Top 10 trending phones of week 39

For yet another week our trending chart is topped by the Apple iPhone 14 Pro Max, but the gap to the second-placed Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra is much narrower this time around. The Pixel 7 Pro is about to make its official debut and it already got enough people checking it out to finish the week in third place. The newly unveiled Xiaomi Civi 2 captured fourth ahead of the Galaxy A53 and the rapidly rising Redmi Note 11. The discontinued iPhone X ranked seventh as its owners still consider their upgrade options, while the far more current iPhone 14 Pro lost a lot of ground and is now...

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Week 39 in review: Redmi Note 11R is here, Pixel 7 rumors heat up in the final week

Another week down, so let's take a look back at the biggest events from it. This week saw the announcement of the Redmi Note 11R. It packs a Dimensity 700 chip, a 6.58-inch 1080p IPS LCD of 90Hz refresh rate, and a 5,000mAh battery. It's basically a rebranded Poco M4 5G. The Redmi Note 11R is now on sale in China, starting at CNY 1,099 for the 4/128GB model. Infinix teased the Zero Ultra - a phone with a 200MP camera and 180W charging. It will have a 6.8-inch 120Hz AMOLED display, a Dimensity 920 chipset, and 8GB of RAM. This week brought renders of the entire Galaxy S23 lineup and...

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Flashback: the second megapixel race

The first megapixel race started around 2004 (when camera phones first crossed the 1MP mark) and came to an end in 2013 or so with the arrival of the Nokia 808 PureView. Its 41MP camera would only be beaten in terms of resolution in 2018. During that period phones focused on other aspects of the camera rather than resolution. But now a second megapixel race is upon us. The first one ended in part because common wisdom shifted from “more pixels is better” to “bigger pixels are better”. The arrival of computational photography also played a major role and allowed iPhones, Galaxys and Pixels...

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Weekly poll: vivo X Fold+ hot or not?

The vivo X Fold+ is this week’s biggest release (figuratively and literally) with its 8-inch folding screen, new chipset and larger battery. Does it have what it takes to make you reach for your wallet? The big factor for many will likely be availability – vivo has not yet confirmed whether the X Fold+ will be offered in markets outside of China. The original X Fold from earlier never got its world tour so we’ll just have to wait and see if the Plus model will fix that. vivo X Fold+ We can also get pricing out the way – vivo X Fold+ starts at CNY 9,999 which is roughly...

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