Mobile Devices - Page 101

Back in October last year, Samsung ended the production of the Galaxy Note7 due to faulty batteries.

Samsung is now working on a project to bring the Note 8, and the device is expected sometime this year. However, that doesn't mean that the Note7 is dead just yet...

A new report from South Korea claims that the refurbished Galaxy Note7 might return to the market as early as June this year. According to the report, the Note7 might show up in emerging markets such as Vietnam and India.

Since Samsung won't unveil the Galaxy S8 and S8+ at MWC in Barcelona, the company decided to introduce the Galaxy Tab S3, which they hinted in their official invite.

Rumors say that the tablet will be available shortly after launch, and now the images of the device have leaked from the Taiwanese NCC.

The images aren't the best quality, but they show that the Tab S3 will rock a so-called glass sandwich design, meaning that both the front and the back will be covered with glass with a metal frame between them. This is something that Korean company introduced with their Galaxy S6.

Qualcomm has already teased Gigabit LTE in Sydney, Australia with speeds of 930Mbps over a small router that fits into your pocket, but now they've announced their new Snapdragon X20 LTE chipset that will eventually find its way into next-gen mobile devices.

The new Snapdragon X20 LTE modem is capable of "fiber-like" speeds, with download speeds of up to 1.2Gbps - providing over 100MB/sec download speeds... on your smartphone. Qualcomm reaches this with the new LTE Category 18 technology, with support for up to 5 x 20MHz download Carrier Aggregation (CA) over unlicensed FDD and TDD radio frequencies, as well as 4x4 MIMO on up to three aggregated LTE carriers.

Qualcomm's super-fast Snapdragon X20 LTE chipset is capable of 12 simultaneous unique streams of data, and on each download stream the X20 LTE's modem and its support for 256-QAM, we're looking at peak throughput of around 100Mbps. Uplink bandwidth with 2x20MHz carrier aggregation plus 64-QAM sees upload speeds of 150Mbps.

LG will announce the G6 at MWC 2017 in Barcelona on February 26th, and we've seen numerous leaks about the upcoming flagship.

Now, the Korean company itself have revealed the G6 camera specs. According to their official teaser on the LG website, the G6 will have wide-angle cameras on the front and the back.

The selfie shooter will have a 100-degree field of view, but the resolution hasn't been mentioned.

Lenovo and Motorola are expected to announce the Moto G5 and Moto G5 Plus at MWC 2017, and we've already heard numerous rumors.

Now, little less than a week before the official announcement, the specs of the phones have leaked from a Colombian retailer.

Lenovo decided to go far smaller displays than last year's series, so the G5 will have a 5-inch screen, while the G5 Plus will rock a 5.2-inch display. Moto G4 and G4 Plus had 5.5-inch screens. The resolution will remain Full HD.

LG will announce the G6 at MWC in Barcelona, and we know that the phone won't feature a Snapdragon 835. Instead, it will be powered by a Snapdragon 821.

However, that doesn't mean we won't see a Snapdragon 835 powered smartphone this year. According to a new rumor, the successor to the LG V20 should be powered by that processor.

The same rumor suggests that the V30 would have 6GB of RAM, a dual camera, and should have a better DAC compared to the V20.

There have been numerous leaks regarding the Galaxy S8 and S8+ in the past few months. Samsung won't unveil them at MWC in Barcelona, but they will probably use that event to tease their upcoming flagship and hopefully confirm the official launch date (rumors suggest that Samsung will launch the phones on March 29th).

The latest leak comes from a Ukrainian retailer database that shows the color options and pricing of the Galaxy S8 and S8+. Both phones are listed under Black, Gold, and Orchid Gray colors.

Read also: Samsung ditches 'Edge': Welcome Samsung Galaxy S8+

Back in October, Xiaomi announced their most ambitious phone so far - the Mi MIX. The device comes with an incredible 91.3 percent screen-to-body ratio, which the company says is the world's 1st.

Less than a four months after the launch, the company has confirmed that they are working on the Mi MIX successor. The news was confirmed by the company's CEO Lei Jun.

Read also: Xiaomi Mi MIX rocks its edge-to-edge display

While Huawei will unveil the P10 and P10 Plus at this year's MWC, their Honor brand also has a new smartphone to show.

According to a Russian website Hi-Tech, the company will launch a global version of the Honor V9, which will be unveiled on February 21st in China.

The global version of the phone will reportedly be named the Honor 8 Pro, and unlike the Honor 8 and Honor 8 Lite, it should be a high-end device.

ASUS' ZenFone 3 Zoom and ZenFone AR were officially revealed at CES, and with the MWC around the corner, there are rumors that the company might unveil new devices in Barcelona.

Read also: ZenFone AR: The world's first smartphone with 8GB of RAM

The latest leak shows the new member of the ZenFone family - ZenFone 3 Go. The leaked image reveals that the device won't have a rear-mounted fingerprint sensor or a physical button on the front.

The Huawei P10 will be officially announced in little more than a week from now in Barcelona, but we already know what to expect.

Just yesterday Huawei unveiled that the device will come in three colors - gold, blue, and green.

