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Asus took the lid off its newest ROG Phone 9 series gaming phones, Asus ROG Phone 9 and ROG Phone 9 Pro. The basic ROG Phone 9 model starts at $999 | €1,099 for the 12GB+256GB variant and goes up to  €1,149 for the 12GB+512GB version. The Pro version comes in two configurations, a 16GB+512GB option which sells for  $1,199 | €1,199 and the ROG Phone 9 Pro Edition with a 24GB+1TB RAM+ storage combination comes in at  $1,499 | €1,499. The standard model has two colour choices: Phantom Black and Storm White. On the other hand, ROG Phone 9 Pro is only offered in Phantom Black. Asus ROG Phone 9 Series Specifications Both Asus ROG Phone 9 and 9 Pro come packed with a 6.78-inch Samsung E6 AMOLED display and Snapdragon 8 Elite chipset. Other display parameters are FHD+ (1080 x 2400p resolution), 185Hz refresh rate, 1600nits HBM brightness, and 2500nits peak brightness. LPDDR5x RAM and UFS 4.0 storage are supported. These machines feature 5-magnet dual speakers with ...

 Rumours of the specs of the Pro version of Redmi K80 are everywhere on the internet. Display, battery, processor, camera and charging capabilities have been revealed ahead of the official announcement, thanks to tech tipsters. The Redmi K80 Pro will be armed with a 2K Huaxing LTPS straight screen with a 120Hz refresh rate and Snapdragon 8 Elite processor and an ultrasonic fingerprint sensor for security and authentication. Camera-wise, the Redmi K80 Pro will offer a 50MP Light Hunter 800 wide sensor, a 32MP  S5KKD1 ultrawide sensor, and a 50MP telephoto macro JN5 lens with 2.6X optical zoom. The front camera might be a 20MP OV20B sensor, same camera sensor will be available for the base model. The Redmi K80 Pro is said to be a 6000mAh battery phone offering up to 120W fast wired charging and 50W wireless charging. Also, the Redmi K80 Pro is claimed to have an IP68 certification for dust and water resistance.

Xiaomi's subsidiary company Redmi is looking to introduce the new-generation K series phones soon. So far two models have been confirmed, the standard Redmi K80 and the top-ranging model Redmi K80 Pro. Redmi K80 According to rumours, the Redmi K80 will be equipped with a 2K Huaxing LTPS straight screen with a 120HZ refresh rate and a flagship-level 4nm-based Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 processor. It is claimed that its camera trio at the back will consist of a 50MP Light Hunter 800 wide camera, an 8MP  ultrawide camera and a 2MP macro camera. The front camera will be a 20MP OV20B sensor. Speaking of charging capabilities, the Redmi K80 is said to carry support for up to 90W fast wired charging. The battery capacity is claimed to be 6500mAh. It will feature an ultrasonic fingerprint for security and authentication. It makes use of Dragon Crystal Glass for display protection and also the Redmi K80 is claimed to be an IP68-rated phone.

The specs of the upcoming Huawei flagship phone from the Mate series have emerged. Details about the processor, display, cameras, battery, charging capabilities, durabilities, possible variants, and prices are all out. According to rumours, the Huawei Mate 70 Pro+ will have a 6.88" LTPO iso-depth quad-curved screen with 1.5K resolution and 120Hz refresh rate. Powering this new phone will be a Kirin 9100 processor paired with 16GB of RAM. For photography, the Huawei Mate 70 Pro+ will be equipped with a 50MP VA,1/1.3" primary wide camera,50MP periscope telephoto(1/2.5") with 3.5x optical zoom and a 40MP ultrawide camera. The Huawei Mate 70 Pro+ comes with a 5880mAh battery. This phone will also come with ultra-fast wired and wireless charging capabilities, offering up to 100W fast wired charging and 80W wireless charging. When it comes to durability and water resistance, the Mate 70 Pro Plus is claimed to have been built using 2nd gen Kunlun glass and has an IP69/68 certif...

