OnePlus launched the Nord N10 and Nord N100 phones in October 2020 with the aim of expanding its portfolio towards the mid-range and gaining additional market share. According to a report, this turned out to be a successful move, and the company is on track to sell north of 2 million phones to T-Mobile’s Metro alone. The expected market share of 15% is not only impressive; it is believed to be the tallest OnePlus ever seen by a single US operator. Tracking company Wave7 Research says Metro typically sells around 15-16 million devices per year, and looking at the trends,…
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Yesterday, news broke that Carl Pei Nothing’s new business has acquired the Essential smartphone brand. The details were revealed in filings with the UK Intellectual Property Office and state that the transfer of intellectual property was completed on January 6, 2021. Now, Pei himself has confirmed yesterday’s reports and made it clear that the whole case centers on the patents held by Essential. He further clarified that there was, uh, nothing to share regarding Nothing’s plans with the newly acquired Esenetial patents. Although with the new evidence, it’s more likely that we won’t see anything in the smartphone business sooner…
The Samsung Galaxy A52 and A72 are one month away from launching in India, according to a new report. Both phones will have 4G and 5G versions, powered by Snapdragon 720G and 750G respectively. Besides India, the Galaxy A52 will apparently debut in Vietnam as the price of the leak is in dong – between VND 9.3 and 9.5 million for the 4G version and VND 11 million for the 5G model. This equates to € 330 – € 340 and € 395 respectively. These figures more or less correspond to yesterday’s prices, which claimed that the two A52 versions…
Realme is expected to release the Narzo 30 line next week, and the brand’s CEO for India and Europe just revealed one of the phones on his Twitter page. Madhav Sheth posted a photo, holding the Realme Narzo 30 Pro 5G, surrounded by the phone’s retail boxes. After a detailed inspection of the image, we can see a triple camera with a 48 MP main sensor and a fingerprint scanner on the side – confirming yesterday’s reports that this is a Realme Q2 renamed. The phones have also been listed on Flipkart – one of them will be able to…
Yesterday we got confirmation that the Redmi Note 10 series was due to launch on March 4th and now the landing page on Xiaomi India is giving us some clues about the new phones. The teasers suggest an all-new design that’s lighter and thinner than its predecessors. We can see a perforated display in one of the teasers that also mentions Gorilla Glass protection on the front and an IP52 rating. The side profile of the device is also revealed showing a side-mounted fingerprint reader and the protruding camera bump. The back of the device is curved while the screen…
Yesterday we saw some screenshots which revealed that the Oppo Find X3 PEDM00 rolling model code will run ColorOS 11.2 based on Android 11 and have 8GB of RAM on board. Today, the smartphone appeared on Geekbench with 8 GB of RAM and Android 11, corroborating these specifications. The chipset powering the smartphone is listed as “kona” in the motherboard section, which is the codename for the Snapdragon 865 SoC. However, one of the snapshots from yesterday showed us About Find X3 page, revealing that the smartphone will come with a Snapdragon 870 chip under the hood, which is essentially…
The Samsung Galaxy Fold received the One UI 3.0 update based on Android 11 last month in a few countries, and now it’s time for US units (SM-F900U1) to get the latest version of Android. The update carries the version number F900U1UEU4DUA3 and includes the usual bonuses of Android 11 and One UI 3.0 as well as the February 2021 Android security patch. Samsung galaxy fold The new firmware is being rolled out and should reach your Galaxy Fold in the US at any time. But if you can’t wait for the update prompt, you can check for update manually…
The Galaxy A52 5G is set to be Samsung’s next best-selling midranger, but the phone is yet to arrive. It’s already appeared in several leaks, revealing just about everything, and now it’s popped up on Google Play Console, confirming some specs like the Snapdragon 750G chipset and Android 11 out of the box. Samsung Galaxy A52 5G on the Google Play console The listing also has a front image of the phone from which we can see an Infinity-O panel which is most likely AMOLED, given that there is no fingerprint in sight and the power key is clearly visible.…
On the first day of February, Google announced the closure of its internal SG&E studios (Stadia Games & Entertainment). Google intended to create video games exclusive to its Stadia cloud gaming service that would showcase the capabilities of the platform. As reported by Kotaku, none of the employees saw it coming. In fact, they were informed the same day that Google publicly announced the studio was shutting down. In addition to receiving the news at the last minute, the studio employees were praised for their work the week before. According to “four sources with knowledge of what happened,” Google Stadia…
While OnePlus has been pretty quiet about its incoming smartphones, we’ve seen leaks and rumors circulating. The latest rumor comes from Max Weinbach who managed to reveal leaks on the Samsung Galaxy S20 series with precision. OnePlus 9 and OnePlus 9 Pro will arrive on T-Mobile. The Pro model has 12 GB of RAM.- Max Weinbach (@MaxWinebach) February 15, 2021 T-Mobile apparently intends to carry the new OnePlus 9 duo. The OnePlus 9 Pro is expected to arrive with 12GB of RAM. We can only speculate that the 9 Pro will arrive with 256GB of internal storage. Based on previous…