Samsung Display to provide over 80% of all screens for iPhone 14 series

Samsung Display is once again dominating the panel shipment for iPhones, reported Ross Young from DSCC (Display Supply Chain Consultants). According to internal info, Apple procured 82% of panels from Samsung, 12% from the Korean company LG Display and the other 6% from the Chinese BOE. Apple iPhone 14 series screen deliveries The iPhone 14 Pro Max units will have only Samsung panels at the beginning, the report revealed. Apparently, LG is struggling to keep up with the demand and has “technical challenges”, and will begin providing screens as early as September. The Chinese...

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Samsung Galaxy Z Fold4 survives durability tests

Just as we wrapped our review of the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold4, JerryRigEverything’s durability test of the same device drops. Construction and structural integrity of the Z Fold4 remains unchanged over the Z Fold3, except for the update from Gorilla Glass Victus to Victus Plus on the external display. The Z Fold4 is still IPX8 water resistant, and the internal display is still protected by a plastic cover. Gorilla Glass Victus Plus didn’t have any additional scratch-resistant properties, as the external display still scratched at a level 6 (of Moh’s scale of hardness) with deeper grooves...

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Sony announces it will acquire Savage Game Studios to strengthen its mobile offerings

In a press release Monday morning, Sony announced it will be acquiring Savage Game Studios under its newly formed PlayStation Studios Mobile Divison – which develops games for mobile and is independent of Sony’s console development team. Savage Game Studios has offices in Helsinki and Berlin and the team is already working on an unannounced “AAA mobile live service action game. The company’s co-founders have previously worked with mobile game studios Rovio, Zynga, Supercell, Wargaming, and Insomniac. I’m thrilled to welcome Savage Game Studios. They join a new independent PlayStation...

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Our Samsung Galaxy Z Fold4 video review is now up

Samsung's newest large foldable is the Galaxy Z Fold4, and it just went on sale last Friday. It's the new hot item if you want a phone that folds into a mini tablet and don't live in China where you'd have a lot more options. Elsewhere, at least so far, it's pretty much Samsung or bust, so how good of a phone is this anyway? That's what we explored in depth in our comprehensive written review of the Galaxy Z Fold4, which you shouldn't miss if you're interested in this device. If you want to only hear the key bullet points, however, then our newly released video review is just the thing for...

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Poco M5 and M5s will be announced on September 5, specs leak

Poco has been working on a couple of new mid-rangers to add to its ever-expanding portfolio, and today the brand has announced that their unveiling will take place on September 5, via an online event that will start at 8 PM Beijing time (that's 2 PM CEST, 12 PM GMT, 1 PM UK, 8 AM EDT, 5 AM PDT, respectively). The devices in question are the Poco M5 and the Poco M5s, and the brand makes no secret of this, proudly displaying their names on the event invite. One of these is most likely going to be the previously teased smartphone running the MediaTek Helio G99 SoC. And according to past...

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Motorola Edge 30 Neo color options leak

A while back we came across a Geekbench listing for the upcoming Motorola Edge 30 Neo (aka Edge 30 Lite) and today we have more details on the phone’s design thanks to a series of new images of the phone in all four of it color options. Evan Blass and 91mobiles are bringing us the Black Onyx, Very Peri, Aqua Foam, and Ice Palace colors of the Edge 30 Neo. Motorola Edge 30 Neo design and color options Motorola Edge 30 Neo is expected to debut with a 6.28-inch pOLED with FHD+ resolution and a 120Hz refresh rate. The phone will likely launch with Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 695 chipset...

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Apple trademarks “Reality One” for its mixed reality headset

Apple will likely use Reality in its naming for the upcoming mixed reality headset as per a new series of patents. A new Bloomberg report details three separate patent fillings for Reality One, Reality Pro and Reality Processor. These are the likely names for the two versions of the long-rumored Apple MR/AR headset and its processing unit. Older applications also revealed a realityOS patent filling which is most likely for the headset’s OS. Possible names for Apple's mixed reality headsets The US Trademark and Patent Office shows Immersive Health Solutions as the patent filler for...

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