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With the launch of their flagship Snapdragon 8 SoC firmly behind them now, Qualcomm this morning is turning their collective head towards the premium market with the launch of another new Snapdragon 8 family SoC, the Snapdragon 8s Gen 3. The first of Qualcomm’s ‘s’-subseries of down-market parts to be released under the Snapdragon 8 banner, the Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 (8sG3) is intended to be a bridge part between the last-gen flagship 8 Gen 2 and current-gen flagship 8 Gen 3, offering a not-quite-flagship experience at a lower price point than Qualcomm’s top SoC. The new SoC is set to be available globally, with the first phones announced this month, though as is often the case for Qualcomm’s “premium” market SoCs, it looks...
TCL Low Cost Foldable Display for Everyone: Patented DragonHinge
Out of the top smartphone manufacturers, Samsung has clearly beat its competitors to the punch with its foldable smartphone, but it certainly will not be the only company to...
26 by Anton Shilov on 2/24/2019TCL Launches the Alcatel 1S: a 5.5-inch IPS Smartphone for $109 / €109
Most of the time, in fact almost all the time, we tend to discuss about the most expensive phones on the market. If it isn’t $600, then it is...
18 by Ian Cutress on 2/24/2019BlackBerry Launch Special Edition Key2 in Red
Following the successful launch of the Cosmic Red edition of the Key2 LE last year, and the many column inches by technology journalists praising the color combination as striking...
0 by Ian Cutress on 2/24/2019TCL/CSOT Reveals Mobile AMOLED & LCD Hole-Punch Displays
Along with today’s announcement of a foldable display panel and hinge, TCL’s display panel division revealed a new generation of AMOLED screens and demonstrated their ability to produce a...
0 by Andrei Frumusanu on 2/24/2019Huawei Launches the Mate X: Folding in a New Direction
Today at Huawei’s press conference at MWC Barcelona, Huawei has something special to share with us. It’s only been a couple of days since Samsung announced its own foldable...
52 by Andrei Frumusanu on 2/24/2019Xiaomi Launches The New MIX3 5G and Mi9 for European Markets
Today Xiaomi has announced the launch of the new MIX3 5G and new Mi9 for European markets. The event represents a big and important development for Xiaomi, as it...
3 by Andrei Frumusanu on 2/24/2019MWC 2019: Huawei Connecting Future Press Event, a Live Blog (1pm UTC)
Huawei has once again rented out the Italian Pavilion here in Barcelona for its annual Mobile World Congress press event. We're expecting to see CEO Richard Yu on stage...
9 by Ian Cutress & Anton Shilov on 2/24/2019MWC 2019: Xiaomi Mi 9 Global Launch Press Event Live Blog (9:30am UTC)
Xiaomi recently launched the Mi 9 in China, and today at MWC the company will launch it globally. We're here ready to report on the launch, as well as...
11 by Ian Cutress & Anton Shilov on 2/24/2019First Glimpse of Huawei Mate X: A Foldable 5G Phone
Constructing a stage and a booth at a trade show takes a few days. It just so happens that the media end up arriving in the city for the...
13 by Ian Cutress on 2/22/2019Xilinx Announce New RFSoCs for 5G, Covering Sub-6 GHz and mmWave
More often than not, embedded wireless equipment, the infrastructure that powers it, and the systems that test the deployed hardware don’t just use off-the-shelf parts. As with 4G and...
6 by Ian Cutress on 2/21/2019Hands on with the Samsung S10+, S10, and S10e: Which Witch is Which?
Standing as the world’s largest smartphone retailer, Samsung’s flagship family leads the way into how the company sees the next generation of user experience and interaction. Each release has...
72 by Ian Cutress on 2/21/2019Samsung Announces The Galaxy S10: 10th Anniversary Trio
It’s hard to believe, but Samsung is now on its 10th iteration of the Galaxy S line of phones. The Galaxy S started a wave of success for Samsung...
127 by Andrei Frumusanu on 2/20/2019Samsung Announces The Galaxy Fold: The First Folding Display Smartphone
Samsung has unveiled its first ever folding smartphone - the Galaxy Fold. Today’s at Samsung’s Unpacked launch event in San Francisco, alongside the much awaited Galaxy S10 line-up of phones...
68 by Andrei Frumusanu on 2/20/2019The Samsung Galaxy Unpacked 2019 Live Blog (Starts at 2pm ET/19:00 UTC)
I'm here at the London venue for Samsung's global Galaxy Unpacked event. Samsung's annual gathering for flagship smartphone news, we'll be seeing the eagerly awaited (and widely leaked) Samsung...
9 by Ian Cutress on 2/20/2019Qualcomm Announces X55 Modem: 5G Multi-mode & New Advanced ICs
It's been an eventful few months for Qualcomm – back in December the company had unveiled the first reference designs of the Snapdragon 855 and demonstrated integration with the...
20 by Andrei Frumusanu on 2/19/2019LG Teases G8 Audio Capabilities: Confirms OLED Display
Starting last year, LG seems to have made a marketing strategy out of teasing features about their upcoming flagship devices. LG continues this strategy with today’s reveal of an...
9 by Andrei Frumusanu on 2/14/2019Motorola Announces Moto g7 Family Line-up
It’s been a less than a year since Motorola released its g6 line-up late last April, but today we see the company announcing new refreshes and a brand new...
35 by Andrei Frumusanu on 2/7/2019Qualcomm Announces Snapdragon 712: A Higher Bin 710
Today Qualcomm announced a new entry into its “upper mid-range” line-up of SoCs: The Snapdragon 712. The announcement is quite surprising, as it seems the chip might possibly simply...
17 by Andrei Frumusanu on 2/7/2019The Apple iPhone XR Review: A Different Display Leads To Brilliant Battery Life
The latest generation of iPhones have been out for a couple of months now – we’ve extensively reviewed the iPhone XS and iPhone XS Max shortly after their official...
90 by Andrei Frumusanu on 2/5/2019Samsung Teases Foldable Galaxy Smartphone: Galaxy F?
Samsung Vietnam has accidentally published (and subsequently removed) a brand advertisement video that shows a glimpse at the company’s existing, conceptual, and presumably upcoming products. Among other things, the...
25 by Anton Shilov on 2/1/2019