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Week 41 in review: Honor 7X and nubia Z17 duo debut
As we come closer and closer to the holiday season announcements are drying up and manufacturers start focusing on actually bringing their devices to the market for the year’s most important months. Still we have one more major announcement left – Huawei is unveiling its new Mate 10 family tomorrow – and the Chinese company…
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Top 10 trending phones of week 41
Week 41 brought us a new popularity leader as the Samsung Galaxy J7 Pro claimed the top spot, ahead of the Xiaomi Redmi Note 5 and last week’s champion – the Galaxy Note8. The only member of the top 10 that doesn’t come from Xiaomi or Samsung is the Nokia 6, which got the fourth…
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Weekly poll: can Android One phones replace the Nexus line?
Android One’s initial lineup was pretty obscure – low-end phones from brands you haven’t heard of. But a couple of recent phones are filling the gap left by the discontinued Nexus line, namely affordable but capable phones with software controlled by Google. We just finished reviewing the Xiaomi Mi A1 and we came away impressed.…
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What’s an eSIM, how it works and why it’s important to you
In recent weeks Google and Apple brought the eSIM into the spotlight by including it within their latest product launches, the Google Pixel 2, Google Pixel 2 XL and the Apple Watch Series 3 with Cellular. The eSIM gives us an improved and more secure customer experience, better designed devices, opens up new market opportunities…
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Weekly poll results: Pixel 2 XL is clearly the favorite child
Google’s new Pixel 2 phones are high in price but low on some essential features. Still, if owning a Pixel is your goal, our readers believe that the larger Pixel 2 XL is the better option by a large margin. Sure, it shares in some of the downfalls of the smaller model (like no headphone…
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