Honor has confirmed that the company will be attending the upcoming IFA in Berlin this year, and it has also revealed some of the details about the event.

During IFA 2022 in Berlin, Honor will conduct its events in-person and online through a live stream. The launch event will take place on 2nd September at 5:00 PM local time in Berlin, which is 4:00 PM in the UK and 8:30 PM in India.

Honor has revealed that the company will be announcing an entirely new line-up of exciting products at the upcoming IFA Berlin, but it has not revealed the actual products that are going to get launched.

The teaser poster shared by the company shows several different types of products, including a smartphone, tablet, laptop, a pair of true wireless earbuds or TWS earbuds, and a house indicating smart home solutions, among others.

The poster has a tagline that reads “Embracing the Connected Future,” which indicates something related to the multi-device connection. There are reports hinting that Honor could announce its flagship smartphone powered by the new Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1 processor along with new laptops with the Intel Alder Lake processors.

IFA exhibition was canceled last year because of the COVID-19 pandemic, but it will be organized in-person this year. The event is set to kick start on 2nd September and will go on till 6th September in Berlin.

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IFA Berlin is an annual trade show for consumer electronics held in Germany. This year, the organizers planned to have an in-person event, but that will no longer be happening as the event has now been canceled.

The info was shared by the official IFA Berlin Twitter account yesterday along with a link to a full statement. The organizers cite the occurrence of new strains of the virus to uncertainties about the rollout speed of vaccination programs across the globe. These reasons have led to uncertainties by not only companies that plan to attend but also the media and visitors.

We planned, hoped and tried to make the impossible possible – and yet had to cancel #IFA2021. We're #heartbroken, but full of confidence for #IFA2022!#seeyouatIFA2022https://t.co/VzBGNTCvFA pic.twitter.com/ZvM2FCnLv1

— IFA Berlin (@IFA_Berlin) May 19, 2021

The organizers have also revealed that part of the exhibition area has been converted into a vaccination center and an emergency hospital and both will be required for longer than originally planned.

“There simply are now too many uncertainties. Therefore, right now it has become near impossible for anyone to responsibly plan their participation in any trade show.” – Kai Hillebrandt, Chairman of the Supervisory Board of gfu Consumer & Home Electronics GmbH

Martin Ecknig, the CEO of Messe Berlin added that the roll-out of vaccination programs and the resumption of international travel didn’t happen at the pace they envisioned, thus they had to make the difficult decision of canceling the event. However, plans are already in motion as well as work with trade partners and the media to get ready for IFA 2022 “which will be held as a full-scale live event at the Berlin exhibition grounds”. The event is scheduled to hold from September 2 to September 6.

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The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic resulted in the cancellation of tech events this year. We are almost half-past 2020 but the only major tech event hat has taken place so far is CES  2020. But the situation may change in the second half of the year as IFA 2020 has been confirmed to take place with some restrictions.

Yesterday, IFA held a virtual press conference in which the executive director Jens Heithecker confirmed the 2020 show to run from September 3rd  to 5th in Berlin. He also revealed that they are working closely with public health authorities in Germany to ensure social distancing, careful crowd control and other effective public hygiene measures.

IFA 2020 will include four events, out of which three events will be held parallelly in a different building for three days. Also, the attendees to each of these events will be limited to 1,000 at a time. Most importantly, all these events will be invite-only  and thus they will be closed for the public,

The four IFA 2020 events are as listed below.

• IFA Global Press Conference
  • Limited to two to three keynotes stages
  • Opening keynote by Qualcomm president Cristiano Amon
  • About 800 journalists
• IFA Next and Shift Mobility
  • For startups and automotive companies
• IFA Global Markets
  • For OEMs and ODMs to build their supply chain
• IFA Business Lounges
  • Meeting spaces and lounges for companies

CES, IFA, and MWC are the largest annual tech events that help companies to build new relationships and further their businesses. These conferences play a key role in the products general public have access to in their daily lives.

With all that being said, COVID-19 cases are still rising across all regions and thus many people may not attend IFA 2020. Anyway, we will have to wait and see as the event is scheduled to take place after four months from now.

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Earlier this year, one of the biggest smartphone conferences, MWC 2020 (Mobile World Congress) got canceled due to fears regarding the Coronavirus. Now in a similar fashion, the IFA Berlin 2020 event has been canceled as well. However, the event may still be hosted, albeit through a live stream online.

#IFA20: Set for an innovative concept designed for unprecedented times.

