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Give it up for UncleKanshan – the tipster correctly predicted that Huawei will unveil the nova 13 series on October 22. Well, the company sort of did that already as it has begun taking pre-reservations for two new models, albeit without announcing their specifications first. The Huawei nova 13 and nova 13 Pro are up on Vmall. You can put down a small CNY 100 deposit and get CNY 150 back when the phones are officially announced. You also enter a lottery with a chance to win one of 3,000 Starry handbags. Huawei nova 13 • Huawei nova 13 Pro While Huawei didn’t reveal any specs,...

Oppo is gearing up for an event on October 24, and we expect the Find X8 series to go official. We also learned that the Pad 3 Pro tablet and the Enco X3 earphones will be revealed, as we saw them in leaked press images. The Find X8 and Find X8 Pro smartphones will have similar designs, but only the Pro will get the Quick Capture button. Here is the vanilla version with a flat frame and practically no curvature on its screen in all four colors: Pink, White, Blue, and Black. Oppo Find X8 The Find X8 Pro's screen is slightly curved on all four...

Huawei’s HarmonyOS Next has been in development for a few years now but the commercially ready version is finally getting a launch date – October 22 which is also the rumored launch date for the Nova 13 series. HarmonyOS Next launch poster HarmonyOS Next is a monumental step for Huawei’s software ambitions as it will abandon the Android Open Source Project (AOSP) and support for Android applications in place of its in-house code and apps. The developer version was released last summer and Huawei’s software division has been busy with developing an ecosystem of apps and services...

Honor needed no fanfare to release its latest entry-level smartphones – X5b and X5b Plus. The devices are available in several Middle East markets; as the names suggest, they are closely related. Honor did make the Plus slightly better, but similarities are more than the differences. Honor X5b and X5b Plus have an LTE-only Helio G36 chipset and run Android 14 with MagicOS 8.0 on top. The screen is a basic 6.56" LCD with a waterdrop notch, 720p resolution and 90 Hz refresh rate. The selfie camera mounted inside the notch has a 5 MP sensor. Around the back there are 50 MP main...

Last year, OnePlus 12 launched with the first generation X1 Oriental screen from BOE and the Chinese display maker is now ready to announce its updated second-gen version. BOE will showcase its new X2 Oriental screen at a dedicated joint event with OnePlus and Oppo in Beijing tomorrow, October 15 at 2PM local time. BOE X2 Oriental screen teasers The panel is the first display to receive an A++ score from DisplayMate and set 21 screen display records in the process. The accompanying teasers suggest the new display will offer improvements in brightness, efficiency, and eye...

Huawei is working on a new Kirin 9 series chip with improved CPU performance. Leaksters from China revealed that the processor will have the same 1+3+4 architecture as the Kirin 9010 platform, but with more powerful cores. The SoC will be an in-house project, and it will be manufactured on a 7nm Pro Plus technology. Huawei is working with SMIC, a major semiconductor manufacturer in China, to build its new Kirin chips. Company officials revealed earlier this year that it wants to further develop and work with the 7nm process technology before moving forward towards 5nm and...

Oppo is following Apple's footsteps in bringing back the camera key - it will release the Find X8 series with a physical button on the side for taking photos. The Quick Capture solution is a touch capacitive area, and over the weekend, we saw a video explaining how it will work. The Oppo Find series product manager revealed that the button can be double-tapped to activate the camera app. A single long press will take a photo, but more interestingly, a sideways swipe will zoom the camera. Here's a video of how it would work: The main reason for this button is sometimes the screen...