Our Poco F5/Redmi Note 12 Turbo video review is up

The Snapdragon 7 Gen 1 wasn’t used in many phones, so the 7-series still needed a successor to the 778G. That came in March and was so good that Qualcomm called it Snapdragon 7+ Gen 2. Our first encounter with this chip comes in the form of the Poco F5 (aka Redmi Note 12 Turbo), which could prove to be one of the more competitive mid-rangers this year. The F5 sells at €430 (after the early bird pricing of €380 expires) and its chipset can outperform anything in this price class that doesn’t have a flagship chip. Xiaomi also bumped up the battery by 500mAh to 5,000mAh compared to last...
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Samsung to start buying OLED panels from LG for its TVs

Samsung may be a big TV manufacturer, but it doesn't do OLED TVs since 2015. The company bet on its QLED panels, which are far closer to LCD panels in terms of both cost and quality. The company is also rapidly developing its microLED tech, which is seen as superior to OLED in terms of image quality, but still prohibitively expensive and only available in the largest diagonals. It now seems Samsung is looking to buy more time for the microLED tech to mature and will look to cover the premium market with OLED TVs. And the company has turned to its South Korean neighbor to achieve...
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Kuo: iPhone 16 Pro series to get larger displays and periscope cameras

While the iPhone 15 series is expected to launch later this fall, rumors about the iPhone 16 generation have been going on for months now. Noted Apple analyst Min-Chi Kuo shared his latest update which suggests the iPhone 16 Pro and 16 Pro Plus will offer larger display sizes and periscope camera sensors. iPhone 16 Pro is said to bring a 6.3-inch screen diagonal while the 16 Pro Max’s panel is expected to grow to 6.9 inches. These values represent 0.2-inch increases compared to the iPhone 14 Pro generation. The larger footprints will also allow Apple’s engineers to fit a periscope...
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MediaTek looking to build a chipset with an Nvidia GPU next year

DigiTimes is quoting industry insiders who claim that Nvidia and MediaTek have struck a deal to build mobile chipsets with GeForce GPUs as early as next year. A particular target for such chips will be Windows on ARM devices. Currently, MediaTek makes chipsets that end up in entry-level Chromebooks and has around 20% share in that market. A flagship chip with a powerful Nvidia GPU will allow MediaTek to push into the high-end laptop segment. Nvidia has its own ARM-based designs, famously the Nintendo Switch runs on a Tegra chip, though that thing is ancient at this point. There’s also...
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Infinix Note 30i announced with Helio G85 and 64MP main cam

Without much fanfare, Infinix announced the latest member in its Note line – the Infinix Note 30i. The device is listed on the official website and we have the full spec sheet to go through. Note 30i boasts a 6.6-inch AMOLED screen with FHD+ resolution and a 60Hz refresh rate and a 180Hz touch sampling rate. The panel sports a punch-hole cutout for the 16MP front-facing camera. The device is equipped with MediaTek’s Helio G85 chipset paired with 8GB RAM and up to 256GB storage. There’s a 64MP main cam around the back alongside two auxiliary cameras of unknown resolution. The...
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Sony Xperia 10 V review

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Kyocera stops making phones for consumers

Today Kyocera has announced that it's officially leaving the consumer mobile phone business, after a struggling period in which the company amassed a JPY 2.27 billion ($16.6 million) loss this February. In other news, it looks like Kyocera was still making phones - even though you, like us, may not have heard of any in the past few months (or years). The company is only quitting the consumer space, by the way. It will continue to serve corporate customers. With deteriorating profitability, something had to be done and apparently axing the consumer products was it. "We can no longer find...
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Asus ROG Phone 7 Ultimate goes through torture test, lives to tell the story

We reviewed the Asus ROG Phone 7 Ultimate not too long ago and crowned as arguably the best gaming phone at the moment. One of the main differentiating factors between the standard ROG Phone 7 and the Ultimate edition is the latter’s AeroActive Portal – a motorized air-intake system that works in tandem with the AeroActive Cooler accessory and JerryRigEverything has his latest torture test to show us how it works and how the phone fares in his usual set of durability tests. After the host breaks up the plastic window of the AeroAcrive Cooler and props the AeroActive Portal’s flap open...
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Kuo:Apple's AR/MR headset to boost entire VR industry

