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After making the decision to exit the smartphone market back in 2021, LG is preparing to sunset its Android update servers for good. This move comes as no surprise to those following the phone market, but it's no less disheartening, particularly to those still rocking an LG handset.
The kill switch will be pulled...
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The U.S. Department of Commerce is reportedly looking into TSMC's dealings with Sophgo, a chip designer located in China, over concerns that its silicon may have ended up in the hands of Huawei. Depending on the outcome of the investigation, TSMC could potentially face a fine upwards of $1 billion for violating...
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GPMI is a freshly finalized A/V connectivity protocol designed by SUCA, a Chinese A/V industry consortium that includes TCL, HiSense, Huawei, Skyworth, and HiSilicon among its posse. In its first incarnation, the newcomer GPMI promises up to 192Gbps of bandwidth and 480W power delivery, eclipsing the 80Gbps and...
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Huawei just launched a new smartphone that combines a foldable and flippable into one. The Huawei Pura X may look like a normal flip phone when it's closed, but instead of opening upwards, it unfolds like a book, basically turning itself into a mini tablet. Not quite iPad Mini territory in terms of...
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Good news: Oppo's Find N5 book-style foldable smartphone just received a global launch and is now one of the slimmest and most powerful of its kind. Bad news: Considering how awesomely spec'd out the Find N5 is, North Americans won't get to enjoy it since sister company OnePlus decided to skip the Open 2/Find N5 this...
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Say hello to the iPhone 17 Air, or at least what it could potentially be. Yet another leak seems to corroborate previous mentions that Apple is slapping a horizontal camera visor on its next gen phonesin this case the Air. We might as well call it the Apple Pixel 9 Air, because the pill-shaped camera island (among...
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Ooof, talk about a gut-punching let-me-double-check-my-credit-score priceHuawei's global version of the Mate XT tri-folding smartphone has been announced and it looks like folks will need to fork up a lung and a kidney just for the bragging rights. At about $3,300, the phone is being sold outside of China for...
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Oppo's upcoming Find N5 foldable phablet is thin enough to make even regular slab phones jealous. More importantly for our U.S. readers, almost every aspect of the Find N5, including its slimness, near-invisible display crease, and of course, potent innards will show up in its corporate cousin, the OnePlus Open 2...
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At the Galaxy Unpacked event last month, Samsung revealed what could in store this summer: the Samsung-Google XR headset, a pair of smart glasses, the Galaxy Z Fold 7, and a tri-fold phone. Pertaining to the latter, a leakster has come forward claiming that the new model will be called the Samsung Galaxy G Fold with...
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There's a new thin phone king coming to town. This February, Oppo will be launching the Find N5 foldable. When unfolded, the device will measure 3.7mm thin, barely thicker than its USB-C port. Just for fun, the company posed the N5 next to an iPhone 16 Pro Max, showing off the distinct divide in thinness. We're pretty...
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With the all-new Mate70 series smartphones, Huawei is biddingadieu to Android for good. Huawei's flagship lineup will now be able to run HarmonyOS Next that is built completely in-house, presumably from the ground up, complete with its own app store and ecosystem. Mate70 customers do have the option to...
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General Motors is hard set on developing its own custom user interface for some of its future products, replacing the likes of Apple CarPlay and Android Auto. The reason? Improved safety, usability, and driver attention. The company believes that removing smartphone projections and integrating apps into GM's own...
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Huawei is about to unleash the Mate 70 series of flagship smartphones into the wild, and leaks are showing significant upgrades to the chipset, battery, and camera package. The phone is also expected to be announced in November, pipping out Samsung's Galaxy S25 for the limelight. Of course, the final...
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Huawei has decided to eschew its Android-based mobile OS and go the route of Apple and Google, which is to create its own grassroots operating system called HarmonyOS 5.0, also known as HarmonyOS Next. In doing so, Android-based applications are no longer supported, possibly forcing app developers to increase...
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Huawei's premium Mate XT Ultimate tri-folding (because regular foldables are so yesterday)smartphone just launched in China, already commanding the tech world's attention for being the first tri-fold display phone as well as the hefty $2,800 asking price. If that ain't rich enough for you, then the limited-run...
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Foldable phones have been available for a few years now, and despite various takes on the form factor, they all have one thing in common: folding in half. Huawei's new foldable changes the game, however, with an innovative trifold design. Buyers in China are apparently excited by the prospect. Pre-orders just...
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OnePlus has launched another lower cost smartphone to duke it out with the likes of Samsung, Huawei, and other Android device makers. Called the Nord CE4 Lite 5G, the latest OnePlus smartphone is making its debut in the United Kingdom with some notable specifications, such as a battery that's rated to last more...
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Cybersecurity firm Check Point Research has discovered a potent piece of Android malware,called Rafel,being utilized by threat actors. Themalwareis an open-source remote administration tool (RAT) and Check Point Research says that it has already observed an espionage group leveraging Rafel in their...
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A new report has shown that Samsung is no longer leading in the foldable smartphone market in the first quarter of this yearthe title now belongs to Huawei. While that's hard to fathom for those of us in the U.S., seeing how the Korean brand performed compared to other brands globally paints a stark picture...
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The United States government continues to scrutinize the access Chinese telecom giant Huawei has to American made chips. This time around the licenses obtained by Intel and Qualcomm that gave the companies permission to sell to Huawei have been revoked. The companies were providing Huawei with...
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Samsung's Galaxy Z Fold 6 and Flip 6 are about three months out from their planned launch date, and now we have information that the Korean electronics giant will offer the phones in a selection of colors both old and new. There will apparently be five mainstream colorways plus three Samsung.com exclusives. Let's...
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Apple ended 2023 with bragging rights over Samsung by boasting the biggest share of the global smartphone market, but turns out it was a short-lived victory. According to the latest shipment and market share figures shared by IDC Research, Samsung is back in the top spot after iPhone sales slumped by nearly 10% to...
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