iQOO 11 with Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 is coming soon to Malaysia, might feature V2 chip

Last week we exclusively reported that vivo sub-brand iQOO will debut in Malaysia this month, and judging by its social media posts, we presumed the company would make its Malaysian debut with at least one number series smartphone. Well, we were right since iQOO has announced that the iQOO 11 is coming soon to Malaysia. iQOO hasn't revealed the launch date yet, but it confirmed that the iQOO 11 will support 5G networks and have the freshly announced Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 SoC at the helm, which could make it the first Snapdragon 8 Gen 2-powered smartphone in Malaysia and one of the first...

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Lenovo Tab Extreme will be the first tablet to sport MediaTek's Dimensity 9000 SoC

Lenovo is taking Android tablets more and more seriously by the day, it seems. It already had an interesting offering in the P12 Pro, but that's apparently due for a successor, and this has now leaked courtesy of the Google Play Console. Ladies and gentlemen, meet the upcoming Lenovo Tab Extreme. The name is, perhaps surprisingly, rather adequate here, as this will be the first ever tablet to sport MediaTek's Dimensity 9000 high-end chipset. And that's not the only top shelf feature on offer. The Tab Extreme also has a display with 3000x1876 resolution (though the size is unknown),...

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Samsung Galaxy S23 to have "exclusive high-frequency version" Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 chipset in Europe

Over the past few years, you may have grown more and more disappointed with Samsung's decision to use its own, arguably inferior, Exynos SoCs in Europe in its flagship devices instead of Qualcomm's Snapdragons. If so, then you were undoubtedly happy to hear, straight from Qualcomm no less, that there will be no more Exynos in the Galaxy S23 family next year, not anywhere in the world - it's all Snapdragon everywhere. Adding to the excitement today is famed leakster Ice Universe, who reveals that Samsung will use an exclusive high-frequency version of the just-announced Qualcomm Snapdragon...

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Qualcomm unveils new Bluetooth LE Audio chips and platform for AR glasses

Qualcomm unveiled the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 and among all the performance figures were notes on much-improved Bluetooth audio. Here is the other half of that equation – the Qualcomm S3 and S5 Gen 2 chips for wireless headsets. There is a new platform for wearables, AR glasses in particular, that was also unveiled today. Qualcomm S3 and S5 Gen 2 With the new Gen 2 platform Qualcomm continues its work on Bluetooth LE Audio. The new chips can work in conjunction with the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 to transfer lossless audio from the phone to your ears. These also support dynamic head tracking to...

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The first Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 promo videos tout the camera, GPU, AI and audio improvements

Qualcomm’s new Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 chipset was just unveiled and smartphone makers are already lining up to release a new premium phone with the flagship chip. What is the chip all about? You can watch the first official promo video, though it requires some explanation. The video doesn’t spell it out, but it boasts about the triple 18-bit ISP that can handle three 36MP cameras simultaneously. Also, the new AI hardware can segment the image into face, hair, background and so on to improve portrait mode results. Next up, water reflections – Qualcomm is the latest smartphone chipset maker...

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Diesel Griffed Gen 6 brings Wear OS 3 and Snapdragon Wear 4100+

Diesel launched a new Wear OS 3 smartwatch equipped with the Snapdragon 4100+ platform. Griffed Gen 6 brings GPS, Bluetooth 5 LE, Wi-Fi and NFC with support for Google Wallet. The watch is offered in a single 45.5mm size and features a stainless steel case and configurable metal, leather, or nylon watch straps. You get the usual mix of health tracking with heart rate monitoring, SpO2 readings, sleep and stress tracking. Diesel Griffed Gen 6 in all its style options Griffed Gen 6 also does sports tracking for a wide variety of activities. The watch comes with 1GB RAM and...

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Twitter is bringing back Blue Verified on November 29

Twitter allowed everyone to get their account verified through the Blue subscription, which led to multiple people abusing the feature and outright trolling the social media with outlandish posts. In an attempt to prevent further disarray, the Elon Musk-owned network turned off subscriptions on Friday and even removed check marks for a brief period. The CEO finally confirmed relaunching the Blue Verified feature will be on November 29 “to make sure it is rock solid”. Punting relaunch of Blue Verified to November 29th to make sure that it is rock solid— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 15,...

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Oppo' Camp Guard shooter shows the best of Snapdragon 8 Gen 2's ray tracing

Qualcomm just introduced the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2, and one of the key talking points was the chip’s capabilities for hardware-accelerated ray tracing. Today, Oppo gave us an insight into how the feature would look on a smartphone. The company developed a first-person shooter game called “Camp Guard” that demonstrates the ray tracing capabilities on a smartphone, which can be seen in the neat promo video below. Ray tracing enables far more realistic graphics, as it boosts the physical accuracy of reflections and shadows, bringing games closer to reality. Oppo started working on the...

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