YouTube has started rolling out its new Shorts feature – it’s a platform for short videos, shot in portrait orientation, and is an obvious attempt to curb TikTok and its growing influence online. Those in the United States have started to receive the feature and global rollout is expected soon. Currently, Shorts is still in beta, so not all US users will get it after updating their app. The company is probably doing A / B testing, but given that YouTube has been working on short films for the past 12 months, the stable version of the feature should be…
Author: Kevin Le
It’s time for us to have a release date for the OnePlus 9 series and the company’s official website has made a big announcement for March 8th. new OnePlus flagships and not their actual launch event. The short teaser only mentions that “something new is on the horizon” and the page is titled Moonshot hinting at the launch of a spaceship or in this case, a new line of phones. We’ve already seen a lot of leaks regarding the OnePlus 9 series which specifies three phones. The OnePlus 9E / Lite will be the affordable entry with a 6.5-inch FHD…
Just over a month after its first unveiling, the Samsung Galaxy M12 will go on sale in India. It already has a landing page on the local Amazon and Samsung pages. The search results on Samsung.com let it slip that we will see the 4GB and 6GB versions of the phone (the basic 3/32 GB configuration is nowhere to be found). The launch is scheduled for March 11 at noon Thursday next week. It’s too early to talk about the price of the phone, but we can look at its closest relatives – the M11 launched at INR 15,000 (now…
Oppo sent out a press release confirming the launch date for its flagship Find X3 Pro. It will arrive on March 11 at an online event that will be broadcast live on YouTube. Our invitation came from Oppo India, with the company confirming that the launch will begin at 5:00 p.m. IST or 11:30 a.m. UTC / GMT. The post doesn’t say anything that we haven’t known until now – the Oppo Find X3 Pro will be powered by a Snapdragon 888 chipset and the phone will have a display that “delivers excellence in terms of resolution, refresh rate”. display…
Several weeks ago we had a pretty detailed leak regarding Samsung’s upcoming Galaxy A52. The phone will be available in 4G and 5G versions, with the latter offering a higher 120Hz refresh rate and 750G Snapdragon chipset, while the 4G model will get a 90Hz display and 730G SD SoC. Now, Roland Quandt gives more details on the cameras for the two A52 variants which will feature the same four sensors. The main one is a 64MP snapper with OIS and a pixel size of 0.8 µm. There is also a 12 MP ultra-wide mod with 123 degree field of…
Xiaomi will announce its Redmi Note 10 line on March 4, but the phone continues to leak everywhere. After seeing its box and back panel, we learn more about the phone itself, including the screen, charging, and chipset. The Redmi Note 10 will be powered by a Snapdragon 678 – a slightly improved SD675, based on the 11nm LLP process. It will have an overclocked 2.2GHz dual-core main CPU cluster, while a 5,000mAh battery will keep the lights on. The battery is still just as slightly smaller than that of the Redmi Note 9 (which had a 5020mAh power cell)…
introduction The Realme X7 Pro was announced in September 2020, but remained confined to its home country of China for several months, only making its way to Thailand and Taiwan towards the end of the year. It continues its expansion of global availability and has recently arrived in India. We had to spend some time with an X7 Pro – not enough for a full review, but a lot for extended hands-on experience. The X7 Pro resides somewhere in the upper midrange and has some serious hardware inside. Mediatek’s top-tier Dimensity 1000+ chipset is on load, delivering high performance and…
Oppo is working on a successor to the A73 smartphone, unsurprisingly named Oppo A74. The device has the model number CPH2219 and has been certified by several organizations including the FCC, Bureau of Indian Standards, TKDN in Indonesia, Eurasian Economic Commission, and the Wi-Fi Alliance. Oppo F17 Pro All the announcements gave us a preview of the datasheet. Several certifications have confirmed that the Oppo A74 will have Android 10 out of the box, likely with ColorOS 7 on top. Thanks to the Chinese quality certification, for example, we’ve also learned that the new phone will have 33W fast charging,…
The Samsung Galaxy F62 only lasted a week above our trend chart with the new Redmi K40 Pro + pulling straight up and pushing it by the second. Another new phone – the 4G version of the Galaxy A32 – completes the podium, pushing its high-flying sibling Galaxy S21 Ultra to fourth place. The Samsung Galaxy A12 is fifth, ahead of the Xiaomi Mi 11 and the vanilla Redmi K40. We then have the Galaxy M62 in eighth with the Poco M3 in ninth. The third member of the new Redmi line – the K40 Pro rounds out the top…
Oppo is mainly known for its smartphones, but the company has been slowly expanding its portfolio of audio products. Oppo launched a bunch of wireless earphones last year, including the Enco X that reached Indian shores just this year, and we have with us today. The Oppo Enco X are packed to the brim as they come with touch controls, noise cancellation, wireless charging, and IP54 rating. They also support LHDC – an advanced Bluetooth audio codec – and are claimed to offer up to 25 hours of battery life. While all that sure looks impressive on paper, do the…