Welcome to the tip of the second week of 2024. The Poco X6 and X6 Pro arrived with 6.67-inch AMOLED shows with 1,220 x 2,712px decision, a 120Hz refresh fee, and as much as 1,800 nits of peak brightness. They additionally share the identical 16MP front-facing digital camera housed inside a punch-hole cutout and in-display fingerprint scanners – a primary for Poco smartphones.
Poco X6 Pro boots Xiaomi HyperOS primarily based on Android 14 whereas X6 will launch with MIIUI 14, however is promised to get up to date to HyperOS quickly. Poco guarantees 3 Android updates a 4 years of safety patches for each X6 fashions. Poco X6 Pro encompasses a 5,000 mAh battery with 67W charging whereas X6 will get a barely bigger 5,100 mAh battery with the identical 67W charging speeds.
The cellphone arrives with three cameras and a well-recognized design.
Open gross sales in India begin on January 16.
The Galaxy S24 collection may have 10% extra touch-responsive shows, which is able to make them really feel smoother and quicker. Next week will see the official debut of the S24 household, and the joy is tanglible.
This would enhance perceived smoothness.
The Oppo Find X7 Ultra debuted as the primary Ultra in Oppo’s lineup and the primary dual-periscope cellphone ever. The major digital camera is notable as the primary Sony LYT-900 1-inch sensor. But it is the dual-periscope resolution that is distinctive. Oppo X7 Ultra retains the 65mm 3x periscope digital camera with 1/1.56” Sony IMX890 from the Oppo Find X6 Pro. It provides a vibrant f/2.6 aperture, OIS, and a minimal focus distance of simply 25cm. Alongside that the X7 Ultra has a 135mm 6x telephoto digital camera with a 1/2.51” Sony IMX858 sensor. It additionally has OIS and can focus from 35cm. Oppo claims the quad-cam setup provides clean zoom between 14 mm and 270 mm with out a noticeable degradation in picture high quality. The Find X7 Ultra is obtainable in China and it could keep there indefinitely, similar to the X6 Pro earlier than it. That could be a disgrace.
Realme introduced a partnership with Rolex for the upcoming Realme 12 Pro collection. There can be a customized variant of the 12 Pro+ smartphone with Blue leather-based and gold accents on the again.
The cellphone brings as much as 16 GB LPDDR5X RAM and 512 GB UFS 4.0 storage.
The collection would possibly arrive on January 28.
The Note 13 collection is scheduled to make its world debut every week from now.
The ROG Phone 8 is official with a Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 chip and an enormous vapor chamber. That’s the anticipated half. Unexpectedly, the ROG Phone 8 is the primary in the collection to be IP68 waterproof, to have wi-fi charging, and to supply a 3x zoom digital camera. The ROG Phone 8 begins from $1,099 in the US, and €1,099 in Europe.
The show nonetheless helps 165Hz refresh fee, however it’s now an LTPO panel that may additionally do 1-120Hz variable refresh fee. Asus additionally added wi-fi charging.
Being arguably the largest foldables fan on the workplace I don’t share the sentiment expressed by a few of my colleagues that the 12 months was boring.
Asus has gone for a extra mainstream strategy and we prefer it!
Finally, the Honor Magic6 collection arrived. The Pro has a novel 180MP periscope with a 2.5x zoom (round 60mm), an f/2.6 aperture, and an enormous 1/1.49-inch sensor. The major digital camera of the Magic6 Pro is a 50MP 1/1.3-inch imager with a variable aperture lens – f/1.4-2.0. The Magic6 collection is on sale in China.
Magic6 Pro debuts a brand new 50MP major cam with f/1.4-f/2.0 variable aperture.