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FT: companies can resume supplying Huawei with smartphone components

The siege on Huawei may be easing off a bit – at least as far as its mobile division is concerned. The Financial Times reports that companies will be able to supply Huawei with components for non-5G uses. More specifically components that won’t be used in the company’s 5G networking equipment. “It has been indicated to us that chips for mobile devices are not a problem,” says an…
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OnePlus 8T's Cyberpunk 2077 edition will arrive on November 2

Cyberpunk 2077 might be delayed to December but the special edition of the OnePlus 8T is still on track for a November release. The company confirmed it’s coming on November 2 with a modified camera island on the back. The phone is expected to have a custom theme…
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Apple iPhone 12 mini handled on video

Despite being a full week away from going on pre-order, Apple’s iPhone 12 mini somehow managed to get into the hands of Romanian tech journalist George Buhnici. He then posted a detailed hands-on video of the device where he gives us our first live look and compares it to…
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Huawei publishes timeline for EMUI 11 beta rollout - 27 Huawei and Honor devices will get it

While Huawei didn’t rank highly in Counterpoint’s Trust Rankings, things are about to change as Wang Chenglu, the President of Huawei’s consumer business software department, says that the company is preparing to release an EMUI 11 update for 37 models. This will push the upgrade rate over 90%. Flagships in the Huawei P40 and Mate 30 series received a public beta of the new OS version on…
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The new LG K92 5G makes next gen networks more accessible

Just a year ago getting a 5G-ready phone meant you had to shell out around $1,000 but since then we’ve seen an abundance of more affordable phones that support the latest network standard and LG’s K92 5G is the latest one. It’s powered by the Snapdragon 690 chipset and works with sub-6 5G networks only. More importantly, the phone will be available soon in the US at just under $400. LG…
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Samsung Galaxy A70s finally receives One UI 2.5

We’ve seen plenty of Samsung devices get updated to One UI 2.5 in the last weeks and the latest one is the Galaxy A70s which has is now receiving the update in India. The new update comes with the A707FDDU3BTH4 build number and weighs roughly 1.6 GB. It also brings the…
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OnePlus 9 is headed to Verizon and T-Mobile, apparently

If you’re in the US and are wondering which carriers are going to offer the upcoming OnePlus 9, that may be coming sooner than expected, then wonder no more. The enterprising folks over at have discovered, through a deep dive into the OxygenOS code, that the OnePlus 9…
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Honor teases Band 6 ahead of its official launch on November 3

Honor’s universe of wearables keeps expanding and the latest addition will be the Band 6, the company announced on Weibo. The device will have a big screen and will be officially introduced on Tuesday, November 3. Honor Band 6 official teaser In the Weibo post, the company claimed the Band 6 will mark a new era of full-screen wearables and “this time it will be different”. The predecessor…
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