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Weekly poll results: Xiaomi Mi A3 gets the cold shoulder

The Mi A3 arrived as this year’s Android One phone by Xiaomi. The predecessor Mi A2 was met with great enthusiasm, but it appears the camera focused Xiaomi Mi A3 isn’t getting anywhere near the same approval rating. Plenty of you voiced concerns about specs like the HD+ screen and the fact that you can get mightier Xiaomi phones at a similar price. The Xiaomi Mi 9T is a bit above €350…
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Bethesda's 'Doom' re-releases will no longer need internet access

Bethesda’s re-release of the first three Doom games didn’t get the warmest reception, to put it mildly. The titles all required a BethesdaNet account (and thus an internet connection) to get started — a frustration for a game series that started when home internet access was still a novelty. The publisher is putting things right, however. It’s promising a fix that will make…
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LG V30 starts receiving Android Pie update

Google is expected to release the stable build of Android Q next month, but there are some brands still struggling to provide last year’s Android Pie for their smartphones. One of them is LG, which is now rolling out the Pie update for the V30. The new build is seeding…
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Bethesda will remove online login requirement from Doom re-releases

Bethesda says it’ll get rid of the strange requirement that players must log into an online account before they play the newly re-released versions of Doom, Doom II, and Doom 3, which went live yesterday. Players quickly criticized Bethesda for the seemingly ridiculous limitation — the first of these games was released more than 25 years ago, at a time when there was obviously no internet…
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FCC offers early peek at Samsung's Galaxy Watch Active 2

Details about the second Galaxy Watch Active started leaking just a few months after the first one became available. A lot more unofficial information have been published since then, that we might actually know some of the device’s most pertinent details before Samsung…
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Vivo S1 India pricing leaks - three variants in total

Vivo has been attracting quite the healthy amount of fan attention since the official debut of the S1 earlier this month. Not to be confused with the other S1 vivo launched in China a few months ago, this one is actually a re-branded vivo Y7s. It first made its way to…
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Samsung Galaxy J7 Duo Android Pie update rolling out

Samsung rolled out Android Pie for the Galaxy Xcover 4 earlier this month, and now, it’s seeding the latest version of Android for one more smartphone – Galaxy J7 Duo. The new build carries version number J720FDDU4BSG7 and requires a download of around 1.3GB. It comes with the July security patch as well as One UI 1.1. The update includes Night Mode and Digital Wellbeing, but it…
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