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I have loved the idea of foldable phones since they were introduced with the original Fold and the Huawei Mate X back in 2019. It has taken me a few years to commit to one as the high price has been off-putting, durability is a concern, and camera quality and battery life are essential to …

Three years ago, Qualcomm invited me to London to learn more about Windows on Arm and the new Snapdragon 835 Mobile PC Platform, and I later reviewed one of the first Windows on Arm devices, the HP Envy X2. It was an adventurous move by Qualcomm. ARM-based chips don’t natively run x86 applications, so they …

The Samsung Galaxy Watch4 was announced last month and is probably one of the most important smartwatch launches in years. Samsung has teamed up with Google and will launch all their future smartwatches based on the Wear OS platform, ditching their own Tizen OS. With Samsung being such a large player in the industry, this …

Yesterday, Samsung announced their latest Galaxy Watch4 Series, and it is likely the most significant smartwatch launch of the year, quite likely years. Samsung has now teamed up with Google. They are moving away from Tizen and committing to Wear OS. This appears to be more than Samsung just moving to Wear OS, it has …

Today Samsung announced their latest foldable phone, the Galaxy Z Fold3 5G. It is perhaps the less exciting of the two foldable launched. Very little changed from the previous generation. The TLDR would be: Upgraded to the Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 chipset from SD865+ New 4MP under-display camera when folder out vs 10MP Displays upgraded to …

It feels like Nokia has given up trying to compete in the mid-range and flagship market. Their most advanced phone recently is the Nokia 8.3 5G launched back in November with the Snapdragon 765G. Instead, they have released lots of low-end phones and nostalgic feature phones. The latest is the Nokia XR20, which is an …

The Samsung Galaxy Buds Pro were launched with the flagship Samsung Galaxy S21 series and were offered as a free pre-order bonus for buyers of the phone. That has now ended with the current offer being for the cheaper Galaxy Buds Live. The new Samsung Galaxy Buds Pro have an RRP of £219 making them …

Today, Samsung took the wraps off their latest upper mid-range chipset, the Exynos 1080. This is the second 5nm chipset to be announced, with the Huawei/Hislicon Kirin 9000 5G being the first, and this will be the official successor to the Exynos 980. However, Samsung has upped their game this year, and the Samsung Exynos …

It is getting to that time of the year where companies announce their new flagship chipsets which will power the best phones in the coming year. Samsung hasn’t technically announced their flagship chipset, but the one down from it, making it the successor to the Exynos 980. The Exynos 980 was announced at IFA 2019 …

This week Samsung had a bumper Unpacked launch event announcing the Note 20 series, Galaxy Z Fold 2, Galaxy Tab S7, Galaxy Buds Live and the latest Samsung Galaxy Watch 3. The Samsung Galaxy Watch series has always been one of the best options for a smartwatch if you are an Android user. You typically …

While the headline may not be all that surprising, last year there was lots of speculation about what the Samsung Note 10 would use. Leaks confirmed that the Note 10 would feature a new Exynos 9825 chipset offering a more power-efficient fabrication process to the Exynos 9820, however, it was also expected that the US …

Samsung have announced their latest affordable 5G chipset which is not that much different than the Exynos 980 that was launched back at IFA 2019 and features in the popular Samsung Galaxy A71 5G and A51 5G. Specification Fabrication Process 8nm FinFET CPU 2.0GHz Dual-core (Cortex-A77) 1.8GHz Hexa-core (Cortex-A55) GPU Mali-G76 MP5 Modem 5G NR …

I have been quite critical of Oppo recently, but this is mainly due to the confusing naming scheme of their phones, rather than the actual hardware itself. With the launch of the Oppo Find X2 Pro, which has the same appearance of the Reno3 Pro 5G, Oppo have launched what could be one of the …

It is unlikely you will have ever heard of Unisoc, the company is relatively new since being rebranded from Spreadtrum Communications, Inc and is a fabless semiconductor company headquartered in Shanghai producing chipsets form mobiles and IoT devices. They predominantly focus on the Chinese market as well as developing markets, the same could have been …

Numerous leaks about the up and coming Samsung Galaxy S20 series have been revealed recently. This includes the camera specification, screen sizes and Geekbench results showing the performance of the new Qualcomm Snapdragon 865. 120Hz Refresh Rate One specification that has had conflicting information leaked is the refresh rate of the display. At first, it …

First of all, let’s get out of the way the increasingly confusing product line-up of the Galaxy S20 (and many flagship phones). At the moment it looks like there will be no new E variant. So the standard S20 will now be the cheapest model, and rather than adopting something as common as a Pro …