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Oppo is no stranger to moving cameras on its phones - from the N1 all the way back in 2013 to the Find X slider and the Reno 10x zoom with its sharkfin. But despite sticking to more conventional designs for the past two years it's still considering some interesting ideas. Thanks to a dig by LetsGoDigital , we know the Chinese company has patented a sideways sliding selfie camera that goes from one end of the top bezel to the other. The patent filled with the WIPO (World Intellectual Property Organisation) is 33 pages long, detailing how this would work. The idea behind the sliding camera is to capture images from different angles, and that would be done if the camera sensor is mounted on a guide block, going from one end to another on a rail. There will be a tiny motor that does the job, and the movement will occur only when the selfie camera is activated through the dedicated app. Taking selfies from an angle might be another artistic way to do frontal photo

Huawei’s smartphone business might be having a rough time, but that does not stop the team from launching new phones. The P50 series is usually launched in March, and according to one trustworthy leakster, the new lineup will arrive between March 26 and March 28. He also revealed there would be once again three phones with two different chipsets - the vanilla Huawei P50 will come with a Kirin 9000E, while the P50 Pro and P50 Pro+ will run on the flagship platform Kirin 9000. Huawei P40 Pro, P40 Pro+, and P40 According to the Twitter user @RODENT950, Huawei has finalized the design, and the phone is ready to go into mass production. The new series will bring a “new design,” but the source did not say whether it is about the cameras or the phone/s in general. The P50, P50 Pro, and P50 Pro+ will certainly bring a new camera setup, improved screen, and gaming capabilities. The front panel will be OLED. While Korean manufacturers LG and Samsung are ready to provide pane

S-Connect has been manufacturing hinges for Samsung’s foldable phones since last year and will soon start making the hinges for the next generation Galaxy Z phones. Today the company announced that it has received the go-ahead from Samsung. It will start mass producing the hinges for the Galaxy Z Flip2 and Z Fold3 in the second quarter of this year. The production of the phones themselves should begin soon after that. This lines up with IceUnivere's report that the next-gen Z phones will arrive in July. Timeline for Galaxy Z Fold 3 and Flip 3 development and production S-Connect expects that the foldable market will grow to 5.5 million units this year and that foldables will make up an increasingly larger fraction of phones sold. That will be great for the company, which forecasts that in 2023 hinges will make up 50% of its sales (up from just 17% this year). In related news, S-Connect will start manufacturing components for the Galaxy Tab S8 and S8+ slates arou

Realme may announce the Narzo 30 series next week, but one store in particular didn’t feel like waiting and put up a poster on its window, revealing some key specs. Note that the Pro model is joined by the 30A, but the vanilla Narzo 30 is not mentioned at all. The Realme Narzo 30 Pro 5G will be the first Narzo phone to sport 5G. This is courtesy of the MediaTek Dimensity 800U chipset. Its Mali-G57 MC3 GPU will be pushing graphics to the phone’s 120 Hz display. Realme Narzo 30 Pro 5G and 30A poster These specs line up with with the Realme Q2, also known as Realme 7 5G in the West. Of course, neither version is available in India yet. The Realme X7, which arrived in India last week, uses the same chipset but has a 60 Hz AMOLED display. As for the Realme Narzo 30A, that is the phone at the bottom, the one with the wavy texture. The square camera bump with an LED flash in the bottom right corner is a common design element on Realme phones. You can see it on the Narzo 20, ak

We’ve seen a steady influx of leaks surround Oppo’s Find X3 series in the past months and we’re expecting at least three phones to launch sometime next month. Based on the latest rumors, we’re in for a Find X3 Pro, Find X3 Neo and Find X3 lite, the latter of which is supposedly a rebadged Reno5 5G but today we have a leak focused on the vanilla Find X3 model powered by Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 870 chipset. The new info comes courtesy of two AnTuTu and AIDA 64 benchmark listings and reveals the device is bearing the PEDM00 model name. The actual listings shows the chipset is codenamed kona which usually corresponds to the Snapdragon 865 though one of the accompanying screenshots reveals the About device section which shows it's running on the Snapdragon 870 platform, which is sort of a Snapdragon 865++ sharing the core architecture. Oppo PEDM00 listings on AnTuTU and AIDA64 The SoC is paired with 8GB RAM 256GB storage and the phone boots ColorOS 11.2 on top of Andro

Earlier this month, Samsung started sending out the update to One UI 3.0 based on Android 11 to the Galaxy A51 units sold in Russia. It was inevitably just a matter of time until the update would make it to more countries and territories, and today it's reached India. The new release for Indian units has been captured on a couple of Samsung-dedicated firmware pages, with the new build number ending in DUB1 and the February 2021 security patch level included for good measure. The over-the-air rollout should start any moment now, and then from the time it does expect it to take at least a few days to gradually land on all of the A51 units sold in India.