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The GTR 3 and its new Pro version are now the latest round-faced flagship smartwatches from Amazfit. The OEM touts them as the wearables with the largest circular AMOLED displays in the industry. They also boast an expanded panel of sports modes, not to mention the brand's newest health-tracking sensors and panel of workout modes.

The Lumix BS1H is Panasonic's latest cuboid-style digital cinema camera with a full-frame sensor. The OEM touts it as a particularly manageable entry into this level of videography, as it has crammed its up-to-date 6K specs into a particularly compact form-factor. It also supports a familiar range of outputs that include SD cards, HDMI and IP streaming.

Canon has announced the RF5.2mm f/2.8L, created with the dual fish-eye lenses needed to convert a single DSLR into a VR content-creation machine. This new binocular accessory is compatible with the EOS R5, and confers 180-degree 3-dimensional stereoscopic recording in up to 8K on the flagship camera.

XPG has announced that it is the first OEM to get its DDR5 RAM to reach a speed of over 8,000 megatransfers per second (MT/s). The company claims to have achieved this feat using memory with a default clock of 4,800MT/s. The RAM in question is to be launched later in 2021.

XDO Tech's Pantera Pico PC may be one of the best-known mini-PCs of recent days, thanks to its highly successful Kickstarter campaign. This crowdfunding drive has now closed, having raised "over 4800%" of its original its availability has shifted to InDemand on Indiegogo, starting at ~US$160 on this platform.

The Honor 50 is a Snapdragon 778G-powered Android smartphone with a 120Hz AMOLED screen and a 108MP main camera. It is mainly only available in China to date; however, a prolific leaker now asserts that it will launch in Europe by the end of October 2021. Then again, it may do so at a higher price than many of its potential competitors.

The Motorola Moto E40 has been hyped in potentia as its series' very first high-refresh-rate smartphone; now, a new "Coming Soon" page on Flipkart has revealed that this is indeed the case. It seems the retail platform will be one of the first to list the probably super-budget phone later in October 2021.

Asus has announced that the VivoBook 15 OLED (or K513 OLED) is now available to Indian customers. It comes with a choice of 2 11th-gen Intel processors and either SSD or dual HDD/SSD storage. Its premium selling-point of a display is the FHD Pantone-validated panel with which it originally launched.

Today (October 5, 2021), ADATA has made its latest 15.6-inch XPG XENIA-series laptop official. The 15 KC upgrades to an 11th-gen Intel processor and RTX 3000 graphics. Being an XPG, it gets first-party "high-performance" DDR4 RAM and SSD storage.

Western Digital has released an affordable budget SSD that is mainly intended for content creators and other price sensitive users who do not need every last bit of performance in order to securely store their data.

Realme has only just debuted its second-gen Neo smartphone in its native China; now, a new leak asserts that the device is about to go international. The OEM is said to bring most of its RAM/storage configuration in all of its new colorways to Europe, although the exact date of this alleged event remains unknown.

A tech blog claims to have uncovered evidence of a new portable gaming device developed by Lenovo. This putative answer to the Nintendo Switch or Sony PSP goes under the Legion brand and runs Android - or, rather, it would have, had the OEM not chosen to cancel it ahead of its launch. Should it have made it to the market in 2021, it may have worked as a cloud and streaming machine too.

Motorola is now thought to have a Moto G30 successor in the works. Now, this device has allegedly turned up in live-image form at the Taiwanese NCC regulator. They show that the pre-launch smartphone will have a potentially high-end main camera and a large battery.

MediaTek has unveiled a new "high-performance" series dedicated to the latest standard of wireless connectivity. It now consists of the Filogic 830 and 630, the line's first examples of system-on-chips (SoCs) and network interface cards (NICs) respectively. They are slated to confer top-end Wi-Fi specs on devices such as PCs, smart TVs and peripherals.

Motorola's latest announcement is a rare one, as it is for a tablet rather than a phone. The new Moto Tab G20 is an 8-inch slate with an HD+ resolution and a budget-grade MediaTek processor. Nevertheless, its specs do not match those of another rumored tablet from the same brand.

Nokia is linked to the launch of a number of new mobile devices soon. Now, a new leak suggests that one of them will be powered by a low-end Snapdragon processor, the specs of which also indicates this potentially upcoming handset will also be 5G. Therefore, it is now being painted as a more affordable version of another rumored smartphone.

