17 on its official website last week with a dummy price of CNY99,999. Today the cost was fixed and the company announced on Weibo how much the phone will actually set you back. The version with 8 GB RAM and 128 GB storage will be CNY3,499 which is nearly $510/€450.

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Vivo X23 appears in live TV show

The vivo X23 appeared in the wild some time ago, but better-looking images surfaced on Friday, revealing the design of the smartphone. It looks a lot like the vivo V11 Pro that is getting announced in India on September 6. The X23 should be announced today, but it appeared in a live TV show during the weekend, revealing the front of the design. The host of the show decided to wrap up with a photo of his guests, putting the vivo X23 on a selfie stick. It clearly is a promo of the device since the host explained about the AI features of the camera while setting up the device for the...

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Week 33 in review: Oppo F9 and R17, Motorola P30 debut

Week 33 ended up pretty busy with Oppo, Motorola and Xiaomi all announcing new hardware. Three phones and a tablet isn't a bad return, considering it's the middle of the summer. Meanwhile, most pieces of the Pocophone F1 puzzle fell in place ahead of its August 22 announcement. The Huawei Mate 20 trio was also frequenting the rumor mill and even the Galaxy S10 got some spotlight despite being half a year away from officialdom. The Galaxy Note9 on the other hand got its display inspected and pronounced the best in the world. Oh and it got a special version by Caviar with 1kg of gold....

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