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IFA 2019 is slowly winding down but Apple might be kicking up a media storm in a little over 24 hours. Now that Android phone makers except Huawei have had their time in the spotlight, Apple has ample opportunity to take center-stage and hog all the attention for itself. And if rumors are correct, fans need not wait long to get the new iPhone in their hands, or at least in their checkout baskets. Apple may even have a surprise for New Yorkers in the coming weeks to showcase its newly renovated Cube.

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For a time, it seemed that the competition among smartphones would be the number of cameras on the back of a phone. That race may have now switched over once more to megapixel counts but not before HMD Global took things to their extreme. Inheriting a beloved name, the Nokia 9 PureView put five cameras in an admittedly interesting arrangement. But as DxOMark's review of the phone's photography capabilities shows, more doesn't always mean better.

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Product launch schedules aren't rocket science but those are also carefully made with certain windows of opportunity in mind. When they miss those schedules, there's a very strong chance it will affect other products or be affected adversely. That definitely seems to be the case with Huawei's first and so far only foldable phone that has been delayed by half a year. It may finally launch next month but it might already be outdated and replaced by a new model in just a few months.

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We're quite close to the launch of the Google Pixel 4 and, in all likelihood, the Google Pixel 4 XL. Today a leak suggested that the device's cameras would be improved. This improvement in camera power isn't in and of itself a newsworthy piece of info, but the features that appeared in the leak give us a bit of insight into Google's future vision for an ideal smartphone camera setup.

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There's a new Pokemon GO update and the tiny green creature called Turtwig is the star of the party. Turtwig Community Day will take place on September 15th, there's a glitch in the game which shows a secret Turtwig, and Turtwig is one of several new Pokemon in the Shadow Pokemon crew. That crew will launch with the latest Team GO Rocket update (aka Pokemon GO Team Rocket Shadow Pokemon update) this month.

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Today we've put together details via rumors of the next-generation budget-friendly iPhone XR from Apple. Given the recent news that the iPhone XR out-shipped every other smartphone in the world in the first half of the year, it seems fitting that we should get another version of the device by the end of this year. What better way to allow a wide array of people to have access to the iOS ecosystem than to sell an iPhone that looks like new, feels like new, but doesn't cost nearly as much as the most premium new iPhone 11?

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The Huawei P30 Pro is not a new device - but you might be forgiven for thinking it was, reading news today. This device was re-introduced, in a way, to audiences last night at IFA 2019, a technology conference at which Huawei took an already-successful, already-released device and showed it off with a pair of new colors: Misty Lavender and Mystic Blue. Doing this allows Huawei to ship a "new" phone with Android 10, Google's newest operating system update, while their actual new device, Huawei Mate 30, cannot be launched with official Google certification.

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IFA 2019 has just begun in Europe but over in the US another kind of wave is starting courtesy of Samsung. No, not the wave that has been started by the incessant opening and closing of its re-launching Galaxy Fold phones, since that's not due to arrive until another "few" weeks. Instead, Samsung is trying to kickstart the school season and get ahead of holiday shopping by revealing when its latest Galaxy devices will hit stores starting today.

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It seems that the dreams of an open source Linux phone are starting to pick up steam again. Purism has just announced its batched schedule of Librem 5 shipments and now the folks over at PINE64 also have some good news for Linux fans. Although a final product is far from ready, prototypes will be shipped to a limited number of Linux developers soon, not only proving that the PinePhone does exist but also to get the ball rolling towards a 2020 full product launch.

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It has been making phones under different brands like BlackBerry and Alcatel but TCL might have finally decided it's time for it to return to the mobile market. After all, it boasts of being the world's no.2 TV maker and all those years making phones for others may have given it an idea or two. That's exactly what it's trying to bring to the already crowded smartphone market with the TCL PLEX that, it says, brings its display expertise to an industry that's increasingly obsessed with screens.

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Game streaming is touted to be the inevitable and unavoidable future of commercial gaming but, for that to work seamlessly, a reliable and fast Internet connection is required. That is why it makes sense for game streaming platform developers to make sure they have favorable partnerships with network operators and that's exactly what Microsoft is doing in South Korea with its deal with SK Telecom that will, in turn, make the country the first gaming market to experience its promise of xCloud game streaming.

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There has been no shortage of new Android devices, both phones and tablets, announced head of the formal start of IFA 2019. Some are, of course, more notable than others but seems that there is some underlying similarity between some of those. Almost as if in passing, Google has announced the presence of a new mode for Google Assistant that will turn these new Lenovo tablets and Nokia phones into smart displays when charging.

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