Renowned analyst Ming-Chi Kuo is confident that Apple's highly-anticipated AR/VR headset will be unveiled at June's WWDC. He notes that Apple is 'well prepared to release' the new device. He also notes that the headset's release will greatly benefit Apple's supply chain partners, boosting the entire VR industry. The more expensive bits of an AR/VR headset are the assembly (a Luxshare exclusive), the micro OLED display (exclusive to Sony), the dual processor (exclusive to TSMC), the chassis (mostly supplied by Everwin Precision), the 12 camera modules (exclusive to Cowell Electronics), and...
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EU moves to ban misleading battery life ads, mandate third party repairs

The European Parliament drafted new legislation with the goal of offering better product labeling in the EU and limiting misleading product characteristics, environmental claims and repairability restrictions. The directive will target the use of unsubstantiated environmental claims on packing and ads such as “climate neutral” and “environmentally friendly” by manufacturers if these are not backed by detailed evidence. The legislation draft also foresees clear labeling for the cost of product repairs and any potential repair restrictions by manufacturers. The industry will no...
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First images of iQOO Neo 8 and Neo 8 Pro appear online

The iQOO Neo 8 series will be introduced on May 23, and the vivo brand confirmed we will see a Pro member for the first time in the Neo history. The phone will have OIS, and according to images that appeared online, it might be the only one with the camera feature. Two phones were revealed on Twitter, one allegedly the iQOO Neo 8 and the other being the iQOO Neo 8 Pro, and only the latter has “OIS” writing on the back; the former has “Neo” in that place. vivo iQOO Neo 8 • vivo iQOO Neo 8 Pro These images also reveal the camera island will be rectangular and will not span across...
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Top 10 trending phones of week 19

Week 18 saw the official debut of a number of exciting phones and it's no wonder our trending chart looks very different from last week. The Samsung Galaxy A54 was knocked off the lead for only the second time since it went official in mid-March. In fact it was overtaken by no fewer than four of the new phones and is now sitting in fifth position. It was the Poco F5 that ended up on top this week, narrowly edging the Sony Xperia 1 V. The Sony flagship put up a great fight, but the fact that the Xiaomi phone had a two-day advantage proved decisive. Poco F5 Pro got the bronze medal,...
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Huawei FreeBuds 5 review

Introduction The FreeBuds range from Huawei has offered some great wireless earbuds over the years and the new FreeBuds 5 are the latest entry. They arrive with a bold new design, flagship-level features and a combined 30-hour battery life. FreeBuds 5 come as a successor to 2021’s FreeBuds 4, which were a solid pair of open-ear buds. The specs department looks quite impressive with 11mm drivers, an active noise cancelation system with three microphones on each bud, multi-point pairing, LDAC support and Bluetooth 5.3 connectivity. Can these oddly shaped buds compete with the premium...
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Week 19 in review: Xperia 1 V, Xperia 10 V, Pixel Fold, Pixel 7a, Pixel tablet debut

It was a week full of big announcements so let's recap. Sony unveiled the flagship Xperia 1 V and the midrange Xperia 10 V. Both have 21:9 tall-aspect displays, 5,000mAh batteries, 3.5mm headphone jacks, and expandable storage. The Xperia 1 V has a first-ever stacked CMOS sensor on a mobile phone that promises full-frame camera-like nighttime performance. The Xperia 1 V packs textured Gorilla Glass Victus on the back, a triple camera, a Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 chip, and a 4K OLED display with 120Hz refresh rate. The flagship is coming in late June, starting from €1,399/£1,299. The Xperia 10...
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Weekly deals: the best smartphone deals from the US, the UK, Germany and India

Google launched the new Pixel 7a in multiple countries around the world and in some places it is a better pick than the Pixel 7. Not everywhere, though, the older model has fallen to a similar price in a few places. In the US, there’s a gift for Mother’s Day, plus cheap older flagships from Samsung and OnePlus. In India, the iQOO 11 price is starting to fall, but the gaming phone got unexpected competition as the PS5 also got cheaper. Use the links below to jump to your region: USA Germany The UK India USA For Mother’s Day, Samsung is offering a free...
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