Oppo has revealed that the display on its upcoming flagship phone, the Oppo Find X2, will have a 120Hz refresh rate, the same as Samsung’s Galaxy S20 series, and a 3K screen. With Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2020 canceled due to concerns about the coronavirus, Oppo had to reschedule its phone launch, and the China-based company …
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Huawei’s sub-brand Honor has taken the wraps off a pair of new phones: the 9X Pro and the View 30 Pro. I’ll start with the View 30 Pro. It’s becoming more and more difficult for companies to make their phones stand out from the crowd, so Honor’s tactic with the View 30 Pro is to use a different shape of …
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Huawei has taken the wraps off the Mate XS, a minor update to its existing Mate X that I spent time with in Paris late last year. I think the folding design is great and while the Mate X was strictly China-only, the Mate XS is due to go on sale elsewhere in the world, including the UK. The XS does …
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Update, March 26: The Huawei P40, P40 Pro and the P40 Pro Plus have now officially been launched. Read our first take here. MWC might have been canceled due to coronavirus, but Chinese tech behemoth Huawei pressed ahead with its Barcelona event regardless on Monday. Along with a slew of products, Huawei used the keynote as an opportunity to announce …
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Huawei’s big news from its streamed press conference Monday is the updated folding Mate XS phone, but it’s not the only thing the company would have brought to MWC had it not been canceled. First up, there’s its new small tablet, the MatePad Pro, seen above. With a 10.8-inch display, it’s not a small tablet, but it almost feels smaller …
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Huawei is expected to launch two new flagship phones, the P40 and P40 Pro, in late March. The devices have brought with them a fresh round of speculation and confusion from customers, who still aren’t really sure what the deal is with Huawei and Google. Will Google apps work on the new phones? Can you just sideload apps like Gmail, …
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Samsung’s new folding Z Flip has impressed us in our full review process. CNET editor Jessica Dolcourt even went so far as to call it “the best foldable phone I’ve ever used.” Big words, when the competition is heating up with the likes of the Motorola Razr, Huawei Mate X and Samsung’s own Galaxy Fold. But if you’re sold on …
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For the most up-to-date news and information about the coronavirus pandemic, visit the WHO and CDC websites. Update, April 22: Read our iPhone SE 2020 review. Original story follows. Apple’s next big launch event could be close, but the rumored iPhone 9 (which might be called the iPhone SE 2) might arrive in stores later than we expected. In this week’s Apple …
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For the most up-to-date news and information about the coronavirus pandemic, visit the WHO and CDC websites. 5G networks are beginning to rollout throughout the US, but that’s not where most of the world’s 5G smartphones are being sold. Instead, China is buying most of the world’s next-generation phones. According to a new report by Counterpoint Research, China accounted for nearly half …
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The Samsung Galaxy S20 comes in three different permutations. There’s the 6.2-inch Galaxy S20, the 6.7-inch S20 Plus and the huge 6.9-inch S20 Ultra. All three phones are now available for preorder. Last week, Samsung unveiled these new flagships along with its new foldable phone, the Galaxy Z Flip, which will compete directly with the new Motorola Razr. While the Z Flip …
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