Google confirms: Android 16 is launching early and there will be a second release in 2025

At the beginning of this month a rumor claimed Google would launch Android 16 earlier than its predecessors. Today, Google itself has confirmed this. Android 16, the finalized version, will be out in the second quarter of next year, so between April and June. The company says it's doing this "to better align with the schedule of device launches" across the Android ecosystem. This year, the Pixel 9 family arrived in August with Android 14 on board, even though Google was already working on Android 15 - which eventually came out a couple of weeks ago. If Google manages to release...

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iPhone 17 to use Apple's own Wi-Fi 7 chip

The iPhone 17 coming in fall 2025 will use an Apple-designed Wi-Fi 7 chip, according to renowned Apple supply chain analyst Ming-Chi Kuo. The chip will replace the Broadcom chip that Apple currently uses for Wi-Fi and Bluetooth. Apple's Wi-Fi 7 chip will be built using TSMC's 7nm process. Apple apparently wants to move "nearly all" of its products to its own Wi-Fi chip within about three years, in order to cut supply costs and rake in more profits. Apple is also working on its own 5G chip, which will be separate from the Wi-Fi one and built using a different TSMC process technology....

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WhatsApp introduces custom lists for your chats

Today WhatsApp has released a new feature - custom lists. These are the evolution of chat filters, introduced earlier this year as a way to find messages faster. With custom lists, you can filter your chats into custom categories of your choice - you can have a list for anything: family, work, your neighborhood, and so on. Creating a new list is as easy as tapping the + in the filter bar at the top of your Chats tab in WhatsApp. To edit a list, long-press it. In a similar way to your favorites, you can add both groups and one-on-one chats to any list. All the lists you create...

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ChatGPT Search is here to take on Google

The much-anticipated search function of ChatGPT is now live. It's called ChatGPT Search, and searches the web for you. The twist is that it's integrated into ChatGPT, and ChatGPT may choose to search for you for some things you ask it. You can also manually click/tap the Search option after you input anything into the text box. OpenAI says it "blends the benefits of a natural language interface with the value of up-to-date sports scores, news, stock quotes, and more". The company has partnered with "news and data providers to add up-to-date information and new visual designs for...

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Google Pixel 11a and Pixel Tablet 3 to have inferior chips compared to the flagship Pixels

According to a new rumor, Google will only launch a new Pixel tablet every two years. The Pixel Tablet 2 is thus coming in 2025, and the Pixel Tablet 3 in 2027. Also in 2027, the company will launch the affordable Pixel 11a. These two devices will theoretically use the same Tensor chip as the flagship Pixel line, but in practice things won't quite be identical. Google is allegedly going to fuse off defective parts of the TPU to save chips that normally would have to be discarded. These chips will then be used in the Pixel 11a and Pixel Tablet 3. Google Pixel 8a Thus, they could...

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Google Pixel 9a full specs and price tag revealed in new leak

Google might launch the Pixel 9a in March 2025, but a full specs sheet of the smartphone already appeared online. Multiple sources told Android Headlines that the new phone will have a big 6.3" display, which is the same screen from the Pixel 9 and Pixel 9 Pro flagships. Google is expected to equip the Pixel 9a with its latest Tensor G4 chipset, coupling it with 8 GB RAM and 128 GB or 256 GB storage. The leak also confirmed once again the 5,000 mAh battery, which will support up to 18W wired and 7.5W wireless charging. The new phone is expected to have the 48 MP Sony IMX787 sensor...

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Realme GT7 Pro in for review

Realme is expected to launch the GT7 Pro with a Snapdragon 8 Elite chipset, and the device landed with us ahead of its official announcement next week. We just received the phone and can't wait to start testing it, so here are our quick impressions of the new phone. We received the orange color option of the GT7 Pro, which looks pretty impressively. The camera island houses three shooters and is pretty massive. Design-wise, Realme is clearly steering away from the two-circle solution on a vertical design element we've seen so much in the GT 6 devices and goes back to the GT3 with...

