Leaks / Rumors

The first hands-on image of the Xiaomi 13 Pro has surfaced online, months before the device's arrival. Bearing a familiar design, the Xiaomi 13 Pro has a Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 chipset and 12 GB of RAM, among other features.

The carrier China Telecom is tipped to start selling the new Galaxy Z Flip4 and Fold4 soon, albeit in the guise of heavily-customized rebrands. According to a famous leaker, they will join the premium W series, which did much the same thing with the Fold3 of 2021. Therefore, there may be more exclusive accents and price-tags easily exceeding US$2,000 in these variants' futures.

Honor has announced that its latest Android tablet is coming to the Indian market soon. The Pad 8 will bring its 2K "FullView" display, metallic unibody and 8 speakers with it to its next upcoming launch via Flipkart. However, it seems its top-end SKU will not be available on its new platform from its debut.

With the Pixel 6 and the Pixel 6 Pro, Google moved away from the compact form factor of the Pixel 5. While many welcomed the bigger screens of the new flagships, some bemoaned the considerable size increase. Now, a new report from Digital Chat Station over on Weibo alleges that Google might be working on a small flagship again.

Some early GTA 6 gameplay footage has been leaked online. It highlights many key aspects of the game and confirms at least one of the locations it could be set in.

The Redmi Pad is set to debut as Xiaomi's first Redmi-branded tablet. Ahead of its launch, however, information has now surfaced about its color options and configuration, along with confirmation of a WiFi-only model.

The iPhone 14 has been revealed to have a rear glass back panel that may have much more ease of removal compared to its predecessor. This discovery has moved a device-teardown YouTuber to check if this means the cover might come flying off if a unit is dropped onto concrete. Fortunately, doing so from various heights resulted in potentially encouraging news for those interested in this new vanilla Apple flagship.

The 12-core, 24-thread AMD Ryzen 9 7900X has made its Geekbench debut with a single-core score of 2,167 and a multi-core score of 18,662. It is a hair faster than the Intel Core i7-13700KF, which scored 2,065 and 18,402 in the test.

Ulefone asserts that it will break smartphone speaker limits in 2022 with the upcoming Power Armor 16 Pro, a smartphone that will also run Android 12 using a battery of over 9,000mAh in capacity. The OEM claims that it will achieve "the highest volume" with 3.5 watts (W) of audio power using an 11.5 cubic centimeter (cc) "sound cavity".

Press images of the Xiaomi 12T and Xiaomi 12T Pro have leaked, as have specifications and European prices for the pair. Surprisingly, Xiaomi is set to make the Xiaomi 12T and Xiaomi 12T Pro significantly more expensive than their predecessors. For some reason, the Xiaomi 12T will launch for as much as the Xiaomi 11T Pro did last year.

According to new leaks, Xiaomi is on the verge of releasing a successor to the Xiaomi CIVI. Predictably called the Xiaomi CIVI 2, the upcoming smartphone may also receive a global release, unlike its predecessor. However, Xiaomi may keep the CIVI brand a Chinese exclusive, with the CIVI 2 arriving globally under a different name, like the Xiaomi 12 Lite 5G NE or Xiaomi 13 Lite.

At first glance, the Camon 19 Pro Mondrian Edition gives the impression that Tecno has made a white smartphone finished with stark black lines that form an artful pattern of squares on its back. However, the OEM asserts that exposing this rear panel to light turns its colors up in a way that lives up to its new name. The new 19 Pro special edition will become available via Amazon.in soon.

Vivo has just registered a new product with the Chinese authority TENAA that, as is abundantly clear by the look of it, is the anticipated late-2022 refresh of the OEM's first-gen X Fold flagship smartphone. Its most valid leak to date might have uncovered one of the 'new' top-end Android foldable's most marketable upgrades already.

A new leak from Weibo's Digital Chat Station says that the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 will be launched in two versions, one with its prime core clocked between 3.4-3.5 GHz. A faster GPU is included as well, but power-efficiency could be an issue at lower frequencies.

OPPO is projected to launch a Find X6 as well as an X6 Pro as flagships for its 2023 Android smartphone line-up that may or may not also act as templates of a sort for the OnePlus 11 and 11 Pro. Now, various Weibo leaks purport to spill display resolution specs for both of these variants, not to mention the silicon that will drive these potentially upgraded panels.

Information regarding the Intel Raptor Lake processors has been steadily leaking out over the past months. We have now seen the Core i9-13900K, the Core i7-13700KF, and the Core i5-13600K visit Geekbench for valid single-core and multi-core tests. This time a Core i5-13600KF has appeared on Geekbench giving us our first look at the chip’s alleged performance profile.

