Even though Realme first made the X7 Pro official in September last year, the phone only landed in India this month. It should have been available for purchase a few days ago, and to build up the hype for its newly released smartphone, Realme decided to tear down a unit in front of the camera. So, the following video followed. It’s a little different than what we’re used to from Zack Nelson from JerryRigAll fame, we have to say, but the folks at Realme are probably trying to pay more attention to the device, hence the use of a hot…
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HBO Max is going global – it will launch in 39 territories in Latin America and the Caribbean at the end of June (see full list below). Later it will spread to Europe, but in a slightly different way. No word yet on a launch in Canada. The HBO Go service in Latin America and the Caribbean will be phased out. Current subscribers will have instant access to Max through completely new apps and various subscription options. HBO Max will feature movies and TV series from major Warner Media properties – HBO, Warner Bros, New Line, DC, CNN, TNT, TBS,…
VLC turned 20 this month – the popular video player has seen over 3.5 billion downloads and despite its advanced age (software ages in dog years) it shows no signs of slowing down. Work on version 4.0 is almost finished, the stable version is expected in the coming months. The user interface will be completely redesigned. A major feature will be the Moviepedia Project, an IMDb competitor with a Wikipedia-style user contribution model. First glimpses of the new VLC 4.0 interface The new version will also focus more on playing videos from the internet, relying on extensions to find third-party…
LG announced the update of its Gram laptops at CES last month and now the standard 14 “, 16” and 17 “models are on sale in the US The 14-inch Gram with the Intel Tiger Lake i3 processor Generation 11 starts at $ 999 and weighs just 999 grams. All new models come with 16:10 aspect screens and Iris Xe GPUs. They feature 8/16 GB of LPDDR4x RAM and up to 2 TB NVMe SSDs on the more expensive 17-inch model which costs $ 1,799. The 17-inch model has an IPS panel with a resolution of 2560 x 1600 pixels.…
Honor launched the V40 in China last month as the first device after its split from Huawei. The has just been certified by the Eurasian Economic Commission, which means it is getting closer to a global launch. More interestingly, the phone was accompanied by four other devices at the EEC. The HJC-LX9C and NZA-LX9 could be the global variants of two phones that have been certified on TENAA but not yet officially announced – the HJC-AN00 and NZA-AN00. Our source claimed that the first is the Huawei nova 8 SE but with a Dimensity 800U chipset, while the latter does…
Similar to what happened with the Galaxy S10 One UI 3.0 update last month, users around the world are claiming that the One UI 3.1 update for the Galaxy S20 FE is no longer available. There is no official statement on this from Samsung, but people believe it could be due to the various performance issues that some owners are experiencing after the update. Battery drain, unreliable SMS notifications, and general slowdowns have been mentioned on various online forums. So far, the update has been distributed in the majority of European countries but, of course, it is no longer available…
Samsung’s partnership with Microsoft continues to improve, and the Korean company is now bringing its Quick Share feature to Windows 10 PCs. The new Quick Share app was introduced some time ago for Samsung devices and is now available for Windows 10 as well. It’s on the Microsoft App Store and lets you quickly and easily send files from your phone to your PC via Wi-Fi Direct. Via Source: GSMArena
The BlackBerry and TCL partnership ended last year, but it was only a few months before a new business grew – OnwardMobility announced that it would design and sell BlackBerry-branded phones in 2021. Today CEO Peter Franklin confirmed that his company is on the right track to do just that. The phones will be easy to recognize – they’ll have that classic BlackBerry hardware keyboard. However, they will all be modern on the inside and will support 5G networks. Currently, OnwardMobility is working with Foxconn to develop the first models. These devices will be marketed in North America and Europe…
The Samsung Galaxy S21 trio have received another software update. The changelog is not very descriptive, but so soon after the last one the new version is likely to be here to address the battery drain issues that some users reported after the previous OTA update. . The new firmware version is G99xBXXU1AUB6, it is 257MB and contains the February 2021 security patch. It is still not available to everyone, but it looks like the initial rollout is quite large as users across most of Europe have it. have already downloaded. Via Source: GSMArena
Motorola has a bunch of Mediterranean codename midwayers in the pipeline – Ibiza, Capri, Athena – and now we can Motorola Malta on the list. Appeared in the market as the Moto E7 Power, the phone appeared on Geekbench with a Helio P22 chipset and 4 GB of RAM. Motorola Moto “Malta” E7 Power on Geekbench The single-core score of 152 and the multi-core score of 879 are anything but impressive. There’s a reason for this: The Helio P22 platform is almost three years old, but the benchmark version is relatively new and wasn’t a stellar performance even when it…