As the year 2021 comes to a close we tend to look back on the biggest stories and developments over the past 12 months. SensorTower published its yearly mobile app spending report and it shows a clear pattern – both Android and iOS users are spending more money on apps compared to 2020. The total…
Apple’s 15 Bionic launched in September with the iPhone 13 family as it usually does but we are yet to see Qualcomm’s competing solution, the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1. Early benchmark results are now out and they suggest that the hype around the SoC’s new Adreno GPU might be justified. Renowned tipster IceUniverse shared a…
Twitter and Quill are announcing a new acquisition that will let Twitter DMs better compete with other messaging apps. Quill is a messaging app for collaboration and communication with teams, one that competed with other productivity messaging platforms like Slack. It focused on keeping messages organized and its notification system was designed to keep notifications…
Four more vivo phones are coming in the following weeks and the famous Chinese leakster Digital Chat Station revealed more details about them. The vivo S12 and vivo S12 Pro will stick to 44W fast charging, just like their predecessors, while the iQOO Neo 5s and iQOO Neo 5se will bring 66W to the table.…
With Oppo’s Inno Day 2021 coming up on December 14 we are bound to see some exciting new tech. Last year we saw the brand’s rollable concept smartphone and this year Oppo is teasing a self-developed retractable rear camera module. Most pop-ups are annoying… But not our self-developed retractable camera! 😉 Explore more in INNO…
Qualcomm introduced the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 flagship SoC for Android devices last week, and with that began the race amongst smartphone brands to become the first company to launch the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1-powered smartphone. Xiaomi Founder and CEO Mr. Lei Jun said the “Xiaomi 12 Series will be the world’s first smartphones” to…
This morning, Motorola’s upcoming Moto Edge X30 – the one that’s to be powered by the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 chipset – has appeared in a live image posted by Motorola’s GM, showing that the Moto smartphone will have an under-display selfie camera. Motorola General Manager Chen Jin posted the following image with the accompanying…
vivo is getting ready to unveil the next version of its Android skin for China. This will be called Origin OS Ocean and will be announced on December 9, as already revealed. Today the company has published a new video teaser for the upcoming OS version, and, rather unsurprisingly, it all starts in the ocean.…
Wear OS shot up in popularity after Samsung dropped its in-house platform in favor of Google’s software. But Google will still make a Pixel Watch, right? Apparently it tried, it was supposed to launch at the Pixel 6 event, but the chip shortage pushed back the release to early 2022. After years of waiting, a…
The beta testing of the One UI update for the Samsung Galaxy Z Flip3 completed successfully and the phone is now getting the finalized stable update. Units in Serbia are now getting the F711BXXU2BUKM firmware, which is a stable version of One UI 4.0 on top of Android 12 and, of course, it includes the…
