This week on the Friday News Update:
- Xiaomi announce the Mi Mix 3, with dual cameras in a sliding panel at the back of the phone, enabling a 93% screen to body ratio, a high DxOMark score and up to 10GB of RAM
- The Black Shark Helo gaming phone is announced, with a game controller in the box, RGB LEDs on the sides of the phone and up to 10GB of RAM
- HTC open preorders for the Exodus 1, a cryptocurrency phone... that you can only buy in cryptocurrency
- Misfit and Mobvoi each announce new smartwatches, the Vapor 2 and TicWatch C2, with GPS, NFC and... the old Snapdragon Wear 2100

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Buy the Mi Mix 3 (China): https://item.mi.com/product/10000123.html
Buy the Black Shark Helo (China): https://item.mi.com/product/10000122.html
Buy the HTC Exodus 1: https://www.htcexodus.com
Buy the Misfit Vapor 2: https://misfit.com/products/misfit-vapor-2
Buy the Ticwatch C2: https://www.mobvoi.com/products/ticwatchc2

This week on the Friday News Update:
- RAZER announces the Phone 2, with better cameras, wireless charging and a Chroma light that can light up when you get notifications
- Samsung announces the Galaxy A9, the first phone with 4 cameras, which can do 2X zoom, wide-angle photos and background blurring
- Facebook have made the Portal... a smart speaker with a camera. Yup, seriously.

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This week on the Friday News Update:
- Huawei announces the incredibly innovative Mate 20 Pro, with 3D facial recognition, an in-screen fingerprint sensor and reverse wireless charging, a very downgraded Mate 20, the huge 7.2" Mate 20 X with an M-Pen stylus and the rip-off Mate 20 RS, a leather backed Mate 20 Pro
- Huawei also announces the not-very-smart Watch GT smartwatch with up to a month of battery life
- Another Apple Event is coming on the 30th of October

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This week on the Friday News Update:
- Google announce the Pixel 3 and 3 XL, with a second wide-angle selfie camera plus Night Sight, Super Res Zoom and loads more tricks, the ability to answer calls for you and... that gigantic notch on the XL, plus the Pixel Stand, a wireless charger for the Pixel 3 that can act as a Google Home and can also wake you up
- Google also announce their first tablet in years, the Pixel Slate, with a Chrome OS optimised for tablets, a 12.3" screen praised by filmmakers and Intel processors, but also with a ludicrous price
- Google announce their first Smart Display, the Home Hub, with a 7" screen, the Google Assistant and no camera for privacy reasons

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This week on the Friday News Update:
- LG announces the V40 ThinQ, the first smartphone with five cameras, also featuring a 6.4" notched OLED screen, a Boombox Speaker and a headphone jack
- The LG Watch W7 is also announced, giving you a flawed Wear OS smartwatch with physical hands for... $450??
- Microsoft update the Surface Pro, Surface Laptop and Surface Studio with 8th generation Intel processors and new black colours (excluding the Studio), and also announce the Surface Headphones, $350 noise cancelling Bluetooth headphones with Cortana
- Nokia announce the Nokia 7.1, a notched phone with dual cameras, the Snapdragon 636 and a stunning glass back, plus Android One

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This week on the Friday News Update:
- Oculus announces the Quest headset, a standalone VR headset with four sensors for room tracking and 6DOF, plus a Star Wars VR experience called 'Vader Immortal' for the Quest, YouTube VR for the Oculus Go and Gear VR and TV casting for the Go
- Office 365 gets Microsoft Search, a universal search engine for your Office 365 files and resources, Ideas, an AI to help you make your PowerPoint or Excel spreadsheet, background blurring for Teams video chats and more
- Google gets some new features, including AI-made Stories, recent pages visited from Google and Google Lens on the mobile Google Images site
- LG reveal some of the specs and the design of the V40 ThinQ
- The OnePlus 6T will have a bigger battery
- iPhone Xs users are already encountering problems

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This week on the Friday News Update:
- Amazon announces an updated Echo Dot, Echo Show and Echo Plus with better-looking designs and improved sound quality, an Echo Sub subwoofer, the Echo Input and Echo Auto to put Alexa in more devices, plus a clock, microwave and smart plug that work with Alexa and more
- GoPro announce the Hero 7 range, with the Black model featuring the new HyperSmooth video stabilization, TimeWarp timelapses and SuperShot colour improvement
- OnePlus are making... a TV?
- Samsung's Galaxy A7 is the company's first triple camera phone, with background blurring and wide-angle photos
- The Huawei Mate 20 will have live video filters, video background blurring and a camera Underwater Mode

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This week on the Friday News Update:
- Apple announces the iPhone Xs and Xs Max, a 6.5" version of the Xs, both with a new gold colour, up to 512GB of storage and Depth Control, starting at £999 and £1099 respectively
- Apple also announces the cheaper £750 iPhone Xr, with most of the same features as the Xs but with 6 colours and a 720p LCD... in 2018.
- The Apple Watch Series 4 is announced, with thinner bezels round a bigger screen, Fall Detection and the ability to do ECGs straight from the watch
- The OnePlus 6T will have an in-screen fingerprint sensor but... no headphone jack?
- Qualcomm finally announces a new smartwatch processor, the Snapdragon Wear 3100, with improved battery life
- Huawei will announce its folding phone within the next year
- The LG V40 ThinQ will be announced on the 4th of October

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This week on the Friday News Update:
- Honor announce the 8X and 8X Max, with huge notched screens, powerful processors and big batteries
- Motorola announce the One and One Power, with gigantic notches, dual cameras and Android One
- Google updates Chrome for its 10th birthday with a handy new Omnibox, better autofilling and a Material Design revamp
- The OnePlus 6T's box leaks, showing waterdrop notch and in-screen fingerprint sensor
- Possible Snapdragon 855 benchmark scores leak, with nearly identical scores to the Apple A11 Bionic
- Instagram could be working on a shopping app
- Apple is offering free repairs for iPhone 8s with logic board problems
- The Razer Phone 2 is coming
- Samsung will announce their folding phone this year
- Skype add call recording to their apps
- Huawei Mate 20 and Mate 20 Pro designs leak ahead of 16th of October announcement
- Google will not announce a Pixel Watch this year, but the Google Pixel 3, plus loads more new Google tech, will be announced on the 9th of October
- Microsoft will announce a new Surface on the 2nd of October

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This week on the Friday News Update:
- Dell, Acer and Asus announce bezelless new laptops with Intel's updated 8th generation Core i processors
- Skagen announce the Falster 2 with a fantastic design and GPS, a heart rate sensor and GPS
- Google is updating Wear OS with a new swipe-based interface
- B&O announce some expensive new speakers, including the drum-shaped Beosound Edge which you can roll to control the volume, plus the Beosound 1 and 2 with the Google Assistant and the Beoplay E6 earphones
- Samsung and LG unveil some of the first 8K TVs
- Huawei announce a new notched budget phone called the Mate 20 Lite
- Honor announce the ridiculously cheap Honor Play, with a Kirin 970, huge battery and "4D" gaming for £380
- BlackBerry announce a budget Key2 called the Key2 LE, with slightly downgraded specs
- HTC announce the hideous U12 Life with no notch, a Snapdragon 636 and a headphone jack
- Sony announce the Xperia XZ3 with a curved OLED screen and Side Sense

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