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Later this week: an HMD event in London on October 4. Next week: another HMD event on October 11. What’s going on? It is widely believed that we’ll see the Nokia 7.1 Plus (aka Nokia X7) this week. Indeed, the October 4 invite promises “the latest...

Samsung introduced plenty of devices at the Galaxy Unpacked event back in August, along with a partnership with Spotify. Less than two months later we see the fruition of the deal in the Samsung Music app - it just got updated with better design and...

Realme reached 1 million two weeks ago and it's keen to keep riding the hype wave with another flash sale of the Realme 2. It will take place on Flipkart tomorrow at noon, but once again the number of units available might not be enough for...

A new Samsung smartphone SM-G6200 appeared on TENAA over the weekend, although it had a limited amount of specs. Today the rest of the hardware features appeared at the listing of what will likely end up being the Galaxy A6s. The phone will...

A company VP showed off the Lenovo Z5 Pro, focusing on its notchless, all-screen front (with a slide-out camera). But this invite suggests that the back of the phone will be even more interesting: it will have four cameras! They are arranged in a...

It’s no secret that phones in China cost less than they do outside of China, which makes it tempting to import one. Here’s one more reason not to: Xiaomi has blocked the installation of its Global ROMs on its China-bound phones. MIUI in China...

A Huawei device with the codename LYA-L29 has been spotted on Geekbench running Android 9 with an eight core processor and 6GB of RAM. Taking into account the latest Android version and the score, we believe this is the Huawei Mate 20 or Mate 20...

This year Apple stopped including a Lighting to 3.5mm adapter with its iPhones (even the old models). Will OnePlus follow suit now that its upcoming phone doesn’t have a 3.5mm jack? We don’t know for sure, but a leaked price list gives us a glimpse...

Oppo is having a launch party on October 10 for a new device that we already know a lot about. The phone with the model number PBCM30 appeared on TENAA with 2 GHz CPU. We knew it shares much of its hardware with the Oppo R17 and the overall...

The LG V40 ThinQ was announced last week and will launch on October 3 when we'll learn its official specs. Yet thanks to a last-minute leak we now know what those five cameras do. Our educated guess was confirmed by newly released promo material,...

Huawei took the wraps off its Y9 (2019) and filled all the specs blanks that the leaks left. The Huawei Y9 (2019) has a large 6.5-inch 1080x2340px screen with a notch, a Kirin 710 chip mated to either 4GB or 6GB of RAM, a flashy two-toned color...

Huawei teased the new EMUI 9.0 last month, and we expected the user interface, based on Android Pie, to arrive with the Huawei Mate 20 in two weeks. Yet the company has delivered a pleasant surprise and is already pushing the update to some Huawei...

Ro: Smartphones are getting out of hand. Literally. It almost feels like makers are shoving the new trends down our throats these days. First, it was the headphone jack. Apple started it and users rioted. That didn't stop the rest of...

A couple of phones debuted this week, but you don't have to look further than our top 10 trending chart to know which one was more interesting - the Realme 2 Pro debut is easily the event of week 39. Meanwhile Xiaomi unveiled the Redmi Note 6...

These are turbulent times in our top 10 trending chart as we see our fourth leader in as many weeks - the newly announced Realme 2 immediately shooting to the top. Funnily enough the leaders of the past three weeks complete the top four. The...

Huawei is currently the largest manufacturer of telecommunications equipment, but it is a very young company - it was only founded in 1987. And it didn't start making phones until 2003, but it already has ambitions to be the largest smartphone maker...

Realme is going in for the kill – the 2 Pro targets Xiaomi, Huawei, OnePlus and even Oppo’s own phones with what could be described as great specs at an insanely low price. It starts at INR 14,000 ($192/€165) for the 4/64GB model. That buys you a...

Introduction Headsets and audio equipment reviews are hardly a daily occurrence here at GSMArena, but most of us have deep personal interest in the area. That's why the TONE Platinum SE caused quite a lot of excitement here at HQ and I am...

It seems that Samsung has brought in a winning mid-fielder – the Galaxy A7 (2018) got a 74% approval rating. This is a phone built around its Infinity Display and triple camera and the early response to them is a positive one. As expected, some...

In just over a week, on October 9, Google will unveil the Pixel 3 and Pixel 3 XL to the world. I've marked that day on my calendar and I can't wait. Here's why I think the Pixel 3 XL, in particular, will be a big deal (and likely my next...