News & Reviews:   smartphone

 A bunch of patents relating to realme has been spotted hinting that upcoming realme smartphones could come with a new camera design in the future. While not much is known in regards to which exact smartphone will come with the new design, we do know that realme filed 4 different patents for camera design to China’s Intellectual Property Administration.

The newer generation might never hear of Neopets before, but back in the early 2000s, it was a popular web browser game that allowed you to own a 'Neopet' and do various activities together. While it's not as popular as before, it looks like Neopets is making its way to the mobile gaming platform (well, sort of).

It seems that India is currently testing a new ATM withdrawal method that allows the user to withdraw money simply by scanning a QR code displays on the ATM. With that said, the user theoretically does not need to physically touch the ATM other than to grab the dispensed money.

It seems that there could be a possibility that Xiaomi could be working on a smartphone that comes equipped with MediaTek’s Dimensity 1000+ chipset. With that said, the aforementioned smartphone will most likely come equipped with features such as 144Hz refresh rate display, 5G support, and potentially more.

For fans of ASUS devices, it's great that we're finally getting hints of the company's smartphones for 2020. We've already seen the Geekbench score for the ROG Phone 3, so the phone could already be ready to launch. But now we're getting some concrete news for both the ZenFone 7 and ROG Phone 3, with the launch expected to be coming soon.

It seems that Samsung might be launching their own debit card which comes equipped with a “money management platform”, which is expected to be unveiled somewhere around Q3 2020. While not much is known in regards to the pricing in order to sign up for the debit card, we do know that Samsung will be releasing more details in the next few weeks.

Not only the competition between smartphones is intense nowadays, the manufacturers that provide chipsets for the devices are also required to keep up with the needs of the market. Today, MediaTek has launched an upgraded version of the Dimensity 1000 chipset and it's called Dimensity 1000 Plus (just like Qualcomm's Snapdragon 855 and 855 Plus), and there are a lot of improvements making it strong enough to compete with the others.

The under-screen camera is probably one of the features that we would very much like to see on new smartphones. Not only it will bring something new and exciting to the smartphone industry, but the technology will also end the era of the notches. Today, an approved design patent from Xiaomi has leaked and pretty much shows us how the company will be making a smartphone with an under-screen camera.

Based on a statement by gizchina, it seems that vivo’s upcoming smartphone could come equipped with a sliding mechanism which is quite a rare feature these days. While there is not much known in regards to when it will be available, we do know that it will most likely come with vivo’s upcoming Apex concept phone somewhere around 2021.

Recently, Xiaomi unveiled their latest MIUI 12 Android skin which will be available on all Xiaomi and Redmi devices very soon. In terms of new features, the updated Android skin comes with new animations, new navigation gestures, cleaner UI, as well as various security features to keep the user's private information safe.