Huawei Mate 30 Confirmed to Ship Without Google Apps and Services Huawei has just confirmedpersistent rumorsthat the Mate 30 will launch without any Google apps and services. At the ongoing IFA 2019 in Berlin, Huawei’s president of consumer software, Dr Wang Chenglu, said the company was in the process of developing alternatives to Google apps and services, including GPS navigation. While the phone has been confirmed to run Android 10 instead of the company’sall-new Harmony OS, it will come with third-party apps and services instead of popular Google software, such as Gmail, Drive, Google Maps, Google Assistant and of course, the Play Store....

Huawei Mate X Foldable Expected to Go on Sale Starting next Month Many of us expected 2019 to be the year of foldables, but we’ve only seen a couple-odd phone makers adopt the new form factor.Royole FlexPaimay be the first foldable to ever launch and go on sale, followed by the Samsung Galaxy Fold. But, it now seems like their prime contender, the Huawei Mate X, is also launching to offer users a new experience – minus some essential Google apps....

Huawei Watch GT 2 Set to Launch on September 19 Alongside the launch of its next flagship smartphone –Mate 30 Pro, the Chinese giant has today revealed that it will also unveil the Huawei Watch GT 2 in Munich on September 19. This will be a successor to the original Watch GT, which debuted beside the previous Mate flagship back in October last year. Huawei confirmed the launch of the Watch GT 2 via anofficial Weibo post, which you can find attached below....

People Are Holding on to Their Smartphones Longer than Ever Before: Survey The pace of hardware-based innovations in smartphones is on a decline this year, which has directly reflected in the purchase decisions of people. With brands like Apple providing software updates for an extensive period of time, people are not finding good reasons to consider upgrading their smartphones, confirms a survey conducted by Strategy Analytics. The research team conducted an online survey involving2,500 smartphone usersresiding in the US in a wide age group ranging from 18 years to 64 years....

Pixel 4 May Ship With Live HDR, Better Wide-angle Selfies, Audio Zoom and More A teardown of the latest version of the Google Camera APK has seemingly revealed that the upcoming Pixel smartphones are likely to pack a number of interesting new camera features.According to XDA, Google Camera v6.3 comes with code that suggests the Pixel 4 will have atelephoto camera– which is something that hasalready been rumored earlier. The APK deep dive by XDA Senior Member,cstark27, also seemingly revealed that another upcoming feature isAudio Zoomthat will use the phone’s microphones to adjust the audio focus when zooming in or out....

Realme Confirms 5G Phone with Snapdragon 7-Series SoC Coming Soon We have already seen aninflux of 5G phonesin 2019, but we can expect that number to grow multi-fold next year. And you can count Realme, Oppo’s budget-focused spin-off as one of the phone makers that will launch a 5G smartphone sometime soon. Qualcomm’s efforts to further 5G adoption will see the chipmaker announce 5-capable Snapdragon 7- and 6-series chipsets very soon....

Samsung Galaxy A50s Expected to Launch in India on September 11 Samsung has officially announced plans to launch a new Galaxy A-series smartphone in India on Wednesday, September 11. In a tweet earlier today, the company said that it will launch a new Galaxy A-series handset in the country later this week, but did not identify the device itself. However, most observers are expecting the company to launch theGalaxy A50s, given that the company has been promoting the device on its India Twitter handle over the past few days....