The Honor Magic8 series is launching next month and Honor has now officially confirmed that its Magic8 series will feature the brand-new Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 chipset. Honor is also set to launch the first Android tablet with Qualcomm's new flagship chip with the Magic Pad 3 Pro 13.3. We also got a more detailed look at the Magic8 Pro in its green color. It features a flat back and frame with a large circular camera island. We already knew it would feature a dedicated AI button, and we can see it on the right-hand side alongside the power and volume buttons. Honor Magic8...
Hot on the heels of the vivo V60 Lite 5G announcement comes the 4G model. This one is a smaller upgrade, though. Let’s recap – the V60 Lite 5G brought a more powerful chipset than what was inside the V50 Lite 5G, added HDR support to the screen, 4K video recording to the camera and slimmed down the design a bit. Note that the V50 Lite 4G and 5G were announced in March, so they are only half a year old. Now focusing on the vivo V60 Lite 4G, we see that its 6.77” 1080p+ 120Hz OLED display has gained 10-bit colors, but it seems to lack HDR10+ support – at least we don’t see anything in the...
The Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 may be the best new chipset in the Android realm, but Qualcomm is also establishing itself on the PC side with its X Elite series chips. The Snapdragon X2 Elite and X2 Elite Extreme are the latest chipsets for Windows on Arm machines and they bring sizeable gains in performance and efficiency over the first-gen Snapdragon X Elite models. The new X2 series consists of three chips – the X2 Elite (X2E-80-100) with a 12-core CPU, the X2 Elite (X2E-88-100) with an 18-core CPU and the X2 Elite Extreme (X2E-96-100), which also sports 18 CPU cores. All three new...
Vivo will unveil the X300 series on October 13, so we’re still over two weeks out from getting the full picture. The company is already running an extensive promo campaign, though, and has shared many details about the upcoming flagships. The latest release is the official vivo X300 trailer. This trailer is about setting the right mood – the premium materials of the X300, the design, the camera-centric experience – rather than focusing on specs and details. Here's a peek at some of the Zeiss-inspired shooting modes in the camera: If you want to take a good look at the design, check...
Realme has confirmed in a press release that its upcoming GT 8 Pro flagship phone will be one of the first to be equipped with the newly launched Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 SoC. The Chinese manufacturer also noted that the phone will launch in global markets soon, but did not reveal an exact date. The Realme GT 8 series will be unveiled next month in China. Realme claims the GT 8 Pro, powered by the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 SoC, has surpassed the 4 million mark on the AnTuTu benchmark. The device is also said to be able to run two games simultaneously at high frame rates. The...
As promised, Qualcomm has announced the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 SoC as its flagship chip at the ongoing Snapdragon Summit in Hawaii. It's a successor to last year's Snapdragon 8 Elite and is touted as the "world's fastest mobile system-on-a-chip" by Qualcomm. The Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 (SM8850-AC) is built on a 3nm process and comes with the third-gen Oryon CPU, which boosts CPU performance by 20% compared to its predecessor. CPU power efficiency has also been improved by 35%. The Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 features an octa-core CPU in a 2+6 configuration, meaning two prime cores with...
Earlier this year, vivo unveiled the vivo V50 Lite 5G. It came just days after the V50 Lite 4G. Now the company is introducing the next generation and it starts with the 5G model this time. Meet the vivo V60 Lite 5G. One of the key upgrades is the new old Dimensity 7360-Turbo chipset. This chip was just announced by MediaTek, but it is essentially the same as the Dimensity 7300 – we compared the official spec sheet and didn’t see any changes. It’s a 4nm chip with 4x Cortex-A78 (2.5GHz) and 4x A55 CPU cores, plus a Mali-G615 MC2 GPU and a 655 NPU. And note that this is the Turbo variant...
We're giving you the freshly announced Xiaomi 15T, the second half of this year's T series. You may call this one the vanilla or the non-Pro, but it isn't a big downgrade to the Xiaomi 15T Pro. In fact, you will have a hard time telling them apart by just looking at them. They're essentially the same size, with the same screen diagonal, and they have the same design. Our 15T unit comes in Black, but you can also get one in Rose Gold, which is similar to the Mocha Brown of the 15T Pro. The 15T downgrades the 6.83-inch 2772x1280px AMOLED to 120Hz, but the panel has the same 480Hz...
Honor X9d is now official and it’s centered around a massive 8,300mAh silicon carbon (Si-C) battery and its IP69K rating, which can withstand high-temperature pressurized water jets. The X9d is actually a rebrand of the China-exclusive Honor X70, which launched earlier this year with the only change being slightly slower 66W wired charging speeds. Honor X9d brings an 8,300 mAh Si-C battery and IP69K ingress protection X9d features a 6.79-inch AMOLED (FHD+ 120Hz), which is rated at up to 6,000 nits peak brightness. It’s equipped with Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 6 Gen 4 chipset and...
Honor X9d is now official and it’s centered around a massive 8,300mAh silicon carbon (Si-C) battery and its IP69K rating, which can withstand high-temperature pressurized water jets. The X9d is actually a rebrand of the China-exclusive Honor X70, which launched earlier this year with the only change being slightly slower 66W wired charging speeds. Honor X9d brings an 8,300 mAh Si-C battery and IP69K ingress protection X9d features a 6.79-inch AMOLED (FHD+ 120Hz), which is rated at up to 6,000 nits peak brightness. It’s equipped with Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 6 Gen 4 chipset and...