Redmi Note 11 appears on TENAA with 6.6″ display, 4,900 mAh battery and 16 MP camera
Xiaomi’s official Weibo account continues to tease features for the Redmi Note 11 series (mostly focusing on the Pro), there are other sources of information – like TENAA, which certified a phone that according to Digital Chat Station is the vanilla model.
The Redmi Note 11 has a 6.6” 1,080 x 2,400 px display (20:9). The TENAA listing says it is an OLED, though DCS claims that this is a mistake and that the phone is really equipped with an LCD (the Pro model is confirmed to have an OLED panel, though). Also, the fingerprint reader is not behind the display, but on the side of the phone, continues the leakster. Unfortunately, TENAA didn’t publish images of the phone, so we can’t verify that yet.
From Gsmarena
Huawei’s latest fitness tracker is a cuter version of the Watch Fit
Huawei launched the Watch Fit a year ago, bringing a long, slender fitness tracker to its fitness wearable portfolio. This week, the company launched its smaller sequel in Europe in the form of the Huawei Watch Fit Mini.
As its name suggests, the Mini model is effectively a miniature version of the Watch Fit. This is most noticeable when looking at the screen. The Mini swaps out the 1.64-inch display on the original Watch Fit for a 1.47-inch AMOLED. This switch doesn’t result in a significant weight saving, though. The Mini only weighs one gram less than the original Watch Fit.
Despite the smaller footprint, the Huawei Watch Fit Mini retains most features of the Watch Fit. An SpO2 sensor, fitness tracking for 96 different workouts and detailed menstrual tracking are all part of the package. Sleep tracking, stress tracking, and heart rate monitoring smarts also feature. Battery life from the 180mAh cell ranges from two weeks to 10 days, depending on how heavily you lean on the tracker.
Beyond fitness tracking, the Watch Fit Mini packs plenty of utility, too. Wearers can send instant replies to messages, reject calls, and remotely control your phone’s camera shutter or playing music.
There are a few notable omissions, though. Serious runners will have to look elsewhere for a tracker with dedicated GPS. Nevertheless, swimmers will be happy to find the band features 5ATM water resistance rating.
From Android Authority
Galaxy Tab S8 Ultra could be Samsung’s first tablet with a notch
Another well-known leaker for his renders of unreleased devices seems to confirm the Galaxy Tab S8 Ultra design. OnLeaks partnered with 91mobiles to deliver a set of images that show Samsung’s upcoming high-end tablet featuring a design similar to Ice’s render.
The tablet should be used primarily in landscape mode, given the notch’s placement. The tablet features a large 14.6-inch display with symmetrical bezels that are even thinner than what we’d expect on a tablet. If the renders are accurate, the bezels are thinner than the iPad Pro. And that’s why a notch is needed.
The bezel cutout holds the front-facing camera, although there’s no 3D face recognition system built into that notch. Samsung has debuted its under-display camera tech with the Galaxy Z Fold 3. But it’s unclear whether we’ll see it equip other flagship Samsung devices.
The Galaxy Tab S8 Ultra renders also indicate the tablet will feature four speakers and a USB-C port. But there’s no headphone jack on this tablet. On the back, there’s an S Pen stylus magnetic strip and a dual-lens camera.
Finally, the leak says the tablet will measure 325.8 x 207.9 x 5.4 mm. This makes it taller and slimmer than the Galaxy Tab S7+.
The tablets might launch in late 2021 at the earliest, but a firm release date is yet to leak.
From BGR
WhatsApp users can now migrate chats from iOS to Android – with some huge caveats
The ability to migrate WhatsApp messages between devices is something that has been talked about for a long time now – and users have been practically begging for it. Now WhatsApp has made it is possible to migrate chat history from iOS to Android, with a catch.
And it is quite a big catch. Far from being an option that is being made available to everyone, it is something that only a certain group of people can take advantage of.
But the limitations do not end there. Even if you find yourself falling within these fairly narrow parameters, you’ll probably need to invest in an extra piece of hardware as the migration is not performed wirelessly or via the cloud.
