Samsung Galaxy Buds Live support pages go live ahead of official unveiling

Samsung is holding an Unpacked event on August 5 where it's expected to unveil the Galaxy Note20 lineup, Galaxy Z Fold 2, and the Galaxy Tab S7 series tablets. Alongside these, the Korean tech giant might also unveil the Galaxy Buds Live TWS earphones. Samsung hasn't officially confirmed the August 5 unveiling of Galaxy Buds Live yet, but support pages for these TWS earphones have gone live on Samsung's official regional sites for India, Russia, Germany and the UK, suggesting an imminent launch. Galaxy Buds Live support pages on Samsung's Indian, Russian, German and British...

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Kuo: iPhone 12 lineup to use new camera lenses, periscope telephoto coming in 2022

With the new iPhone 12 lineup approaching, more and more small details get revealed about Apple's phones. This time it's about the iPhone 12 cameras and it comes from popular Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo. The analyst says that Apple has included the high-quality Semco and Sunny Optical lenses into its supply chain this year. Semco is a Korean-based company while Sunny Optical originates from China. The new lenses will deliver better overall performance and improve the autofocus by a bunch. Semco's ball-based voice coil motor in the lenses would succeed the current spring-based...

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ROG Phone 3 review

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Asus ROG Phone 3 phone arrives with 6.6" 144 Hz screen, S865+ chipset, bundled cooler

The Asus ROG Phone 3 is perhaps the phone that comes closest to a gaming PC yet – there are tons of accessories for different gaming styles and everything is under your control. No, really, everything: you can control the chipset’s clock speed and throttling threshold, set up the screen and audio for an optimum experience, tune the network to avoid hangups, even charging is entirely customizable. Asus ROG Phone 3 • Shoulder buttons on the left • Advanced connector on the right The ROG Phone 3 is among the first Androids to be powered by the new Snapdragon 865+ chipset. There’s...

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Realme now boasts 40 million users globally

Realme is pretty young – it was established on May 4 2018 – and it has grown rapidly in that short period. It is now a Top 7 smartphone brand, Top 5 in 9 markets (of the 59 markets where it's officially present). There are 40 million Realme users around the world already. Most recently, 150,000 joined that group in just 2 minutes, they were won over by the new Realme C11. Before that, it moved 70,000 Narzo 10 units in the same period of time. To give you an idea of how quickly the brand has grown, let’s rewind the tape. Realme reached one million sales in September of 2018, just...

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Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 5G goes official with Snapdragon 865+, two new colors

Samsung decided to tick one phone off its list for the August 5 Unpacked event and went ahead with the announcement of the Galaxy Z Flip 5G today. We've known for weeks now that this was coming so there really are no surprises. The Galaxy Z Flip 5G inherits most of its hardware from the Galaxy Z Flip, but gets a new Snapdragon 865+ chipset with a 5G modem, and two new colors - Mystic Bronze and Mystic Grey. The rest is mostly unchanged - the 5G model is 0.1mm thicker at the hinge and weighs the same 183g. The Galaxy Z Flip 5G has a 6.7-inch 2636x1080px folding Dynamic AMOLED screen...

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