At 2 PM today, on September 4, the Honor 7s will officially make its debut in India. This smartphone from Huawei’s sub-brand was first released in Pakistan back in May. In the meantime we’ve also seen it in the UK. It’s an entry-level smartphone so it’s expected to be very cheap in India, like it is in the other markets where it’s available. Rumor has it that you’ll need to pay INR…

Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 845 chipset powers pretty much every flagship Android device that isn’t made by Huawei or Samsung this year, but it is pretty old at this point, launching on the Galaxy S9 this spring. Its successor, tentatively called Snapdragon 855, may have just been benchmarked inside a development board. The Geekbench listing doesn’t give us the chipset’s name, only its codename – “msmnile”. It was paired with 6GB of RAM on…

After Honor teased the Magic 2 with a pop-up camera, Xiaomi’s co-founder was quick to reveal that the Mi Mix 3 will have a similar design, both taking after the Oppo Find X. That may not be the whole story, however. A short video that shows a Xiaomi Mi Mix 3 being handled reveals that the mechanism is manual. It appears to be a slider design with the bottom “half” sliding up…

This year’s IFA in Berlin might not be over yet, but all the major announcements have been made. We can’t say it was the most exciting of the shows but some manufacturers there was still some hot hardware for us. Sony As per tradition, Sony unveiled its H2 flagship at IFA and the Xperia XZ3 is more than a refresh of the Xperia XZ2 that was introduced back in April. It has…

The major IFA rush is over and the dust has settled. We saw a couple of brilliant flagships and more than a few capable mid-range devices. We spent time with them and covered them in detail. Now it’s time for you to pick a favorite. We’ll start off with the flagship category, which is the most exciting really, but this year there were only two. The Sony Xperia XZ3 marks an important…

This week was big in terms of mobile news. The tech world was buzzing with anticipation for the IFA show in Berlin (which is now done, mobile-wise) and there were a few big announcements in store. Right off the bat Xiaomi launched its Pocophone F1 to the global market and subsequently sold more than 68 thousand units in 5 minutes. Sony announced its first ever AMOLED smartphone in the Xperia XZ3 and…

Sony stole the show this year with its latest flagship offering – the Xperia XZ3. This year the company aims to deliver essentially the same old Xperia user experience while trying out something new, which turned out to be the spotlight feature of this phone – the curved BRAVIA OLED display. It was even proclaimed the best display according to Independent Strategy Analytics. Opinions about the device are polarizing – some liked…

It’s no secret that Apple sells a lot of devices each year so even if the company says there’s an issue affecting a small percentage of the devices, we might be talking hundreds of thousands of handsets, or even millions. However, this time around, the acknowledged issue concerning the iPhone 8 might not really be that widespread like some in the past. In an official statement, Apple says there’s a logic board…

Even though Google skipped a few months of reporting the state of Android distribution, it’s now back on track with the latest statistics for the end of August. The usual trend continues – most of the older Android versions are going down in numbers in contrast to the newer versions. Compared to last month, 8.0 and 8.1 Oreo have risen by more than two percentage points from 12.1% up to 14.6%, which…

Google’s Pixel 3 and Pixel 3 XL have been leaking a lot lately, even though their official unveiling date might be October 9. Today it’s been revealed that they have passed through the FCC’s certification process already – with most documents filed in early July, though some date back to late June. We’re only now finding out about this because the confidentiality period for the technical reports has ended today. The two…