Oppo Find N2 will arrive in December, leaked screenshots confirm rumors

Oppo is expected to bring two new Find N foldables - a clamshell, tentatively called Find N Flip and a Find N2 that is supposed to be a successor to last year’s horizontally folding device. Earlier reports suggested Color OS 13 out of the box, and today we get some leaked screenshots to confirm this and shed further light on the specs. The images reveal 120Hz screen refresh rate, 12GB RAM and 256GB storage and a CPU that looks to match the Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1 chipset's. Oppo Find N2 screenshots The Find N2 is expected to have MariSilicon X NPU, Oppo’s in-house solution for...

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Top 10 trending phones of week 44

The Redmi Note 12 series still claims the top two spots in our trending chart in week 44. The Redmi Note 12 Pro+ leads from the Redmi Note 12 Pro, although the other two members have lost some ground. This allowed the Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra to sneak back onto the podium positions, while the iPhone 14 Pro Max climbed to fourth. The aging iPhone XR still plenty of people checking its specs page, allowing it to claim the fifth page, ahead of the Redmi Note 12. In seventh we have the Galaxy A53 ultra-popular mid-ranger, while the eight position goes to the outright ancient iPhone...

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Nothing Ear Stick review

The Ear Stick are Nothing's newest wireless earbuds and only the company's third product so far. The Ear Stick are as much of a fashion product as a tech product, with a stunning rotating case design in what has become the company's trademarked transparent plastic. The Ear Stick are meant to be an alternative to the previously launched Nothing Ear 1. While the Ear 1 have a more common in-ear design, the Ear Stick use the older half in-ear design like the AirPods. As such, they also lack features like active noise cancellation and transparency mode. What they gain instead is a...

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Week 44 in review: Huawei Pocket S becomes the cheapest foldable as Dimensity 9200 promising benchmarks leak

Another week down, let's recap. The MediaTek Dimensity 9200 flexed impressive muscle on AnTuTu and GFXBench, especially on the graphics front. It managed to top all current chipsets, including the Apple A16 Bionic, though cross-platform comparisons are rarely a great idea. Xiaomi announced the Redmi Note 12 series just last week and the first sale went great. The four phones scored 350,000 orders in the first flash sale, depleting the initial inventory. Meanwhile Xiaomi showed off a prototype with two of the Xiaomi 12S Ultra's 1-inch type sensors - one is the same as on the 12S Ultra,...

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Weekly deals: the best smartphone deals from the US, the UK and Germany

Amazon US is running what it calls “early Black Friday deals”, but the truth is there will be discounts this whole month. Here are some of the best deals that we found in the US, but also the UK and Germany. Besides the offers below, you might also want to check out our Deals page, which covers multiple regions around the world and offers additional info like a price history for the last 30 days. OnePlus phones have been heavily discounted in the US and the UK and even in Germany, though not from the official site (due to a lawsuit by Nokia). Amazon Germany still sells them, however....

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Flashback: a look back at Intel-powered smartphones and tablets

While ARM and Qualcomm have released some awesome mobile GPUs, we kind of wish that Nvidia would start making smartphone chipsets again or at least license GPU designs. AMD dipped its toes back in again, why shouldn't Nvidia? For now we can only reminisce about Nvidia-powered phones. The GPU maker isn't the only one to drop out of the race either, Texas Instruments was farily popular at one point too. And then there is Intel. Still the dominant supplier of laptop, desktop and server CPUs, Intel's time as a chipset maker for mobile devices didn't leave such a legacy. It did start okay,...

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Weekly poll: would you be interested in one of the Xiaomi Redmi Note 12 phones?

Xiaomi broke new ground with the Redmi Note 12 series. Not only is this the first mid-range series to feature a 200MP camera, this series is also home to the first phone to break the 200 Watt charging barrier. Note that the four models are available only in China for now, but they should launch to an international audience soon enough. When they do (and assuming there aren't any deal-breaking changes), would you buy one? We’ll start with the Xiaomi Redmi Note 12 Pro as it is the linchpin of the series. It is equipped with a 6.67” 120Hz OLED display (10-bit panel, Dolby Vision) and is...

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