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OPPO's Reno8 is currently 2022's only smartphone in the top 3 of DxOMark's charts in terms of battery performance. It has outscored others such as the iPhone 13 Pro Max thanks to its apparently impressive efficiency and lengthy screen-on time, especially on standby. Its up-to-date 80W charging speed didn't hurt either, of course.

Vivo has now acknowledged rumors of a launch for an even higher-end Plus version of its flagship-grade X80 Pro Android smartphone - however, it has also revealed that those plans have just been cancelled. The OEM has reportedly decided to redirect its efforts to a debut for next-gen X90-series devices instead, a Pro+ model included.

New information about the Samsung Galaxy Tab S8 FE has emerged via a Geekbench listing. It will run a MediaTek Kompanio 900T chipset, 4 GB of RAM and Android 13 out of the box.

New renders of the Samsung Galaxy S23 have emerged online. The phone takes a page out of the Galaxy S22 Ultra's playbook and houses each camera sensor individually. Everything else about its design is largely identical to that of its predecessor.

Although the Pixel 6a is the smallest and most affordable Pixel smartphone from Google, its performance is high. With the Tensor SoC, the 6.1-inch smartphone offers the same performance as the more expensive Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro, which makes it extraordinarily fast for the mid-range. In addition, it offers extensive equipment including an AMOLED display and a powerful dual-camera system.

Xiaomi's rumored next-gen Android flagship smartphones might indeed be closer than ever to their projected late-2022 launch, as one of them might have surfaced on the 3C website already. This "13 Pro" may thus have been revealed as having the same charging tech as its predecessor - however, that might still ensure it blasts past most of its potential competition in that regard.

Infinix has launched its first-gen 180W ThunderCharge smartphone via an online retail partner - revealing in the process that it will also challenge the Motorola Edge 30 Ultra with a 200MP main rear camera. Then again, that is where the potentially top-end specs stop with this new Zero Ultra.

Vivo's impending new foldable Android flagship smartphone the Vivo X Fold Plus (or Fold+) has popped up on the Wireless Power Consortium's website. The new leak links the device to 11 watt (W) wireless charging, which, as its predecessor was rated to charge much faster the same way, is a little odd.

Poco offers two smartphones in the mid-range between US$ 350 and 400: the F4 and the X4 GT. What do the two smartphones have in common, and what are the differences in hardware?

OPPO is already rumored to launch a flagship Android smartphone called the Find X6 Pro in 2023. Now, a new leak thought to outline camera specs for it and its vanilla counterpart may or may not hint at an upgrade for its supposedly triple-lensed hump. The new tip also contains a possible tip said to pertain to the OnePlus 11.

Angstronomics has meticulously created a rough image of the Apple A16 Bionic's die. Key changes include new P (Everest) and E (Sawtooth) cores, readjusted L2 and SLC cache values and a slightly larger area.

Samsung's latest Galaxy Z Flip4 clamshell foldable smartphone has passed a teardown video with flying colors - sort of. While the new flagship Android device was fully functional throughout the new clip, taking it apart in full still proved more difficult than average. In addition, it seems those who aspire to try this for themselves need to be particularly careful with some parts as they come out.

Samsung touts its Galaxy Tab Active4 Pro and XCover6 Pro as the most reliable and versatile rugged tablet and smartphone respectively it has made to date. Now, the OEM has announced official availability for the two new Android devices in the US, in terms of commercial channels and vendors. One can be ordered from now, whereas the other cannot.

Motorola might be about to unleash the Razr 2022 on the international market. A famous leaker claims to have dug up renders for the new foldable Android device, some of which show an English-language UI for the first time. Therefore, the premium pOLED smartphone may indeed be ready for new markets soon.

ZTE has issued what might be its response to the launch of the iPhone 14 series with one of its own for a smartphone with no kind of display punch-hole at all. It will go live as the Axon 30S later in September 2022, with the same "ultimate screen-to-body ratio" as its flagship counterpart. Its selfie camera-concealing display is said to be AMOLED, even though it may be driven by a mid-tier processor.

OnePlus has announced a new Open Beta for its 2021 9-series smartphones. It offers users early access to its OxygenOS 13 skin for Android, which will upgrade the former flagships to the latest software available to them with the newest custom features from its OEM. Then again, it is not yet available for all regions in which the devices are sold, and may come with unexpected bugs due to its non-stable status.

Wi-Fi 7 is the latest standard in conventional consumer-grade wireless data technology, and as such may start to overtake its 6/6E predecessors as the latest in marketing buzzwords alongside phrases such as 'cutting-edge'. Now, a prominent industry blog claims to have ascertained when this spec will start hitting smartphones, which might in turn define the generation of flagships from prominent OEMs that will debut with it.