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Apple unveils M4 Pro and M4 Max with up to 16 CPU cores and 40 GPU cores

Today Apple has officially announced the new MacBook Pro, and it's powered by a choice of M4, M4 Pro, and M4 Max chips. The M4 Pro and M4 Max are new, and have also been unveiled today "to form the most advanced family of chips ever built for a personal computer", Apple proudly boasts. The M4 Pro has an up to 14-core CPU with 10 performance cores and four efficiency cores. Apple says it's 1.9x faster than the CPU of the M1 Pro, and 2.1x faster than Intel's Core Ultra 7 258V. The GPU has up to 20 cores which enable graphics performance twice as good as that of the M4, and up to 2.4x...

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Xiaomi Smart Band 9 Pro and Watch S4 are also official

The Xiaomi Smart Band 9 went official a few months back, and today it's received a sibling: the Smart Band 9 Pro. Like previous Pro versions in Xiaomi's best-selling line of wearables, this one has a larger, squarer screen compared to the non-Pro Smart Bands. The Smart Band 9 Pro's display is 1.74" in diameter, AMOLED of course, with 336x480 resolution and 1,200-nit peak brightness. The entire wearable measures 43.27 x 32.49 x 10.8 mm and weighs 24.5g thanks to its aluminum alloy body. It's 5ATM water resistant, and has a 350 mAh battery that's rated for up to 21 days of use. It has...

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Apple exported $6b worth of India-made iPhones in the last six months

Apple's iPhone exports from India have reportedly jumped by a third in the six months through September. The iPhone maker has reportedly exported $6 billion worth of its smartphones - estimated factory gate value, not even market value. The numbers come from people in the know that have revealed them to Bloomberg. This puts annual exports on track to reach the $10 billion in the fiscal 2024. In a move to reduce its dependence on China amidst escalating tensions, Apple has rapidly expanded its manufacturing infrastructure in India since it began manufacturing iPhones in the country...

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Mac mini gets revamped design, M4 chips

The "week of Mac" announcements kicked off yesterday with the M4 iMac and we're now welcoming the new M4 Mac mini. It comes as a direct successor to last year's M2 Mac mini and is configurable with the brand-new Apple M4 Pro chip with up to 64GB unified memory. The new Mac mini has a revamped "ultracompact design" that follows in the footsteps of the Mac Studio but with a much smaller footprint at just 12.7cm (5 inches) per side. It is a bit taller than the outgoing M2 Mac mini at 5cm, but it weighs just 670 grams for the M4 model and 730 grams for the M4 Pro version. I/O...

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iOS 18.1 released with Apple Intelligence

Apple is now rolling out iOS 18.1, which, along with iPadOS 18.1 and macOS Sequoia 15.1, brings with it Apple Intelligence, Apple's suite of AI features. Apple Intelligence brings with it a raft of new features, which include Writing Tools that are available nearly everywhere you can type, and let you rewrite, proofread, and summarize text, new Siri changes, where Siri is smarter and better looking than before while also being able to leverage ChatGPT for certain queries, Photos improvements with the ability to remove distractions with the new Clean Up feature and searching by...

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Google Pixel 11 to borrow a forgotten feature from the Pixel 4

Google's Pixel 11, coming in 2026, is now rumored to resurrect a feature last seen on the Pixel 4 from 2019. Google is apparently considering adding an under-display infrared camera to the Pixel 11 generation, thus enabling secure face unlocking. The last time a Pixel had something like that was in 2019 with the Pixel 4. Google then gave up on the feature, only to now be thinking about reintroducing it in a new vein (this is something the company does do a lot). While the Pixel 4 had to have a massive top bezel for its screen to accommodate the tech, the Pixel 11 will place the IR camera...

