Samsung has another ace up its sleeve today - the Galaxy S10 5G. It features a 6.7-inch curved Dynamic AMOLED display with a 1440p+ resolution. The display supports HDR10+ video and has an ultrasonic fingerprint reader just like the other S10 smartphones. Of course, it will come either with a Snapdragon 855 or an Exynos 9820 chipset with 8GB of RAM and 256GB of storage. Power is supplied by a 4700 mAh battery that...

20 Февруари 2019

Samsung has just announced the Galaxy S10 series of smartphones. The base model is dubbed Galaxu S10e and is built around a 5.8-inch flat screen and is powered by a 3100 mAh battery. It has a wide and ultra-wide rear camera setup complemented by a wide front-facing camera. The handset offers a side-mounted fingerprint sensor as well. Its price starts at $749. The Galaxy S10 features a 6.1-inch edge screen and a 3400...

20 Февруари 2019

Samsung introduces a next-generation smartphone - a truly amazing way to celebrate 10 years of hitting milestone after milestone in smartphone manufacturing. For starters, the Galaxy S10 and S10+ displays have been re-designed to offer in-display sensor integration and-in-display cameras which ultimately allows Samsung to offer exceptionally thin bezels and incredible screen-to-body ratio. The new Super AMOLED...

20 Февруари 2019

Samsung has always been about meaningful innovation and its latest products only prove that. After months of hectic anticipation and a pile of rumours, Samsung Galaxy Fold is finally official. The handset has a 4.6-inch display when in folded state and 7.3 in unfolded. The special hinge is hidden giving the device a "seamless elegant look". Cosmos Black, Space Silver, Green and Blue are the four available colours...

20 Февруари 2019

Archos Diamond is the latest top model from the French brand, which offers a 6.39-inch FHD+ AMOLED display. The all-screen front with thin bezels is achieved by using a pop-up front camera, just like Vivo V15 Pro which was announced today. However, Archos Diamond is based on a Helio P70 chipset which features a dedicated AI NeuroPilot unit. It houses a 2.1GHz octa-core CPU and a 900MHz tri-core Mali-G72 GPU. There...

20 Февруари 2019

Today LG officially announced three new smartphones from the LG Q and LG K series, which will be showcased at the Mobile World Congress next week. LG Q60 evolves around a 6.26-inch HD+ FullVision display and is powered by a 3500 mAh battery. It is equipped with a 2GHz octa-core CPU paired with 3GB of RAM. There are 64GB of storage onboard that can be expanded with up to 2TB. The camera department includes a 13MP...

20 Февруари 2019

In addition to Xiaomi Mi 9 and the Mi 9 Transparent Edition, Xiaomi also announced the Mi 9 SE. It has a 5.7-inch AMOLED display with an in-display fingerprint sensor and is based on a Snapdragon 712 SOC. Power is supplied by a 3070 mAh battery. The camera department remains unchanged. The 6GB+64GB version costs CNY 1999 yuan and the 6GB+128GB variant is priced at CNY 2299.

20 Февруари 2019

With all the leaks and teasers lately, Xiaomi Mi 9 is not a big secret to anyone interested in the matter, so it is only the small details that remain to create a full picture. For starters, Xiaomi's flagship is adorned with a 6.39-inch Super AMOLED display with a resolution of 1080 x 2340 pixels, 430 nits typical and 600 nits peak brightness, 60000:1 static contrast ratio, and 103.8% NTSC colour space coverage. The...

20 Февруари 2019

Vivo India has announced Vivo V15 Pro and Vivo V15 as planned. The Pro is more interesting. It features an Ultra FullView Display with a Super AMOLED panel, and FHD+ resolution and 2.5D curved top glass. The camera department features a pop-up front camera with a 32MP sensor, while on the back there's a triple camera module containing a 48MP primary shooter, 8MP and 5MP auxiliary snappers. The handset is based on a...

20 Февруари 2019

Lenovo has announced via its Weibo page that it will present Lenovo Z6 Pro at the Mobile World Congress that will kick off in Barcelona next week. No information about the upcoming device is available yet, but the poster hints either at wireless charging or in-display fingerprint sensor option and why not - both. While this remains speculation, one thing is quite certain - the MWC shapes up to be quite interesting...

20 Февруари 2019

OnePlus has announced via various social media channels that it will showcase its first 5G smartphone at the 2019 MWC in Barcelona next week. In addition, on February 26th, the OnePlus CEO Pete Lau will join Qualcomm's President Cristiano R. Amon and EE Telecom's CEO Marc Allera to hold a roundtable forum themed "OnePlus 5G: The Next Era of Speed". Earlier, Pete Lau announced that OnePlus will become the first...

19 Февруари 2019

In a series of announcements from today, Qualcomm presented its second-generation modem chip that will be employed by future 5G smartphones dubbed Snapdragon X50. The first generation 5G chip - Snapdragon X50 was announced back in 2016 and was produced in small batches for select smartphone manufacturers such as Xiaomi. The second generation will be for mass production as "over 20 OEMs and more than 20 operators...

