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iPhone 13 will start at 128GB of flash storage and go up to 1TB

iPhone 13 Flash Storage
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Apple will unveil the iPhone 13 series on Tuesday during a virtual keynote event that might bring additional hardware, like the Apple Watch Series 7 and AirPods 3. The new iPhones are always the stars of the show that Apple puts up every mid-September. The same goes for the iPhone 13 models. According to the usual iPhone launch schedule, the new handsets will go on sale later this week, with preorders expected for Friday.

But just as rumors say that the iPhone 13 series will have a higher entry price than last year, we have a last-minute report from a trusted leaker giving fans the storage news they’ve been waiting for. The iPhone 13 will feature 128GB of flash storage at the lowest tiers, with the 64GB option going away for good.

Read More at BGR

Google confirms the existence of Exynos Galaxy S21 FE

Google quietly confirms the existence of Exynos Galaxy S21 FE

The Exynos variant made an appearance on Geekbench recently and is now officially listed on Google Play Console with an Exynos 2100 SoC, 8GB of RAM and 1080p+ display.

According to unconfirmed reports the S21 FE will run the Exynos chip for the European and some parts of the Asian market while North America and South Korea will be getting the Snapdragon version. Indian consumers might be getting the Qualcomm-powered model too, in contrast to the usual Galaxy S series practices.

Read More at Gsmarena

Xiaomi 11 Lite 5G NE’s launch officially teased

XIaomi 11 Lite 5G launch teaser
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Xiaomi revealed that “A New Lite is Coming” at 8 PM GMT on Sept. 15. It will be a new version of the original Xiaomi Mi 11 Lite 5G smartphone that debuted earlier this year. The event will be live-streamed across the company’s different social channels.

The leaked renders of the Xiaomi 11 Lite 5G NE’s leaked renders that were spotted last week revealed that its design will be almost identical to the original model. It has a punch-hole display on the front, a side-facing fingerprint scanner, and a squarish camera module on the back. Apart from Vinyl Black, Tuscany Coral, and Jazz Blue colors, it is expected to arrive in a new white color.

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Infinix’s new Zero X series comes with high refresh rate displays and periscope zoom cameras

Infinix’s new Zero X series comes with high refresh rate displays and periscope zoom cameras
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The Infinix Zero X Pro is the top-of-the-line model in the new Zero X lineup. It features a 6.67-inch FHD+ AMOLED display that refreshes at 120Hz and offers a 240Hz touch sampling rate. The phone packs MediaTek’s Helio G95 chipset coupled with an Intelligent Display chipset that enables 120Hz high refresh rate support. The SoC is paired with 8GB of RAM and 128GB of onboard storage, and the device features a hybrid dual-SIM tray that can accommodate a microSD card slot for expansion (up to 512GB).

Read More at XDA

Google Pixel 6 Pro pops up on Geekbench, reveals its Tensor SoC

We are certain about a couple of things regarding the upcoming Google Pixel 6 and 6 Pro – the design, the fact that they will use a custom Tensor SoC co-developed with Samsung and that the Korean tech giant will also be supplying the 50MP main camera.

However, we really didn’t have much on what the Tensor chipset will be until now. A Geekbench listing has just popped up giving us some extra details about it.

The single and multi-threaded scores aren’t impressive but keep in mind that this is probably just a pre-production unit so performance will be largely different upon release.

Read More at Gsmarena

New Intel Arc Alchemist GPU leak could be bad news for Nvidia

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Another leak around Intel’s incoming Arc gaming graphics cards shows again that the flagship GPU could be pitched against the Nvidia RTX 3070 in terms of its expected power level.

To be precise, this is a leaked slide which came from the Baidu forums as highlighted by VideoCardz, and we have to be pretty skeptical about whether it’s genuine – though it does line up with previous indications we’ve heard from the rumor mill, and appears to reinforce a leak courtesy of Greymon which popped up last week on Twitter.

Read More at Techradar

Exynos 2200 completes first Geekbench run, features AMD GPU with an open-source driver

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Ice Universe spotted a benchmark run from a Samsung SM-S906B, which should be the Galaxy S22+. It is powered by the S5E9925, which should be exactly the Exynos 2200. It has a Cortex-X2 prime core, three Cortex-A710 big and four A510 little cores, the first to support the ARMv9 architecture, plus an AMD RDNA2 Mobile Radeon GPU.

However, the X2 is only running at 2.59 GHz, while The Cat says the final chips should go up to 3.0 GHz. This means the single-core score is lower than it will be in the final product, the multi-core score is affected as well. The A710 cores were at 2.50 GHz, the A510 ones at 1.73 GHz. This may not be an issue of a test sample chipset, but of power saving mode instead – note the “energy_aware” governor.

Read More at Gsmarena

WhatsApp’s upcoming transcribe feature lets you ‘read’ voice notes

WhatsApp’s upcoming transcribe feature lets you ‘read’ voice notes

WhatsApp might be building a new transcribe feature for such situations. WABetaInfo has found out that the Facebook-owned app is working on that feature on iOS.Bye-bye physical banks?Video banking might be the end of branch managersREAD ARTICLE

If you choose to transcribe a message, the app will ask you to access Apple’s speech recognition services. All the processing is done on your device, so no data is sent to WhatsApp or Facebook server, and that’s reassuring for privacy reasons. You wouldn’t want Zuck, to listen to your 10-minute rants about football and nosy neighbors.

Read More at The Next Web

Realme teases a TV stick with Google TV built-in

Realme teases a TV stick with Google TV built-in
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After launching its first Android tablet earlier this month, Realme is now gearing up to launch a 4K TV stick with Google TV built-in. Although the company has shared no information about the upcoming device, a teaser shared by eCommerce platform Flipkart reveals that Realme will announce it during the upcoming Big Billion Days sale.

If the teaser is to be believed, the Realme TV stick will be the first alternative to Google’s Chromecast with Google TV, as it will run Google TV instead of Android TV. For the unaware, Google TV is Google’s latest version of Android TV with a new content-focused UI.

Read More at XDA

Inside Virgin Hyperloop, I glimpse our high-speed transport future

Image: Virgin Hyperloop

It’s not a call you expect to make on your way to Vegas: “I’m going to be in Nevada this week. Any chance I could get inside your futuristic, airless travel tube to take a look around?” 

What sounded like the world’s worst spec-fic pickup line was actually a last-minute request I put out to Virgin Hyperloop. The Richard Branson-backed company wants to shake up the future of transport by sending high-tech pods zooming through airless tubes at speeds of up to 670 miles an hour. To prove it’s possible, Virgin has built a prototype “Devloop” tube in the Nevada desert, just outside Las Vegas, and I wanted to take a look. Others go to Vegas for the tables, I go for the tubes. 

Until now, I’d been convinced that a hyperloop was just a pipe dream. But a few days after my Hail Mary call to Virgin, I was heading through the desert to Hyperloop headquarters. And when I arrived, I got a glimpse of the future (even if it feels very far off). 

Read More at Cnet

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