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Samsung has revealed the Galaxy M23, another mid-range smartphone with a 6.6-inch and 1080p display. The Galaxy M23 features a 5G chipset though, unlike the Galaxy A13 or the Galaxy A23. The Galaxy M23 will come in two colours and one memory configuration too.

The Galaxy M33 has arrived with a 6,000 mAh battery, four rear-facing cameras and a large display. Weighing in at 215 g, the Galaxy M33 also features an octa-core SoC, up to 8 GB of RAM and One UI 4.1 based on Android 12.

Geekbench has decided to delist the Samsung Galaxy S22 series along with the Galaxy S21 range, the Galaxy S20 lineup, and all models in the Samsung Galaxy S10 family from its Android benchmark chart. The popular synthetic benchmark site has taken this drastic action in regard to the ongoing Game Optimizing Service (GOS) controversy.

A new leak has now provided supposed exact pricing for the Xiaomi 12 and Xiaomi 12 Pro when they launch in Europe. The phones are said to be scheduled for a March 15 debut and this leak indicates a higher MSRP than the Samsung Galaxy S22.

Disney is now said to have a new, more affordable price-tier for its Plus streaming app in the works - however, there is a catch: there will be ads. The allegedly upcoming subscription option may roll out in the United States to start off with, and might cost about as much as those of its increasingly numerous counterparts from other content firms.

It has emerged that Samsung's Game Optimizing Service is limiting the performance of more than just games. In fact, the service could be holding back the Galaxy S22, Galaxy S22+ and Galaxy S22 Ultra in over 10,000 applications. Samsung has now commented on the matter in an attempt to explain its reasoning.

Realme has previewed 2 upcoming phones on its Indian website ahead of their launch. The 9 and 9 SE will both be 5G, thanks to a 6nm processor apiece. Furthermore, the 9 SE is already being hyped as debuting with the fastest display for its market tier, and probably with good reason.

iQOO has launched flagship 9-series smartphones outside of China for the first time; however, their new Indian versions are not exactly the same as those announced in their OEM's native country. Nevertheless, they still manage to offer top-end 120W charging, as well as a cutting-edge 2K LTPO AMOLED display in the Pro variant.

Samsung has unveiled the Galaxy A23, one of two Galaxy A series smartphones announced today. The Galaxy A23 offers a 6.6-inch and 1080p display, expandable storage and up to 8 GB of RAM, along with a 50 MP primary camera. The Galaxy A23 will be available in four colours, including blue and peach.

Samsung has released the Galaxy A13, a 4G smartphone with a 5,000 mAh battery, five cameras and a 1080p display. While Samsung does not include a charger in the Galaxy A13's box, the handset supports 25 W charging, a higher wattage than recent smartphones like the Google Pixel 5, among others.

A live image of a yet-to-be-launched OnePlus smartphone with a large camera sensor has been posted online. It is very likely the OnePlus 10R, as it is slated to be launched before the vanilla OnePlus 10. The smartphone is rumoured to feature a MediaTek Dimensity 9000 SoC and a 120 Hz AMOLED screen.

The first post-launch CPU benchmark results of the new MediaTek Dimensity 8100 are in. MediaTek's latest premium chipset builds strongly on the successes of the Dimensity 1200 and mostly dominates its closest rivals, the Snapdragon 888 and Snapdragon 870.

Earlier, the smartphone brand Vivo had indicated that 2022 was the year in which it would start making top-end devices under the NEX brand again. Now, it has confirmed that this is the case, although it has now decided against using this name again. However, the new X line is tipped to contain the former premium series' innovation-focused DNA on its launch.

The Dimensity 1300 is MediaTek's new processor that confers "everyday 5G" on the devices to run on it. It is an eight-core chipset that is compatible with cutting-edge 200MP camera sensors. It supports Wi-Fi 6, Bluetooth 5.2 and a potentially high display refresh rate.

Motorola has lifted the lid on the Moto G22, its latest budget Android smartphone. The Moto G22 features the new MediaTek Helio G37 chipset, 4 GB of RAM and expandable storage, plus a 90 Hz display. Motorola has also equipped the Moto G22 with a 50 MP primary camera, among other features.

After seeding the first MIUI 13 update to the Poco F3, Poco is now gracing the Poco X3 Pro with its own taste of MIUI 13. While the Poco F3's update was for Mi Pilots, the Poco X3 Pro's appears to be a stable build.

