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Early leaks suggest the Vivo X500 Ultra could run a Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6 chip alongside a 200MP periscope telephoto camera.
Qualcomm denies reports that the Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6 has overheating issues or that Samsung might replace it with the Exynos 2700.
Leaked European pricing for the Xiaomi 18 Pro points to a €1,449 starting price alongside smaller battery capacities and 90W charging.
Leaked details for the Vivo X500 Ultra point to a 2nm Snapdragon chip, a 144Hz BOE display, and a battery exceeding 7,000mAh.
A Motorola wide foldable has surfaced on Geekbench with Snapdragon 8 Gen 5, 12GB of RAM, and Android 17 ahead of a possible 2026 release.
Qualcomm denies Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 overheating claims in Samsung Galaxy S27 Ultra testing, though questions about the Extreme model remain unresolved.
Honor Win 2 appeared on Geekbench 6 with a Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6 chip and 16GB of RAM ahead of its planned October 21 launch in China.
The Honor Win2 series, made up of the Win2, Win RT2, and Win Turbo 2, is scheduled to launch in China next week. Honor revealed the designs and color options of all three phones yesterday, and it has now confirmed several of their key specifications. Honor has confirmed that the Win2 will run on the
Following recently leaked official renders of the Galaxy Watch 9 and Galaxy Watch Ultra 2, the full specifications for both upcoming smartwatches have now surfaced as well. The details come from WinFuture, starting with the Galaxy Watch 9, which is expected to be the more affordable of the two. Here's what the leak reveals about
Early Geekbench results for the Snapdragon 6 Gen 5 show almost no CPU improvement over the Snapdragon 6 Gen 4, with the older chip actually edging it out in single-core performance. GPU gains look more promising, sitting around 20%, but raw processing power appears to be largely unchanged. Typically, when a company like Qualcomm releases
Xiaomi's Redmi K-series has operated on a reliable schedule for years - debut in China around October, then resurface internationally under the Poco brand shortly after. The Redmi K100 series appears to be following that same playbook, with two distinct devices now showing up across multiple leak sources. The standard K100 and the K100 Pro
Kaspersky ICS CERT has publicly detailed a critical hardware vulnerability hitting a wide array of Qualcomm Snapdragon chipsets. The exploit, presented at Black Hat Asia 2026 on April 23 and tracked as CVE-2026-25262, has rattled the security community. First confirmed by Qualcomm in April 2025, full technical details are now available, exposing a backdoor capable
Hands-on testing of the Honor 600 over a full week raises questions about dropping thousands on flagships. This year's Honor 600 lineup includes both standard and Pro models, but availability tilts heavily toward the base Honor 600 over the pricier Pro variant in most markets. Practical experience suggests sticking with the cheaper option makes sense
Oppo officially launched the Find X9 Ultra in China on Tuesday, slotting it in as the flagship of the Find X9 family alongside the standard Find X9 and Find X9 Pro. The device runs on Qualcomm's Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 chipset paired with up to 16GB of RAM, features a 2K display with a
A new contender is emerging in portable gaming, as high-performance tablets begin to draw attention away from traditional handheld consoles. Devices like the Game Boy, PSP, Nintendo Switch, and Steam Deck have long defined the category, but a new esports-focused tablet from Red Magic could push things in a different direction. A Shifting Portable Gaming
The industry's most advanced and cutting-edge node is the 2nm process node, and TSMC leads the next generation of powerful chips. The Taiwanese chip giant has succeeded in achieving yields that are advantageous for mass-producing 2nm wafers, but sadly, this is insufficient to fulfill the demand for mobile SoCs and AI processors, forcing smartphone manufacturers
Before September 2026, the mobile tech scene is getting hotter. The aggressive specs of Qualcomm's upcoming flagship CPU, the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen6 Pro (SM8975), have been revealed by reputable source @DigitalChatStation. As expected, Xiaomi is set to unveil this powerhouse with the eagerly awaited Xiaomi 18 series, making it the first company to do
The Pixel Watch 5 is anticipated to launch in late 2026. The Pixel Watch 4 was released in October of last year, despite Google's August announcement. As of right now, there are no leaks that indicate when its replacement will be released. The pricing of the Pixel Watch 5 is anticipated to stay the same
There are now reports regarding the successor of Nothing's Phone 3a series, which debuted in the first few months of 2025. According to a post made early this morning (January 26) by X tipster Anvin, the Nothing Phone 4a has appeared in a significant database (via GSMArena). The tipster's information is light, but if it's
Xiaomi seems to be advancing its long-standing collaboration with German optics behemoth Leica as the battle for flagship smartphones with cameras gets more intense every day. A fresh item found in the IMEI database indicates that the company is working on a far more ambitious project, despite the fact that leaks on the basic version