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Nokia 110 4G (2024) is a basic feature phone with familiar looks

HMD may be done with Nokia-branded smartphones but it is still going strong on the feature phone front. Its latest release is the Nokia 110 4G (2024) which looks just like the HMD 110 4G that launched earlier this year with Nokia-branded model bringing some slight tweaks to the spec sheet. Nokia 110 4G (2024) in Titanium and Blue Nokia 110 4G (2024) gets a smaller 2-inch TFT LCD, down from the 2.4” panel on the HMD-branded version. You still get 4G connectivity though we don’t get the exact chipset that’s inside the phone. It features 128 MB RAM and 64MB internal storage,...

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One UI 7 design changes showcased in early video

One UI 7 is expected to arrive in January 2025, alongside the Galaxy S25 series. We have seen leaked images of the interface, which will be based on Android 15, but now the YouTube channel Mobile Wala Bhai has revealed more about the UI in its latest video. The software is installed on a Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra and reveals some design improvements, including a split Quick Panel - one page for notifications and the other for quick settings. The video is not in English, but with the power of YouTube Auto Translate, anyone can understand the key points. The lock screen will allow you...

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Indonesia bans sale and use of iPhone 16 series

The Indonesian government has effectively banned the sale and use of iPhone 16 series and Apple Watch 10 series devices in the country. The ban is a direct result of Apple's unmet investment commitments in the country, as Cupertino had previously pledged to invest upwards of IDR 1.71 trillion ($109 million) in local R&D facilities. If there is an iPhone 16 that can operate in Indonesia, that means that I can say the device is illegal. Do report it to us." - Agus Gumiwang Kartasasmita, Indonesia Industry Minister As per the latest figures, Apple has invested IDR 1.48 trillion ($95...

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Realme GT7 Pro full specs appear on TENAA

Realme GT7 Pro with Snapdragon 8 Elite will arrive on November 4, and we already know some key features of the new flagship. Today, we have the full specs sheet of the phone, including display size, battery capacity and memory options, after it was listed by TENAA. Realme is bringing a 6.78" screen with a 2,780 x 1,264 px resolution - per a previous report it will be the new Samsung Eco2 OLED Plus display. A 16 MP front-facing camera is sitting inside a punch hole and an ultrasonic fingerprint scanner is placed under the panel. The back will have a 50 MP main camera, 50 MP telephoto...

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Top 10 trending phones of week 43

The top two in our trending chart in week 42 are unchanged - the Galaxy A55 leading from the Galaxy S24 Ultra. However, in third we spot newly announced Oppo Find X8 Pro flagship. [#InlinePriceWidget, 13262, 1#] Behind it we see the Galaxy S24 FE and the iPhone 16 Pro Max, which climbed back to fifth. Redmi Note 13 Pro came in sixth, followed by the Galaxy A15 and the Redmi Note 13. Another new face, the Galaxy A16 5G claimed the ninth position, while the Galaxy A35 got the final spot, making it six Samsung phones in the top...

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iQOO Z9s Pro hands-on review

iQOO expanded the Z9 series by introducing two 's' models, called iQOO Z9s and iQOO Z9s Pro. Both smartphones are designed for young multi-taskers, primarily college students and young professionals. We already shared some pictures clicked with the Z9s Pro from our media tour in Baku, Azerbaijan, but we also used the smartphone for about a month to see how it performs in other departments, and here's what we found. Design The iQOO Z9s Pro is built around a 6.77" curved AMOLED display with a 120 Hz screen refresh rate and 4,500 nits peak brightness. It also has a centered punch-hole for...

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The Blackmagic Camera app for iPhones now supports Camera Control, adds new features

Blackmagic Design has updated its popular Camera app for iOS, with version 2.1 bringing notable new features primarily aimed at iPhone 16 users. Key among these is the addition of Camera Control support, allowing users to adjust settings like zoom, exposure, focus, and ISO by simply swiping the Camera Control button. The update follows version 2.0, which introduced native iPad support back in August. The app now also supports direct access from the Control Center, Lock Screen, or iPhone’s Camera Control, streamlining how users can launch and access its functions. Blackmagic has also...

