Month: July 2018
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Counterpoint: OnePlus 6 shipments beat Galaxy S9+ almost 3:1 in India
OnePlus derives almost a third of its global revenue from India and it’s a sign that the company is doing well when it posts shipments. Not only that, but Counterpoint reports that during the second quarter of this year OnePlus shipped more premium phones than Samsung for the first time in its history. Counterpoint defines…
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Sony’s Q2 2018 results are in – smartphone sales drop to 2 million
Sony just published its Q2 financial report and unfortunately it holds little good news for its struggling mobile business. The Japanese firm shipped just 2 million phones in Q2 this year compared to the 3.4 million in Q2 2017. That’s just $1.18 billion revenue and a 27% decline year-over-year. The main reason lies in the…
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TENAA shows a version of the Xiaomi Mi 8 Explorer with a smaller notch
The Xiaomi Mi 8 Explorer is the premium phone in the series. Besides its attractive translucent back, it also comes with a 3D face scanner and an under display fingerprint reader. Naturally, this drives up the price, but TENAA reveals that there may be a more affordable version in the works. We’ve seen this device…
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Samsung profit slows down in Q2 2018 due to unimpressive Galaxy S9 sales
Samsung has just posted its financial report for the second quarter of 2018. The Korean conglomerate reached KRW58.48 trillion (around $52.2 billion) in sales, its lowest result for the past 12 months. Samsung stated the decline in revenue, hinted earlier in the earnings guidance was due to lower sales of smartphones and display panels, while…
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Huawei’s CPU Turbo: what does it do?
When Huawei announced GPU Turbo there was plenty of misunderstanding of what it does. So, now the company announced CPU Turbo with the Kirin 970-powered Honor Note 10 and there seems to be a similar confusion. The official announcement is very vague, but here’s what we have so far – enabling CPU Turbo mode will…