Apple iPhone SE+ 5G and new iPad Air listed by Russian EEC

Three unreleased Apple devices have been certified by the Russia-based EEC (Eurasian Economic Commission) regulator. Those carry the identifiers A2595, A2783, and A2784 - likely the third-gen iPhone SE (to be called SE+ 5G), and A2588, A2589, A2591, A2696, A2757, A2759, A2761, A2766, and A2777 - expected to be the fifth-gen Apple iPad Air. This rumor fits nicely with a recent report that the next iPad Air will come alongside the new iPhone SE. Apple smartphone and tablet listings The iPhone SE+ 5G will likely retain its ancient look with a 4.7-inch display and Touch ID home...

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Oppo Find X5 and Find X5 Pro certified with 80W fast charging

Oppo is working on three new Find X flagships, two of which – the Find X5 and X5 Pro – received 3C certification for their SuperVOOC chargers. The third model, the Find X5 Lite, appears to be an international release of the Reno7, so it there shouldn’t be any surprises in its spec sheet. Back to the two more premium X5 models. It seems that both will support 80W fast charging with PPS-enabled power bricks (5-11V, 7.3A max). The rumor of 125W charging is proving to be false. Anyway, the Oppo Find X5 Pro is expected to have a 5,000 mAh battery, the vanilla model will likely use the same...

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Caviar now offers to put a golden QR code on the back of your iPhone 13 Pro

These days people in a lot of places need a health certificate to enter establishments such as restaurants, gyms and congress centers, and for that we need to have the QR code, proving its authenticity on our mobile phones. But having it displayed on the display is too pedestrian - how about having it engraved on the phone's back instead? Caviar, the luxury gadgets brand, is now offering a Digital Signature collection of products, which can put a QR code made out of pure 18K gold on the back of an iPhone 13 Pro. The code can lead to business cards, websites, social media handles or...

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Rumor: a new Mac Pro will complete the transition to Apple silicon in Q4 this year

While Apple added new GPU options to the Mac Pro configurator last year, there haven’t been any major changes to the product line since 2019. In fact, it is the last product line not to have an option with an Apple M-series chip. Leakster @DylanDKT posted that this will change in the final three months of this year. The new Mac Pro will reportedly use a chipset that sits above the M1 Max (which powers the MacBook Pro 14” and 16”). We’ve heard talk of a “dual” M1 Max, essentially a Max chip with extra hardware – as many as 40 CPU cores and 128 GPU cores (even though the Max only has an 8+2...

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Xiaomi Redmi K50 series to adopt industry's best haptics motor

As Xiaomi is gearing up to announce the Redmi K50 lineup next month, teasers from the company's official Weibo account keep the hype going. The latest one is all about the haptics motor called CyberEngine. In a separate Weibo post, the manufacturer of the CyberEngine was fast to boast about what they claim to be the best haptic X-axis motor in the industry. It's the biggest one so far measuring at 560mm2 and covering the frequency range between 50Hz and 500Hz. That's not only unrivaled in the Android segment but also significantly higher than the 130Hz motor on today's iPhones. But...

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Disassembly: Take a look inside the OnePlus 10 Pro

The OnePlus 10 Pro is now 7 days old and selling well in China. Seeing how it's topping our popularity charts we imagine people outside of China are clamoring for the flagship to reach them. But while we need to do a bit of extra waiting, here's a disassembly video of the OnePlus 10 Pro that's one part instruction into how to replace a component if needed, and one part the pure joy of seeing the neatly arranged innards of the phone. For instance, here are the three main camera sensors - the massive 48MP main camera, the 8MP telephoto sharing a connector with it, and the 50MP ultrawide...

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First Exynos 2200 benchmarks emerge

Samsung just unveiled its Exynos 2200 flagship SoC for 2022 and MySmartPrice has the first benchmark results from it. Reportedly, these results are taken from the Galaxy S22 Ultra, but there's no way to verify that. In Geekbench 5, the device put up 1108 single-core and 3516 multi-core scores, which are almost identical to the Exynos 2100. JRGRAPH_EXPANDABLE_VERSION = false; GeekBench 5 (multi-core) Higher is better Galaxy S21 Ultra (Exynos) 3518 Exynos 2200 3516 Galaxy S21 Ultra (Snapdragon) 3244 Galaxy S21 5G 3238 GeekBench 5...

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Garmin introduces Fenix 7 and Epix Gen 2 smartwatches

Garmin is updating its flagship Fenix smartwatches with the new 7 series. These are the brand’s ultimate sports and activity tracking GPS smartwatches and now come with fancy new solar panels, sapphire and titanium materials as well as an all-new LED flashlight for nighttime training. Epix Gen 2 is a slightly more toned-down option with rugged casing and always-on AMOLED display and Garmin's stellar health and sports tracking features. Fenix 7 series There are three models in the Fenix 7 series – the Fenix 7S, a vanilla Fenix 7 and the Fenix 7X. They come in 42mm, 44mm, 47mm and...

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