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Deals: the new iPad mini is now available, the old one is still around and other Apple deals

The new iPad mini became available globally earlier this week, so let’s check out the prices and some alternatives. The Apple iPad mini (2024) now has 128GB storage in its base configuration and 8GB of RAM. The latter is paired with a downgraded A17 Pro chipset to support Apple Intelligence. These AI features will arrive soon as part of the iPadOS 18.1 update (and will initially be limited to the US). There are some other upgrades over the old mini, like faster Wi-Fi 6E and USB-C connectivity (10Gbps, up from 5Gbps). But you’re still getting an 8.3” 60Hz IPS LCD, even though this chip ran...

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Samsung is preparing two Galaxy Z Fold7 phones next year, report suggests

According to a report coming out of GalaxyClub, Samsung is preparing not one but two versions of its Galaxy Z Fold7 phone. The source close to the news publication shared three codenames for next year's foldables - B7, which is the Z Flip7, Q7, which is the Z Fold7 and an unknown Q7M foldable. Given that it begins with "Q7", it's easy to assume that this is a Z Fold device, but the "M" designation is unclear for now. The recently released Galaxy Z Fold6 Special Edition in South Korea carries a codename Q6A, so if the Q7M was a Special Edition handset, it should have been Q7A. Or at...

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Samsung Galaxy A56 to bring an important camera upgrade

Samsung launched the Galaxy A55 back in March, and so it's clearly already hard at work on its successor, which we assume will arrive sometime during the first quarter of next year. Today, the Galaxy A56's camera details have been leaked and, as the saying goes, we have some good news and some bad news. Let's start with the good. The Galaxy A56 will get an upgraded selfie camera, most likely a 12 MP sensor, that will replace the 32 MP snapper that's been in use in the A5x line since the Galaxy A51 launched back in 2019. It's unclear whether the new camera will be identical to the...

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Apple loses ground in China while Huawei soars during Q3

Apple's market share declined in the Chinese market, revealed a couple of reports on the local smartphone shipments. IDC and Canalys both confirmed that vivo was the best-selling company in Q3 2024, with Huawei and Xiaomi also seeing a huge increase in shipments, while their American competitor failed to match its results from twelve months ago. Smartphone shipments in China during Q3 2024 according to IDC & Canalys While different analysts take different approaches to gathering their data, the overall picture clearly shows that the market in China is getting tighter. The...

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Xiaomi 15 series ace gaming tests ahead of launch

We’re mere days away from the introduction of the Xiaomi 15 series which will be the first phones to launch with the brand-new Snapdragon 8 Elite chipset. If you were wondering how the new chip performs on the gaming front, Digital Chat Station shared some early stress tests showcasing the might of the upcoming Xiaomi 15 and 15 Pro. Xiaomi 15 ran Genshin Impact at maximum settings with an average of 59.9 FPS. Impressively, the chip’s power consumption topped out at just over 4W, and it reached a maximum temperature of just 39°C. We can see the Snapdragon 8 Elite stacked up nicely with...

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Samsung Galaxy S25 family to cut costs in display technology

Samsung is now rumored to be saving some money on the displays for its upcoming Galaxy S25 series, expected to arrive in January with three members: the S25, S25+, and S25 Ultra. In order to save said money, the company will reportedly go with M13 organic materials for their displays. Google's Pixel 9 Pro and the Apple iPhone 16 Pro already use panels with M14 materials, and they're also made by Samsung Display. But Samsung Electronics will allegedly go with the older and cheaper option, to make some extra cash - be assured that the savings won't be passed down to the buyers. Samsung...

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vivo X200 Pro mini is now on sale

vivo unveiled the X200 series last week. It includes the X200, X200 Pro, and X200 Pro mini. The vivo X200 and X200 Pro went on sale in China last week, and now, the X200 Pro mini is also available in vivo's home country through the brand's official Chinese website. The vivo X200 Pro mini comes in four colors with three memory options - 12GB/256GB, 16GB/512GB, and 16GB/1TB, priced at CNY4,699 ($660/€610/INR55,450), CNY5,299 ($745/€690/INR62,530), and CNY5,799 ($815/€750/INR68,430), respectively. vivo X200 Pro mini As evident from its name, the vivo X200 Pro mini packs a...

