As promised, the Motorola Edge S is now official and on sale in China.
This is the first phone to claim the new Qualcomm Snapdragon 870. It’s built on a 7nm process, has an 8-core processor with one Cortex-A78 core running at the highest-in-smartphone 3.2GHz. The Motorola Edge S naturally has 5G built in. You can configure the phone with either 6GB or 8GB of RAM, 128GB or 256GB (8/256GB) of…
ZTE Blade X1 5G comes with Snapdragon 765G and $384 price tag
January 27, 2021
The latest 5G handset from ZTE is the Blade X1. It will be exclusive to US MVNO carrier Visible which operates on Verizon’s network. The X1 is actually quite similar to ZTE’s Blade V2020 5G with the only difference being the Blade X1 is powered by the Snapdragon 765G…
At the end of 2017 Apple admitted it slowed down iPhones whose battery had worn out and it was immediately hit with lawsuits. The “batterygate” saga is far from over – an Italian consumer protection agency, Altroconsumo, has filed a lawsuit against the company, seeking…
Meizu will join the growing list of companies that ship premium phones without a charger in the box – and it looks like the first phones to have that “honor” will be the Meizu 18 and 18 Pro, which received certifications in China.
One of the phones will have a 4,500 mAh battery and will support 40W wired fast charging. The other will drop to a 4,000 mAh battery and 30W charging. For…
Sony Xperia Pro finally on sale as a $2,500 US exclusive
January 27, 2021
We knew it was coming, but boy were we not prepared for the price!
Sony has finally released its Xperia Pro spinoff to the Xperia 1 II smartphone, that it announced in February of 2020. It’s a US exclusive that’s primarily available through Verizon Wireless with…
A shakeup at Apple’s top will see current Vice President of Hardware Engineering John Ternus become the Senior VP, while now-former SVP Dan Riccio will be working on a “new project” at Apple.
John Ternus has been the VP under Riccio since 2013 and led the…
OnePlus co-founder Carl Pei launches new company tomorrow
January 27, 2021
After leaving OnePlus in October, co-founder Carl Pei moved on to a new venture – exactly what will be revealed tomorrow. His new company is headquartered in London, so the announcement will start at 11 am UK time (which matches UTC time right now).
The new company is working on consumer electronics, a market Pei knows well. The focus will be on music gadgets – headphones and more, but again…
Samsung resumes One UI 3.0 update for the Galaxy S10
January 27, 2021
Just a couple of days ago, Samsung hit the pause button on the One UI 3.0/Android updatefor the Galaxy S10 series, but it is now seeding the latest software once again. So far, no official statement has cleared the air so we can only suspect that issues were discovered were…
Samsung Display revealed more details on the new generation of power-efficient OLED panels, which is currently adorning the Galaxy S21 Ultra. Not only is it more efficient but brighter too.
The OLED is cutting the power draw by 16% while increasing brightness too. The…
Samsung’s latest and greatest flagship smartphone, the Galaxy S21 Ultra, is already on its way to those who pre-ordered one, and while you wait for yours, aren’t you interested in a good old fashioned durability test?
Of course you are, and is here to deliver, as always. Weirdly enough, the scratch test reveals that Samsung shipped Zack’s unit with not one, but two screen…
