Category: Phones

August 6, 2019

When it launches in October, the Mate 30 Pro will be one of the hottest Android phones of 2019. Several leaks so far told us the next Huawei phone will have a more daring design than the Galaxy S or […]

August 5, 2019

Apple is planning to reintroduce Touch ID with an in-display fingerprint sensor in its 2021 iPhones, a new report from noted industry analyst Ming-Chi Kuo has claimed. 9to5Mac reports that the analyst says the technology will be included alongside Apple’s […]

August 2, 2019

Not long ago, Samsung announced a phone camera sensor that carries a record resolution of 64 MP. That’s way more than the current ubiquitous 48MP Sony sensor that every Chinese maker seems to slap in their handsets these days. Needless […]

November 15, 2017

Even though it wasn’t quite as fast as Huawei, OnePlus or HMD Global in opening a public Oreo beta program for the Galaxy S8 and S8+, Samsung quickly rolled out a couple of (unstable) updates for testers, sparking hope of […]

September 20, 2017

Has Apple permanently shifted to a three-iPhone release strategy or will this year’s X/8/8 Plus lineup prove to be a one-time thing? Are all of Cupertino’s 2018 mobile hardware upgrades slated to receive OLED screens with super-slim bezels? Most importantly, […]

August 24, 2017

Earlier today, as expected, Samsung officially announced its newest phablet, the Galaxy Note 8. My fellow editor, Anna, wrote up a spot-on piece, calling the newest member of the smartphone lineup a tricked-out Galaxy S8+. Of course, there’s nothing wrong […]

April 12, 2017

Buoyed by a solid corporate reputation and brand awareness that went largely unharmed by last fall’s unprecedented Note 7 double recall, not to mention an unrivaled marketing budget, Samsung can still afford to launch mediocre mobile gear at around $250, […]

April 11, 2017

Samsung is taking charge of its destiny in the United States, doing something that the number two global smartphone brand hasn’t done before: selling its flagship phones direct to consumers. It has launched an Apple-esque interface on its site that […]

April 11, 2017

The chipmaker on Monday, in a 134-page redacted filing, responded to an Apple lawsuit about patent licensing and made some counterclaims of its own, including breach of contract. It also asked for an unspecified amount in damages. “Over the last […]

April 10, 2017

While the “regular” P10 didn’t bring enough innovation to the table to warrant a full-scale, in-depth real camera review, we decided to take the larger, more powerful Huawei P10 Plus for a lengthier spin, and indeed, this one feels noticeably […]

April 10, 2017

The official announcement, first public demo and beta release of iOS 11 are almost certainly drawing near, and unlike the more distant next-gen iPhone launch, we’re pretty much kept in the dark as to Apple’s mobile software updating plans. All […]

April 7, 2017

Keeping in line with their monthly security update schedule, the BlackBerry Security Incident Response Team on Twitter has now let it be known that BlackBerry has begun their rollout of the April Android update. Once downloaded and installed, you should […]

April 7, 2017

Far from a one-trick pony, the world’s second largest information technology company by revenue was still expected to take a big financial and public perception hit as a result of the Galaxy Note 7 debacle. But while Q3 2016 profits […]

April 7, 2017

Huawei has scored a victory over rival Samsung in its home market of China. A Chinese court has ordered the South Korean giant to pay Huawei 80 million yuan (around $11.6 million) for patent violations, reports ZDNet. Both companies have […]

November 14, 2016

The OnePlus 3T is due out on Tuesday with a slight change in specifications and, perhaps, price from the OnePlus 3. The question for the road ahead: will OnePlus deign to iterate early next year or wait with bated breath […]

October 14, 2016

The LG V20 is a completely different animal than the G5 which was released earlier this year. Unlike the Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge, the differences are more similar to comparing the smaller S7 and the Note (minus the battery […]

July 25, 2016

In March of this year a list of the world’s top phone vendors was published. Twelve names were on it, and of those a stunning eight were Chinese. Far from the knock-off merchants they have so often been categorized as, […]

May 3, 2016

Double tap to wake. LG‘s done it. So has HTC. Several others, too. It’s faster and doesn’t need as much effort as pressing a button. Previous Nokia Lumias have this feature — particularly talking about the pre-Windows 10 Mobile handsets. […]

April 28, 2016

A privacy bill five years in the making just passed overwhelmingly through the House of Representatives, where privacy advocates and tech companies like Google and Dropbox are challenging a decades-old law that allows the government to get emails without a […]

April 20, 2016

When the LG G5 was announced a couple of months ago during Mobile World Congress, I was impressed. The design is completely fresh and new, and that’s something I feel we don’t come across often in this industry anymore. Its […]