Last year Huawei introduced the Kirin 970 at IFA and it looks like this years flagship chipset will also be revealed in Berlin. The Kirin 980 is nearing its launch with more leaked specs, including the CPU cluster. According to sources from China, the maximum clock speed will be 2.8 GHz for the top four…
It was a big week for phone announcements. Xiaomi took the wraps off the Mi Max 3 after a few weeks of intense teasing and it’s pretty exciting – near-7-inch screen and 5,500mAh battery! In other Xiaomi news, the Mi A2 Lite went on sale prematurely. It’s still unofficial at this point, but that will…
This Sunday Ro and Yordan are debating is the fast charging standard the way to go forward or should we stick to solutions which while not as fast have wider support – like Quick Charge by Qualcomm and USB Power Delivery. Yordan: Wider support trumps speed Ill preface this by saying that one of the…
Motorola is famous for making the first commercial cell phone – the DynaTAC. It also created the first ever flip phone, the Motorola StarTAC. The company has scored many more firsts in its 90 years of existence, enjoyed a golden age when it shaped the mobile phone market and eventually fell on hard times. The…
Old Nokia had a goal to connect the next billion people to the Internet. Theres a long story that includes a detour through Windows Phone, but never mind that the goal is still in sight and the way there is through capable, affordable Android phones (the modern Internet is too complex for the KaiOS-running…
This just in – the National Telecommunications Agency in Brazil confirmed the Galaxy Note9‘s massive battery in a leaked document. The certification document doesn’t reveal much but it confirms one of the main features the Galaxy Note9 will boast over its predecessor – the 4,000 mAh battery. Rumors about the large battery capacity have been…
Roland Quandt just posted a photo of the wireless charger that’s going to be announced for the Galaxy Note9 and we have good and bad news. Remember when a leaked FCC document hinted at a crazy fast wireless charger for the Note9 with an output of 25W? Well, the leaked photo shows the very same…
The Samsung Galaxy Note9 is going to be officially revealed on August 9, but it’s hardly the best kept secret ever. Even so, new bits come out every now and then and the latest is a set of renders of the phone in the color scheme that Samsung calls Lilac Purple. It complements the Coral…
The T-Mobile and Sprint merger has been rumored on and and off for a while until recently when it was officially confirmed. However, the FCC has to perform a 180-day review of the merger before it can decide whether the $26 billion merger will take place or not. Now through August 27, you can submit…
On August 30 Sony is holding its annual press event at IFA in Berlin, and it’s widely anticipated that the Xperia XZ3 will make its debut on that occasion. Like its name implies, this will be the successor to the Xperia XZ2 which was unveiled at MWC back in February. Today case maker Olixar has…
