This week on the Friday News Update:
- Xiaomi announces the POCOPHONE F1 in India, with a Snapdragon 845, 6 or 8 GB of RAM and a 4000mAh battery for the equivalent of £230
- Nokia announces the global versions of the X5 and X6, the 5.1 Plus and 6.1 Plus, with notched screens, glass backs, dual cameras and great processors for a budget price
- Fitbit announce the Charge 3, with a much higher resolution touchscreen, calendar and weather apps and smartphone notifications plus Fitbit's activity tracking starting at £130
- DJI announce the Mavic 2 Pro and Zoom drones, the Pro with an adjustable aperture and the Zoom with 2x optical zoom, plus Hasselblad cameras, omnidirectional obstacle sensing, up to 31 minute battery life and loads more features

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Sorry it's a bit late. This week on the Friday News Update:
- OPPO announces the R17, the first phone with the Snapdragon 670, Gorilla Glass 6 and a very unique new shape of notch
- Motorola announces the P30 in China, a nearly identical iPhone X clone with a huge notch, the Snapdragon 636 and AI dual cameras
- The specs and design of the Huawei Mate 20 and Mate 20 Lite and some of the specs of the Mate 20 Pro have already been leaked
- Intel could announce updated Core processors on the 1st of October
- Android Police leaks an image and some of the specs of the Key2 LE

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This week on the Friday News Update:
- Samsung have announced the Galaxy Note9, with a 4000mAh battery, new camera features and a Bluetooth S-Pen that can control the phone from metres away, plus an exclusive Fortnite skin
- Samsung have also launched the Galaxy Watch with 7 day battery life, stress detection and Tizen 4.0
- Samsung have also announced their first smart speaker with Bixby, the Galaxy Home, with AKG sound, SoundSteer to point the speaker's audio at you and a touch-sensitive white light ring which can control the volume, updates to Bixby including Google Assistant-like follow-up questions and personalised recommendations, and new Spotify integration for their devices that lets you pause music on one device and continue listening on another
- Android P's official name is Android Pie
- Qualcomm will finally announce a new smartwatch processor next month

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This week on the Friday News Update:
- Motorola announces the Moto Z3 mid-range phone, with a 6" bezelless AMOLED screen, a Snapdragon 835 and 5G on Verizon with Motorola's upcoming 5G Moto Mod
- Samsung makes a surprise announcement of the Galaxy Tab S4, with an iris scanner, Samsung DeX on the tablet and a 7300mAh battery plus a bigger, more bezelless AMOLED screen, and the Galaxy Tab A 10.5, a cheaper version of the Tab S4 with a Snapdragon 450 and an LCD screen
- Tiger Mobiles shows off dummy models of two of Apple's 2018 iPhones
- XDA Developers publishes photos of the Google Pixel 3 XL in Clearly White

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This week on the Friday News Update:
- Xiaomi announce two new budget phones, the Mi A2 and A2 Lite, with Android One, dual cameras that work well in low light and bezelless Full HD screens, plus a notch and a 4000mAh battery on the A2 Lite
- The Galaxy Note 9's S-Pen will be able to skip songs, take photos and open apps, XDA Developers have found
- The Galaxy Watch appears briefly on Samsung's website, showing its design
- Corning announce the stronger Gorilla Glass 6

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This week on the Friday News Update:
- Google is fined €4.3 billion by the EU for forcing Android device manufacturers to install Chrome and Google Search on their devices
- Xiaomi announces the Mi Max 3, a gigantic 6.9" smartphone with a 5,500mAh battery
- Nokia announces the notched X5 budget phone, giving you a bezelless screen and dual cameras for a cheap price
- Motorola releases an Android Go edition of the Moto E5 Play in the UK, with a Snapdragon 425 and 1GB of RAM
- Samsung's Bixby speaker could cost $300 and have "sound shifting" and might be released with the Galaxy Note 9 and Galaxy Watch at Samsung's Unpacked event next month
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This week on the Friday News Update:
- Apple upgrades the Macbook Pro with Touch Bar range with 8th generation Intel processors, up to 32GB of RAM and 4TB of storage plus Hey Siri support and more
- Apple could release updated MacBooks, Mac Minis and iMacs later this year as well as iPad Pros with no home button and Face ID, Apple Watches with bigger screens and three iPhones with single or dual cameras this year, according to rumours
- Microsoft announces the budget Surface Go, with a 10" screen, 9 hours of battery life and an Intel Pentium Gold processor

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This week on the Friday News Update:
- The Galaxy Note 9 could cost €1000 and have the same cameras as the Galaxy S9+, a 1150 nit screen and music control and a photo timer trigger through the S-Pen, according to rumours
- The OnePlus 6 now comes in a Red colour at no extra cost, available on the 10th of July
- Apple is remaking its maps data for Apple Maps, starting with San Francisco, using iPhones and Apple Maps cars
- Your phone or the upcoming Galaxy Tab S4 will soon work as a second screen for Samsung DeX, and the Galaxy Tab S4 will be compatible with DeX
- Android Headlines have published a photo of the upcoming Galaxy Tab S4, showing what could be an iris scanner, no fingerprint sensor and thinner bezels
- Your Gmails could have been read by developers of apps, including Edison Software
- Honor's president has confirmed that the Honor Note 10 is coming, with a 6.9" AMOLED screen, according to rumours
- A Samsung Messages bug is causing it to send your photos to random contacts
- The rumoured cheaper Surface devices could have Intel Pentium Silver and Gold processors
- The Mi Mix 3 could have a new Vivo NEX-like design
- The next iPhones could come with USB-C fast chargers
- The iPhone 9 and X Plus/XI Plus could come in new colours

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CLARIFICATION: The price I gave for the Mi Pad 4 is for the 4GB RAM/64GB storage WiFi model - there's also a 3GB RAM/32GB RAM model which converts to £125, as well as a £170 LTE version of the 4GB/64GB model.
This week on the Friday News Update:
- Samsung announces that the Galaxy Note 9 will be announced on the 9th of August, just before a website releases details about the phone including camera, battery and S-Pen details
- Honor releases the new Honor 7S smartphone, giving you decent specs and a (kind of) bezelless screen for just £99
- Huawei announces when devices will get GPU Turbo, which will make them 60% faster
- The Zenfone 5 is now up for preorder in the UK, costing just £350 (or £300 for a limited time)
- Nokia are working on a flagship smartphone with a fingerprint sensor under the screen and exciting cameras
- Google will soon begin testing Google Duplex
- Xiaomi releases an 8" Mi Pad 4 Android tablet with a Snapdragon 660
- The LG V40 could have 5 cameras
- Motorola are announcing at least 1 new smartphone on the 2nd of August
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This week on the Friday News Update:
- Oppo announces their almost completely bezelless flagship, the Find X, with a 93.8% screen to body ratio, cameras, a speaker and sensors that pop up from the back of the screen, 3D facial recognition and a curved OLED screen
- Garmin announce the Fenix 5 Plus smartwatch range, with a music player, running/cycling route finder, Garmin Pay, up to 20 day battery life and a blood oxygen sensor on the 5X Plus
- YouTube Premium comes to the UK, with ad-free videos which can be downloaded for offline watching, and access to YouTube Music, also available on its own with a cheaper subscription, with a huge collection of music videos, remixes and live performances
- Instagram launch IGTV, a YouTube-like video app with vertical video

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