Another upcoming Huawei smartphone gets benchmarked with weird display aspect ratio

Almost every one of the Android device makers seem to have settled on the 18:9 screen aspect ratio throughout 2017, save for Samsung which went for the even taller 18.5:9 for its flagships. Huawei, however, is readying some new phones that go even beyond that. A few days ago we found one such handset sporting an 18.7:9 ratio, and today another model has surfaced, this one with a 19:9 panel. Like the previously outed in-development device from the Chinese company, it has been put through the paces of the HTML5test. This tells us that the Huawei ANE-LX1 runs Android 8.0 Oreo and features a...

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Sony Xperia XZ Pro to land at MWC with 4K OLED screen, Snapdragon 845, dual rear cameras

Sony's next flagship smartphone will be called Xperia XZ Pro, according to the latest rumor out of China. The company will allegedly unveil this device at MWC next month. The XZ Pro will reportedly come with a 5.7-inch OLED touchscreen with 4K resolution, slim bezels, and a 'tall' aspect ratio (possibly 18:9). It has a dual rear camera setup, made up of an 18 MP shooter with 1.33μm pixel size, and a 12 MP sensor with 1.38μm pixels. On the front will sit a 13 MP snapper for selfies. The phone is powered by Qualcomm's upcoming Snapdragon 845, paired with 6GB of RAM and up...

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Deal: up to $250 off Pixel 2, Galaxy S8 or Galaxy Note8 for Verizon

Best Buy was quick to knock $100 off Google's Pixel 2 and Pixel 2 XL but the discount is now $200 and $250 respectively. Once again, this is for the Verizon model though it will have no issue working on Sprint or AT&T and T-Mobile. Google Pixel 2 • Google Pixel 2 XL You can't pay full price for the phone, instead you'll have to sign up for a 24 month payment plan. But you only pay $18.74 a month for the Pixel 2, which works out to $450 (down from a retail price of $650). You can get the 128GB model instead, that's $22.91 a month. The Pixel 2 XL is $24.99 a month - $600 total,...

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ZTE Axon M launches in China this Saturday, Europe by the end of the quarter

The foldable ZTE Axon M launched on AT&T first, that was in November. Today, ZTE held a ceremony at the 258m tall Olympic Tower in Beijing to announce that the M will be available in China very soon - January 20. Locals will be able to snag a unit online from MyZTE.com and JD.com. Offline, China Telecom stores will be carrying the dual-screened device. Later this quarter (January-March), the ZTE Axon M will come to Europe as well. It will be available on Vodafone, TIM and other "leading carriers". More names should be named (prices too) as we get closer to the launch. This phone...

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Sugar S11 Blockchain Creation Edition smartphone mines and holds the Ethereum Fog crypto

It has been proven that adding "blockchain" to anything makes it a hugely more popular product. With that in mind, meet the Sugar S11 Blockchain Creation Edition. The design seems like a copy of the ZTE nubia Z17s but the hardware is different. That's not what makes this phone, interesting though. The blockchain in question is Ethereum Fog, which forked off the Ethereum cryptocurrency on January 1 this year. It builds on ETH's ability to run programs by adding a file system (still in development). Apparently, the devs behind the project want to offer the ease of Amazon's AWS hosting...

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Mysterious Lenovo with glossy back leaks

Back in April 2017 the ZUK Mobile division shut down, but Lenovo kept some of its high-profile managers./p> Chang Cheng, the former CEO of ZUI, posted a picture of a mysterious Lenovo-branded phone with glossy back on his personal Weibo profile. The image reveals a new Lenovo device is on its way, but it also caused controversy and confusion among ZUK fans who decided to hype over the upcoming of a successor of the ZUK Z2 that might be named Lenovo Z3. With Chang Cheng currently serving as Product Planning Manager, this looks like one of many paths Lenovo might decide to...

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