Analysts: Jio to become 10th largest phone brand in the world

Reliance Jio is expected to become the 10th largest phone brand in the world, according to Digitimes Research, which predicts that 25-30 million Jio Phones will ship this year, all of them powered by the new Kai OS platform. The original Jio Phone was unveiled in July last year and the carrier managed to ship 18 million units until the end of 2017. That's just half a year of shipping and of just one model. It helped that carrier Reliance was offering the original Jio Phone effectively for free. Recently, the company launched a QWERTY-packing sequel, the Jio Phone 2. KaiOS powers...

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OnePlus Switch app update, now backs up application data

The OnePlus 6T will be unveiled on Monday and will be on sale soon after. If you're planning on getting one, the thought of how to migrate from your old phone may have crossed your mind - worry not, this just got easier as the company updated its OnePlus Switch app. For starters, it now supports more Android phones. But the best new feature is that it will backup your application data, which saves a lot of hassle (even cloud-connected apps can have hiccups when syncing to a new device). OnePlus Switch app The latest version of Switch will also copy your old wallpaper and...

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Samsung will unveil the Galaxy A9 in China on October 24

Samsung will hold an event on October 24 to announce the Galaxy A9 (2018) for the Chinese market. Samsung has sent out invites for the event and local sources claim that the Galaxy A9 (2018) will be rebranded to Galaxy A9s for the contry. Samsung invite for an October 24 event in China The Galaxy A9 (2018) is the world's first phone with four cameras on the back. It offers a 24MP f/1.7 main camera, an 8MP f/2.4 12mm ultrawide camera, a 10MP f/2.4 2x telephoto snapper and a 5MP f/2.2 depth-sensing fourth cam. On the front there's a single 24MP f/2.0 unit. The Samsung Galaxy A9...

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Honor Magic 2 specs and live images surface online

George Zhao, president of Honor, teased the Magic 2 with a sliding mechanism at IFA 2018. The Huawei-owned brand now got the phone through TENAA, which revealed its full specs, but no pictures. Luckily, live images appeared on Zanilia Zhao's Weibo profile - she was gifted a mesmerizing red Honor Magic 2 and now we know how the phone will look like. The new phone will have Kirin 980 chipset with clock speeds up to 2.6 GHz, coupled with 8 GB RAM and 128 GB storage. The screen is 6.4" tall AMOLED panel with Full HD+ resolution and almost 100% screen-to-body ratio. The whole display will...

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Xiaomi Mi Mix 3 960fps video surfaces, another teaser shows face unlock

Last week a Xiaomi Mi Mix 3 teaser showed off the low-light performance and bokeh rendering of the dual camera on the phone's back. That same camera will allegedly support 960fps slow-motion video shooting as well, producing clips like this one: We say allegedly as there's no way to verify what phone shot this video. The Snapdragon 845 chipset that will power the Mi Mix 3 certainly support it, but the right image image sensor is needed as well. To hit 960fps, a sensor needs on-board memory. Upgrading to such a sensor hardly feels like a stretch when Xiaomi is teasing 10GB of RAM and...

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Oppo R15x is official, is essentially a K1 with 128 GB storage

Oppo K1 arrived two weeks ago with a waterdrop notch. The phone kept appearing under a different model name on Geekbench and finally arrived today at the company website as Oppo R15x with more storage. Both phones have otherwise similar specs, including the UD fingerprint scanner and the selfie camera. The company is yet to unveil the full specs, but the key features are already outed, along with pricing and availability. Oppo R15x arrives with a 6.4" AMOLED display with what appears to be a Synaptics optical sensor underneath it. The company claims there is a 91% screen-to-body...

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