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Apple finally succeeded: the company overtook Samsung in the global smartphone market
According to Gartner, Apple is currently the largest smartphone manufacturer in the world in the fourth quarter of 2020.
Apple has been trying to take first place in the ranking of smartphone manufacturers all year, catching up with Samsung and Huawei. After Huawei came under US sanctions, Apple was left to deal only with Samsung.
IPhone sales in Q4 2020 were 80 million units, giving the company a 20.8% market share. Second place was taken by Samsung, which sold 62 million smartphones, taking 16.2% of the market. The third place went to Xiaomi, which was able to put 43 million smartphones on the market, taking 11.3% of the market.
While consumers remained cautious about their spending and refrained from making some purchases, 5G support and new camera capabilities prompted some users to buy new smartphones in the last quarter.
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Apple’s market share has grown by about 15% year over year. In the fourth quarter of 2020, approximately 70 million iPhones were sold. Samsung’s market share fell by 11.8%. As of Q4 2019, Samsung has sold 8 million more devices than this year.
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Advanced XMAGE camera, IP68 protection, heavy-duty Kunlun glass. Huawei P60 and P60 Pro unveiled, world’s first two-way satellite smartphones

Huawei today introduced its new flagships P60 and P60 Pro. The novelties turned out to be very interesting – in many ways they differ from the flagships of other companies.
The Huawei P60 features a 6.67-inch 4-sided OLED screen with a resolution of 2700 x 1200 pixels, a frame rate of 120Hz and a PWM frequency of 1440Hz. Interestingly, the Huawei P60 Pro has exactly the same display. As a result, the dimensions of both flagships are exactly the same, the difference is only in weight: the Pro version is several grams heavier. The screen is protected by ultra-strong Kunlun glass. And the phones are protected from external influences in accordance with the degree of IP68.
The cameras of the P60 and P60 Pro differ in that Huawei did not pursue megapixels – the maximum resolution (of the main sensor) is only 48 megapixels. This approach strongly resembles Apple’s approach to designing iPhone cameras.
The Huawei P60 camera is represented by three modules. The main one has a 48-megapixel sensor with an RYYB pixel layout, an F / 1.4-4.0 variable aperture lens and an optical stabilization system. The ultra wide-angle module has a 13-megapixel (RYYB) sensor and an F/2.2 lens, but no optical stabilization. Finally, the third module is responsible for 5x optical zoom, it uses a 12-megapixel sensor (RYYB) and has optical stabilization.
The first two modules of the Huawei P60 Pro are exactly the same as those of the younger model, but the module responsible for the optical zoom is different. Firstly, the resolution is higher – as much as 48 megapixels (apparently, exactly the same sensor is used here as in the main module), and secondly, there is just a huge aperture for the periscope module – F / 2.1. Therefore, pictures taken with optical zoom look as bright and saturated as pictures taken with the main camera.
This is how examples of photos taken with the Huawei P60 camera look like:
The parameters of the power subsystem for Huawei P60 and P60 Pro are the same: the phones received batteries with a capacity of 4815 mAh, support 88 W wired charging and 50 W wireless power.
The difference from the Galaxy S23 is that the P60 and P60 Pro come with an appropriate power supply, and with two ports at once: USB-A and USB-C.
Huawei P60 and P60 Pro became the first phones from the manufacturer with HarmonyOS 3.1 out of the box. And they are the first in the world to support two-way satellite communications: using the Chinese Beidou satellite system, you can not only send messages, but also receive them. In fact, satellite communication is already a real alternative to cellular, although there are still restrictions on sending messages and calls using satellite.
Interestingly, Huawei has not yet declassified the P60 / P60 Pro hardware platform and did not talk about prices. We will update the news as soon as this data becomes available.
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Not only Wi-Fi 6. Samsung Galaxy A54 is the manufacturer’s first mid-budget phone with eSIM support

After Samsung officially unveiled the Galaxy A54 phone, more details about it began to emerge. We already wrote that the device was the first in its class among Samsung devices to receive Wi-Fi 6, and now it is reported that it was the first to receive eSIM as well.
Thus, the Samsung Galaxy A54 is compatible with both physical SIM cards and digital ones. More mid-range Samsung smartphones are expected to support eSIM in the future.
Recall that the Samsung Galaxy A54 is built on the proprietary Samsung Exynos 1380, equipped with a 6.4-inch AMOLED screen with a frame rate of 120 Hz, a 50-megapixel camera with OIS, a 5000 mAh battery and has IP67 protection.
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Redmi Note 12 Tubo outperforms iPhone 14 and Samsung smartphones. Tiny Frame Sizes and Estimated Price Announced

A well-known insider under the nickname Ice Universe has published a new image on his page, which compares the frames of Redmi Note 12 Turbo and iPhone 14.
The Redmi Note 12 Trubo is a smartphone that costs less than $300, but it has a very narrow bezel, which is great. The whole world is using new technologies to create smartphones with narrower bezels. Only one declining brand is against this general trend: the bezel on its smartphones is getting wider and wider.
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Another insider, Kartikey Singh, also attacked Samsung: “Samsung is still living in the past, it feels like this is the next Nokia. The Redmi Note 12 Turbo is a product positioned lower than the Galaxy A54, but in terms of design, there is not much to say.”
The presentation of Redmi Note 12 Turbo will take place next Tuesday, March 28th. The Redmi Note 12 Turbo will have an emphasis on super speed, which is why it got the Turbo prefix, and not the usual Pro that flagships get.
Ice Universe was the first to accurately talk about the new trend for smartphones with waterfall screens, about the notch in the iPhone X, about the new design of the iPhone 14 with a Dynamic Island cutout, and about different 200-megapixel image sensors.
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