Check out this neat Oppo R17 promo video

Oppo R17 appeared with a tiny notch and an under-display fingerprint scanner back in August and appeared in stores in early September. The phone was initially available for purchase in China, but now it's preparing to go global. Or so we assume, going by today's video on the official YouTube channel that highlights some of the key features of the R17, including Google services. The funky 30-second video looks like a TV ad since it focuses on the most prominent features like the gradient design, the tiny notch on the massive display and the fingerprint scanner beneath the OLED...

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Short video demos Xiaomi Mi Mix 3's face unlock feature

The Xiaomi Mi Mix 3 will be unveiled a week from now, but we've seen the phone many times already. Here's another look at it, complete with a new trick. The third generation Mix will keep the trademark bezel-less design and continue to avoid notches by moving the camera to a manual slider. The phone will support face unlock and, as you can see in this video, it's pretty quick. If you're curious how the phone unlocked the laptop, it's the Dynamic Lock feature in Windows 10. The phone connects over Bluetooth and automatically locks the laptop when the connection drops out. It can then...

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MediaTek's Helio P70 coming soon with more advanced AI hardware, insiders claim

The Helio P60 was announced this February and proved to be a popular chipset (it's already used in 15 phones), but MediaTek will reportedly introduce a sequel by the end of this month. The Helio P70 will be very similar to the P60 - it will be built on the same 12nm process and will feature an octa-core processor (four A73 and four A53) plus a Mali-G72 GPU. Details like CPU clock speed or GPU core count are not known yet, but that's not the key upgrade. The P60 was billed as MediaTek's AI-focused chipset with an "AI processing unit" (APU). The P70 will use a Neural Processing Unit...

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Xiaomi Pocophone F1 US pre-orders open, but you don't get LTE

Xiaomi Pocophone F1 arrived in August with a Snapdragon 845 and a hard-to-believe price tag of $300. Eventually, it went up to €370 for the 6/128 GB variant in Europe, and now the phone made its way to the United States. The most affordable SD845-powered phone appeared on B&H Photo Video's website for $370 with 6 GB RAM and 64 GB storage. Sadly, the global version that's on sale is incompatible with the CDMA networks of Verizon and Sprint and worse still, it lacks the LTE bands to operate on AT&T and T-Mobile's 4G networks. The Xiaomi Pocophone F1 should work with US...

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Montblanc Summit 2 is the first watch with Wear 3100 chipset

The Montblanc Summit 2 is the first smartwatch to use the new Snapdragon Wear 3100 chipset. The watch design is inspired by the 1848 chronograph and comes in a 42mm unisex case. The Summit 2 features a 1.2" AMOLED display with 390 x 390px resolution (327ppi). It features exclusive watch faces inspired by the 1858 timepieces, but also business, feminine and sporty watch faces. Montblanc Summit 2 Even with the new 3100 chipset, the 340mAh battery doesn't last very long - you're looking at a full day use in smartwatch mode and an extra 4-5 days in time only mode. The watch...

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Xiaomi officially confirms: Mi Mix 3 will have 5G support and 10GB of RAM

Remember that cryptic teaser poster from yesterday? Well, it didn't take long for Xiaomi to confirm that we read it right - the Mi Mix 3 will be among the first 5G-supporting smartphones on the market as well as the first one to feature 10GB of RAM. The first official confirmation of the 5G support comes from Xiaomi Spain while the 10GB of RAM rumor was backed up in a Weibo post. Here are the two posters that also subtly hint of the slide-out cameras. The posters from Weibo and Xiaomi Spain Facebook page Let's face it, 10GB of RAM is excessive, and will likely mostly serve as...

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