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Android Phone, Products

Navitas’ Next GaN IC Powers vivo’s iQOO 9 Pro Smartphone

January 21, 2022

Via: Tech Times

Navitas today officially announced that its next-generation GaNFast power IC drives the 120W ultra-fast charger supplied ‘in-box’ with vivo’s iQOO-brand flagship iQOO 9 Pro mobile phone. The 9 Pro’s powerful 4,700 mAhr battery charges from 0-100% in only 19 lightning-fast […]


Android Phone, Products

Vivo X70 Series: Wireless Charging for X70 Pro Plus, Bokeh Effects for Cameras

September 10, 2021

Via: Tech Times

Vivo has announced its X70 series, and this new phone series seems to be packed with some pretty cool features that Vivo fans and tech enthusiasts can look forward to. One of the new exciting features, specifically for the Vivo […]


Android Phone, Products

Vivo X70 Series Mobile Phones Recently Leaked in a Listing: Here are Their Key Specs

September 8, 2021

Via: Tech Radar

The latest leak about Vivo revealed that its upcoming Vivo X70 flagship series will arrive this week. China Telecom has reportedly tipped the advanced news about the mobile phones which include X70, X70 Pro, and the X70 Pro+ variant. The […]


Android Phone, Products

Google Pixel Fold and most other 2021 foldables will use 120Hz LTPO displays

July 19, 2021

Via: Phone Arena

The second half of 2021 will be all about foldable smartphones. Products from Samsung, Google, Xiaomi, and others are in the works and a new leak reveals an important detail about their respective display. The Pixel Fold, Galaxy Z Fold […]


Android Phone, Products

Future Vivo X-series flagships will receive three Android OS upgrades

May 10, 2021

Via: Phone Arena

Samsung and Google have both committed to offering three years of major Android OS upgrades with their flagship smartphones. Now, Chinese rival Vivo has decided to match that pledge in certain markets. Vivo joins Samsung and Google in promising three […]


News and Press

Huawei’s market share in China has halved in under a year

April 30, 2021

Via: Phone Arena

Huawei’s European smartphone business has been in freefall ever since it stopped releasing new devices with Google services support. Now, the latest market data shows that this freefall has spread to China. Huawei is no longer the biggest smartphone brand […]


News and Press

OnePlus and Apple experienced explosive growth in India last quarter

April 27, 2021

Via: Phone Arena

The Indian smartphone market is becoming even more important for global brands with each passing quarter and the latest market data gathered by Counterpoint Research shows exactly why. Xiaomi was the market leader in India last quarter In Q1 2021 […]


News and Press

Samsung’s Exynos chipsets could soon be used by Xiaomi and Oppo

November 3, 2020

Via: Phone Arena

Samsung has been using in-house Exynos chipsets inside its Galaxy smartphones for the past decade. Other brands have started using the chips in recent times too, but come next year there could be an Exynos boom. Exynos chips inside Samsung, […]


Gadgets, Products

OnePlus’ sub-$100 true wireless earbuds detailed in new leak

July 20, 2020

Via: The Verge

A new leak has given us the best look yet at the soon to be launched true wireless earbuds from OnePlus. Several images were extracted from the OnePlus Buds APK by both 9to5Google and Max Weinbach of XDA Developers. While […]


News and Press

Can Samsung keep smaller Chinese smartphone players at bay this year?

March 2, 2020

Via: Tech Radar

Samsung has room to play and will have a sigh of relief this year as Huawei is not in the real smartphone competition due to lack of Google Play Store but the South Korean giant is going to face stiff […]


News and Press

Apple keeps laughing all the way to the bank, trailed by the Android gang

December 19, 2019

Via: Phone Arena

Not that it should come as a huge surprise, but Apple made out like a bandit in the past two years, according to research firm Counterpoint. It captured the whopping 66% of the smartphone industry’s more than a hundred billion […]


Tech, Wireless

Xiaomi, Oppo, and Vivo collaborate on AirDrop-style file transfer

August 19, 2019

Via: The Verge

Three of China’s biggest smartphone makers are working together on a new wireless file transfer protocol that will work between their respective devices. Xiaomi’s MIUI, Oppo’s ColorOS, and Vivo’s FuntouchOS — all based on Android — will integrate the peer-to-peer […]


Android Phone, Products

The best Chinese phones Americans can’t buy

March 7, 2019

Via: The Verge

The American smartphone market is an increasingly boring place to be. You have Apple and Samsung at the top, LG in a distant third, then Motorola, and maybe the occasional wildcard option like Google and OnePlus collectively making up less […]


Android Phone, Products

Vivo V11 has an in-display fingerprint scanner and is now launching outside China

September 5, 2018

Via: Tech Radar

It doesn’t feature the Vivo Nex’s level of next-gen technology, but the new Vivo V11 is coming to other markets outside of China for the very first time. Vivo has announced the phone is coming to India and Thailand after […]


Android Phone, Products

Vivo V9 – Hands On & First Impressions

March 29, 2018

Via: Pocket Now

In the realm of top-notch (hah!) smartphones, Vivo decided to drop their best effort on an iPhone X clone. In case you didn’t know, Vivo comes under the umbrella of BBK Electronics along with its sister companies: OPPO and OnePlus. […]


Android Phone, Products

Vivo’s V9 is a notched Android with AI smarts

March 22, 2018

Via: Mashable

China’s Vivo has launched a new flagship phone, and of course it has the iPhone X-style notch. But beneath the inspired-by-Apple design (even the phone’s rear side looks a lot like the iPhone X) there’s some interesting tech. First, the […]


Android Phone, Products

Vivo X21 with in-display fingerprint sensor and Vivo V9 with iPhone X-like notch are coming this month

March 9, 2018

Via: Pocket Now

We’ve been praising China-based smartphone manufacturer Vivo of late for breaking new ground in both biometric recognition and borderless designs, but just like the bulk of its domestic rivals, it seems the BBK-owned brand is also looking to follow Apple’s […]


Android Phone, Products

Vivo is launching the first phone with an under-the-display fingerprint scanner

January 22, 2018

Via: Mashable

On January 24, China’s Vivo will launch a smartphone with an under-the-display fingerprint sensor. You may have already forgotten about this technology, and I don’t blame you, but just months ago before the launch of iPhone X, it was widely […]


Android Phone, Products

Vivo, not Samsung, plans to unveil the first phone with an in-display fingerprint sensor soon

December 15, 2017

Via: Pocket Now

Synaptics Incorporated, the self-described “leading developer of human interface solutions”, made a somewhat misleading announcement on Tuesday, when it appeared to preface the early 2018 launch of a Samsung Galaxy S9 duo with in-display fingerprint recognition technology. Samsung’s name was […]


Tech

Vivo could reveal today the date when it will unveil the loaded Vivo X5Pro

May 7, 2015

Via: itCurated

Another in a line of interesting Android handsets from China could be unveiled soon. Vivo has told readers of its Weibo web site in the country that it has important news to share with them later today. The news could […]