OnePlus has its latest limtied edition smartphone dubbed Nord 2 PAC-MAN Edition. It will have the same internals as the regular Nord 2 5G, down to the 12GB RAM and 256GB storage, but its back will be glowing in the dark, and it will have a theme filled to the brim with Pac-Man references. The smartphone's design is yet to be unveiled, but you can already compete to win the phone, a pair of Buds Z or early access vouchers from the OnePlus store. All it takes is to visit the company website (or head to the Source link at the bottom of this article), play the classic Pac-Man game and...


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Oppo Find X4 rumored to feature 125W charging
Oppo’s Find X3 Pro “only” supports up to 65W wired charging but it seems its successor will offer a sizeable upgrade. Well-known leakster Digital Chat Station claims that Oppo will bring 125W speeds with the Find X4 series. Other than that we don’t have much info regarding the rest of the spec sheet on the Find X4 series. We expect Oppo to bring the latest Qualcomm flagship chipset – Snapdragon 898 which is expected to be unveiled on November 30. Oppo’s Find X series usually get refreshed in March which leaves plenty of time for more leaks to fill us in on what’s in store. Source...


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Infinix Note 11S is official with 5,000 mAh battery and 33W fast charging
An unknown Infinix smartphone leaked last month, and today the mystery was finally unveiled. The device has launched in Thailand under the name Infinix Note 11S. The chipset of the Note 11S is Helio G96 and it comes with 8GB RAM and 128GB storage out of the box. The front has a 6.95” LCD with FullHD+ resolution and 120Hz refresh rate, as well as a 180 Hz touch sampling rate. The camera island on the back has five circles, but only three cameras and one LED flash - the last one is there for decoration. The main cam has a 50MP sensor, while the other two are both 2MP - one for depth...


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Snapdragon 898-powered Samsung Galaxy Tab S8+ pops up on Geekbench
Back in September, a vivo phone with the upcoming Snapdragon 898 ran Geekbench, but that early result seemed hobbled by low clock speeds. Now Samsung’s Galaxy Tab S8+ has had a go and the result is looking better, though possibly still not fully final yet. The run was done by the Samsung SM-X808U – decoding the model number suggests this is the Tab S8+ with 5G for the US. It was equipped with 8 GB of RAM and was running Android 12 (not 12L by the looks of it, but that may be a wrong identification by the benchmark). The score shows 1,211 points on single-core and 3,193 points on...


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Leakster: the Xiaomi 12 will have an improved 50MP camera, 100W fast charging
The Snapdragon 888 was unveiled at the Snapdragon Tech Summit 2020, its successor is coming at this year’s event that starts on November 30. Last year Xiaomi was among the first to announce an 888-powered phone (not even a month later) and this year it is expected to do the same. You can see where this is going. The Xiaomi 12 is expected to be the first Snapdragon 898 phone and to launch before the end of the year. According to leakster Digital Chat Station, the vanilla model will supports 100W fast charging – not 120W like we’ve seen on the Mi 10 Ultra and Mi 11T Pro (among other...


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Samsung to launch Galaxy S21 FE on January 4, Galaxy S22 series on February 8
According to a new report by Jon Prosser, Samsung is looking to host two Unpacked events early next year. The first one will take place on January 4 and will be centered around the long-rumored Galaxy S21 FE. The second event is apparently taking place a month later on February 8 and will bring us the Galaxy S22 series. While Samsung is “investigating” my S22 Ultra leak…EXCLUSIVE ????Unpacked event for S21 FEJanuary 4, 2022No pre-order periodAvailable January 11, 2022Unpacked event for S22 lineupFebruary 8, 2022 @ 10:00am ETPre-orders begin same day (2/8)Available February 18, 2022????...


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Motorola next flagship will be called Moto Edge X
Motorola is rumored to bring a Snapdragon 898-powered flagship by the end of 2021, and now we get to know how the phone’s name. According to the General Manager of the Mobile Business at Lenovo China, the new device will be known as Moto Edge X, and it will be “infinitely powerful” and people are right to be “full of expectations”. The Moto Edge X is coming as a natural successor to the Moto Edge S, the current flagship of Motorola. It is unusual to call a Snapdragon 870-powered phone that, but we haven’t seen a true flagship from the Lenovo-owned brand since H1 2020 when the...


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Huawei Freebuds Lipstick review
Huawei brought its nova 9 smartphone to Europe last month and brought a new Watch GT3, and new TWS earphones called Huawei Freebuds Lipstick alongside it. The audio accessory comes with a striking new design that truly resembles lipstick, and we got a pair to test whether there is more to it than cool looks. Cosmetics stores have hundreds of colors of lipstick but Huawei is offering the earphones in only one shade, which is somewhere between Rojo and Cornell (yes, these are real shades of red). On the inside, the earphones are just like the Freebuds 4 - open ear design, a standard...


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Top 10 trending phones of week 44
Week 43 saw little in terms of new hardware announcements, but there are still plenty of changes in our trending chart. The Redmi Note 11 Pro+ and Pro still take the first two spots, but the third placed Sony Xperia Pro-I has lost a lot of steam and has dropped off the chart entirely. In its place we have the Samsung Galaxy A52s, which has gained whopping 6 places. The Google Pixel 6 Pro has climbed to fourth, overtaking the Redmi Note 11, while the upcoming Poco M4 Pro is already the sixth most popular phone in our database. We then have the Apple iPhone 13 Pro Max, followed by...


