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  • Phone suspected to be ZTE's first to feature under-screen camera gets network access in China

    Chinese smartphone and telecoms equipment maker ZTE previously announced that it would launch the world's first smartphone with an under-screen camera. Now according to a Weibo digital blogger, a new ZTE phone has been licensed into the network in China, and it could be this ZTE phone called the A20 5G.

  • Xiaomi's Lei Jun explains why the company makes a transparent TV

    Xiaomi's release of the world's first mass-produced transparent TV on August 11 sparked widespread interest. Now, the company's founder Lei Jun has taken to Weibo to say that the TV is much more difficult to mass-produce than expected, and explained why he's insisting on making it.

  • Apple rumored to hold iPhone 12 launch event in October

    Apple will hold its iPhone 12 launch event the week of October 12, with pre-orders starting later that week and shipments beginning the following week, famed leaker Jon Prosser said today.

  • Mate40 may not see wide distribution as Huawei faces Kirin chipset shortages

    The non-Pro Mate40 will not have a very wide distribution around the world, as Huawei finds itself short on the Kirin chipsets required in their manufacture, said famed leaker Evan Blass on Twitter. 

  • Huawei's heavyweight product to launch on Aug 19 is the MateBook X

    Huawei Consumer Business CEO Richard Yu said on Weibo yesterday that a "very light" and heavyweight new product will be released on August 19. Now Huawei has announced on Weibo that the product is the MateBook X.

  • ZTE says it will launch world's first smartphone with under-screen camera

    ZTE will launch the world's first under-screen camera smartphone, Ni Fei, president of ZTE's Terminal Division, said on Weibo today.

  • Teclast to launch entry-level tablet with UNISOC's 12 nm process-based chip

    Chinese digital product maker Teclast on Tuesday said it will soon launch the M40 Android tablet with the Tiger T618 processor which is made by UNISOC, the China-based supplier of mobile communications chipsets and IoT chipsets. 

  • Xiaomi launches world's first mass-produced transparent TV

    Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi's founder Lei Jun held the company's 10th anniversary speech today and also unveiled a 55-inch TV with a transparent OLED screen that boasts a 120Hz refresh rate.

  • Huawei says it will launch new heavyweight product on Aug 19

    Huawei Consumer Business CEO Richard Yu said on Weibo today that a heavyweight new product will be released in Shanghai on August 19.

  • Apple's Chinese suppliers say they haven't been notified of iPhone 12 shipment reduction

    There have been rumors that Apple has lowered its iPhone 12 shipping targets, but according to Chinese media reports, Apple suppliers have not received such notifications.