Less than a month after Oppo’s successful test of 5G modems, another BBK Electronics company has announced that it has reached another milestone towards delivering 5G-ready smartphones. In a press message, vivo stated that it developed a 5G smartphone by modifying its current vivo NEX S flagship and slapping in a Qualcomm’s X50 modem, introduced back in February. The device setup included a non-standalone architecture model that combined both LTE and NR…

Last week we reported on the first batch of smartphones that received the first stable MIUI 10 ROM in China. Now, the Mi Mix 2S is getting Android Pie beta ROM as a bonus after switching to MIUI 10. Screenshots revealing the MIUI 10 8.9.7 development version As the screenshots reveal, the beta MIUI 10 version is 8.9.7, meaning it is pushed on Friday, September 7. It is meant for early adopters…

The Xiaomi Pocophone F1 is the most popular smartphone in our database for the third week in a row and its amazing value for money has helped it increase its lead over the second place, which in week 36 is taken by the Oppo F9. The mid-ranger that we just reviewed is joined on the podium by another phone on the rise – the Xiaomi Mi A2 Lite. Samsung’s latest flagship –…

Ro: Mobile gaming is still just a marketing gimmick. The current state of gaming phones is far from what it should be and to be honest, it’s not entirely the manufacturers’ fault. It’s just that for now, they don’t offer any real value and like every PC hardware with “gaming” slapped on the box, it’s more expensive than their non-gaming counterparts. The performance, however, in both cases is the same across the…

The week after the IFA show was always going to be a bit slower, but it still brought enough so we didn’t get bored until next week’s big iPhone announcement. There were a announcements too – the Motorola P30 Note as a ZUI 4.0-powered variant of the One Power, the ZTE nubia Z18 and the vivo V11. Leaks made for interesting reads too. The projected pricing of Apple’s iPhone 9, iPhone Xs…

All chat clients these days have “delivered” and “seen” labels to reassure you that your message reached its intended recipient. But what if getting the message delivered was literally a matter of life and death? Enter Research in Motion or as it would later be known, BlackBerry. In 1996 the company introduced its first product, the Inter@ctive Pager, a two-way pager built on the Mobitex data network designed for emergency services (police,…

Juho Sarvikas, Nokia’s CPO’s recent tweet will be music to Nokia 8 Sirocco owners’ ears. He promises cool new features for the company’s current flagship phone that will come as part of the Android 9.0 Pie update. In a tweet, an unhappy Nokia owner posted a complaint that Nokia isn’t doing what’s necessary to bring the latest and greatest to its top-shelf Nokia 8 Sirocco smartphone in terms of software features. Sarvikas…

HTC’s financial results from Q2 of 2018 are in and it doesn’t look good. But who’s surprised with the ever declining sales? The VR business and Google’s deal with the company are probably the only things keeping the firm alive at this point. The financial report reads TWD 6.8 billion ($220.6 million) in revenue, which is 58% down compared to last year’s Q2. The quarterly net loss is TWD2.09 billion ($67.8 million),…

The fall events from the big tech companies are lining up. Apple will hold its grand unveiling of new iPhones, smartwatches, and maybe even iPads next week, on September 12. Google is announcing new Pixels on October 9. And Microsoft has just scheduled its own hardware event for October 2, at 4 PM local time in New York City. As you can see, the invite itself doesn’t give anything away, but expect…

The Qualcomm-Apple lawsuit regarding patent infringements have been set in motion with the pre-trial hearing concluding. The pre-trial aims to rule what is and what isn’t allowed to be used in court for evidence. And it’s advantage Apple after the Qualcomm legal team messed up. Qualcomm chose not to argue Apple’s claims that the Cupertino-based firm has not infringed some of the patents involved in the case and that some of the…