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  • Xiaomi sells over 1M Redmi 5A units in less than a month in India

    Xiaomi launched the affordable Redmi 5A in India on December 7. In under a month, the company managed to sell over 1 million units, according to Manu Kumar Jain, managing director of Xiaomi India. He bragged about the milestone on Twitter to thank the Mi fans and to hand out Mi Band HRX devices to…

  • Kantar: iPhone X is a bestseller in the UK, Japan and China

    Research company Kantar Worldpanel released its report on the smartphone market for the September-November period of 2017. The data revealed a mixed performance from iOS, despite launching three new phones. Share across big five European markets (Germany, France, UK, Spain, Italy) fell by 0.6 percent points to 23.9% and by 3.8 percent points to 39.8%…

  • Last Samsung Galaxy S8/S8+ oreo beta build begins rolling

    Samsung has started pushing out a new Oreo beta build to eligible Galaxy S8/S8+ units. Arriving as software version ZRA5 and weighing in at around 595MB, the update brings bug fixes andthe Android security patch for January. This is highly likely to be the last beta update, as the beta program is scheduled to end…

  • Samsung Galaxy A8 (2018) now available in the UK

    The Samsung Galaxy A8 (2018) just launched in mainland Europe and is now available in the UK as well… sort of. The phone (A530F) is available on Clove UK, but those are imported European units – meaning they come with an EU plug charger. At a price of £480, you may as well do the…

  • Benchmark shows one of the Huawei P20 models will have an 18.7:9 screen

    The Huawei P10 Plus and Mate 10 (vanilla) feature screens with QHD resolution, however an early sighting of the Huawei P20 suggests that the company is still not ready to fully commit to leaving 1080p behind. An HTML compliance benchmark recorded the EML-AL00 – one of the P20 variants – will have 1,080 x 2,244px…

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