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Four years after abandoning the realm of smartphones, Microsoft has thrown its hat back into the ring. This time the company is gunning for a piece of that double-screen pie with the Surface Duo, a hinged phone that has a focus on multitasking.

Chinese gadget maker Xiaomi has celebrated its 10th anniversary as a company with the launch of the Mi 10 Ultra flagship phone – a supercharged handset that follows on from the two Mi 10 smartphones we saw earlier in the year.

At the latest of its regular Unpacked hardware launches, Samsung has unveiled no fewer than five major new gadgets – with the premium, stylus-equipped Samsung Galaxy Note20 smartphone leading the way.

Chinese smartphone manufacturer Doogee has announced a new N20 Pro smartphone with a 16-megapxel camera and a 4,400-mAh battery it says can deliver up to 15 days of standby or 19 hours of talk time at a budget price point.

After some delay, the Google Pixel 4a is official, and it's exactly what you would expect the successor to the Pixel 3a to be – simple, affordable, and packed with Google smarts. It's the price that perhaps impresses the most: just US$349.

Cat has launched another rugged, super-tough smartphone with a thermal imaging camera, and the S62 Pro is Cat's best handset yet in most categories – certainly in terms of speed, style and optics.

Qualcomm has unveiled Quick Charge 5, its latest fast-charging technology for smartphones – and it promises to get your phone's battery up to 50 percent from absolute zero in as little as just five minutes.

It's a good week for anyone interested in a new gaming phone. As well as the Lenovo Legion Phone Duel, we've also had the Asus ROG Phone 3 unveiled in the last 24 hours, giving you more choice than ever for high-spec, gaming-focused handsets.

Lenovo's new gaming phone is the Legion Phone Duel, and as well as packing 5G technology inside and a side-mounted pop-up selfie cam, it's also one of the first handsets to be announced with Qualcomm's top-end Snapdragon 865 Plus flagship processor.

The OnePlus 8 phones launched in April as the flagship OnePlus phones for 2020, but OnePlus has a different aim for the newly unveiled Nord – it wants to give buyers the perfect balance between performance and price, a mid-range phone with no equal.

Back in 2018 we reported on an interesting pocket camera that offloaded much of its functionality to the ubiquitous smartphone. Now the Pixii M-mount digital rangefinder has gone up for sale.

Not everyone wants a super-thin form factor and a curved design for their next smartphone – and if you'd rather have a handset that's built like a tank and has one of the biggest batteries on the market, then the Doogee S88 Pro might be for you.