Huawei introduces Lily White Honor 10 GT

Last month Huawei introduced Honor 10 GT - an updated variant of its flagship Honor 10 with 8 GB RAM. It also has GPU Turbo and Night Mode update that lets you take night pictures without a tripod out of the box. First, it was introduced only in Phantom Blue color, but the company now announced the device arrives in another color called Lily White. The Honor 10 GT has a 5.84" tall screen with a notch on top. The chipset is Kirin 970 with AI capabilities for machine learning and delivering power to the most used apps. The camera setup on the back is dual - a 16 MP main snapper and a...

Huawei surpasses Apple in Q2 in number of units shipped

Today, The International Data Corporation (IDC) releases preliminary data that shows smartphone OEMs have shipped a total of 342 million units during Q2 of this year. This calculates to a 1.8% decrease from Q2 of 2017, where OEMs shipped a higher total of 348.2 million handsets. During the same quarter, Huawei has surpassed Apple in the number of overall shipments. The Chinese OEM shipped 54.2 million units with a record high of 15.8% of global market share and a whopping (also record breaking for Huawei) 27% market share in China. This puts Huawei at the No. 2 spot globally while Apple...

Firmware leak reveals a lot about the Huawei Mate 20 - Kirin 980 and wireless charging

Today, a huge leak comes from XDA-Developers thanks to firmware files obtained by @FunkyHuawei that were shared with the development site. The firmware files are able to say a lot about the unannounced Huawei flagship, or flagships, rather, since it looks like there will be three variants of the next Mate device: Mate 20 Lite, Mate 20, and Mate 20 Pro. The firmware file obtained was specifically for the Mate 20, here's what was uncovered. The Mate 20 is said to be the first Huawei flagship to have HiSilicon's Kirin 980 CPU (expected to be announced at IFA next month) built on a 7nm...

Apple Pay coming to Germany - 7 Eleven, and CVS Pharmacy in the US

This afternoon, Apple held an earnings call where CEO Tim Cook announced that Apple Pay made over 1 billion transactions this quarter alone. In fact, Apple Pay made more transactions than its competitors Square and PayPal. Cook also announced that Apple Pay will finally be supported at 7 Eleven and CVS Pharmacy stores sometime in the fall. If you have been following the story with CVS from almost four years ago, the store began to accept NFC payments until it disabled its NFC readers in favor of another QR-code mobile wallet called "CurrentC". Well, it wasn't CVS' fault, this was due to...

Android's default Clock app can now wake you up with Spotify

Today, Google made a blog post about Spotify integration with alarms in the Google Clock app. Starting today, you can set an alarm clock to wake you up with a Spotify playlist, or you can choose from Spotify's curated morning playlists. After you shut off your alarm, the Clock app will even give you the option to continue listening to the music that just woke up you so you can get ready with your jams. What's interesting is that Google decided to release Spotify integration before its own Google Play or YouTube Music streaming services. Perhaps Google wanted to test it with Spotify...

Galaxy Note9 release date confirmed by another report, list of freebies outed too

A new report from Samsung's home of South Korea confirms the previously outed release date for the upcoming Galaxy Note9: August 24. As you can see from the image below, it's clearly written on a promotional poster made for the device by KT, one of the Korean carriers. Since the date was first leaked by a Polish Samsung employee, and now the same date is said to apply to the Korean market, we're assuming that's when the global launch will happen. Of course things might still change, but this is probably the best estimation of when the phone will be in stores - until August 9 comes, of...

Dual-SIM iPhones may finally arrive this year, HomePod to start making phone calls

Apple might be adding a much-requested feature to at least one of the three iPhones it's gearing up to launch this fall. We're talking about dual-SIM support, something that's very popular in certain markets, but not so much in the US where the company is based. This has been rumored before, but now we get a sort of confirmation from Apple itself, through some code included in iOS 12 developer beta 5. As you can see from the screenshot below, a component of the system that generates diagnostic reports includes new references to "second SIM status" and "second SIM tray...

