Comprehensive new analyst report claims to reveal every 2018 iPhone secret

One 2018 iPhone could be "aggressively" priced in the "$799 range", according to Rosenblatt analyst Jun Zhang, while the refreshed OLED 5.8-incher is expected to look pretty much the same as the X. That 6.5-incher could bring some "slightly unusual" features to the table.

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This expensive Porsche Design Huawei Watch 2 doesn’t feel as special as the name suggests

There's a Porsche Design Huawei Watch 2 edition now, and it's just as pricey as you'd expect, but not that different from regular variants.

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Huawei Mate 9 Porsche Design first look: Sexy curves (Video)

Can you still keep a secret in this day and age leading up to a highly anticipated mobile product announcement? Not when it comes to big things, like device images, camera sensors, screen size or resolution, and processor details.

But, and we absolutely hate to admit it, Huawei did manage to catch us off guard today with the name and snazzy look of the Mate 9’s “limited edition” sibling. Forget Mate 9 Pro, and get ready to check out the race car-inspired Huawei Mate 9 Porsche Design in the flesh. A beautiful curved edged, graphite-finished, dark black-colored flesh, aiming to create an “equilibrium of aesthetics and function.”

The only downside to potentially owning an arguably luxurious, yet not overly showy 5.5-inch Android Nougat phone with Quad HD display resolution, 6GB RAM and 256GB internal storage space in tow? You may have to sell a kidney to afford this bad boy, priced at the equivalent of more than $1,500 for a late December European release.

Thinking of saving up or working overtime but perhaps not convinced “one of the most finely crafted premium devices available to consumers” is worth that small fortune? Not interested but still curious to see it manhandled for a few minutes? Here it is, our first encounter with the Porsche-designed Huawei Mate 9:

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Huawei Mate 9 and Mate 9 Porsche Design make their joint official debut

Is this what the Pixel XL could have been? Probably, but instead of taking a backseat to “made by Google” marketing, Huawei boldly chose to do its own thing, and basically kill two birds with one stone, following both the self-branded Mate 8 and Big G-endorsed Nexus 6P… in a way.

Granted, the highly anticipated, just-unveiled Mate 9 shares a family resemblance with its actual predecessor first and foremost, also borrowing and improving the Leica-powered dual rear camera arrangement of the P9 and P9 Plus.

This time, you get a 12MP color and impressive-sounding 20MP monochrome sensor on the back of a 5.9-inch Android giant, focused on enhancing hybrid zoom, depth perception and wide aperture bokeh mode.

But as recently teased in a number of official promo videos, the Huawei Mate 9 is so much more than a proficient cameraphone. It’s a general powerhouse too, 4GB RAM and homebrewed octa-core Kirin 960 processor included, with a high-end gaming-centric Mali G71 GPU in tow.

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Then you have a massive 4,000 mAh battery, somehow purportedly capable of fully charging in less than 90 minutes. Quad microphones with directional recording and stereo speakers join hands for a premium audio experience, while the familiar-looking rear-positioned fingerprint scanner now supports gestures.

We’ll admit, the Full HD screen resolution doesn’t feel up to late 2016 flagship phablet standards, and the Huawei Mate 9 could have also used a 6GB RAM configuration.

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But that’s where the Mate 9 Porsche Design comes in, curved 5.5-inch Quad HD display, 6GB RAM, 256GB internal storage (up from 64 on the regular version) and all. It’s what we expected to be called Mate 9 Pro, just with a more luxurious look, the fingerprint reader moved to the front, and identical Mate 9 specs besides the aforementioned.

“Combining Porsche Design’s signature brand aesthetic with Huawei’s mobile engineering expertise”, this is but a “limited edition” smartphone inspired by fancy race cars, and will retail in Europe for an outlandish €1395 starting late December.

For what it’s worth, both Mate 9 editions are to run a very lightly skinned version of Android 7.0 Nougat out the box, with the less extravagant config priced at €699 for the old continent.

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Porsche ad turns your tablet into a floating-in-air “holographic” display

Full disclaimer: 99% of the time when someone’s talking about a “hologram” these days, whether it’s Microsoft with HoloLens or Tupac rising to a Coachella stage, it’s not a hologram at all. There are a million and one tricks to create floating-in-air images, and the vast majority of them have nothing to do with the sort of light-field capture that makes capital-h holograms the miracles (of science) they are. That said, we’re still suckers for a cool-looking tech demo ...

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Porsche puts the iPhone in its pocket, self-driving tech in the trash

Porsche has a certain image that holds high prestige for those who like straightaways and sharp lefts and are rich enough to look stunning steering that wheel. Those who are rich enough to look stunning while not steering a wheel would rather see a self-driving car come around.The luxury auto brand is not and will not go for that demography. Porsche CEO Oliver Bume said to a German newspaper:// One wants to ...

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Google sets the record straight after allegations of deep Android Auto data harvesting

Although not all automakers seem to agree infotainment systems developed by Google and Apple are the future of connected vehicles, industry veterans like Chevrolet, Volkswagen, General Motors, Buick, and Hyundai have led the way in Android Auto and ...

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