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Samsung’s Galaxy S21 FE 5G arrives in India, prices start at ₹49,999

Samsung Galaxy S21 Fe With Box
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Samsung’s Galaxy S21 FE 5G, which made its global debut last week, has now been launched in India. Unlike the global variant, which features Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 888, the Indian variant of the phone is powered by Samsung’s in-house developed Exynos 2100 chip.

The Galaxy S21 FE 5G is a follow-up to the Galaxy S20 FE, which was among the best Android phones launched in 2020. As its name suggests, the Galaxy S21 FE 5G is essentialy a watered-down version of the Galaxy S21.

The phone sports a 6.4-inch Dynamic AMOLED 2X display with a 120Hz refresh rate and a 240Hz touch sampling rate. In the camera department, the Galaxy S21 FE 5G has a triple-lens setup featuring a 12MP main sensor, a 12MP ultra-wide lens, and an 8MP telephoto lens with 30x Space Zoom.

Keeping the lights on is a 4,500mAh battery with 25W wired charging. Other key specs of the value flagship include an IP68 rating for dust and water resistance, Wi-Fi 6 connectivity, and wireless fast charging 2.0. On the software front, the phone runs One UI 4 based on Android 12.

From Android Central

Realme 9i is official with Snapdragon 680, big battery

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Realme 9i just made its official debut in Vietnam. The phone is on sale now for VND 6,490,000 ($290/INR 21,200) in two colors – Blue and Black, and in a single 6/128GB configuration. You can expand the 128GB of memory through a microSD card and add an additional 5GB to the RAM by deducting it from the built-in storage.

The Realme 9i uses a 6nm Snapdragon 680 chipset and a 6.6-inch FHD+ IPS LCD that can refresh from 30Hz, through 48-50-60Hz all the way to 90Hz.

There’s a 16MP selfie camera and a triple camera on the rear – a 50MP f/1.8 wide and a pair of 2MP sensors – one macro and another a black and white.

From Gsmarena

iPhone SE 3 release date is likely to be in March or April

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We’ve been waiting a long time for the iPhone SE 3, with the iPhone SE (2020) having launched all the way back in April 2020. But it looks like the next model might be about to land, as a reputable source claims it will probably be announced this March or April.

The source in question is Mark Gurman – a journalist with a great track record for Apple leaks. He said as much in the latest Power On newsletter for Bloomberg, adding that the iPhone SE 3 is likely to have 5G and new internals, but a similar design to the old model – meaning the Touch ID fingerprint scanner and home button probably aren’t going anywhere.

While we’d take any single leak with a pinch of salt, this is all in line with what various other sources have said, with another recently claiming that the iPhone SE 3 would land by the end of March. So while we can’t be certain, we’d say March or April is looking very likely.

Gurman’s wording in this latest leak suggests that we might see things other than the iPhone SE 3 at this event too, but he doesn’t reveal what. He also notes that this will apparently be a virtual rather than in-person event.

Gurman also touches on Apple’s second event of 2022, which is likely to be WWDC in June, and this too will apparently be virtual. He says we’ll likely see iOS 16, watchOS 9, macOS 13, and tvOS 16 there, but that was all expected anyway.

From Techradar

Mockup Shows What iPhone 14 With Pill-Shaped Cutout Could Look Like in Your Hand

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mockup on Twitter by developer Jeff Grossman shows, at least on the Home Screen, what a pill-shaped cutout on an ‌iPhone‌ would look like. The cutout, rather than being continuous with the device’s bezel like a notch, is centered slightly below the bezel while being shorter in length and height, offering significantly more screen real estate on either side.

From Macrumors

Moto G71 launches in India with Snapdragon 695 and a 5,000mAh battery

Moto G71 launches in India with Snapdragon 695 and a 5,000mAh battery
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After launching the Moto G31 in late November, Motorola is bringing yet another budget-friendly smartphone from its new Moto G lineup to India. The newly launched Moto G71 goes head to head against the Redmi Note 11T in India and offers impressive hardware including a bright AMOLED display, Snapdragon 695 SoC, and a large 5,000mAh battery.