Oppo and Xiaomi join foldable smartphone race

The flexible smartphone race has started. After Samsung revealed its plans to deliver the first ever foldable smartphone with flexible display, Huawei committed to beating it to the punch. Now a new report claims that two more major Chinese manufacturers are joining. Xiaomi and Oppo are reportedly looking for display manufacturers to supply their foldable handsets. The options, for now, are rather limited - BOE, Visionox and LG Display. But instead of following, Xiaomi is planning on leading in the segment by being the first manufacturer to bring a working flexible device by kicking...

US HTC U12+ gets camera and pressure-sensitive buttons update

Earlier this month, HTC pushed an OTA update in Taiwan to the U12+ adding new features and a much-needed update to the pressure-sensitive buttons. The patch weighs 437MB and the build number is 1.21.617.3. Тhe changelog outlines the very same update we saw with the Taiwanese version of the device. The most important fix is for the pressure-sensitive buttons that should now be more responsive and won't get in the way of the Edge Sense gestures. The double tapping on the edge should work better now too. The update also brings the so-called Auto Zoom feature for video recording....

Canon launches new PowerShot SX740 HS pocket camera with 40x zoom

Canon has launched a new pocket sized PowerShot SX740 HS camera. The camera is meant for casual users as well as vloggers who want something compact and easy to use for taking quick photos and videos that look a little better than what you get from your smartphones. The SX740 HS has a 20.3MP sensor and 24-960mm equivalent lens that gives it 40x optical zoom capability, more than enough for most users and especially impressive for a compact camera. The camera can also record 4K video, which makes it the first in the PowerShot series to do so. The SX740 HS includes Canon's newest...

Samsung releases Frozen AR emoji for the Galaxy S9 and S9+

Samsung continues to expand the selection of AR emojis based on Disney properties - the latest addition are the main characters from Frozen. Anna, Elsa, Olaf and Kristoff can be downloaded from the Galaxy App Store for the Galaxy S9 and Galaxy S9+. This leaves Zootopia from the official list of movies to be turned into AR emoji. Samsung has already covered The Incredibles, Mickey and Minnie, Goody and Daisy, along with a pack of 18 generic AR emoji (there are 18 more on the way). Source

Oppo VP moves to become Realme CEO, targets global brand expansion

Oppo released the Realme 1 as an online-exclusive smartphone that sold out in two minutes after its launch in India back in May. Eyeing a huge potential in the new subsidiary, the Oppo Vice President Sky Li announced he is stepping down and is moving to become the CEO of the Realme brand. Sky Li, pictured in 2016 at the Oppo F1 launch In a press release, Realme listed plenty of markets that the company is planning to join. Quoting Gartner, growth in smartphone sales has been observed in Central and Eastern Europe, Middle East and Africa and emerging Asian countries and sales are...

Counterpoint: OnePlus 6 shipments beat Galaxy S9+ almost 3:1 in India

OnePlus derives almost a third of its global revenue from India and it's a sign that the company is doing well when it posts shipments. Not only that, but Counterpoint reports that during the second quarter of this year OnePlus shipped more premium phones than Samsung for the first time in its history. Counterpoint defines the premium segment as phones costing INR 30,000 and above ($440/€370). That may seem a bit low for a premium segment, but it's partly because OnePlus and others are aggressively pushing high-end phones below the INR 40,000 mark and are skewing the market. The OnePlus...

Sony's Q2 2018 results are in - smartphone sales drop to 2 million

Sony just published its Q2 financial report and unfortunately it holds little good news for its struggling mobile business. The Japanese firm shipped just 2 million phones in Q2 this year compared to the 3.4 million in Q2 2017. That's just $1.18 billion revenue and a 27% decline year-over-year. The main reason lies in the weak Japanese and European sales, but interestingly, Sony remains stable in the rest of the world. It has also forced Sony to re-calculate its projected sales and revenue for 2018. Initially, the OEM forecasted 10 million sales accounting for $5.74 billion until...

TENAA shows a version of the Xiaomi Mi 8 Explorer with a smaller notch

The Xiaomi Mi 8 Explorer is the premium phone in the series. Besides its attractive translucent back, it also comes with a 3D face scanner and an under display fingerprint reader. Naturally, this drives up the price, but TENAA reveals that there may be a more affordable version in the works. We've seen this device before, though TENAA hadn't posted the photos at that point and they certainly add a new dimension to the rumors. The design looks similar, including the back, but the notch on the front is noticeably narrower. Sure, the TENAA photo is quite dark, but the selfie camera is right...