Read also: The Huawei P10 will come in three colors

ZTE is expected to announce their ZTE Gigabit at MWC 2017 alongside some other smartphones.

The Chinese company describes the phone as a "forward-looking smartphone" for 5G era, although we won't see the successor to 4G LTE in wide usage until 2020.

The phone will allow for 1 gigabit per second download speeds. ZTE believe that this feature will improve 360 VR videos, streaming, and more.

ASUS' ZenFone 3 Zoom was officially revealed at CES alongside the ZenFone AR, but the price of the phone wasn't mentioned at ASUS' press conference.

However, the company has now announced some more details in Taiwan, where the device is available for purchase. The base model is priced at around $489, but have in mind that the phone might come with a slightly higher price in the US. There is still no info on when the device will be available in other markets.

The ZenFone 3 Zoom is a 5.5-inch smartphone designed to excel at photography with a dual-camera system that comprises two 12MP cameras, one with a f/1.7-aperture, 25mm wide-angle lens and a second with a 59mm lens. Users can instantly switch from the 25mm primary camera to the 59mm camera, giving them a 2.3X optical zoom.

Huawei is all set to unveil the P10 and P10 Plus next Sunday, and we pretty much know by now what to expect.

The Chinese giant has also teased the colors of their upcoming flagship - blue, gold, and green. Evan Blass leaked a photo of the phones showing the final product in all three colors.

The P10 will be powered by Huawei's Kirin 960 processor, currently in the Mate 9, with 4GB of RAM and 64GB of internal storage.

Meizu has launched their new budget phone - Meizu M5s. Like the M5, the M5s comes with a 5.2-inch 720x1280 display.

The phone is powered by a 1.3GHz octa-core MediaTek MT6753 processor and comes with 3GB of RAM and 16GB or 32GB of internal storage expandable with a microSD card.

The device comes with a 13MP main camera and 5MP selfie cam. The M5s also comes with a 3,000 mAh battery and a fingerprint sensor.

We've seen numerous images leaks of LG's upcoming flagship, and each revealed a bit more about the G6.

Now, one of the last pieces of the puzzle fit into its place - the battery size of LG's upcoming flagship. A "senior official" at the company revealed to Korean media that the G6 would ship with a battery capacity of "more than 3,200 mAh."

This is the biggest battery that LG has put into a G-series smartphone. Last year's G5 shipped with 2,800 mAh battery.

Huawei's P10 and P10 Plus should arrive this spring, and we are expecting the company to announce their newest phones at this year's MWC in Barcelona.

The specs, images, and the pricing of the devices have already leaked in the previous months, but now there is a new report suggesting that the P10 Plus might rock a whopping 8GB of RAM.

Read also: Huawei revives the Note7 with the P10 Plus

Probably the most iconic phone in the history of cell phones is coming back. The Nokia 3310! Yes, you read that right. The indestructible phone with a long-lasting battery is making its return.

According to the leak by Evan Blass, HMD Global will launch a modern version of the Nokia 3310 phone on MWC 2017. Not much is know about the phone, but to be honest - who cares?! It's Nokia 3310, and at a price of 59 euros (around $63), I know I'm for sure getting one.

The company will target the European market with this phone, but it will hopefully find its way to other markets as well.

We've reported just recently that Apple's upcoming iPhone 8 and iPhone X smartphones will have wireless charging, but now it seems like this is a reality - as Apple has just become a member of the Wireless Power Consortium.

WPC is committed to the open development of the Qi wireless charging standard, with Apple joining over 200 companies that belong to the consortium: including Samsung, HTC, Qualcomm, Dell, Nokia, Huawei, and many more.

Qi is the leading wireless charging standard, used by over 200 companies in hundreds of different devices. Apple joining the wireless charging ranks is only a good thing, after years of having 'the best smartphone ever made' it never had something as awesome as wireless charging... until now.

There are a heap of rumors surrounding Apple's new iPhone 8 - which is meant to be joined by the higher-end, ground breaking iPhone X - but for now, we'll stick to the iPhone 8 discussion.

According to KGI Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, Apple will be using a more expensive stacked logic board for the new iPhone 8 - which is also known as a "substrate-like PCB mainboard". The benefits? It'll see the iPhone 8 with an OLED display that will have a similar size to the 4.7-inch iPhone, but with battery life more akin to the larger 5.5-inch iPhone.

Kuo expects the 4.7-inch iPhone 8 to have a 2700Mah L-shaped two-cell battery pack, adding: "As battery material tech isn't likely to see major breakthroughs in the next 3-5 years, mainboard area can only be reduced via stacked SLP, which makes space for larger battery and extended usage time. Thanks to stacked SLP, we expect the OLED iPhone to have similar dimensions to a 4.7" TFT-LCD iPhone, and have comparable battery capacity (equipped with around 2,700 mAh L-shaped 2-cell battery pack) to a 5.5" TFT-LCD iPhone. The battery life of the OLED iPhone could be better than that of the 5.5" TFT-LCD model as OLED panels are more energy-efficient than their TFT-LCD counterparts".