While phones like the Sharp Aquos R7 and Xperia Pro-I already launched with 1-inch (or 1-inch type) camera sensors, the Xiaomi 12S Ultra was the first the utilize it properly and receive the adequate media attention. The list of phones with such a sensor is set to lengthen next year, too, it appears with the Xiaomi 13 Pro tipped to be joined by phones from OPPO, Vivo, and Honor

Industry insider Kopite7kimi has confirmed key specs of the Nvidia GeForce RTX 4080. It will be offered in 12 GB and 16 GB flavours and feature varying CUDA core counts, memory modules and GPUs.

It seems that Huawei is preparing to launch the Mate 50 Pro in Europe, just a few weeks after its debut in China. The world's first smartphone with a multi-stage variable aperture camera should also arrive alongside the Nova 10 series and EMUI 13.

According to reports, Microsoft has settled on powerful Alder Lake-P series processors for the Intel version of the Surface Pro 9. By contrast, the Surface Pro 9 5G, the Surface Pro X's successor, will arrive with the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8cx Gen 3, an SoC with four ARM Cortex-X1 performance cores. Both models should feature 120 Hz displays too, unlike the current Surface Pro X.

While we have had a lot of leaks dissecting the hardware specifications and the performance of the RTX 40 series GPUs, the information regarding the price of the upcoming Nvidia Lovelace boards is scarce. We now have our first look at the alleged pre-order prices for the RTX 4090 being charged by a Vietnamese retailer.

According to new reports, Xiaomi is set to release another Redmi Note 11 series model. Reputedly, the device will be the Redmi Note 11 Pro 2023, which may actually be a re-branded Redmi Note 10 Pro. Tipped to arrive soon, the Xiaomi Redmi Note 11 Pro 2023 should receive a global release too.

According to new reports, Microsoft has a gaming laptop up its sleeve. Reputedly to be marketed as the Surface Gaming Laptop, the device is alleged to feature up to an Intel Core i7-12700H processor, 32 GB of RAM and an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti GPU. Irregularities in the specification sheet hint raise questions about the leak's authenticity, though.

Google has been thought to be ready to resurrect the Pixelbook line imminently. However, the Mountain View giant has now reportedly scrapped the project in its entirety, despite the fact that the product in question may have been ready to launch by 2023. The decision is supposedly related to the rise of the Chromebook throughout the decade thus far.

Intel has accidentally confirmed a couple of key details regarding the Raptor Lake processors. Adding to this, an official SKU chart for the 13th gen processors has surfaced that details almost everything about the upcoming CPUs. Per the chart, Intel is planning to release six Raptor Lake chips.

The Snapdragon 4 Gen 1 is Qualcomm's latest 6nm processor for next-gen budget 5G smartphones. Now, iQOO has announced that it will unleash the inaugural example of these mobile devices without further ado. It is backed to deliver many of its new SoC's potential advantages in a package with some high-end finishing touches.

Nvidia is scheduled to hold a “GeForce Beyond” broadcast at GTC on September 20. The company will most probably announce the RTX 40 series GPUs at the event. Paul from RedGamingTech has now put out a video discussing the launch schedule of upcoming Nvidia Lovelace graphics cards.

The Bavarian automaker’s powerful electric SUV would probably come with a correspondingly steep price tag, but thanks to a new drivetrain with four electric motors, the full-fledged M variant of the BMW iX3 could easily outperform the BMW i4 M50 and its 536 horsepower.

The GoPro Hero 11 Black Mini is reportedly set to debut next week and the latest leak yet reveals its major features and details, with the mini action cam ditching displays entirely in favor of a lower price tag versus the Hero 11 Black.

Apple has made some pretty powerful claims for the battery life of its new Watch Ultra, as indeed it has for the Series 8. Now, actual independent measurements for these wearables have emerged. They show that the Ultra may indeed have a significantly larger battery compared to its more traditional counterpart, although whether that really translates to longer screen-on times remains to be seen.

Apple has once again launched its latest iPhones with claims of generationally improved battery life in the absence of any numbers to back them up. However, the first independent estimates of their battery capacities have been unleashed to help fill in these blanks. If their results contain any surprises compared to the 13 series, they may be ones of the less expected variety.

The Intel Core i7-13700T has shown up on Geekbench. The sixteen-core, twenty-four-thread processor scored 1,939 and 11,564 on the single and multi-core tests, respectively. Its base/boost clocks are set at 1.4/4.78 GHz.

Renders of the OnePlus 11 Pro have now leaked well ahead of its launch, providing the clearest idea yet of what OnePlus's next-gen flagship will look like. Back on the cards is the alert slider that was so ruefully absent on the OnePlus 10T, along with Hasselblad camera branding.

