Top 10 trending phones of week 35

Sony introduced its Xperia 5 IV compact flagship this week and it immediately went on to dominate our weekly interest chart. A lot of you were eager to find out more about it and propelled it to the top, way ahead of the iPhone 14 Pro Max. Apple's upcoming flagship will certainly be eager to return to the top next week as it makes an official debut. The Samsung pair of Galaxy S22 Ultra and Galaxy A53 follow, while the iPhone 13 Pro Max has slipped to fifth. Xiaomi's only representative in the top 10 is the Redmi Note 11, which ranked sixth this time around. Behind it is another new...

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Honor MagicBook 14 2022 review

Introduction Honor has built a name for itself in the laptop market with sleek and powerful laptops that undercut many of the established players and its latest attempt is the MagicBook 14 2022. It brings a redesigned chassis, 12-gen Intel CPU, a 75Wh battery and an optional Nvidia RTX 2050 discrete GPU. MagicBook 14 2022 was initially announced in China with AMD’s Ryzen 6000 CPUs and no discrete GPU options. Luckily for us, we got the international variant, which just launched more recently and it’s the top spec’d model with the discrete graphics card. Honor is touting this...

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Weekly poll: Sony Xperia 5 IV makes practical arguments on why you should get one, will you?

The Sony Xperia 5 IV was unveiled the same week as major announcements at IFA, but the global tech event feels more like a coincidence than anything else – Sony launches its phones when they are ready rather than aiming for a specific time of the year. And it really doesn’t care what other Android makers are doing. That’s what makes the Xperias recognizable – the flat, rectangular display, the side-mounted fingerprint reader on an OLED flagship, the 3.5mm headphone jack still worn with pride, the microSD slot that lets you load all your FLAC flies. You won’t get these anywhere...

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Asus ROG Phone 6D Ultimate TENAA photos confirm its design once again

We've been following an interesting trail regarding the ROG Phone 6D for some time now. Here's a short rundown - We already know the 6D Ultimate will be unveiled on September 19. We also know from the same official sources, as well as AnTuTu and another recent leak that it will basically be identical to the ROG Phone 6 Pro, but with a chipset swap to the MediaTek Dimensity 9000+. That and an upgraded cooling system of some sort that has been teased with a rather cryptic video from Asus. Now TENAA brings a set of photos of the ROG Phone 6D Ultimate confirming its design yet again, and we...

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Weekly poll results: the Honor 70 has potential, but regional pricing differences matter

The Honor 70 launched in stores in Europe this Friday, while the Honor Pad 8 and MagicBook 14 (Intel 12th gen) went on pre-order. But last week’s poll was focused on the phone and the results from it are... mixed. It really depends on where in the world you are. In Europe (the UK specifically) the phone starts at £480 for an 8/128GB unit. Many commenters see that as pricey for a Snapdragon 778G+ powered phone – some compared it to the £400 Nothing Phone (1), another 778G+ handset. Also, the Honor 70 is billed as a camera phone (and the specs confirm it), though it has a specific...

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