The smartphone world keeps consolidating into just a handful of major brands, and frankly, Sony is not one of the brands we thought we’d still be talking about in 2021. Unexpectedly, though, Sony just managed to squeeze out a profit on Xperia phones for the first time in a few years recently.
With the release of its latest earnings report, Sony confirmed that its Xperia smartphone division…
The latest Android 12 Developer Preview 3 build has added a whole heap of features; some are hidden but could soon arrive in upcoming Beta builds — so we’ve been diving in.
While we have already done a deep dive into what we’d formally consider the top user-facing…
ZTE’s launching a new smartphone in the US today. The Blade 11 Prime interestingly has big Blade branding on the back, and the only mention of ZTE is on the lower side where the small regulatory text is.
The Blade 11 Prime is already available from both Visible and…
Ever since Huawei sold off the Honor brand, the company has been cleared to work with Qualcomm again and we already know that the brand is working on the Honor 50 Pro+ that is to be powered by the Snapdragon 888 SoC. According to leaker , Honor will be one of the OEMs to equip a flagship with the updated chipset.
Honor 30 Pro+
According to the leaker, the Snapdragon 888 Plus (or Pro), is already…
The Harmony OS 2.0 is Huawei’s in-house platform that should be available by June to customers. It is already in the final stages of development, and we now have the first video, showing how the OS looks like on a Huawei Mate X2. Check it out:
At first the UI has a lot of…
Realme isn’t slowing down the pace of its new phone launches, and today we have news about the next model that will hit India. We’re talking about the Realme X7 Max 5G, which is going to be launched on May 4 in the subcontinent, alongside a new TV. The date…
Following Microsoft’s earnings call on Monday, the software company announced that it had added 300 million users in the last year. The company celebrated it had surpassed 1 billion users in March 2020 and the company revealed that it reached a new all-time high of 1.3 billion users.
Microsoft credited the spike of demand to the growth of users purchasing larger-screen devices including laptops…
Following the depositions of former Apple head of software engineering Scott Forstall in the Epic vs. Apple case, we’ve come to learn some interesting details about the early days of the iPhone and the App Store. Now Forstall has revealed that Apple once considered letting…
New York will join the list of states signaling an end to new gas vehicle sales, as a bill banning their sale after 2035 has advanced through the state legislature. It now heads to Governor Andrew Cuomo’s desk where it is expected to be signed.
This bill makes New York…
Pichai teases ‘significant’ announcements at Google I/O 2021 as product cycles return to normal
April 28, 2021
Alphabet this afternoon reported big Q1 earnings with notable year-over-year growth as ad spending returned. In prepared remarks, CEO Sundar Pichai told investors to expect “significant product updates and announcements” at Google I/O 2021 next month.
That tease comes as Google’s “product releases are returning to a regular cadence” following a year of employees adjusting to work from…
