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The deluge of new phone announcements continues in what used to be a slow season in our line of work. For the third week in a row, we have a whole bunch of new releases, spanning all market segments. High up top, we have the Xiaomi Mi 8 - the...

Last week saw the peak of the hype before Xiaomi's 8 year anniversary event and this week the event finally revealed all Xiaomi had been working on. Xiaomi announced the Mi 8, the Mi 8 Explorer with an under the display fingerprint scanner and...

Remember when LG G6 and Samsung Galaxy S8 arrived with an unusually tall screen? Fast forward one year later and now its the norm. Yordan & Ivan discuss if a classic 16:9 ratio display or a tall solution is better? Yordan: If it ain’t broken,...

Xiaomi unveiled three new phones this week – the mainstream flagship, the “dressed to impress” model and a more compact, more affordable version. Now that you’ve had a few days to let their specs settle in, what do you think? The base Xiaomi Mi 8...

Plenty of commotion in the top 10 chart this week, mostly due to the eagerly-anticipated unveiling of Xiaomi’s new flagship device. The Mi 8 is only part of the story, as the Chinese OEM also took the wrappings off the Mi 8 Explorer and Mi 8 SE....

Mobile OSes went through a Cambrian explosion and then there was an inevitable mass extinction. The two survivors – Android and iOS – date back to 2007 and they completely dominate the field. Android is on 9 in 10 phones while iOS lives in...

Some of you have already ordered an HTC U12+, which received a warm welcome in last week’s poll. The amount of love wasn’t overwhelming by any means, but it seems like HTC has put together a solid phone. As expected, there were plenty of...

In Past Tense is our series of articles in which the GSMArena team takes you on a nostalgia-infused ride through the phones that impressed them the most through the years. Last time we had the first part of Ricky's story and now it's time for the...

Apple's World Wide Developers Conference (WWDC) starts on Monday, June 4 and runs through June 8 in San Jose, CA. When Tim Cook and co take to the stage on June 4 10:00 am Pacific Time to start proceedings, some announcements will be a sure thing....

According to inside sources, the Chinese tech giant, ZTE, may soon pay up to $1.7 billion penalty after its April 15 trade ban. The company is estimated to have lost around $3 billion as around 25 to 30% of the hardware it uses is supplied by US...

New alterations of the vivo NEX have been popping out left and right. Just the other day, a second vivo NEX S version appeared in a Geekbench score sheet with Snapdragon 710 and got certified a day later. But now, a Chinese 3C certification report...

OnLeaks released some crisp renders yesterday of what is supposed to be the budget iPhone with 6.1-inch IPS LCD display. Today, we have a fresh new batch of the 6.5-inch variant, which leaves only one more to go - the compact 5.8-inch...

According to a recent report from market research firm eMarketer, this year, smart speakers will overtake wearables in US in terms of number of users. Here's what the report exactly says: We have raised our forecast significantly for US smart...

Samsung unveiled the Galaxy A6 and A6+ early last month. At that time, the company revealed a list of countries where these devices will be made official. But sadly, the US was missing from the list. Those of you in the US who are waiting for...

This just in - Google is apparently working on a mid-range Pixel device powered by the newly announced Snapdragon 710. Earlier reports have pointed out that the company is indeed developing such a device, but aimed at the Indian market only. Off...

A new Samsung device has received Bluetooth certification. It's listed as Galaxy Tab A2 Xl, and carries a model number of SM-T595. The tablet is likely the successor to the Galaxy Tab A 10.1 (2016), LTE model of which carried a model number of...

The Essential Phone Camera up has been updated yet again by the company. This time, the update features UI improvements and some 360-degree photos related changes. Today we released an update to Essential Camera app that improves the UI and adds...

Recently, there was a report that Samsung has decided to delay the Galaxy Note9 unveiling by two weeks - from mid July to August beginning. And now, a new report from Bloomberg says the device will be made official on August 9. The report...

According to a leaked poster, the Samsung Galaxy A9 Star and A9 Star Lite will be made available for pre-order starting June 2 (today). Unveiling, as we already know, is set for June 7, and the pre-order period ends June 14. Samsung China launch...

Update: The 'Tablets' section is back. According to a Google employee, the disappearance of the section was due to a bug that creeped in when the site was updated. Oops we had a bug when we updated the site. It's back up now. Sorry for the...