Samsung profit slows down in Q2 2018 due to unimpressive Galaxy S9 sales

Samsung has just posted its financial report for the second quarter of 2018. The Korean conglomerate reached KRW58.48 trillion (around $52.2 billion) in sales, its lowest result for the past 12 months. Samsung stated the decline in revenue, hinted earlier in the earnings guidance was due to lower sales of smartphones and display panels, while demand for memory chips remained strong, just like analysts predicted. Тhe IT & Mobile Communications division, responsible for the Galaxy smartphones saw its sales fall 20% from KRW30 trillion to KRW24 trillion on a yearly basis....

Huawei's CPU Turbo: what does it do?

When Huawei announced GPU Turbo there was plenty of misunderstanding of what it does. So, now the company announced CPU Turbo with the Kirin 970-powered Honor Note 10 and there seems to be a similar confusion. The official announcement is very vague, but here's what we have so far - enabling CPU Turbo mode will raise the clock speeds (by an unspecified amount) and will free up RAM. Let's break it down. The Honor Note 10 features a cooling system dubbed "The Nine" - a heat pipe that keeps the chipset running cool. This should help it stay cool and enable the higher clock. That might...

Huawei Honor Note 10 debuts with 7" AMOLED display, 5,000 mAh battery and Kirin 970

The Huawei Honor Note 10 was teased for such a long time, it almost feels like a relief to finally see it go official. Many of the rumored specs turned out to be true, but the company managed to surprise us with some fresh and unexpected features. The Honor Note 10 is built around a 6.95-inch Full HD+ (1080 x 2220 pixels) AMOLED display with thin side bezels and no notch. The display supports the HDR10 standard and has 115% NTSC color gamut coverage. The Honor Note 10 comes with Huawei's in-house Kirin 970 chipset paired with 6GB or 8GB of RAM. The internal storage variants of...

Lenovo smartphone with two selfie cams surfaces

Lenovo is looking to launch a new selfie-centric smartphone and it has stopped by TENAA for a quick certification. The handset carries the model name L38031 and the main selling point is the dual front camera. The phone has four cameras in total, but unfortunately the listing only mentions the resolution of one of them - 13MP. In all likeliness the front and back setups consist of a primary high-res module and a secondary depth-sensing unit of low resolution (in the 2MP-5MP range). It's unclear though if the 13MP module is the main one on the front or the back. As we go down the...

Xiaomi Mi A2 hits India as an Amazon Exclusive

Xiaomi Mi A2 was unveiled last week as a significant upgrade over the Mi A1, as we established in our hands-on. Manu Kumar Jain, VP and overseeing operations in India announced on Twitter the device will arrive in the country on August 8 and now we know it will be offered exclusively by Amazon. The Mi A2 is part of the Android One program and arrives as the global variant of the Mi 6X, which runs MIUI instead of stock Android. The phone's Snapdragon 660 chipset supports Quick Charge 4.0, but for some reason that will be enabled only in India. Other specs of the newly...

Motorola One stops by TENAA as well

Shortly after the Motorola One Power certification surfaced, the Motorola One device also appeared online with the specs sheet revealed along with some TENAA renders. For now, it seems that the two handsets will differ in design - the Motorola One should incorporate a glass back while the One Power will stick to the all-aluminum shell - while the hardware remains pretty similar. At least that's what the rumor mill suggests so far. The TENAA listing reads a 6.18-inch notched display with 1080 x 2246 pixel resolution and tall 19:9 aspect ratio. The chipset is likely Snapdragon 636,...

BlackBerry Ghost arrives as BlackBerry Evolve in India on August 2

BlackBerry is preparing a new smartphone for the Indian market with the Optiemus manufacture, and the device was first rumored to be called Ghost. Later Evan Blass said the Ghost will be actually named Evolve and will have a mightier sibling, called Evolve X. After the series of mystical leaks, the phones are finally set to step into the light. BlackBerry and Optiemus have scheduled an event for August 2 in India, where the alleged flagships will be introduced. The phone was tipped to have a 4,000 mAh battery, dual-camera setup with optical zoom and low light enhancement. A...