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Week 44 in review: Galaxy S22 enters mass production, USB-C iPhone on sale
Another week down, let's recap. The Galaxy S22 and S22+ have reportedly entered into mass production and we saw detailed renders of the pair, based on early information. They'll look quite similar to their predecessors, only be smaller in stature, thanks to reduced screens - 6.06-inch and 6.55-inch for the S22 and S22+, respectively. That's down from the 6.1-inch and 6.7-inch of the S21 and S21+. The Galaxy S22 Ultra is also in production and we even saw the first live images of the phone this week. It looks a lot like a Galaxy Note20 Ultra, only with a matte black finish. It has an S Pen...


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Flashback: iPod touch - the almost iPhone
Apple changed the portable music player world in 2001 with the launch of the original iPod. It wasn’t the first portable MP3 player by a long shot – Internet folklore still remembers early criticism like this post on Slashdot (by CmdrTaco himself): “No wireless. Less space than a nomad. Lame.” “Nomad” refers refers to Creative’s Nomad series of portable MP3 players. The Nomad Jukebox, the latest entry in the series at the time, had just come out in late 2000 and had 6GB of storage – one more than the iPod. Anyway, today’s story isn’t about these two, but about an important Apple product...


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Weekly poll: do you still want depth and macro cameras on your phones?
Back when the HTC One (M8) added a second camera on its back – used to calculate distances using the parallax effect, better known today as a depth camera – it was an innovative new feature. But things quickly turned cynical. We’ve always known that tech companies love to advertise large numbers. Sometimes (quite often, in fact), those large numbers don’t make a lot of sense, but it has been decades and engineers still haven’t been able to get the marketing department under control. This is how we got to today where depth cameras are added as a +1. If a phone has only two cameras, wide...


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Weekly poll results: the Sony Xperia Pro-I is well received, but not everyone needs a professional phone
While the meaning of “Pro” has been watered down over the years, people still believe there is a place for truly professional smartphones like the Sony Xperia Pro-I. It’s not a phone for everyone, that’s clear enough in last week’s poll. But it wasn’t meant to be, it is aimed at a particular subset of professions – vloggers, along with anyone who would benefit from high-quality 4K 120 fps video. You may think that $1,800/€1,800 is pricey, but the Pro-I is meant to slot in between regular smartphones and professional cameras (now those are really pricey). Okay, chances are that...


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Some Google Pixel phones are randomly calling people on their contact list
Let's be honest here, Google's Pixel phones are sort of infamous for experiencing issues. It's actually become a bit of a meme within the industry and a self-fulfilling prophecy in recent years, though definitely for good reasons. The shiny new Pixel 6 and 6 Pro are no exception either. It didn't take long after their launch for the first reports of green screen tint, flickering and punch hole weirdness to start pouring in. Now in a fairly new and still very much developing situation some users have been reporting that their Pixel phones are randomly placing calls to people in the...


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Honor 50 in for review
Just as we welcomed the Honor 50 series in Europe we get to add the Honor 50 to our review queue. This is the better of a pair of Honor 50 devices, the other one being the Lite model, both of which have official Google Play Services support out of the box. Let's get the unboxing out of the way and we'll go over the Honor 50 highlights. The phone ships with a 66W charger, a cable, a case, USB-C earbuds, and a SIM tool. The Honor 50 is more or less the same phone as the Huawei nova 9, pictured below, but it has a 108MP main camera, instead of the 50MP of the nova 9, and naturally,...


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The Snapdragon 898 will probably be unveiled on November 30
Nothing is official or set in stone yet, you it's a fair assumption to make. Qualcomm recently published a page on its website revealing that its Tech Summit event will be held between November 30 and December 2, 2021. A big banner with a boat tracing an infinity sign in the water and a "More to come, soon!" text - that's about it. No extra info, no itinerary, no nothing as of writing this article. Still, putting two and two together, rumors of the next flagship Snapdragon 898 have been floating around for some time now. In fact, some sources claim that the first phone to use the...


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Sony puts out more videos showcasing the camera prowess on the Xperia Pro-I
Sony is clearly very proud of its new Xperia Pro-I and is enjoying it thoroughly and with good reason. The Xperia Pro-I is honestly more akin to a professional tool, like a DSLR than a general-purpose smartphone and it makes sense to treat it as such, giving it to creators to experiment with and give feedback on. That's exactly what Sony has been doing since the phone's announcement. After what was a great initial burst of highly-informative hardware and feature explanation and demo videos, the Japanese giant has now started to put out more "experience" style coverage for the Xperia Pro-I....


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Leaked promo video showcases a familiar, but new Oppo Reno6 Lite
It seems like Oppo is just deliberately trying to confuse everybody at this point. As we are currently waiting on the Reno7 series to drop sometime this month, the smartphone giant clearly has no intention of slowing down its constant rebranding and tiny specs iteration efforts, this time adding yet another member to the Reno6 family. A leaked promo video showcases a Reno6 Lite, apparently headed to Europe shortly and outlines most of its specs. In a hardly surprising development, the Reno6 Line is basically a rebranded Oppo F19. A device that has been selling since April in India, which is...


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Realme's first phone with an under-display selfie cam allegedly shows up in patent document
There has been persistent chatter within the industry that Realme is working on its first phone with an under-display camera for some time now. In fact, back in September, Realme VP Xu Qi Chase posted an image of a smartphone on Weibo that has no notch or a punch hole for the selfie camera, and he clarified in the post's comments that the device doesn't come with a pop-up mechanism either, meaning it is using under-display camera tech. In our recent interview with Realme's Madhav Sheth the pop-up selfie tech was also mentioned as pretty unlikely to make a return. In a new development,...


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