Qualcomm announced the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 (SM8850-AC) flagship mobile platform at the Snapdragon Summit in Maui, Hawaii, alongside the Snapdragon X2 Elite and X2 Elite Extreme chips. And towards the end of the product keynote, the chipmaker introduced the Snapdragon 8 Gen 5 SoC. While Qualcomm didn't detail the Snapdragon 8 Gen 5 SoC, Alex Katouzian, General Manager for Mobile, Compute, and XR at Qualcomm, said, "We developed... Read more ›
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The Honor Magic8 series is launching next month and Honor has now officially confirmed that its Magic8 series will feature the brand-new Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 chipset. Honor is also set to launch the first Android tablet with Qualcomm's new flagship chip with the Magic Pad 3 Pro 13.3. We also got a more detailed look at the Magic8 Pro in its green color. It features a flat back... Read more ›
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Hot on the heels of the vivo V60 Lite 5G announcement comes the 4G model. This one is a smaller upgrade, though. Let’s recap – the V60 Lite 5G brought a more powerful chipset than what was inside the V50 Lite 5G, added HDR support to the screen, 4K video recording to the camera and slimmed down the design a bit. Note that the V50 Lite 4G and 5G were... Read more ›
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The Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 may be the best new chipset in the Android realm, but Qualcomm is also establishing itself on the PC side with its X Elite series chips. The Snapdragon X2 Elite and X2 Elite Extreme are the latest chipsets for Windows on Arm machines and they bring sizeable gains in performance and efficiency over the first-gen Snapdragon X Elite models. The new X2 series consists... Read more ›
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Vivo will unveil the X300 series on October 13, so we’re still over two weeks out from getting the full picture. The company is already running an extensive promo campaign, though, and has shared many details about the upcoming flagships. The latest release is the official vivo X300 trailer. This trailer is about setting the right mood – the premium materials of the X300, the design, the camera-centric experience –... Read more ›
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Realme has confirmed in a press release that its upcoming GT 8 Pro flagship phone will be one of the first to be equipped with the newly launched Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 SoC. The Chinese manufacturer also noted that the phone will launch in global markets soon, but did not reveal an exact date. The Realme GT 8 series will be unveiled next month in China. Realme claims the... Read more ›
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As promised, Qualcomm has announced the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 SoC as its flagship chip at the ongoing Snapdragon Summit in Hawaii. It's a successor to last year's Snapdragon 8 Elite and is touted as the "world's fastest mobile system-on-a-chip" by Qualcomm. The Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 (SM8850-AC) is built on a 3nm process and comes with the third-gen Oryon CPU, which boosts CPU performance by 20% compared... Read more ›
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Earlier this year, vivo unveiled the vivo V50 Lite 5G. It came just days after the V50 Lite 4G. Now the company is introducing the next generation and it starts with the 5G model this time. Meet the vivo V60 Lite 5G. One of the key upgrades is the new old Dimensity 7360-Turbo chipset. This chip was just announced by MediaTek, but it is essentially the same as the Dimensity... Read more ›
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We're giving you the freshly announced Xiaomi 15T, the second half of this year's T series. You may call this one the vanilla or the non-Pro, but it isn't a big downgrade to the Xiaomi 15T Pro. In fact, you will have a hard time telling them apart by just looking at them. They're essentially the same size, with the same screen diagonal, and they have the same design. Our... Read more ›
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Honor X9d is now official and it’s centered around a massive 8,300mAh silicon carbon (Si-C) battery and its IP69K rating, which can withstand high-temperature pressurized water jets. The X9d is actually a rebrand of the China-exclusive Honor X70, which launched earlier this year with the only change being slightly slower 66W wired charging speeds. Honor X9d brings an 8,300 mAh Si-C battery and IP69K ingress protection X9d features a 6.79-inch... Read more ›
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In August 2024, Huawei launched its affordable flip foldable, the Huawei nova Flip. It’s now more than a year later and its successor still hasn’t arrived – it is coming, though, as China Telecom uploaded it to its database (but that doesn’t mean it’s official yet). Huawei nova Flip S (PSD-AL80) on China Telecom's online database The Huawei nova Flip S has a model number PSD-AL80 and has three memory... Read more ›
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Someone wasn’t paying attention – the Xiaomi 15T phones were scheduled for today, the Xiaomi 17-series will be unveiled tomorrow. Instead, this online shop posted the Xiaomi 17 Pro Max today. Oh well, mix-ups happen. Unfortunately, it seems that the specs haven’t been updated – the text reads like it comes from the Xiaomi 15 Pro instead. To clear up the naming, the Pro Max is the new name that... Read more ›
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Oppo will release ColorOS 16, its custom version of Android 16, on October 15 – the upcoming Find X9 series will run it out of the box, older models will get it as an update down the line. Today, the company detailed some of the key changes in the new OS. One new element is the Star Compiler – Android apps typically come compiled to portable bytecode, which then gets... Read more ›
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Say hello to the Xiaomi 15T Pro, the brand's latest "flagship killer." Like its predecessor, it's the higher-end in the T series and features a beautiful design complete with a unique color, a big battery, a potent SoC, and great cameras. Here is the Xiaomi 15T Pro, pictured alongside its sibling, the 15T. They share the same footprint with a 6.83-inch display and a 5,500mAh battery, but differ in a... Read more ›
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There have been some rumors and speculations about the Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra's battery capacity and charging speed. The 2026 Samsung flagship was said to support 65W wired charging, but we later heard that it would only go as fast as 60W, and it now appears that's what we will get with the final product. Reliable tipster UniverseIce posted on X that the Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra will charge faster... Read more ›
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Xiaomi announced the Redmi Pad 2 Pro series and the Pad mini at an event today alongside the Xiaomi 15T and 15T Pro. The Redmi Pad 2 Pro lineup consists of the Pad 2 Pro (Wi-Fi), Pad 2 Pro 5G, and a Pad 2 Pro Matte Glass Version. All three variants feature a 12.1-inch LCD display that has a refresh rate of 120Hz, up to 600 nits of brightness, and... Read more ›
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The new iPhone 17 Pro is built differently from the 16 Pro – and we’re not talking about just the switch from titanium to aluminum. The team at iFixit took apart the Pro and detailed the procedure in the video embedded below. The new aluminum frame has a glass “window” on the back which lets through wireless charging and the magnetic force of the MagSafe magnets. However, it’s smaller than... Read more ›
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Xiaomi capped off its big launch event by bringing a pair of previously announced smart wearables to the global stage. The Xiaomi Watch S4 41mm which was unveiled earlier this year in China is now making its way to European markets. It is joined by the OpenWear Stereo Pro wireless earbuds which also made their debut back in June. Watch S4 41mm starts at €159/£129 for the Black and Mint... Read more ›
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The Samsung Galaxy A36 and Galaxy A56 are receiving the stable One UI 8 update in South Korea. This is an impressive turnaround, considering the One UI 8 beta program for both phones only began earlier this month. According to reports, the Galaxy A36 5G’s Android 16-based stable One UI 8 update has the firmware version A366NKSU2BYI9. The update comes with the September 2025 Android security patch as well. Currently,... Read more ›
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