IFA Berlin is set to go ahead in 2020, but with an innovative new concept, following the decision by the Berlin government to ban all events with more than 5,000 participants until 24 October 2020.
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— IFA Berlin (@IFA_Berlin) April 21, 2020

The IFA Berlin 2020 was supposed to be held later this year in September 2020. But the local government has banned all events with more than 5,000 participants until the 24th of October 2020. Although, it may still be hosted online as the organizers suggest. In a Twitter thread by the official handle of the IFA Berlin, six tweets were shared, that talked about a “new innovative concept design” that they plan on adopting for these “unprecedented times.”

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In the thread, IFA Berlin stated that the event is the world’s most significant trade show for consumer electronics and home appliances, but despite it, the event cannot be held this year due to the ongoing pandemic. However, they also tweeted out regarding organizers looking into other alternatives and that the planning is already in the advanced stages.

Events like the IFA Berlin 2020 are important for brands, manufacturers, and retailers. So, they plan to present the details of its updated concept for this year’s event in the near future. As it stands right now, the pandemic is still a cause for major concern, so an online stream would likely be the most obvious answer to the obstacle. However, we will have to wait for an official announcement before confirming anything.

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Moto X4 has been making rounds on the rumor mill for the past few months, but now we know that the phone is all set to meet us on September 2, thanks to an official poster confirming the launch date in the Philippines. However, the launch should not be just limited to the Philippines next month as a new image reveals that we may find a Moto X4 booth at IFA, Berlin this year.

IFA has always been a big event for tech manufacturers to showcase its big products for the latter half of the year and this year too, things are going to be exciting, with Samsung, LG, Lenovo, and other manufacturers participating in the event. Instead of using IFA as a platform to launch new products, most smartphone manufacturers reveal their big products before it kicks off and then showcases them at the Berlin event.

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As for the specs, the Moto X4 is expected to come with a 5.2-inch display with Snapdragon 630 inside. Pricing should be close to $350-400 according to the storage variants. You can expect to find a decent dual camera setup at the back as well.

(source)

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We just got our Huawei Nova Plus review sample and we wanted to share our initial impressions about it. In fact, we played with it at IFA Berlin already and now I’m working on the full review.

Huawei Nova Plus: VIDEO

Huawei Nova Plus: UNBOXING

In the box, you are getting all the usual stuff that includes a charging brick, USB C cable, SIM ejector pin, a pair of earphones and some paperwork that my review unit did not come with.

Huawei Nova Plus: FIRST IMPRESSIONS

The phone has a 5.5” 1080p display, which uses the LCD technology and it is pretty sharp and vibrant.

The Nova Plus sports a familiar premium design we’ve seen from Huawei. It’s made out of metal, except for those plastic top and bottom parts for antennas.

We have a 16MP camera, which can shoot 4k videos and dual led flash. The image quality seems to be pretty good but I took just a few shots, so I can’t really tell you my verdict on the camera. In addition, there is a have a fingerprint sensor, which so far seems to be pretty accurate and it unlocks your phone straight from the standby mode.

On the front, we have an 8MP selfie shooter and on-screen navigation buttons.

As far as specs, we are looking at the upper-midrange phone. The Nova Plus ships with an octa-core Snapdragon 625 chip with the clock speeds of 2.0GHz, 3GB of RAM and 32GB of expandable storage. The gaming performance has been good so far but I’ve noticed a few skipped frames when playing Asphalt 8.

The Nova Plus ships with the EMIUI 4.1, which is built on top of Android 6.0.

If you have used any other Huawei phone, the user interface will look exactly the same. There is no app tray but there are quite a few added features and customization options. So far, the UI has been fast and fluid but I need to spend a little bit more time with the device.

The Huawei Nova Plus smartphone will be available to buy in over 50 countries starting from October, although a date is yet to be set.

It will be first available in Europe for 429 EUR. The pricing for other countries is yet to be confirmed. Stay tuned to Gizmochina for a full review.

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Linas got a considerable amount of time at the ZTE Booth at IFA Berlin this year. You can check out the video below for details about the device.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=arEls_K43HY

The Axon 7 mini is a baby Axon 7. It sports most of the great qualities of its bigger brother. For example, it’s made of metal, it sports Hi-Fi audio chips, Dolby Atmos audio system, and powerful front-facing speakers. In fact, the Axon 7 mini won the Technical Innovation award for the exceptional audio quality.

The phone sports 5.2” 1080p AMOLED screen, it has an octa-core Snapdragon 617 chip, 3GB of RAM and 32GB of expandable storage.

Other key features include a 16MP camera on the back, a fingerprint scanner and 8MP camera on the front.

Finally, it will retail for just $299 and sound like a compelling offering but we will tell our final verdict in our full review.

