Motorola Razr is finally official. The handset offers a new interpretation of the clamshell design. It features a Quick View display on the outside and a Full View display on the inside. The outer unit has a 2.7-inch diagonal size, a gOLED panel and a resolution of 600 x 800 pixels. With it, you can see notifications, reply to messages, play music, take selfies - all without ever opening your phone. The Full View...

14 Novembre 2019

BBK Group is the company behind Vivo, Oppo, OnePlus, Realme. According to the latest quarterly report by Counterpoint Research, 20% of the volume market share was held by those four brands in Q3 of 2019. For comparison, the leader - Samsung has 20.6% volume market share. It is followed by Huawei with 17.6% and Apple with 11.8%. Vivo, Oppo and Realme are also in the top 10 list.

13 Novembre 2019

At a dedicated press conference, Hisense has announced the King Kong 6 and Hisense F40 smartphones. The first model has a built-in 5510 mAh battery and a charging "armour" with a 4500 mAh capacity, so the total capacity is 10,010 mAh. When you need a thin and handy smartphone on the go, you can use it without the charging armour. When you need battery stamina for days without a charge, then you can use the charging...

13 Novembre 2019

Yesterday, a new Vivo model appeared on TENAA dubbed Vivo V1945A/V1945T. The photos from the listing unveil a rear design that's very similar to that of the upcoming Vivo S5 with a rhomboid camera module design. Some netizens from China have leaked photos of the same device unveiling this is the upcoming Vivo V17 which is expected to be launched in India soon. According to the TENAA listing, the model has a...

8 Novembre 2019

Sony China teased on Weibo the latest image sensor for mobiles from the company. The 60MP Sony IMX686 is not announced yet but, of the tumours are true, it is expected to debut on the Vivo X30 and Vivo X30 Pro, which will be unveiled next month. The video teaser is 2 minutes and 30 seconds long and demonstrates the video and image quality of the sensor. However, it does not reveal any specs. It is expected that this...

8 Novembre 2019

Huawei launched the Honor 9X Pro at the end of July. Recently, some local Huawei markets received a downgraded version of this model dubbed Huawei Y9s. Both handsets are almost identical, the only difference is the chipset. The new device is based on a Kirin 710F system-on-chip, while the Honor 9X Pro relies on a Kirin 810 chipset. Both models feature 6.59-inch FHD+ displays with 16MP pop-up selfie cameras. The back...

8 Novembre 2019

Evan Blass has published on Twitter the promo video of the upcoming Moto G8, which leaks the smartphone's design in full. The model will be available in red, blue and black colours. The display is adorned with a waterdrop notch while on the back you can see a quad-camera setup. There's a big camera placed as a separate element and below it, vertically aligned in the top left corner, the other three shooters reside...

8 Novembre 2019

At the 5G AI chip summit today in Beijing, Samsung and Vivo have announced that the upcoming Vivo X30 and Vivo X30 Pro will be powered by Samsung's Exynos 980 chipset. The latter was unveiled two months ago and is Samsung's first system-on-chip with an integrated 5G modem. This integrated solution is very power efficient and compact - by reducing the area occupied by the standard chipsets it enhances the design...

7 Novembre 2019

At a dedicated event today, Xiaomi launched the Mi Note 10 and the Redmi Note 8T in Europe. The Mi Note 10 has already been heavily leaked and after the MI CC9 Pro yesterday, it is not surprise to no one. The model has an aluminium-glass body with 3D curved Corning Gorilla Glass 5 on the front and back. The device runs on MIUI V11 and is adorned with a 6.47-inch AMOLED display with an ultra-thin optical in-display...

