The Samsung Exynos Instagram account posted a number of suggestive teasers yesterday, which led everyone to believe that the big reveal on November 19 will be a new Exynos launch. Today, the company took to Twitter to clarify – no new chipset, not on …
Flashback: iPod touch – the almost iPhone
Apple changed the portable music player world in 2001 with the launch of the original iPod. It wasn’t the first portable MP3 player by a long shot – Internet folklore still remembers early criticism like this post on Slashdot (by CmdrTaco himself): “N…
Weekly poll: do you still want depth and macro cameras on your phones?
Back when the HTC One (M8) added a second camera on its back – used to calculate distances using the parallax effect, better known today as a depth camera – it was an innovative new feature. But things quickly turned cynical.
We’ve always known tha…
Weekly poll results: the Sony Xperia Pro-I is well received, but not everyone needs a professional phone
While the meaning of “Pro” has been watered down over the years, people still believe there is a place for truly professional smartphones like the Sony Xperia Pro-I.
It’s not a phone for everyone, that’s clear enough in last week’s poll. But it was…
Some Google Pixel phones are randomly calling people on their contact list
Let’s be honest here, Google’s Pixel phones are sort of infamous for experiencing issues. It’s actually become a bit of a meme within the industry and a self-fulfilling prophecy in recent years, though definitely for good reasons. The shiny new Pixel …
Honor 50 in for review
Just as we welcomed the Honor 50 series in Europe we get to add the Honor 50 to our review queue. This is the better of a pair of Honor 50 devices, the other one being the Lite model, both of which have official Google Play Services support out of th…
The Snapdragon 898 will probably be unveiled on November 30
Nothing is official or set in stone yet, you it’s a fair assumption to make. Qualcomm recently published a page on its website revealing that its Tech Summit event will be held between November 30 and December 2, 2021. A big banner with a boat tracing…
Sony puts out more videos showcasing the camera prowess on the Xperia Pro-I
Sony is clearly very proud of its new Xperia Pro-I and is enjoying it thoroughly and with good reason. The Xperia Pro-I is honestly more akin to a professional tool, like a DSLR than a general-purpose smartphone and it makes sense to treat it as such,…
Leaked promo video showcases a familiar, but new Oppo Reno6 Lite
It seems like Oppo is just deliberately trying to confuse everybody at this point. As we are currently waiting on the Reno7 series to drop sometime this month, the smartphone giant clearly has no intention of slowing down its constant rebranding and t…