Galaxy S23 could bring a massive surprise
Samsung usually gets a lot of flak from consumers for using two different chipsets in its high-end smartphones, and this year was no different. The company even had to face some bad luck as neither the Exynos 2200 nor the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 showed considerable performance improvement. It is now being reported that the South Korean firm could bring a radical change with its upcoming flagship smartphones.
According to a new report coming out of Korea, Samsung could use MediaTek processors in the Galaxy S22 FE and the Galaxy S23. Until now, the company had used only Exynos and Qualcomm processors in its high-end phones. If the report is correct, this would be the first time the company is switching to a MediaTek processor for its flagship smartphone series.
From Sammobile
Leak reveals details of Qualcomm’s next Snapdragon 7 series SoC
Qualcomm is reportedly gearing up to launch a new mid-range Snapdragon 7 series chipset. Although the company hasn’t released any official information about the SoC, renowned leaker Digital Chat Station claims it will feature ARM Cortex-A710 and Cortex-A510 cores.
In a recent post on the Chinese microblogging platform Weibo, Digital Chat Station says that the upcoming Snapdragon 7 series chipset will be based on the 4nm manufacturing process. But it isn’t clear if it will be manufactured by TSMC or Samsung. The octa-core chipset will reportedly feature four Cortex-A710 performance cores clocked at 2.36GHz and four Cortex-A510 efficiency cores clocked at 1.8GHz. The chipset will also pack an Adreno 662 GPU.
From XDA
Vivo iQOO Neo6 official images appear online
The vivo iQOO Neo6 is arriving next Wednesday, but the phone was already listed at JD.com – one of China’s biggest online retailers. Specs and pricing are yet to be posted, but we finally saw the official final design – the phone will have a flat screen and two color options.
The iQOO Neo6 will be offered in two colors – Black and Leather Orange. All four sides will be flat, and the phone is going to have a fingerprint scanner under the OLED panel.
From Gsmarena
Vivo X Fold appears on Geekbench, Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 confirmed
The next foldable phone will be the vivo X Fold, scheduled to arrive on Monday, April 11. We saw promo materials suggesting a Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 chipset, and today the phone was benchmarked on Geekbench, and the listing confirmed the Qualcomm chip.
We can also see there will be a 12GB RAM option.
The single-core score of the V2178A phone is 1,223, which is among the better results compared with other phones with the same chipset. Multiple cores reached a 3,335 score.
If we can trust that one promo image with the specs sheet, we can also expect an 8” inner screen with LTPO 3.0, which would be the first panel with the new version of the technology.
From Gsmarena
Oppo Reno8 leak: 120 Hz display, OnePlus-like looks
Earlier this year we saw speculative renders of the Oppo Reno7 series, which showed a new design for the camera bump. Now leakster Digital Chat Station has refined the expected design, showing a phone that looks like a OnePlus 10 Pro with a flat screen.
The leakster also offers some specs, which don’t stray far from the Reno6 Pro. The phone will have a 6.55” display (almost certainly OLED) with 1,080 x 2,400 px resolution. One upgrade for the 8-series is the 120 Hz refresh rate (up from 90 Hz).
The triple camera on the rear will feature a 50 MP Sony IMX766 sensor, which is already used on the Reno7 Pro and several other Oppo devices. The 7 Pro utilized a custom Dimensity 1200-Max chipset, it will be interesting to see what the company has in store for us this time.
Unfortunately, chipset details for the Oppo Reno8 are not available yet. The Reno6 generation first launched in May, so the new series might arrive next month.
From Gsamrena
OnePlus Nord N20 teaser shows off new design, confirms 60Hz AMOLED display and April launch
The budget-focused Nord series from OnePlus is about to pick up another sequel, this time in the OnePlus Nord N20, which is officially kicking off its teaser cycle.
OnePlus has shared a first official look at the Nord N20 with the folks over at PCMag, confirming that the device is set to launch “later this month.”
We first got a hint as to what the N20 would look like back in November, and today’s official images line up very closely with that leak. The device has a revamped design that has a flat frame, similar to Samsung’s Galaxy S22 and S22+, as well as the iPhone 13. There are two large camera sensors on the back, with a flash and what appears to be a third camera sensor, possibly for macro shots or depth information.
