About a year ago, Apple faced heavy criticism when it disclosed that firmware updates were affecting the performance of older-generation iPhones, citing it as a power management feature that would compensate for the degradation of batteries over time. On Wednesday, the UK Competition and Markets Authority launched an investigation following...
A dispute between the Federal Trade Commission in the United States and chip-maker Qualcomm ended with a win for the FTC. The court ruled that Qualcomm must stop its practices of bundling licenses with hardware. The ruling stated that the company’s practices “have strangled competition” and the royalty rates were...
Xiaomi Mi 8 owners report that they are receiving an OTA update containing MIUI 10 9.5.22 that adds the promised DC dimming feature of the screen. It’s around 324MB big and so far, it has been rolling out in China so it might take some time before it hits the...
ZTE unveiled its entry-level Blade A7 at the beginning of the month and now it’s adding the even more affordable ZTE Blade A5 2019 to its lineup. The phone offers an 18:9 screen, octa-core processor and affordable price. The Blade A5 2019 features a 5.45-inch HD+ screen with an 8MP...
We already knew pretty much all there is about vivo’s first phone with a punch hole display and today we’re treated to the its Geekbench scorecard. The Z5x will come with a 6.53-inch Super AMOLED display with FHD+ resolution. Now we learn that the phone will feature the Snapdragon 710...
Huawei, Samsung and Qualcomm already introduced their chipsets with support for 5G modems, and Mediatek is about to follow that example. The Taiwanese semiconductor manufacturer announced “it’s almost time” for “smart to meet fast” and the new 5G AI product will arrive in May, meaning we have 10 days tops...
The smart speaker business is booming in China with a 500% year-on-year growth in the first quarter of 2019. During the first four months, 10.6 million units were shipped helping China secure a 51% share of the global market. The US, on the other hand, saw only 5 million smart...
Red versions of the Samsung Galaxy S10 and Galaxy S10+ have leaked again. Back before the official announcement, we saw a Cinnabar Red paint job that never came to fruition. Now a different red hue has leaked. Samsung Galaxy S10+ in Cardinal Red It’s called Cardinal Red and like the...
Soon after releasing the kernel source code for the OnePlus 7 Pro, OnePlus has dropped the Android Q Beta for its 2019 flagship as well as the vanilla OnePlus 7. Both the OnePlus 7 and 7 Pro run Android Pie out-of-the-box, and we are still a few months away from...
The Honor 20 series is going official later today, but if you head to the Flipkart app and tap on “Mobiles” – just under the search bar, you’ll see a teaser for the Honor 20 already. The landing page on the app has an excerpt about what we can expect...
Chinese smartphone maker vivo is unveiling a new edition of its IQOO (pronounced “eye-kyoo”) gaming phone, inspired by the Chinese National Space administration. This edition comes with maxed out RAM (12GB) and 256GB of storage. This edition of the IQOO comes is packaged in a special box with a small...
Xiaomi entered 2019 with a bang with its Mi 9 flagship and Redmi Note 7 series. The company released its earnings report for Q1 and the numbers are better than expected. Thanks to solid sales outside its home market of China, Xiaomi recorded CNY 43.8 billion ($6.3 billion) in revenue...
Just a week after its release, the OnePlus 7 Pro and the vanilla OnePlus 7’s kernel source codes get released in the wild. This means that developers can now start working on those custom ROMs and mods. Despite the OnePlus 7 Pro being the first real flagship from the company...
After the Redmi Note 7 and Redmi Note 7 Pro, Xiaomi’s season of seven continues with the brand new Redmi Note 7S. The moto for the device is 48MP for everyone, highlighting its main selling point – the 48MP main camera. The Redmi Note 7 series has been doing very...
This was yet another big week in the world of tech. We got a number of exciting phone announcements and some interesting leaks along the way. So let’s take a look back as we move into the new week. The biggest story by far was the announcement of OnePlus’ two...
Is “Pro” better than a “Plus”? Which is bigger, “Max” or “Note”? Which has the bigger battery? How small is a “mini”, anyway? Some of these qualifiers do carry some meaning, e.g. “note” always means a larger device. Larger than the company’s average phone that is, there is no legal...
Google’s mid-range Pixel phones have a very specific target audience – if they find success somewhere, it will be in North America (and maybe Western Europe). They can only thrive in regions where the mid-range segment is sparse as the pricing is too high to compete with the likes of...
Released just last month, the new Samsung Galaxy A70 quickly gained traction due to its well-balanced price and hardware. It can even be considered as an alternative to the considerably more expensive Galaxy Note9. We finally have it in our office so let’s do a quick preview of what to...
The Google Now Playing feature may be getting another significant update sometime soon, as evidenced by an app teardown by XDA Developers. Lines of code in the March beta release (1.0.229715350) of Pixel Ambient Services indicate that it may start tracking location and activity. Now Playing was introduced with the...
You know how people like ‘stock’ Android for its lack of bloatware and overall streamlined experience? Well, the flipside to that is that some actually useful features are missing from the Android that Google puts out. Some makers add extra bits on top of it into their custom overlays and...