 Before the new Vivo X200 series phones get their official introduction to the Malaysian market, the information on the storage and colour variants available for each model coming to the market have been disclosed. Unlike in China, in Malaysia Vivo will introduce just two models of the Vivo X200 series, the basic Vivo X200 and Vivo X200 Pro. It is believed that Vivo X200 will be offered in a sole 16GB+512GB storage option and two colour choices will be available for this new Dimensity 9400-powered flagship phone, namely Aurora Green and Midnight Black. For those unaware, the standard Vivo X200 comes with IP68 & IP69 dust and water resistance certification, a colossal 5,800mAh battery (90W charging), Dimensity 9400 and Vivo V2 chipset. Speaking of the Vivo X200 Pro model, we should also expect to get a single 16GB+512GB storage option and two colour choices will be available, Titanium Grey and Midnight Black. The Vivo X200 Pro comes armed with a 200MP ZEISS APO telephoto Camera,...

Vivo has confirmed the official launch date for its upcoming budget-friendly Y series phone, Vivo Y300. According to the company, the Vivo Y300 5G will be launching on November 21 in India. Although the company has not yet shared any key specs of the phone, tipsters are claiming it could be a rebadged Vivo V40 Lite 5G, which arrived in late September in Indonesia.  So if those rumours turn out to be true then we should expect the Vivo Y300 5G to come packed with a 6.67-inch AMOLED FHD+ 120Hz screen with 1800nits peak brightness, 5000mAh battery with 80W fast charging support and Snapdragon 4 Gen 2 processor. LPDDR4x RAM  and UFS 2.2 storage will be supported. Storage expansion will be possible, thanks to the microSD card slot. To make it possible to run multiple apps simultaneously, the handset could support up to 12GB of virtual memory. The Vivo Y300 5G might come powered by Android 14 with FunTouch OS 14 on top. For photography lovers, the Vivo Y300 5G will come equippe...

 As promised, Nubia's gaming sub-brand held its launch event in China in which it revealed the Red Magic Pro series. The lineup includes Red Magic 10 Pro, Red Magic 10 Pro+ and a special edition called Red Magic x Golden Sage Collector’s Edition. Red Magic 10 Pro Specifications The Red Magic 10 Pro has a 6.85-inch BOE Q9+ OLED display with a 1.5K resolution (2688 x 1216p), 144Hz refresh rate, 2,000nits peak brightness, 2592Hz PWM dimming, and DC dimming. This device features a 3nm-based Snapdragon 8 Elite chipset and supports LPDDR5X Ultra and UFS 4,1 Pro system. Besides the Snapdragon 8 Elite, this phone sports a self-developed R3 chipset. The Red Magic 10 Pro rocks a 6,500mAh battery and comes with support for 80W fast wired charging. For optics, this phone features a 16MP (OmniVision OV16A1Q) under-display camera. The rear camera system is home to three cameras: a 50MP (OV50E40) wide camera with OIS; a 50MP ultrawide camera(OV50D); a 2MP (OV02F10) macro lens. On the softwar...

 After the official announcement of the Honor Magic 7 and Magic 7 Pro, Huawei's former company is gearing up to launch the third member of the family, the Honor Magic 7 RSR Porsche Design.  The Honor Magic 7 RSR Porsche Design, a sequel to the Honor Magic 6 RSR Design, will be the company's highest-end flagship phone, competing with the Xiaomi 15 Ultra, Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra, Oppo Find X8 Ultra, and Vivo X200 Ultra, which will arrive next year. Honor Magic 7 RSR Porsche Design: Rumoured Specs It is claimed that Honor Magic 7 RSR will feature a 6.8-inch OLED LTPO quad-curved screen with a 1.5K resolution and up to 120Hz refresh rate. For performance, the Honor Magic 7 RSR Porsche Design will make use of a Snapdragon 8 Elite chipset. The SoC will be paired with 24GB of RAM. It will boot Android 15-based Magic OS 9.0 out of the box. There will likely be two storage sizes for this handset, which are 512GB and 1TB. So this implies that the Honor Magic 7 RSR Porsche Design will b...

