vivo’s gamer-centric sub-brand iQOO today announced the iQOO Z1, which is the first smartphone to have MediaTek’s Dimensity 1000+ SoC at the helm. However, the iQOO Z1 isn’t an entirely new smartphone. It’s actually the iQOO Neo3 5G powered by the Dimensity 1000+. That means you get a 6.57″ 20:9 LCD of 2408×1080 pixel resolution,…
Honor teased its V6 tablet last week. It teased that the device would be made official with 5G and Wi-Fi 6 support today. The Honor V6 was announced with a 10.4-inch 2K (2000x1200px) display with an 84% screen-to-body ratio. The V6 packs a Kirin 985 chipset paired with 6GB of RAM and 128GB of internal…
Japanese carrier KDDI has announced that it will begin selling the Sony Xperia 1 II on May 22, priced at JPY 133,600 (1,145;INR 94,000;$1,243, converted), for the lone 8/256GB variant. NTT docomo is also expected to release the Xperia 1 II to its Japanese customers soon. There’s still no official word on the exact date…
The Huawei Y8p quietly took its place on the companys website. If it looks familiar, its because weve seen this hardware before, under the Huawei Enjoy 10s name. We guess its a matter of regional availability whether you will see this as a Y-series phone or an Enjoy. The front is dominated by a 6.3…
MediaTek unveiled the Dimensity 820 chipset, a more powerful version of the Dimensity 800. Compared to the old chip, the new version increases CPU and GPU performance and improves the 5G connectivity. This is still a 7nm chip with four Cortex-A76 and four A55 cores. The difference is that the big A76 cores run at…
When the Pocophone F1 (or simply Poco F1 in India) was launched in mid-2018 it quickly earned a lot of fans delivering the then-flagship Snapdragon 845 chipset at an unbelievably low price. In fact the following was so loyal that people kept asking about a Poco F2 long after it became evident that Xiaomi has…
Week 20 brought us a new leader in our trending chart as Samsung’s newly announced Galaxy A Quantum shot straight to the top. The phone is going to be available with a single Korean carrier, but we guess the naming alone helped it turn more heads than any other phone this week. The Poco F2…
Welcome to your week’s recap. The past seven days brought us the Poco F2 Pro, the triumphant return of no-nonsense flagship phone. Based on the Redmi K30 Pro, the Poco F2 Pro is the cheapest Snapdragon 865 phone in just about every market, starting at just $500/500 for a 6/128GB model. Pre-orders are now live,…
Few phones are cheered on by fans as if they were a sports team, but the original Poco was one of them. Now after two years of waiting it finally has a successor, but our initial reactions are a bit conflicting. The Poco F2 Pro may well be the cheapest phone to pack the flagship…
Realme made its debut just two years ago in May 2018 with the Realme 1. In the short time since, the company has launched over two dozen smartphones and expanded its business in over 25 markets across the globe. Realme offers great value for money smartphones across different segments, but the company is also quickly…
