Even though the Honor X9a was announced in January this year, it appears that Honor is ready to announce the successor named X9b. The handset appeared on Honor's Malaysian website branch, showing the device from the back. The design doesn't seem all that different from the X9a. It retains the circular camera module, although the ring seems thicker and it's protruding a bit more. The most obvious change, however, is... Read more ›
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Last week Samsung released One UI 6 beta for the Galaxy Z Fold5 and Z Flip5, now the older foldables are getting their first taste of Android 14 too – Galaxy Z Fold4 and Galaxy Z Flip4 units in South Korea are seeing the beta firmware. Surprisingly, the Galaxy F23 mid-ranger is joining them. One UI 6 brings a redesigned Quick Panel, plus AI features for the Gallery – Photo... Read more ›
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The Oppo Find N3 arriving on October 19 appeared in live images yesterday. It was the red-colored model, seemingly having a faux leather back, but thanks to Evan Blass, we today get to see the gold-colored version. Blass shared a few pictures of the golden Oppo Find N3, which appears to have a glass back. It sports a big circular camera island on the rear, sporting the Hasselblad logo. The... Read more ›
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The Samsung Galaxy A05s will launch in India next week on October 18. The phone has been on sale in Malaysia up until now. Samsung hasn't revealed the price just yet but we'd guess it would be around INR 12,999 (€150, converted). The Samsung Galaxy A05s is coming to India The Galaxy A05s has a 6.7-inch LCD with a 90Hz refresh rate and a 5,000mAh battery with 25W charging. It... Read more ›
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Huawei revealed last year that there will be no Kirin chipsets in 2023 and even got cocky, calling reports “false news”. Fast forward nine months, and we saw the company announce the Mate 60 series with a Kirin 9000S platform, and now we hear there are plans for yet another SoC – a Kirin 8 series. The new chip is likely to be called Kirin 830, and according to the... Read more ›
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Back in January of 2022, Microsoft announced its plans to acquire Activation Blizzard in a transaction valued at $68.7 billion – the largest deal in the gaming industry. The deal didn’t exactly go as planned with regulators from the US, the EU and the UK objecting to the takeover. Microsoft managed to win a court injunction in the US and later received approval from the EU regulators which left the... Read more ›
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A new set of rumors for next year’s iPhone 16 series is here courtesy of well-known tech analyst Jeff Pu, detailing some of the major improvements coming to the iPhone 16 Pro and Pro Max. Next year’s Pro iPhones will gain Wi-Fi 7 connectivity, up from the Wi-Fi 6e capable iPhone 15 Pro models. The 16 Pro and Pro Max will also receive Qualcomm Snapdragon X75 modem which should provide... Read more ›
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Yesterday we saw the Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra with a Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 and 8 GB of RAM on Geekbench. It posted an Exynos 2400-beating score. Today we encounter another Galaxy S24 Ultra with a Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 chip but this time paired to 12 GB of RAM. Funnily enough, this one scored lower, but we shouldn't put too much stock into these early software runs. The seemingly... Read more ›
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Qualcomm will cut 1,258 jobs in two offices in California, filings with the California Employment Development Department revealed. The chip company revealed 1,064 jobs will be eliminated in San Diego, where the HQ is, and 194 more in the Santa Clara offices. Qualcomm currently has over 51,000 employees, so it's letting go 2.5% of its workforce. The main reason for the job cuts is a decline in revenue after a... Read more ›
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The GSM Association posted its Mobile Internet Connectivity Report for 2023, revealing 55% of the world's population – about 4.3 billion people – now own smartphones. According to its data, mobile internet users are 4.6 billion, with 4 billion of them accessing the services via smartphones. GSMA's report revealed a disparity between regions and their accessibility to mobile internet. 69% of smartphone owners in North America, East Asia & Pacific... Read more ›
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Xiaomi is rumored to unveil the Xiaomi 14 and 14 Pro on October 27. The brand is yet to divulge anything about these phones, but thanks to OnLeaks, we know what the Xiaomi 14 Pro will look like. Like the Xiaomi 13 Pro, the 14 Pro will also pack a display with a centered punch-hole for the selfie camera, but it will be smaller than the 13 Pro's according to... Read more ›
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At the beginning of the week, we showed you a video that was all about drop and scratch testing Google's latest and greatest, the Pixel 8 Pro. And today we're back with a slightly different kind of 'durability testing', this time from JerryRigEverything. As usual with Zach's videos, there's a screen scratch test with no unexpected results. Then the metal frame is scratch tested, and is found to indeed be... Read more ›
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The upcoming OnePlus 12 will have a display with peak brightness that’s double that of the OnePlus 11 display – it will reach 2,600 nits, according to leakster Digital Chat Station. At low brightness levels the display will use high-frequency PWM dimming at 2,160Hz. The display will be slightly larger at 6.82” (up from 6.7”) while the aspect ratio will go down to 19.8:9 (from 20:9) as the panel will... Read more ›
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Samsung's upcoming Exynos 2400 chip has been tested on Geekbench 6, scoring 2,067 in single-core and 6,520 in multi-core. For context, the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2-powered Galaxy S23 Ultra scored 1,979 and 5,148, respectively on the same tests. That's an improvement of roughly 5% on single threaded performance and 22% on multi-threaded performance. The processor's prime core (likely a Cortex-X4) is rated at up to 3.21GHz - that's lower than... Read more ›
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The Oppo Find N3 will be larger than the Find N2 – according to rumors the cover display will measure 6.31” (1,116 x 2,484px) and the main display will be 7.82” (2,440 x 2,268px), compared to 5.54” (1,080 x 2,120px) and 7.1” (1,920 x 1,792px) on the Find N2. This is with different aspect ratios, though, so we’ve made diagrams below to illustrate the relative sizes. This means that the... Read more ›
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The Magic Vs2 isn’t the only new device from Honor, the brand also introduced its latest smartwatch with the Honor Watch 4 Pro. Watch 4 Pro features a 1.5-inch LTPO AMOLED display with Always-on Display (AOD) functionality, a stylish stainless steel frame and eSIM support with LTE connectity. Watch 4 Pro is 5ATM waterproof making its suitable for swimming in pools and also comes with GPS, NFC and Bluetooth 5.2... Read more ›
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Mediatek is expected to launch the Dimensity 9300 chipset soon, and previous reports by Digital Chat Station suggested four Cortex-X4 cores and four Cortex-A720 units with no low-power A520 cores whatsoever. Today, the leakster provided further information about the CPU clock speeds, claiming Dimensity 9300 will be 10% faster than the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3. Mediatek is expected to go for the 1+3+4 architecture - 1x3.25 GHz Cortex-X4, 3x2.85... Read more ›
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OnePlus is gearing up to launch its first foldable, dubbed the OnePlus Open, and it has officially set a date for the reveal – October 19. That’s Thursday next week, so the phone is almost here. In fact, you can sort of pre-order one. Here’s the early bird offer. You can put down a €99/£99 deposit now and get €250/£250 off the final price of the phone, plus a free... Read more ›
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Honor announced another foldable device in its Magic V lineup which comes as a successor to last year’s Magic Vs. The new Magic Vs2 brings an updated magnesium alloy frame with a newly-developed Luban titanium hinge which allowed the device to be remarkably thin at just 229 grams. That’s lighter than the Magic V2 (231 grams) and creeping up on the recent crop of flagship bar phones. Magic Vs2 is... Read more ›
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