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H&M and other Western brands gone from Apple Maps and other apps in China

Locations for H&M clothing stores in China were not showing up on Apple Maps searches in China on Friday, The Wall Street Journal reported, amid growing anger among Chinese consumers at the company’s decision to stop sourcing from the Xinjiang region. The company has more than 400 stores in China, but all H&M locations are… Read more

Xiaomi teases camera with liquid lens on upcoming Mi Mix

Xiaomi’s upcoming Mi Mix handset will include a camera with a liquid lens, the company teased in a pair of Weibo posts today. As its name implies, the lens typically includes a layer of liquid, and the lens’s focus and focal length are changed by applying an electrical voltage. Xiaomi says the lens will allow… Read more

iQOO Neo5 confirmed to come with 4,400 mAh battery and 66W fast charging

The iQOO Neo5 arriving on March 16 was rumored to support 88W wired charging, but 3C revealed that won’t be the case, and the smartphone will charge at up to 66W. Today, iQOO officially confirmed on Weibo that Neo5 will indeed feature 66W wired charging. Additionally, iQOO confirmed that Neo5 will pack a dual-cell 4,440… Read more

Lenovo Shows Off Radeon RX 6900 XT, 6800 XT Legion Edition GPUs

Home News Radeon RX 6800 XT Legion Edition (Image credit: Lenovo) Lenovo (via HXL) has teased the Radeon RX 6900 XT and Radeon RX 6800 XT Legion Edition graphics cards on the company’s Weibo account. The graphics cards are likely an exclusive for Lenovo’s Savior Blade 7000P 2021 gaming PCs, though. It’s unknown if Lenovo… Read more

Dream of mid-air wireless charging teased with rollable Oppo X

Oppo has teased a new wireless charging solution that works when a phone is up to 10 cm (3.9 inches) away from a charging pad. The company has shown off its Wireless Air Charging tech in a 30-second clip on its Weibo page to coincide with MWC Shanghai. The clip shows the Oppo X 2021… Read more

Huawei Mate X2 teaser hints at new folding screen design

Huawei has posted another teaser for its upcoming Mate X2 folding phone on Weibo, offering the strongest hint yet that it’ll move away from the original Mate X’s design. The first Mate X, announced in 2019 and refreshed in 2020, had a single large screen that folded in half so that the display was on… Read more

Chinese Miners Using RTX 30-Series Laptops for Mining Power

Home News (Image credit: Weibo) Over this past week, Ethereum has skyrocketed to nearly $1700 in value (at the time of writing), making Ethereum very profitable to mine once again. But due to the shortage in graphics card supplies right now, desperate Chinese miners are apparently turning to RTX 30 series laptops as a new… Read more

Huawei’s next folding phone is coming on February 22nd

Huawei will announce a new flagship foldable phone later this month, according to a Weibo post on the company’s official page. Based on the name, the Mate X2 sounds like it should be a more substantial followup to the original Mate X than Huawei’s last foldable phone, the faster and slightly tweaked Mate XS. Unless… Read more

Red Magic 6 design leaks, Tencent Games edition coming

The Red Magic 6 series will be nubia’s next entry in the gaming phone world and we’ve already seen official teasers as well as certification listings detailing at least two phones. Today we have an actual look at what appears to be a Tencent Games edition Red Magic 6. nubia Red Magic 6 Tencent Games… Read more

nubia Red Magic 6 Pro passes 3C certification with 120W charger

After last year’s Red Magic 5G and 5S, nubia is looking to build on its success with the upcoming Red Magic 6 series. Last week we got an official teaser for the Red Magic 6 series which alluded to a 4,500 mAh battery with 120W charging and today we have a certification listing that confirms… Read more

Redmi pledges allegiance to Dimensity 1200, promises a gaming phone in 2021

Mediatek introduced two new chipsets yesterday, the Dimensity 1200 and Dimensity 1100, and Redmi has revealed it will launch the first phone with the mightier platform. The announcement was made by brand CEO Lu Weibing who also confirmed on his Weibo profile that a gaming Redmi phone is also in the works and should arrive… Read more

Motorola Edge S appears in live images and AnTuTu listing

Motorola is all set to introduce its Snapdragon 870-packing Edge S on January 26. Just ahead of next week’s announcement, live images of the device emerged on Weibo, while an official AnTuTu test run shared by Lenovo China’s GM of mobile Chen Jin gives us an idea about the performance of the new chipset. Motorola… Read more

vivo could unveil its first tablet at tomorrow’s X60 Pro+ event

Last year vivo trademarked several product names under its own brand, NEX and iQOO. Talk around the Weibo watercooler suggests that one of them, the vivo Pad, will be unveiled at tomorrow’s event alongside the vivo X60 Pro+. The vivo Pad will become the company’s first tablet. We don’t actually know much about the tablet… Read more

More Honor V40 specs surface, a 3D ToF camera to be on the front

The Honor V40 is going to be the company’s debut as an independent entity and the phone shapes up to be a feature-packed beast. The latest report from the so-called “Digital Chat Station” (Google translated) on Weibo gives us a little bit more insight into the front-facing camera and the battery. Honor V30 Pro He… Read more

vivo shares X60 Pro+ camera samples, teases upgraded dual camera gimbal system

vivo will unveil the X60 Pro+ tomorrow, in the meantime, the company is flexing its new camera by posting photos, all of which were shot in very challenging conditions. The Pro+ is expected to introduce the second generation of the gimbal stabilization system that made its debut last year with the X50 series. The post… Read more