The display on the OnePlus Nord N20 appears to have pretty slim bezels and a hole-punch camera pushed toward the left corner. OnePlus confirmed that display will use an AMOLED panel, at a size of 6.43-inches. It’ll still be a 60Hz display, though, at FHD+ resolution. There’s also an in-display fingerprint sensor. OnePlus touts that the display will have “better contrast, more vivid colors, and a wider color gamut” than other devices in the same price range in North America.
From 9to5Google
Twitter’s edit button is finally happening, with a catch
At the start of the month, Twitter casually dropped what appeared to be an April Fool’s joke: “we are working on an edit button.” The rest of us said, “Ha, very funny,” and went back to our lives.
And yet on Tuesday, Twitter’s communications account tweeted that an edit feature is in the works—and clarified that the @Twitter account wasn’t kidding in its April 1st tweet.
A catch exists, however. Currently the company will roll out this feature to only its paying Twitter Blue subscribers “in the coming months.” They’ll effectively serve beta testers, helping Twitter pinpoint how best to implement editing.
From PCWorld
Anker’s First 3D Printer Uses a Smart Camera to Spot Failed Prints
On the consumer end, there’s one feature that no 3D filament printer currently offers: 100% reliability. Prints can fail for a variety of reasons that are usually impossible to predict, and while Anker’s first 3D printer makes no promises of perfect reliability, it at least saves users from hours of wasted print time with a built-in AI-powered camera designed to spot problems and failures early in the process.
Anker is currently a brand best known for its affordable charging products, including everything from durable cables, to high-powered wall warts, to batteries that keep your devices powered on the go. But it’s also a brand that has been experimenting in many other consumer electronics categories, like wireless earbuds and compact projectors. Its latest non-power product is the AnkerMake M5 and it looks like it’s trying to finally make 3D printers consumer-friendly—or at least consumer-friendlier.
The AnkerMake M5’s most appealing feature is that Anker promises it’s easy to assemble and can go from unboxing to ready to print in roughly 15 minutes. A 49-point auto-leveling system is also used for the print bed which should make a process that’s absolutely critical for successful prints much easier for those with no experience in battling finicky 3D printers.
But a print bed that’s not perfectly level is just one problem in a long list of things that can potentially go wrong during a 3D print. Depending on what’s being printed, these machines can take countless hours to do their thing, and unless a part is mission-critical for another project, no one has the time or patience to babysit a 3D printer until it’s done. There’s nothing more frustrating than leaving a 3D printer to run overnight only to find out the next morning that five minutes after you walked away things went completely awry.
Anker can’t guarantee that will never happen with the AnkerMake M5, but out of the box it features an integrated webcam that not only allows timelapse recording of prints to be captured and shared on social media, it also allows the user to sporadically monitor the printer’s progress remotely through a smartphone. The AnkerMake M5 also goes one step further by upgrading its camera with AI smarts that can automatically detect issues with a print, and send alerts to the user that they’ll need to intervene, potentially allowing a failed print to be saved before it becomes a giant mess of extruded plastic.
From Gizmodo
Malware is becoming increasingly difficult for security software to spot
Malware is becoming increasingly difficult for security software(opens in new tab) to spot, as new variants come with increasingly sophisticated evasion capabilities. This is according to a report from WatchGuard Technologies, which claims that the number of evasive malware detections has risen to record levels.
The paper states that almost four in five (78%) of all malware delivered via encrypted connections is evasive. Overall, more than two-thirds (67%) of malware detections came over encrypted connections and, among this group, 78% were evasive zero-day threats capable of bypassing basic protections.
An unfortunate pattern is beginning to emerge, as the quantity of evasive malware has been steadily growing from quarter to quarter. WatchGuard Technologies says threats such as these can often be stopped at the perimeter with the help of firewalls that decrypt and scan incoming traffic.
From Techradar
Scientists discovered a massive exoplanet nine times bigger than Jupiter
Scientists have discovered a massive exoplanet forming that is estimated to be nine times bigger than Jupiter. The planet is still in the proverbial “womb” and has brought new challenges to what we understand about planetary formation.
From BGR
