Fitbit: Adidas Ionic launch date announced and new smartwatch leaked

Fitbit weekly roundup. Q4 Results miss analysts' estimates, release date for Fitbit Ionic: Adidas edition announced and leaked images of their next smartwatch appear. This week Fitbit revealed fourth-quarter revenue of $570.8 million for the 2017 holiday season, down from $573.8 million from the previous year, which missed analysts estimates of $588.1 million. Fitbit ended the year with $1,615.5 billion in revenue, down from $2,169.5 billion when compared to 2016. Fitbit, is being squeezed by cost-effective fitness trackers from the likes of Xiaomi with its Mi Band 2, and of course...

BlackBerry Keyone Black Edition arrives to US online retailers

BlackBerry sold 850,000 devices last year and called the number "mission accomplished". Still in pursiuit of its first million, the brand announced that the BlackBerry Keyone Black Edition will arrive soon to US online retailers. Currently available at AT&T with 3 GB RAM and 32 GB storage, the phone costs around $500 or $16.67 monthly with a 24-month plan. The more powerful version with 4 GB RAM and 64 GB memory will be available at "select retailers", although BlackBerry is yet to pinpoint exact stores or launch dates. The Black Edition of the keyboard-packing smartphone costs...

The new Nokia phones are coming to the UK in April

The new Nokia phones from the Mobile World Congress will be available in the UK next month - Clove UK already has shipping date and pricing info. The Nokia 7 Plus will arrive first on April 16th. Pre-orders are live at £350 for the Black & Copper model. Next, the Nokia 8 Sirocco will land on April 23 for £650. The Nokia 8110 4G will arrive on the same day for £80. Both Black and Yellow colors will be available. The Android Go Nokia 1 will come last - May 7 - at €80, same price as the banana phone. Dark Blue and Warm Red colors are available (don't forget about Xpress-On...

Three Huawei phones hit TENAA with 18:9 screens, some dual cameras too

Huawei has a couple of affordable phones in the works, TENAA reveals. One is the ATU-TL10, which is joined by the very similar AUM-TL20 and the lower-end AUM-TL00. There's a good chance that the AUM-TL20 is the Huawei Enjoy 8 (aka Honor 7C). All three phones have 5.7" screens with an 18:9 aspect ratio (and 720p+ resolution). They run Android 8.0 Oreo on 1.4GHz octa-core processors (make unknown). The memory situation is this: the ATU-TL10 and AUM-TL20 both have 3GB of RAM and 32GB storage, the AUM-TL00 is 2GB/16GB. All phones have a microSD slot. Huawei AUM-TL20 (photos by...

Xiaomi to launch Redmi Note 5 Pro as Redmi Note 5 in China

Xiaomi launched the Redmi 5 and Redmi 5 Plus in the closing days of 2017. Many were discouraged that the Redmi Note 5 is not arriving, but the Plus-version became the long awaited successor of the Redmi Note 4 on the global stage. Instead of leaving China without the emblematic phone, Xiaomi will just reboot the dual-cam Redmi Note 5 Pro as Xiaomi Redmi Note 5. Xiaomi Redmi Note 5 Pro, a.k.a. Xiaomi Redmi Note 5 The Chinese version will have the same specs - Snapdragon 636 chipset, 4/6 GB RAM and 12 MP + 5 MP camera setup on the back. The selfie snapper will be 20 MP, the battery will...

Xiaomi Mi Mix 2s leaked photo suggests under-screen fingerprint scanner

Xiaomi has scheduled a launch on March 27 for the Mi Mix 2s. Confirmed specs include only Snapdragon 845, as the company revealed in an official poster. According to the latest live image, the phone might also have an under-display fingerprint scanner. The image, if real, suggests the finger should be positioned in the lower central part of the screen. It might also be just a request for the user to place his finger on the proper scanner on the back, as it does on the stock Android lock screen. At this point, we are just speculating and truth will be unveiled in the end of...

IDC: Smartphone shipments decline 0.5% in 2017

IDC published its yearly analysis of the smartphone shipments market. According to the company, manufacturers pushed 0.5% fewer devices in 2017, compared with 2016, or a total of 1.46 billion smartphones, almost all of them running either Android or iOS. The analysts predict a compound 2.8% growth in the next five years, forecasting a volume of 1.68 billion units shipped in 2022. Ryan Reith, Program VP at IDC, said a considerable factor for global volumes was the China decline of 5% in 2017. EMEA also dropped 3.5%, while the US remained flat. Room for growth is present though,...