Mystical Samsung Galaxy A device arrives on Geekbench

Samsung decided to match its Galaxy A portfolio to the Galaxy S monikers and announced the Galaxy A8 (2018) and the Galaxy A8+ (2018) in the end of 2017. A phone from the Korean manufacturer has just popped up on Geekbench with model name SM-A750FN. The phone was benchmarked with Exynos 7885 SoC that has two performance cores at 2.2 GHz and six more for efficiency at 1.6 GHz. The RAM on the SM-A750FN is 4 GB and the phone is listed with Android Oreo 8.0. All specs are the same with the Galaxy A8+ (2018), suggesting the new phone might be different in some other aspects like screen...

LG Q7+ to launch on T-Mobile with support for 600 MHz band

T-Mobile has a habit of posting future smartphones a bit too early. In this month, T-Mobile has posted a couple of mid-range devices (Moto E5 Play and E5 Plus, Samsung Galaxy J7 Star) to its support pages, all of which support T-Mobile's latest 600 MHz band for better and stronger signal. Today, a new device was spotted on T-Mobile's support site by TmoNews. The LG Q7+ is expected to hit T-Mobile very soon with support for the aforementioned 600 MHz frequency (band 71). The Q7+ is an LG Q7 with higher RAM and storage (4GB + 64GB). There's a 5.5-inch display with FHD+ resolution...

WhatsApp updated to support four-person video chat

Back in May, Facebook held its F8 developers conference where it announced new features for its Facebook family of apps. More specifically, it was at this event that WhatsApp was officially going to get group calling sometime in the future. Today, WhatsApp has officially announced that group calling for both voice and video is finally here. The messaging app also shares that WhatsApp users spend more than 2 billion minutes on WhatsApp calls per day. To start a group call, start a one-on-one video or voice call with a single person. Then, you'll see a button at the top-right...

Report: Apple Pay to make up half of all contact-less payments in 2020

A new report from Junper Research predicts that the in-store contact-less payments industry will break $2 trillion by the year 2020. 2018 is the first year that the market will break past $1 trillion, one year earlier than Juniper Research anticipated. Apple will lead the mobile payments market with Apple Pay anticipated to make up half of all mobile wallet payments globally by the year 2020. Along with Samsung Pay, Google Pay, and other OEM Pay wallets, these services will reach 450 million users by the same year. Mobile Payment transactions will make up 15% of all contact-less payments...

Samsung Wireless Charger Duo price and retail box leaks - already available in Russia

Just this weekend, we saw renders of two unreleased Samsung Wireless Fast Charge docks. One is a redesigned Fast Charger that would be updated to support the Galaxy Note9's supposed faster wireless charging (EP-P3100), and the other one was the Samsung Wireless Charger Duo (EP-N6100), which has two wireless charging areas: one upright and the other flat. Today, a new report from MobilTelefon.ru brings live images to support the renders. In fact, the Samsung Wireless Charger Duo is already available in a Samsung retail store in Russia for a retail price of RUB 6,990 (~USD...

Sony Xperia XZ2 Premium is now available in the US for $999.99

Sony's newest top of the line smartphone has just become available in the US, and right on time. The Xperia XZ2 Premium went on pre-order in the States at the beginning of the month, and around three weeks later it's now in stock at both Amazon and Best Buy (see the Sources linked below). It packs a 4K HDR touchscreen, being the first handset ever to don that setup, but living on the cutting edge of technology will cost you dearly. $999.99, to be precise. That's for an unlocked unit that will work on GSM-based carriers such as AT&T, T-Mobile, Straight Talk, MetroPCS, and Cricket....

Asus Zenfone 3 Max ZC553KL is now being updated to Android 8.1 Oreo

Today Asus has started sending out an update to Android 8.1 Oreo to the Zenfone 3 Max ZC553KL. This particular model launched in November of 2016, so it's good to see that the Taiwanese company hasn't forgotten about it, software-wise. The Zenfone 3 Max initially ran Android 6.0.1 Marshmallow, then got updated to Nougat, and now it's time for it to jump straight to 8.1. It might in fact be the first Asus smartphone to receive this specific version of the OS. Other members of the Zenfone 3 line have gotten 8.0. The new version is 15.0200.1807.406. Aside from packing all the goodies that...

