I didn’t trust yesterday’s report that Samsung has sold over 1 million $2,000 Galaxy Fold smartphones. It was impossible to accept the big number — $2 billion in revenue from a foldable device that famously suffered through extended post-announcement redesign delays — or the implicit suggestions that Samsung confidently went on to manufacture a million of them, or somehow convinced a…
OnePlus announces special event for CES 2020
December 13, 2019
OnePlus is sending out invites for a special event that will take place during CES 2020. The event will take place at the Wynn resort in Las Vegas from January 7 to January 10.
The nature and purpose of this event is entirely unknown at this point. Calling the invite vague…
Vivo details some of the new features in FuntouchOS 10
December 13, 2019
Vivo has been teasing the upcoming X30 for quite some time now. The intriguing phone is expected to feature and Exynos 980 chipset, complete with an integrated 5G modem, as well as an impressive camera setup. It will be unveiled on December 16 and in a rather anticipated…
Most of the Oppo headlines in the past days have been about the upcoming Reno3 lineup but a new device from the manufacturer was just spotted on a TENAA listing. It bears the PDBM00 model number and will reportedly be a midrange offering with a 6.5-inch display, triple cameras and a rear-mounted fingerprint scanner.
The front houses a 6.5-inch display with a waterdrop notch but we dont get any…
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Samsung Galaxy Note Android 10 rollout begins for beta testers, starting w/ Germany
December 13, 2019
For those of you lucky enough to own the superb Samsung Galaxy Note 10 you’ll be pleased to hear that the stable Android 10 rollout has now begun in Europe — with Germany first in line.
While the beta has been available for some time, the stable OTA is now heading out…
While we’ve seen the removal of the iris scanner from the 2019 Samsung flagships, the most recent Android 10 beta for the Galaxy S9 and Note 9 has added support for Google’s new Biometric API.
For those of you with a Galaxy S9 or Note 9 device, you may have seen the beta program open up in the US for the OneUI 2.0 build of Android 10. According to some that have enlisted over on Reddit, the…
Apple vows to fix its easily defeated iPhone parental controls
December 13, 2019
iOS 13.3 just arrived recently with new parental controls, particularly a feature called Communication Limits. It’s designed to block children from communicating with people not in their contacts unless their parents let them by entering a code. However, the system…
Vanilla Oppo Reno3 is also coming with 5G
December 13, 2019
Oppo Reno3 lineup is arriving on December 26 and we know there is going to be a Pro variant with 5G and curved edges of the screen. It will also have a hole for the selfie camera in the upper left corner, unlike the regular Reno3 that will have a flat panel and waterdrop…
Samsung Galaxy Note10 receiving stable Android 10 update
December 13, 2019
Samsung released the stable build of Android 10-based One UI 2.0 for the Galaxy S10 trio last month. And now, the company is seeding the stable build of the latest version of Android for the Galaxy Note10 and Note10+.
Like the S10 trio, the Note10 pair was slated to receive Android 10 starting next month, but Samsung has managed to push the update ahead of schedule.
However, the update is…