19 Февруари 2019

Just now, Huawei's CEO consumer business Yu Chengdong officially announced on his Weibo page that the Huawei P30 and Huawei P30 Pro will be announced on March 26th at the Paris Convention Cente in the French capital. The announcement comes via a promotional video adjoined by the words "The beauty of all things" and the #RewriteTheRules hashtag. The video hints at the powerful zoom capability of the P30 series. Most...

19 Февруари 2019

UMIDIGI has just announced that UMIDIGI S3 Pro that will have a ceramic body will go on sale on March 18th. The model is already listed on Indiegogo priced at $269 which is a 30% discount off the retail price. The handset will pack a 48MP Sony IMX586 primary shooter paired with a second telephoto camera offering up to 2x optical zoom. On the front, there will be a 20MP selfie camera. UMIDIGI S3 Pro will feature a...

19 Февруари 2019

Doogee has announced that it will take part in the 2019 MWC in Barcelona that is due to start next week. Visitors of the show may enjoy the modular S90 smartphone which will be showcased there. This smartphone raised more than $354,000 pledged by 935 backers during the Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign from Jan. 15th to Feb. 14th. It is now available for purchase from major online retailers and there's a special...

19 Февруари 2019

ZTE has published an invite for its participation at the 2019 MWC in Barcelona at the end of this month. The poster says that we should expect a "new Axon" and a "new 5G flagship". Whether these are one and the same device or two different ones remains to be disclosed. ZTE will make the announcement on February 25th at Press Conference Room 4 in the GSMA Media Village. We also expect to see some new 5G techs from...

18 Февруари 2019

Xiaomi has decided to unveil on Twitter plenty of details about the Mi 9 which is about to be officially announced in two days. For starters, the handset will have a full-screen design with a 40% thinner chin compared to the Mi 8. The display employs an FHD+ AMOLED panel with a waterdrop notch that houses a customized micro selfie camera. Special reading and sunlight modes offer optimal viewing experience in dark...

18 Февруари 2019

This morning, Lei Jun, Xiaomi's CEO, talked about the Xiaomi Mi 9 Transparent Edition on his Weibo page. He confirmed that this smartphone will have a 48MP primary camera with a 7-element lens and an f/1.47 aperture. The onboard RAM will measure 12GB. Lei Jun also said that the device has only 0.4 mm free space under the entire back glass, which is the thickness of four A4 sheets of paper. He adds, "It is like...

18 Февруари 2019

During the 68th NBA All-Star Game live channel, which iQOO sponsors, the first smartphone from Vivo's sub-brand appeared. The photos of the device unveil a vertical triple camera setup and a glass back. The handset in question is in deep blue colour and no fingerprint sensor is visible on the back, so it is very possible that the model employs an in-display fingerprint sensor. Whether this will be Vivo's latest...

18 Февруари 2019

Oukitel C15 Pro has been teased by Oukitel just now. The upcoming smartphone will be based on a Helio A22 chipset (MediaTek MT6761) and will be built around a 6.088-inch HD+ display with a waterdrop notch and a 2.5D curved Asahi Dragontrail glass. No further details have been unveiled so stay tuned as we will inform you promptly when such appear.

14 Февруари 2019

UMIDIGI S3 Pro has appeared on Indiegogo priced at $269 which is a 30% discount off the retail price. The manufacturer has already declared its intentions that this model will be a camera-focused one as it will pack a 48MP Sony IMX586 primary shooter paired with a second telephoto camera offering up to 2x optical zoom. On the front, there will be a 20MP selfie camera. It looks like none of the other aspects is...

14 Февруари 2019

Ulefone T2 was teased back in August last year and later appeared at the Global Sources Electronics Show in Hong Kong in October 2018. What's known up to now is that the handset will pack a 6.7-inch screen from Sharp with an FHD+ resolution. It will have the same camera setup as the Armor 6 (check out the camera section of our in-depth Ulefone Armor 6 review) and will be powered by a 4200 mAh battery with wireless...

14 Февруари 2019

Avenir Telecom has announced that Energizer Power Max P18K Pop will debut at the 2019 MWC in Barcelona at the end of February. With an 18000 mAh battery pack, this will be the smartphone that offers the highest battery autonomy on the market. According to the manufacturer, users will be able to make up to 90 hrs of calls, listen to 100hrs of music and watch around 2 days of video on a single charge. In standby mode...

14 Февруари 2019

Yesterday morning, Xiaomi officially announced it will announce Xiaomi Mi 9 in Beijing on February 20th. The main spokesperson for the model is Wang Yuan from TFBOYS. Today, Xiaomi CEO Lei Jun has shared a real shot of the Xiaomi 9 holographic illusion blue version. To achieve this effect on the back, Xiaomi has used a nano-scale laser holography process, plus a double-layer coating. Earlier leaks point that the...

14 Февруари 2019

At the 2019 MWC in Barcelona, LG will present the Crystal Sound OLED (CSO) - a technology that uses the phone's OLED display as an audio amplifier. The first device that will employs this tech is LG G8 ThinQ. It is developed in-house by LG and turns the entire OLED display to a speaker via vibrations of the entire surface to produce premium sound. In speakerphone mode, audio is delivered with impressive bass through...

