Honor today unveiled its first self-funded factory after gaining independence from Huawei. The Intelligent Manufacturing Industrial Park located in Shenzhen, China is the maker’s flagship production facility with a 75% automated production line allowing for one device produced every 28.5 seconds.
The new production site will also handle quality control, product certification and will act as an…
Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra leaks in hands-on shots
November 8, 2021
We’re slowly but surely getting towards the end of 2021, meaning rumors are focusing on the slew of new devices coming in early 2022. As usual, Samsung likes to kick things off in late January/early February with its latest Galaxy S-series phones and seeing how the S22…
OnePlus teasing new Limited Edition phone launch
November 8, 2021
A new Limited Edition OnePlus phone is right around the corner as per several cryptic tweets by the company. These include retro graphics and … fruits. Well, we’re hard to press out what to expect but according to rumors, the phone will be inspired by the iconic arcade…
Oppo seems to be keeping busy working of variants of the vanilla Oppo A16 announced back in July. Last month an Oppo A16s version was revealed, which basically just added NFC to the original. Now there is a new A16K already on sale in the Philippines. It, however, actually features quite a few changes, or rather downgrades compared to the regular Oppo A16.
For one, the Oppo A16K ditches its two…
Realme's first phone with an under-display selfie cam allegedly shows up in patent document
November 8, 2021
There has been persistent chatter within the industry that Realme is working on its first phone with an under-display camera for some time now. In fact, back in September, Realme VP Xu Qi Chase posted an image of a smartphone on Weibo that has no notch or a punch hole for…
Leaked promo video showcases a familiar, but new Oppo Reno6 Lite
November 8, 2021
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 tiny specs iteration…
Weekly poll results: the Sony Xperia Pro-I is well received, but not everyone needs a professional phone
November 8, 2021
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 wasn’t meant to be, it is aimed at a particular subset of professions – vloggers, along with anyone who would benefit from high-quality 4K…
Flashback: iPod touch - the almost iPhone
November 8, 2021
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): “No wireless. Less…
SpaceX Crew-3 launch delayed again, this time to November 10th
November 8, 2021
The SpaceX Crew-3 mission to the International Space Station has been delayed again, this time to November 10th at 9:03PM ET, NASA said Sunday. Although NASA had originally planned to have a changing of the guard with the Crew-2 astronauts greeting the Crew-3 team before…
Twitter for iOS adds new search button to user profiles
November 8, 2021
The Twitter app for iOS was recently updated to include a new search button on every user profile. The button sits in the top right corner of the screen and tapping it lets you easily search for tweets from a specific user. It appears that the feature is now widely rolled out.
Previously, you would have to manually search for tweets from a user in the main search tab. From there you’d need to…
