Month: August 2020

Well over a year ago Oppo demonstrated a prototype foldable phone at the MWC, however nothing came of it. Since then multiple patents have surfaced, revealing various designs that the company is experimenting with. The latest design to crop up is a clamshell, kind of like an inverted Moto RAZR, and it has an … Read more

The Asus Zenfone 7 Pro is a significant improvement over the previous generation. The Zenfone 6 from last year was pretty capable too, but it had issues translating that into sales. Can the new generation do better? Let’s start with the roomy 6.67” AMOLED display from Samsung with 90 Hz refresh rate, high brightness … Read more

After Asus CEO Jerry Shen resigned back at the end of 2018, the company started to slightly shift focus away from the budget smartphone segment, focusing squarely on flagships and the gaming ROG lineup. While cheaper models, like the ZenFone Live (L2), have been trickling-out onto the market, until as late as April last … Read more

The Samsung Galaxy S20 FE will receive four months of YouTube Premium – but that’s not the important part, the interesting bit is that this info comes from the official Samsung.com site. Better yet, it mentions both the Galaxy S20 FE and Galaxy S20 FE 5G. This means that there will be an LTE … Read more

A cache of images and info on the Xiaomi Mi 10T has leaked from a couple of sources. They all paint a picture of a supercharged flagship that will be available globally (unlike the Mi 10 Ultra). There are at least two models, Mi 10T and Mi 10T Pro, and there could be more. … Read more

Announced in China last month, the Red Magic 5S is now up for pre-orders globally. The latest member of the gamer-focused nubia sub-brand will sell for $579 / €579 / £539 in its base 8GB RAM and 128GB storage variant. The 12/256GB model will go for $649 / €649 / £599. The pre-order event … Read more

The new Oppo A53 that went on pre-orders in Indonesia last week has arrived in India. The smartphone’s powered by the Snapdragon 460 SoC and comes in two memory configurations – 4GB/64GB and 6GB/128GB. It also comes with a dedicated microSD card slot, which allows storage expansion by up to 256GB. The Oppo A53 … Read more

There are unconfirmed reports that Huawei plans to announce the new flagship Kirin chipset in early September (same as it did last year) and now that the company has announced that it will participate in IFA we know the venue for the event. Well, perhaps one of the venues, the Kirin 990 was unveiled … Read more

About a year ago we asked you to weigh in on the under-screen vs. flip-up camera debate. Under-screen cameras won a resounding victory, however due to technological challenges they are yet to make their ways to smartphones. That should change soon as ZTE will unveil the Axon 20 5G on September 1, which will … Read more

At the Note20 Unpacked event on August 5, Samsung also made the Galaxy Z Fold2 5G official – kind of. As in, the foldable got plenty of stage time and press images were released but it wasn’t strictly ‘announced’ – with detailed specs and prices all. A few promo videos followed, and then a … Read more