The MediaTek Dimensity 9300 launched in November of last year and it was an odd design – it packed four Cortex-X4 prime cores, instead of the usual one. And it skipped the little cores altogether, using four Cortex-A720 to bring the core count to eight. MediaTek CEO Cai Lixing attended the opening of a new office building and spoke highly of the success of the 9300, adding that AI will become increasingly more important for smartphones. The CEO also teased the next flagship chip, tentatively dubbed “Dimensity 9400”, which is expected in the fourth quarter of this year. This will be the...
The China-exclusive Xiaomi 14 series could begin its international rollout soon as Xiaomi's Indian branch has posted an image on X teasing the Xiaomi 14 lineup's global launch. The Xiaomi 14 series includes the Xiaomi 14 and Xiaomi 14 Pro, and while Xiaomi hasn't explicitly mentioned these phones in its X post, it's safe to say that it's talking about the 14 lineup since it mentions Xiaomi's partnership with Leica and both phones feature Leica lenses. #Xiaomi has been at the forefront of Smartphone innovation, while #Leica has built a legacy of excellence in iconic cameras.Get ready to...
Qualcomm shared its Q1 2024 earnings report which revealed $9.92 billion in revenues and $2.77 billion in net income, both of which surpassed earlier estimates. During the earnings call, Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon revealed another interesting fact - Apple and Qualcomm have extended their 5G modem licensing deal through March 2027. In our QTL business, we're pleased to share that we recently extended several key license agreements. First, Apple exercised its unilateral option to extend its global patent license agreement for an additional 2 years, taking the existing agreement through to...
Counterpoint Research revealed Samsung shipped the most devices in India for the calendar 2023. The Korean company is back at the top spot after six years of Xiaomi dominance, but the owner of the independent Redmi and Poco brands showed some resilience and kept the top spot for the Q4 period with an 18.3% market share. The total shipments remained flat for 2023, with about 152 million shipped units. The first half was challenging for the whole industry, but in H2, the market managed to recover, supported by 5G upgrades and better-than-expected festive sales. Counterpoint also revealed...
The Lava Yuva 3 Pro launched in India last December will soon be joined by the vanilla model. This revelation comes from Amazon.in, which set up a promo page for the Lava Yuva 3 on its website. The teaser on Amazon.in says the Lava Yuva 3 is "coming soon" and doesn't mention the launch date. However, it does confirm that the smartphone will have 64GB and 128GB storage variants, with the option to expand the storage by up to 512GB. Neither Amazon.in nor Lava has divulged anything else about the Yuva 3, but you can expect to hear more about the smartphone as we inch closer to its...
OnePlus was very quick to issue the stable Android 14 update to the OnePlus 11, but then took its sweet time getting the same update to its first foldable smartphone, the OnePlus Open. Today the wait is finally over, the OxygenOS 14 update based on Android 14 is on its way to the Open. If you're in India, that is. For some reason, OnePlus decided to contain the rollout to India only for now. Hopefully it will become a global release soon enough. There's one more caveat. The stable update is going out first to those who participated in OnePlus' Closed Beta and Open Beta programs....
Samsung's much-touted Circle to Search feature, which was part of the huge batch of AI-related stuff it introduced for the Galaxy S24 family, quickly turned out not to be in any way exclusive to the Korean company. The day after the S24 announcement, Google casually unveiled the same feature for its Pixel 8 and Pixel 8 Pro. Google's Circle to Search was then said to start rolling out on January 31, and indeed it has. According to multiple reports on Reddit, it's now available on both the Pixel 8 and Pixel 8 Pro. This isn't coming through a firmware update, by the way, it seems to be a...
The Apple Vision Pro reviews are in, and so we finally know its battery's specs. Back when pre-orders started, Apple only revealed that the battery was good for two hours of "general use", and 2.5 hours of video watching. It turns out those estimates were pretty accurate, perhaps even underpromising a tad. And yet, you may have been left wondering, all this time, what the actual capacity of the battery is. Now the mystery is solved: it's 3,166 mAh. That doesn't sound like much, considering its size and 353g weight, but there's a twist. Vision Pro Battery specs:3166 MAh35.9 WhOutput 13V...
Following the release of stable Android 14 for the Phone (2), Nothing started beta testing the update for the Phone (1) last month. And now the testing is over. Today the Nothing Phone (1) gets its Android 14 update, as part of the Nothing OS 2.5 release. This comes with a lot of new features, as you might expect. Here's the full changelog, straight from Nothing: Redesigned a joint Home Screen and Lock Screen customization page and improved the edit wallpaper flow for a more comprehensive view of options. New Atmosphere wallpaper effect. Transform your background photo...