2021 Winners and losers: Oppo

2021 Winners and losers: Oppo While the first members of the Oppo Reno5 series arrived in 2020, some did so quite late (including one on December 31) and others launched in 2021. This year we also saw the Reno6 and recently the Reno7 series. There were many launches in the A and F series as well, but we’ll try to condense the best and the worst of Oppo’s 2021 here.

Winner: Oppo Find X3 Pro

Let’s start with the best, otherwise known as the Oppo Find X3 Pro. The phone was unveiled in March and it flaunted a meticulously crafted design and custom camera hardware.

The design won a Red Dot Award, in no small part…

Top stories of 2021: Q2

Top stories of 2021: Q2 Welcome to our recap of the top news articles of 2021. This is Q2, you can also take a look at the top stories of Q1, Q3 and Q4.

It’s now time to look at the months April through June, which were defined by a myriad of phone announcements as well as looming phones from further down 2021.

Sharp officially brought a 1-inch sensor to a phone with the Japan-exclusive Aquos R6. It had more going for it with a 240Hz refresh rate display, another first. But as with all of Sharp’s innovations, this one never came out of Japan.

Sony unveiled the Xperia 1 III, 5 III, and 10 III in Q2, all of…

Samsung to unveil the Exynos 2200 on January 11

Samsung to unveil the Exynos 2200 on January 11 The Exynos 2200 is coming sooner than expected – the new flagship chipset with AMD graphics will debut on January 11. This is the week after CES and the rumored date for the Galaxy S21 FE launch.

Of course, the FE will use the older Snapdragon 888 and Exynos 2100 chipsets, depending on the market (more specs here). This new chipset will be reserved for the upcoming Galaxy S22 series, which are expected to arrive in February.

#PlaytimeIsOver. The gaming marketplace is about to get serious. Stay tuned for the next #Exynos with the new GPU born from RDNA 2. January 11, 2022….

iQOO 9 Pro to bring Samsung E5 LTPO AMOLED, ultrasonic fingerprint scanner

iQOO 9 Pro to bring Samsung E5 LTPO AMOLED, ultrasonic fingerprint scanner The latest iQOO 9 Pro teasers are in and they are all about the upcoming flagship’s display. The phone will come with a curved Samsung E5 AMOLED panel of the LTPO 2.0 variety refreshing at up to 120Hz and with a 1,000Hz touch sampling rate. The teasers also confirm a 2K resolution which is a marketing term used to describe QHD+ panels in China. The panel will bring a 517 PPI count and will reportedly crank out up to 1,500 nits peak brightness.

iQOO 9 Pro display and fingerprint scanner official teasers

In addition, iQOO 9 Pro will offer an ultrasonic fingerprint scanner…

Vodafone and Three are bringing back EU roaming charges along with EE in 2022

Vodafone and Three are bringing back EU roaming charges along with EE in 2022 It’s not just EE, the other two major British carriers will also reinstate roaming fees for those who travel in the EU – there will be £2 a day fee if they want to make calls and use data. This will apply to new customers and those upgrading their plan.

Vodafone is set to start collecting the fee from January, EE was also looking at the first month of 2022, but pushed that back to March. Three will add back the fee in late May.

The EU dropped roaming charges within the Union back in 2017, but UK carriers are no longer subject to that after Brexit.

Both EE and Vodafone will allow…

Vivo Y21T full specs sheet leaks, confirms resemblance to Y33s

Vivo Y21T full specs sheet leaks, confirms resemblance to Y33s The vivo Y21T is expected to launch on January 3 with a Snapdragon 680 chipset. We suspected it is not an entirely new handset, and we were right – it is indeed the vivo Y33s with a Qualcomm chipset and some other minor changes. The full features list of the Y21T appeared online, revealing the company changed the selfie camera and the SoC and slapped a new name.

The vivo Y21T will have a 6.58” LCD with Full HD+ resolution. There is a waterdrop notch for the 8 MP selfie camera, unlike the 16 MP sensor in the vivo Y33s. The trio of cameras on the back is the same, thought – 50 MP f/1.8…

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