A leaker has revealed prices for the Galaxy A13 4G, Galaxy A33 5G and Galaxy A53 5G in Europe. While the Galaxy A13 4G will be the cheapest of the trio, the Galaxy A53 5G is not expected to start for more than €449. All models should launch with at least 128 GB of storage too.

Sony has started upgrading the Xperia 1 II and Xperia Pro to Android 12, the second OS update for the pair. Android 12 will arrive through an OTA update, 58.2.A.0.899, and is currently eligible for US handsets.

Huawei is on the verge of releasing the Nova 9 SE, its first smartphone with a 108 MP camera. A leak has also confirmed that the Nova 9 SE has a large display, a Snapdragon 65 SoC and expandable storage, among other features.

After reports detailed the Poco F4 a few days ago, that phone's more expensive sibling, the Poco F4 Pro, has now been spotted on Xiaomi's IMEI database. A few details of the phone have also been revealed, with the premium phone said to be a rebranded Redmi K50 Pro+.

A new report from Digitimes suggests that HTC hasn't abandoned the smartphone market just yet. In April 2022, the company will reportedly launch a flagship Android smartphone that will be integrated with the metaverse.

Samsung's latest flagship phablet, the Galaxy S22 Ultra, has proven itself inconsistent, to say the least, on durability-related YouTube to date. Now, it has made its way through the classic JerryRigEverything series of tests. Can the Note replacement's cutting-edge Gorilla Glass Victus+ sandwich acquit itself in this new video?

Advanced Semiconductor Engineering (ASE), AMD, Arm, Google Cloud, Intel Corporation, Meta, Microsoft Corporation, Qualcomm Incorporated, Samsung, and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company today announce the formation of the UCIe industry consortium that will establish a die-to-die interconnect standard and foster an open chiplet ecosystem.

UGREEN's HiTune X6s are some of the more unique-looking TWS earbuds around, and offer "6-mic" hybrid active noise cancellation on top of that. They are often available at a discount off their RRP; now, the OEM has released an additional coupon code effective on Amazon.com for the month of March 2022.

A new video based on recent leaks shows what to expect from the Pixel 7 Pro, Google's next flagship smartphone. The video shows the Pixel 7 Pro from all sides, reinforcing the continuation of the Pixel 6 Pro's design. The Pixel 7 Pro is thought to feature larger camera sensors than its predecessor, though.

After recent reports touted launch plans for the Redmi Note 12 series in China, a new leak has now provided insight into what hardware will be on the phones, as well as potential pricing. While the lineup may only be "more of the same", powerful chipsets are on the cards.

Oppo will start selling the Air Glass on March 3, its AR glasses that run on the Snapdragon Wear 4100. The Air Glass will retail for CNY 4,999 (~US$792), although it remains unknown if Oppo will launch the device globally.

Twitter leaker Max Weinbach has learned that mentions of the Google Pixel Watch and Pixel 6a have shown up in the inventory of a network provider. The former is slated to offer 32 GB of storage and the latter 128 GB, the leak adds.

A detailed leak has outlined what to expect from the Moto G22, one of Motorola's next budget smartphones. While the Moto G22 is expected to retail for less than €200, it should still arrive with a 90 Hz OLED display, a large battery and a 50 MP quad camera set up.

The Poco F3 is now receiving its first-ever MIUI 13 build. This update brings Android 12-based MIUI 13 to the popular phone and weighs in at a whopping 3.2 GB. The Xiaomi 11T Pro also receives a similar Android 12-based OTA that looks to be in stable form.

TCL's existing 30-series smartphones are new devices pitched at the US market. Now, it has announced new variants for the European market at the latest Mobile World Congress (MWC). They include the 30 5G, accompanied by Plus, SE, and E variants, starting from under US$160.

The Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra running the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 SoC seems to be performing rather poorly in graphic-intensive titles such as Genshin Impact when compared to the iPhone 13 Pro Max with the A15 Bionic. The Galaxy S22 Ultra was shown to have low, inconsistent frame rates at a higher power consumption compared to the iPhone 13 Pro Max's near-60 fps performance at lower power.

Xiaomi has unveiled yet more Redmi Note 11 smartphones. This time, the company has presented the Redmi Note 11E and Redmi Note 11E Pro, two very different smartphones. Currently available only in China, the Redmi Note 11E series will be orderable later this month.

Aohi has introduced itself as a "new smart brand" that sells high-tech power bricks rated to charge different devices at advanced wattages. Its latest such product is rated for 100W with Power Delivery (PD) - however, the OEM asserts that it is "40% smaller" than the charger typically used for machines such as MacBook Pros. It is shipped with a cable that has its own little read-out to display the speed of each charge.

