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The Huawei Mate 90 series is expected to launch in October, and a new rumor has now surfaced, revealing the key specifications of the Mate 90 Pro Max. According to tipster Smart Pikachu on Weibo, the Huawei Mate 90 Pro Max will be powered by the Kirin 9050 Pro chipset, which also powers the company’s recently launched Mate XT 2 Ultimate Design tri-folding phone. Huawei Mate 80 Pro Max The tipster also claims that the phone will feature a next generation dual-layer OLED display and will be available with an optional privacy screen. For photography, the Mate 90 Pro Max is said to...

Earlier this week, MediaTek announced its latest flagship chipset – the Dimensity 9600 Pro and it turns out that’s not the only new SoC from the maker. The Dimensity 9600M is an upcoming chip that’s bringing some software and AI features from the 9600 Pro to a broader segment of flagship phones. From a hardware perspective, the 9600M is essentially a repackaged Dimensity 9500, fabbed on TSMC’s 3nm N3P process with identical components. It gets the same all-large-core CPU with a max frequency of 4.21GHz on the C1-Ultra core. The same applies to the Arm Mali-G1 Ultra MC12 GPU and the APU...

Korean publication The Chosun is reporting that sales of the Galaxy Z Fold8 increased by around 10% on a week-to-week basis just after Apple unveiled the iPhone Duo. Some people were holding off to see what Apple had cooked up before committing to a Z Fold8 or waiting for a Duo. Indeed, the Duo won’t come out until late October, while the wide Galaxy foldable is available now – this is quoted as one of the reasons for people picking the Samsung phone. However, this isn’t nearly the whole story. Samsung Galaxy Z Fold8 In Korea, Samsung is selling its phones more cheaply than...

The Honor Win lineup, which currently includes the Win, Win RT and Win Turbo smartphones, is set to expand with a new tablet. The company has revealed several details about the upcoming Honor Win tablet and offered a first look at its design. Honor China Smart Life business head Lin Lin shared a teaser of the Win tablet on Weibo, offering a first look at its rear design. The image shows a square-shaped camera module with Win branding on the back panel. The executive also confirmed that the tablet will feature a built-in cooling fan. In the comments section of the post, Lin Lin...

Oppo’s K14 lineup in India has gained a new member. The Oppo K14 Lite is a budget 4G smartphone featuring a 7,000mAh battery and a 6.75-inch display. The Oppo K14 Lite is powered by the Unisoc T7250 chipset, paired with 4GB of RAM and 64GB of UFS 2.2 storage. It is priced at INR 16,999 and is available in Feather Purple and Stone Brown colorways. As a budget 4G smartphone, the Oppo K14 Lite offers fairly modest specs. It features a 6.75-inch LCD display with an HD+ resolution and a 120Hz refresh rate. For photography, the phone gets a 13MP rear camera with autofocus and a 5MP...

Earlier reports claimed that the Samsung Galaxy S27 lineup will ship with the next-generation LPDDR6 memory, paired with Qualcomm's upcoming Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6, but the latest rumor suggests otherwise. The Bell cites inside sources claiming that Samsung is carrying out quality tests using Micron's new LPDDR5X memory based on the 1y process, which is the equivalent of the 1c DRAM manufacturing process from Samsung and SK Hynix. Due to rising RAM costs, Micron is reportedly asking for a 50% higher price than Samsung's Device Solutions arm that produces DRAM chips....

The Honor Magic9 Pro Max has seemingly been spotted in the Geekbench online database with the model number WKL-AN20. The Geekbench run reveals that it's powered by the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 chipset (though not which specific variant of it). The prototype which ran the benchmark had 16GB of RAM and ran Android 17. So the Honor Magic9 Pro Max will launch running Android 17 most likely, but other RAM options may be available too. As for the results, keep in mind that this is a prototype device which may not contain finalized hardware and software, and also that it ran Geekbench 6.7.1 and...