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Motorola Frontier and its 194MP camera leak in new renders

We’ve already seen renders Motorola’s upcoming Frontier flagship Android phone leak with its massive camera housing an alleged 200MP camera sensor. Now, Evan Blass is bringing us a more detailed look at the device which gives out more details on the main camera sensor. This will be a 1/1.5-inch imager with 194MP resolution and OIS.

Previous leaks suggested we’ll see Samsung’s 200MP ISOCELL HP1 sensor but it seems that will not be the case. The remaining two sensors are said to be a 50MP ultrwide snapper and a 12MP telephoto lens.

Elswhere the Frontier will pack a 6.7-inch pOLED with a 144Hz refresh rate and a Snapdragon Gen 8 1 Plus chip – an overclocked version of the current SD 8 Gen 1. The phone is expected to feature a 4,500 mAh battery with 125W wired fast charging and up to 50W wireless top ups. Motorola Frontier is rumored to launch in July which leaves plenty of time fore more leaks and rumors.

From Gsmarena

Casio’s new sports watch is made from beans and corn, and powered by the sun

Casio has launched a new sports watch, the PRW-61, made using bio-plastic derived from castor beans and corn. Rather than conventional oil-based plastic, the case, back and strap are all made from more sustainably sourced materials. It’ll also be packaged in recycled paper rather than plastic.

In all other respects, it’s a typical rugged Casio digital watch, with a digital compass, barometer/altimeter, and thermometer for exploring outdoors. It also has multi-band radio wave reception from six  transmission stations around the world to ensure accurate timekeeping, and is powered by a solar cell.

You also get the usual stopwatch, countdown timer, five programmable daily alarms, hourly time signal, calendar, and double LED light.

From Techradar

Moto G22 specs leak alongside renders

Last month the upcoming Moto G22 first surfaced in a benchmark run, and given its “Motherboard” designation there was a widespread assumption it was using MediaTek’s Helio P35 SoC. However, today a new comprehensive specs leak contradicts that, saying instead that the Moto G22 will be powered by the Helio G37.

Thus, there will be no 5G connectivity on offer here. The G22 is also rumored to sport a 6.5″ 720×1600 90 Hz IPS LCD touchscreen, a 50 MP f/1.8 main rear camera flanked by an 8 MP 118-degree f/2.2 ultrawide and a 2 MP macro cam or depth sensor, and a 16 MP selfie camera residing in the centered screen hole-punch.

Update: @evleaks, who shared the image above, clarifies that it is actually a phone code named “Hawaii+” that has an AMOLED display. The Moto G22 (as described in this leak) is actually a phone code named “Hawaii+” that has an LCD screen, which is apparently a separate device. So, first, Motorola needs better code names and second, the G22 may look different from the image above.

The phone reportedly has a 5,000 mAh battery and will be offered with 4GB of RAM and 64GB of expandable storage for around €200. The G22 allegedly weighs 185g and runs Android 12. It will be offered in white, Iceberg Blue, and Cosmic Black.

No launch timeline has been leaked as of now, but we expect it to become official at some point during the next few weeks.

From Gsmarena

The Lenovo Legion Y90 to employ an SSD and UFS 3.1 storage in RAID 0

The Lenovo Legion Y90 shapes up to be an exciting handset, especially after Lenovo’s latest teaser on Weibo. It talks about an SSD and UFS 3.1 storage chips working in RAID 0 configuration. This is probably the industry’s first.

We’ve seen SSDs on smartphones before, Apple’s iPhones have been using them instead of UFS chips ever since the iPhone X. However, the heterogeneous design from Lenovo will allow using the standard UFS storage system alongside an SSD working in RAID 0 configuration.

For those unaware of RAID 0, it’s a way to increase storage performance by using two drives working simultaneously and writing bits of the data to each of them.

It’s been used in high-end PC and laptop builds for years now but this is probably the first time we will see this in a commercially available smartphone. Lenovo says that this improves the read and write speeds of the UFS 3.1 storage by 50%.

From Gsmarena

Apple iPhone 14 Pro could get a major camera and RAM upgrade

According to the source, the forthcoming iPhone 14 Pro could contain 8GB of RAM. According to the blogger, the memory components for the iPhone 14 Pro have now been confirmed, and mass manufacturing is on track.

Supply Chain expert Jeff Pu of Haitong International Securities, who earlier stated that the iPhone 14 Pro would have 6GB of RAM, has now confirmed the new information. It was previously reported that the iPhone 14 and iPhone Max will have 6GB of RAM and a 120Hz LTPO display.

From Zeenews

Nothing founder teases company’s first Android smartphone

Carl Pei, founder of Nothing, has teased that the London-based consumer technology startup is working on its very first Android smartphone.