Huawei Mate 20 Pro live image and spec sheet allegedly leak

Huawei's next flagship smartphone is coming this fall and it will be the Mate 20 (echoing the switch from 10 to 20 this year for the P series). A live image purporting to show the Mate 20 Pro has been leaked in China, and it portrays a device with no notch but what seems to be a very good screen-to-body ratio nevertheless. There's not a lot more that can be ascertained from the picture alone, but the same tipster that shared it has helpfully also listed some of the phone's specs. Thus, the Mate 20 Pro will allegedly have the Kirin 980 chipset at the helm (which should become...

Oppo R17 spy shots offer a clear look at the new smaller notch

With the R15, Oppo adopted the notch. With the R17, it might shrink it down. We saw photos by TENAA, but the one of the front was too dark to make out any detail. These two images from Weibo show an Essential-style notch, though with a slightly different design. By the looks of it, the Oppo R17 will house only a selfie camera and an earpiece in its notch. Look at the separate glass panel in the second photo, it gives a better look. It's not clear where the proximity sensor and ambient light sensor go in this setup. Oppo R17's notch is smaller, looks like the F9 notch • Just the...

Xiaomi Mi 8 Explorer finally arrives for $530

Xiaomi announced the Mi 8 series in three flavors - a regular version, a cheaper Mi 8 SE and a premium variant with see-through back and in-house Face ID solution, called Xiaomi Mi 8 Explorer. The phone is finally arriving at the Mi Store, as announced by the company, for CNY3,699 which is nearly $530. The phone has a Snapdragon 845 chipset, coupled with 8 GB RAM. Storage is 128 GB, although this is all you get - no microSD slot on board. The screen is 6.21" Super AMOLED panel with a cutout on top for the selfie camera, speaker, and advanced facial recognition software, simply...

Honor Nova 3 review

The Nova 3 and the P20 Pro are incredibly close in terms of hardware save for the display, the battery and that amazing camera system on the P20 Pro. But the P20 Pro costs twice the money, which makes the Nova 3 look like a steal. But do specifications tell the complete story? And how does it compare against the OnePlus 6? Let's find out.

Nokia and T-Mobile announce a $3.5 billion deal to build the carrier's 5G network

Nokia published less than stellar results in Q2 - the network business was slow, but it's supposed to pick up as carriers start building their 5G networks later this year. And it's already happening, the Finnish company just announced a multi-year partnership with T-Mobile. The $3.5 million deal will see Nokia furnish T-Mobile US with hardware, software and services to develop and deploy a nation-wide 5G network. Sprint customers can also look forward to the 5G future thanks to the merger with T-Mobile. The network includes both wide-coverage 600MHz bands and the high-capacity 28GHz...

OnePlus 3 and 3T to get Android P update

OnePlus has announced that the two year old OnePlus 3 and OnePlus 3T will also be getting the Android P updates. The company revealed this information on their forum. OnePlus specified that they have been listening to user feedback and have taken this decision as a result. However, the company also mentioned that because they are now focusing their efforts on the Android P update for the 3/3T, they are skipping the Android 8.1 update for either devices (they currently run on Android 8.0). As for when the update will go live, we don't know. OnePlus said the Android P roll out...

iPhone dummies pictured: 6.5" iPhone 11 Plus and 6.1" iPhone SE Plus

@VenyaGeskin1 is perhaps better known for his speculative renders, but this time around he is mixing it up with photos of iPhone dummy models. Specifically the 6.5" and 6.1" versions of the 2018 Apple phones. The phone in white is the top iPhone model - iPhone 11 Plus - you can tell by the dual camera on its back rather than by the notch on its front - all new iPhones will have notches. The black device is the budget 6.1" iPhone - iPhone SE Plus - though this one might be getting delayed. It will use an LCD panel, which is reportedly causing trouble, the other new iPhones will go...

