vivo iQOO Z5 with Snapdragon 778G hits India

vivo iQOO Z5 with Snapdragon 778G hits India Three days after the Chinese debut, the vivo iQOO Z5 arrived in its first international market – India. The local Amazon will offer the phone starting at INR23,990 ($325).

iQOO confirmed both the 8GB and 12GB RAM variants will be available. The phone comes with FuntouchOS 12 out of the box, and we have a confirmation vivo is not ready to bring OriginOS to the global audience. At least we have a promise for two years of Android upgrades and three years of security patches.

vivo iQOO Z5

The 5,000 mAh battery comes with 44W fast charging which seems like a downgrade from the…

Xiaomi Watch 2 unveiled with third-party app, new TWS buds with spatial audio also launch

Xiaomi Watch 2 unveiled with third-party app, new TWS buds with spatial audio also launch The original Mi Watch had a long and productive life, now its time has come to be replaced – alongside the Civi announcement, Xiaomi also unveiled the Xiaomi Watch 2 (aka Watch Color 2). There is a new TWS headset with Active Noise Cancellation (ANC) too, but let’s look at the watch first.

The Xiaomi Watch 2 features a new display, a 1.43” AMOLED, which keeps the 326 ppi pixel density (the original watch had a 1.39” AMOLED). The metal bezel around the display is available in three colors, which can be combined with over 200 watch faces and 6 strap colors (black, blue, white, green, yellow,…

Oppo K9 Pro is official with Dimensity 1200, 60W fast charging

Oppo K9 Pro is official with Dimensity 1200, 60W fast charging The Oppo K9 Pro smartphone is now official. We already knew a lot about it since the company announced its key specs and features earlier – Dimensity 1200 chipset by Mediatek, 120Hz display and an OLED display.

The front panel is a 6.43” OLED with Full HD+ resolution, 120Hz refresh rate and 180Hz touch sampling rate. It covers 100% of the DCI-P3 color space, supports HDR10, and has 430 nits typical brightness and up to 800 nits peak. That’s the very same panel used on the Dimensity 1200-powered Realme GT Neo.

The two phones also share the triple camera on the back including 64MP…

Honor announces MagicBook trio of 16, 16 Pro and V 14

Honor announces MagicBook trio of 16, 16 Pro and V 14 Honor laptops are getting more competitive and feature-rich with each iteration and the latest proof are the just announced MagicBook 16, 16 Pro and V 14. The first two focus on delivering a lightweight experience while V 14 is the high-end flagship model in Honor’s laptop range.

Honor MagicBook V 14

MagicBook V 14 is Honor’s first laptop powered by Intel’s Evo 11 platform. It comes with Intel’s 11-gen processors and NVIDIA Geforce MX450 GPU. There’s a 14.2-inch LTPS LCD touchscreen with 2520 x 1680 pixel resolution, 90Hz refresh rate and 3:2 aspect ratio. The panel covers 100% sRGB…

Xiaomi Civi unveiled with Snapdragon 778G, 6.55″ 120Hz OLED display and 55W fast charging

Xiaomi Civi unveiled with Snapdragon 778G, 6.55″ 120Hz OLED display and 55W fast charging Xiaomi is changing up its naming scheme this year – first it dropped the “Mi”, now it is rebranding the CC line. Meet the Xiaomi Civi, the latest mid-ranger from the company. There’s only one for now, the company hasn’t said anything about a Pro or an “e” model yet.

And this one isn’t quite as camera-obsessed as the Mi CC9 Pro – there’s no 100+ megapixel sensor or a 5x tele camera on this one. The Civi does place a lot of emphasis on design, however.

It is powered by the Snapdragon 778G, one of the more exciting chipsets to launch recently. Fabbed on TSMC’s 6 nm process, it is an…

Apple to push an update fixing 120Hz screen behavior in third-party apps

Apple to push an update fixing 120Hz screen behavior in third-party apps With the release of iPhone 13 Pro and Pro Max, Apple finally introduced high refresh rate displays on its flagship phones. In order to be more battery-efficient the feature’s implementation on iOS is different to that on the iPads with similar screens in the past, but was found to cause issues. Apple has now promised to update its phones to rectify this.

By default, most of the third-party apps are locked to 60Hz right now with 120Hz kicking in only for some animations and scrolling. In fact, there’s a bug that caps some Core Animations to 60Hz so a future patch would fix that…

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