HMD Global has announced the Nokia 3.2 successor of the last year’s Nokia 3.1 at the MWC 2019 event. It sports a 6.26-inch HD+ a-Si TFT LCD with selfie notch and is powered by the Qualcomm Snapdragon 429 SoC and since it is an Android One phone, it runs on Android 9 Pie. Continue reading “Nokia 3.2 with 6.26-inch HD+ 19:9 display, Snapdragon 429, 4000mAh battery, Android Pie announced”
HMD Global has kickstarted the MWC 2019 event with the announcement of the Nokia 210 feature phone with a tag “Put the internet in your pocket.” It sports a 2.4-inches QVGA display and dual SIM support. However, it doesn’t support 4G and is a 2G series 30 feature phone. Continue reading “Nokia 210 feature phone with 2.4-inch display announced for $35”
HMD Global just announced Nokia 9 PureView, the company’s latest flagship smartphone at an event in MWC, as expected . The main highlight of the smartphone is its 12MP penta rear cameras, two RGB and three monochrome lenses to collect up to 10-times the amount of light than a single colour sensor, with ZEISS Optics. Developed in cooperation with multi-sensor camera company Light, it captures HDR shots using five cameras simultaneously with up to 12.4 stops of dynamic range and a full scene 12MP depth map and fuse it together into one 12MP photo with outstanding dynamic range and depth of field to refocus later. It is capable of shooting 60-megapixel images in burst mode and can process up to 240 megapixels of data.
Huawei at its MWC 2019 event introduced the new MateBook X Pro, successor of last year’s model. The successor has the same 13.9-inch 3K LTPS FullView display with a 91% screen-to-body ratio and a 14.6mm sleek metal body, but this comes with latest 8th gen Intel Core processors with NVIDIA GeForce MX250 GPU, embeds fingerprint sensor in the power button, offers faster WiFi and comes with HUAWEI Share 3.0 OneHop to transfer images, videos and documents directly to another device instantly over NFC just by tapping it. Continue reading “Huawei MateBook X Pro 2019 with 3K FullView touchscreen display, fingerprint scanner, sleek metal body announced”
HUAWEI has introduced its first foldable smartphone – Mate X at an event in Barcelona, as it had promised. It has a 6.6-inch OLED screen on the front and 6.38-inch screen on the back that expands to a 8-inch screen when unfolded. It features a Falcon Wing design with a stretchable hinge for a smooth and flat finish on both sides of the device. The screen doesn’t over stretch while folding or bulge in unfolding. It is just 5.4mm at its thinnest point.
Along with the announcement of Mi MIX 3 5G , Xiaomi also introduced its flagship Mi 9 smartphone for the global markets at its MWC 2019 event. It was introduced in China earlier this week, and packs a 6.39-inch Full HD+ Super AMOLED display with Corning Gorilla Glass 6 protection and 90.7% screen to body ratio, is powered by the latest Snapdragon 855 7nm Mobile Platform and runs Android 9.0 (Pie) with MIUI 10 on top. Continue reading “Xiaomi Mi 9 with 6.39-inch FHD+ AMOLED display, Snapdragon 855, triple rear cameras, in-display fingerprint sensor goes global”
Xiaomi just announced Mi MIX 3 5G, the company’s first 5G smartphone, as it had promised at the Mi MIX 3 event back in October. It has the same 6.39-inch Full HD+ AMOLED 93.4% screen-to-body ratio display, but this comes with Snapdragon 855 7nm SoC with Qualcomm X50 5G modem. It has a ceramic back, hybrid cooling, rear-mounted fingerprint sensor and packs a larger 3800mAh battery with support for Qualcomm Quick Charge 4+ fast charging as well as 10W wireless charging.
Huawei is all set to introduce its first foldable smartphone – Mate X with 5G support in Barcelona later today at 2PM CET (6:30 PM IST). The company is offering live stream of the event on YouTube and will offer latest updates on its social channels as it happens. Check out the link below.
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Other than its 10x optical zoom camera tech, OPPO also unveiled its first 5G smartphone at its ‘Get Closer’ MWC event in Barcelona. It is powered by Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 Mobile Platform with Snapdragon X50 5G modem. OPPO did not share the model number of the phone or when it will launch, but the device shown looked similar to the Find X without a notch. The company even unveiled its 5G-ready prototype based on the Find X, a developer version with integrated communication capabilities in December.
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OPPO teased the 10x hybrid optical zoom camera technology at an event in China. As promised, the company has revealed more details about the technology. We already know that the 10x lossless zoom camera tech uses three-camera solution that includes a Super Wide Angle, Ultra Clear main sensor and a Telephoto lens. Today the company has confirmed that the main camera uses a 48-megapixel sensor, a 120 degree ultra-wide lens with equivalent focal length of 15.9mm, which provides wide-angle shots and the telephoto camera offers 159mm equivalent focal length.
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The annual Mobile World Congress (MWC) officially on Monday, February 25th, but most companies have scheduled their events tomorrow, and some of them include, LG, Huawei, Nokia and some of them have already started introducing new products. The upcoming week is going to be a cornucopia of smartphone goodness and we’re on ground already to bring you the latest on the latest! With the tone set, we thought it right to bring you a quick rundown of the latest buzz from Barcelona about what to expect. So without further ado, here’s the top announcements we expect from MWC 2019. Continue reading “What to expect at MWC 2019 from Nokia, Huawei, Sony, LG, Xiaomi, OPPO and others”
Up until now it is more or less confirmed that Huawei is all set to introduce its first foldable phone at the MWC 2019 event. However, a leaked banner image now confirms the launch and also provides us the name and an early sneak peek at the design. The Huawei’s foldable phone will be called Mate X and the company’s says that it will be the world’s first phone with 5G. Continue reading “Huawei Mate X foldable 5G phone banner surfaces ahead of February 24 MWC announcement”
ARCHOS has introduced new Diamond smartphone with a Full HD+ AMOLED screen and no-notch design, pop-up camera, in-display fingerprint sensor, as well as Oxygen 57, Oxygen 63 phones with a notch and Oxygen 68XL water-drop notch in the corner ahead of MWC . All the phones run Android 9.0 (Pie). The Diamond phone has 16MP + 5MP dual rear cameras, while the other Oxygen phones have 8MP + VGA dual rear cameras and a 5MP front camera. Continue reading “ARCHOS Diamond with 6.39-inch FHD+ AMOLED display, pop-up front camera, Oxygen 68XL with corner water-drop notch and more announced”
Sony’s MWC 2019 event is inching closer, and the company is expected to introduce a bunch of new smartphones including the XA3 series. The company is known to be working on XZ4 flagship; but it looks like the company might be changing the naming scheme and it might be called Xperia 1 series and thanks to popular leakster, Evan Blass, we get to see the device renders ahead of the launch. Continue reading “Sony Xperia 1 with triple rear cameras, 21:9 4K HDR OLED display surfaces ahead of Feb 25 announcement”
KaiOS, popular mobile operating system for smart feature phones that powers the JioPhone and the Nokia 8110 4G has announced their collaboration to integrate KaiOS with a series of MediaTek chipsets to power 3G and 4G devices. As part of this cooperation, the KaiOS mobile operating system will now run on the 3G MT6572 platform, and the latest MT6731, with support for dual-4G SIM cards. Continue reading “MediaTek MT6731 SoC to power 4G smart feature phones running KaiOS”
