MWC 2022 – Huawei announces MateBook E, MatePad Paper & MateBook X Pro
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MWC 2022 – Huawei announces MateBook E, MatePad Paper & MateBook X Pro

The last time I physically attended MWC, in 2019, Huawei announced the beautiful Huawei Mate X 5G, and it looked like the start of an exciting year for Huawei. How things have changed three years later. This year, there is no word on any mobile phones launching, but a focus on laptops and a tablet….

TCL 30 Series Announced – Five affordable phones from £120 to £210
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TCL 30 Series Announced – Five affordable phones from £120 to £210

With most phone brands slugging it out competing in the mid-range range market, TCL is embracing the affordable end of Android smartphones. At MWC 2022, they have announced five new phones, with the most expensive being the TCL 30 5G priced at €249, which works out as £210. This features the MediaTek Dimensity 700 a…

FRITZ!Box 5590 Fiber announced SFP for 10 Gbit/s FTTH connectivity & 2.5GbE LAN. Probably won’t come to the UK
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FRITZ!Box 5590 Fiber announced SFP for 10 Gbit/s FTTH connectivity & 2.5GbE LAN. Probably won’t come to the UK

AVM FRITZ!Box routers don’t get a lot of attention in the UK, but they are fantastic devices with a great feature set, including a telephone system for DECT, IP and analogue phones. I am currently in the process of reviewing the FRITZ!Box 4060 WiFi 6 router and the FRITZ!Repeater 6000 WiFI mesh repeater, which should…

Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 Plus vs 888 Chipsets Compared – Has much changed?
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Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 Plus vs 888 Chipsets Compared – Has much changed?

Yesterday, for the first day of the Mobile World Congress, Qualcomm announced their new Snapdragon 888+ chipset. Much like the launch of the Snapdragon 865+, not much has changed, it looks like the improvements are even more incremental than last year. 5% CPU frequency improvement The new Qualcomm Snapdragon 888+ is effectively just a speed…

MediaTek Dimensity 5G Open Resource Architecture Announced – Allowing device makers to customize key 5G mobile device features to address different market segments
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MediaTek Dimensity 5G Open Resource Architecture Announced – Allowing device makers to customize key 5G mobile device features to address different market segments

As we enter MWC 2021 day 2, MediaTek has announced a new Open Resource Architecture which gives device makers more control over the hardware features of the chipset they use. How much brands will tailor things and what benefits that has for the end-users remains to be seen. However, it is an interesting idea that…

Infinix Concept Phone 2021 unveiled with 160W charging, giving a full charge in 10mins – MWC 2021
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Infinix Concept Phone 2021 unveiled with 160W charging, giving a full charge in 10mins – MWC 2021

Infinix are not normally a brand I associate with being pioneers of technology, but at the start of MWC 2021, they have announced a new concept phone with the fastest charge speeds on the market. 160W wired charging and 50W wireless The new Infinix Concept Phone 2021 is capable of 160W wired charging and 50W…

Motorola Edge+ shows up on Geekbench with SD865 and 12GB RAM & is the first flagship device since the 2018 Moto Z3
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Motorola Edge+ shows up on Geekbench with SD865 and 12GB RAM & is the first flagship device since the 2018 Moto Z3

Motorola has not had a good time in recent years, what was once one of the dominant phone companies, they saw a sharp decline in market share leading to years of loses and the eventual sale to Lenovo. Things started to look up last year, Lenovo revealed that its mobile business group – which houses…

Qualcomm Snapdragon 865 benchmarked on Xiaomi Redmi K30 Pro & Realme X50 Pro with Geekbench and Antutu comfortably beats the MediaTek Dimensity 1000
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Qualcomm Snapdragon 865 benchmarked on Xiaomi Redmi K30 Pro & Realme X50 Pro with Geekbench and Antutu comfortably beats the MediaTek Dimensity 1000

On 11th of February Samsung will likely be the first company to officially launch a phone with the Qualcomm Snapdragon 865 on their new Samsung Galaxy S20 series. With MWC 2020 a few days later it is expected we will see many more phones launching on the latest and greatest Qualcomm has to offer before…

MWC: Oral-B GENIUS X Electric Toothbrush takes the AI craze to your mouth
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MWC: Oral-B GENIUS X Electric Toothbrush takes the AI craze to your mouth

Hidden away in the depths of hall 8 at MWC was the Oral B booth. Not exactly something you would expect to see at the Mobile World Congress, but the toothbrush uses a mobile app and they were based in the app hall, so I will give them a pass. Oral B will be launching…