Redmi Note 7 coming to India on February 28

Today Redmi India confirmed the date for the Note 7 launch in the local market - the 48 MP mid-ranger is landing on February 28. It will get its dedicated event in New Delhi and you can register to purchase tickets for it. The Redmi Note 7 is advertised as a head-turner, meaning it will knock you off your feet with its spectacular camera and price. It even comes with a tacky upside-down hashtag that reads #thuglife with an incorporated digit 7. The Twitter account of the sub-brand will even do a giveaway of one Redmi Note 7 phone if it gathers 4,800 retweets. The camera...

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Oppo F11 Pro reveals its colors in new live photo

Oppo F11 Pro is arriving with a 48 MP snapper and elevating selfie shooter. We are yet to hear an official launch date from the maker but that is not stopping leaksters from revealing bits of the phone. The latest leak is an image of the device in two colors, revealing at least two paint jobs that the Oppo F11 Pro. The left phone looks Powder Blue at first sight, but looking into detail, it is actually changing from Blue on the left to Green-ish on the right. The fingerprint scanner, however, remains a single color. This also means there will be no UD sensor. The right side of the...

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Check out the first 48 MP camera samples of Xiaomi Mi 9

Xiaomi Mi 9 is arriving next week, and we know the phone will have three cameras. Today the co-founder and director of the Chinese division at Xiaomi Chuan Wang posted on his Weibo profile some camera samples with the new smartphone. First, he revealed an image of flowers in poor lighting, followed by two pictures of some cute doggies and a crab. The latter two have a watermark in the lower left corner, revealing the main shooter of the triple camera will be 48 MP. Xiaomi Mi 9 camera samples All three photos have incredible details. Each flower petal receives a different...

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Report reveals more details about Google's products for 2019

Google's mid-range Pixel is perhaps the company's worst kept secret when a prototype got into the hands of a Russian YouTuber - the same one who posted a full hands-on of the Pixel 3 XL weeks before it was announced in October. A new report from Taipei's Nikkei reveals new details about Google's product roadmap for this year. Google will launch its first non-premium smartphone model with a more budget-friendly price point to appeal to more customers in emerging markets. The base Pixel 3 model had an MSRP of $799 and this cheaper model (dubbed Pixel 3 Lite)is expected to retail below...

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Oppo surpasses Samsung in Thai market despite overall decline in Q4

A new report from Canalys outlines Thailand's smartphone market share and smartphone shipment for the last quarter of 2018. In recent years, a number of key players including Xiaomi, Honor, Lava, and Wiko, have intensified competition in the Southeast Asian market. As users are holding onto their smartphones for longer periods of time, the market sees a 13.6% drop over Q4 from the previous year - a total of 4.9 million units were shipped during the period. Despite attractive promotions from smartphone carriers in Thailand, millions of users in rural areas of the country use feature...

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Nubia MWC event invites go out for a flexible product announcement

ZTE-owned company: nubia is going to announce a wearable smartphone device at the MWC this year. There was a teaser poster released a couple of days ago but the new invite was sent directly to press and includes a specific time. The event will be held at the Fira Gran Via, Barcelona and will begin at 6PM local time (12PM EST time). The event's tagine is "Flex your Life" referencing a device with a flexible display. It wasn't initially clear what kind of flexible device we could expect, but the graphic on the official invitation resembles the shape of a display we saw in the teaser...

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