From XDA

Intel Raptor Lake flagship again rumored to be a 24-core CPU

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Intel’s 13th-gen processors are due to land at some point later this year, and what is purportedly the flagship Raptor Lake CPU has again been spotted, this time in a leaked Bootlog from the chip giant.

This was spotted by Coelacanth’s Dream (as highlighted by Tom’s Hardware) and it reinforces what has already been rumored about what will presumably be the Core i9-13900K, namely the core configuration and counts.

As detailed in the leak of the Bootlog, this Raptor Lake chip will have 24-cores, with 32-threads in total. That suggests the 13900K has 8 performance cores – mirroring Alder Lake, as expected, because the 13th-gen is a simple refresh of the current CPUs – and 16 efficiency cores (the latter don’t have hyper-threading, hence the thread count of 32).

Compared to Alder Lake, this means the flagship could run with the same amount of performance cores, but double up on the efficiency cores; a major boost on that front.

The clock speed of the engineering sample leaked – 1.8GHz – is obviously not what the finished processor will run at, and this is par for the course with a chip in development that’s still some way off release.

Also of interest here is that Raptor Lake doesn’t support AVX-512 instructions, but then neither does Alder Lake – officially, anyway – so this is no surprise, again remembering that the next-gen chips will essentially be the same as current 12th-gen models at heart (so rumor has it), just revamped and honed for better performance.

From Techradar

Oppo Find N faces shortages as 1 million people register to buy it

Oppo's Find N foldable phone has a more practical landscape screen |  Engadget
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The Oppo Find N was unveiled less than a month ago, and the first batch immediately sold out. The demand for the foldable is so high, the brand cannot keep up with the orders, and the Find N is facing supply issues as 1 million people registered their interest in the phone.

Liu Bobbee, Oppo China President, revealed the main reason for the high demand was the attractive price of CNY7,699/CNY8,999 (about $1,200/$1,400), as well as the small form factor and the practically invisible crease on the inner display.

From Gsmarena

Samsung Display’s new QD-OLED panel can hit 1,000 nits brightness for improved HDR

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Key specs for Samsung Display’s new QD-OLED TVs have been revealed by third-party certification company SGS, the South Korean display manufacturer has announced. According to SGS the new panels are capable of hitting a brightness of 1,000 nits, and can display over 90 percent of the BT.2020 color space, which both represent substantial improvements over current OLED TVs on the market, otherwise known as WOLEDs.

The figures are in line with those that were put out by YouTube channel LinusTechTips (LTT) last week, in a video that was sponsored by Samsung Display. So it’s notable that these relatively impressive specs have now been validated by an independent certification company, albeit only partially.

From The Verge

Google is publicly pressuring Apple to support RCS on iOS and end iMessage lock-in

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If there’s something that fills an iPhone user, especially a younger one, with out-and-out rage, is looking at a green bubble in a group chat. iMessage elitism is a real thing across schools and teenage social circles in the United States. While we at Android Police carry our green bubbles with pride, teenagers across the country can get excluded from their social circle if they dare switch to an Android phone. Google is now calling out Apple publicly on this in what seems to be an attempt to get it to add RCS support to iOS.

Google executive Hiroshi Lockheimer has posted a tweet aimed directly at Apple’s throat, saying that the company is using “peer pressure and bullying” to sell its products and that “the standards exist today to fix this,” referring to RCS. The message was further amplified by the Android Twitter account, saying that “iMessage should not benefit from bullying.”

From Android Police

China Says Its Lander Has Detected Water on the Moon

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A global team of scientists led by researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing says they’ve detected water under the surface of the Moon using data the China National Space Administration provided from the country’s Chang’e-5 lander — a stunning technical achievement on its own, as the first lunar sample return mission since the Soviet Union’s Luna 24 mission in 1976.

The team used a panoramic camera, lunar mineralogical spectrometer (LMS) and lunar penetrating radar to look for evidence of water, according to a study published in the journal Science Advances this week in collaboration with researchers from the National Space Science Center of CAS, the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa, the Shanghai Institute of Technical Physics of CAS and Nanjing University.

“It’s like a ‘field trip’ out on the Moon, the first opportunity to detect signs of water at close range and high resolution on the lunar surface,” said lead author and Chinese Academy of Sciences researcher Lin Honglei, according to a statement obtained by the South China Morning Post.

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