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Pete Lau, OnePlus CEO, announced plans for a 5G smartphone back in the summer. At the Hong Kong 4G/5G summit, hosted by Qualcomm, his co-founder Carl Pei said the company is on schedule for an early 2019 launch and we expected that the phone might...

HMD has started recruiting beta testers for the Nokia X7 to try out an early version of the Android 9.0 Pie update. That’s the Chinese name of the Nokia 7.1 Plus, which was unveiled last month with Android 8.1 Oreo (the Android One branch). The...

Time to vote for your favorite Android apps and games. Follow this link to the Google Play Store and cast your vote. Note that the voting is per-country (and not all countries are included). The voting ends in two weeks, the winners in each category...

Samsung previewed its foldable phone, focusing on the screen – the Infinity Flex Display – and the UI. Industry insiders believe that there will be another demo at the MWC in February before the final reveal in March. The phone is expected to...

OnePlus 6T was announced at the end of October at several regional events, one of them in New York, United States. The US unveiling made the headlines with the partnership between the manufacturer and T-Mobile, revealing its support for both CDMA...

Last week Realme stopped offering its devices on their initial promo prices, announced at Flipkart and Amazon India. This weekend Xiaomi followed through with the Redmi 6 and Redmi 6A, along with two of its Mi LED TVs and a 10,000 mAh power...

Two weeks ago vivo introduced the affordable Y93 smartphone, the first device with Snapdragon 439. Launched for about $215/€190, the phone packs impressive hardware for its cost with a massive 4,030 mAh battery and 4 GB RAM. Now the manufacturer...

Intro Xiaomi celebrated its 8th birthday with the introduction of the Mi 8 flagship, MIUI 10, and the Mi Band 3 wearable. As smartphone aficionados we were glad to see a new phone with Snapdragon 845 and whatnot, but the band also kept us buzzing...

"Techtober" is over and finally see a week of relative calmness in our weekly chart of top 10 trending phones. There is some movement, of course, as the Galaxy A7 (2018) takes the first spot after ending up second best last week. The Xiaomi Redmi...

They’ve been around for a while, but they have a new name and a new market. The Oppo RX17 Pro just adds an “X” to the R17 Pro and changes nothing else. Sales in Europe start next week, so this is a good time to ask – are you getting one? At €600...

Last week we talked about obsolete cable connectors and at the end suggested that cables may go extinct altogether because of wireless data transfer and charging. This week we wanted to look into the history of the latter – wireless...

Last week was the last in a series of intense, hardware packed ones, whereas this one was more subdued. It lacked huge phone announcements that were weeks in the making but it did still bring a few exciting news. Chief among those was...

Good news: more than half of the voters in last week’s poll will be using a OnePlus phone. Bad news: that doesn’t mean they’re buying a OnePlus 6T. In fact, only about a third of the voters are planning on getting one (or have done so...

While everyone is focusing on the big Pixel 3 XL, we got plenty of time to spend with the little one that offers a big improvement over its predecessor, at least from a design standpoint. We might even say the upgrade is more noticeable than the...

After learning that the upcoming Galaxy A and M-series will most likely use LCD panels instead of AMOLEDs, now we got some more intel on a couple of Ms. This one's about storage options, though. The report reads two Galaxy M smartphones with...

Shortly after the Xperia XZ2 lineup got the Android 9.0 Pie treatment, the company promised to do the same with its older XZ1, XZ1 Compact and XZ Premium until October 26. Well, about two weeks later, the three handsets are finally getting the...

There has been an ongoing touch issue with some of the iPhone X units as well as MacBook Pro 13 data loss problems and the company is now acknowledging them by launching a replacement program for both. If you are one of those users...

If you are an owner of a smartphone with expandable storage and you are on the market for microSD cards, this deal could be just for you. Best Buy offers a SanDisk Extreme Plus microSD card for just $29.99, down from $269.99, although SanDisk's...

After the leak the other day, the Samsung Galaxy J4 Core doesn't surprise us with its official release today, but we will go over this once again. It's the company's second Android Go-powered handset after all and will probably be a good deal in the...

Apple and Amazon have made for Amazon to sell Apple products on several of its markets around the globe. This deal lets Amazon sell the latest iPad Pro, iPhone XR, iPhone XS, the Apple Watch Series 4, and Apple’s lineup of Beats headphones – just in...