The limitations are not because chat history migration is part of beta testing or anything like that. Firstly, migration is only possible if you’re running Android 12, so that immediately cuts down the field quite dramatically. Secondly, you need to have an eligible Samsung handset or Pixel device.
From Techradar
The next Motorola phone could be a top-end Samsung Galaxy S21 rival
You’d be forgiven for thinking that Motorola phones were all budget devices, given that’s what the company is best known for, but there are a fair few Moto powerhouses too, and it sounds like a new one could be on the way.
According to a website called TechnikNews, which has an okay track record but doesn’t leak too much, a Moto G200 is on the way – judging by the name, this is a successor to the Moto G100, which was a fairly powerful mid-ranger.
If the site is correct, the Moto G200 will come in November, with some impressive specs. Apparently it will have a Snapdragon 888 chipset, which is the top-end processor available to Android phones at the time of writing (well, aside from the Snapdragon 888 Plus).
It’ll also apparently have a 144Hz refresh rate display, 8GB of RAM, a 108MP main camera and a 13MP ultra-wide snapper, as well as two other rear, and two front-facing, snappers.
That’s a long list of impressive specs, which could make the Moto G200 a competitive mid-ranger, and one we’re interested in trying. In fact, it sounds like a rival to true premium phones from 2021 like the Samsung Galaxy S21, Xiaomi Mi 11 or OnePlus 9.
However there’s one improvement Motorola could make over the G100 to make the G200 a must-buy.
From Techradar
Intel Core i5-12600K could be a midrange CPU that provides flagship performance
Intel’s Core i5-12600K could be a midrange champ of a CPU, at least if a new leaked benchmark is anything to go by.
The new Alder Lake processor is expected to be revealed later today, according to the rumor mill – ahead of a November 4 on-sale date in theory – and Twitter-based hardware leaker Tum_Apisak highlighted this benchmark which is from CPU-Z.
The single-core score of 773 points and the multi-core result of 7,220 are seriously good for a midrange processor, and indeed, the Core i5-12600K outperforms the current Rocket Lake flagship in this test.
That Core i9-11900K CPU hits 682 and 6,458, so given that, the 12600K is actually 13% faster in single-core, and almost 12% quicker in multi-core. Remember, this is a middling Alder Lake chip compared to the existing Intel flagship, so that’s quite an eye-opener.
For a comparison on the AMD side, the 12600K can square up to the midrange Ryzen 5 5600X, which hits 624 and 4,811 for single and multi-core respectively, meaning Intel’s CPU is 24% faster in single-core, and a whopping 50% better for multi. The 5600X is a 6-core part offering 12-threads, and admittedly the 12600K (purportedly) delivers more with 16-threads in total.
The Core i5-12600K spec with this leak is as previously rumored, meaning it has 6 performance cores and 4 power-efficient cores, for a total of 16-threads as mentioned (the efficiency cores don’t have hyper-threading).
The performance cores are shown here running at a base clock of 3.7GHz with maximum boost to 4.9GHz, but the Turbo speeds shown vary between 4.5GHz and 4.7GHz (4.9GHz will be the fastest possible single-core frequency, most likely).
From Techradar
Qualcomm upgrades its mid-range Snapdragon chips with faster performance, more 5G
Qualcomm has announced a slew of mid-range chipsets with boosted specs and upgrades to usher mid-range devices into 2022. Two of the chips are upgrades over existing platforms, while the other two are brand new chipsets.
The upgraded Snapdragon 778G+ and 480+ bring improved performance over their non-Plus counterparts. The 778G+ has a slight bump in CPU speed over its predecessor, which powers premium mid-range phones like the new Honor 50. This takes it from 2.4GHz to 2.5GHz with “boosted” GPU performance that Qualcomm says is 20% faster, making it ideal for mid-range gaming smartphones.
