vivo iQOO Neo's battery capacity confirmed

The vivo iQOO Neo arriving on July 2 will have Snapdragon 845 SoC under the hood. Now the company has revealed another one of its specs - the smartphone will ship with a 4,500 mAh battery with 22.5W fast charging support. For comparison, most vivo iQOO versions are powered by Snapdragon 855 SoC packs a 4,000 mAh cell with support for 44W fast charging. The exception is the 6GB/128GB variant, which makes do with 22.5W charging speed. That said, the iQOO Neo is already listed on vivo China's official website along with its renders which confirm the phone will come in at least two...

Xiaomi Mi CC9 appears in Blue color

Yesterday we saw the Xiaomi Mi CC9 in Glacier Ice White color. Today we are looking at its blue shade, which the company CEO Lei Jun says is called Dark Blue Planet (translated from Chinese, of course). This blue colored variant looks equally beautiful as the white version and flaunts an 'S' shaped pattern when it reflects light. The video of this blue version re-confirms the presence of the triple camera setup at the back which is aligned vertically in the top-left corner. The Mi CC9 will come with a 48MP rear camera and a 32MP selfie shooter, but the company hasn't divulged any...

Honor 10 Lite and 20i receiving EMUI 9.1 update

Huawei rolled out out the EMUI 9.1 update for the Mate 20 X yesterday, and now its sub-brand Honor has also started seeding this update for the Honor 10 Lite and Honor 20i. This new build is still based on Android Pie and brings in GPU Turbo 3.0 to these smartphones. Besides, it also lets you set up video ringtones for specific contacts, and summon AI-powered voice assistant by long pressing the power button. The EMUI 9.1 update is currently rolling out in China and should expand to other regions soon. You can try pulling the new build manually by heading over to your phone's...

Lenovo Z6 to have triple camera with a 24 MP main shooter

Lenovo Z6 should arrive any time now, and the company VP is teasing the device little by little on Weibo. Today he revealed the camera of the phone - it will have three shooters with a 24 MP main sensor, 8 MP telephoto lens, and a 5 MP wide-angle camera. The company will implement the Sony IMX576 sensor in the main shooter, placing it on par with smartphones like Huawei nova 5i and Honor 20 Lite. It comes with its own night mode called Super Night. AI and Beauty mode are a big thing in China, so, to no one's surprise, the Lenovo Z6 will have intelligent filters that are learning...

Google Go app gets over 100 million downloads as Android Go device sales grow

Android Go (or Go Edition) is a trimmed down version of the OS that's aimed to run on the most extremely low-end smartphones imaginable in this day and age. Such handsets come with special slimmer versions of the built-in Google apps, as well as the Google Go app. This has now reached over 100 million downloads in the Play Store, which means sales of Android Go devices are really starting to pick up. Last September Google Go barely made it past 10 million downloads, so it looks like the search giant's effort to cater to those who can't afford (or don't want) expensive smartphones is paying...

Moto Z2 Force is only getting Android 9 Pie on Verizon, despite past promises

Last year Motorola promised it would bring Android 9 Pie to all models of the Moto Z2 Force - including those sold by AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile, and Verizon. If you're wondering about any updates on this long overdue rollout, the news is anything but good. Reneging on its earlier promise, Motorola now says only the Verizon version of the Z2 Force is to ever taste Android Pie. Here's the company's full official statement on the matter: Delivering any Android upgrade is a complex process. For a variety of reasons, some US Moto Z2 Force models will not receive the Android 9 "Pie" update. The...

WhatsApp tests sharing your status to your Facebook Story

WhatsApp's latest beta adds a new feature that's bound to be at least a little bit controversial: sharing your Status to your Facebook Story. This however does not imply linking your WhatsApp user ID to your Facebook account, the company insists, as it's using the standard Android and iOS data sharing APIs. That means you can also share your WhatsApp Status to other apps - Instagram, Gmail, Google Photos, and so on. And when you do share data to another Facebook-owned service like Instagram, the company says the two posts will be separate events in its systems, and will not be...