Samsung to launch Galaxy S21 FE on January 4, Galaxy S22 series on February 8
According to a new report by Jon Prosser, Samsung is looking to host two Unpacked events early next year. The first one will take place on January 4 and will be centered around the long-rumored Galaxy S21 FE. The second event is apparently taking place a month later on February 8 and will bring us the Galaxy S22 series.
Based on the report, Galaxy S21 FE will be available from January 11. The S22 Unpacked event will start at 10 AM ET time and Samsung will open up pre-orders as soon as the keynote concludes. General availability will start on February 18. As usual with these rumors take them with a grain of salt as we’ll have to wait for official confirmation from Samsung before we know when the new phones are launching for sure.
From Gsmarena
Moto Edge X is confirmed – could it be Motorola’s first gaming phone?
It sounds like there’s a new Motorola phone coming soon, and it might mark the company’s first step into a particular niche mobile market, as it could end up being a gaming phone.
This comes from Lenovo, the company that owns Motorola, as its general manager posted on Chinese social media network Weibo about the new Moto Edge X. This post was accompanied by a teaser image, which is just a big X, that you can see above.
According to the post the “moto edge X is infinitely powerful and full of expectations,” and there’s also reference to “savior gaming mobile phone pro”, which is sadly a big victim of machine-translation scrambling. It seems, though, that the Moto Edge X is being referred to as a gaming phone.
From Techradar
Leakster: the Xiaomi 12 will have an improved 50MP camera, 100W fast charging
The Xiaomi 12 is expected to be the first Snapdragon 898 phone and to launch before the end of the year. According to leakster Digital Chat Station, the vanilla model will supports 100W fast charging – not 120W like we’ve seen on the Mi 10 Ultra and Mi 11T Pro (among other models).
Anyway, the vanilla will be more 11T Pro than Ultra as it will lack a periscope lens and a high-quality ultra wide camera. It will have an improved main camera, however, writes DCS, based on a 50 MP sensor (instead of last year’s 108 MP sensor).
From Gsmarena
Snapdragon 898-powered Samsung Galaxy Tab S8+ pops up on Geekbench
For now, here’s a quick refresher on the leaked specs of the Samsung Galaxy Tab S8+. It will have a 12.4” OLED display with 120 Hz refresh rate, a Snapdragon 898 (an Exynos version is TBD), RAM will be fixed at 8 GB, storage will come in 128 GB and 256 GB options. The tablet will draw power from a 10,090 mAh battery that will support 45W fast charging. There will be a 13+5 MP camera on rear, under-display fingerprint reader on the front and quad speakers on the side.
A vanilla Tab S8 as well as a Tab S8 Ultra are in the works too. They are expected to be unveiled in January or February, possibly alongside the Galaxy S22 (and possibly not).
From Gsmarena
Infinix Note 11S is official with 5,000 mAh battery and 33W fast charging
The chipset of the Note 11S is Helio G96 and it comes with 8GB RAM and 128GB storage out of the box. The front has a 6.95” LCD with FullHD+ resolution and 120Hz refresh rate, as well as a 180 Hz touch sampling rate.
The camera island on the back has five circles, but only three cameras and one LED flash – the last one is there for decoration. The main cam has a 50MP sensor, while the other two are both 2MP – one for depth effect, the other for macro shots. There is one selfie camera with a 16MP sensor mounted inside a punch hole.
The Infinix Note 11S runs Android 11 with XOS on top – Infinix’s own user interface that will have redesigned widgets. The phone also has room for two nano-SIM cards, as well as a microSD slot. A 3.5mm audio jack is also present on the bottom, right next to the microphone and USB-C port.
The phone has a 5,000mAh battery and comes with support for 33W charging support.
The price of the Infinix Note 11S is originally THB6,999 ($210), but is currently discounted at Lazada Thailand and until November 11 will cost just THB6,099 ($185), and has a smart band bundled for no extra cost (sold for THB399 ($12) separately). The color options are Blue, Green, and Gray, and for some reason, only the latter two are offered in the aforementioned bundle.
