The flagship chipsets for 2025 have arrived - the Snapdragon 8 Elite by Qualcomm and the Dimensity 9400 from MediaTek. Even though most phones running on these chips will see daylight in 2025, we have two phones employing the most powerful SoCs - the Realme GT7 Pro with the Snapdragon 8 Elite and the vivo X200 Pro with the Dimensity 9400. Historically, Qualcomm's chips have outperformed MediaTek's, but lately the... Read more ›
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Apple announced a fresh new lineup of Mac computers this week and we now have an early Geebench listing for what is reportedly one of the new MacBook Pro models with equipped with the M4 Pro chip. Apple M4 Pro chip Geekbench scorecard Geekbench shows the 3nm M4 Pro scored an impressive 3,925 single-core and 22,669 multi-core scores. To put that into perspective, Apple’s M3 Max inside the 2023 MacBook... Read more ›
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Apple posted its financial report for the past three months, the last quarter of its fiscal year. Revenue increased 6% in July-September as iPhone sales picked up, totaling $94.9 billion. Apple saw an increase in sales in all categories (iPhone, Mac, iPad, Services) minus the wearables, where it declined just 3%. Tim Cook, CEO, said on a conference call that iPhone sales set a September revenue record, marking a growth... Read more ›
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Indonesia banned the sales of Google Pixel phones just days after it did the same with iPhone 16 devices. The reason remains the same – the company failed to provide 40% content, so its units will be blocked from getting a certification to operate in the Asian country. Local media outlet Kontan reported that 22,000 Pixels were already in the country through personal shipments or carry-on items, quoting a Ministry... Read more ›
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Realme is launching the GT7 Pro flagship on November 4 and we know rhe phone will have three cameras on a square island. Today, we learned more about at least two of the shooters, thanks to photos posted on Weibo. The brand shared several images taken by Chinese film and television director Jia Zhangke. From the EXIF data of the watermarks, we can see the main camera will have a... Read more ›
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Google today announced a handful of new features for Maps that leverage Gemini AI. Users can now ask Maps to provide ideas for places to visit and things to do. Using Gemini, Maps will be able to plan an activity for you or a group of people around an area. Gemini can also provide you a summary of user reviews and you can also ask it if a place has... Read more ›
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Today Ulefone has unveiled the Armor Mini 20T Pro, the Armor Mini 20 Pro, and the Armor Mini 20 4G. These are its smallest rugged smartphones to date, hence the "Mini" in the family name. The 4G model is powered by MediaTek's Helio G99 SoC, while the other two go with the Dimensity 6300 instead. The Armor Mini 20T Pro has advanced FLIR Thermal Imaging Lepton 3.5, with a 57-degree... Read more ›
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Asus is announcing the ROG Phone 9 series on November 19, and the duo will unsurprisingly sport the Snapdragon 8 Elite chipset. This, according to a new rumor, will be paired with the best heat dissipation tech available at the moment. Not just that, but the ROG Phone 9 Pro's LTPO OLED screen will have a record-breaking (for a smartphone) 185 Hz refresh rate. It will be a flat screen,... Read more ›
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At the beginning of this month a rumor claimed Google would launch Android 16 earlier than its predecessors. Today, Google itself has confirmed this. Android 16, the finalized version, will be out in the second quarter of next year, so between April and June. The company says it's doing this "to better align with the schedule of device launches" across the Android ecosystem. This year, the Pixel 9 family arrived... Read more ›
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The iPhone 17 coming in fall 2025 will use an Apple-designed Wi-Fi 7 chip, according to renowned Apple supply chain analyst Ming-Chi Kuo. The chip will replace the Broadcom chip that Apple currently uses for Wi-Fi and Bluetooth. Apple's Wi-Fi 7 chip will be built using TSMC's 7nm process. Apple apparently wants to move "nearly all" of its products to its own Wi-Fi chip within about three years, in order... Read more ›
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Today WhatsApp has released a new feature - custom lists. These are the evolution of chat filters, introduced earlier this year as a way to find messages faster. With custom lists, you can filter your chats into custom categories of your choice - you can have a list for anything: family, work, your neighborhood, and so on. Creating a new list is as easy as tapping the + in the... Read more ›
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The much-anticipated search function of ChatGPT is now live. It's called ChatGPT Search, and searches the web for you. The twist is that it's integrated into ChatGPT, and ChatGPT may choose to search for you for some things you ask it. You can also manually click/tap the Search option after you input anything into the text box. OpenAI says it "blends the benefits of a natural language interface with the... Read more ›
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Ten years ago, Samsung launched the Galaxy Alpha, a slender 6.7mm phone that would go on to inspire the Galaxy S6 design the next year. Korean publication ETNews is quoting industry insiders who claim that the company is about to try something like that again. Design sketches for the Galaxy S6 The insiders say that Samsung will launch a Slim version of one of the Galaxy S25 phones. Note that... Read more ›
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The Snapdragon 8 Elite represents a new hope in the mobile field – it’s the first chipset in a long while that has custom CPU cores (and isn’t coming out of Apple). The GPU is all custom too and a new generation to boot. And Qualcomm found a way to boost the clock speed higher than any other smartphone chipset by quite some margin. It all looks great on paper,... Read more ›
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OnePlus 13 just debuted with a new 6.82" display by BOE. The panel has an under-display fingerprint scanner underneath, and we learned it is a new ultrasonic solution made by Goodix. According to a company executive, the sensor is both faster and safer, thanks to innovative architecture and wafer-level acoustic layer processing. OnePlus 13 display and fingerprint scanner works even in wet conditions The ultrasonic fingerprint scanner by Goodix allows... Read more ›
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It was 10 years ago during IFA that Samsung unveiled the Gear VR, a VR headset that used a Galaxy phone as its display and brain. A sequel followed and the company found great success – analysts reported that Samsung was the dominant VR headset maker in 2016. Of the 6.3 million headsets sold that year, 4.5 million were Gear VRs. The company also worked with Microsoft and built a... Read more ›
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Samsung posted its financial results for July-September 2024, with both sales and operating profit improving on a yearly basis. The biggest contributor was the DS division, which comprises of the memory, system LSI, and foundry businesses. It saw a 78% increase in sales and a 200% jump in total profit of KRW 3.86 trillion. The MX business, which sells Galaxy phones, tablets and accessories, posted a modest 2% increase in... Read more ›
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Samsung posted its financial results for July-September 2024, with both sales and operating profit improving on a yearly basis. The biggest contributor was the DS division, which comprises of the memory, system LSI, and foundry businesses. It saw a 78% increase in sales and a 200% jump in total profit of KRW 3.86 trillion. The MX business, which sells Galaxy phones, tablets and accessories, posted a modest 3% increase in... Read more ›
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OnePlus has always prioritized having the latest and greatest chipsets in its flagship phones and it wasted no time announcing the OnePlus 13 with the new Snapdragon 8 Elite. The best OnePlus phone yet also has a flagship BOE display, an IP69 ingress protection rating, and a larger 6,000 mAh silicon carbon battery. While the OnePlus 13 is launched in China first, it will be released in global markets in... Read more ›
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As iterated several times by noted Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, the baseline iPhone 16 is not attracting much consumer attention. The latest report from Consumer Intelligence Research Partners (CIRP) gives more proof with a detailed breakdown of the iPhone model distribution for the quarter ending in September, which coincides with the 16 series’ first two weeks of sales in the U.S. As per the figures, the baseline iPhone 16 only... Read more ›
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