Lenovo Z5 market arrival scheduled for June 12

Lenovo Z5 is arriving on June 5, as confirmed on Monday. And a week later, on June 12, the phone is will already be available for purchase, according to a listing by the Chinese online retailer JD.com. The flash sale will begin at 10 AM, and chances are stock won't last more than a few minutes. Already more than 10,000 people registered their interest and the phone is not even officially announced yet. Meanwhile, Chang Cheng, Lenovo's VP, shared some more teasers of the bezel-less phone on his Weibo profile. The metal rim of the phone is lined up similar to the digits 5 and 4,...

vivo NEX S is a toned-down version with Snapdragon 710, TENAA report confirms

Just the other day, the vivo NEX appeared on Geekbench with Snapdragon 710 contradicting the early reports and specs by vivo that listed the device with Snapdragon 845. This means only one thing, the vivo NEX will actually be a family of two devices - with SD845 and SD710. Thanks to the latest report from TENAA, we now know that the Snapdragon 710-powered variant will be named NEX S and will support dual-SIM. This would be a great compromise for people, who want to own the nearly bezel-free smartphone with super-cool selfie periscope, yet don't want to spend more than $1,000 on...

Vivo launches Y83 in India, available across offline and online channels

vivo has launched the Y83 in India, the phone it launched in China last week. The Y83 is priced at INR 14,990 ($225) and will be available across online as well as offline retailers. The Y83 is a budget Android smartphone and packs a 6.22-inch 1520x720 resolution IPS display, MediaTek Helio P22 chipset, 4GB RAM and 32GB expandable storage. It also has a 13MP rear camera and an 8MP front camera. There's a fingerprint sensor and face unlock, dual SIM support and a 3,260mAh battery. The phone will be available in black or gold starting June 1, 2018.

Motorola One Power specs and real-life photo leaked

Information about the upcoming Motorola-branded smartphone is scarce up until now and we've only seen the phone in a leaked press image. Well, we've now got a few bigger pieces of the puzzle - sum specs and real life photo of a prototype. We haven't seen the device going through any kind of certification - FCC, TENAA, 3C have all been pretty silent for now. This means that the device won't launch very soon and won't be made available alongside the Moto Z3 Play on June 6. Meanwhile, a Twitter leakster with good track record with Motorola intel revealed most of the specs along with...

ARM unveils Cortex-A76 and Mali-G76 - higher performance, better power efficiency

Each year new flagships come out with new chipsets, which in turn require new cores. To that end, ARM unveiled a new big core - the Cortex-A76. And there's a new GPU too, the Mali-G76, along with a new video processor for the 8K future. Compared to a current Cortex-A75 (10 nm) running at 2.8 GHz, an A76 (7 nm) running at 3.0 GHz promises 35% higher performance and 40% better power efficiency. And since AI is trendy, the new CPU has nearly 4x improvement in speed when it comes to machine learning. Memory bandwidth is nearly double too.+ ARM is calling these "laptop-class" cores...

A fresh batch of Moto Z3 Play and its Moto Mods renders reveal every possible angle

A few days ago, a couple of images appeared online showcasing the Moto Z3 Play but this new batch gives more details about the device and its Moto Mods. Two of them are already familiar but the rest are fresh. Moto Z3 Play renders The new leak confirms the Motorola branding on the lower chin as well as the support for Moto Mods, the glass back design, the dual camera setup and an unknown button positioned on the left. The right side of the device houses the power button that doubles as a fingerprint sensor with the volume rocker right above it. The rest of the images...

Samsung Galaxy A8 (2018) plagued by loudspeaker cutouts

A troubling amount of reports have surfaced about an apparent issue with the Galaxy A8 (2018). Users in the Samsung forum are complaining about a strange loudspeaker sound cutout after the February update. The issue can be observed mostly when the phone is being charged, but not only. The cutoffs happen when listening on the loudspeaker only - be it a phone call, video, music or a ringtone. There are no cutoffs when using the earpiece, headphones or a Bluetooth speaker. Hardware resets and factory rests don't seem to help. Also, a user on the forum has concluded that the problem occurs...