Just a few days after launching the Xiaomi Mi 9 smartphone in China, Xiaomi has announced that it’ll be available in Europe starting this week. The Xiaomi Mi 9 features a Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 processor, thee rear cameras, a nearly all-screen display (with a small notch for the selfie camera), and it’s the first smartphone […]
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Xiaomi introduces Mi Mix 3 5G with Snapdragon 855
The Xiaomi Mi Mix 3 is a smartphone with a nearly bezel-free design (and two front-facing cameras that are revealed when you slide down the screen). First unveiled in October, the phone is already available in select markets including China, the UK, and some European countries. Now Xiaomi is introducing an upgraded model. It’s called […]
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TCL’s folding phone prototypes leaked a little early
Mobile World Congress kicks off this week, and smartphone companies are planning to show off a whole bunch of new phones with slim bezels, unusual camera placements, and maybe a little 5G. Plus flexible phones are now a thing. Samsung kicked things off a bit early. Huawei’s bringing one to the party. And we’d already […]
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Oppo smartphone with 10x zoom coming in Q2, 2019
Chinese phone maker Oppo says it’s developed a camera system that will bring 10x lossless zoom to smartphones. But you can’t buy one just yet. Oppo used its Mobile World Congress press event to explain how it’s new camera will work… and to explain that you’ll be able to the first phone with its 10x […]
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Huawei will unveil the Mate X foldable smartphone Feb 24th
Two companies have officially revealed smartphones with foldable AMOLED displays. Come Sunday, that number will be be three. We already had a pretty good idea that Huawei was going to introduce a foldable phone at Mobile World Congress this weekend. But someone snapped a shot of a sign being installed at MWC and Posted it […]
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Sony’s 2019 smartphone lineup leaked ahead of Feb 25th launch
Sony is holding a Mobile World Congress press event on February 25th. But pictures of the company’s upcoming phones have been leaking for a little while, and now the folks at 91Mobiles seem to have obtained details about four of the company’s new phones. Expect a slightly revamped design, a new naming scheme, and a […]
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Qualcomm announces second-gen 5G modem (before the first hits the streets)
The first smartphones with support for 5G networks are coming soon, many of which will likely use Qualcomm’s new Snapdragon X50 5G modem. But you can’t actually buy one just yet. That hasn’t stopped Qualcomm from introducing its second 5G modem though — and there’s actually a pretty good reason for that. The Snapdragon X55 5G modem is […]
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Lilbits 349: The 5G smartphones are coming
Mobile World Congress is a little more than a week away, and we’ll likely see new phones from companies including Samsung, Huawei, HMD (Nokia), and others, as well as other devices (Microsoft, for example, is expected to introduce its next-gen HoloLens mixed reality headset). It’s likely that we’ll also hear a lot about 5G. Next-gen […]
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ECS introduces 2-in-1 tablets, smart displays, and more
Taiwanese PC maker ECS plans to show off a bunch of new products at Mobile World Congress later this month including the company’s latest mini PCs (many of which we already saw at CES), and some new devices including portable smart speakers and a new line of tablets. The smart speaker systems include the ECS […]
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Huawei’s foldable phone could debut at MWC (along with Samsung’s and maybe others)
Samsung is almost certainly going to debut its first smartphone with a foldable display at Mobile World Congress later this month. There’s a chance we might also see foldable and/or dual screen phones (or at least prototypes)from Motorola, Oppo, Xiaomi, LG,  ZTE, and others. Now it looks like Huawei is also planning to showcase its first […]