Oppo shows F9 Pro, confirms it will have VOOC and tiny notch

Earlier today Oppo teased the arrival of the F9 on the Twitter page of its Malaysian division. The phone was expected to have a Pro variant and today the version was confirmed on the official page of the company. The Oppo F9 Pro appeared in its first official image, revealing a triangle-shaped notch and VOOC charging. The Oppo F9 Pro will have dual cameras on the back in a horizontal layout. The color of the back panel will change from red through pink to violet, but it is yet to be revealed if it will be light-based or the pattern is fixed. The frontal appearance is also...

Asus Zenfone Max Pro (M1) launches in Europe on August 13 at €250

The Zenfone Max Pro (M1) has gone up on the official Asus web store in Spain and costs €250. Units will be available August 13. This is the model with 6GB of RAM and 64GB storage (ZB602KL). We snooped around other regional Asus web stores, but there's nothing yet. Maybe things will change in a couple of weeks, the phone doesn't show up in searches on the Spanish site either, which suggests that it was added very recently. The Zenfone Max Pro (M1) boasts a 5,000mAh battery that powers the efficient Snapdragon 636 chipset. On the software side is a pure Android (8.1 Oreo in this...

Huawei sends invites for IFA keynote, Kirin 980 incoming

Huawei has sent out invites for an IFA keynote to be held on August 31. Chances are that there will be no new phones unveiled, but new hardware instead - the Kirin 980 specifically. Not a huge surprise, last year the company unveiled the 970 at IFA. We won't see a new Honor device either as the sub-brand is holding its own event in Berlin. The keynote itself is just 45 minute long too. As for the Kirin 980 chipset, the unofficial info we have so far is that it will have an octa-core with a big and a little cluster. The rumor pointed to a "Cortex-A77" core, even though there's no...

Flipkart preparing to launch Galaxy On8 as exclusive version of the J8

The Samsung Galaxy J8 launched in India last month and it is already a hot seller. The company will reportedly also launch a version called Galaxy On8, which will be an online exclusive for Flipkart. Flipkart already sells the J8, so what gives? The catch seems to be the pricing - the J8 is INR 19,000 while the Galaxy On8 is set to cost INR 1,000 less than that. Samsung Galaxy J8 (should be identical to the Galaxy On8) The retailer has a history of of similar moves. It rebranded the J6 as the Galaxy On6 as its own exclusive with 4GB of RAM and 64GB storage (vs. 3GB / 32GB...

LG unveiles premium V35 ThinQ Signature Edition in Korea

LG announced a V30 Signature Edition back in December and now it is time for the V35 ThinQ to get the premium treatment. The next-gen Signature Edition has zirconium ceramic back cover that prevents scratches, sleek Black or White design and comes with Bang & Olufsen headphones in the package. LG Signature Edition in White and Black Beyond the premium exterior, the second-gen LG Signature Edition is basically the V35 ThinQ, packing a 6" FullVision OLED panel with 18:9 ratio and QHD+ resolution. The chipset is Snapdragon 845, while RAM is 6 GB and storage is 256 GB, expandable...

White Pixel 3 XL shines in live photos

The Pixel 3 and Pixel 3 XL appeared in 3D renders a month ago, and now the bigger device shined in live images, revealing more details about the design. The Pixel 3 XL will have a notch on the display and only one rear camera. Google is ditching the dual glass/brushed metal design on the back and is opting in for a glass panel from top to bottom. Google Pixel 3 XL live images The Google Pixel 2 XL arrived with OLED screen. Sadly we can't figure out if the panel here is the same, although it is very likely both the 3 XL and the regular 3 will finally go with the...

Sony Xperia XA3 certified in China

Sony is having an announcement at IFA in exactly one month, and some suggestions pointed to a new XZ-branded phone, probably an Xperia XZ3 with one camera. We might also see the Xperia XA3, which is in the pipelines too - it was recently approved by the Eurasian Commision. Latest leak comes from China, where the Xperia XA3 popped up on TENAA. The listing does not reveal much about the device with model number H4413, apart from having LTE and arriving with Android OS, which is far from surprising. Sony H4413 on TENAA If this indeed launches at the IFA press conferece, the new...