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OnePlus OxygenOS 15 hands-on review

OxygenOS 15 is the next major interaction in the software used by OnePlus devices. Based on the latest Android 15, OxygenOS 15 brings with it several new UI changes along with a smattering of AI features that have now become prerequisite as well as some new security and multitasking enhancements. We have been using the closed beta of the OS running on a OnePlus 12. This version will be released as an open beta later this month and should be similar to the final build arriving later this year. Let’s see what OnePlus has in store for us this year. Design One of the major points of...

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Samsung Galaxy A16 5G review

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Samsung Galaxy Watch6 is now receiving One UI 6 Watch based on Wear OS 5

Samsung's Galaxy Watch6 and Galaxy Watch6 Classic are now receiving the update to One UI 6 Watch based on Wear OS 5, following a lengthy months-long beta testing period. With the stable release, today the beta program has ended. Those who participated in the One UI 6 Watch beta program will get the stable update first, in the US and Korea (which are the only markets where the beta program was available). The update comes in at 136MB and includes the October security patch level. It will spread to the Galaxy Watch5 family and the Galaxy Watch4 series soon. One UI 6 Watch made its...

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Xiaomi 15 Ultra leaked renders show a weird camera arrangement

Xiaomi is due to launch the 15 and 15 Pro later this month, but the Ultra is only set to follow in February. Even so, today we have the first set of leaked renders showing the Xiaomi 15 Ultra, and it's definitely got a distinctive camera arrangement - and one that might not please fans of symmetry. While the camera bump itself is circular like it's always been in the Ultra line, the placement of the cameras themselves within the island is, as you can see, asymmetrical. According to the source of these shots, the lone camera on the top is the 200 MP 4.3x zoom periscope telephoto,...

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OnePlus 13 gets an official unboxing video before its unveiling

The OnePlus 13 will be unveiled in China on October 31. Before that, we've already seen it in leaked images, and now the company itself has posted a quick official unboxing video of the yet-unannounced device. That's definitely an unorthodox hype-building campaign, but we'll take it since it means we get to see the handset and its packaging early. Note that as the October 31 launch is for the Chinese market only, the video is in Chinese and the phone runs ColorOS. Internationally, it will of course go with OxygenOS instead. The red box is still present, as you can see. The screen...

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Early leak details Galaxy S27 series' chipset

While we are waiting for the Samsung Galaxy S25 series, we are getting Galaxy S26 leaks and now Galaxy S27 leaks as well. According to a Korean news outlet, Samsung has reportedly started the development of its Exynos 2700 chipset that will power them. The chipset is codenamed Ulysses and will be based on Samsung's upcoming, second-generation 2nm manufacturing process, or SF2P. The updated manufacturing node promises to bring 12% gains in performance, reduce power consumption by 25% and reduce the die size by 8%, compared to the older generation, which in turn hasn't come out...

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Samsung US has a great daily deal on the Galaxy Z Fold6, week-long offers for Z Flip6 and S24 Ultra

Samsung Electric Industries (now Samsung Electronics) was established in 1969, meaning that this year the company is celebrating its 55th anniversary. The celebration mostly takes the form of a week-long sale of all sorts of Samsung gadgets. Naturally, we’re interested in the phones. The highlight offers are for the Galaxy S24 Ultra and the two Z foldables. We’ll start with the Z Fold6. This week, the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold6 has an enhanced trade-in offer of up to $1,200 or a straight $300 discount if you’re not trading in. Also, select models have an additional $300 discount (check the...

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Google Pixel 9a's main camera comes from a much more expensive device

Google's Pixel 9a is expected to land in March, and we've already seen it in some intriguing leaked renders, which very much highlighted its lack of a camera bar/visor thing. Now a new rumor tells us the Pixel 9a will ditch the 64 MP main camera of its predecessors, and will instead borrow the 48 MP unit used in the Pixel 9 Pro Fold, Google's most expensive smartphone. The Pro Fold being a foldable device, and one not made by a Chinese manufacturer, you shouldn't expect top level quality. But still, this should be a better snapper than what the Pixel a line has had before. While...

