HMD official confirms Nokia phones will get Oreo by the end of 2017

HMD official confirms Nokia phones will get Oreo by the end of 2017

HMD Global GM for Australia and New Zealand confirmed that , and would get an Android Oreo update. Although this is not the first time we hear about the upgrade, the official said the company would push it before the end of the year. The three mid-range Nokia phones came with Android 7.1.1 Nougat out of the box and are receiving monthly software and security updates. There is a slight modification of the UI, but the OS is mostly the stock version of Android. will also receive Android Oreo, as Juho Sarvikas, Chief Production Officer at HMD Global, confirmed the update on Twitter and even . Now we just play the waiting game to see when will the Finnish company push the actual upgrade.

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Samsung Galaxy Note8 wins Gadget of the Year at the India Mobile Congress

Samsung Galaxy Note8 wins Gadget of the Year at the India Mobile Congress

The first India Mobile Congress 2017 wrapped up this week, and the results are in won the Gadget of the Year award. According to judges, the phone got the prize mostly because of the Make for India Bixby optimization that allows the assistant to understand various Indian accents. The Galaxy Note8 is the top Samsung device of the year, in our review. The phone has a great dual camera with 2x Optical Zoom and OIS. It has 6.3 Infinity Display and Exynos 8895 chipset. The Samsung phablet is on sale in India since September 12 and costs INR67,900 ($1,038) on the companys website.

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Oppo F5 appears on posters in the Philippines

Oppo F5 appears on posters in the Philippines

, but Oppo already decided to launch a successor to the phone, dubbed selfie master. Its name is Oppo F5, and it already started popping up on various advert places. We got a tip that the phone appeared on two posters with celebrities Alden Richards and Sarah Geronimo. The Oppo F5 will have one camera on the back and will also appear to be the first Oppo F-series device with a fingerprint scanner on the back, shaped in an oval form. The poster does not reveal much about the design, but it comes with a slogan Capture the real you and a Selfie Expert moniker below. This most likely means the Oppo F5 will have dual cameras on the front. Sources also reveal that an Oppo store is about to be opened in a shopping mall in the suburbs of the Filipino capital Manila. Probably it will coincide with the launch of the F5, but we are yet to hear more about the phone. The handset is rumored to come with 6 display with an FHD+ resolution of 2880x1440 pixels in an 18:9 ratio.

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ZTE Axon M photographed, a foldable phone coming in mid October

ZTE Axon M photographed, a foldable phone coming in mid October

October 17 will be a busy day for ZTEs brands is launching a new device and so is Axon. And theres a good chance that the new Axon M will be the more interesting of the two as it has two screens that fold out to form one big one. Unlike Samsungs Galaxy X, which will likely use a single , ZTE will use two separate panels with 1080p resolution each and (hopefully) a minimal bezel where the two screens meet. Unfolded, the phone codenamed Axon Multy will have a 6.8 screen with 2,160 x 1,920px resolution. A large display to be sure, but not outrageously so. Still, its going to be more compact than even the 6.4 Xiaomi Mi Mix when you fold the two halves. Also, when folded the Axon M will have screens on the front and back. This will upstage the Meizu Pro 7. Its not quite like the YotaPhone either, since the back screen will render a full color, high-FPS image. The phone is expected to be in the US, retailing for $650. It will reportedly have a Snapdragon 820 chipset (perhaps 821) with 4GB of RAM and 32GB storage. The battery is said to have 3,120mAh capacity, which doesn't sound like much for two screens.

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Check out this LG V30 vs. 8K RED Weapon camera comparison

Check out this LG V30 vs. 8K RED Weapon camera comparison

Yesterday to take the for a spin and today we get a comparison between the smartphone and the 8K RED Weapon movie camera. Youtuber Parker Walbeck decided to recreate the Walter Mitty Longboard Scene by taping the phone right next to the RED Weapon and shooting simultaneously. The whole setup is mounted on a drone and all sorts of professional camera equipment come into play, as we see from the behind the scenes shots. There is also a $150 gimbal stabilizer used for panoramic shots, so not everything is strictly professional. Of course, this is not done in Auto mode. Slight adjustments like post-editing and color correction are easily made with additional software like Adobe Premiere Pro and DaVinci Resolve, but LG also deserves credit for making such actions available to the end user via the LG Cine LOG feature in the camera app settings. Check out the actual video below.

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Was the Nokia 6 Arte Black canceled?

Was the Nokia 6 Arte Black canceled?

, Nokia 6, where Arte thou? Seriously though, what happened to the Arte Black version, which promised 4GB of RAM and 64GB of storage in addition to the exclusive piano black finish? We snooped around Nokias western sites and this model was nowhere to be found. On third party stores, we did spot a few 64GB non-Arte models, but those are gray imports from China. We only found it on , with no obvious way to buy it. We tried various Romanian online stores, but none of them had it (aside from a few more gray imports). So, has the Nokia 6 Arte Black been canceled? Theres no official confirmation either way, the from @NokiaMobile to mention it is as recent as last Sunday. A lot of people are looking for it, however.

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Huawei launches the Honor 7X on October 11

Huawei launches the Honor 7X on October 11

Huaweis subsidiary is bringing a follow-up of its mid-ranger. The new device will be called Honor 7X and will arrive on October 11, the company announced on Weibo. The image comes with a slogan, roughly translated as Want to see farther than ordinary people? Higher? Wider? Everywhere is your world. This most likely means the phone will have an 18:9 ratio EntireView display, as is the trend lately. Specs-wise, rumors speculate that the Honor 7X will have 5.5 screen and a Kirin 670 chipset. The memory will be 4 GB RAM + 64 GB storage. Huawei is yet to launch a new version of its Emotion UI, so the Honor 7X is most likely to have EMUI 5.1 on top of the Android 7.1 Nougat. The price of Honor 7X might be between CNY1,500 and CNY1,800 or around $220-$270. |

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