YouTuber Moore's Law is Dead heard from his sources that Intel will soon give Arc the axe. Raja Koduri, head of Intel's GPU division, said the aforementioned statement was false by showing that the Arc A770 was being prepped for launch.

According to a new leak, mid-range smartphones next year will make the switch from FHD+ to 1.5K displays, with a resultant display pixel density in the 450 ppi range. Samsung, on the other hand, looks geared to equip the Galaxy S23 and S23+ with FHD+ screens once more, with the S22+ currently offering a miserly 393 ppi.

Nvidia is planning to release a minor refresh of some RTX 30 series GPUs. The updated boards can potentially include the RTX 3060, the RTX 3060 Ti, and the RTX 3070 Ti. All three cards are reportedly in the works with small hardware changes. Now VideoCardz confirms that the new RTX 3060 and the RTX 3060 Ti will launch sometime after the release of the RTX 40 series.

A new Sony Xperia compact smartphone could be made available worldwide according to the latest rumors about the expected Sony Xperia Ace IV. Sony recently released the Xperia 5 IV, which it classed as a compact smartphone, despite the presence of a 6.1-inch display. A global model based on the Xperia Ace lineup would likely have a much smaller form.

Xiaomi's CEO, Lei Jun, is still backing his company to become as big in the automotive industry as it currently is in the consumer-tech space. It is now said to get started with a 4-door vehicle equipped with the OEM's very own autonomous driving technology. The potentially affordable car is to be made in an equally first-party factory in China.

It seems that Google is working on two Pixel-branded tablets, rather than one as its teased in May. Based on new Android code, Google is also developing 'Tangorpro', unquestionably a 'Pro' version of 'Tangor', the codename for the regular Pixel Tablet.

Google may have ditched 'Pipit', the most recent codename for the long-awaited Pixel Fold. Now expected to launch in spring 2023, Google is rumoured to be developing the Pixel Fold under the codename 'Felix', likely with a Tensor G2 chipset too.

According to new findings within Android code, Google has decided to equip 'Lynx' and 'L10' with two Sony IMX712 cameras, an unreleased sensor. Reputedly, one will serve as the device's front-facing camera, while the second could be a new ultra-wide-angle camera for the Pixel series.

Current OnePlus 11 Pro leaks tip the OnePlus 10 Pro's successor to be a proper flagship phone with all the bells and whistles that entails. The vanilla OnePlus 11, however, looks set to be a less accomplished offering.

The first USB-C iPhone could end up being known as the Apple iPhone 15 Ultra, as early speculation about the next-generation iPhones continues. Two of the most well-known Apple analysts have offered matching opinions that Apple will move away from its current iPhone Pro naming scheme, which is where the iPhone 15 Ultra potentially comes in.

The X40 is an OLED-display Android smartphone now revealed to launch alongside a wider portfolio of new products, a laptop and a tablet included, later in September 2022. Now, the OEM has decided to get ahead of itself by revealing that it will debut in 3 different colorways with a generous battery capacity despite its "thin and light" status.

The iPhone 14 Pro and Pro Max apparently already show signs of outstripping their vanilla counterparts in terms of pre-order volumes. According to the widely-regarded analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, the higher-end new models from Apple have captured the vast majority of offline reservations in the Chinese market thus far, leaving the other 2 variants - the 14 Plus in particular - in the dust.

The Samsung Galaxy S23 series will be very much like the Galaxy S22 series in terms of dimensions and display specifications according to a well-known leaker. The Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra’s alleged measurements have already been shared, and it appears the Galaxy S23 and Galaxy S23+ will also be similarly uninspiring in this area, at least.

The Apple A16 Bionic has shown up on Geekbench once again. This time around, it fares a lot better with a single-threaded score of 1,887 and a multi-threaded score of 5,455.

Nvidia's internal test data for an unspecified GeForce RTX 4000 series graphic card has been leaked online. The SKU in question isn't a flagship model, and it is, on average, two times faster than Ampere in gaming and productivity applications such as Cyberpunk 2077, Control, Blender and Autodesk Arnold.

Thanks to frequent leaks, we don’t have to wait for an official announcement from Intel to get an idea about the performance of the Raptor Lake chips. Following the lead of the Core i9-13900K and the Core i7-13700KF, the Core i5-13600K has stopped by Geekbench for a set of valid single and multi-threaded tests.

An unnamed overclocker has provided Wccftech with a CPU-Z screenshot showing an overclocked Intel Core i9-13900K in action. The Raptor Lake processor goes as high as 8.0 GHz with LN2 cooling and a CPU voltage of 1.792 V.