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Insta360 Ace Pro 2 action cam shoots 8K video with its Leica lens

Insta360 has launched the Ace Pro 2 action camera today, its entrant in the space dominated by GoPro and where DJI is also a contender. The camera costs $399.99, which actually makes it $50 less than its predecessor. In the EU, it's €449.99. The GoPro inspiration for the design is clear, and yet the Insta360's front display only displays information, not a live feed of what the camera sees. For that you get the hinged main screen, now 2.5" in size, with improved brightness and pixel density. The Ace Pro 2 is rugged and water resistant up to 12m (with precise underwater controls). It...

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Huawei announces HarmonyOS Next - the new version of its Android rival

Huawei just ushered in a new page in its history with the official launch of HarmonyOS Next. This marks Huawei’s first operating system built independently of Android and the Linux kernel as it aims to transition its devices to an entirely in-house OS. HarmonyOS Next is set to power the current and future generations of Huawei devices in China for now, though a global release was confirmed previously. It will work across a broad range of devices ranging from smartphones to wearables, smart home devices and car cockpits. HarmonyOS Next uses a self-developed microkernel based on the...

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Huawei nova 13 and nova 13 Pro are now official

Huawei has finally made the nova 13 and nova 13 Pro official in China today. The nova 13 comes with a 6.7-inch OLED screen with 1084x2412 resolution, 120 Hz refresh rate, 300 Hz touch sampling rate, 1,440 Hz PWM dimming, and an embedded fingerprint sensor. Huawei nova 13 The phone runs HarmonyOS 4.2 and has 256GB/512GB/1TB of storage. On the rear there's a dual camera system comprising of a 50 MP f/1.9 main shooter and an 8 MP f/2.2 ultrawide. For selfies you have a 60 MP f/2.4 shooter. Huawei nova 13 Keeping the lights on is a 5,000 mAh battery with support for 100W fast...

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Realme GT 7 Pro is going global next month with the new Snapdragon 8 Elite

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...

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Qualcomm announces Snapdragon 8 Elite chip with Oryon CPU, 40% faster GPU

Following a lengthy leak campaign, the Snapdragon 8 Elite is official as the latest flagship chipset poised to power the next generation of Android flagships. As you might have guessed, Qualcomm is going for a unified naming scheme with its ARM-based X Elite laptop chips. Like the Snapdragon laptop chips, 8 Elite brings an Oryon CPU with a custom eight-core structure consisting of 2x prime cores clocked at 4.32 GHz and 6x performance units working at up to 3.53 GHz. That’s paired with an industry-leading 24MB L2 cache and support for 5,300MHz LPDDR5X RAM. The new chip is fabbed on...

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Poco will launch an Ultra phone for the first time ever

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....

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Xiaomi 15 runs Geekbench with Snapdragon 8 Elite and Android 15

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...

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Sony WF-C510 review

The WF-C510 are the latest entry-level earbuds from Sony. These are the no-frills option for someone who just wants a simple pair of earbuds for the everyday commute or workout without having to shell out a fortune on features they don't need. The C510 are the successor to the C500, which were reasonably popular despite not being the cheapest or feature-rich option on the market. Most people just seem to want a basic pair of earbuds from a brand they know and trust and the C500 fit the bill. The C510 are taking a shot at essentially the same market again. With the updated model,...

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Top 10 trending phones of week 41

Samsung Galaxy S24 FE's streak in our trending chart is at an end, but it's replaced on top by another Samsung smartphone. This week we've got the Galaxy A55 in first, followed by the Galaxy S24 Ultra. [#InlinePriceWidget, 13262, 1#] The Galaxy S24 FE rounds up an all-Samsung podium, but there are fresh new faces just below it. vivo's newly unveiled X200 Pro took fourth, followed by the X200 Pro mini in fifth. The exciting new Dimensity 9400-powered duo certain got enough attention even before its potential global launch. Apple's iPhone 16 Pro Max comes in sixth, ahead of...