LG has committed to upgrading the LG Velvet to Android 12 by the end of this month. LG's Android 12 rollout will begin in South Korea and could take a while before it reaches other markets. The likes of the LG Wing should be in line for Android 12 too.

The release of the Galaxy S22 Ultra already made it clear that Samsung intended to shutter the Galaxy Note series. However, the head of Samsung's smartphone division has confirmed that there will be no more Galaxy Note-branded smartphones, with future Galaxy S Ultra models taking their place instead.

Xiaomi has updated the Mi A3 to the February 2022 security patch on its global software channel. The soon-to-be-replaced security patch arrives as V12.0.20.0.RFQMIXM, a 13 MB OTA file that is also available as a fastboot or recovery file.

A leak has confirmed that Xiaomi will not be announcing the Xiaomi 12, Xiaomi 12X or Xiaomi 12 Pro this week at MWC 2022. Instead, the company will reveal the Xiaomi 12 series globally in two weeks. The same leak confirms that the launch event will be an online affair and will be watchable across multiple social media channels.

Oppo has revealed the Find X5 series globally, but we are still waiting on OnePlus to do the same with the OnePlus 10 Pro. The latter has finally confirmed that the OnePlus 10 Pro will appear outside China later this month and still with OxygenOS. Pete Lau has announced that OnePlus will not be ditching OxygenOS any time soon, either.

MediaTek's newly launched sub-premium chipsets, the Dimensity 8100 and Dimensity 8000, will see widespread adoption. Xiaomi, Realme, and OnePlus have now all confirmed incoming devices with the 5 nm Dimensity 8100, with the OPPO K10 series set to get the Dimensity 8000.

MediaTek has finally lifted the covers of the Dimensity 8000 and Dimensity 8100. Both SoCs feature four ARM Cortex-A78 cores, four Cortex-A55 cores, a Mali G610 GPU, 200 MP camera support, and more. They will debut alongside Chinese-origin smartphones in Q1, 2022.

Yet again, it appears owners of the Exynos model of Samsung's newest flagship phone, the Galaxy S22 Ultra, get the short end of the stick. Going by side-by-side comparisons, the Exynos 2200-powered phones display both worse battery life and video recording.

Realme has finally announced its latest charging technology for smartphones. The new UltraDart system can apparently support rates of up to 200W, although it will start at 150W in its first-ever phone. It is thus rated to charge its battery by 50% in just 5 minutes while controlling the amount of heat generated in the process.

A leaker has leaked numerous specifications about the POCO F4, one of many upcoming Xiaomi smartphones. Reputedly, the POCO F4 will arrive with a 6.3-inch AMOLED display, a large battery and high wattage fast charging. For some reason, Xiaomi has not sought to upgrade the POCO F3 in all areas, such as SoC.

The GT2 Pro is Realme's early-2022 flagship smartphone, powered by the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 processor and up to 12GB of RAM. It is slated to launch in Europe soon; however, a blog now purports to spill the prices to be unveiled during that event in advance. They potentially point to marked affordability for these specs, only beaten in this respect by the phone's vanilla GT2 sibling.

Lenovo has now made its first-gen Legion Y-series Android smartphone official. It brings a relatively novel form-factor to its market, having rear-firing fans that blast through its rear panel and surround its RGB logo. Its Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 processor and generous battery drive a 144Hz AMOLED display with a 720Hz multi-finger touch-sampling rate.

At its launch event today, Realme announced the debuts of the Realme GT 2 and GT 2 Pro for the global market, as well as updating its software update policy to match Google's on the major OS upgrade front.

Oppo has broken all fast charging records by showcasing its 240 W SuperVOOC technology. It can supposedly charge a 4,500 mAh smartphone battery in just 9 minutes. The tech could make its way to future Oppo flagship smartphones.

Honor has officially launched the Magic 4 and Magic 4 Pro in Europe, with prices starting at €899 former and €1,099 for the latter. Both phones feature a Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 SoC, 120 Hz LTPO HDR10+ AMOLED screens with a MEMC chip, and more.

Xiaomi has released the second version of the POCO M4 Pro globally. Now a 4G model, the new POCO M4 Pro has a 6.43-inch AMOLED display, a Helio G96 SoC and four cameras. The POCO M4 Pro (4G) starts at €199 and is available with up to 8 GB of RAM and 256 GB of storage.