Four new Motorola smartphones are coming January 14th, with pre-orders opening today. The Moto One 5G Ace is the company’s most affordable 5G-enabled smartphone to date, with a $399 price tag, while the new Moto G Play, Moto G Power, and Moto G Stylus are 4G phones with starting prices ranging from $170 to $300. Moto One 5G Ace […]
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OnePlus Nord N10 5G and N100 budget phones come to the US (as T-Mobile exclusives)
The OnePlus Nord 10 5G is a mid-range smartphone with some premium specs including a 90 Hz display, 5G support, and 30 watt fast charging. It went on sale in Europe and the UK last fall, and this month it’s coming to the United States. The only catch? It’s a T-Mobile exclusive at launch. The […]
Xiaomi Mi 11 is the first Snapdragon 888 smartphone, available in China for $610
As expected, Chinese phone maker Xiaomi is the first company to launch a smartphone powered by Qualcomm’s new Snapdragon 888 processor. The Xiaomi Mi 11 is up for pre-order in China with prices starting at 3,999 RMB, or about $610 US. Aside from having Qualcomm’s fastest smartphone chip to date, the phone also has a […]
HMD launches Nokia 5.4 mid-range phone for 189 Euros
HMD’s latest smartphone features a a 6.39 inch display, a 4,000 mAh battery, and features including NFC, four rear cameras, and a fingerprint reader. But with a starting price of 189 Euros (about $230), the Nokia 5.4 is more of a budget or mid-range phone than a premium handset. Digging into the specs makes that pretty […]
Oppo introduces tri-fold “slide-phone” concept design
Smartphones are getting weird again. After years of seeing companies release rectangular slab after rectangular slab, these days we’re seeing the rise of foldables as well as niche devices with keyboards, repairable parts, open source software, and whatever the heck it is LG is trying to do with the LG Wing. Now Oppo is showing […]
Stupid Lumia 950XL tricks: Now you can run AutoCAD on this obsolete phone
The Microsoft Lumia 950 XL was the most powerful smartphone to ship with Windows 10 Mobile when it was released in 2015. But it was also one of the last phones Microsoft ever shipped with the operating system. The Lumia 950 XL has had a interesting afterlife though – now that Windows 10 on ARM […]
Lilbits: ARM computers, Linux phones, and the Pixel 2 rides off into the sunset
After rocking a Google Pixel 2 as my primary smartphone for the past three years, I took advantage of a Google Fi Black Friday promotion and traded in my phone for a brand new Pixel 4a 5G for $298 after trade-in. There were two reasons I decided the time was right to upgrade. First, my […]
ZTE Axon 20 5G goes (sort of) global Dec 21, under-glass camera and all
The first smartphone with an under-glass selfie camera went on sale in China in September, but the ZTE Axon 20 5G wasn’t widely available in other regions at the time. That will change soon. ZTE has announced that the phone will be available in parts of Europe, the Middle East, and Asia starting December 21. […]
Lilbits: Goodbye Galaxy Note, hello Ryzen Mobile overclocking
Once upon a time it was pretty clear what you were getting when you bought a Samsung Galaxy Note smartphone – it would be an expensive phone with a big screen, a big battery, a fast processor, and support for Samsung’s S-Pen digital stylus. But as smartphone screens have gotten larger (and prices higher), the […]
Motorola Moto G9 Power has a big screen, a bigger battery
Motorola’s Moto G smartphones are known for mid-range price tags and reasonably decent bang-for-the-buck hardware. The new Moto G9 Power aims to meet those expectations by offering a pretty standard set of specs for a phone in its price range (about $230), but one stand-out feature: a massive 6,000 mAh battery that should provide two or […]
Reports: Tablet shipments were up in Q3, smartphone shipments were down
As the global COVID-19 pandemic continues to reshape the way people around the world live and work, two new reports suggest there’s been an impact on the types of mobile devices people are buying. According to IDC, global tablet shipments were up nearly 25-percent in the third quarter of 2020 when compared to the same […]
F(x)tec Pro1-X is a phone that ships with Linux or Android (and has a keyboard)
The F(x)tec Pro1 is one of the only modern smartphone to feature a physical keyboard. Soon it will also be one of the phones available with a choice of the Android-based LineageOS or Linux-based Ubuntu Touch operating systems. The makers of the phone have launched an Indiegogo crowdfunding campaign for the F(x)tec Pro1-X, a slightly […]