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Back at CES 2018, we had a hands-on with vivo’s in-display fingerprint scanner. The company said the device would hit the market in early 2018 and the phone already arrived on TENAA. It is called vivo X20 Plus UD, and although very similar to the...

The successor to the Xiaomi Mi Max 2, likely to be called Mi Max 3, has leaked in an image. It confirms the dual rear camera setup that rumors so far had suggested. Both Mi Max 2 and the original Mi Max featured a single main camera. Not only...

Shortly after OnePlus confirmed the OnePlus 3/3T will be getting Face Unlock support, a new OxygenOS beta build has been made available for the devices, and it contains exactly that. The update arrives as Open Beta 30 for the OnePlus 3 and...

Sony has started pushing out a new update to its Xperia XA1 Ultra smartphone. It's a security update that bumps the build number from 42.0.A.4.153 to 42.0.A.4.167, and delivers the Android January security patch. There's no information on...

Samsung customer care reps have already confirmed the three-year-old Galaxy S6 will be getting the Oreo update. And now, one of them has also revealed the roll out time frame: no later than February. Based on what we've seen in the past, we...

The successor to last year's Motorola Moto E4 has leaked in an image showing both front and back of the device. The most prominent change that you'll notice is the fingerprint sensor has been moved to the back, with the company logo being placed...

If you are a Honor 8 user who's waiting for the Oreo update for the device, there's some bad news: the update may not arrive. Replying to a user-query on Twitter, the company's India subsidiary said "Honor 8 is not compatible for Android Oreo...

Samsung will announce the Galaxy On7 Prime in India on Wednesday, January 17. The phone will be available exclusively on Amazon India. The Galaxy On7 Prime is not a new phone but a phone that has been around since 2016 that Samsung loves...

Counterpoint Research has published its analysis of the Chinese smartphone market for the whole of 2017, and some interesting tidbits have been revealed. The best selling handset over there last year was the Oppo R9s, commanding 3% of the market....

January 17 is the launch date of the new Meizu M6s, but specs and promo materials leaked on the Chinese social network Weibo revealing almost everything there is to know about it. The new phone will be the first Meizu handset with 18:9 screen and...

Samsung Gulf Electronics announced the launch of its latest smartphones - the Galaxy A8 (2018) and the Galaxy A8+ (2018) - in UAE. This is the latest market where one of the most well-done mid-rangers arrived, following a launch in Vietnam, Europe...

Brazil’s National Telecommunications Agency (aka ANATEL) has published its certificates of the Samsung Galaxy S9 and Galaxy S9+. The document contains some legalese, but the juicy bit is the battery capacity. The S9 will have a 3,000mAh battery...

"We will unveil new smartphones when it is needed. But we will not launch it just because other rivals do," said LG Electronics Vice Chairman Cho Sung-jin. After, an anonymous official from the company told The Korea Herald that Cho ordered the LG...

This took less time than expected – Xiaomi is pushing out a new version of the Oreo update for the Mi A1. That update was pulled on Friday after the discovery of several nasty bugs. The new update reportedly resolves the Bluetooth battery drain,...

Last year we reported on the tendency of the Google Pixel 2 XL OLED display to rapidly shift colors when the device was tilted and viewed off-axis. Although the behavior is not uncommon for OLED panels, the LG-made panel on the Pixel 2 XL exhibited...

The Samsung Notebook 9 (2018) launched with a new material dubbed Metal 12. A trademark filing at EUIPO suggests that this magnesium allow will be used for phones, watches, mobile accessories and even home appliances. The new Notebook 9 weighs...

vivo announced the arrival of its E-store in India, enabling purchases of smartphones from anywhere in the country. Early shoppers can join the “Launch Carnival” promos which include offers, discounts and a draw. The “Launch Carnival” is...

Often companies try quirky ways of getting to the customer. OnePlus likes putting boxes with mysterious items in them while Apple is making artsy beautiful videos. One skin manufacturer, dbrand, took it to the next level of sass on Twitter. The...

Sony’s CES trio has reached Europe and is currently taking orders and pre-orders. Here are the the online stores we managed to find that offer the three phones. France is getting the better deal, with Boulanger promising to ship units within 24...

The Samsung Galaxy S8 Oreo beta update (stable build) is highly likely to start rolling out in January. The news comes straight from the company itself, which - in a message on the Samsung Members community that announced the end of the beta program...