From Gsmarena
Netflix Gaming Service on iOS Likely to Offer Individual Games Through the App Store
Netflix’s service, named Netflix Games, currently operates under similar parameters on Android. While users can browse the games it has to offer via the Netflix app itself, users are redirected to the Google Play Store to actually install and download them. Writing in his latest Power On newsletter, Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman suggests that the same approach will come to iOS.
Because of Apple’s ban on all-in-one services, the current individual app implementation on Android of the Netflix service gives us a preview of how the Netflix offering will function on iOS.
Netflix has been actively testing games on iOS, and—according to code discovered by developer Steve Moser and shared with Power On—Netflix will release all of its games on Apple’s App Store individually and let users launch the games via the Netflix app. They won’t all be downloadable and playable within the app itself.
From Macrumors
WhatsApp is working on Communities, a way to create groups within groups
WhatsApp is working on several new features like message reactions, new privacy controls, encrypted cloud backups, multi-device support, and more in a bid to better compete with the likes of Telegram and Signal. Now, new screenshots detail another new feature under development for the Facebook Meta-owned messaging platform: Communities. First spotted by XDA Developers over a month ago, WABetaInfo is providing more insight into it today.
The report details that Communities will give admins more control over groups and enable them to create groups within groups. This may be similar to how Discord allows users to create channels within a server. Admins should be able to invite other users to a Community using an invite link or by scanning a QR code. After joining, a user may not be able to send messages immediately, depending on the community settings. Like regular chats, a community chat in WhatsApp will also be end-to-end encrypted for added security.
From Android Police
Microsoft may be working on a new foldable Arc mouse
As foldable phones are slowly but steadily becoming a regular feature, is it about time to focus on other accessories that can be folded to become transport-friendly? At least Microsoft seems to be thinking so.
According to a patent filed by Microsoft, the company may be working on a next-gen Arc mouse. The Arc mouse itself is extremely thin, light and users can bend it while working. However, in its new avatar the new Arc mouse could have the flexibility where a user can snap it shut like a foldable phone, making it easier to carry.
The patent in question was spotted by a German publication, WindowsUnited, filed in March this year and was published on November 4. The publication states that the mouse may look like the current-gen Arc mouse, however, it’s the folding mechanism that will make the upcoming computing accessory look different.
From Techradar
Next-gen Nvidia RTX 4000 GPUs could be twice as fast – and power-hungry – as RTX 3000
Nvidia’s next-gen graphics cards, which are thought to be based on its ‘Lovelace’ architecture, could be twice as powerful as RTX 3000 models, but also twice as power-hungry, according to the latest from the GPU grapevine.
This comes from Greymon55, who is a now regular presence on Twitter when it comes to hardware leaks.
While that tweet doesn’t initially make it clear, Greymon55 subsequently clarifies that they are referring to Nvidia’s Lovelace GPUs, and what will presumably be RTX 4000 models if the company continues in a logical manner with its naming scheme, with the RTX 4080 expected to be the high-end GPU.
Nvidia’s Lovelace graphics cards are expected to emerge at some stage in 2022, most likely later in the year, although they could pitch up before the final quarter of next year rolls around.
Whenever they do turn up, RTX 4000 GPUs are indeed expected to offer a major performance boost, with the rumor mill previously suggesting that Lovelace could be a generational leap akin to that made from Maxwell to Pascal (which, if you’ve forgotten, was a big old uptick in favor of faster frame rates).
From Techradar
NASA gears up to launch a spacecraft that will crash into an asteroid
Most space missions don’t intend to crash their spacecraft. But that’s just what NASA has in mind for its upcoming Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission, when it will smash a spacecraft into an asteroid to see if that’s a viable way to protect Earth from potentially dangerous asteroid impacts. The agency is preparing for the launch of the mission later this month.
While the large majority of asteroids that we spot whip harmlessly past Earth, a small number are termed “Potentially Hazardous Objects” which could impact the planet. With developments in technology, we’re getting better at spotting these potential threats. But what do we do if we spot a chunk of rock headed for our planet? The DART project is a test of a planetary defense concept that involves crashing a craft into an asteroid.
From Digital Trends
