The iQOO 13 will have a 6,150 mAh battery, with support for 120W fast wired charging. The charging remains the same compared to its predecessor, while the battery has grown by a whopping 1,150 mAh. These details have been officially confirmed by an iQOO exec over on Weibo today. He also reiterated the fact that the phone's screen was co-developed with BOE and has 144 Hz refresh rate. The phone will be powered by the Snapdragon 8 Elite SoC. It will run OriginOS 5 in China and will come with a "super powerful" vibration motor. According to a past rumor, the iQOO 13 will make its...

Google finally started rolling out Android 15 to still supported Pixel devices last week. As is often the case, the rollout hasn't been issue-free. Far from it, in fact. Today a bunch of Pixel 6 owners are reporting a very big problem. The biggest one you can have following an update, in fact. The Pixel 6 units in question are simply left unusable - bricked, in tech terms. This happens randomly and unexpectedly, it seems, but there may be an explanation - two users on Reddit report that their Pixel 6 devices died after enabling the Private Space feature. However, another user claims their...

HMD began teasing a tie-in phone for the upcoming Venom: The Last Dance movie and we now get to see the actual product. It won’t be a limited-edition phone but a prototype Smart Outfit case that adds an electromagnetic liquid ferrofluid on the back as a nod to the Venom symbiote from the Marvel franchise. Once attached to the HMD Fusion, the Venom Smart Outfit will apply a custom theme, wallpapers which you can download from HMD’s press release here, and Venom alert sounds. HMD also revealed that the Venom Smart Outfit won’t be going on open sale which is a bummer. The brand is...

This Wednesday, Honor will unveil MagicOS 9.0, but we get a sneak peek – and a confirmation that the Honor Magic7 series will be powered by the just-announced Snapdragon 8 Elite chipset from Qualcomm. The Magic7 and MagicOS 9.0 will bring the “first real-time NPU graphics rendering for mobile gaming” and the “industry’s first on-device AI agent for an open ecosystem”. Okay, but what does that mean? The official description is a little vague, but it will use generative AI to reduce the load on the GPU (and with that, reduce temperature and power usage). This also promises better image...

This Wednesday, Honor will unveil MagicOS 9.0, but we get a sneak peek – and a confirmation that the Honor Magic7 series will be powered by the just-announced Snapdragon 8 Elite chipset from Qualcomm. The Magic7 and MagicOS 9.0 will bring the “first real-time NPU graphics rendering for mobile gaming” and the “industry’s first on-device AI agent for an open ecosystem”. Okay, but what does that mean? The official description is a little vague, but it will use generative AI to reduce the load on the GPU (and with that, reduce temperature and power usage). This also promises better image...

The freshly announced Snapdragon 8 Elite chip is set to power the upcoming batch of Android flagships and Realme will be among the first brands to launch a phone with the new SoC with its Realme GT 7 Pro. The device is confirmed to launch in China this month, followed by a global launch in November. GT 7 Pro will become available in over 10 countries and regions simultaneously, including India, Italy, Spain, Malaysia, and Thailand. The GT6, launched earlier this year, proved to be a true "flagship killer." Now, despite pressures from the price-raising supply chain and...

Poco is soon going to do something it's never done before. And that is - to launch an Ultra phone. The Poco F7 series is coming soon, and we were expecting the Poco F7 and Poco F7 Pro. But now there's a twist. Thanks to the GSMA's IMEI database, the Poco F7 Ultra is confirmed. It will have the model number 24122RKC7G. This appears alongside the Poco F7 Pro. So that makes us wonder whether the F7 family will have three members or the vanilla model will be dropped to make way for just the Pro and Ultra. The POCO F7 Ultra and POCO F7 Pro have officially appeared in the GSMA IMEI database....

The Xiaomi 15 should be getting official in just a few days, following Qualcomm's unveiling of the Snapdragon 8 Elite chipset that will be powering it. Speaking of which, the Elite seems to suit the Xiaomi 15 very nicely, at least if we go by the Geekbench run performed by what is most likely a Xiaomi 15 prototype. This was spotted today in the Geekbench 6.3.0 online database, and as you can see from the screenshot below, it managed an impressive single-core score of 3,180 and a multi-core score of 10,058. The prototype in question has 16GB of RAM. It's unclear if this will be the...