Hands On with the OPPO Reno 10x Zoom: 6.6-inch OLED with No Notch and Popup Selfie Camera

We are in Zurich for the global announcement of the Oppo Reno lineup and we have to spend a nice moment with the fully designed Reno 10x zoom. After that flagship, we also had the opportunity to play briefly with the usual Reno.

Body: Aluminum frame, Gorilla Glass 5 back, 156.6x74.3x9mm, 185g; Ocean Green, Jet Black, Nebula Purple, and Pink Mist color schemes.
Display: 6.4" AMOLED, 1080x2340px, 19.5:9 aspect ratio, 402ppi, Gorilla Glass 6.
Rear camera: Main: 48MP, 1/2.0" sensor, f/1.7 aperture, 26mm equiv. focal length, PDAF. Depth sensor: 5MP, f/2.4 aperture.
Front camera: Motorized pop-up 16MP, f/2.2 aperture, 26mm equiv. focal length.
Video recording: Rear: up to 4K 2160p@30fps, EIS, slow-mo up to 1080p@120fps. Front: up to 1080p@30fps.
OS/Software: Android 9.0 Pie, ColorOS 6.
Chipset: Snapdragon 710 (10nm): octa-core CPU (2x2.2 GHz Kryo 360 Gold & 6x1.7 GHz Kryo 360 Silver); Adreno 616 GPU.
Memory: 6/8GB RAM, 128/256GB storage, no microSD card slot.
Battery: 3,765mAh, Li-Ion (sealed), 20W VOOC fast charging.
Connectivity: Dual-SIM; LTE-A, Cat.15/13 (800Mbps/150Mbps); Wi-Fi a/b/g/n/ac MU-MIMO; GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo; NFC; Bluetooth 5.0. USB Type-C, 3.5mm jack.
Misc: Optical under-display fingerprint sensor.

The differences in the hardware are not minor and the Vanilla Reno comes with the Snapdragon 710 intermediate level instead of the 855 10x zoom. There is also no periscope telephoto camera on the back and the ultra wide module did not cut either. The main camera uses the same Sony 48MP sensor as the flagship, but the lens is not stabilized here.

Do not worry, however, the super cool shark fin motorized mechanism has been maintained.

Another thing Reno Vanilla shares with the 10x zoom is the fingerprint sensor below the screen. We really enjoy the experience in our time with the biggest phone and the Reno is the same in this regard.

One thing that is really better in the midranger is the presence of a headphone jack: it's right where the 10x zoom card slot is. The slot on the Reno card has been moved to the left side, over the volume controls. There awaits an unpleasant surprise. There is no option to place a microSD card for expansion. Unfortunately, you can not have everything. The power button on the right has the same green accent as the high-end model, if that counts for something.

The Reno's screen is also AMOLED, just a little smaller at 6.4 inches diagonally, compared to the Reno 10x 6.6-inch zoom.

However, it is noticeably lighter, at 185 g compared to the 210 g of the 10x zoom. Having said that, it is not really light, you will notice its presence in your pocket, but hopefully from a phone of this size.

To go with the smaller screen, the Reno also has a smaller battery: 3,765 mAh compared to the 4,065 mAh capacity of the 10x zoom. There are no degradations in charging technology and the Reno obtains the same VOOC load capacities of 20W.

That's all we have in Oppo Reno for now. More to follow if and when we obtain a review unit. Meanwhile, here's another picture of the pop-pop camera, all up to reveal the back flash.

Samsung invests in logic chip R&D to take on Qualcomm and TSMC

At the beginning of last year, Samsung became the world's largest chip maker (taking the crown from Intel) in large part thanks to the excellent performance of its memory division. Today the company announced plans to invest $ 116 billion up to 2030 in non-memory chips.

This will help reduce your dependence on the memory segment (which you did not do in the last quarter). More than half of the money will go to R & D, creating 15,000 jobs. The rest will be used to build the infrastructure.

Samsung System LSI, which develops Exynos chips and modems, ISOCELL sensors and more, along with Samsung Foundry (which Fabs chips) will receive about $ 9.5 billion a year until 2030.

Traditionally, Samsung's memory division generates most of the profits (and gets most of the funding). However, in addition to the volatility of that segment, investing in other divisions aims to capture incoming opportunities. Intel threw in the towel, giving up the 5G modems, which were supposed to go on iPhones.

Instead, it seems that Qualcomm and Samsung will share orders for Apple's 5G modems. Samsung acquired Harman in 2017, a major supplier of automotive electronics. Those self-controlled cars, connected to 5G, of which you always listen, will need modems, cameras and AI hardware (where Nvidia has interests).

On the side of the smelter, the main competition is TSMC, the dominant contract smelter, which is receiving orders from Qualcomm, Apple, AMD, Nvidia and Huawei (among others).

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Apple iPhone XR Was the Top-Selling Smartphone in the US during Q2 2019

A survey by CIRP (Consumer Intelligence Research Partners) found that the iPhone XR is still selling more than any other smartphone in the US market during the second quarter of this year.

Despite the success of the XR, the report states that not everything is pink. The relatively low price of the iPhone XR will reduce the average selling price to $ 800 if the trend continues.

During the previous quarter, higher storage levels increased the average sale price. In comparison, storage updates for the first quarter of last year accounted for 33% of total sales, while the first quarter of 2019 saw an increase of 38%. In this case, the ASP could exceed $ 800.

However, service revenues seem to be quite stable. Nearly half of iPhone buyers in the United States have opted for paid iCloud services and approximately 21% are paying for Apple Music and 13% use iTunes music service. AppleCare, on the other hand, is not as popular.
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LG to reportedly stop producing smartphones in home country of South Korea

LG plans to suspend the manufacture of smartphones at its plant in South Korea, according to a Reuters report. The report also states that LG will move manufacturing to its plant in Vietnam.

The original information comes from an unknown source at the Yonhap News Agency and alleges that the measure is to help reduce the cost of manufacturing and change the smartphone division of the company, which has been suffering losses for several quarters.

The information is not entirely unexpected. LG has been receiving an increasingly lukewarm response for its smartphone launches. At the lower end of the market, cheaper Chinese competitors have been eating LG lunch for the past few years and at the other end of the market, LG never managed to get out of the shadow of Samsung. The company's latest LG G8 has been one of the most disappointing releases of the year despite its technical skills.

It seems unlikely that LG will exit the smartphone market altogether in the near future, but may choose to exit some markets in the near future.
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