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Earlier today, MediaTek unveiled the Dimensity 9600 Pro, its latest flagship smartphone chipset, which is built on a 2nm process. Oppo has already confirmed that its Find X10 Pro Max will be among the first devices to use it, but it won't actually be the first to be unveiled. That's because vivo has one-upped Oppo by exactly one day. vivo is launching the X500 Pro and X500 Pro Max on September 21, whereas Oppo is announcing the Find X10 Pro Max on September 22. Thus, the X500 Pro and X500 Pro Max will be the first devices to be made official with the Dimensity 9600 Pro inside. vivo...

MediaTek just unveiled the Dimensity 9600 Pro – this is the company’s first 2nm chipset and the first to use Arm’s next-gen CPU and GPU designs. It brings notable performance upgrades across the board with special attention paid to AI compute. The CPU layout has been reshuffled – there are now two Ultra-class CPU cores at the expense of one small Pro core. The exact configuration is 2x Arm C2-Ultra + 3x C2-Pro + 3x C2-Pro (we don’t know the clock speeds yet). The CPU promises 17% higher single-core performance and 37% higher efficiency. For multi-threaded tasks, performance is 15% higher...

Apple is rolling out iOS 27 to users today. This update brings a host of improvements, including refinements to Liquid Glass, up to 30% faster app load times, revamped Spotlight, Photos, and Mail search functionality, and Apple’s revamped Siri AI. Siri AI is rolling out in Beta with English-only support and will not be available initially in the EU. Support for French, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, and Spanish is coming in October. Alongside iOS 27, Apple is also now seeding iPadOS 27, macOS 27, watchOS 27, and visionOS 27 to compatible devices. For more details on iOS 27, check...

Last week, iQOO offered a glimpse at the redesigned rear camera module of its upcoming iQOO 16. The company later confirmed that the phone will use Samsung’s new M16 display panel with a 165Hz refresh rate and 2K resolution. Now, iQOO has revealed the handset’s launch date and color options. The iQOO 16 will launch in China on September 29 and will go on sale on the same day, the company confirmed in a post on Weibo. Pre-orders for the handset are already live through iQOO’s online store in China. In a separate post, iQOO also revealed the color options for the upcoming phone....

A few days ago, the Samsung Galaxy A08 was listed by an online retailer in the UAE, and now the Korean company has decided to make it official, with no fanfare, no official press release, nothing like that. Samsung has just simply added the Galaxy A08 to its website in both Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina. The device comes with a 6.7-inch PLS LCD screen with 720x1600 resolution, a 50MP rear camera with f/1.8 aperture, a 2MP f/2.4 auxiliary rear camera, an 8MP front camera, and a 6,000 mAh battery. Samsung Galaxy A08 in silver It's powered by an unnamed chipset with a...

Samsung’s latest FE series phone, the Galaxy S26 FE, has finally landed in India after its global launch last month. The phone will be available for purchase in the country starting September 18. The Samsung Galaxy S26 FE has been launched in India at INR 79,999 for the 8GB/256GB configuration. It will be available in Blueberry, Graphite, and Pistachio colorways. It comes equipped with an Exynos 2500 chipset and a 6.7-inch AMOLED display, which offers a Full-HD+ resolution, up to 1,900 nits of peak brightness, and 120Hz refresh rate. For photography, the handset features a triple...

A few weeks ago, we heard a rumor that Samsung will replace the long telephoto camera on the Galaxy S27 Ultra. That is not happening, says Ice Universe. The S27 Ultra will keep the 5x 1/2.52” telephoto module of the S26 Ultra. The rumor was claiming that Samsung will replace it with a new module with a shorter lens (4x) and a larger sensor (1/1.9”). This is “100% false,” says Ice. The leakster didn’t say anything about the rumor that Samsung will remove the 3x 10MP tele module, so that’s likely going away. Its absence will not be felt, given how good the 200MP main camera is at smaller...