Watch the iQOO 7 series global launch here

The next vivo iQOO series flagships are expected today to make their global debut. Starting from India, the vivo gaming brand will introduce an iQOO 7 and an iQOO 7 Legend phones, the latter designed in partnership with BMW M Motorsport. The whole event will be live-streamed on YouTube, and it is scheduled to begin at 12:00 PM IST/6:30 UTC. We expect the iQOO 7 Legend to match the internals of the iQOO 7 launched in China, while the vanilla 7 is expected to be a rebadged iQOO Neo5.

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Honor Play 20 arrives with Unisoc chipset, two cameras

The Honor Play 20 is the latest silently launched phone from the now independent smartphone brand. It does have some basic specs that make the phone a pretty neat low-cost device, with intriguing specs like the big battery and two cameras on the back. The Play 20 is powered by a Unisoc T610 chipset. It is a platform, built on the 12 nm process technology by TSMC, and brings an octa-core CPU, with two Cortex-A75 units and six more Cortex-A55, all of them clocked at 1.8 GHz. The chip is coupled by 4, 6, or 8 GB RAM and 128 GB storage, and Honor provided a micro SD slot for up to 512...

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Top 10 trending phones of week 16

In the absence of major phone launches Xiaomi strengthen its grasp on our trending chart, the Chinese company making the five most popular phone in our database this week. The Mi 11 Ultra takes its customary first position ahead of Redmi Note 10 Pro and the Poco X3 Pro. Just off the podium we see the vanilla Redmi Note 10 and another Poco-branded phone - the F3. The new iPad Pro 12.9 took sixth, which is a major achievement for a tablet, particularly one that costs north of $1,000 and is bound to only be interesting to a handful of people. A trio of Samsung phones follows with...

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Flashback: Batman and Superman love Nokia, the X-Men use LG

A couple of weeks ago we looked back at some phones with true star power – phones featured in blockbuster movies. Since Marvel characters featured heavily in that (Tony Stark/Iron Man, Steve Rogers/Captain America and others), we thought that this week we can have a look at the handsets seen it other superhero franchises. We’ll start with DC, of course, specifically Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight Rises (2012). It features a Nokia 5800 XpressMusic, which was modified by the head of Wayne Enterprises to emit a sound pulse, similar to how a bat does echolocation. But even with fictional...

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Week 16 in review: M1 iPad, AirTags official, Galaxy S20 FE with SD865 is here

Another week came and went, and it's time we did a recap. Apple's first event of the year took place and it brought new iPad Pros, a new iMac, the AirTag smart tracker and a purple paint job for the iPhone 12 and 12 mini. The Apple iPad now has an M1 processor straight off the MacBook Pro and Air. It's unclear if the tablet will finally start to do more computer stuff like have proper file system support, or run desktop apps like Final Cut Pro. But it now has support for Thunderbolt 4 through its USB-C port, allowing it to power an external monitor. The iPad Pro 11-inch retained its...

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Weekly poll: will you buy into the computer-grade performance of the new iPad Pros?

Has the post-PC era finally arrived? Apple has been promising it since the original iPad launched, but its slates (while quite popular) never truly replaced PCs. The new iPad Pro models that were unveiled on Tuesday are the first one we can believe are a credible threat. That is because in a way they are PCs – the iPad Pro 11 (2021) and 12.9 (2021) are powered by the same Apple M1 chipset as the latest MacBooks and the new iMac (also announced this week). These slates are not substantially different from the fanless MacBook Air, you can even configure them with up to 16GB of RAM and 2TB of...

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