MediaTek is unveiling its next flagship chipset, the Dimensity 9400, on October 9. Then, only a few days later, Qualcomm will take the wraps off its Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 (which may be called Snapdragon 8 Elite instead). For the next year, these will be the premier chipsets for Android devices, and a lot of smartphone makers have recently had to make the very tough choice of figuring out which to go with for their upcoming devices. That decision may or may not have been in part influenced by pricing. According to prolific Chinese leakster Digital Chat Station, the Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 is...
MediaTek is unveiling its next flagship chipset, the Dimensity 9400, on October 9. Then, only a few days later, Qualcomm will take the wraps off its Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 (which may be called Snapdragon 8 Elite instead). For the next year, these will be the premier chipsets for Android devices, and a lot of smartphone makers have recently had to make the very tough choice of figuring out which to go with for their upcoming devices. That decision may or may not have been in part influenced by pricing. According to prolific Chinese leakster Digital Chat Station, the Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 is...
OnePlus's president of the China branch teased the upcoming OnePlus 13 and shared a frontal photo, which isn't very revealing, but at least confirms the centered punch hole for the selfie camera. And the focus of the shot is the new Oriental BOE X2 display anyway. OnePlus' upcoming 13 flagship is to feature BOE's latest and greatest quad-curved panel and with uniform bezels all around. The teaser doesn't go into much detail, but promises even better performance than before. It means it can reach higher brightness at the very least. Maybe some efficiency improvements are in place...
The Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra abandoned the rounded corners of its predecessor in favor of 90° angles – and all the phones that followed had the same tendency to dig into your palm. This is likely coming to an end as all indications suggest that Samsung is going back to a more rounded design with the S25 Ultra. We saw renders of the alleged design earlier this month, but this saga has been going on for longer. Even back in August, Ice Universe has been showing off mock-ups and claiming that Samsung will round off the sharp corners. And now the cat has proof. S25 Ultra case...
It seems that Apple watched the launch of Meta’s new AR and VR glasses with interest and has started to reconsider its “spatial computing” strategy, reports Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman. And it wasn’t the cheap Quest 3S that caused doubt within the walls of the Cupertino HQ, not so much the Ray-Ban Meta glasses either, but the Orion prototype. VR cuts you off from the world and replaces it with a fully virtual world. Some goggles, like the Quest 3 and 3S, use cameras with color passthrough to create more of an AR experience – a mix of virtual and real things. Apple’s Vision Pro does this too,...
Samsung's Galaxy A16 5G keeps on leaking without having become official so far. We've seen it in a render before, but today it's time for an image bonanza, as a new leak has portrayed the device in all three of its color versions. The phone has been rumored to sport a 6.7-inch 1080x2340 LCD display with 90 Hz refresh rate and 800-nit peak brightness, 4/6/8GB of RAM, 128/256GB of storage, a 5,000 mAh battery, and an IP54 dust and splash resistance rating. Samsung Galaxy A16 5G leaked renders Perhaps one of its main selling points will seemingly be the insane software support...
The Galaxy Tab S10 series and S24 FE made their debuts last week and Galaxy AI suite was one of the dominating features in the marketing side. While all of the new AI features are currently free, Samsung once again hinted that that may not be the case for too long. One of the footnotes in the official press release for the new Tab S10 series and S24 FE explicitly mentions that “Fees may apply to certain AI features at the end of 2025.” Samsung previously confirmed that “Galaxy AI features will be provided for free until the end of 2025 on supported Samsung Galaxy devices”, so it is...
vivo and iQOO will be among the first brands to update their current phones to the new Android 15 with Funtouch OS 15. Both brands published timelines for the updates in India. Starting in mid-October, X-flagships will get the new OS: vivo X100, X100 Pro and X Fold3 Pro. They will be joined by the iQOO 12. Then in mid-November, the older X-phones, vivo X90 and X90 Pro, along with the iQOO 11 will also make the jump to the new OS. The final upgrades to roll out in 2024 will reach multiple V-series phones, plus the Y200 Pro and T3 Ultra, along with the iQOO Neo9 Pro. Funtouch OS 15...
At the beginning of the month, Infinix announced the 5G-enabled Hot 50. Now, the company is bringing a more affordable 4G variant that has the same design, but differs in a few key specs. The Infinix Hot 50 4G is powered by the Helio G100, which replaces the Dimensity 6300. This limits connectivity to a 4G modem, but performance should be quite similar as both chips are fabbed on a 6nm node and use the same CPU and GPU cores. The G100 is paired with 6GB or 8GB of RAM (LPDDR4X) and 128GB or 256GB storage (UFS, version unknown). The card slot can accept microSD cards up to 2TB. Modem...
At the beginning of the month, Infinix announced the 5G-enabled Hot 50. Now, the company is bringing a more affordable 4G variant that has the same design, but differs in a few key specs. The Infinix Hot 50 4G is powered by the Helio G100, which replaces the Dimensity 6300. This limits connectivity to a 4G modem, but performance should be quite similar as both chips are fabbed on a 6nm node and use the same CPU and GPU cores. The G100 is paired with 6GB or 8GB of RAM (LPDDR4X) and 128GB or 256GB storage (UFS, version unknown). The card slot can accept microSD cards up to 2TB. Modem...