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We’re starting to see smartphone companies create devices with a major emphasis on mobile gaming. Razer released a smartphone dedicated to gaming and ASUS just announced the ROG Phone, which again, is being marketed toward gamers. Honor has just announced two new phones, the mid-range Honor 9i and the Honor Play with a new feature…
Earlier this month, we wrote about Huawei and Honor users not being unable to access the page for generating bootloader unlock codes. The page was removed with no explanation, but they were at least still taking requests in a Google Doc and giving out bootloader unlock codes. Today, the news is much grimmer. Huawei (and…
Navigation gestures are all the rage these days. Everyone has them: Apple, OnePlus, Xiaomi, Huawei, and now Google in Android P. Everyone does them differently, too. We thought we would offer our own take on gesture navigation with the Navigation Gestures app, built in-house at XDA. The app brings customizable gesture control to any Android…
Porsche Design and Huawei’s latest lovechild is a smartphone that you will probably never own because it costs $1,880. The Porsche Design Huawei Mate RS, as the branding suggests, is a luxury smartphone that was unveiled along with the Huawei P20 series. Like the Huawei Mate 10 Pro and P20 Pro, the Mate RS features…
IDC has released its quarterly report for the worldwide smartphone market in Q1 2018. According to preliminary data from the company’s worldwide quarterly mobile phone tracker, smartphone vendors shipped a total of 334.3 million units during Q1 2018, that resulted in a 2.9% decline when compared to the 344.4 million units shipped in the first…
If the largest, richest OEM does a terrible job and gets away with it, how can we expect any better of the rest of them? Samsung makes pretty good phones–great ones, even. They are also one of the few OEMs that actually profit on their device sales, and one of only two to make a…
The Huawei P20 and P20 Pro were launched in March as Huawei’s latest flagship smartphones. The Huawei P20 Pro is the most expensive Huawei smartphone yet. Its high-end list of specifications includes the HiSilicon Kirin 970 system-on-chip, 6GB of RAM paired with 128GB of storage, a 6-inch Full HD+ (2244×1080) OLED notched display with an…
The Huawei P8 Lite 2017 and the Honor 8 Lite are different names for the same phone. Both phones have the same list of specifications, which include the HiSilicon Kirin 655 system-on-chip, 3GB of RAM paired with 16GB of storage or 4GB of RAM paired with 64GB of storage, 5.2-inch Full HD (1920×1080) IPS display,…
Samsung dominates the OLED display market with more than 95 percent market share. However, LG Display made a comeback in the market in 2017. The LG V30 and the Google Pixel 2 XL both feature 6-inch WQHD+ (2880×1440) 18:9 P-OLED displays. LG Display currently supplies displays to LG Electronics as well as Xiaomi. Now, LG…