MIUI 13, Watch S1 will arrive alongside Xiaomi 12 series
Xiaomi will introduce the 12 series tomorrow, December 28. In a series of posts on Weibo the brand also confirmed the new MIUI 13 will debut alongside the flagships, as well as a new high-end smartwatch for business professionals, called Xiaomi Watch S1.
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Realme GT 2 series boasts Samsung Display LTPO screen with A+ DisplayMate rating
Realme is all set to introduce its GT 2 series on January 4 and as we inch closer to said date we get more details. Just a few days ago we got to see the GT 2 Pro Master Edition’s display in a teaser video and today we get plenty of details about the panel’s specs.
Realme GT 2 series will bring a 6.7-inch LTPO AMOLED panel with 3216 × 1440px resolution and up to 120Hz refresh rate. The screen already received an A+ rating from DisplayMate and is will be protected by Corning’s Gorilla Glass Victus.
Realme VP and CMO Xu Qi Chase also revealed that the panel will be supplied by Samsung Display and will support 10-bit color output. The panel will also have a 1000Hz touch sampling rate. The phone’s under-display fingerprint scanner will also double as a heart rate monitor. Realme GT 2 is expected to come in three versions with a regular model, a Master Edition version and a camera performance model.
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Oppo certifies three phone designs with rear displays
A display on the back is nothing new – Meizu Pro 7 series brought a tall 2” Super AMOLED screen, while the Mi 11 Ultra reused a 1.1” Mi Band 5 panel. And let’s not forget the vivo NEX Dual Display with two full-size displays on both sides, as well as every foldable phone.
We think Oppo might borrow the use of a secondary display from the clamshell foldables – small panel for notifications, selfies, and AOD. There’s no word in the patents, issued by WIPO (World Intellectual Property Organisation), about whether these screens are touch-sensitive or not.
All these camera and display designs look lovely but there’s a high chance of Oppo certifying them only to stop competitors from ever using them. This isn’t new or unexpected in the world of manufacturing, and Oppo is just doing whatever it can to protect itself from competition in an environment where any new design triggers an avalanche of copycats.
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DIZO Watch R and Buds Z Pro launching on January 5
Realme TechLife brand DIZO is gearing up to announce a set of new smart accessories on January 5 with the Watch R smartwatch and Buds Z Pro TWS earphones. The Watch R looks a lot like the Realme Watch T1 with a round 1.3-inch AMOLED display, 5ATM waterproofing, continuous heart rate monitoring. It’s also confirmed to feature SpO2 meter, over 100 sports modes and a battery life rated at 12 days of contentious usage.
DIZO Buds Z Pro are said to feature 10mm drives, ANC and up to 25 hours of playback with the included charging case. The earphones look nearly identical to the previously announced Buds Z will come in blue and black colors. Both Watch R and Buds Z Pro are scheduled to launch on January 5 at 12PM IST.
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Samsung Galaxy M33 5G appears on Geekbench with Exynos 1200 SoC, 6,000 mAh battery
Samsung’s working on a successor to the Galaxy M32 from earlier this year, which will unsurprisingly be called Galaxy M33. A prototype of this model has been spotted in the Geekbench database today, where it showed up with the Exynos 1200 chipset at the helm.
That’s the same SoC that the Galaxy A53 5G was caught running the same benchmark with, and their scores are pretty similar too, unsurprisingly. It is in fact likely that the Galaxy M33 will be a rebranded A53, but with one major difference – a much larger battery.
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Xiaomi certifies a clamshell flip phone with dual camera and selfie display
This new flip phone will also have a pill-shaped punch hole on the inside for dual front-facing cameras. The bottom is occupied by the SIM slot, a USB-C, and a speaker grill, while the power key and volume rocker are on the right-hand side.
It isn’t a surprise Xiaomi is also joining the fun of clamshell foldables – Motorola, Huawei, and Samsung already have products in this category, and this Chinese brand wants some of the pie as well. We do believe a phone with this design could arrive soon, but we are also confident it won’t be at the Xiaomi event later today where we expect to see the 12 series, MIUI 13, and Watch S1.
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Tecno Pova 5G announced with Dimensity 900 and 6,000mAh battery
We may be on the last stretch of 2021 but Tecno is not done with its phone announcements and the Pova 5G is its latest device. It brings a large 6.9-inch IPS LCD with a 120Hz refresh rate, Dimesnity 900 5G chipset and a beefy 6,000mAh battery with 18W charging. The phone boots Tecno’s custom HiOS 8 based on Android 11.
The back features a dual-textured pattern and houses a 50MP main cam which is joined by a 2MP macro cam and a depth sensor. There’s a 16MP selfie cam with dual LED flash housed in the punch hole cutout on the display. Pova 5G also has a side-mounted fingerprint scanner, headphone jack and USB-C port.
Tecno Pova 5G comes in a single Aether Black color and comes with 8GB RAM and 128GB storage which is further expandable via microSD. The phone’s pricing and availability are yet to be detailed.
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Microsoft responds to Samsung with triple-screen Surface concept of its own
A newly-awarded Microsoft patent suggests it’s looking into a making a new tri-folding Surface device, in a similar vein to a Samsung concept we saw just a few days ago.
Microsoft launched its latest dual-screen phone, the Surface Duo 2, in September, but a patent picked up by Patently Apple suggests that it’s looking to go beyond that design and create a device with two hinges, which would connect three separate displays. The patent was awarded on December 23, despite being filed last year.
Like Samsung’s similar concept, the three displays would theoretically combine to form a single, giant tablet screen. The real benefit of this design, though, is that the displays could also stack on top of each other, reducing the overall size of a multi-panel device.
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AMD Navi 24 GPU spotted, with RX 6500 XT rumored to arrive January 19
AMD’s purportedly incoming Navi 24 GPU, which is supposedly set to power the Radeon RX 6500 XT and RX 6400 desktop graphics cards, has been spotted.
The image of the Navi 24 chip was published by VideoCardz, and theoretically tells us a number of things about the spec, including that it has 16 GPU clusters with each having 64 stream processors, for a total of 1,024 shading units as the maximum configuration. This is in line with previous chattering from the rumor mill.
As you may know, this is the lowest-end Navi GPU which will power some wallet-friendly graphics cards (with both desktop and laptop solutions), and interestingly it will be the first RDNA 2 offering to be built on a 6nm process. There will supposedly be 16MB of Infinity Cache on-board.
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Apple Partially Closes Stores in New York City Amid Spread of Omicron Cases
In case you needed another indication that covid-19, fueled by the newest omicron variant, is spreading like wildfire in some parts of the U.S., all you need to do is to check to see if Apple Stores are open. In New York City on Monday, they were not.
Apple partially closed all seven of its stores in New York City on Monday, Reuters reported, due to an increase in covid-19 cases. In a news conference on Monday, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul said the state had reported 26,000 daily positive cases on Sunday, but considered the number was vastly underestimated due to decreased testing over the holiday weekend.
Hochul added that she expected the number to increase by up to 20,000 cases or more by the time Tuesday’s numbers came in.
Apple confirmed to Gizmodo on Monday that the stores were open for pickup only, meaning that customers could still order a product online and pick it up at the store.
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