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Xiaomi Buds 5 review

The open in-ear form factor has been getting more attention from brands in the last few months and Xiaomi's Buds 5 are the latest pair of TWS buds to omit the silicon tips. Despite not carrying the Pro moniker, these are Xiaomi's flagship earbuds and come packed with 11mm dual-magnet dynamic drivers, sound tuning from Harman Kardon, and aptX lossless audio support. Xiaomi Buds 5 €99 at Amazon DE Even more impressively, they still deliver active noise cancelation (ANC) which claims to...

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vivo unveils X200, X200 Pro, and X200 Pro mini, Week 42 in review

vivo unveiled the much-anticipated X200 series for China this week. It features three phones with large batteries, LYT-818 50MP main camera, and the new Dimensity 9400 chipsets. The X200 Pro has the best zoom camera - the 200MP sensor from the vivo X100 Ultra. The X200 Pro mini has a slightly watered-down 50MP periscope. The vivo X200 Pro went on sale yesterday, October 19, starting from CNY 5,299 ($748/€685/₹62,900). The X200 Pro mini will ship on October 25, starting from CNY 4,699 ($663/€610/₹55,800). The X200 went on sale yesterday, starting from CNY 4,300...

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vivo X200 Pro in for review

Hey there, vivo X200 Pro! We've spent some time with this gem of a cameraphone over at its launch event but we now have it at the office and it's ready for a review! The X200 Pro ships with a phone-matching blue case, a 90W charger, and a USB-A to USB-C cable. When you put the new X200 Pro next to vivo's current flagship, the X100 Ultra, there are some obvious differences. The X200 Pro has a less-curved front and back glass, and a wider frame, to compensate for the difference. Curved vs flatter is a matter of personal preference - we'd say that both phones feel lovely in the...

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Deals: Galaxy S24, Moto razr (2024) and Moto Edge (2024) prices fall to new lows

It’s time to revisit some old offers as the discounts on select phones have gotten better than what we saw even during the recent Prime Day event. There are also a few offers that aren’t quite as good, but they are worth checking out in case you missed the Prime deals a couple of weeks ago. We start with the Samsung Galaxy S24. Last week, the base 8/128GB variant was $720. Now you can get the model with more storage, 8/256GB, for just $705 (was $780 last week). Keep in mind that this isn’t just doubling the storage, the 128GB variant uses older UFS 3.1 chips, while the 256GB one is built...

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Xiaomi 14T vs. 14T Pro

You are in the market for an upper-midrange phone or just a solid all-rounder, and you are boujnd to find this year's Xiaomi 14T Series enticing. But it's hard to tell the Xiaomi 14T and the Xiaomi 14T Pro apart, which makes it even harder to decide which one to get. And yet, the 14T Pro asks for a serious price premium over the vanilla 14T. At the time of writing, the price difference is around €150-200. A non-trivial difference, we’d say. So let's see what it has to offer on top of the already excellent Xiaomi 14T. Table of Contents: Design Display Battery Life ...

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Infinix Hot 50 Pro+ goes official with a 120Hz AMOLED screen and 6.8mm slim design

The Infinix Hot 50 Pro+ that surfaced last week has been officially unveiled. One of the biggest highlights of the Hot 50 Pro+ is its sleek design. It is 6.8mm thin, and Infinix is touting it as a smartphone with "world's slimmest 3D-curved SlimEdge design." The Infinix Hot 50 Pro+ is a 4G smartphone powered by the Helio G100 SoC. It has 8GB RAM and 256GB of storage onboard, expandable via a microSD card. Infinix hasn't detailed the Hot 50 Pro+'s specs sheet, but a few videos it posted on its YouTube channel confirmed the smartphone is built around a 120Hz always-on curved AMOLED...

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