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The Realme X2 Pro is possibly one of my favourite phones of the year, it is not perfect but the price is remarkable offering ridiculous specs at half the price of some other phones. The phone will be officially available to buy from tomorrow with pricing from 399-euros. The models and pricing include: 6GB+64GB –…
Intel has not been having the best of times as of late and with the launch of the AMD Ryzen 9 3950X plus the two new AMD Threadripper processors, things are getting worse in the latest benchmark leaks. The AMD Ryzen 9 3950X is a mainstream chip using the AM4 socket one X570/X470 motherboard, with…
MediaTek has been a mainstay in the low to mid-end of the market, but flagging with higher up phones. This all changed recently with the Mediatek Helio G90T which outperforms the Snapdragon 730G in most benchmarks and looks set to start MediaTek’s push back in into the higher end of the market. We already knew…
Huawei’s most recent release is the Nova 5T which landed in the office to review this week. At first glance, it is an impressive device with flagship-like specs including a Kirin 980 chipset and quad camera all for a bargain price of £399. Perhaps more impressive is that Huawei has managed to launch a phone…
Yesterday AMD finally announced that its Ryzen 9 3950X will be shipping on November 25th priced at $749 though there has not been any UK pricing revealed, the US pricing is 50% more than the 3900X which works out at around £825. More importantly, AMD announced the latest Zen 2 Threadripper HEDT processors. At the moment there are…
MediaTek announced the Helio G90T a few months ago and the Xiaomi Redmi Note 8 Pro is the first and only phone to use this chipset. MediaTek is not particularly well known for their high-performance chipsets so this launch has come as a bit of a surprise with the specification looking like it should provide…
Huawei is expected to start the rollout of their stable EMUI 10 release this month which is based on Android 10. The rollout will start in China, so don’t expect UK phones to get the update in November, but it is a promising start. It is expected that the Huawei P30 and P30 Pro to…
Netflix is currently evaluating moving its Intel-based servers, which currently achieve a 100 Gbps, to AMD EPYC based systems which will be able to achieve 200 Gbps. This is only theoretical at the moment and the two options on the table appear to be switching to a dual Xeon setup or Single EPYC. Apparently this…
Oppo has officially announced the official launch date of ColorOS 7 where they have scheduled an event for the 20th of November where they will reveal all the features of the new OS. The OS will be built on Android 10 and this will be the main reason for users wanting to update. One of…
Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross was recently interviewed by Bloomberg where he stated that licenses allowing US companies to deal with Huawei would arrive “very shortly at the same time it has been reported that a trade agreement with China gets closer. Currently, companies on the trade ban list are prohibited from doing business with American companies…
Samsung’s custom CPU core arm is officially shutting down which will mean that future Samsung devices will no longer feature Exynos M performance cores, but instead employ ARM designs. The move has been rumoured for some time now. While Samsung Exynos chipsets are excellent they have generally lagged behind the Qualcomm equivalent which implements all…
New information covering the entire 10th Generation desktop CPU family, ranging from each specific SKU to the platform itself has been published by Wccftech. The new generation of chips sees Intel up the core count by 2 over the i9-9900 but what else is new and how does the new range compare to the previous…
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