14 Февруари 2019

As early as August 2018 we have reported that nubia announced the nubia-α - a bendable smartphone, which you can wear as a watch on your wrist. nubia says it will be launched in the market by the end of the year but this did not happen. Now, the nubia 2019 MWC invites hint at the unveiling of a bendable device that looks a lot like the nubia-α. Its main advantage is that it frees the hands of the users. The device...

14 Февруари 2019

Reuters reported this morning that Japan Display Inc. (JDI) forecasts a fifth consecutive year of net losses. The main "culprits" are the belated focus on the production of OLED panels and slowing iPhone sales. More than half of JDI's revenue is generated from Apple and the decrease in iPhone sales results in decreasing orders from Apple. This news comes after a net loss of 1.3 billion yen Q4 of 2018.

14 Февруари 2019

The latest addition to Huawei's Y series of budget smartphones is the Huawei Y6 Pro 2019 which features a 6.09-inch HD+ dewdrop display. The notch houses the front camera, while the area between the display and frame houses the earpiece, LED notification light, light and proximity sensor, selfie toning flash. On the back, there's a 13MP primary shooter with an f/1.8 lens. The handset packs a 3020 mAh battery and a...

13 Февруари 2019

LG has announced the LG Q9 one version of the LG Q9 and while the names suggest that those two models will be alike, this is not the case. The only things in common these two smartphones have are the design, 3000 mAh battery, 8MP front camera and display. The latter has a 6.1-inch diagonal size and a resolution of 1440 x 3120 pixels. The MIL-STD-810G and IP68 certifications remain. However, LG Q9 one is based on...

12 Февруари 2019

Vivo has teased its iQOO sub-brand on its Weibo page by sharing iQOO's Weibo page and its first post that says "Hello, this is iQOO". Vivo's post adds that we should expect the announcement of the brand, its first smartphone and Vivo's original earphones 10 on February 13. We're not sure whether the brand will make it out of China or is planned for the local market only. Most probably, this will become clear at the...

12 Февруари 2019

Motorola Brasil has announced the new Moto G7 series, which comprises of four models. The base Moto G7 features a 6.24-inch FHD+ display and a Snapdragon 632 chipset paired with 4GB of RAM and 64 GB of storage. The camera department includes a 12MP+5MP rear combo and an 8MP front snapper. Power is supplied by a 3000 mAh battery with a Turbocharger, which ensures 8 hours of battery life after 15 minutes of charging...

7 Февруари 2019

We have received two smartphones and a tablet for review this week and are busy working on delivering some of the most detailed information about them, as usual. The first is one of the most curious devices - the Alldocube X tablet. For its low price, you get a 10.5" AMOLED QHD display and an 8000 mAh battery. It is based on a MediaTek MT8176 chipset paired with 4GB of RAM and 64GB of storage. There are two 8MP...

7 Февруари 2019

Qualcomm Snapdragon 712 Mobile Platform succeeds the Snapdragon 710 and builds upon its AI and premium features by adding performance boosts. Built on the 10nm process, just like its predecessor, the Snapdragon 712 integrates an octa-core Kryo 360 CPU clocked up to 2.3GHz, an Adreno 616 GPU, and a Hexagon 685 DSP. It offers a 10% increase in performance compared to the SD710. The chipset also arrives with Qualcomm's...

7 Февруари 2019

Spigen has released a number of renders depicting their cases for the Huawei P30 and Huawei P30 Pro and the smartphones themselves. The photos unveil a full-screen front for both models with a U-shaped notch. The P30 will have a three-camera setup on the rear vertically aligned in the top left corner. The P30 Pro will pack a four-camera setup, again vertically aligned in the top left corner with the dual LED flash...

7 Февруари 2019

LG has officially announced that it is working with Infineon to equip the LG G8 ThinQ with a ToF front camera. More specifically, the Korean giant will use Infineon's REAL3 image sensor chip, based on Infineon and pmdtechnologies in algorithms for processed 3D point clouds (a set of spatial data points generated by 3D scanning). TOF (Time Of Flight) is a 3D imaging technology that continuously transmits infrared...

7 Февруари 2019

Recently published patent documents from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office unveil that Samsung plans on including a camera in a future S-Pen that will have far better optical zoom capabilities than the ones already available on smartphones. This solution comes as a workaround of the problem smartphones face - they need to retain their slim profiles which automatically keeps them off from using complicated and...

6 Февруари 2019

Samsung India has shared on Twitter that the first batch of Galaxy M10 and Galaxy M20 has been sold out almost immediately. A second batch will be available in two days - on February 7th. Both models are sold via Amazon India. The Galaxy M20 features a 6.3-inch FHD+, a 13MP+5MP dual rear camera combo, an 8MP front shooter and a 5000 mAh battery. It is based on an Exynos 7904 chipset with 3GB+32GB or 4GB+64GB...

5 Февруари 2019