While the Snapdragon 480 performed reasonably well on devices like the OnePlus Nord N200, the Snapdragon 480+ also gets a CPU bump from 2.0GHz to 2.2GHz for faster processing. 5G performance is also improved, with peak upload speeds topping 1.5Gbps, up from 660Mbps on the non-Plus variant. This is likely supported by the inclusion of mmWave support, which Qualcomm has pledged to expand to more regions.
The Snapdragon 695 is a new 5G chipset that builds on the Snapdragon 690. It’s built on a more efficient 6nm process and offers an updated Kryo 660 CPU with a 15% boost over its predecessor and a 30% faster GPU. There’s also an updated Image Signal Processor (ISP) and support for mmWave 5G.
Lastly, there’s the Snapdragon 680, which is the only LTE chip in the bunch. Compared to the 11nm Snapdragon 678, which was launched late last year, it’s built on a much more efficient 6nm process. However, it’s a bit of a step back regarding the CPU, GPU, ISP, and LTE modem. Qualcomm is clearly targeting lower-end phones with this chipset.
Companies such as HMD Global (Nokia), Xiaomi, and OPPO have all expressed interest in the new chips, and Qualcomm expects them to be available this quarter, so it won’t be long until we see new competition among the best budget Android phones.
From Android Central
AMD buys its way out of the PC chip crunch
AMD on Tuesday indicated that it’s far better positioned for the fourth quarter of this year than Intel, as executives noted that the company has invested in securing manufacturing capacity during the supply-chain crunch.
Specifically, AMD chief executive Dr. Lisa Su said that the company expects sales of its semi-custom products to increase sequentially as the company increases the supply of its console chips to address the strong demand for game consoles made by Microsoft and Sony. Tellingly, AMD said it expects fourth-quarter revenue to increase 39 percent over a year ago. Rival Intel predicted that revenue would be flat heading into its own fourth quarter.
“Our supply chain team has executed extremely well in a challenging environment, delivering incremental supply throughout the year supporting our strong revenue growth,” Su said during the company’s third-quarter earnings call with analysts. “We’re also investing significantly to secure additional capacity to support our long term growth.”
AMD said that sales of its Ryzen 5000 processors increased by a double-digit percentage from the second to the third quarter, and that the company believed it had gained revenue share for the sixth straight quarter. (Essentially, AMD assigned a value to the total PC market, and estimated that more revenue from that market is flowing into its coffers.) Su also said later in the call that AMD was “able to increase some of the supply for graphics, and that’s one of the reasons that we saw the sequential growth that we saw.”
From Pcworld
Every Cool iOS 15.1 Feature Update Worth Knowing About
With iOS 15.1, Apple has made changes in eight key categories. Let’s start off with arguably the biggest news:
- SharePlay
- iPhone 13 Pro and 13 Pro Max Camera updates
- Add your COVID vaccine card to Wallet
- Translate gains a new language
- New Home automations
- Shortcuts sees an update
From Lifehacker
In hearing with Snap, TikTok and YouTube, lawmakers tout new rules to protect kids online
Fallout from revelations around teen mental health on Instagram continues — and not just for Facebook. On Tuesday, policy reps from YouTube, Snap and TikTok faced Congress to talk about kids and online safety, marking the first time the latter two companies appeared in a major tech hearing.
Both YouTube and TikTok called for the U.S. to create comprehensive laws around online privacy, with Beckerman deeming a legal framework for national privacy laws “overdue.” All three companies agreed that parents should have the ability to erase all online data for their children or teens, with Stout pointing out that Snapchat data disappears by design. Still, Snapchat’s own privacy page mentions that the company retains location data for “different lengths of time based on how precise it is and which services you use.”
Senator Ed Markey (D-MA), himself an unlikely TikTok sensation, pushed for what he calls a kids’ “privacy bill of rights for the 21st century” during the hearing. Markey pointed to his proposed changes to the Children and Teens’ Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) that would bolster protections for young social media users. That legislation would ban tech companies from collecting the data of users between 13 and 15-years-old without explicit consent, implement an “eraser button” that would make it easy to delete minors’ personal data and more broadly restrict the kind of information that social media platforms can collect to begin with.
From Techcrunch
