AnTuTu bans Realme GT for three months after it uncovers cheating

AnTuTu bans Realme GT for three months after it uncovers cheating

Smartphone benchmarks are not without their doping scandals – in the latest turn of events AnTuTu has banned the Realme GT for cheating. The benchmark team posted an explanation of what happened on Weibo along with with proof.

Before the GT was announced, VP Xu Qi Chase posted a screenshot showing 770,221 points. That’s a lot higher than a typical Snapdragon 888 device, most phones top out at 710,000 and even Qualcomm’s reference design managed only 735,439. The AnTuTu team waited for the phone to go on sale and bought one for testing.

The AnTuTu team bought a Realme GT from the…

vivo iQOO Neo5 is official with 66W fast-charging and SD870 chipset

vivo iQOO Neo5 is official with 66W fast-charging and SD870 chipset

vivo has officially introduced the iQOO Neo5 – its latest gaming smartphone with a Snapdragon 870 platform, effectively becoming the first device of the company with the new Qualcomm chipset. Other impressive specs of the phone include ultra-fast charging, 120Hz refresh rate and 1000Hz touch sampling rate.

Key specs of vivo iQOO Neo5 from the official presentation in Chinese

The vivo iQOO Neo5 impressive refresh rate is on a 6.62″ OLED panel of Full HD+ resolution. It is HDR10+ certified and is advertised to have a peak brightness of 1,300 nits. On the inside, vivo coupled the…

ZTE Axon 30 Pro to bring three 64MP cameras

ZTE Axon 30 Pro to bring three 64MP cameras

ZTE has been teasing its upcoming Axon 30 Pro since the start of the year and so far we’ve seen teasers that the phone will launch with a triple camera setup. In a new Weibo post the company confirmed the Axon 30 Pro will feature three 64MP cameras which would be the first time we’ve seen such a setup in a smartphone. ZTE is touting all focus range which should imply at least one telephoto cam and perhaps an ultrawide snapper as well.

ZTE Axon 30 Pro camera teaser

The Axon 30 Pro is shaping up as a proper flagship follow-up to last year’s Axon 20 5G and is expected to debut ZTE’s…

Snapdragon SC7295 in the works, a mid-range chip for ARM laptops based on the S775

Snapdragon SC7295 in the works, a mid-range chip for ARM laptops based on the S775

Qualcomm has a new Snapdragon 700-series chipset in the works, the SM7350, which may or may not launch as the Snapdragon 775. The base hardware is used for another project too, a chipset for ARM-powered laptops.

That is the SC7295, which will be a successor to the Snapdragon 7c from last year. It will be a mid-range option for Windows and ChromeOS devices and should have the advantage of an integrated 5G modem.

The chip’s CPU will feature the familiar 1+3+4 arrangement. The one prime core will clock up to 2.7 GHz, while the other three big cores will go up to 2.4 GHz. The final four…

nubia is launching the Red Magic 6 series globally on April 9

nubia is launching the Red Magic 6 series globally on April 9

The nubia Red Magic 6 series debuted earlier this month in China, and today the brand announced a global launch date for the lineup – April 9. Both the Red Magic 6 and Red Magic 6 Pro will be available to the global audiences, with each of them getting only one memory option and a single color option initially.

The Red Magic 6 and Red Magic 6 Pro are identical for the most part – Snapdragon 888 chipset, 6.8” AMOLED screen and typical for the gaming niche looks and feel, including the physical shoulder buttons. The vanilla option will be sold around the world with 12GB RAM and 128GB of…

HMD officially confirms new Nokia phones are coming on April 8

HMD officially confirms new Nokia phones are coming on April 8

HMD Global has announced one phone so far in 2021, but its year hasn’t started properly yet – that will happen on April 8. The company will adopt a new naming scheme with a series letter + number and we’ve already heard of the first three phones from unofficial sources.

Those will be the Nokia G10, X10 and X20, with the G-series being the home for entry-level phones and the X housing mid-rangers. The G10 is powered by a Helio P22 chipset and is expected to sell at €140.

The X10 and X20 will feature 5G connectivity thanks to the Snapdragon 480 chipset (the X20 might get the 690…

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