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vivo recently confirmed the unveiling date for its upcoming X20 smartphone - September 21. Today, the Chinese manufacturer has shared some new teasers for the device that suggest a special, all-black Mars Edition will debut alongside the standard...

The Xiaomi Mi Mix 2, which was made official by the Chinese company yesterday, will arrive in India "very soon." This was confirmed by the company's global SVP Xiang Wang. Sadly, the executive didn't provide an exact time-frame, although reports...

Samsung has started pushing out a new update to its Galaxy A5 (2017) and Galaxy A7 (2017) smartphones in India. Weighing in at around 1.4GB, and arriving as firmware version A520FXXUBQI5 and A720FXXU2BQI2, respectively, the update brings along...

The Essential Phone is finally available in the US and Canada, following many delays and a protracted pre-order period. YouTube channel JerryRigEverything is known for its scratch, burn, and bend tests and doesn't usually perform drop tests, but...

Update 2: In a related news, the Asus Zenfone 4 Max (ZC520KL) has started getting a new update that brings a bug fix and a couple of optimizations. Specifically, the update - which arrives as version 14.2016.1708.341 - fixes the LED indicator delay...

Huawei's Mate 10 just keeps on leaking ahead of its official unveiling on October 16. Today from China comes an image that is said to show the device's front panel somewhere in the wild, in someone's hand. What we see here, design-wise, lines up...

Sony has issued an over the air update to the Xperia XZ Premium, which brings the September 1 security patch, improvements to Wi-Fi performance as well as the run of the mill bug fixes and optimizations. The firmware carries the build number...

If you've bought into the Xiaomi Mi 5X, wished you haven't when you saw the stock Android of the Mi A1, then here's some good news. You now have the option to move from one to the other by flashing the right ROM. Thanks to a developer by the...

Apple’s macOS High Sierra finally introduced native support for h.265 (HEVC) videos and the company made a big deal about 4K video support on the new Macs. Apple TV is still stuck on 1080p, but it seems that this will change tomorrow. Info from...

Okay, this is probably a mistake but the Sony Xperia XZ1 Compact is available for pre-order at £400 at Argos UK – not £500 as Carphone Warehouse is charging. True, you don’t get a pair of fancy headphones, but this is a killer price for the super...

All iPhone 8 rumors so far have shown off the color scheme trinity – White, Black and Gold - but now a new video shows a unit painted in a bold red color. This won’t be the first red iPhone but it will be the first time Apple offers a red unit from...

The path at the end of Moore’s law is a winding one – today Samsung announced that it will be producing 11nm chips for high-end and mid-range phones. This is a Low Power Plus (LPP) process that is a scaled down version of the 14nm LPP process used...

The Samsung Galaxy Note8 reports great pre-order numbers on all fronts. Samsung says that the new flagship broke the previous pre-order record for a Galaxy Note in the US. Interest is strong in India as well. The relatively high price did not...

Apple's next mobile chip - the one set to power Apple's iPhones that will debut tomorrow - is going to pack a six-core processor. The A11 will have two high-power Monsoon cores and four low-power Mistral cores and all of them will be...

Xiaomi’s Air notebooks focused on portability, the new Mi Notebook Pro focuses on power. That is not to say it’s not portable – it has narrow bezels, making it one of the smaller 15.6” laptops around, and its magnesium alloy body weighs...

Xiaomi just unveiled the Mi Note 3 and Mi Mix 2. The cameras of both are based on the Mi 6 camera, but the Note 3 has the full setup while the Mix 2 has only one of the modules. The dual camera features 12MP + 12MP modules and shoots portraits...

As expected, the Xiaomi Mi Note 3 arrived alongside the Mi Mix 2 today. The Mi Note 3 is an interesting phone that sits slightly above the Mi 5X (or Mi A1) with a Snapdragon 660 chipset (not the expected 835) but has plenty of RAM and storage -...

The Xiaomi Mi Mix 2 is finally official. This is the highly anticipated follow up to the original bezelless phone and Xiaomi has gone smaller with its successor. Instead of the 6.4-inch 17:9 display of the first-gen Mi Mix, the Mi Mix 2 opts for...

The vivo X20 will debut next week. This confirmation comes courtesy of a teaser by the Chinese company through its official Weibo account. As clear from the image (shown below), the unveiling is set for September 21. From what we've gathered...

The Nokia 8 has made its way to Asia. The Snapdragon 835-powered flagship smartphone is now available to purchase in Malaysia, where it costs RM 2,299, which currently translates into just over $545. Available color options include Stainless...