Week 47 in review: Snapdragon 8 Gen1 is here, Realme GT 2 Pro details emerge 
Qualcomm unveiled its next flagship chipset for Android phones and it marks a deviation from the naming convention. For starters, it’s not Qualcomm Snapdragon anymore, but just Snapdragon. Meet the Snapdragon 8 Gen1 – that’s the new naming scheme, digit for class (8 being flagship) and a generation. It is Qualcomm’s first 4nm chipset and the first to use this new generation of the CPU architectures.
The CPU maintains the three cluster design, however, the cores are now based on the ARMv9 designs. This means that the prime core is a Cortex-X2 and it will run at 3.0GHz. Backing it are three…
The new Honor 60 series was unveiled this week and will go on sale in China on Friday. Afterwards it will probably take a few months to reach the global market (the Honor 50 series was announced in mid-June and reached Europe in late October). Who here is settling in for the wait before they can hit the “buy” button?
Oppo announced Reno7 series last week and the trio went on sale in China this Friday. There’s no official schedule for when the new models will be available globally, but it should happen early next year (leaked prices for India suggested a January launch). By that time reviews of the phones should have come out.
Meta (previously Facebook) has introduced a new feature called “Split Payments” on Facebook Messenger.
The year is wrapping up and right in time for the holidays, we’ve gathered the best smartphones for those that value battery life. We keep a list of devices that gets regularly updated, but now Angie has taken it to YouTube to present the best phones from all price categories that excel in terms of battery life.
Motorola was rumored to launch the Moto G51 5G in India on December 10, and the rumor has turned out to be true since the company’s Indian branch confirmed the launch date today on Twitter.
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