OnePlus 7 Pro & OnePlus 7

OnePlus is expected to launch for 14 May. As the Indian market is big, OnePlus is going to launch the phone immediately after the launch in two variants - OnePlus 7 and OnePlus 7 pro. Reports suggest that phone will get complete redesign and premium features. It will have triple camera system with rear camera, and 3x optical zoom. Oled display with in-screen fingerprint sensor and will be powered by snapdragon 855 processing chip.

Oppo Reno

Oppo announced two new devices for 2019 - Oppo Reno and Oppo Reno 10x this month. This is the first smartphone to feature a new shark-fin style pop-up camera. The device is equipped with a rear 48MP primary sensor + 8MP ultra-wide sensor + 13 MP periscope lens which has 5x optical zoom and 10x hybrid zoom. The device is powered by a Snapdragon 855 processing chip. It has 6/8GB RAM and 128/256GB storage. It will have 4,065mAh battery.

Honor 20i

Honor is bringing 3 models of 20 - Honor 20, Honor 20 Pro, and the budget variant Honor 20i. It has a 6.2-inch full HD display and is powered by its own Kirin 710 processor. The device will run over a 3,400mAh battery and has 4/6GB RAM. The phone has a triple camera setup: 24MP primary sensor + 8MP wide-angle +2MP depth sensor. On the front, it has used a 32MP selfie camera.

Samsung Galaxy A80

Samsung has released it's a series to break-in the competition. Galaxy A80 is the first smartphone by Samsung that uses a pop-up rotating camera which works as front and back camera. The camera has 48MP primary sensor, 8MP ultra-wide sensor and a TOF 3D camera sensor - it moves up and rotates to front. This has enabled device to get a full 6.7-inch display without a notch. It is powered by Snapdragon 730 processor, 8GB RAM, 128GB storage. The devices has 3,700mAh battery. For security, it has an on-screen fingerprint sensor, USB Type-C port, fast-charging support.

Nubia Red Magic 3

Red Magic is a phone for people who loves to play games on their devices. The latest in the series is red magic 3. It has a 6.6-inch display and powered by Snapdragon 855 with 12GB RAM and comes with an internal fan to cool the phone. The battery is huge up to 5,000mAh with fast charge support, a 48MP rear camera with 8K video recording, 16MP front-camera and fingerprint scanner for security reasons.

Apple iPhone is one of the most expensive smartphones and now it is going to even pricier. Thanks to Trump administration who is threating to impose more tarrif on Chinese products, iPhone prices could go up to 14%, according to CNBC. This would make the cheapest iPhone XR $750 to cost us an extra $100. Whereas the most expensive one the iPhone XS max would cost $200 more - bringing its price tag up to $1,650. J.P Morgan said, "We estimate a price increase of around 14% is required to absorb the impact of a 25% tariff, keeping margin dollars for all players in the supply chain constant," J.P. Morgan said in a note to clients Tuesday.

With $200 billion on hand, Apple can easily afford this cost but most likely it is going to past down to the customer. The tarrif isn't a reality yet but on Monday, Trump tweeted that customers in U.S should buy stuff from other countries or something made in U.S. This is easy to say but in practical terms may be not easy to do. Apple has clearly stated that it iPhones may not get have a huge impact from this trade war but the prices of other products like Apple watches and Air Pods are going to be higher with immediate effect if the tarrif is imposed.

According to statista.com, throughout 2010, 304.7 million devices were shipped. In 2018, we see that 1.4 billion units were sold, which is way higher figure anyone would have anticipated a decade ago. It seems that market is already saturated with dozens of smartphone manufacturers already. Looking in the future, some people suggest that Apple may move its production unit to some other Asian country or should move to U.S completely. Bank of America Merrill Lynch estimates that iPhone prices would have to increase by around 20 percent if production was moved to the U.S. "We estimate the incremental cost of manufacturing iPhones in the U.S. could be 15-25%, and, if passed on to consumers could lead to demand destruction, in our view," the Bank of America said in a note.

Sunday is over and we have the exciting new updates for your Samsung devices just as always. The link to our good old Odin 3 tutorial to help you learn the steps for installing firmware updates manually on Samsung devices is included too, so go through it and start flashing!

On Saturday at a crypto conference in New York, HTC's Phil Chen announced that HTC will bring a low-cost version of its blockchain phone, the EXODUS 1s. The device will be able to act as a full node for the Bitcoin network, meaning customers will store the entire block chain's data on their devices. The company will also launch an SDK for its Zion Vault HTC's crypto wallet app. HTC also has ambitious plans to open-source the code behind its social key recovery mechanism. The phone will available by the end of Q3. He further added that "It is going to be a lot cheaper, it will a lot more accessible". He said the device will retail for between $250 and $300.

He further explained that the company saw it as a really important piece of the pie, for the Bitcoin ecosystem. We think that is foundational to the whole decentralized internet and just the whole fundamental premise. He said, If you don't own your keys, you don't own your Bitcoin, you don't own your crypto. He believes that smartphones today are capable of handling the technology, with the decreasing price of processing chips and storage media it is becoming constantly cheaper and more efficient. We expect that phones will be powerful enough.

"The bitcoin blockchain is about 200 [gigabytes], and it's growing about 60 gigs per year. And those numbers are reasonable to hold on a smartphone. Imagine the iPod with 256 gigs ... of course, the music fan wants to keep the whole music library but the crypto fan wants to keep the whole bitcoin blockchain." I think running light nodes, like Ethereum for example, is definitely doable, but it all depends on the specs.
Its new 1st is seen as a trendsetter for many as a contributor to the broader crypto market. The company would continue to support its existing EXODUS 1 product and will add an Etherscan widget for customers to explore the Ethereum blockchain and support for further non-fungible tokens.

It's a Sunday, but we still have the updates for you as always, along with our trusty tutorial to help you learn the steps for installing firmware updates manually on Samsung devices. Enjoy!