As it's usually the case with Google products, they leak way before being announced. It seems that the upcoming Pixel Watch 2 won't be an exception to the rule as Android Authority got a hold of the watch faces. After all, watch faces are an intrinsic part of a smartwatch and OEMs try to offer a wide variety and customization options. Designers have come up with four main categories -... Read more ›
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Last week’s poll shows that the ZTE nubia Z50S Pro has a lot of potential – some are holding off until they can see what this phone can do before making their mind up, but for the most part people love the new Pro. Its gaming-focused cousin, the Red Magic 8S Pro didn’t draw as much interest and that’s no surprise, it’s more of a niche phone. The nubia is... Read more ›
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The Honor Pad X9 unveiled earlier this month is up for pre-orders in India through Amazon.in. It comes in a single 4GB/128GB configuration and is listed on Amazon.in for INR14,499 ($175/€160) as a part of a deal, with the MRP being INR25,999 ($315/€285). Honor's Indian branch hasn't made any announcement about the Pad X9 on its social media handles yet, but Amazon says the tablet will be released on August... Read more ›
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After the June software update, users are reporting that 8K video recording using the high bitrate mode is no longer available. The option in the camera menu is still there, but the toggle is grayed out. There's no mention in the changelog nor an explanation from Samsung. Some believe that the high bitrate option was disabled due to stability issues. Users reported that sometimes recording 8K videos would result in... Read more ›
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Meet the Honor Pad X9 - a simple tablet that should be on your radar if you're looking for a media consumption device you can take anywhere. The Honor Pad X9 is tough to beat in terms of an overall package for its price. It comes in a single 4/128GB config that'll set you back €250/£180 and it ships with a 10W charger and a USB cable. Unboxing the Honor... Read more ›
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Xiaomi's Poco has announced its entry into the AIoT space in India with the launch of Poco Pods TWS earphones in the Asian country. The Poco Pods are budget wireless earphones that pack a 12mm driver in each bud and have an IPX4 rating. The Poco Pods have Bluetooth 5.3 connectivity, support Google Fast Pair, and are advertised with a latency of up to 60ms. The earphones come with Environmental... Read more ›
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There's been a rumor doing rounds for the past year or so that Samsung is preparing a new smart wearable - a ring, possibly called Galaxy Ring. It's a fairly untapped smart wearable market, so it makes sense for Samsung to explore it. According to The Elec, the company has already finished the development process and will likely kickstart production next month. The Korean tech giant has reportedly secured its... Read more ›
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The Sony Xperia I V, which was unveiled in May and was up for pre-orders in the US until now, is finally shipping in the States. It's priced at $1,400 in the US and comes in a single 12GB/256GB configuration. You can purchase it from Sony's official website or Amazon. The Sony Xperia I V is built around a 6.5" 120Hz OLED having 3,840x1,644-pixel resolution and Gorilla Glass Victus 2... Read more ›
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AMD today announced the Radeon RX 7900 GRE desktop graphics. Although announced first in China, it seems the card will also be available globally. The RX 7900 GRE (which stands for Golden Rabbit Edition) is a cut-down version of the RX 7900 XT with some minor reductions to the GPU and significant reductions to the memory. Compared to the 7900 XT's 84 compute units, the 7900 GRE has 80. The... Read more ›
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Multiple rumors prior to launch said the Galaxy Z Fold5 and Flip5 would be the first foldables to arrive on the market with dust protection alongside water ingress protection, but those rumors turned out to be wrong. Like their predecessors, the new foldables are only rated for water resistance. Samsung's mobile boss TM Roh says the company is still hard at work trying to come up with ways to make... Read more ›
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Samsung is working on a new smartphone to bring into the already very crowded mid-range space, and it's been spotted in the Geekbench online results database today. That's definitely not out of the ordinary - someone at Samsung has a prototype in hand and is running benchmarks on it. What is a bit more interesting than the fact that prototypes are being benchmarked is that this one seems to be... Read more ›
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According to market research carried out by Counterpoint, the US smartphone market shrunk by a whopping 24% year-over-year in Q2 this year. That doesn't come as a surprise since this is the third consecutive quarter with declining sales. Manufacturers like Samsung, Motorola and TCL-Alcatel saw the biggest decline in shipments. Samsung's shipments fell 37%, Motorola's by 17% and TCL-Alcatel's by 69%. Interestingly, Apple's shipments shrunk by just 6% despite the... Read more ›
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Xiaomi unveiled the Pad 5 in August 2021 and finally introduced its successor Pad 6 a few months ago. The tablet is offered in blue, black, and gold colors, and it's the blue model that we've received at the office for review. The Xiaomi Pad 6 comes in a white-colored retail box with a USB-C cable, a 33W adapter, and some paperwork. Supporting accessories such as the Smart Pen (2nd... Read more ›
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AMD has announced the new Ryzen 9 7945HX3D, the world's first notebook CPU with the company's 3D V-Cache technology. The 7945HX3D is essentially the 7945HX but with double the L3 cache. While the L1 and L2 cache remain at 1MB and 16MB, respectively, the L3 cache goes from the 7945HX's sizable 64MB to an impressive 128MB for a total of 145MB cache. Introduced first on the Ryzen 7 5800X3D desktop... Read more ›
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Recently, TM Roh, the head of Samsung’s mobile division, revealed that the company sold just under 10 million foldable phones last year (60% of which were Galaxy Z Flip4s, 40% Z Fold4s). For 2023 the company expects to sell 50% more than that. This means that the target is around 15 million sales, which will keep Samsung the dominant player in the foldable market. Some analysts (Trendforce) are predicting that... Read more ›
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Global smartphone shipments during the April, May and June months totaled 258.2 million units as per the latest Canalys Smartphone Market Pulse report. The figure represents a 10% decline compared to the same period last year. Despite the sixth straight quarter of negative growth, global smartphone demand is slowly rebounding thanks to industry-wide inventory reductions and rising regional market demand. Samsung was once again the leading smartphone brand in terms... Read more ›
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A couple of days ago the metal mid-frame of the Huawei Mate 60 leaked, showing that the phone will have a circular camera island. Now Digital Chat Station has shared a render of the phone that offers a better look at said island – it reminds us of the Mate 40 series, except the circle is bigger. Three cameras are visible, though the only details we have so far is... Read more ›
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Samsung's Summer Unpacked is behind us and we're left with a couple of foldable Galaxies to review. But since reviewing takes place in Headquarters, and the phones are still in Seoul, we figured we'd fill our time with a photo walk around town with the Galaxy Z Flip5. The Z Flip5's camera system is mostly unchanged compared to the previous generation. Short of a small tweak with the selfie camera's... Read more ›
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Sony has announced it has reached the milestone of selling more than 40 million PlayStation 5 units globally (as of July 16, 2023) since it was unveiled in 2020. Sony sold its 25 millionth PS5 unit in the fiscal quarter ending on September 30, 2022, meaning it took the Japanese company just a little over nine months to sell another 15 million PS5 consoles, which is impressive. In a blog... Read more ›
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