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Infinix went rogue with the Note 7 (Simply Wicked... BUT its 720P screen)

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Infinix Mobility, a global premium smartphone brand unveiled the highly anticipated NOTE 7. A smartphone targeted at the mid-to-high-end market segment in Nigeria. This is coming after months of clamouring for another NOTE since the 6 th iteration of the Infinix NOTE series hit the shelves in July 2019. The Note 7 was unveiled through a first-of-its-kind, online mobile phone launch that brought in a fine mix of top Nigerian celebrities in the entertainment industry. Together at the launch with Infinix Mobility’s brand ambassador – Davido was popular TV presenter Nancy Isime; Nigerian actress – Ini Edo; musical whiz – Patoranking, the rib-cracking comedian – MC Lively, and the popular tech vlogger – Fisayo Fosudo. These magical six brought a lot of humour and fun into what has turned out to be the best hours of an online smartphone launch in Africa. Watch top celebrities unveil the Note 7 on Infinix mobility’s YouTube channel: https://youtu.be/IKGsVH71W8U
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Xiaomi defies photography with the Mi Note 10

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Yesterday Xiaomi announced the Mi CC9 Pro with a 108 MP Penta-camera, and today it introduced its global version. The name of the phone across the world will be Xiaomi Mi Note 10, and aside from some price differences and the availability of Google services, everything else is the same. We also got a teaser for the Xiaomi Mi Note 10 Pro - which is the international equivalent of what the Chinese market will get as the Xiaomi Mi CC9 Pro Premium Edition. The Mi Note 10 Pro brings an 8P lens in front of the 108 MP sensor and some extra RAM and storage but shares the rest of its hardware with the regular Mi Note 10.
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vivo X30 is coming next month with an Exynos 980 Chipset

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At a recent joint press conference with Samsung in China, Vivo announced that the X30 will arrive in December with Exynos 980 SoC and support for 5G. The Exynos 980 SoC was unveiled in early September and it is the world's first mid-range chipset with an integrated 5G modem. It supports dual-mode 5G and promises download speeds of up to 2.55Gbps. And, with 4G and 5G downlinks combined, it can reach speeds of up to 3.55Gbps. The Exynos 980 SoC is built on the 8nm FinFET process and consists of two Cortex-A77 cores clocked at 2.2GHz and six Cortex-A55 cores running at 1.8GHz. Additionally, the chipset comes with the Mali-G76 MP5 GPU to handle graphically intensive tasks like gaming and photo and video editing.
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Anniversary Samsung Galaxy S10 to come with new design, more colors

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  Samsung is celebrating ten years of Galaxy S flagships next year and the company is planning a new anniversary smartphone to mark the occassion. At first, we heard about a trio of new phones with up to three cameras at the rear, and later we had a confirmation from DJ Koh, the Mobile Division CEO that none of them would be foldable - this will be an entirely different smartphone.
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Xiaomi Redmi Note 6 Pro live photo confirms some specs

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Xiaomi is yet to announce the Redmi Note 6 Pro, intended for the Indian market. Earlier leaked specs suggested the phone will have Snapdragon 660 and 4/64 GB memory combination. Thanks to some leaked photos of the retail box of the phone and the device itself, we know more specs. The Redmi Note 6 Pro will have a 6.26” screen with a notch, four cameras and a huge battery. The display will come with 19:9 ratio and Full HD+ resolution that translates to 2280 x 1080 pixels. The main camera setup will be 12 MP + 5 MP with 1.4µm pixel size and dual pixel autofocus, which looks like what Mi 8 SE has on its back. The selfie snappers are 20 MP + 2 MP and both secondary cams appear to be for background blur in Portrait mode.
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Google Podcasts app now available on Android

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Google has released its own podcasting app for Android, called Google Podcasts. The app is now available for free on the Google Play Store. There is no iOS app available at the moment nor have they announced any plans on releasing one. Google Podcasts is a very simple podcasting app. You can search and subscribe to podcasts and Google includes a fairly robust library of podcasts so you'll find almost anything here. Once subscribed, episodes can be downloaded for offline playback or just streamed. Progress syncs across your Google account and you can continue playing on the Google Home where you left on your phone. Apart from that, the app doesn't do much. You can't import an OPML file so if you use another podcasting file you have no option but to re-subscribe to all your podcasts, which for some could be many. You can adjust playback speed but you can't skip over silences like some other podcasting apps (Google claims this feature is present but I couldn&
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Huawei may be preparing a Kirin 1020 chip, twice as powerful as the Kirin 970

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Huawei is one of the biggest smartphone manufacturers in the world and thus needs to become less reliant hardware produced outside the company. The in-house production should help bring the cost of devices down and maybe try to compete with Qualcomm's dominance in the mobile market. The latest news about an upcoming Kirin SoC might change all that. And no, we are not talking about the Kirin 980. With its newest HiSilicon 970 chipset, the company gets closer to Qualcomm's top-shelf chips, but still, the Kirin 970 isn't on par with the Snapdragon 845 in terms of raw performance, although it brought world's first AI chip on board. Sources say that the still unannounced Kirin 980 will finally be able to compete with Qualcomm's flagship chipset thanks to the advanced 7nm manufacturing process from TSMC, which would probably be the key selling point of the rumored Mate 20.
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