Following Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 888 announcement a growing list of smartphone brands began teasing their plans to incorporate Qualcomm’s latest chipset in their upcoming flagships. Chinese makers Lenovo, Meizu and nubia are the latest brands to confirm their plans via posts on their official Weibo accounts.
Lenovo confirmed the Snapdragon 888 is coming soon to its Legion gaming line. The maker…
The end of 2020 is nearing and Apple has just announced its 15 best apps and games and several categories. The “iPhone App of the Year” award goes to Wakeout – a platform helping all the people confined at their home stay active. Working and studying from home also…
Samsung is working on an object tracker called Galaxy Smart Tag
December 1, 2020
Samsung is apparently looking to expand its Galaxy brand even further than before, this time to also encompass what seemingly will be a smart object tracker, akin to Tile. We’re assuming this will work in concert with Samsung’s SmartThings Find feature, which was…
Samsung Galaxy Z Flip Lite may be on the way
November 19, 2020
Foldable smartphones may or may not be the future, but one thing’s for sure: they’re still very expensive at the moment. In the past, we heard Samsung was working on a Galaxy Z Fold Lite that would be cheaper than the Z Fold 2, but now it seems that project may have been shelved.
The information comes from Ross Young, founder of DSCC and frequent purveyor of foldable-related rumors…
Oppo announced its new “Full-path Color Management System”, which will make its debut with the Oppo Find X3 series coming next year. “Full-path” means that the system covers everything from capturing images, storing them and displaying them with full DCI-P3 gamut…
Huawei officially announces the sale of Honor smartphone business
November 17, 2020
Following reports of Honor’s imminent sale, parent company Huawei has made the news official. With US restrictions severely limiting Huawei’s telecom consumer and commercial businesses, the company had to resort to selling off its secondary smartphone brand: Honor (known…
Samsung Galaxy A42 5G 8GB model goes on sale in Taiwan
November 17, 2020
The Samsung Galaxy A42 5G made its formal debut in Taiwan last month with 6GB RAM. Now the company has launched an 8GB RAM model in the country, which is priced at TWD13,990 ($490/€415) and has three color options – Black, White, and Grey.
The Galaxy A42 5G 8GB model can be purchased from retail stores across the country, and if you buy it from Samsung Smart Pavillion, you can get a…
Apple's iOS ad-tracking targeted by European privacy campaigner
November 17, 2020
Max Schrems (pictured) is a privacy campaigner who has already battled the US-EU Privacy Shield and Facebook. Today, the activist is launching legal broadsides against Apple, saying that the iPhone maker’s use of IDFA, IDentifier For Advertisers, is unlawful. Bloomberg…
Qualcomm gets US permission to sell 4G phone chips to Huawei
November 15, 2020
The US is making an exception to a ban against Huawei buying US chip technology — if a slight one. Qualcomm has confirmed to Reuters that it has received US government permission to sell 4G phone chips to Huawei. The American company didn’t say which chips were allowed…
iPhone 12 mini owners report unresponsive lock screens
November 15, 2020
Some early iPhone 12 mini buyers are having a rough experience with their diminutive new handset. Users on MacRumors, Apple’s forum and Reddit report that the 12 mini’s touchscreen is partly unresponsive at the lock screen. They’ll not only have trouble launching the camera or flashlight, but even swiping up to unlock using their thumb. Other fingers work, but that’s not very helpful for a…
