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The vivo Y71 has been quietly announced in India with information about it being sent out to retailers. It packs a 5.99-inch 720x1440px LCD of the trendy 18:9 aspect ratio. At its heart the Y71 has a Snapdragon 450 chipset with 3GB of RAM and...

They had a good run, but now it is time to retire – the Google Pixel and Pixel XL are no longer available through Google’s official store. The first Pixels, replacements of the Nexus line, launched in October 2016, meaning they were on sale for a...

The Samsung Galaxy Note9 may have to launch early, but there is still time for some improvements. This is based on rumors coming out of Weibo from normally reliable leaksters, but we'd wait on some official sources before we're sure (the Brazilians...

ZTE has unveiled the its first Z18 Series smartphone - the Z18 mini. The phone is an upper midranger with a Snapdragon 660 chipset, 6GB of RAM, a 24MP f/1.7 + 5MP dual camera at the back and an 8MP f/2.0 front-facing unit with an 80-degree wide...

Samsung just officially unveiled the Galaxy J7 Duo in India. The midranger will become available on April 12 for INR 16,990 or around €210 and will be trimmed in either Gold or Black. As expected the Galaxy J7 Duo comes with 5.5" Super AMOLED...

The average American teenager is more likely to own an iPhone than ever before. The latest survey performed by investment firm, Piper Jaffray. The survey asked over 6,000 American teenagers across 40 different States about their smartphone...

Google’s stock dialer for Android is the “Phone” app and it gets updated regularly via the Play Store. In February, it was updated to support Google transcriptions on voicemails for T-Mobile customers. Also, the Phone app was updated to integrate...

A new report from Bloomberg Technology claims that Spotify is going to update the free tier of Spotify. This is the ad-supported version of the music streaming service, one that 95 million people use regularly and Spotify expects to 109 million by...

The whole “portrait mode” effect has become a very popular addition to smartphone photography. In fact, it’s the main selling point of many smartphones with dual cameras. That is, until the Google Pixel 2 was launched and was able to use AI to make...

Not to be outdone by the soon to be announced Xiaomi-backed Black Shark gaming device, ZTE sub-brand nubia is unveiling a gaming-related sub-brand of its own. It's called Red Magic and the company has sent us the teaser image you can see...

HP has launched the Chromebook x2, a device HP calls the world's first Chromebook detachable. What it essentially is is a Chromebook tablet with a keyboard dock as well as stylus support. The HP Chromebook x2 has a 12.3-inch, 2400x1600...

The Samsung Galaxy S9 and Galaxy S9+ are new and exciting, but unfortunately this also makes them expensive. That’s why you may want to be on the lookout for deals such as this one in the US. Samsung Galaxy S9 An S9 (Snapdragon 845,...

Launched in 2013, the original Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera became a success for bringing professional grade quality and control to a compact, pocketable design. Five years and many requests later, the company has finally announced the successor...

The BlackBerry brand is enjoying its new lease of life under TCL Technology ownership. Last year we saw the rebirth of smartphones with QWERTY keyboards with the arrival of BlackBerry Keyone. After its market performance was dubbed as “Mission...

Despite a few delays, Motorola is still planning to release a new Moto series of affordable handsets. By all accounts, the launch event will be held on April 19, in Brazil and the lineup will include the Moto G6, G6 Plus and G6 Play. The...

Whoever named the latest BLU phone must have had a terrible case of the flu that day. Meet the BLU Vivo One Plus – yes, basically a string of three fairly well known phone brands (although there is a space between “One” and “Plus”). So, what’s...

As it has done in the past, Samsung is dual sourcing the image sensors for the Galaxy S9 and S9+ – depending on where you buy yours, it may have a Sony-designed IMX345 or a Samsung-designed S5K2L3 ISOCELL Fast. TechInsights has examined both sensors...

The Xiaomi Mi 6X – likely the same hardware as the Mi A2 – has gone back to the rumor mill to clarify a few things. When it went through TENAA, we knew it would be powered by an octa-core processor, but what kind we couldn’t tell. Then later a leak...

Just days after we told you the Samsung J720F is arriving as Galaxy J7 Duo in India, we received a photo in our inbox from a sales training session, revealing all of the phone’s key specs. The new device is coming with a Super AMOLED display, dual...

In-display fingerprint readers are certainly shaping up as one of the trends of 2018. We are yet to see a device with true mass market potential to pack one, but with more and more announcements coming in, it's just a matter of time. A...