Hear the story of the Xiaomi Mi Mix 2 told by its designer

Philippe Starck is a world-renowned designer who has worked on anything from luxury hotels to Steve Jobs' yacht. In smartphone circles, he's known as the man behind the Xiaomi Mi Mix - the phone that kicked off the bezel-less craze (Sharp has been making Aquos Crystals since 2014, but those never went viral like the Mix did). Anyway, Starck also designed the sequel - Mi Mix 2. Listen to him and Xiaomi CEO Lei Jun talk about the Mix 2. Starck focuses on the creative inspirations, Jun prefers to talk about the tech side of things. What these two have in common is that both are born...

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Meizu M6 shown in full two days before its unveil

The Meizu M6 is bound to be announced in a couple of days - on September 20 - and now the pieces of the puzzle are starting to fall in place. The latest leak shows the phone in the wild looking similar to the M5 Note. It's likely that the M6 will have a single camera on the back, unlike the M6 Note. Meizu M6 The latest leaks comes with some specs we were missing from the previous leak, namely the 13MP main camera and the 8MP front-facing one. The display is reconfirmed as a 5.2-incher of 720p resolution. There's 16GB of storage, a MediaTek Helio P10 chipset and just 2GB of...

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Xiaomi Chiron spotted with 5.6" screen, Snapdragon 835 chipset

A curious Xiaomi passed through GFXBench - code named Chiron, the mysterious phone has a 5.6" screen with 16.5:9 aspect ratio. That's quite unusual, the original Mi Mix had a 17:9 screen, the new one is at 18:9. This device has 1,080 x 1,980px resolution instead - seems just enough to fit on-screen buttons and leave a 16:9 screen behind. But don't be distracted by the lack of QHD resolution this is a flagship device. The Xiaomi Chiron has a Snapdragon 835 chipset with 6GB of RAM and a whopping 256GB of built-in storage. This could be the Mi Note 3 that people actually wanted, not the...

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Xiaomi to launch 32GB storage variant of Mi Max 2

After launching the Mi Max 2 back in July this year, Xiaomi is bringing a new variant of the device. The sole change the new model features is storage, which is 32GB. Launch is set for September 20, and like the variants unveiled earlier, this new model will also be first available in India, where it'll be an Amazon exclusive. Presenting Mi Max 2 4GB+32GB at an intro price of ₹12,999! Sale starts 20/09 exclusively on @amazonIN, https://t.co/nVqFSYMyzY & Mi Home pic.twitter.com/6rC5hoNq7H— Mi India (@XiaomiIndia) September 18, 2017 Pricing is INR 14,999 ($235), but for a...

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Huawei G10 appears in live images

Huawei is announcing the G10 (codenamed Maimang 6) on September 22, but the phone already started appearing in live images across the web. The latest pictures confirm what we already knew - dual cameras both on front and on the back, both setups accompanied by a flash. The design of the Huawei G10 is simple, but that's all you need from a phone with alleged Kirin 659 chipset. There is also a circular fingerprint beneath the rear cameras. Two antenna bands sit on the back panel - on the top and bottom. The front panel reveals a display with 18:9 ratio. Bezels aren't as slim...

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Samsung to build its own 1,000 fps camera to challenge Sony

Sony was the first to build a mobile camera with on-chip memory - the Motion Eye camera on the Xperia XZ Premium and XZs (later XZ1 too). Now chatter from Korea suggests that Samsung Semiconductors is looking to build a similar camera in November, ready to use in the next-generation Galaxy S phone. The advantage of on-chip memory is that the camera can store many frames very fast - enough to shoot 1,000fps or so for slow-motion video. Streaming those to the main RAM will be too slow, so Sony built a three layer chip - pixels, control logic and memory. Samsung's design is reportedly...

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