Rumors about a smartphone being developed by Nothing sprang up in October 2021, nine months after the ex-cofounder of OnePlus left the Chinese smartphone maker to launch the very company that reminds Greek mythology buffs of Odysseus calling himself Nobody. On Tuesday, Pei sent out a tweet that seems to corroborate those rumors.

He tweeted only three words: “Back on Android.” At face value, he could be switching back to an Android phone after using the iPhone for so many years. But the deeper you scroll down in the replies, you’ll see the Android and Snapdragon accounts telling Pei something to the effect of getting together to turn Nothing’s smartphone into a reality.

From Digital Trends

Intel to help ease GPU shortage with 4 million Arc GPUs

Intel has finally shared some news about its Arc Alchemist lineup, and not a moment too soon. After weeks of speculation about delays and possible release dates, we finally know more about the upcoming first-gen Intel gaming graphics cards.

The tech giant seems to have huge plans for Arc Alchemist. The company has announced that it’s readying to ship 4 million Arc GPUs before the end of 2022, and it also outlined possible launch windows for laptop, desktop, and workstation models. There’s also a little cherry on top of an already great sundae — Intel has teased next-gen “ultra-enthusiast” GPUs.

From Digital Trends

Intel Shows Off the Chip Tech That Will Power Your PC in 2025

Intel is trying to dramatically accelerate manufacturing progress to meet a 2025 goal of reclaiming the chip performance lead it lost to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC) and Samsung. If it succeeds, it’ll mean PC chips progress faster after a half decade of lackluster performance improvements. And it could mean Intel becomes more relevant to your digital life by building chips inside your car, phone and gaming PC graphics card.

At the heart of the effort is moving through five new manufacturing processes in four years: Intel 7 in 2021 with the Alder Lake chips now powering PCs, Intel 4 in 2022, Intel 3 in 2023, Intel 20A in early 2024 and Intel 18A in late 2024 — though the lag between manufacturing availability and product delivery means 18A chips won’t arrive until 2025. Showing the wafer is a “proof point” that Intel is on track, Gelsinger said.

Gelsinger, a chip engineer who returned to Intel a year ago, brings tech cred to the CEO job, but it’ll be tough for the company to claw its way back. Once a chip manufacturer falls behind the leading edge, as IBM and GlobalFoundries did in recent years, it’s harder to justify the colossal investments needed to advance to the new technology.

From Cnet

Snapchat will let users share their real-time location with friends

Snapchat users will have a new way of keeping tabs on friends. The company announced today it would introduce real-time location sharing, meant to be used as a temporary buddy system while friends and family are en route to a date or headed home, for example.

The feature is similar to the Find My app on iOS, where users who’ve opted in can see and share precise location. The Snapchat setting can be enabled for 15 minutes or a few hours with individual users, and is only available between mutual friends on the app. In order to lower the risk of stalking or being pressured to constantly share location, users can pause sharing without sending the other party a notification, Snapchat says. The feature is off by default and there is no option to share real-time location with all Snapchat friends.

From The Verge

Researchers Want to Create ‘Universal Donor’ Lungs

In a plastic domed case at the Toronto General Hospital Research Institute, researchers gave a pair of lungs a new identity. When the lungs first arrived in the lab, they were from someone with type A blood, meaning that there were certain tiny markers, called antigens, attached to the lung tissue and blood cells. But when the lungs left the lab, those antigens were almost entirely gone. In just one hour, the researchers had effectively transformed the lungs into type O.

“This is absolutely amazing,” says Aizhou Wang, a researcher in the Cypel Lab at the University of Toronto and first author on a paper published this week in Science Translational Medicine that describes the transformation. The experiment is an important step toward giving more people access to life-saving organ transplants. More than 100,000 people in the United States are currently waiting for organs, but often those most in need can’t get help because of one big problem: Their blood type doesn’t match the organs that are available.

Wang works in a lab run by Marcelo Cypel, lead author on the paper and a thoracic surgeon who’s spent years figuring out ways to increase the number of lungs available for transplants. One of his previous innovations was creating ex vivo lung perfusion (EVLP), that plastic-domed apparatus in which this study’s lungs got their new identity.

The device allows doctors to feed donated lungs nutrients and oxygen in a protected environment, which improves their transplant viability. Unlike organs that are put on ice after being harvested from a donor and then go straight to the operating room, lungs inside the EVLP warm up and their metabolism restarts before they’re transplanted. Doctors can then reassess the lungs’ function and use EVLP to administer drugs that improve the quality of the organ, saving slightly damaged lungs that might have been ineligible for use before. “We put the lung back to life on this machine,” says Cypel, who thought this technology could also be used to modify the organ, transforming it into one that can be received by a person of any blood type.

From Wired