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Apple iPhone 8 specifications may not have been finalized yet Initially, there were many reports suggesting the iPhone 8 launch would get delayed due to some manufacturing issue. Proving all the speculations wrong, last week Apple sent out invites for the launch event that is to take place on September 12. As usual, the name of the product was not mentioned in the official invite. However, judging from the company's past launching pattern, we are quite sure the iPhone 8 will get launched at the event. Now, with just 4 days left until the launch date, a report by The Investors has revealed a shocking piece of information. According to the publication, the specs line up of the iPhone 8 is not finalized yet. The website claims to have obtained the information from an anonymous representative from Apple's local supplier. The supplier says that the shipments of the 2017 iPhones started only from late August. He further added that its firms are yet to get exact details on t

Vivo X20 Plus may be called as Vivo X20A; gets listed on TENAA A couple of days ago, we reported about the Vivo X20 and its Plus variant. According to fresh information, the Vivo X20 Plus will be dubbed as Vivo X20A. We say this as two smartphones have been spotted on TENAA. One is Vivo X20 and another is listed as Vivo X20A. Unfortunately, the TENAA listing has shed no light on the specifications. However, thanks to the pictures we get a good look at the design of these smartphones. It is worth noting that in terms of design, both of the phones are identical. The smartphones are shown to sport a full-vision display that is also seen on the LG G6. Previous leaks suggest the Vivo X20 will feature a 5.2-inch display, while the Vivo X20A aka X20 Plus will come with a 5.5-inch display. The front-facing camera on the smartphones is placed on the top left side of the display. There is also an earpiece and sensor next to the selfie camera. Coming to the rear part, the Vivo X20 a

Huawei becomes the second largest smartphone brand in the world after Samsung According to a research from Counterpoint's Market Pulse for July 2017, Huawei has surpassed Apple in global smartphone sales for the first time. The research also notes that Huawei is now the second largest smartphone vendor globally, after Samsung. Counterpoint's Research Director Peter Richardson attributes Huawei's success to its strong foothold in home market China, consistent investment in R&D and manufacturing as well as aggressive marketing. Besides, with the way Huawei is going about in the market, researchers predict strong sales in August for the Chinese vendor, and a hat-trick for Huawei could be on the cards as well. "While this streak could be temporary, considering the annual iPhone refresh is just around the corner, it nevertheless underscores the rate at which Huawei has been growing. However, a weak presence in the South Asian, Indian and North American markets

OxygenOS Open Beta 23/14 released for OnePlus 3 and OnePlus 3T The Open Beta program for the OnePlus 3 and 3T has been going on for quite a while now. Now,  OnePlus  has just rolled out OxygenOS Open Beta 23 for OnePlus 3 and Open Beta 14 for OnePlus 3T. As expected, the update brings a number of major improvements and bug fixes. To start with, the default color profile of the smartphones' display has been changed to match more closely with the alternative sRGB calibration. Besides this, some minor but user visible changes include support for irregular alarm schedule, UI tweaks in the Contacts app and the Ambient Display etc. The latest OxygenOS Open Beta update has made some changes under the hood as well. For example, the stability of Parallel apps have been improved, location accuracy in the Weather app has been improved, loading time of images inside the Gallery app has been reduced. Other than that, the update has added E-warranty card, so users can find a version

Zopo P5000 and Z5000 with 5000mAh battery announced Zopo has announced two new smartphones - P5000 and Z5000. Both are mid-range smartphones running on Android 7.0 Nougat OS out of the box. The Zopo smartphones come with a dual camera setup a the rear with a 13MP primary camera with Sony IMX258 sensor and a 5MP secondary camera for capturing the depth of field information. There is a 16MP selfie snapper at the front accompanied with soft LED flash and f/2.2 aperture. The rear camera has PDAF, dual tone LED flash and f/2.0 aperture. Both the smartphones make use of an octa-core MediaTek Helio P10 SoC paired with 4GB RAM. Besides these similarities, both the Zopo smartphones have many differences. The Zopo P5000 boasts of a 5.99-inch HD+ IPS 2.5D curved glass display with a resolution of 1440x720 pixels and 18:9 aspect ratio. The device has 4GB RAM and 32GB storage space that can be expanded using a microSD card. The device has hybrid dual SIM card slot and supports 4G VoLT

Qualcomm confirms: Xiaomi Mi Mix 2 will boast Snapdragon 835 Soc Xiaomi Mi Mix 2 is only a week away from an official launch and after the release of several videos and poster teasers from Xiaomi it has now been confirmed by Qualcomm that the upcoming device will indeed house Snapdragon 835 chipset for advanced processing. The release of all of this information is quite a proof that Xiaomi is trying to gain as much attention as possible for the successful launch of its flagship device. Chinese division of the world's most popular mobile processor manufacturer published on its Weibo Page that Mi Mix 2 will boast the best processor from Qualcomm, the Snapdragon 835. Mi Mix 2's predecessor Mi Mix was equipped with Snapdragon 821 which was the best processor from Qualcomm when the Mi Mix was released. Mi Mix 2 boasting the Snapdragon 835 is not much of a surprise since the device will retail in high-mid price segment. However, it is quite conclusive that Xiaomi does n