Month: May 2021

There are so many software features built into iPhone, some are easy enough to find, others are a little more hidden but they are not only very useful, but good for safety too. When setup, Emergency SOS on iPhone doesn’t just give you a quick option to call emergency services if you’re in trouble, but it will also automatically alert your emergency contacts to your location. There are a couple of different options for setting up and activating Emergency SOS on iPhone. We’ve run through them all below to help you make sure your iPhone is ready to help you as much as possible if you ever feel unsafe or … Read more

Samsung will reportedly launch the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 3 in July, which means the avalanche of leaks have just started. Today we have a report on the weight of the device, courtesy of reliable Samsung leaker Ice Universe. He revealed that the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 3 will weigh in at 269g. This is a slight advance on the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 2, which weighed 282 g and the original Fold, which clocked in at 276g. Samsung may have achieved this reduction by using a slightly smaller battery, with earlier reports suggesting that the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 3’s battery will have a 4,380mAh or 4,400mAh capacity, vs … Read more

  Huawei’s HarmonyOS is right around the corner at this point, with an official unveiling event set for June 2. The Chinese giant has major plans for its Android alternative, with a goal to have it running on 300 million devices by the end of the year. Some part of that massive figure will surely come from brand new device sales. For one, Huawei has been posting teasers for the June 2 event with hints for the upcoming MatePad Pro 2, as well as the Huawei Watch 3 – both slated to be among the first to run HarmonyOS out of the box. A large part of the effort will, … Read more

  ZTE’s first Axon 30 series phone is the Ultra member. It’s every bit the flagship with a Snapdragon 888 chipset, three 64MP shooters and a fourth 13MP periscope telephoto camera, as well as a large 144Hz AMOLED display. We’ve already published our written review, and now the video version is also on our YouTube channel. The Axon 30 Ultra definitely looks like the part with its sleek, thin body. It may lack features like IP68 certification or wireless charging, but as Will mentions in the video, this helps the price to stay a bit lower, compared with other flagships. The 144Hz refresh rate is of rather limited use – … Read more

  Qualcomm has stuck to a consistent update schedule with its last few flagship Snapdragon chipsets. The standard version is released in December while a Plus model usually arrives in July. While we inch closer to the said timeframe a new chipset believed to be the Snapdragon 888+ appeared in a Geekbench listing. Snapdragon 888+ listing on Geekbench The big change compared to the regular SD 888 is the overclocked X1 performance core which hums at 3.0Ghz compared to 2.84Ghz on the old model. The test reveals four low-power A55 cores running at 1.8GHz and three additional Cortex-A78 clusters running at 2.4Ghz. Armed with this arsenal, the SD 888+ delivered … Read more