Xiaomi Mi Mix 3 pictured with a Find X-esque camera slider, coming in October

Okay, now we know for sure what the 2019 trend will be - camera sliders. It all started when vivo announced its NEX S concept at this year's MWC in Barcelona. Later on introduced a finished device. Oppo was then fast to respond with an even bigger slider on its Find X flagship and now Honor is looking to introduce the Magic 2 smartphone with the same camera mechanism. Well, it didn't take long for another one to pop up but this time from an entirely different Chinese smartphone maker - Xiaomi. The company's president just posted a render of the still unannounced Mi Mix 3 - a...

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BlackBerry KEY2 LE hands-on review

Call it circumstance, an unnatural attraction towards stand-out design and functionality, or some of us, around the office simply showing our age and geeky nature. Regardless of the particular reasoning behind it, we kind of liked the BlackBerry KEY2 and judging by some of the responses, we have been reading in our review, we're definitely not the only ones.

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BlackBerry announces the KEY2 LE - toned-down KEY2 version with cool color options

The BlackBerry KEY2 was well-received by the Android community, especially by the business users in the US, Canada, Germany and Central EU. However, we can't overlook the fact that the KEY2's price tag is a little off for the hardware it offers. So here's where the BlackBerry KEY2 LE comes into play - a slightly toned-down version of the original while retaining the iconic features that made the KEY2 a great business-oriented device. BlackBerry KEY2 LE in Slate On contrary to the original's Snapdragon 660, the "lite" version settles for the Snapdragon 636 chipset paired with...

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The ZTE Axon 9 Pro runs stock Android, boasts stereo speakers and a large battery

After skipping a year, ZTE's budget-friendly flagship is back - check out the Axon 9 Pro. It runs stock Android now (8.1 Oreo) on Qualcomm's top Snapdragon while sipping power from a large 4,000mAh battery. Starting with the screen, it's still an AMOLED panel but that's where similarities end. It's bigger, 6.21", it has a notch and it has 1080p+ resolution (down from QHD on the Axon 7). The good news is that the screen is HDR10-capable and it has an RGB sensor for accurate white balance. Even better - Axon's powerful stereo speakers are still on board. They are Dolby Atmos-enabled to...

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New images of the vivo V11 Pro surface

The upcoming vivo V11 Pro has been heavily rumored to the point where we know about as much as there is to know about it. So these fresh pictures of the device caught in the wild don't reveal anything new but serve to reiterate what we've seen so far. The V11 Pro will have a dual camera on the back, a fingerprint scanner embedded into the display and a water drop notch. vivo V11 Pro caught in the wild The remaining three images of the vivo V11 Pro are from a retail store and the device is a non-functioning sales dummy. It serves as an example of the V11 Pro held in hand and...

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Flipkart sold out of Nokia 6.1 Plus phones in three minutes

The first batch of Nokia 6.1 Plus phones in India started selling right on schedule - 12:00pm local time. And by 12:03pm Flipkart was all out of stock. The retailer doesn't say how many units were sold in total, but it did say that it was selling 150 phones a second. Multiplied by 180 seconds that's 27,000. Keep in mind that the phone was also available on Nokia.com, so the total will be higher. More Nokia 6.1 Plus units are on the way, the next sale on Flipkart will be on September 6 at 12 noon local time. Nokia.com should be restocking as well, but there's no info on when that...

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Honor teases the Honor Magic 2 with slide-out cameras and FullView display

After announcing the Honor Play for the global market, the company's president surprised us all by teasing the successor to the original Honor Magic. The latter was released back in December 2016 and never got a follow-up until now, of course. The successor is called Magic 2 and the device didn't get a proper announcement - the George Zhao just teased some of the key features. The most noticeable one is the so-called FullView display - no notches, no big ugly chins - just display. And as you may have figured out by yourselves, the device will have slide-out cameras as there's no room...

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