Huawei Mate 20 Pro in Red and Comet Blue arriving on January 10

Last week а rumor about Huawei launching a Red and Blue variants of the Mate 20 Pro popped up. We speculated that the phone might be scheduled for the Chinese New Year on February 5, but today the company revealed it would be available for pre-order starting Thursday, January 10. The device is listed at Vmall, Huawei's online store, and the price will remain unchanged for both colors. The Red and Comet Blue Huawei Mate 20 Pro will be available only in China initially, but we expect the new hues to appear on the global scene as well. Huawei Mate 20 Pro in Fragrant Red...

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CEO confirms Meizu Note 9 with Snapdragon 6150 and 48 MP camera

Meizu is preparing a new phone, called Note 9. The news was revealed by the company CEO Jack Wong who revealed in a post that the phone will be powered by the upcoming Snapdragon 6150 chipset. It will also have a 48 MP camera and will reach AnTuTu scores of around 170,000. It will be the first Meizu smartphone with a notched front panel, sporting a waterdrop cutout left for the selfie shooter. Posts and renders by Meizu CEO Jack Wong Rumors about a Meizu X9 were downed by Mr Wong after he announced the Note 9 moniker. While the Snapdragon 6150 chipset is not official, it...

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Xiaomi Redmi Note 7 pops up on Geekbench with Snapdragon 660

Xiaomi announced it is splitting the Redmi series into a separate brand, with the first phone being announced on January 10. We expect this to be the Redmi 7 phones, including a Redmi Note 7. The alleged device popped up on Geekbench, revealing a Snapdragon 660 chipset. While the results of 1462 for a single core and 4556 for multiple cores are in line with other SD660-powered phones, the new chipset is good news for itself. The Redmi Note 5 Pro and Redmi Note 6 Pro both sported the less powerful 14 nm process Snapdragon 636, meaning the Redmi Note 7 will be a true update of the...

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HP launches the first Chromebook with AMD processor

HP has launched two new models in its Chromebook 14 lineup. The interesting thing about these variants is that they are the first Chromebooks to run on AMD processors, which have so far only been running on Intel and ARM-based processors. The base model runs on the new 6W AMD A4-9120C processor, with 2 cores/2 threads, 1.6GHz base clock/2.4GHz boost clock, and Radeon R4 graphics. It has a 1366x768 resolution display. The more expensive models runs on the new 6W AMD A6-9220C processor, with 2 cores/2 threads, 1.8GHz base clock/2.7GHz boost clock, and Radeon R5 graphics. It has a...

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Week 1 in review: Sony Xperia XZ4, Galaxy S10, Nokia 9 and Redmi 7 on the horizon

We are now at the end of the first week of the new year! If you were thinking smartphone world will take some time off for the holidays you were wrong - week 1 was rather eventful. While there weren't many announcements in the week there were sightings of exciting upcoming products. The Samsung Galaxy S10, the Sony Xperia XZ4 and the Nokia 9 were the flagships that are expected to become official quite soon. The Samsung Galaxy S10 was photographed in the wild and we saw a purported Galaxy S10+ case snapped on a Galaxy S9+, revealing a very minor difference in size. The Nokia 9...

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iTunes Movies and TV Shows app coming to 2018 and 2019 Samsung Smart TVs

Samsung has announced that it will offer the iTunes Movies and TV Shows app and AirPlay 2 support on its range of televisions. It will be the first television manufacturer to feature this service and indeed the first non-Apple product to include it. Owners of these televisions will be able to access their existing iTunes movie and TV show library from within this app. They will also be able to purchase or rent additional content. Apple currently has hundreds of thousands of movies and TV show episodes and also the largest library of 4K HDR movies of any service. The app...

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