Samsung Galaxy S23 series appears in leaked high-res colorful images

The Samsung Galaxy S23 series, rumored to consist of Galaxy S23, Galaxy S23+, and Galaxy S23 Ultra, is said to go official early next month. Leaked images have already revealed what these smartphones will look like, but today we are looking at a new set of renders showing us the vanilla and Ultra models in different colors. The S23 and S23+ will look similar - both have three cameras on the rear aligned vertically in the left corner, with an LED flash on the right side of the first camera. The rear panel also has the Samsung branding at the bottom, and you can see the power button and...

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Qualcomm announces Snapdragon Satellite for Android, and it's not just for emergencies

Apple introduced emergency satellite connectivity with its iPhone 14 models last fall, and obviously Android devices couldn't be far behind. Today at CES Qualcomm announced Snapdragon Satellite, a two-way satellite messaging service that will be available on "next-generation premium Android smartphones". This is made possible through a partnership with Iridium, which operates a 66-strong Low Earth orbit satellite constellation. One of its main competitors is Globalstar, which is Apple's partner for its service. Snapdragon Satellite will support two-way messaging for emergency use, SMS...

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Realme confirms that the GT Neo 5 will be the first phone to feature 240W fast charging

Earlier today Realme unveiled its 240W charging system, the first in the smartphone industry to hit that level of power. Now the company has confirmed which phone will be the first to use it – the Realme GT Neo 5. The phone itself is still under wraps, but multiple leaks have given us a good idea of what to expect. It will be powered by the Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1 for starters. Although there is talk of another GT Neo 5 with 150W charging that will use the Dimensity 8200 instead. Anyway, the phone will feature a 50MP main camera with OIS (IMX890 sensor), an 8MP ultra wide, 2MP helper and a...

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AMD's Radeon 7000 series bring RDNA 3 to laptops

AMD used its CES 2023 press conference to detail the new Ryzen 7000 CPUs and to announce that Radeon 7000 GPUs are coming to laptops. AMD unveiled four new Radeon RX 7000 series graphics cards - the RX 7600M XT, RX 7600M, RX 7700S, and RX 7600S - S for efficiency, M for performance (the same nomenclature as on the RX 6000 series). These cards will directly rival Nvidia's RXT 3060 laptop GPUs so expect more powerful Radeon 7000 GPUs later on in 2023. The Radeon 7000 series laptop GPUs all have 8GB GDDR6 memory and a 128-bit memory interface. All four cards are based on the RDNA 3...

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Lenovo announces ThinkPhone by Motorola with SD 8+ Gen 1

The Lenovo ThinkPhone by Motorola is here and it's just what it sounds like - a Motorola-made smartphone that looks like a Lenovo ThinkPad laptop. The ThinkPhone is built around a 6.6-inch OLED display of 2400x1080px resolution and 144Hz refresh rate. The screen also offers HDR10+ support. Inside, there's a Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1 chipset paired with either 8GB or 12GB of RAM, and you get a choice of 128GB, 256GB, or 512GB of storage. You can have the ThinkPhone in any color as long as it's Carbon Black, but make no mistake - this isn't your everyday regular black phone. For starters,...

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Infinix partners with JBL to tune the sound of the next Note series

Last year Infinix announced its 180W charging system, it developed a new vapor chamber design and released its first phone with a 200MP camera. The company is kicking off 2023 by focusing on the audio quality of its phones. Infinix has tapped the experts at JBL for help. The upcoming generation of the Infinix Note series will feature a sound system tuned by JBL. For now we don’t know whether other product lines will get the enhanced audio. The first Infinix Note phones with JBL sound will hit the market in May. The devices are still in the prototype stage – you can see one if you...

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