6 Novembre 2019

Tomorrow, November 6th, GearBest will launch the Xiaomi Mi CC9 Pro/Mi Note 10 on its website at 19:00 UTC+8. You can get a great discount for any colour version of the model with this coupon GBMINOTE10. Here are the available colours: Black Xiaomi Mi CC9 Pro/Mi Note 10 White Xiaomi Mi CC9 Pro/Mi Note 10 Deep Green Xiaomi Mi CC9 Pro/Mi Note 10 GearBest also offers you the chance to win a Lucky Draw and enjoy an Early...

5 Novembre 2019

Xiaomi Mi CC9 Pro is finally official. With the overwhelming amount of leaks and teasers lately, the device and its features offer no surprises. The model is adorned with a 6.47-inch OLED display with a resolution of 1080 x 2340 pixels. The unit is TUF Rheinland certified for low blue light emissions. It covers the DCI-P3 colour space and supports HDR. Moreover, there's an ultra-thin optical fingerprint sensor under...

5 Novembre 2019

Xiaomi has announced on Twitter that the Mi Note 10 launch in Europe will be on November 6th - that's a day after the Chinese launch of its twin - the Mi CC9 Pro and a week earlier than announced before. Most probably, Xiaomi feels the heat from the competition and wants to be the first to the market. The Mi Note 10 is a re-branded Mi CC9 Pro. The latter will be unveiled on tomorrow together with the Mi TV 5. The...

4 Novembre 2019

A day after Vivo launched the Vivo Y19 in some Asian countries, it also launched its twin model - the Vivo Y5s in China. The two devices are completely identical in terms of hardware. The only difference is that the Chinese version supports more network bands and probably has a slightly different software. It also offers a third colour option - blue. The Y5s/Y19 has a 6.53-inch FHD+ display and a 5000 mAh battery...

4 Novembre 2019

After more than a year of silence, Smartisan is back with a great new smartphone. The Smartisan Nut Pro 3 is built around a 6.39-inch AMOLED display with an FHD+ resolution. The display covers 100% of the sRGB and the DCI-P3 colour gamuts. It offers an ultra-low brightness of 2 nits and supports DC dimming. There's an in-display optical fingerprint sensor with fast unlock - 0.2 seconds. The camera department of the...

1 Novembre 2019

China Telecom has announced on Weibo that Samsung's clamshell foldable smartphone which was teased at the Samsung Developer Conference 2019, will be launched in China in November. This is way earlier than we expected to see this phone in reality. Most probably we will only witness a presentation of the smartphone and the market launch will happen later. The poster confirms another important detail - the model's name...

1 Novembre 2019

At its SDC 2019 event Samsung only briefly teased a new form factor for foldable smartphones - a compact clamshell device that has a square shape when folded. No information has been unveiled whatsoever - the device only appeared on a slide. However, Samsung has published on its official YouTube channel a teaser video of the device. It begins with the Galaxy Fold which opens sideways and gradually transforms to the...

31 Ottobre 2019

Xiaomi Poland has announced that the Mi Note 10 will be unveiled on November 14th and this is deemed to be the official launch date for this device in Europe. The Mi Note 10 is a re-branded Mi CC9 Pro. The latter will be unveiled on November 5th next week together with the Mi TV 5. The two devices should be similar in all ways except for some network bands difference and the MIUI version - Global for the Mi Note 10...

31 Ottobre 2019

Caterpillar has announced its latest smartphone - the Cat S52. The handset has a 5.65-inch HD+ display protected by a Corning Gorilla Glass 6. It can be operated with gloves and wet hands. The 3100 mAh battery cannot be removed and supports fast charging. It provides up to 29 hours of 3G talk time and up to 28 days of standby time. The camera department is quite simple - an 8MP selfie shooter and a 12MP Sony rear...

29 Ottobre 2019

Xiaomi Mi CC9 Pro has appeared on TENAA with product code M1910F4E. According to the TENAA listing, the model has a 6.47-inch OLED display with a resolution of 1080 x 2340 pixels. It features a 2.2GHz octa-core CPU, which is most probably the Snapdragon 730G. There are 6GB/8GB/12GB RAM versions and 64GB/128GB/256GB storage variants. The battery capacity is cited as 5170 mAh and since TENAA always lists the minimum...

