In time for the International Day of Persons with Disabilities (IDPD), Samsung wants to remind us that its Galaxy Watches are suitable for everyone, thanks to the so-called Universal Gestures. The feature enhances accessibility and allows you to navigate without having to touch the display or the rotating bezel (or the virtual bezel) at all. You can enable the Universal Gestures feature in the Settings menu under the Accessibility sub-menu. The two main gestures are "make a fist" and "pinch". The former selects an item while making a fist twice, opens up the Action menu,...
The iQOO Neo8 and Neo8 Pro both landed back in May, and now it seems like the vivo sub-brand is getting ready to unveil their successors, the Neo9 and Neo9 Pro. According to a new rumor from usually reliable Digital Chat Station over on Weibo, the Neo9 will have a 6.78-inch "1.5K" resolution screen with narrow bezels, and will be powered by the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 SoC. For comparison, note that the Neo8 had the Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1 at the helm, so this is a clear upgrade. The main camera of the Neo9 is alleged to feature the Sony IMX920 sensor, which just made its debut in the vivo...
Say hello to the nubia Z50S Pro - a phone with a pretty and functional design, potent hardware, and a unique camera system. The phone ships with an 80W charger, USB-C cable, and a plastic case with silver lining around the camera island. You can tell the nubia Z50S Pro means photographic business when you see that camera island up close. It has a similar aesthetic to the Xiaomi 13S Ultra or Oppo Find X6 Pro, and while there are no 1-inch type sensors here, the main camera is still one of a kind. The 50MP f/1.6 wide camera has a 35mm focal length - widely regarded as one of the...
Xiaomi’s Redmi line is ready to launch its K70 series on Wednesday, November 29 with no less than three smartphones. We're expecting a vanilla Redmi K70 alongside a K70 Pro and a more budget-oriented K70E. We now have a set of live hands-on images detailing both the K70 and K70 Pro complete with more specs clarifications. Redmi K70 Pro (black) and K70 (white) Both phones will feature 6.67-inch AMOLED panels with punch-hole cutouts and glass backs with a frosted pattern. The rear also features an updated camera design with a large glass camera island and three lenses each housed...
Samsung has been launching Pokemon-themed accessories for its galaxy of devices for several years now, but the products remained exclusive for Korea most of the time. This has finally changed, as Samsung brought the themed cases for its Galaxy Buds to Europe. Users in Spain will be the first to get the new cases, which are designed after three popular poke balls - Ultraball, Greatball, and Masterball. These cases are compatible with the Galaxy Buds Live, Buds Pro, Buds2, Buds2 Pro, and Buds FE. We should mention that the ball is not replacing the original cases; it is just an...
Google has quietly added support for Android's new Ultra HDR Image Format in Google Messages when sending messages over RCS. Images in this format when sent over RCS will maintain their meta data and will display correctly on the receiving device. This was first noticed by TheSpAndroid through the inclusion of the flag bugle.support_ultra_hdr inside the application APK. The authors of the blog post confirmed through crowdsourced testing that the feature indeed works on Google Pixel 8 devices when sending images over RCS. The Ultra HDR Image Format is a recent inclusion in...
We already know that the OnePlus 12 is set to launch in China on December 5 and we now have good reasoning to believe the phone will launch globally on January 24. OnePlus kicked off its global marketing campaign for the OP 12 with a teaser page showing out the upcoming flagship’s design in a short video. The support pages for Europe, the US and India reveal the marketing campaign will last between November 27 (today) and January 23 which the OnePlus India page states is “the day before the OnePlus 12 launch”. OnePlus 12 giveaway page terms and conditions OnePlus will...
Tecno quietly announced Spark 20C - its latest entry-level offering. The company still managed to spice it up with a couple interesting features, including a big battery and a 50 MP main camera. The Spark 20C has a 6.6” LCD with 720p resolution and even supports 90 Hz refresh rate. The whole handset is 8.75 mm thin, with flat sides. Tecno did not reveal the exact chipset but said there is an octa-core CPU with Cortex-A53 units at 2.2 GHz, which sounds like a Mediatek Helio G36 platform used for LTE-only phones. The phone comes with 128 GB storage, which can be expanded through a...
As the new vivo X100 Pro gets into the hands of keen testers, we can finally get an idea of the thermal performance of the MediaTek Dimensity 9300 chipset with its four-Cortex X4 CPU cores and no efficiency units. As expected, cooling a chipset with four high-performance cores is a tough task. In a popular CPU throttling test, the eight-core processor throttled down to 46% of its performance in just 2 minutes time. Four of the cores lowered to 1.2GHz, three to 1.5GHz, and one to just 0.6GHz - that's compared to a potential 3.25GHz Cortex-X4 core, three 2.85GHz Cortex-X4 cores, and four...