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Realme Narzo 50 confirmed to bring 120Hz display and Helio G96 SoC

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Ahead of its imminent launch on February 24 Realme’s Narzo 50 shined in several new official teasers as well as an FCC listing which gives us a look at its design and key specs.

The new teaser confirmed the phone will bring a 120Hz refresh rate display and will be powered by MediaTek’s Helio G96 chipset. The device will also bring a 5,000 mAh battery and 33W Dart fast charging.

The FCC listing bearing the RMX 3286 model number revealed a handful of live images of the device alongside some more key specs. The live images show a punch hole cutout for the selfie cam in the top left corner while the back will house a triple cam setup and patterned finish.

The listed specs show Narzo 50 will bring a 6.6-inch display which will refresh at a 120Hz rate. We can also spot a side-mounted fingerprint scanner integrated into the power button.

The phone’s listed dimensions come in at 164.1 x 75.5 x 8.5mm. The back comes with a 50MP main cam alongside two 2MP sensors for macro and depth data. The selfie cam is confirmed to feature a 16MP sensor. Realme Narzo 50 will come with a 5,000 mAh battery with 33W charging and we even get a live look at the Dart charger. The software front will be covered by Realme UI 3.0 based on Android 12.

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Samsung Galaxy A03 price in India leaks

Samsung Galaxy A03 price in India leaks
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Samsung initially unveiled the Galaxy A03 back in November, and it’s been available in limited markets since last month. Soon though, it will finally arrive in India.

Before that happens, you might be wondering how much it is going to cost over there, and thankfully today’s leak covers just that. A usually reliable tipster has outed the image you can see below, which is said to come from internal Samsung systems.

Thus, according to it, the list price for the Galaxy A03 with 3GB of RAM and 32GB of storage will be INR 10,499, while the dealer price for it will be INR 10,193. On the other hand, if you are interested in the version with 4GB of RAM and 64GB of storage, know that the list price for this one is going to be INR 11,999, while the dealer price is set at INR 11,650.

The Galaxy A03 has a 6.5″ 720×1600 PLS TFT screen, a Unisoc chipset, a 48 MP main rear camera with a 2 MP depth sensor alongside, a 5 MP selfie snapper, and a 5,000 mAh battery. It runs Android 11. Given these specs, what do you think about the leaked prices? Does the Galaxy A03 have what it takes to properly compete in the cutthroat Indian market?

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Galaxy A33 5G confirmed to pack this mid-range Exynos chipset

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Looking at the frequency at which it is showing up online, Samsung could launch the Galaxy A33 5G anytime now. Previous leaks told us quite a bit about the smartphone, including our exclusive report which stated that it would bear IP67 water and dust resistance rating. Now, we get yet another peek into its innards thanks to its Google Play Console listing.

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OnePlus is working on Nord TWS earbuds and a phone codenamed Oscar

OnePlus is working on Nord TWS earbuds and a phone codenamed Oscar
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OnePlus rumors abound today, starting with the fact that the company is apparently working on a pair of Nord-branded true wireless earbuds, to go with its line of mid-range smartphones.

A few renders purportedly showing the Nord buds have been leaked, but the source says some changes may occur on the path to a finalized product, as these renders are based on live images of “final prototyping stage units”. In other words, the actual shipping product will probably resemble what you see here, but just how much remains to be seen.

The Nord buds seem to have a physical button with a gold hue on it, thus eschewing touch controls. Or perhaps the touch control surface is marked by the gold accent. Otherwise, they’re very black and have a very short (but very wide) stem.

The Nord buds should become official at some point later this year. There aren’t really any other details about these yet, but given the Nord branding we assume they should slot in right under OnePlus’ Buds series of true wireless earbuds, just like the Nord phones are cheaper than the numbered OnePlus flagships.

Moving on, in other OnePlus news the company is rumored to be working on a new phone that will be part of the numbered flagship series. It’s codenamed Oscar, and that’s all we know about it so far. Wait, there’s one more detail: it will allegedly debut in Q2, so between April and June.

Since the OnePlus 10 Pro launched in China without a OnePlus 10 non-Pro alongside it, the most obvious thing to assume here is that this Oscar device will end up being sold as the OnePlus 10.

OnePlus’ lineup will be constantly expanding this year, with rumors suggesting a bunch of new Nord devices, as well as a fitness band, a smartwatch, and a tablet all arriving in 2022.

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Black Shark 4 Pro goes global, here are the prices

Black Shark 4 Pro goes global today, here are the prices
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Nearly a year after it became official, the Black Shark 4 Pro is becoming available internationally. It joins the vanilla model, which has been available since last May, but the S version of the Pro isn’t coming yet.

That means the phone is powered by the Snapdragon 888 chipset (the 4S Pro had the 888+). Two configurations are available – 8/128 GB and 12/256 GB (the 16/512 GB capacity remains exclusive to China). Out of the box it will run JOYUI 12.5, which is based on MIUI 12.5.

Interestingly, the global Black Shark 4 Pro will support the full 120W charging speed as the Chinese version. Previously we’ve seen international versions of gaming phones charge notably slower than their Chinese counterparts.

The 4 Pro starts at $580 and is available in Shadow Black, Misty Grey and Cosmos Black. Below you can see a more detailed breakdown of the pricing for the two memory capacities.