29 Ottobre 2019

Oukitel has been silent for a while but now the company is back with a bang. It has announced the Oukitel K13 Pro - a real battery monster with an 11,000 mAh accumulator and 30W fast charging. The battery ensures 51 hours of talk time, 54 hours of listening to music, 14.5 hours of online video playing, and 11 hours game playing. For heavy users, the K13 Pro is good to last 3-4 days otherwise, normal usage ensures...

28 Ottobre 2019

The Blackview BV9800 and Blackview BV9800 Pro are finally official. The two rugged smartphones are almost identical. The only difference is that the Pro version packs a FLIR Lepton thermal camera and the non-Pro version has a 16MP wide camera instead. Otherwise, both smartphones are based on a Helio P70 chipset with 6GB of LPDRR4X RAM and 128GB of storage. Each has a 6.3-inch FHD+ display and a 6580 mAh battery with...

28 Ottobre 2019

Ulefone launches its latest smartphone from the Armor series today - the Armor 7. The handset arrives with three rear cameras. The main one employs a 48MP sensor and an f/1.7 lens. The second one is a 16MP shooter made especially for night photography. It has an f/2.0 aperture. The third one is an 8MP telephoto unit. A Helio P90 chipset ticks under the hood paired to 8GB of RAM and 128GB of storage. The front is...

28 Ottobre 2019

Hisense has announced two smartphones that are exclusive to China. Building upon its experience in offering smartphones with e-ink display, the company has just announced the dual-screen Hisense A6L. On the front, there's a 6.5-inch LTPS display with an FHD+ resolution and a notch for the 20MP selfie camera. On the back, there's a 5.84 e-ink HD+ display. The rear cameras and LED flash are placed above it and include...

24 Ottobre 2019

Samsung has announced the Exynos 990 chipset for mobiles. The new system-on-chip features a tri-cluster CPU with two custom cores, two Cortex-A76 cores and four Cortex-A55 cores. The graphics department is handled by a Mali-G77 MP11 GPU. The unit also has a dual-core NPU. The chipset is produced with Samsung's 7nm EUV process and supports up to 4K and WQUXGA displays, UFS 3.0 and UFS 2.1 type of storage, LPDDR5 RAM...

24 Ottobre 2019

UMIDIGI has officially unveiled the UMIDIGI Power 3. The latest device from the brand's series that dedicated to large-battery smartphones packs a 6150 mAh battery. It supports up to 18W fast charging and up to 10W reverse charging. The box contains an OTG cable so you can use the Power 3 as a power bank. The handset is based on a Helio P60 chipset with 4GB of LPDDR4X RAM and 64GB of storage. There are three...

24 Ottobre 2019

NoteBook Italia reports directly from the Asia-World Expo where they have seen a completely new Oukitel smartphone - the Y5000. There are two interesting things about this model. For starters, this is the first Oukitel smartphone with a Snapdragon chipset. Yes, the Y5000 packs a Snapdragon 660 system-on-chip. Secondly, this is the first Oukitel smartphone with four rear cameras. The main one is a 48MP unit adjoined...

24 Ottobre 2019

Meizu 16T is the latest smartphone from the Meizu 16 line-up. The handset has been unveiled today and is already available for purchase. It has three colour options: Whale Blue, Sunlight Orange, Lake Light Green and three RAM+storage variants: 6GB+128GB = CNY 1999 8GB+128GB = CNY 2299 8GB+256GB = CNY 24999 For this money, you get a slee device with aluminium alloy frame and a glass back panel. The front is adorned...

23 Ottobre 2019

Caterpillar has been very quiet lately in terms of smartphone launches. However, it seems to be ready with a new model. The company published a teaser video of the upcoming Cat S52 which you may enjoy below the article. It depicts a capoeira fighter performing on top of the smartphone while it's raining cats and dogs. Obviously, this hints that the upcoming model is both water-resistant and impact-resilient. No...

