First OnePlus 6T camera sample appears

OnePlus is announcing the OP6T next Monday, but we've already seen CAD-based renders how the phone will look. We still have a week until the official unveiling, but Pete Lau, the company CEO, just teased the camera performance of the upcoming flagship. He posted a night shot of downtown Shenzhen with some mystical text that roughly translates to "Bring your own filter". The first OnePlus 6T camera sample The 13 MP photo was uploaded in full quality, but without the EXIF info, so we can't reveal more details like exposure, aperture or the manufacturer of the sensor. The image...

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Week 42 in review: It's raining phones

It rarely gets as exciting in the mobile world as week 42 of 2018. We saw so much new hardware that it was almost impossible to keep track. Of course Huawei's event was the most interesting, delivering 4 flagship phablets as well as a couple of wearables. The Mate 20 lineup dominated the headlines and took over our trending chart. Nokia delivered an exciting upper mid-ranger too - the X7 or 7.1 Plus as it will be known in most markets. Lenovo's S5 Pro and K5 Pro also got your attention and so did Vertu, which returned from the dead to bring the new Aster P. In other news Xiaomi...

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Amazon Echo Plus (2nd gen) review

A couple of weeks ago we reviewed the new, third generation Echo Dot. Today, we have with us its more expensive sibling, the Amazon Echo Plus second generation, which was also launched alongside. As with the smaller Echo Dot third gen, the story with the new Echo Plus second gen is the same; it now has a new design and the sound quality is better. Starting with the design, the second generation Echo Plus looks like a stretched out version of the new Echo Dot. It looks like a giant marshmallow, especially in our white colored variant. The new model is largely covered in fabric...

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Weekly poll: which of the Huawei Mate 20 phones is the best?

The Huawei Mate 20 Pro could well be the most advanced smartphone on the market. And it's joined by three siblings, which offer more variety than previous iterations. The Leica triple camera on the Pro is a refinement on the P20 Pro camera. The Black & White module is out, replaced by a 16mm ultra-wide angle camera. There's a 5x zoom ratio covered by that and the 80mm telephoto cam. In between you have the monstrous 1/1.7" 40MP Quad Bayer sensor. Then there's the in-display fingerprint reader, something that was exclusive to the pricey Mate RS just a few months ago (but has reached...

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LG Watch W7 hands-on review

LG announced an unorthodox smart wearable alongside the V40 ThinQ - LG Watch W7. We got a chance to spend some time with it and we are ready to share our first hands impressions with you. The Watch W7's key feature is naturally its unique touch screen + mechanical hands hybrid solution. Developed with Soprod, a company from Switzerland, it looks quite big on the wrist and is not quite as pretty as the Apple Watch 4 or Samsung Galaxy Watch. The 1.2" P-OLED display is developed by LG and works as fine as any other touch-screen panel on a wearable. There are two keys - one for...

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The good and bad of the Huawei Mate 20 family

I waited for a few days to pass before putting this together to make sure all the things Huawei announced have properly sank in and here are my thoughts on them and what they mean for the smartphone market going into the most important quarter of the year. The good Huawei is all grown up now This is undoubtedly Huawei's strongest flagship lineup since the company entered the smartphone game. The Mate 20 Pro is not relying on undercutting the competition's price - it's actually trying to beat them at innovation and user experience. Compared to the Samsung Galaxy Note9 it...

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