A week after its announcement, Realme’s GT Neo3 went on open sale in China at midnight. The new device garnered plenty of attention from consumers with over 100,000units sold in the first seconds of the day. Realme also confirmed via a separate Weibo post that the GT Neo3 sales amounted to CNY 120 million.
Apple in the second quarter of 2022 will be forced to reduce production of smartphones iPhone SE (2022) and headphones AirPods.
Netflix has announced the opening of an office in Warsaw, Poland.
Oppo launched the F19 lineup last March, and the company will follow it up with the F21 Pro series next month – on April 12.
Samsung has unexpectedly changed the names of its foldable smartphones.
The Realme Pad Mini was confirmed to arrive “soon”, and today we learned the launch date is likely to be April 4. The tablet is scheduled to hit the Philippines first, and just five days before the alleged arrival, it was listed on Lazada’s website with the full specs sheet and some promo images.
The Samsung Galaxy A Quantum announced back in May 2020 with Android 10-based One UI 2 is receiving the Android 12 update.
Sony has announced a major rework of its online PlayStation Plus service, which will now be including additional tiers that bring a library of games that users can download and play, as well as integrating the cloud-based PlayStation Now service.
Some partnerships between phone makers and camera companies seem to be little more than marketing ploys. Others, however, have changed mobile photography for the better – and perhaps none more than the cooperation between Huawei and Leica. However, with Huawei’s well documented problems over the past few years, stemming from various US government bans, it’s been selling way less phones than it used to, and Leica might be looking to partner with another smartphone maker.
Samsung’s Xcover line of rugged smartphones is apparently due for a refresh this year, with the Galaxy Xcover Pro 2 already spotted in a benchmark database listing earlier this month.
Samsung offers a rare glimpse behind the scenes into how One UI 4.0 was designed. The interface had to be simple, intuitive and secure while still allowing users to express their feelings.
Until recently, it was almost impossible to find a GPU at MSRP. However, there have been signs that this GPU drought may be ending. According to 3DCenter, GPUs are the cheapest they have been since it started tracking their prices in January 2021 (note: 3DCenter focused on prices in Germany and Austria).
The Samsung Galaxy A53 5G launched in India last week, as did the A23 and A13. Soon the A73 and A33 models will join them. In a matter of days Samsung will accept pre-booking. The phones will soon be made available in select offline and online stores.
The vivo V23 5G has arrived in Europe. In Spain the phone will be available from April 1 with an MSRP of EUR500 (for a 256 GB unit), in Germany it launches tomorrow at EUR550. The Czech press release puts the price at CZK 12,000, with a free pair of vivo TWS 2e (worth CZK 1,500) if you order by April 18.
Samsung has quietly removed the Z letter from the name of the Galaxy Z Fold3 5G and Galaxy Z Flip3 5G in the three Baltic countries – Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia. Although the reason for this move is not known, it seems to be logical. It was done in order to remove any association with Russia’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine.