22 Ottobre 2019

MediaTek's first 7nm 5G chipset - MT6885 - for smartphones is being mass-produced and will be shipped in the first quarter of 2020. The second 7nm 5G SoC (MT6873) will be launched in the middle of 2020 and is expected to power low-end and mid-range smartphones from OPPO, Vivo and Huawei. According to China Times, next year MediaTek will also launch four 6nm 5G chipsets based on TSMC's production node. The design...

22 Ottobre 2019

The nova 5z is up for sale on Huawei's Vmall.com. This new device is the sixth from the nova 5 series succeeding the nova 5i Pro, nova 5T, nova 5 Pro, nova 5, nova 5i. Actually, the nova 5z is entirely identical to the nova 5i Pro, Huawei even lists them both with one and the same model code - SPN-AL00. The only major difference between them is the addition of a 6GB+64GB RAM+storage version. Currently both models...

21 Ottobre 2019

The Ulefone T2 has been teased for the first time more than a year and a half ago. Back then, it was said that the device will have a Helio P60 chipset and a 3900 mAh battery. Taking into account the time it needed to launch this device, Ulefone has updated these two parameters to Helio P70 and 4200 mAh, respectively. All the rest remains the same as announced earlier. The device combines a higher-than-mid-range...

17 Ottobre 2019

The Elec reports that according to industry sources, in 2020, Samsung will launch a smartphone with an under-display camera. The name of the under-display camera module is HIAA2 and it is based on the vacuous chambers from Wonik IPS, attached to laser systems Philoptics. It is expected that it will enter mass production later this month at Samsung's Asan 1 Campus in South Chungcheong. At present, this facility...

16 Ottobre 2019

Here's a very tempting offer from GearBest. You can get a gray OnePlus 7 8GB+256GB for only $399.99. This offer is valid until October 21st, so act fast. You can order the smartphone from here using this coupon code: GBOP7G654321. Here's a quick OnePlus 7 specifications reminder: Corning Gorilla Glass 6 front and back, aluminium frame 6.41-inch Optic AMOLED display, FHD+ resolution In-display fingerprint sensor from...

15 Ottobre 2019

The Pixel 4 and Pixel 4 XL are finally official. The most interesting features of the two models are the advanced face unlock and Motion Sense features (all made possible thanks to the Soli radar) plus the advanced dual rear cameras. The Soli radar employs the Soli radar chip, two face-unlock IR cameras and a face-unlock flood illuminator. The chip turns on the face unlock sensors when you grab your phone. At any...

15 Ottobre 2019

Realme has decided to expand outside China and India and has launched three of its latest smartphones in Europe. The specifications of all three are way too familiar, so we won't repeat them here. You can check them out in detail in the corresponding model pages: Realme 5 Pro specifications Realme X2 specifications Realme X2 Pro specifications Pricing and availability Realme 5 Pro - €199, October 18 Realme X2...

15 Ottobre 2019

With so many smartphones launched by one and the same companies lately, it is very difficult to distinguish them from one another. Realme X2 Pro is one such example. The brand that was meant to offer affordable mid-range smartphones seriously stepped in the higher mid-range realm with its latest models. The heavily teased Realme X2 Pro looks and feels a lot like OnePlus 7/7T. It has a 6.5-inch Super AMOLED FHD+...

14 Ottobre 2019

OnePlus 7T got unveiled at the end of September in India and today is the European launch of the model during which it will be adjoined by its Pro sibling. The OnePlus 7T features a 6.5-inch Fluid AMOLED display with 90Hz refresh rate, which is TUF Rheinland certified for low blue light emissions (reduced by 40%). Its peak brightness is 1000 nits thanks to the all-new AMOLED material used for the display. The unit...

10 Ottobre 2019