YU Ace goes official with a big 4,000mAh battery and a small price tag

The budget brand YU is back after months of laying low. The YU Ace will be available exclusively through Flipkart and will costs INR 6,000 ($85/€75) when it launches on September 6. It has specs similar to the Xiaomi Redmi 6A, which will arrive in India the day before. The Ace has a larger battery, however, 4,000mAh worth of power. That should last for quite a while considering the MediaTek MT6739WW chipset features a quad-core Cortex-A53 processor at 1.5GHz. The phone will run Android 8.0 Oreo at launch. There are two versions of the phone - with 2GB of RAM and 16GB storage and with...

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OxygenOS Open Beta for Oneplus 5/5T adds selfie portrait mode and more

OnePlus has started rolling out OxygenOS Open Beta 15 and 17 for the OP5T and OP5, respectively. The new software update adds front camera portrait mode, various system bug fixes and some other minor tweaks. It's good to see OnePlus keeping its promises from the Open Ears Forum that the company held last month. The new patch to the Open Beta software hint at a major stable release after the incremental OnePlus 5 and 5T firmware update last week. This time around, the patch adds portrait mode to the selfie cam and bumps up the security patch to August 2018. It also takes care of some...

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Poco Launcher appears on Google Play

Xiaomi launched the Pocophone F1 with customized MIUI 9.6, called MIUI for Poco. The Nova Launcher lookalike brought faster UI animations, cleaner Android look and plenty of standard MIUI features like hiding apps or a quick drawer, sitting left from the Home Screen. Apparently Xiaomi is so proud of its product, it pushed the Poco Launcher to Google Play for all devices. Poco Launcher features The Poco Launcher finally brings an app drawer to the MIUI feeling for a sleeker look of the home screen. There is a search for apps, and they all can be sorted not only by Install...

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HTC U12 Life unveiled with a unique dual finish design and a 3,600mAh battery

The HTC U12 Life has come to Berlin and soon will head out to the world at the end of September. It runs Android 8.1 Oreo, though not Android One. The back of the phone features two distinct textures - smooth acrylic glass and horizontal lines etched into the glass. The end result is reminiscent of the Pixel phones, but has its own look too. Two color options will be on offer: Moonlight Blue and Twilight Purple. Around the front is a 6-inch 18:9 screen, the same size as the U12+ screen. It has a 1,080 x 2,160px resolution so it's not quite as sharp, but the good news is that HTC...

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Xiaomi will launch the Redmi 6, 6A and 6 Pro in India on September 5

Xiaomi will launch its Redmi 6 series of phones - the Redmi 6, Redmi 6 Pro and Redmi 6A - in India on September 5. Official invites have been sent to media and Xiaomi's Managing Director for India Manu Kumar Jain has posted a teaser on Twitter. #DeshKeNayeSmartphones! Mi fans! We've got more than one for you! Coming very soon 😇Am super excited. RT if you're too 😎@XiaomiIndia @RedmiIndia pic.twitter.com/tMeltTQR7j— Manu Kumar Jain (@manukumarjain) August 30, 2018 The Redmi 6 series has been officially launched in China since June, and we expect will reach other...

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Stable MIUI 10 is currently rolling out for Xiaomi Mi 8 SE and Mi Mix 2

Xiaomi started pushing its latest installment of the MIUI custom overlay and the first one to get it is last year's Mi 6 but users in China have reported that the Mi 8 SE and the Mi MIx 2 are also getting the much-needed OS update. But don't get too excited as the MIUI 10 stable ROM is currently available only in China and it's been rolling out gradually and randomly. The build numbers are 10.0.1.0.OEBCNFH and 10.0.0.1.0.ODECNFH for the Mi 8 SE and the Mi Mix 2, respectively. Interestingly, the former's update weighs in only at 930MB while the latter is receiving an even smaller patch...

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Watch the Sony IFA 2018 live stream here

Sony and IFA always go well hand in hand and this time we are up for a surprise as well. Today at 1 PM CET the Japanese company is having an event at Messe Berlin, where the Xperia XZ3 flagship should be outed. Some rumors also suggest Xperia XA3 appearance, but the latter is more unlikely. The phone already appeared with Android Pie on Geekbench, on GFXBench with a tall screen, and in all colors earlier today. The phone will also stick to a single camera setup on the back, instead of going for XZ2 Premium's solution of two shooters. We are also at the scene, so once the event is...

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