Tuesday, April 30, 2019

OnePlus 7 Pro New York Times ad promises no bezel and no notch

OnePlus is running an ad in the New York Times newspaper, promoting its upcoming OnePlus 7 Pro. It teases a phone with No bells & whistles, no bezel, no notch, no app lag, no bloatware, no $2,000 price tag and oddly, no random music. The ad also features a blueprint of a phone that more or less confirms a few of its key selling points - the new triple camera, the new pop-up selfie camera, the in-display fingerprint scanner and a heat pipe for heat dispersion. Yes Virginia, if it's in The New York Times, it's got to be true. Welcome to the world, One Plus! pic.twitter.com/leKjS801dN—...

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Realme is celebrating its first birthday with flash sales, price cuts and phone giveaways

Realme is celebrating its first anniversary in India with a number of deals and giveaways that total INR 10,000,000. Participants could win 10 Realme 3 Pro units or buy one with a discount from its flash sale at noon on May 3 for INR 13,999. The regular Realme 3 now comes with double the storage at 3GB + 64GB for INR 9,999. Its flash sale will happen on May 2 at midnight. The Realme 2 Pro and Realme U1 will get a INR 1,000 discount on May 2 and will be priced INR 10,990 and INR 8,999, respectively. Buyers are eligible for 15% SuperCash when paying with MobiKwik while...

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Latest Samsung Galaxy Note9 update improves the camera and brings April security patch

Samsung is seeding a software update for the Galaxy Note9, which includes the Android security patch for April 1, 2019. More importantly, however, this firmware also adds an option in the Settings menu that lets you schedule the Night Mode to turn on and off automatically. Additionally, the new build comes with camera improvements that let you switch the FOV of the selfie camera between 68 degrees and 80 degrees with the help of a toggle located above the camera shutter button. This update, carrying version number N960FXXU2CSDE, weighs around 520MB in size and is currently rolled...

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Meizu 17 will likely be the company's first 5G phone, might bring portless design

Meizu's recently released 16s is the company's flagship device for 2019 but according to new speculations, Meizu is hard at work on its successor which will also bring 5G capabilities for the first time in the manufacturer's lineup. An image from the recent China Unicom Partner Conference revealed the slogan for the upcoming device reading "meet the new 5G era, Meizu 17 is coming". We've also got some leaked hands-on images courtesy of a Weibo user. According to speculations, the new phone will adopt the portless design from the Meizu Zero concept phone, which failed to make its way to...

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Samsung Galaxy A40 review

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Motorola Moto E6 specs leak, 5.45-inch display and Snapdragon 430 SoC in tow

Motorola unveiled the Moto G7 lineup back in February this year, and while there's no word from the company yet regarding the Moto E6 series, specifications of the vanilla E6 have surfaced online which tell us what to expect from this smartphone. According to the report the Moto E6 is codenamed "surfna" and is powered by Snapdragon 430 SoC which is mated to 2GB RAM. The smartphone has a 5.45-inch 1440 x 720-pixel display on the front which is accompanied by a 5MP Samsung ISOCELL S5K5E9 sensor having f/2.0 aperture. Motorola Moto E5 Round the back, the E6 sports a 13MP Samsung...

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