Also, there were some other devices that you could take a look at the ZTE booth.

For example, V7 series smartphones that include the V7, V7 Lite and V7 Max fall into budget smartphone category.

All of these phones run on MediaTek processors. The most powerful is the V7 Max as it sports an MTK6755 chip, 3GB of RAM, 32GB of expandable storage and 5.5” 1080p display.

What is common to all 3 phones is that they run on the Android 6.0 with the ZTE’s skin on top of it, which has tons of features and customization options. Also, all the phones sports great build quality and they are made out metal.

Also, there were dedicated rooms where you could check out the audio, video and VR features of the ZTE devices.

Linas also had a chance to participate in the ZTE’s design panel where the company shared their vision about the design of the products and how their customers actually get involved in designing ZTE’s products.

So that would be it for this short video, I hope you guys enjoyed it and stay tuned for more coverage from IFA Berlin, 2016.

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Internationale Funkausstellung Berlin otherwise known as IFA Berlin is one of the major tech events of the year. It is an event that allows exhibitors present their latest innovations and products to the general public.

Quite a number of manufacturers always host their own personal conference right before the official opening to launch a new device or announce a new technology, and Huawei seems to be doing the same this year. The company has sent out invites for an event on September 1 which sources say is for the launch of a new phone.

The company’s senior Vice President, Yu Chengdong has announced that the event will take place at the Velodrom in Berlin at 1630 hrs on September 1. Yu Chengdong, in his own words says that the new release will ”exceed expectations”. Are we surprised? Not really. The company has had an impressive year so far and has exceeded expectations already of so many people most especially folks in the US following the recent release of the Honor 8.

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Rumours say the company wants to release a new sub-brand called Nova which will be aimed at the female folk. Further, sources say, Chinese actress, Guan Xiaotong has been invited to speak at the event.

It is also speculated that the device reported to be the Mate S2 which showed up at TENAA days ago, might actually be the first Nova device. The phone which shares a resemblance to the Nexus 6P also features a fingerprint scanner at the back.

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A few months ago, Lenovo showed off a concept tablet and phone with flexible displays at their Lenovo Tech World event which was held in San Francisco. It seems the device is going out of concept and will see an official launch following a new video release.

The video which is released ahead of the IFA Berlin 2016 conference is based on the theme “Different For the Sake of Better”. The video shows a couple of devices such as what appears to be a new Lenovo Yoga, a new type of keyboard, and most importantly, a phone with a flexible display and a foldable tablet.

Samsung and LG are two other big names in the flexible phones race. Samsung says they plan on bringing flexible phones to the market come 2017 with a possibility of showing up early next year during Mobile World Congress.

LG on the other hand already has 2 bendable phones: the G Flex and G Flex 2, but still doesn’t plan to get outdone by its Korean brother. So they are also preparing to launch phones with foldable displays next year.

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If Lenovo does launch their flexible phone this year, they’ll officially be the first company to do so. The thing about flexible phones isn’t the display itself but other components which are not easily bendable such as the battery.

August 31 is two weeks from now and we are really excited to see Lenovo’s new phone.

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ZTE made a big move internationally this year with its brand new Axon flagship. Even before launching Axon in China, the company released it in US. The company has different versions for different regions. The recently showcased Axon Elite version will be the international variant that will be available for purchase in a number of emerging markets in Europe and Asia-Pacific.

ZTE Axon combines good looks, powerful hardware and affordable pricing in one device, which is why the phone was awarded the ‘User Experience Gold Award’ by IDG and German Industry and Commerce Ltd. at IFA 2015 in Berlin. The award comes in the category of Product Technical Innovation Award and ZTE is the only Chinese smartphone manufacturer to receive such an award.

“We are both honored and excited to receive this award for Axon, our new global flagship smartphone,” said Adam Zeng, CEO, ZTE Mobile Device. “Axon represents an unprecedented effort on ZTE’s part to truly put the consumer at the heart of our product development. Today’s award is great recognition of this effort, and we will continue to take user experience to new and unexplored heights with future iterations of Axon.”

As we have previously reported, the ZTE Axon is definitely a value for money device. You can check out our review for more information about the device. Apart from the impressive specs on board, the international and Chinese variant of the Axon is the world’s first smartphone with three different biometric identification options. You can secure the device with fingerprint, voice control and eye-scan. What’s more, these models are also one of the first ones to feature Corning’s Antimicrobial Gorilla Glass.

So, what do you think about the ZTE Axon. Do you think the Axon phone will help this Chinese giant achieve success internationally?

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