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Nokia 1.4 leaks in full, reveals basic specs, low price tag

HMD Global is planning to launch a new ultra-affordable smartphone, and it looks like a successor of the Nokia 1.3 is on its way. It will be called Nokia 1.4 and will have basic specs and a low-low price of under €100. The new phone will have a quad-core CPU at 1.3 GHz rates. That… Read more

Amazon offers its resources for new Biden Administration’s vaccination efforts

Amazon is the second largest employer in the United States with over 800,000 employees and has a massive transport and logistics network with reach all over the US. In a letter addressed directly to the newly inaugurated President Joe Biden, Amazon offers its resources to assist in Biden’s goal of vaccinating 100 million Americans during… Read more

Sony Xperia 10 III leaks in official looking renders

New year, new Roman numerals for Sony. In 2021 we’re all anxiously waiting for the company’s IIIrd generation of its smartphones, and today one of these has been uncovered. It’s the Xperia 10 III, successor to the Xperia 10 II from last year, and virtually indistinguishable from it as you can see from the leaked… Read more

Chrome 88 checks for compromised passwords, adds tab search

Google has pushed out v88 of Chrome for desktop, which includes a handful of important changes. The browser will now check if your saved passwords have been compromised, a feature standard to most dedicated password managers. If it finds a compromised password, it will then provide you with an alert to change it to something… Read more

OnePlus 7 and 7T series get OxygenOS 11 beta

OnePlus has released the OxygenOS 11 public beta firmware to the OnePlus 7 and 7T series so those wanting to give Android 11 a try as quickly as possible can now do it. The beta firmwares are available for the OnePlus 7 and 7 Pro, as well as the 7T and 7T Pro. There are… Read more

Shield TV adds support for PS5 and Xbox One controllers

Nvidia has updated its Shield TV media streaming box to add support for the Bluetooth enabled PlayStation 5 DualSense and the Xbox Series X|S controllers. These controllers can now be paired with the streaming device through the latter’s Bluetooth settings. The Shield TV is a media streaming box but it can also play Android games… Read more

Galaxy S21 4G variant appears to be certified in Bluetooth SIG listing

In a rather odd turn of events, Samsung might be bringing a 4G variant of its recently released Galaxy S21 5G after all. All three S21 models introduced last week come with 5G connectivity exclusively (mmWave or sub-6Ghz depending on region) but a new Bluetooth SIG certification suggests we’re in for a regular old 4G… Read more

Samsung Galaxy M62 benchmarked with Galaxy Note10’s chipset

It looks like the Samsung Galaxy M62 will be similar to the F62 (perhaps even identical). The Geekbench scorecard for the phone (SM-M625F) shows that it will be powered by the Exynos 9825 chipset, which was used in the Galaxy Note10 and Note10+. This 7nm chip features two custom M4 cores (2.73 GHz), two Cortex-A75… Read more

Android 12 will let you share Wi-Fi passwords with nearby devices

Android 12 isn’t exactly around the corner but it’s nice to get bits and pieces that tell us what to expect from the future OS. The nearby share of Wi-Fi passwords, for example, is a neat new functionality that awaits and solves one of the worst “first-world problem” we have. Currently, Android 10 users and… Read more

Netflix paying subscribers surpass 200 million with record-setting year

Cinemas may be struggling, but Netflix had a record-breaking year. The streaming service has amassed 200 million paying subscribers, adding a record 37 million over the course of 2020. For comparison, Netflix’s subscriber base grew by 28 million users in 2019. This rapid growth means that Netflix went from 111 million paying members in 2018… Read more

Rugged Ulefone Armor 12 with Dimensity 1200 chipset incoming

The Ulefone Armor 12 could be the first rugged phone to use the new Dimensity 1200 chipset. It will launch in June and will be the most powerful Ulefone yet. The 6nm chipset will be paired with 12GB of RAM, while current models from the company typically top out at 8GB. And it will have… 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

Sony seeding stable Android 11 to Xperia 5 II

A week after the Xperia 5 got its Android 11 update, its successor the Xperia 5 II is also getting the latest update. The new firmware bears the 58.1.A.1.178 build number and is seeding across Europe, Russia and Asia. The new update comes in at just 710MB in size. Android 11 update for Xperia 5… Read more

Oppo Find X3 Pro certified with a 4,500 mAh battery with 65W fast charging

Oppo will introduce the Find X3 series in March and a device from the lineup with the model number CPH2173 has appeared at the US FCC and the Chinese Compulsory Certification (also known as CCC or 3C). The phone will have two equally sized cells with 2,200 mAh minimal charge, meaning the whole battery capacity… Read more

LG might pull out of smartphone business after all

LG introduced a rollable smartphone at CES 2021, clearly indicating that the company has not run out of great ideas for its smartphone business. At the turn of the year LG also refuted the rumors about exiting the smartphone business saying these assumptions are “completely false and without merit.” However in a dramatic turn of… Read more