Yesterday Vivo Y19s was launched in Thailand as company's newest budget-friendly phone. The handset comes in two configurations with its base 4GB+128GB storage variant priced at 4,399 THB (~Rs 10,800 | ~$130) whereas the 6GB+128GB variant comes in at 4,999 THB (~Rs 12,660 | ~$145). The Vivo Y19s  is offered in three colour choices, namely Glossy Black, Pearl Silver and Glacier Blue. Vivo Y19s Specifications The Vivo Y19s features a 6.68-inch LCD with HD+ (1680 x 720p) resolution, 90Hz refresh rate and 1000 nits peak brightness. Powering this phone is Unisoc T612 chipset. The SoC is paired 4GB / 6GB LPDDR4x RAM (6GB virtual RAM). It offers 64GB or 128GB eMMC 5.1 storage and its external storage can be expanded via a microSD card slot. The Vivo Y19s is a 5,500mAh battery phone which supports 15W charging. Camera-wise, the Vivo Y19s offers 5MP selfie snapper and features a 50MP + 0.08MP dual rear camera system. The Vivo Y19s comes preloaded with FunTouch OS 14, which is developed base...

Nubia's gaming sub-brand has again come to share new details of their upcoming Pro flaship hones scheduled to launch in less than a week from now. In latest post the company shared display details including size, manufacturer, resolution, refresh rate, peak brightness, size of the bezel(s),screen-to-body ratio and screen design. The Red Magic 10 Pro series is confirmed to come packed with 6.85-inch BOE OLED screen with a 1.5K resolution and smoothest 144Hz refresh rate. Speaking of brighness, the Red Magic 10 Pro series is claimed to be able to achieve a peak global brigthness of 2000 nits. Design was considered making these models as the Red Magic 10 series is said to feature 1.25mm bezels, but it still unclear if all four bezels will be equalaterial or not. The screen-to-body ratio is 95.3% and just like their predecessors, the Red Magic 10 series models will come with under display cameras. The Red Magic 10 Pro series will be announced on November 13th in China.

 It looks like the official announcement of the Pro version of the Oppo A5 ia round the corner as the Oppo A5 Pro (PKP110) was spotted on a certification on TENAA website. The Oppo A5 Pro is expected to boast a 6.7-inch AMOLED FHD+ display with up to120Hz refresh rate. It will come equipped with a 2.5GHz chipset paired with 8GB / 12GB RAM. The maximum storage capacity could be 512GB and lowest storage capcity this phone migth offer is about 256GB. This device will be fueled by a 5840mAh battery and feature a 50MP + 2MP dual rear camera setup. The front camera will be a 16MP sensor. When it comes to security, this phone is claimed to come equipped with an in-screen fingerprint sensor. The Oppo A5 Pro is said to have a dimension of 161.5 x 74.85 x 7.67mm  and weigh around 186 grams. It should be also noted that ever since Q3 2024 Oppo has been releasing tons of A series phones that includes Oppo A3x(China), Oppo 3x, Oppo A3,Oppo A3x 4G, Oppo A3 4G and Oppo A80. So just like...

 The China-based tech company Honor is bringing the new X series budget phone in India. The official launch date is still kept under wraps but according to rumours, it could be set a couple of weeks from today.  While we still do not know when it will launch, thanks to tipsters, the phone's most possible specs and price have been shared. Honor X9c Key Specs This new midrange budget smartphone from Honor will offer you a large 6.78" 1.5K curved AMOLED display with the smoothest 120 Hz refresh rate and 3840Hz PWM dimming for your eyes' safety. The maximum local brightness is claimed to be 3000 nits. Speaking of performance, the Honor X9c will make use of the Snapdragon 6 Gen 1 chipset. It runs on MagicOS 8.0 which is developed based on Android 14. For optics, the Honor X9c features a 108MP Samsung HM6 wide sensor and an 8MP ultrawide sensor at the back. Jumping into battery specs, Honor is said to have used a 6600mAh battery for this model and it will support up to 66W fast...

