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A new computer-generated image has surfaced and it's claimed to be of the Xiaomi Redmi Note 5. Like the first one it shows a dual camera and a fingerprint scanner on the back and an 18:9 screen on the front with unbelievably-slim bezels. We use that...

Huawei announced its Mate 10 series back in October 2017 and ended some rumors about eventual renaming of its flagship Mate X. The moniker appeared again during the weekend in an application on the EU Intellectual Property Office website. The...

Before phones with the Snapdragon 845 chipset hit the market, Qualcomm is offering a taste of its performance with a Qualcomm Reference Design platform. The new chip uses new CPU core designs based on Cortex-A75 and A55. There’s four of each in...

Last week, Xiaomi ran a Twitter poll asking people to choose between MIUI 9 and Android One. As you may know, MIUI is the ROM that majority of the Xiaomi phones ship with while Android One comes directly from Google and is what you find on the Mi...

ZTE’s head honcho confirmed that the Axon 9 is coming this year and now some alleged images and specs have surfaced on Weibo. The phone both is and isn’t what we expected. A 6” AMOLED screen with QHD+ resolution – and 18:9 aspect ratio – was to...

The Sony H8266 is back in the spotlight – after Geekbench, AnTuTu was its next stop. This benchmark is more detailed in the specifications it records so let’s compare them to the specs we saw earlier. AnTuTu reports an 18:9 screen with 1,080 x...

Many manufacturers are already switching to Android Oreo and vivo is the latest company to do so. The manufacturer announced the first wave of devices to receive the 8.0 version, consisting of 7 phones from the X series - vivo X20, vivo X20 Plus,...

Xiaomi is making a phone announcement in India on February 14 that is expected to be the Xiaomi Redmi Note 5. But some sources point to a second phone announcement, parallel to the Redmi Note 5's - the Redmi Note 5 Pro. It's expected the Pro...

Meizu E3 is expected to arrive in three weeks but its specs already leaked on TENAA. The phone was listed in two variants - M851M and M851Q where the main difference is the network bands, while all the other specs are the same. The new midranger...

Last month, a Motorola smartphone dubbed Moto E5 leaked. And now, leaked renders for the Play variant of the device have surfaced as well. The usually reliable tipster @evleaks leaked the info on Twitter. The leaked images only focus on the...

Samsung started rolling out the Galaxy S8/S8+ Oreo update last week. At that time, the update was only hitting units in Germany. Now, a handful of more markets have started getting it. Specifically, the list includes France, Poland, and...

Another week passed and it's time for a recap. The Samsung Galaxy S9 and S9+ remained a hot topic but it was the Nokia 7 plus that received the most attention. It will be Nokia's first 18:9 phone and it will have a Zeiss camera and a Snapdragon 660...

In this fifth installment of our Sunday Debate we discuss the importance of ecosystems versus hardware. Which is more important - having your favorite set of services and apps or having a specific hardware setup? Yordan: Ecosystem determines...

A new flagship comes out every 6 months – makers try to play it as two separate classes, e.g. Galaxy S and Note; LG G and LG V, but the fact remains that every flagship is surpassed in half a year. But do you actually buy a new phone every few...

Past Tense is our latest series of articles in which GSMArena veterans take you on a nostalgia-infused ride through the years. Experience first hand how the industry evolved and how it shaped us, one phone at a time. How this tech journalist...

Three years of software support for smartphones should be enough for most people, our poll reveals. It was the most popular option and while “four years or more” came close, we think three is much more realistic. There is something to be said...

Did you know that the first Android OS version code name was Petit Four? It means small bite-sized appetizer and served as inspiration for the desert-based names of future versions. That was version 1.1. The first publicly available version was...

People are already excited about the new announcements of the 2018 and you don't need to look any further than our top 10 trending phones chart to know it. We've got three phones that are yet to be announced on the list, two of which are on the...

The front of the Galaxy S8 won over many fans while the back drew criticism. So, for the S9 generation Samsung seems to have focused on fixing the setup on the back of the phone. Where does that leave the front? We’ve seen CAD schematics, which...

Bluetooth doesn't need to be overly complicated and convoluted to set up. A notion that has been recently popularized by both Android and iOS and one that was considered infeasible or at least unlikely by users only a few months ago. Apparently it...