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10 most popular smartphones of 2018 according to Counterpoint Research

Counterpoint Research, company specialized in analysing the mobile devices market, has just released a list of ten best selling smartphones of yesteryear. The list can be read here. If you cannot check it now then let me tell you what it shows: the 2018 market dominated by Apple smartphones, with Samsung phones taking the last few spots and Xiaomi Redmi 5A being right in the middle. Tweet Vote on HN ...

Hour long gameplay video of Borderlands 3 came out

The video can be watched here. In case you cannot or do not feel like watching it now, here is the gist of it:– as is usually the case with sequels, BL3 is basically the same as before, only more: more guns, new characters and skills, new regions to explore,– Sanctuary 3, space ship that will serve as our transport between planets as well as home base,– separate loot in co-op mode, that will also scale to each character’s level.Borderlands 3 will come out on September ...

Realme 3 Pro just came out in India and it is already a hit

Realme 3 Pro debuted in India around five hours ago, but it took only eight minutes to sell out the phone’s first shipment of 170 thousand units. Impressive. Thankfully (if you are from India and want to buy 3 Pro), next shipment should arrive later today or tomorrow. As impressive as 170k units sold is, it fails in comparison to the initial sales of standard Redmi 3. which sold 2100k units. Then again, 3 Pro is a more expensive variant. Tweet Vote on HN ...

Royole FlexPai, or the first foldable smartphone on the market, just came out and sold out

Sorry, Samsung, but you and your Fold did not make it. You are not the first company in the world to release a foldable smartphone; this honour belongs to the Royole and its FlexPai. The device was up for pre-orders ever since December 2018 – that, plus the fact that this is the first foldable device available on the market, combined into every single unit of FlexPai being sold out hours after the release. Sadly, we do not know the exact numbers. New units will reach store shelves on May 9th.Currently, FlexPai is only available in China. Its price ranges from, depending on the memory ...

AK-Tesla, or Kalashnikov is making an electric car, because why not

AK-47, or Kalashnikov assault rifle – durable, dependable, efficient. These are the qualities that Kalashnikov will probably want to put into its newest project, the CV-1 electric car. The car might be looking as if it was taken out from an USSR street in the 70’s, but Kalashnikov was never about style; this producer aims towards simplicity and consistency instead. CV-1, recently presented during the military appliances fair in Moscow, is said to have good specs: it supposedly can travel 350 kilometers before having to recharge. Sadly, no more technicalities regarding this ...

Nubia Red Magic 3 announced. A phone for gamers

Gaming smartphones are slowly becoming a more popular choice for those of us who like our video games, and Nubia is one of the producers out there who want to make a buck on that trend. The company has just released Red Magic 3, a smartphone made specifically with gamers in mind:– Red Magic Game Space 2.0 gaming dashboard– stereo speakers, DTS:X 3D sound– RGB lighting back panel– shoulder triggers– liquid cooling system with an internal turbo fan– 6.65-inch FHD+ ultra-widescreen display, 90hz refresh rate– Snapdragon 855 CPU with Adreno 640 ...

Oppo A9, or the mid-ranger that just came out

– Full HD+ display, 6.53 inches, waterdrop notch,– 16 mpx x 2 mpx main camera, LED flash,– Helio P70 CPU, 8 core. Mali-G72 MP3 GPU,– 6GB RAM, 128GB flash space, SD card up to 256GB,– 4020mAh battery, quick charge,– Android 9.0 Pie with ColorOS 6.0 overlay,– blue, violet and green colour variants,– price – 1799 juan,– available in China starting April 30th. Tweet Vote on HN ...

Vivo Y17 is out in India. Specs and availability

Phone’s price is not yet officially known, but is expected to reach between ₹15,000 and ₹17,990. Its price seems to be more or less just, sinve Y17 is a smartphone with premium looks and pretty good specifications:– 12mpx x 8mpx x 2mpx main camera– 20mpx selfie shooter– 6.35-inch LCD display, 1544 x 720 resolution– MediaTek Helio P35 SoC– 4GB RAM, 128GB storage– 5,000mAh battery with 18W quick charge– Funtouch OS 9. Tweet Vote on ...