Oppo Find N unveiled with 7.1″ foldable display, no gap and capable camera
Let’s have a closer look at the specs, starting with the screen. It is a custom Serene Display with 12-layers. It utilizes so-called Flexion Ultra Thin Glass, which is much thinner than the competition – 0.03mm vs. 0.6mm. This makes it much more flexible. TUV-verified testing proved that there will still be “next to no crease” after 200,000 foldings.
The main layer of the display is LTPO AMOLED, which can adjust its refresh rate between 1 Hz and 120 Hz to match the content you are viewing while the touch sampling rate can go up to 1,000 Hz. Oppo calibrated the color rendering and brightness of both the inner and outer displays. They can hit a peak brightness of 1,000 nits, but it is graduated in 10,240 brightness steps, so you can always find the perfect brightness in all lighting conditions.
The Oppo Find N is powered by a Snapdragon 888 chipset with 12 GB of LPDDR5 RAM and 512 GB of UFS 3.1 storage. The phone is equipped with a total of five cameras – three on the back and two selfie cams (one on each screen). This being a foldable means that you can use the main cameras for a selfie too. Speaking of, the wide camera features a 50 MP Sony IMX766 sensor (1/1.56”, 1.0 µm pixels). It is joined by a 16 MP ultra wide (14 mm, IMX481) and a 13 MP telephoto (52 mm, S5K3M5) cameras. The phone is equipped with a 4,500 mAh battery, surprisingly big given its petite size, and it supports wired and wireless charging – 33W SuperVOOC and 15W AirVOOC, respectively (plus 10W reverse charging).
From Gsmarena
Samsung Galaxy A53 5G’s key specs revealed by Geekbench
A Samsung device sporting model code SM-A536U, which is likely the Galaxy A53 5G (A52 5G is SM-A526U), has appeared on Geekbench with its key specs.
The device is running Android 12 and has 6GB RAM onboard. However, there could be more RAM options that are yet to be confirmed.
The motherboard section in the benchmark’s listing mentions “s5e8825,” which is a codename for the Exynos 1200 SoC. It includes eight CPU cores – two with a maximum clock frequency of 2.40GHz, and the rest capped at 2GHz. And to handle graphically intensive tasks such as gaming and video editing, there’s a Mali-G68 GPU onboard.
From Gsmarena
iQOO Neo5s official teaser highlights back design
New teasers for the iQOO Neo5s keep on coming up and the latest one gives us our first look at the phone’s back design. Neo5s will bring a curved edge backplate with a triple camera setup housed in the rectangular cutout with LED flash. We can also distinguish an OIS marking which is presumably for the 48MP IMX598 main camera.
Elsewhere the Neo5s is expected to bring a 6.56-inch OLED display with a punch-hole cutout and pressure sensitivity, the last-gen flagship Snapdragon 888 chipset and 66W fast charging. Yesterday we got official confirmation that the device will bring an independent display chip which will help offset some tasks like rendering frames in games from the GPU.
We’re also expecting a midrange iQOO Neo5SE with Snapdragon 778G+ chip to join the Neo5s on stage on December 20 which is less than a week from now.
From Gsmarena
Samsung Galaxy Tab A8 is official: A good tablet with plenty of storage
The Samsung Galaxy Tab A8 is a 10.5-inch tablet with a resolution of 1,920 x 1,200. It has a 7,040mAh battery you can charge at wired speeds up to 15W, although the charger is sold separately.
On the back of the Samsung Galaxy Tab A8, you’ll find a simple 8MP camera. There’s a 5MP shooter on the front buried in the relatively thick bezels surrounding the screen. Elsewhere around the tablet, you’ll find a 3.5mm headphone jack, a USB-C port, and quad-stereo speakers.
Inside, there’s an unnamed octa-core processor with 2GHz speeds. Android 11 powers the machine, but Android 12 is likely just around the corner. Wi-Fi 5 is onboard as well as Bluetooth 5.0. In certain areas, there will also be an LTE model.
From Android Authority
Nvidia RTX 2060 12GB GPU price tag revealed by Asus – and gamers won’t like it
Nvidia’s revamped version of the RTX 2060 with 12GB of VRAM was officially – albeit quietly – launched earlier this month, albeit with no cards yet out, or any indication of pricing, although now we have the latter, at least from one graphics card maker.
Asus has two RTX 2060 12GB models, the Dual RTX 2060 12G Evo and O12G Evo, which it has revealed, as spotted by German tech site ComputerBase, complete with European pricing pitched at €494 and €499 (which Asus calls an RRP or recommended price).
From Techradar
You can now preview WhatsApp voice messages before sending them
Meta-owned WhatsApp is one of the most popular instant messaging (IM) apps worldwide. People depend on it to reach their loved ones globally, through free texts and calls. The service has supported voice messages for a few years now. It allows us to easily record and send audio because sometimes we’re unable to type. However, one of the annoyances of voice messages was the inability to preview them before hitting the send button. So if you’re recording in a noisy environment, you couldn’t check how understandable your voice is until sending it. Then you’d have to delete the noisy recording for everyone and start over. Thankfully, this is no longer the case — users can now preview WhatsApp voice messages before sending them.
From XDA
Android 12 (Go Edition) Will Dramatically Improve Budget Phones
Speed is the defining feature of Android 12 (Go Edition). Apps open 30% faster compared to last year’s Android 11 (Go Edition) release, and the recent apps screen now features shortcuts to translate apps or bring up the news.
Additionally, Android 12 (Go Edition) will automatically put unused apps in hibernation, allowing you to save battery life and storage space without digging through Settings or constantly closing apps. The operating system also lets you recover deleted files after 30 days, which should help you free up storage space quickly, even if you don’t have time to find files or apps worth deleting.
From Review Geek
Here’s our first good look at what to expect from Wear OS 3 on non-Samsung watches
Although existing smartwatches from companies like Fossil and TicWatch won’t get updates until sometime next year, Google continues to put out developer previews for that software — all without the added UI changes from Samsung. As Mishaal Rahman detailed on Twitter, a fresh emulator image for Wear OS 3 was recently released online, giving us a much better idea of what to expect next year.
None of the changes on display here will radically shift how you’re already using your watch, but it might make the experience feel just a little more modern. For example, enabled toggles now sport a new gradient, which really helps to highlight active options in the settings menu. Pill-shaped buttons and icons help to match up with what we’ve seen from Android 12’s redesign on phones, while the recent apps list gets a new coat of paint as well.
From Android Police
iOS 15.2 allows you to erase a locked iPhone without connecting it to a PC
For the longest time, resetting and erasing a locked iPhone required a Mac or Windows PC. Users would need to put the device in DFU recovery mode and connect it to a computer with a cable. The process is somewhat lengthy and not as simple as factory resetting an iPhone when you know its password. Fortunately for all of us, iOS 15.2 changes that. Users can now erase a locked iPhone independently, ditching the need to have a PC around.
From XDA
NASA spacecraft enters the Sun’s corona for the first time
The Parker Solar Probe has become the first spacecraft to fly through the Sun’s upper atmosphere or corona, NASA announced. In April, it passed within 15 solar radii (around 6.5 million miles) from the Sun’s surface in a region where magnetic fields dominate solar conditions. “Parker Solar Probe ‘touching the Sun’ is a monumental moment for solar science and a truly remarkable feat,” said NASA associate administrator Thomas Zurbuchen.
From Engadget
