This year Samsung started offering optical image stabilization (OIS) on the main cameras of a few of its mid-range Galaxy A series devices, such as the A52 and A72. Next year, however, things will be different.
According to a new unconfirmed report from Korea, Samsung is likely to add OIS to the main cameras of all of the A series models it’s going to launch in 2022. That would be an…    
    
Samsung began rolling out the September 2021 Android security patch last month, with the Galaxy S20 FE being the first in line to get it, and now it’s the S20, S20+, and S20 Ultra that are getting updated with the newest security patch.
Samsung Galaxy S20 Ultra
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September 9 will be a big day for Realme since the company will unveil its first tablet, dubbed Realme Pad. The young brand will also introduce two new smartphones on the same day – Realme 8s 5G and Realme 8i. Leaked renders have already revealed the designs of both…
Xiaomi has always treated MIUI with plenty of respect, care and attention, as technically its first and still one of its most successful products. Things are going great with the latest MIUI 12.5, as well as the later-unveiled 12.5 Enhanced Edition, which are already making their way on to international units. MIUI 13 is also right around the corner, slated for a late June release and Xiaomi also…    
    
Vivo V1 ISP chip photographed next to Snapdragon 888
September 5, 2021
Vivo’s upcoming X70 line is one of the more curious upcoming releases in recent memory. We are currently expecting a trio of devices in the family – a vanilla X70, a X70 Pro and a X70 Pro+ – all of which we are already quite familiar with, thanks to an…
Samsung Galaxy M22 launch imminent as support pages go live on Singaporean and Malaysian websites
September 5, 2021
Support pages for the Samsung Galaxy M22 we’ve been hearing about for a few months now have gone live on Samsung’s official Singaporean and Malaysian websites, suggesting an imminent launch.
The pages don’t include any details on the Galaxy M22 other than…
WhatsApp chat data transfer from iOS to Samsung is now live
September 5, 2021
Last month on the day of Samsung’s official unveiling of the Galaxy Z Fold3 and Z Flip3 WhatsApp unveiled plans to support moving chat history from iOS to Samsung devices running Android 10 or 11.
Today this feature finally went live. So, if you have a Samsung handset on Android 10 or 11 and want to transfer your chat history to it from an iPhone, you can now do so.
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While some Android makers have implemented system-wide search on their devices, it is not part of the core OS. That is about to change with Android 12 as beta 4 for the Pixel phones does support it, even if it this feature hasn’t been officially released yet. It looks like…
OnePlus 10 series tipped to reuse predecessors’ design
September 3, 2021
While we’re patiently awaiting the debut of the rumored OnePlus 9 RT in October, some are already looking into next year. Our first OnePlus 10 series speculation focuses on the design aspect of next year’s flagships.
So OnePlus is working on series 10 phones which are…
It's the Motorola Edge 20 Pro's turn to get torn down on video
September 3, 2021
It was just yesterday when we brought you a video teardown/disassembly of the Motorola Edge (2021), a phone that became available today in the US (and is meant for the North American market). If you’re elsewhere, though, that may not be useful to you as Motorola won’t be selling that model in any other places.
What it is selling, though, is the Edge 20 Pro, announced in late July and…