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Huawei Mate 30 - A glimpse of Google-less phone?

To be honest, out of so many phones with great cameras. The one that caught my attention the most are from Huawei as they partnership with Leica and love the way how Huawei paired up with various type camera sensors onto it. Then came along the infamous widely ban that affects Huawei that limits them from business dealings with United States companies. That includes those Google services on the phone. Huawei quickly reacts and building up their operating system - Hongmeng and it owns Huawei Mobile Services (HMS). But such a ban does not affect Huawei's customer-based, people finding a way to install Google services onto it and it does works smoothly (besides no Google Pay and Netflix limited of Widevine rating). Let's dive back to the phone topic itself - Huawei Mate 30. At first, I was sceptical about it as heard rave opinions on services unable to run on it. After months of thoughts, I'm ready to jump on board and found a way to install GMS. No issue with google sync

Xiaomi Mi Note 10 - Mega in everything department

2019 seems like Xiaomi seems to want be the first to release newly launched products such as the processors and camera sensors. They launched 48MP on the Redmi Note 7 follow by 64MP on the recently launched Redmi Note 8 Pro and finally 108MP on the Mi Note 10 / 10 Pro aka Mi 9 CC Pro in China counterpart. In layman terms, the sensor combines blocks of four pixels (27MP ea) into one (108MP). The box contents come with a 30W charger, USB C charging cable and a clear jelly casing. Mi Note 10 equipped with Qualcomm Snapdragon 730G similar to OPPO Reno2 as benefits more on gaming and power efficiency. The phone comes in two variants - 128GB onboard storage with 6GB of RAM and 7P Lens while the 'Pro' model still using the same SDM730G but 256GB onboard storage with 8GB of RAM and 8P Lens. The difference of lens, in theory, is to capture more lights. Mi Note 10 comes not Quad camera but Penta camera (e.g Nokia 9) and here's the breakdown for rear cameras setup: 108MP wi

OPPO Reno2 - Back with Fin

OPPO continued the design aesthetics of its predecessor with an edge-to-edge screen with an adorable shark fin style pop-up camera. With twilight mist iridescent finishes-glass back. The package comes with OPPO's VOOC charger, Type C charging cable, OPPO wired earbuds and matching colour faux-leather soft touch casing. As my set was Sunset Pink. For those specifications is a welcome with the processor has upgraded from Qualcomm Snapdragon 710 to 730G. The difference between SDM 730 and 730G brought in better gaming experience and a 15% boost in graphics and that a plus to gamers out there. A huge bump up of battery capacity to 4,000mAh from 3,765mAh that comes equipped with VOOC Flash Charge 3.0 to fill up the battery juice as much as 51% within half an hour or so! So do not worry if you're on the rush out. With moderate usage, my phone still left with 30%-odd with light gaming and heavy social media usage. The quad-camera setup is the new black, so let's welco