The new PCIe 3.0 NVMe M.2 SSDs by Western Digital may not even remotely be the fastest storage solution on the market, but with their reasonable prices they should make reliable components for your NAS system at home.

Sharp has brought its ultra-high display refresh rate to another new phone in 2021. At 146g, this Aquos zero6 is also now touted as the lightest mobile device with 5G in existence. It has launched alongside the sense6 5G, probably the more affordable option of the two, and touted as slimmer than its predecessor.

Micron Technology released DRAM based on its latest 1-alpha (or 1α) 10 nanometer (nm) process for flagship-grade mobile devices earlier in 2021. Now, the resulting type of low-power DDR (LPDDR) is trickling down to lower-end smartphones. It is rated for increased memory density with reduced power consumption compared to its predecessor.

Samsung has launched its "meanest ever" 5G phone for the Indian market, the Galaxy M52, today (September 28, 2021). This event, held in conjunction with Amazon.in, has finally confirmed the device's 120Hz display size, RAM/storage configurations and pricing. The latter will be in effect from early October.

Xiaomi's Redmi 9 series is a head-scratcher, particularly as its members can be completely different from market to market. Now, the OEM has added to this confusion with the new India-specific 9 Activ variant. It has been unveiled alongside Sport versions of the 9A and 9i, which also might make one wonder why they exist in the first place.

Nokia has indicated it will hold a product launch event in October 2021. The HMD Global brand has also all but confirmed that it will serve to unveil a tablet. This device will, apparently, offer the same experience as one of the company's phones, just in a larger form-factor.

Honor has just expanded its new Tab V7 series with a second, vanilla variant. It looks much like its flagship counterpart, although it has a smaller, lower-end display and a more mid-range processor. Then again, it retains support for the new Magic Pencil 2, has quad speakers and runs the same new OS as the Tab V7 Pro.

OPPO has debuted 3 new products today (September 26, 2021). The OEM has already spilled many details for the K9 Pro, as well as its new TV, already. However, some juicy tidbits remain to be unveiled, the smartphone's unexpected new co-branding promotions included.

The Moto E40 has yet to be confirmed, and yet is currently thought to be ranked among the highest-end devices of its series on its launch. It is rumored to be the first of the line to have a 90Hz display. Its newest leak suggests it could stand out in other ways as well.

Motorola has been said to have a new member of the Moto G series called the Pure nearly ready for launch. Now, new leaks purport to confirm this product name, as well as some pertinent specs for the device. They include a fairly generous "ultrawide" display, a MediaTek Helio processor and a battery rated to last up to 48 hours.

Apple is notoriously tight-lipped on the subject of its new iPhones' batteries and their exact specs. Now, however, this mystery is being gradually solved through online testing. The latest of these may reveal capacity for the Pro variant of the 13 series, while also providing a teardown for the device and a comparison with its direct predecessor.

As if modern solid state drives weren't already fast enough, Kioxia has now presented the technical data of its first PCIe 5.0 SSD prototype that delivers an impressive performance both while reading and writing data.

Huawei has unveiled the Nova 9 and its Pro variant in China today (September 23, 2021). They fall into the premium mid-range category with their Snapdragon 778G processors. However, they are practically unicorns in this sense as they are also 4G/LTE-only.

iQOO has launched the latest addition to its mid-range Z series of Android smartphones today (September 23, 2021). This new model has been revealed as a triple rear camera device with a 64MP rear camera, a 120Hz display and a large battery, starting at under US$300 in China.

Sony has pretty clear requirements when it comes to the read speed of SSDs that can be used to expand the storage of its next-gen PlayStation 5 console. In a new video, Digital Foundry has now tested what exactly happens to the console's gaming performance when you install a PCIe 4.0 SSD that does not meet Sony's required specs.

The GT Neo2 is now official as Realme's latest 120Hz AMOLED display smartphone. The Android 11 device is by a powered by a high-end Snapdragon processor and up to 12GB of RAM. The OEM has packed this latest iteration of a gaming-focused series with heat-management options touted to include "diamond" thermal paste.

Reolink's latest home security camera has go-to specs such as spotlights, two-way audio, microSD card support and the option of truly-wireless battery power. However, it also has something new to this brand: dual lenses. They enable the device to guard a wide-angle field of view in up to 2K or color night vision.