Oppo F9 teased with Essential-like notch

Oppo launched the Find X back in June and now is back to business as usual with its other devices. The F-series is selfie-driven, since the Oppo F5 arrived with 20 MP front snapper, while the Oppo F7 upgraded to 25 MP, embedded in the cutout on top. According to Oppo Malaysia, the successor will be called Oppo F9 and the phone is already being prepared for a launch in August with an even smaller notch. The image was posted by the Malaysian division on its official Twitter page and said it will have "waterdrop screen". The message, accompanying the photo also raised some deep...

Samsung Galaxy Note9 pricing appears in Indonesia

Samsung is announcing the Galaxy Note9 on August 9, and the phone keeps appearing in leaks. The latest information about the phone slid in our inbox from Indonesia, where the smartphone was listed for pre-order, revealing its price. The phone will cost IDR13,5 million, which is about $940. This is the cost of the 128 GB variant, the 512 GB one will be IDR17,5 million or somewhere around $1,215. The Samsung Galaxy Note9 will arrive in three colors at the Asia-Pacific market - Black, Blue, and Copper, but the 512 GB variant will skip on the Brownish option. For everyone pre-ordering...

Sunday debate: Which camera is more important - front or back?

If you are facing a choice between two evenly matched phones, where one has a superior rear camera and the other has a better selfie snapper which way would you go? Chip and Yordan discuss. Yordan: We can't have nice things because of selfie cameras It was probably 2004 or 2005 when I was thinking: "Phones with front-facing cameras are so hot right now". They painted a futuristic picture where video calls were a daily thing. Oh how silly was I back then. Video calling today surely is popular, but it is not the glamorous feature Isaac Azimov once pictured. It is just a...

Week 30 in review: Xiaomi launches Mi A2 and Mi A2 Lite, Galaxy Note9 edges closer

As we scratch off another week from the calendar we're starting to feel the rapid approach of the H2 flagships. First of those will be the Samsung Galaxy Note9, which is scheduled to arrive on August 9, in just two weeks! This week we saw the Galaxy Note9 pictured in Coral Blue and Samsung teased its battery life, performance and ample storage. We had some actual announcements too - the Xiaomi Mi A2 and Mi A2 Lite. Both bring decent specs and stock Android software, and are going to be available globally at superb prices. Sony introduced the 48MP IMX586 - the highest-megapixel...

Top 10 trending phones of week 30

The turbulent times in our Top 10 trending chart continue and no phone can feel safe for its spot. Just take last week's leader - the Oppo Find X, which is now all the way down in fifth. The third new leader in as many weeks is the Xiaomi Mi A2, which took advantage of its official debut to become the most popular device in our database, ahead of its Redmi Note 5 Pro stablemate. The podium is completed by the Nokia X6, which will be known as Nokia 6.1 Plus in international markets. The Samsung Galaxy J8 has held onto its fourth position, while the Mi A2 Lite, which also made its...

Weekly poll: Xiaomi Mi A2 and Mi A2 Lite, are they everything you hoped?

The specs were known months ago - the Xiaomi Mi A2 and the Mi A2 Lite have essentially the same hardware as two MIUI-running Xiaomis except with Android One. Still, did this week's unveiling make you excited or did you feel a tinge of disappointment? The Mi A2 upped the screen size compared to its predecessor, has an up-to-date chipset with plenty of oomph, adds an option with more RAM and storage. So far, so good. But it lost the telephoto camera, the microSD card slot and the headphone jack. And it costs more to boot - the Mi A1 launched at around €200, the Mi A2 starts at €250....

2018 iPhones: Everything we know so far

Last September Apple crossed the Rubicon, the iPhone X introducing a new design direction for the company's smartphones. Apple's next generation of biometric security, Face ID allowed Apple to retire the Home Button and move towards its vision to create an iPhone that is entirely screen. Offsetting the loss of the Home Button, a new set of navigational gestures were introduced, which according to Jonathan Ive, is how we will interact with our iPhones for the next ten years. While the iPhone X struck off in a new direction, the iPhone 8 and iPhone 8 Plus refined and polished the...