YouTube is finally rolling out Shorts - its answer to TikTok

YouTube has started rolling out its new feature Shorts - it is a platform for short videos, shot in portrait orientation, and is an obvious attempt to curb TikTok and its growing influence online. Those in the United States have started receiving the feature, and the global rollout is expected soon. Currently, Shorts is still in Beta, so not all American users will get it after an update of their application. The company is likely doing some A/B testing, but given the fact YouTube has been working on Shorts for the past 12 months, the feature’s stable version should be right around...

OnePlus teases an announcement for March 8

It’s about time we get a release date for the OnePlus 9 series and the company’s official site has teased a big announcement for March 8. Before you get your hopes too high, this will likely be the date when we get the official launch date for the new OnePlus flagships and not their actual launch event. The short teaser only mentions that “Something new is on the horizon” and the page is titled Moonshot alluding to the launch of a spacecraft or in this case new phone lineup. We’ve already seen plenty of leaks regarding the OnePlus 9 series which specify three phones. The OnePlus...

Samsung Galaxy M12 is coming to India on March 11 with a surprise upgrade to a 90Hz screen

A little over a month after it was first unveiled the Samsung Galaxy M12 will go on sale in India. It already has a landing page on the local Amazon and Samsung pages. The search results on Samsung.com let it slip that we’ll see the 4GB and 6GB versions of the phone (the base 3/32GB configuration is nowhere to be seen). The launch is scheduled for March 11 at 12 noon, which is Thursday next week. It’s too early to talk about the price of the phone, but we can look at its closest relatives – the M11 launched at INR 15,000 (now down to INR 11,000), the current Galaxy A12 also started at INR...

Oppo Find X3 Pro launch date officially set for March 11

Oppo has sent a press release, confirming the launch date for its Find X3 Pro flagship. It will arrive on March 11 at an online event that will be live-streamed on YouTube. Our invitation came from Oppo India, with the company confirming the launch will start at 5 PM IST or 11:30 AM UTC/GMT. The message did not say anything we didn’t know so far - the Oppo Find X3 Pro will be powered by a Snapdragon 888 chipset and the phone will have a screen that “delivers excellence across resolution, screen refresh rate, and HDR, bringing users the clearest most accurate, smooth, and comfortable...

Samsung Galaxy A52 cameras detailed

Several weeks ago we got a pretty detailed leak regarding Samsung’s upcoming Galaxy A52. The phone will be available in both 4G and 5G trims with the latter boasting a higher 120Hz refresh rate and Snapdragon 750G chipset while the 4G model gets a 90Hz screen and SD 730G SoC. Now, Roland Quandt is giving more details on the cameras for both A52 variants which will feature the same four sensors. The main one is a 64MP snapper with OIS and a pixel size of 0.8 µm. There’s also a 12MP ultrawide module with a 123-degree field of view and 1.12 µm pixel size and two 5MP modules for macro...

Xiaomi Redmi Note 10 major leak reveals design, Snadragon 678 chipset

Xiaomi will announce its Redmi Note 10 lineup on March 4 but the phone keeps leaking all over the palce. After we saw its box and back panel, now we get to learn more about the phone itself, including screen, charging, and chipset. The Redmi Note 10 will be powered by a Snapdragon 678 - a slightly enhanced SD675, built on the 11nm LLP process. It will have an overclocked main CPU dual-core cluster at 2.2 GHz, while a 5,000 mAh battery will keep the lights on. The battery is a ever so sslightly smaller than the Redmi Note 9's (which had a 5,020 mAh power cell) but will bring 33W fast...

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