Lenovo has released a new teaser for a laptop it calls the Yoga 16s 2022. The OEM does not say much more about the device, besides to hint that it might be ideal for creators. However, it is apparent from its new trailer that it runs Windows 11 and has a slim and light, thin-bezel design.

Samsung's "most anticipated monster", the Galaxy M52 5G, was slated to have launched by now in its target market of India. This event has now been pushed back; in the meantime, the OEM has revealed that it is to be the slimmest of its series to date and will have a premium mid-range processor.

Huawei has already confirmed that the Nova 9 will launch a few short days from today (September 20, 2021). Now, a new in-the-wild-type leak points to an additional Pro sibling for this device that will conceivably debut on the same date. The images may also show the OEM has secured a typical premium mid-range Qualcomm chipset, albeit one without a potentially important spec normally seen in phones with the processor.

A regulator has now added official battery ratings for each member of the new iPhone 13 flagship series to its database. These stats indicate that the devices have improved in terms of the important metric in question by at least 11% per variant compared to their respective predecessors. The results might make Apple's claims of increased screen-on time in this generation a reality.

Apple launched the iPhone 13 line alongside assurances that it would ship all of its variants on the same day in September 2021. Now, it has emerged that this is no longer the case. The delay affects the Pro and Pro Max only, and applies to their larger storage SKUs.

Microsoft is projected to have a third-gen Surface Go ready for launch. This putative 2-in-1 has now leaked again, with virtually complete specs and a full set of renders this time. They paint the device as a very iterative update with Intel Amber Lake processors, although it might be more portable than its predecessor.

Motorola has announced that it intends to hold a virtual launch, held on its Czechian, Slovakia and Serbian Facebook pages. The OEM has yet to specify which devices will be revealed during these streams; however, some pages already up on its websites for one of these countries drops clues to one of them, at least.

OPPO is projected to launch a phone called the K9 Pro soon, with a rear panel possibly intended to remind one of a certain Xiaomi flagship. Now, its launch date may have been spoiled thanks to a new Chinese-market reservations page for this device. The new leak may confirm its name, design and some rear camera specs, so the OEM now does not have to.

Nokia is currently projected to launch a new 5G smartphone soon. Now, the appearance of a new device from this brand on the Federal Communications Commission have led to rumors this device is the G50 in question. Meanwhile, updated leaks concerning its screen size, other specs and price have emerged.

Some recent leaks point to a new series of Motorola Moto E smartphones set to launch throughout the rest of 2021. They have been slated to be called the E20 and E30. Now, a new Geekbench-derived tip suggest there is also an E40 gearing up to join them.

Motorola has made its latest Moto E-series phone official, although it seems exclusive to a handful of markets such as Brazil and the Netherlands at present. The decided sub-US$200 phone comes with a Unisoc processor, minimal RAM and an interesting textured rear panel.

Unveiled last week, Corsair's MP600 PRO XT is available in 1, 2, and 4 TB variants with sequential read speeds of up to 7,100 MB/s and capable of sequential writes of more than 6,800 MB/s. This new PCIe Gen 4 SSD with extreme performance features an aluminum heat spreader and comes with a five-year warranty.

The new FL6 SSDs feature the PCIe 4.0 NVMe 1.4 interface and combine the BiCS 3D NAND memory with the XL-FLASH memory to provide a hybrid solution that bridges the gap between DRAM and TLC-based TLC. Kioxia claims that FL6 is faster and more affordable than Intel's enterprise Optane SSDs, but does not actually provide any figures or prices.

iQOO has confirmed that it will launch a smartphone called the Z5 later in September 2021. The brand has also indirectly revealed that it will be a premium mid-ranger, thanks to its SoC, RAM and storage specs. A new leak also suggests it will have an FHD+ display.

Now that the iPad Mini has moved on to USB type-C in its latest form, OWC strongly hints that one of its latest accessories is an ideal companion for the tablet, considering its new prospects. They include a hub that can expand a connected device's port count by 3 Thunderbolt 4 ports.

Xiaomi's latest mesh networking system comes in a pack of just 2 tower-like "nodes"; nevertheless, the OEM asserts this is all that is needed to allow the AX3000 to emit fast Wi-Fi 6 signals over an area of just over 370 square meters. It is based on a Qualcomm processor and also offers Gigabit ports.