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Honor announced today a new partnership with Netflix. The streaming service will be offered on the Honor 8X smartphones with a pre-installed app and will play videos in 1080p after the November update that is bound to arrive OTA. A...

Reports about Samsung removing the iris scanner from the Galaxy S10 become more and more frequent. A Korean media outlet has quoted industry insiders who claimed the company would stay away from the tech and will rely on the fingerprint scanner as...

The third quarter of 2018 saw less phones shipped globally than the same quarter in 2017 and marked the fourth consecutive trimester of shipments decline. Counterpoint estimates that 386.8 million phones were shipped globally in Q3 of 2018, down 3%...

Industry sources claim that the mini LED technology has matured enough and has even entered mass production this year, but it's yet to reach volume production. And why should we care? Because mini LED backlighting for modern LCD IPS displays could...

Apple posted its financial results for the Q3 of the year (and Q4 of its fiscal year). The highlight of the report is the revenue of $62.9 billion, over 20% increase on a yearly basis. Apple quarterly results In Q4 2018 Apple sold 46.8...

Xiaomi targeted to ship more than 100 million smartphones in 2018 and according to the latest information, it managed to reach the milestone with two months to spare. Lei Jun delivered a speech at Zhong Guan Cun Forum in Beijing, China, where he...

Huawei's latest flagship smartphone, the Mate 20 Pro, is already getting an update. The first new software rollout for the device since it's been released a few days ago weighs in at 491MB and is currently available in both the UK and South Africa....

At the OnePlus 6T launch it was announced that its predecessor would get the Nightscape camera mode as well, this week even. And sure enough, a couple of days ago this was made available through a beta release. Now, just two days later, the...

Spotify has published its latest earnings report today, and it has plenty of good news for the streaming service. First off, it now boasts 191 million total active monthly users. What's more, of those 87 million subscribe to its paid tiers. This...

MediaTek’s first 5G modem, the Helio M70, is expected to be in devices in the first half of 2019, says company’s CEO. But the company is working on an integrated 5G chipset as well, this one will arrive later – near the end of the year, meaning that...

This is actually the first time we get to see the vivo X21S in flesh and we have a really good reason to believe it's actually the vivo V1814T, and the V1814A, we know from earlier leaks. The V1814T popped up on TENAA two weeks ago and now the new...

Were you disappointed that the OnePlus 6T is available only in Black and Black? There’s some good news – it seems that a new color version is on the way. It’s dubbed “Thunder Purple” and was briefly up on Amazon Germany for pre-order. The €580...

Lexar just announced “the world’s largest A2 microSD card”. No, it’s still a 512GB card, but what sets it apart from the previous cards with this capacity is the A2 rating. It stands for Application Performance Class 2. This card is optimized for...

The clamshell smartphone Samsung W2019 leaked a number of times, but now we a date to mark on our calendars. The company has set its announcement for November 9 as evidenced by invitations sent out to Chinese media. The event will take place in...

The OnePlus 6T is now available online in North America and India. This puts an end to the short exclusivity of T-Mobile US, OnePlus’ partner that (along with Qualcomm) helped it get into the US market. You can go to local versions of OnePlus.com...

After being released in Japan, the Oppo R17 Neo makes its way to European shores as well but under a different name - RX17 Neo. According to the Dutch store that listed the handset, the RX17 Neo is, in fact, the same device that launched in Japan...

Out of the blue, the first phone with Snapdragon 8150 was announced (the first foldable phone to boot), but we’ve seen little of the chipset so far. Benchmark runs from it started appearing in Geekbench, giving us an early peek at the performance to...

A closed beta ROM for the Pocophone F1 surfaced earlier this week and now the finalized version is rolling out. It updates MIUI 9.6, also known as MIUI for Poco, to MIUI 10 with updated UI features and a “natural sound system”. Sadly, it is still on...

Apple just released iOS 12.1 that aims to fix some irritating issues such as the "soft selfies" bug on the new iPhone XS and XS Max and also brings the controversial throttling feature for the iPhone X and iPhone 8. But that it also comes with a...

The Lenovo Z5 Pro is yet another smartphone with a manual slider mechanism following the Mi Mix 3 and the Honor Magic 2. But Lenovo claims to have beaten both when it comes to screen to body ratio and at much cheaper price to boot. The catch...