Black Shark 4 Pro global pricingUSDEURGBP
8/128 GB$580€580£490
12/256 GB$680€680£570

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Samsung could launch Galaxy M33 5G in India next month

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As usual, after the launch of its flagships, Samsung is slowly getting into the groove of releasing other devices. In the coming months, we will see multiple mid-range and budget smartphone launches from Samsung. Recently, the Galaxy A23 4G appeared on the company’s official website in Russia. Other phones were also spotted on multiple certification websites.

According to the information from an industry source, Samsung is all set to launch the Galaxy M33 in India next month. Doing the math, we are just a few weeks away from the official unveiling of the new device. Samsung will launch the Galaxy M33 device in both 4G and 5G variants.

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Realme Pad Mini renders surface revealing design

Realme Pad Mini renders surface revealing design
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Renders of the Realme Pad Mini that got NBTC certified over a week ago have surfaced, revealing the tablet’s design.

These pictures show us the Realme Pad Mini in silver color, and you can see that the tablet has an 8MP camera on the rear with support for some AI-powered features. The back panel also has the Realme logo in the bottom-right corner, with the Pad Mini’s right-side frame housing the power key and volume rocker.

We don’t get to see the front of the Realme Pad Mini, but the source claims that it sports an 8.7″ screen. There’s also a 5MP selfie shooter, something which was already revealed by Camera FV-5.

The Realme Pad Mini will be powered by the Unisoc T616 SoC and come with 4GB RAM and 64GB of storage onboard. However, we know a 3GB RAM model also exists since it was spotted on Geekbench with Android 11.

The Pad Mini will pack a 6,400 mAh battery with 18W charging support, which is smaller than the 7,100 mAh cell we have on the Realme Pad. However, at 7.6mm, the slate will be 0.7mm thicker than the regular Pad.

NBTC revealed the Realme Pad Mini will support connectivity, but we’ll likely get a Wi-Fi-only model as well.

There’s no word from Realme about the Pad Mini yet, but you can expect to hear more about it in the coming days.

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Qualcomm to give all its 3nm AP foundry work to TSMC instead of Samsung

Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 Mobile Platform: A world of firsts
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Qualcomm has given the foundry order for its 3-nanometer (nm) application processor launching next year exclusively to TSMC, TheElec has learned.

The US chip giant has also given some of the foundry work for its 4nm application processor, the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1, to the Taiwanese chip giant, which it previously gave solely to Samsung Electronics, sources said.

TSMC, after receiving the order last year, has already put in the wafers for the chips that will be delivered to customers during the second quarter, they said.

Qualcomm made the decision to rely on TSMC more than Samsung as the latter is facing yield problems for its advanced process nodes, the sources said.

Samsung Foundry, the Korean tech giant’s contract chip-making business unit, is seeing a yield rate of around 35% for the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1, while the yield rate for Exynos 2200 is even lower than this, they added.

The higher yield on Snapdragon compared to Exynos was due to Qualcomm sending an executive and engineers to Samsung Foundry’s production site, which helped with solving some of the problems, one of the sources said.

But Qualcomm decided to add TSMC as a foundry for the chip as well as it believed it couldn’t sit back when the yield is so low amid the global chip shortage, they said.

Qualcomm told as such to Samsung mobile president TM Roh when he visited the US last year. 

Samsung is auditing Samsung Foundry due to the failure of the business unit to meet the volume required by its mobile business unit as well as key customer Qualcomm, they added.

The decision by the US chip giant is a critical hit for the Korean tech giant as it has already lost the foundry order for Nvidia’s 7nm graphic card to TSMC last year.

If Qualcomm and Nvidia decide to wholly rely on TSMC going forward, Samsung would be losing two of the biggest fabless customers that foundry companies rely on for revenue.

However, Qualcomm has decided to continue to give the order for its 7nm RF chip to Samsung, with the promise to order more.

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New leak details Qualcomm Snapdragon Wear 5100 platform

New leak details Qualcomm Snapdragon Wear 5100 platform
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Qualcomm is said to be working on a new generation of smart wearable chipsets in the Snapdragon Wear family and WinFuture.de is bringing us our first set of details on them. The Snapdragon Wear 5100 and 5100+ are said to be in the works bringing significant performance gains over the current Wear 4100 generation. Both new chips will be fabbed on Samsung Semiconductor’s 4nm process.

Snapdragon Wear 5100 uses a molded laser package (MLP) that separates SoC and power management IC. Wear 5100+ will use a molded embedded package (MEP) which has the SoC and PMIC integrated in the same package. The plus model is said to bring an additional QCC5100 co-processor based on ARM’s Cortex-M55 which is already used in various smart warbles like Bluetooth headphones. The co-processor will be able to handle data and Bluetooth connection including notifications completely on its own while the Wear 5100+ will only kick in for more demanding tasks.

Elsewhere, both Snapdragon Wear 5100 chips will feature four ARM Cortex-A53 cores clocked at up to 1.7GHz alongside an Adreno 702 GPU working at 700MHz. Both will support LPPDR4X RAM, eMMC 5.1 storage and an integrated ISP that can handle up to two camera sensors and 1080p video recording. The upcoming chipsets are said to support both full-fledged Android as well as Google’s Wear OS. Snapdragon Wear 5100 and 5100+ are still in their development phase and are expected to launch later this year.

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Apple 5G modem talks underway ahead of expected 2023 production

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We’ve known for several years that an in-house Apple 5G modem design was in the works, to enable the Cupertino company to finally ditch Qualcomm as a supplier. A fresh report today says that Apple is in talks with a potential company to assist with this work.

Apple is expected to switch to its own modem design from 2023, though this likely won’t entirely end the company’s relationship with Qualcomm …

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