Unless Xiaomi has to deal with a Galaxy Note 7-level recall this holiday season, which remains unlikely, you have to figure the fast-rising Chinese OEM will unveil at least one more flagship Android phone by the end of the year.The question is are we looking at a long overdue
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Chinese synthetic benchmarking firm, AnTuTu, claims to have caught wind of LeEco’s first Snapdragon 821 smartphone, if not one of the first… well, as opposed to all those other times when teasers got screwy and numbers were more fuzzy.The LeEco Pro 3 scores a healthy 163,546 points on the composite of tests that AnTuTu offers. The company also claims that the device is ...
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Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 821 was publicized several weeks ago as a reasonable (if only small) improvement above the meaty main train of the Snapdragon 820. Seriously, a 10 percent jump in speed? That’s it?Well, Qualcomm is putting a bit more spin to its promoting game for the 821. It has expanded that 10 percent improvement figure over to faster boots, faster app launches and… well, not “smoother, more responsive user interactions,” but all that ...
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One of the LeEco devices we’ve been watching the past few months has been the Le 2s Pro. Between the Le 2s and this phone, there’s been dual-camera talk, speculation about 8GB of RAM and which advanced Snapdragon 820 processor these two will get.Well, another Le 2s Pro (or LE X720, ...
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It’s been a hot summer for LeEco with some big pickups and big collaborations. But the company, formerly referred to as LeTV, also broke big boundaries as a meteoric champion in the smartphone industry earlier this year with the Max Pro being the first smartphone to sport
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This supposed phablet started out in the rumor mills as the Samsung Galaxy Note 6. Since then, we’ve been trying to parse together the ins and outs, the hairpins and straightaways, and all of the jokes claiming that six was too afraid of seven ...
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June 29 came and went without LeEco making the headlines again as a mobile pioneer, this time by taking the wraps off the world’s first Snapdragon 823 smartphone. That’s no wonder, seeing as how the SD823 doesn’t exist, with Qualcomm instead introducing an 821 beating the ol’ 820 by a measly 10 percent in raw ...
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Pokémon Go is already huge and it’s getting huger! LG is whittling back expectations for the G5, but can a V20 pull the company out of its doldrums. Plus this week our viewers take the wheel. Ask us anything (tech related), and we’re going to answer it! Make sure you’re charged and ready for episode 209 of the Pocketnow Weekly!Watch the video broadcast from 2:00pm Eastern on July 14th (click here for your local time), or ...
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Wait, didn’t Asus already take the wraps off the standard Zenfone 3, as well as the Deluxe and Ultra variants a month and a half ago, followed by the ultra-low-cost, China-only Zenfone Pegasus 3? Sure, but we’ve known for a while the best was yet to come, with Asus left waiting for Qualcomm’s ...
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If you’re wondering why Qualcomm would already look to introduce “something to replace what many consider the best mobile processor available today”, it turns out that won’t actually happen until spring, when the Snapdragon 830 will probably see daylight inside the likes of the Samsung Galaxy S8.For now, the San Diego-based semiconductor giant and unchallenged market leader merely wants to ...
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The M1 crawls from the edge of London all the way up through the Midlands up to Aberford in West Yorkshire where it meets up with the A1. We say it crawls because the M1, also a codename for a rumored HTC-made Google Nexus device this year, seems to be crawling and holding itself back.The device, also known as “Marlin,” now appears in a Geekbench log running Android N — because duh — ...
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In case you’re still scratching your heads in confusion as to Google and Lenovo’s decision to fit an arguably middling processor under the hood of the world’s road-opening consumer phone based on Project Tango, Qualcomm just came forward with an enlightening confession.It turns out the Phab 2 Pro packs a Snapdragon 652 not only to keep the retail pricing bar comparatively low to mainstream Android flagships from ...
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This week has come up to be an unexpectedly busy one.Tomorrow, the Nubia Z11 finally launches. Two days after and we’re dealing with the vivo X7. Right in the middle on Wednesday, though, we have what LeEco is teasing to be your next “hero” smartphone. And we have a supposed sneak peek, thanks to Chinese social ...
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Biting your nails for the Nexus launch this quarter? We’re creeping up on it ever so slowly and yet, leaks have been all about who’s making it, who else’s making it and how many they’re going to make.HTC is said to be in charge of two projects — “Marlin” and “Sailfish” — and it seems ...
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As soon as the exhale ended from the OnePlus 3’s standardizing of 6GB of RAM (plus the other device launches that never really got outside of China), we find ourselves holding our collective breath once again. This time, LeEco might be making the next move.In fact, LeEco may be pushing the borders on several fronts with an unnamed phone similar to the Le Max 2 —
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