After months of secrecy, Huawei Technologies has announced its proprietary operating system (OS), Harmony (鸿蒙, Hóngméng) OS. This comes in light of recent US sanctions that have restricted the company's access to key software and hardware resources from third parties. Huawei showcases its vision of the future of consumer technology
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It's Samsung and Apple left in the ring now as Huawei licks its wounds in the shadows for the time being. Samsung and Apple - both mobile manufacturing giants with a foot in other affiliated businesses, both top companies as listed by Forbes (Apple 6th, Samsung 13th in the 2019
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In their incessant quest to achieve the ultimate all-screen, no-bezel display, manufacturers have pulled all sorts of tricks to that end. Slimming chins and receding foreheads not enough - many have resorted to the use of the now ubiquitous display notch. Used to house vital front-facing sensors and elements, these
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The long-awaited OnePlus 6T has finally launched 11 PM SGT today, 29th October 2018. The OnePlus 6T is wildly different from the OnePlus 6 launched in May earlier this year, both on the outside and within. The OnePlus 6 was wildly successful, selling 1 million units in three short weeks,
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Xiaomi, a Chinese smartphone manufacturer responsible for a swath of high-performing budget devices, has debuted its new 2018 flagship. The Xiaomi Mi Mix 3 succeeds the Mi Mix 2s launched earlier this year. [caption id="attachment_134195" align="alignleft" width="650"] The manually-operated camera slide-out on the Xiaomi Mi Mix 3. Image: Xiaomi[/caption] Long
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I hear you - all of you. Baulking at the thousand-dollar-plus price tag. Scoffing at the lack of bundled lightning-to-3.5mm dongle. Cackling away at #chargegate and #beautygate. Android race, master race. I hear all of you. I, a life-long Android user (with some exceptions), think I've finally wrapped my mind around
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You're looking for a new phone but held out due to the exorbitant price tags of the more expensive flagships. The iPhone Xs costs SGD 1,649, but perhaps it was too small for you, or too little of an upgrade from last year's iPhone X to justify such a high cost.
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Lenovo has confirmed that the successor to the Moto Z Play will be a downgrade in the battery life department, packing a smaller 3,000mAh capacity battery inside. The battery capacity was revealed by Lenovo in a reply to a query regarding the Moto Z2 Play’s battery on its official Twitter
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Reliable mobile leakster Evan Blass has published an image of what appears to be an internal presentation slide, showing Motorola’s upcoming smartphone lineup for 2017. In addition to the existing z, g and e lines, Motorola will be introducing a new c line this year, targeting the entry-level smartphone segment.
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The upcoming OnePlus 5 has made an appearance on the popular AnTuTu benchmark database, revealing some interesting new info. Listed as the OnePlus A5000, the smartphone runs on the flagship Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 octa-core SoC with the Adreno 540 GPU powering the graphics. The exact display size hasn’t been listed,
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OnePlus has silently discontinued the 128GB variant of its OnePlus 3T flagship smartphone. While the company has not issued any press statement regarding the same, a company rep has confirmed it. The OnePlus support rep did not reveal any details though, merely stating that the company felt that it needed
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After the ZenFone 3 Zoom, it looks like Asus is working on a more affordable Android smartphone with a dual-camera setup at the back. The unannounced smartphone has been spotted on the popular GFXBench graphics benchmark database. Going by the listing, the 'X00ID' is going to feature a 5.5-inch sized
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HTC has released a new video teaser for its upcoming U 11 flagship smartphone, highlighting the Edge Sense feature. The Edge Sense feature will basically allow users to launch apps on the edge of the display by simply squeezing along the bottom sides of the smartphone. As we have mentioned
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This past week, Xiaomi introduced its latest global flagship smartphone, the Mi 6. At the announcement event, the company revealed that the handset will be available only in four color options. However, according to the handset’s TENAA listing, Xiaomi Mi 6 will have a total of 11 color options. The
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Taiwanese smartphone maker HTC has confirmed that it will be announcing its next flagship smartphone at an event on May 16th. The device is expected to be marketed as the HTC U, as evident by the “Squeeze for the Brilliant U” tagline used in the teaser released by the company
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A few days back, an alleged render showing the Honor 9 had appeared on the web. Today, yet another render of the handset has surfaced, this time showing it in a unique light purple shade. In terms of design, the Honor 9 appears to be largely similar to its predecessor.
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iPhone leakster Sonny Dickson has shared an alleged schematic for the upcoming iPhone 8 model, suggesting that Apple will be moving the Touch ID sensor to the back of the smartphone. It was previously reported that Apple would be using an under-glass fingerprint scanner positioned below the screen. While the
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Xiaomi has finally debuted its latest flagship Android smartphone, the Mi 6. Announced at a media event in Beijing today, the Mi 6 is a pretty significant upgrade over the Mi 5 from last year. The smartphone features a durable stainless steel frame with 3D curved glass on all four
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[caption id="attachment_125638" align="aligncenter" width="1024"] Image Courtesy: iFixit[/caption] Ahead of their worldwide release this Friday, the folks over at iFixit managed to get their hands on a Samsung Galaxy S8 and Galaxy S8+ to perform a complete teardown. As we expected, the iFixit team found that the latest Samsung Galaxy flagships
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A few weeks back, the world got its first look at Android co-founder Andy Rubin’s upcoming flagship smartphone. The smartphone has today been spotted on the popular GFXBench graphics benchmark database, revealing impressive hardware specifications. The handset has been listed on GFXBench as the “Essential FIH-PM1”. According to the benchmark
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