OnePlus has announced that its early-2022 flagship smartphone, the 10 Pro, can now be updated to the latest software from the OEM. OxygenOS 13 (or OOS) is based on the corresponding, equally new, version of Android, and as such packs a new UI design, always-on displays and performance-focused features. However, it is only available to certain users in this initial phase of its roll-out.

Huawei's latest range of premium phablets launched with 4G/LTE-only versions of their flagship-grade chipsets due to the US governmental embargoes under which the OEM operates. However, according to an eminent leaker, a Mate 50 customer may now buy a new third-party accessory that confers sub-6GHz connectivity to the device. The cases are even equipped with their own chipset for this purpose.

Vivo has now confirmed that it will indeed launch a new Plus version of its top-end X Fold Android smartphone. The OEM has dropped hints as to how this upcoming foldable will look, which is mostly like its immediate predecessor with a new finish option. On the other hand, the Plus model is touted to have additional upgrades, even if they are mostly on the inside.

Key OnePlus 11 Pro specifications have been revealed by a new leak. They include a Snapdragon 8 Gen 2, 50 MP primary camera sensor, 32 MP telephoto lens, 48 MP ultra-wide-angle lens, 16 GB of RAM and a 5,000 mAh battery that supports 100W fast charging.

Renowned leaker Ice Universe says that some Samsung Electronics executives are insisting on an Exynos 2300-powered Galaxy S23 to be launched alongside the Snapdragon models. It goes against multiple reports from earlier which suggested that the flagships would exclusively use Qualcomm silicon.

Twitter leaker has confirmed key specifications of the upcoming Vivo X90 Pro+. The flagship smartphone will be launched in December with high-end cameras, a Snapdragon 8 Gen 2, Samsung E6 AMOLED screen, LPDDR5X memory and UFS 4.0 storage.

Vivo has announced that it will launch an X Fold Plus later in 2022. Now, the upcoming foldable Android flagship may have surfaced on the AnTuTu website, 120Hz display driven by the Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1 processor and all. These specs may have powered it to well over a million points on this benchmark, which may be a considerable improvement over its predecessor.

iFixit has reportedly released a preview of its iPhone 14 Pro Max teardown that reveals how the new top-end mobile flagship's inaugural emergency satellite access works. It apparently involves a component found in many other 5G devices, some of which are not even from Apple. The Snapdragon X65 is a 2021 modem also capable of delivering 5G connectivity.

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.

Apple is well-known for baking replacement part-detection measures into iOS, resulting in error messages and broken functions should a user dare to do something like replace their own iPhone's display. The new 14 Pro flagship has shown itself to be just as repair-unfriendly as the 13 Pro in the latest video from a prominent device-repair YouTuber - however, a comparable video may prove that these issues have gone away in the vanilla 14.

It's September 17, 2022, which means that the mobile consumer tech company OPPO has been around for 18 years to the day today. Carl Pei's former employer has marked this occasion with a debut for its new international Community website, which is also to act as a hub for initiatives such as its global Product Ambassadors Program.

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.

Honor has just unleashed a competitor into the budget 5G Android smartphone market with the X40; now, OPPO has sent the latest addition to its 2022 K10 series to challenge it. The two devices start at the same price with similar battery capacities and display refresh rates; however, one's advantages might outweigh those of the other for some consumers.

Sony's Xperia 10 IV belongs to a rare breed of smartphones: At just 6 inches, the mid-range device is quite small by today's standards. In particular, the AMOLED Android smartphone shines in terms of battery life.

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.

The Zenfone 9 leaves a positive impression in our test. In addition to a high performance and very attractive gimbal technology, the Asus smartphone includes extensive equipment such as a low-noise 3.5mm audio port. On the other hand, there is still room for improvement in the update support.

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.

5G is touted as capable of delivering multi-gigabit per second (Gb/s) downloads; however, some proponents of its next generation assert that it will scale mobile data speeds up to terabit (Tb) speeds. LG purports to have gotten even closer to this kind of future with the latest demo of what is known as "6G THz (or terahertz) data" at Berlin's Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute (HHI). Furthermore, the partners assert that it has worked over the longest distance outdoors recorded to date.

Motorola has revealed that its world-first 200MP main camera flagship Android smartphone will sell in Europe as the Edge 30 Ultra; now, the OEM has confirmed that this global model is on its way to India as well. It will arrive along with its "elegant" sibling the 30 Fusion onto Flipkart in late September 2022.

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.

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.

Like the Xiaomi 12S Ultra, the Xiaomi 12S Pro shows a discrepancy between the advertised manufacturer specifications and our brightness measurements. However, this not only goes for Xiaomi smartphones, but we also observed the same problem in the OnePlus or Oppo smartphones, for example.

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 latest Flip-series Samsung foldable smartphone has now followed its predecessor into a JerryRigEverything durability test. The new premium device seemed to match its forebear in terms of robustness for most of this new video - however, it gave what might be some cause for concern toward the end.

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.