Honor launched Pad 9 in India today – three months after it was announced in China and four weeks after the global release that took place at MWC 2024 in Barcelona. The tablet has a 12.1” display, keyboard support, and an affordable price tag. In fact, it is 20% more affordable than in Europe and even cheaper if pre-ordered. Honor Pad 9 runs on Snapdragon 6 Gen 1 and comes with 8 GB RAM and 256 GB storage. It has 8 speakers around the frame and can work with a Honor Bluetooth keyboard, making it a great Android device for learning and basic work-from-home tasks. The price in...
Lava O2 was announced today in India. The company claimed it is the fastest phone in its $100 segment thanks to its chipset, which is Unisoc T616 with an octa-core CPU. The O2 also has a 50 MP camera, showing that entry-level phones have come a long way lately. It gets a flat 6.5” LCD with HD+ resolution and up to 90 Hz refresh rate. The selfie camera is sitting inside a punch hole and has an 8 MP sensor. There are two cameras at the back, but only the 50 MP main one is actually useful. The secondary is called “AI camera,” and we can bet it contributes little to the actual photos...
The seamless updates Android feature introduced by Google way back in 2016 was adopted by most Android OEMs except Samsung. Samsung said it was working on implementing seamless updates on its Android smartphones, and after eight years, the Korean brand has finally brought this feature to its devices, with the Galaxy A55 being the first Samsung smartphone to benefit from it. Samsung Galaxy A55 The Samsung Galaxy A55 recently received the March 2024 Android security patch in India with firmware version A556EXXS1AXC1, which also brought the seamless updates feature to the smartphone....
Google released the first Android 15 Developer Preview last month, and today the second one is out. This is still not a public beta, the first one of those is set to arrive in April. Instead, like the first preview, it's also intended for developers to be able to check their apps against. Android 15 release timeline The big new feature introduced by Android 15 DP2 is support for satellite connectivity at the operating system level. The OS now includes some UI elements that are designed to "ensure a consistent user experience across the satellite connectivity landscape", Google...
The OnePlus Ace 3V was just unveiled in China and rumors have been pouring in recently about how it will be launched internationally as the OnePlus Nord 4. OnePlus also announced the Buds V alongside the Ace 3V, and these true wireless earbuds are thus quite likely to be rebranded for international markets as Nord Buds... something later this year, while possibly arriving at the same time as the Nord 4. That's all our speculation, by the way, so don't take it as gospel. But given all of the history and context surrounding these product lines, it would make perfect sense. So, if all of this...
Today the United States Department of Justice has sued Apple, claiming the company has maintained an illegal monopoly over the smartphone market, locking in its customers, driving up prices, and selectively imposing contractual restrictions on developers, withholding critical ways of accessing functionality to prevent competition. "Apple exercises its monopoly power to extract more money from consumers, developers, content creators, artists, publishers, small businesses, and merchants, among others", the DOJ says, along with the 16 state and district attorneys it filed the lawsuit...
Earlier today, OnePlus launched the Ace 3V in China, with the brand new Snapdragon 7+ Gen 3 chipset at the helm. It is in fact the first handset to bear this newly announced SoC. Redmi isn't impressed, however. Its official Weibo account posted the image you can see below in response. It clearly states that 8 is better than 7, and this isn't a subtle jab at all. Basically, Redmi is telling us that the Snapdragon 8 series chipsets outperform those in the 7 series. And wouldn't you know it, coincidence of all coincidences, Redmi itself will launch a new device powered by a Snapdragon...
We knew the vivo X100s was coming soon, now we have a tentative timeframe - May. According to serial insider Digital Chat Station, the Dimensity 9300+ chipset will debut in May. Given that the vivo X100s is expected to premiere the SoC, we expect the phone to be unveiled at the same time. Per the insider, the Dimensity 9300+ is an overclocked Dimensity 9300 with Cortex-X4 running as high as 3.4GHz, and an Immortalis-G720 MC12 GPU with a 1.3GHz peak speed. The vivo X100s will have a 1220p flat screen with "ultra-narrow" bezels, a flat metal frame, and glass on both the front and the...
Google is actively working on its TV-streaming branch of YouTube called YouTube TV. The tech giant introduced a number of new features for the past year and it's now bringing the Multiview feature to mobile devices. Multiview isn't entirely new to the platform, it's been available on smart TVs for a while now, but today, a staff member at the company confirmed the rollout of Multiview to iOS and iPadOS devices. Here's how it looks on iOS. In the same Reddit thread, the employee confirmed Multiview is coming to Android "in the coming months". Notably, the feature...