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Tecno’s latest flagship smartphone, the Phantom 8 has finally been unveiled. The company unveiled the device yesterday at an event in Dubai. The Tecno Phantom 8 takes over from the Phantom 6 and 6 Plus that we saw last year. As you have probably figured out, the company has skipped the number ‘7’ to go straight with the ‘8’ probably to align itself with some of the other manufacturers such as Samsung with the Galaxy S8 and Note 8 and Apple with the iPhone 8. If you thought the 8 in the name means the Phantom 8 is coming with…

HMD Global has added another smartphone to its 2017 lineup. The new smartphone is the Nokia 7 that was unveiled in China and is the device sitting between the current flagship, the Nokia 8 and the Nokia 6. The Nokia 7 is the first smartphone from the company to come with a glass body. It has Corning Gorilla Glass finish on both the front and the back. The chassis on the other hand is made using 7000-series aluminium. We have been seeing other smartphone manufacturers embracing the glass on the front and back design and HMD does not want to…

Xiaomi has undoubtedly curved a niche for itself in the competitive smartphone market. The success the company has had is something most other smartphone manufacturers can only dream about. The company has even bigger targets this year as it plans to ship 90 million smartphones by the end of the year. Last year, Xiaomi shipped 58 million smartphones so 90 million is almost double that. The company announced that it shipped over 10 million smartphones last month (September) so getting to 98 million isn’t far-fetched. This will be higher than the company’s best year (2015) when it shipped over 70…

The latest public available version of Google’s mobile OS is Android 8.0 Oreo which was released to the public not so long ago. manufacturers are yet to push the update to their devices and so far only those who have it are those who own the most recent Nexus devices and the Pixel smartphones. Even with that said, most of the top smartphone manufacturers have promised that they will update their devices by the end of the year. For Google, having the latest update on its Nexus and Pixel devices is definitely a plus. The company has promised to make…

WhatsApp is finally adding Live location sharing to its Android and iOS apps. With this feature, users will be able to share the location with their contacts in real time. This is helpful if you want your friends and/or family members to know where you are especially at night or when you just want them to know where you are at a specific time like when you are meeting someone for the first time. WhatsApp is calling this feature Live Location and users can get in within a chat right under the ‘Location’ option. To use it, open a chat…

OnePlus was one of the first companies that promised that it will be updating some of its existing devices with Android Oreo before the end of the year. The company was not very specific about the dates as to when this was going to happen and all we had to do is sit around and wait for that to happen. OnePlus is hard a work finalizing the Oreo update to be available for download very soon. The company has just pushed out the first beta versions of its Android Oreo build for the OnePlus 3 and 3T. This is good…

Yesterday, Huawei announced its 2017 flagship phablets, the Huawei Mate 10, Mate 10 Pro and the Mate 10 Porsche Design. All these smartphones comes with EMUI 8.0, the company s Custom overlay that is based on Android 8.0 Oreo. The three devices announced yesterday are the first ones from the company to come with Android Oreo pre-installed. With that, Huawei took the opportunity to assure its customers that the update was coming to some of its other devices. The company said that EMUI 8.0 will be rolling out to the Mate 9, Mate 9 Pro, P10 and the P10 Plus.…

Huawei has today expanded its phablet line-up with the addition of the Huawei Mate 10 and the Mate 10 Pro phablets. When unveiling these two phablets, Huawei made sure that everyone understood that we are in the age of AI and these devices are all about that. Both the Mate 10 and Mate 10 Pro come with the all new AI focused Kirin 970 processor and a dedicated neural-network processing unit (NPU). This processor and its AI capabilities really come to life when you start looking at the camera of the Mate 10. You can get real-time scene detection to…

About three weeks ago, Apple officially released iOS 11. This is the company’s latest version of its operating system used on the iPhone and iPad. Three weeks after it was made available, it looks iOS 11’s adoption is rising steadily according to analytics company, Mixpanel. Mixpanel has revealed that iOS 11 currently has a market share of 47%. This is 1% higher that its predecessor, iOS 10, that has a market share of 46%. It is quite impressive to see its adoption rise to the top in just three weeks. This is the sort of success Google does not get…

In a couple of hours, Huawei will be unveiling its next phablet, the Huawei Mate 10, in Munich. This phablet will be taking over from the Mate 9 that the company unveiled last year. The Huawei Mate 10 event is scheduled to start in less than an hour in Munich. We have heard so much about this phablet and this event is to sort of confirm some of the leaks we have seen and just introduce the device to us. We are expecting two variants of the Mate 10, one will be the Pro model and the other one will…