Oppo Working on Full-screen Smartphone With Wrap-around Display Oppo is apparently working on cutting-edge technology that will allow it to design smartphones with ‘wrap-around’ displays curved on all four sides instead of just of just two. Believed to have been first spotted by Dutch tech blog,Let’s Go Digital, the patent filed with the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) also reveals that the company has come up with under-display sensors for ambient light and infrared light to get rid of the unseemly notches required to house them....

Realme To Launch First Smartphone with Qualcomm’s 5G Integrated Chip Realme today launched its first flagship smartphone, theRealme X2 Pro, in China with a 90Hz display, Snapdragon 855 Plus, quad-cameras, and superfast 50W charging. Well, it used this opportunity to take another jab at Xiaomi by announcing that it will be the first phone maker to launch a smartphone with Qualcomm’s new 5G integrated chipset. Qualcomm is currently baking its 5G modems only in the flagship Snapdragon 855 SoC series, however, it hasalready announcedthat it will release 5G-integrated Snapdragon 600 and 700-series chipsets in the coming months....

Realme X2 Pro with 50W SuperVOOC Charging, 90Hz Display Launched Xiaomi may have reiterated the definition of a budget flagship with the launch ofPoco F1last year and its assumed successor – theRedmi K20 Proearlier this year in India. But, it seems like the company’s Chinese counterpart and arch-nemesis Realme is ready to join the cool world of flagship phones. Therefore, it has today launched its first-ever flagship phone – the Realme X2 Pro in China merely 17 months after the company’s debut....

You Can Now Play as Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Terminator in Mortal Kombat 11 Arnold Schwarzenegger’s most famous cinematic character, the Terminator T-800, is now a playable DLC character in ‘Mortal Combat 11’. Although sadly not voiced by Schwarzenegger himself, the actor reportedly authorized the use of his likeness and even chose his own voice actor for the game. The character started rolling out last week, featuring multiple costumes matching Schwarzenegger’s outfits in the various films in the franchise that started with James Cameron’s 1980’s cult classic, The Terminator....

[Updated]Honor Vision Smart TV with Pop-up Camera Launches in India on Oct 14 [Update on October 14] Though we expected Honor to launch its Honor Vision smart TVs in India today, the company has only unveiled – or more precisely, showcased its smart TVs in the country. The Chinese giant graced the showfloor at IMC 2019 (India Mobile Congress) in New Delhi and showed off the Pro variant of its Vision TV with a pop-up camera that’s used for video calls....

Chinese Propaganda App Reportedly Spying on 100 Million Android Users In a report that should surprise no one, a propaganda app developed by the Chinese government is reportedly spying on users who downloaded it on their smartphones. According to researchers at German cybersecurity firm, Cure53, the app has critical backdoors that effectivelygrant it ‘superuser’ privilegeson smartphones, allowing it to run arbitrary commands and extract just about any data on affected devices....

Ericsson Ready to Make 5G Radios in India, Says Senior Executive Swedish telecom equipment manufacturer, Ericsson, is ready to manufacture 5G radios in India, a top company official said on Monday.“Ericsson has been in India for over 115 years and our commitment to this market has only grown over the years”, Nunzio Mirtillo, Ericsson’s Head of Market Area South East Asia, Oceania and India, said while addressing the inaugural day of the India Mobile Congress in New Delhi....