 Contrary to several rumours and claims shared earlier, Samsung's own chipset Exynos 2500 will still power the next-gen Galaxy S series models. This new info comes after one of the S25 series models (Samsung Galaxy S25 Plus (SM-S936B variant)) was spotted on Geekbench with appears with Exynos 2500 chipset. So this means the US models will be the ones rocking Snapdragon 8 Elite while the ROW models will use the Exynos 2500 processor. Getting back to Exynos 2500, this upcoming Samsung's flagship chipset is revealed to be a 10-core SoC featuring one prime core rated up to 3.3GHz. Two high-frequency performance CPU cores are operating at up to 2.75GHz and five low-frequency performance cores running at up to 2.36GHz. The extra two cores are power-efficient CPU cores which top out at up to 1.8GHz.It is also revealed to come integrated with Xclipse 950 GPU based on AMD RDNA architecture. Also, Geekbench results show in a single-core test this handset managed to get 2359 po...

 Today in India, Acer took the lid off its latest tablet devices in India: Acer Iconia Tablet 8.7 and Iconia Tablet 10.36. Acer Iconia Tablet 8.7 (iM9-12M) Specifications The Acer Iconia Tablet 8.7 comes fitted with an 8.7-inch LCD panel and runs on a MediaTek Helio P22T processor paired with 4GB RAM. It features 64GB storage but external storage can be expandable to 1TB via a microSD card slot.  This slate offers a 5,100 mAh battery and runs on Android 14. n camera department, this device offers a 5MP selfie snapper and an 8MP primary snapper. When it comes to connectivity, the Acer Iconia Tablet 8.7 offers support for dual SIM 4G LTE, dual-band Wi-Fi, and Bluetooth 5.2. Moreover, this slate is built using a metal body. Acer Iconia Tablet 10.36 (iM10-22) Specifications The Acer Iconia Tablet 10.36 comes packed with a 10.36-inch LCD panel offering 2K resolution This slate offers PureVoice quad speakers, MediaTek Helio G99, 6GB RAM and 128GB storage (expandable to 1TB). Unlike ...

 OnePlus has already revealed the OnePlus 13 in China and while the device is currently available in a single market, details of other OnePlus phones have started to circulate again. Rumours surrounding OnePlus Ace 5 models, which are considered alternatives to the OnePlus 13, are everywhere on the internet and here is everything you need to know about each one of them before their official announcements. OnePlus Ace 5 The OnePlus Ace 5 is said to be coming with a 6.78-inch flat BOE X2 OLED 8T LTPO panel with a 1.5K resolution and 120Hz refresh rate. Powering this phone will be a Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 processor. Rumours claim that OnePlus might have used a Leading Version for this model, so we should expect the most powerful performance and satisfying experience just like what premium phones (such as Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra) offer. The maximum RAM on this device is claimed to be 16GB. LPDDR5x RAM will be supported. The storage capacity will reach up to 512GB and UFS 4.0 storage will ...

 The Weibo-based tech tipster Digital Chat Station has revealed several new details about upcoming MediaTek's midrange chipset, Dimensity 8400. According to him, the Dimensity 8400 will feature a tri-cluster octa-core CPU design with cores arranged in 1+4+3.  The octa-core CPU will include a Cortex-A725 large core currently operating at up to 3.xGHz, four mid-performance cores running at up to 3.xGHz and three low-performance cores rated up at 2.xGHz. This chipset is claimed to come with the same GPU IP as the D9400.  When it is scheduled for its official launch is still a mystery, but it is expected to power midrange phones, most likely successors of the Dimensity 8300-equipped phones. Also, the vendors which used Snapdragon 7s Gen 3 and Snapdragon 7 Gen 3 chipsets for their midlevel in 2024 are also highly likely to make use of it for their future midrange phones. Additionally, chances of it being offered in more than one iteration are higher; To meet the demands of the...