Articles tagged "Misc"

According to a report from the Wall Street Journal, Apple will move to an all OLED iPhone lineup in 2020. That means that the 2019 successor to the iPhone XR will be the last iPhone to have an LCD. Such a move will allow for a "more flexible...

Samsung could cease producing flagship phones like the Galaxy S9 and Note9 in India, reduce local smartphone manufacturing and exports of smartphones, if the Indian government doesn't rethink its recent actions. India's Phased Manufacturing...

Apple has teamed up with award-winning Chinese director and screenwriter Jia Zhangke to produce a short film called 'shot on iPhone XS'. The film is set to debut on January 25 and then air during China's Spring Festival on February 5. We don't...

Foxconn has cut some 50,000 contract workers from its workforce since October. The number is not unusual compared to previous years, but the timing is different as the contractors were let go much earlier this time. According to an unnamed source...

This year vivo will put a new coat of paint on its brand – Pantone 2386, specifically (the old color was 2925 C). And it is retouching its logo with a new font. The redesign will debut in China first, but will go global in by the end of...

An unknown device has appeared on AnTuTu, sporting the new 11nm Snapdragon 675 chipset. It scored 174K, which is a lot higher than the 155K we got with the 10nm Snapdragon 710-powered Oppo RX17 Pro. What's more interesting than the chip...

The original Apple iPhone, that later went down in history books as the iPhone 2G, went on sale on June 29 2007 but was announced 12 years ago on January 9 2007 at Macworld. Since then we've seen 11 more generations of iPhones - the iPhone 3G,...

Lexar has announced a 1TB SD card that will actually go on sale, although there's no official information as to when or for how much. The 1TB 633x SDXC UHS-I card is not a technical marvel, being only UHS-I instead of the faster II but still tops...

LG announced today its preliminary earnings for the fourth quarter of 2018, along with total annual results. The company reached KRW 15.8 trillion (about $14 billion) of consolidated revenues, which is slightly more than the sales results from the...

Closing off our most popular reviews series it's time to take a look at the final three months of the year. Coming in as the most read review in Q4 is non other than the OnePlus 6T. OnePlus' latest flagship got a lot of things right, like the...

Premium prices should come with premium quality. There are always issues with large scales mass production though and the Huawei Mate 20 Pro was the latest to experience it – its screen had a green glow seen in the dark. That wasn’t the company’s...

We are sending away 2018 and we look back and see what were the most popular phones over the past year. While there are 20 phones in the yearly selection, the list of manufacturers is scarce. To be more precise, two out of every three devices...

Joy to the world, the new year is finally here. We say goodbye to 12 entertaining months and welcome the opportunities 2019 has prepared for us with wide-open arms. We would love you, our readers, to stay beside us as we renew our pursuit for a...

The year is almost over and it's time to reset the counter. But before we do that, let's take a look at which Android and iOS devices won the hearts of our readers. Note that we are not talking sheer popularity here, but number of likes - that is we...

SMS has been with us for over a quarter of a century and it won’t go away anytime soon. But it’s really showing its age and many have moved to instant messaging – WhatsApp, Viber, WeChat, Line, KakaoTalk – for the convenient features these apps...

MediaTek's upcoming upper-midrange chip Helio P90 has gone through its first benchmark, scoring 162k on AnTuTu. The score was achieved on an unknown device with 6GB of RAM, running on Android 9 Pie. This score puts the Helio P90 in the same...

Moving on from Q1 and Q2, it's time to look at the phones that shaped the months of July, August and September. This is the time of the Pocophone F1 - the most read review not just in Q3 but in the entire year. Xiaomi made a seismic stir in...

With the FIFA World Cup raising competitive spirits, we decided to run our own championship – the Smartphone World Cup. The final pit the Galaxy S9+ versus the OnePlus 6 and it became our most-read news article for Q3 (and here’s the result of the...

Now that we're done with January, February and March it's time to take a look at the most popular reviews of the spring of 2018. The months of April, May and June aren't as filled with heavy hitters as the months of the CES and MWC, but we...

As the year 2018 draws to a close we are taking the chance to look back at what the past twelve months brought. We already went through Q1 and now it's time for Q2. “AI” infiltrated every corner of mobile realm, from digital assistants to...