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The vivo iQOO 8 Pro will have a 50MP main camera, 48MP ultrawide, VIS OIS

The vivo iQOO 8 series is coming on August 17 and the 8 Pro will bring a Snapdragon 888+ and Samsung’s E5 OLED with an LTPO controller capable of 1-120Hz variable frame rate adjustment.

Now vivo is teasing the cameras on the iQOO 8 Pro in a new poster. The main unit has 50MP resolution, while the ultrawide lens sits over the 48MP sensor, which used to be the main camera of the iQOO Pro from 2019 – a 1/2.0-inch sensor.

The third camera could be a mid-zoom option, reaching up to 60mm, or about 2.5x.

The main camera is equipped with vivo’s VIS five-axis stabilization, covering all the…

Honor announces partnership with IMAX, teases circular camera island for Magic 3

The Honor Magic 3 smartphone is expected to arrive on August 12 and will have a Snapdragon 888+ chipset. The brand has now announced a partnership with IMAX Enhanced on its Weibo page, where an image of a film reel was posted which looks a lot like a circular camera setup, similar to what we’ve already seen in previous leaks.

Honor x IMAX Enhanced poster • Honor Magic 3 hands-on photo

IMAX Enhanced is the product of joint work between IMAX, the proprietary system of high-res cameras, film formats, film projectors and theaters, and DTS, an American audio company. The Enhanced…

Samsung’s Exynos W920 is a 5nm chipset set to power the Galaxy Watch4 series

A day before its big Galaxy Unpacked event, Samsung announced a new chipset for wearables dubbed Exynos W920. The SoC is set to power the upcoming Galaxy Watch4 series as well as future Samsung wearables to come. It’s built on a 5nm EUV process armed with two ARM Cortex-A55 cores and an ARM Mali-G68 GPU.

Samsung claims a 20% CPU improvement over the preceding Exynos W9110 and a ten-fold graphics boost. The new chip also packs a dedicated Cortex M55 co-processor for handing Always-On Display use.

Connectivity-wise the W920 brings a 4G LTE Cat.4 modem and a Global Navigation Satellite…

Watch the Xiaomi Mi Mix 4, Mi Pad 5 launch live

Xiaomi is about to introduce its Mi Mix 4 flagship smartphone and Mi Pad 5 tablet. Both devices are bound to be flagship-tier, with the phone being the first in the world with Snapdragon 888+, while the tablet is aiming to be a direct competitor to the Galaxy Tab S7 series and the latest iPad Pro 11. The event is scheduled for 19:30 Beijing Time, which is 11:30 GMT.

The event is taking place in China, so logically it will be in Chinese. This is also the first market to get the new device but hopefully the international rollout won’t take long.

We’ve embedded the video below but if…

Realme Book is coming on August 18 with MacBook Air-like design

Realme’s been teasing the Realme Book since June, and today it announced that the laptop will be fully unveiled on August 18 in China at 3PM local time.

On the same day, Realme will introduce the Realme GT series in India, and it’s currently unclear if the Realme Book will be announced in the company’s biggest market or will remain China-exclusive initially.

That said, while Realme hasn’t detailed the specs sheet of its first laptop, its leaked and official images revealed the notebook will look like Apple’s MacBook Air.

We also know that the Realme Book will pack a 2K display…

Google begins rolling out updated time prompt on latest version of Google Keep

Android 12 will bring Android’s new Material You redesign. Ahead of the change, Google is rolling out an updated interface for selecting a time (such as when setting an alarm) across the stock Android apps.

Old time selector (left), New time selector (right)

The change was spotted by 9to5Google and already seen when setting the time for Google reminders. It is more recently reflected in the latest version (v5.21.301.10) of the Google Keep app. Not only is the space better utilized for selecting AM/PM, but you can also see the Material You number pad with rounded buttons…

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