Samsung Galaxy A14 5G with Dimensity 700 also pops up on Geekbench

Samsung is preparing a Galaxy A14 smartphone with 5G connectivity. The device with model number SM-A146B appeared on Geekbench with an unannounced Exynos chipset, but a new listing revealed the model is also getting a different version with a Mediatek platform. An SM-A146P phone was benchmarked with Dimensity 700, and it managed to score lower than the Exynos sibling both on the single-core and multi-core fronts. Samsung Galaxy A14 5G with Dimensity 700 and Exynos 1330 Geekbench tells us the Mediatek-powered Samsung phone will have a 4GB RAM option and will ship with Android 13...

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Nokia X30 in for review

We first got our hands on the Nokia X30 at IFA 2022 in Berlin, and now the phone landed at our office for a full review. We've got the Ice White color version, but there's one more option - Cloudy Blue. The Nokia X30 comes in a recycled box with the usual paperwork, SIM tool, and a USB-C to USB-C cable. It doesn't come bundled with the power adapter, though, so you'll have to buy one separately if you don't already own a compatible charger. The Nokia X30 is built around a 6.43" FullHD+ 90Hz AMOLED screen protected by Gorilla Glass Victus. The display has a fingerprint reader...

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Top 10 trending phones of week 46

It's now four straight weeks that the Redmi Note 12 Pro+ leads our trending chart, but the difference to second placed Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra is the lowest it has been. We can't rule out a change at the top, come week 47. The Samsung Galaxy A53 has jumped two spots to get the final podium position, pushing the Apple iPhone 14 Pro Max down to fourth in the process. The long in the tooth iPhone XR and iPhone X are still going strong though and are now fifth and seventh. Between them we have the Redmi Note 12 Pro, while the newly unveiled Realme 10 Pro+ is just behind in eight...

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Week 46 in review: Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 arrives, Realme 10 Pro and Pro+ announced

The past seven days were marked by the annual Qualcomm summit in Hawaii, where the company announced its new flagship chipset Snapdragon 8 Gen 2. Pretty much all major manufacturers confirmed they will launch a phone with the SoC but the latest reports revealed Samsung is getting a special version with higher frequency. The platform itself promises a 35% increase in performance with 40% higher efficiency. The main CPU core, the Kryo Prime, runs at almost 3.2GHz, then we have four cores at 2.8GHz, and three for efficiency at 2.0GHz. Qualcomm also developed ray tracing in partnership with...

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Flashback: how Amazon Fire Phone's big bet on 3D and impulse purchases failed

In 2004 Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos created a team to build an ebook reader – in 2007 the Kindle was born and it went on to dominate its market. Then in 2011 the Kindle Fire Android tablet arrived and while it couldn't quite achieve the same domination it became a major player in its niche. What was next? An Android phone – but not one that is beholden to Google. At the end of July 2014 Amazon unveiled the Fire Phone. It ran Fire OS, the company’s fork of Android that has been reworked to slot into the Amazon ecosystem much like the Kindle readers and Fire tablets were. By that we mean that...

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Weekly poll: do flagship chipsets still matter?

This week Qualcomm unveiled the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2. The week before MediaTek announced its Dimensity 9200. And, of course, Apple’s iPhone 14 series came out recently, but only the Pros got the new chipset. The next generation flagship chips are ready to prove their mettle in benchmarks – but do flagship chipsets even matter ? After years of impressive improvements smartphone chipsets are showing no signs of slowing down. Right now ray tracing support is becoming standard on high-end GPUs and the AI accelerators are improving by leaps and bounds. CPU efficiency is going up too. However,...

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