Redmi 8 appears in hands-on images

After passing through Chinese certification agency TENAA and revealing its key specs, the Redmi 8 was spotted in live pictures. In addition to showing us the design of the phone, the shots also confirm it will ship with the Qualcomm Snapdragon 439 chipset and run MIUI 9.7.11 on top of Android 9 Pie. Redmi 8 hands-on images Upfront, the Redmi 8 comes with a 6.21-inch HD+ LCD display with a waterdrop notch for the 8MP selfie cam. The bottom chin features Redmi branding. Around the back, we have a vertically aligned 12 MP and 8 MP dual camera setup and a fingerprint reader. The...

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Xiaomi, Oppo, vivo join hands to create cross-brand file transfer service

Xiaomi announced today the Inter-Transfer Alliance group, where it is joined by Oppo and vivo to create an AirDrop-like service for file transfer. The platform is currently in open beta and will allow devices from different manufacturers to exchange photos and documents with a simple swipe or click. According to the company, the exchange of files wouldn't use a lot of battery nor would it use 4G data or a third-party app - it is based on Bluetooth. Speeds would reach up to 20 MB/s, so a standard 720p movie would be transferred between phones in under two minutes. Currently, the...

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Motorola One Action to arrive in India on August 23

Last week Motorola One Action was unveiled with three cameras, one of them with an ultrawide angle lens with 1080 at 60 fps video recording and 16 MP sensor for shooting action videos. Now we learn the phone will hit India through Flipkart starting August 23. The new phone is a midranger sporting a 21:9 tall 6.3" LCD panel with Full HD+ resolution with a punch hole for the selfie camera and . It comes as part of the Android One program with the latest Android Pie and promises for regular monthly updates. On the inside ticks an Exynos 9609 chipset, coupled with 4 GB RAM and 128...

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Amazon Echo Show 5 review

The Echo Show 5 is the latest in the family of Alexa-based Echo devices from Amazon. The Echo Show 5 is the smaller version of the massive Echo Show and has a smaller 5-inch display compared to the 10.1-inch display on the larger Echo Show. At first glance, the Echo Show 5 almost looks like a phone placed on a kickstand. The design is similar to that of the larger Echo Show, with an angled display and a body that tapers backward with the speakers placed behind the display. The display does have a sizable frame surrounding it, which on our white review unit looked particularly...

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Samsung Galaxy Note10+: first Exynos 9825 benchmarks

The Exynos 9825 is the industry's first chipset built on a 7nm Extreme UltraViolet (EUV) process. Its predecessor, the 8nm Exynos 9820, as well as TSMC's 7nm offerings are built on Deep UltraViolet (DUV) process, but that has run out of steam. In the future, foundries will use EUV to drop below 7nm - 5nm chips are already on their roadmaps. So, Samsung Galaxy Note10+'s is just a proving ground for the new technology and is only a minor improvement over the 9820 chip inside the Galaxy S10+. Samsung claims that it has raised the clock speed of the GPU, but doesn't say how much. The CPU...

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Top 10 trending phones of week 33

For the second week running the a Samsung Galaxy Note10 series phone is leading our popularity chart, but this time it's the Plus model rather than the compact one. The Galaxy A50 also managed to split the two S Pen flagships, while their 5G versions dropped off the top 10 entirely. The Galaxy A70 and Redmi Note 7 took advantage of that and climbed a position each to fourth and fifth. Samsung Galaxy A90 is only a rumor at this point, but it's already gaining plenty of interest and placed sixth. The Xiaomi Mi 9T Pro retained seventh, as the returning Galaxy A30 climbed to eight...

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