OnePlus Ace 2 coming with a dedicated power management chip for its 5,000 mAh battery

OnePlus is launching the Ace 2 in China next week, and we are pretty confident it is the same as the OnePlus 11R, arriving on the international scene at the same time. Today, the company shared more details about the upcoming phone with a Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1 chipset. In a series of posts on Weibo, OnePlus revealed the Ace 2 will come with an Oppo SuperVOOC S power management chip and will also have a separate chip for image rendering and refresh rate, offloading some of the work from the Qualcomm SoC. The Ace 2 will also have a 5,000 mAh battery with 100W fast charging. OnePlus...

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Sony Xperia 1 V image leaks, it might literally be the hottest Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 device

Sony's Xperia 1 V may or may not be made official at MWC in Barcelona at the end of this month. While we wait to see if that actually happens, let's enjoy the first leaked image purportedly showing the upcoming flagship smartphone. If you compare this camera island to the Xperia 1 IV's, you'll instantly notice that the ToF camera and the RGB IR sensor are gone. Thus, we're left with three big sensors (they look bigger than on the 1 IV), of which the lowest one houses a periscope camera. The LED flash has moved into the island in the upcoming model, whereas it was outside the island,...

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Twitter discontinues its free API access, paid version in the pipeline

In a new tweet from Twitter's developers' account, the company announced that it's closing its free API access starting February 9 - a week from now. A new paid basic tier will be available soon. Twitter is bleeding money each year and Elon Musk and his team are scrambling to save the social network from bankruptcy. This, in turn, means that some features on the platform will require a subscription in order to increase the revenue stream. The latest feature to take the hit is the free API access for developers. From February 9 onward, developers and companies that rely on Twitter's...

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Camera comparison: Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra vs Galaxy S22 Ultra

If you hadn't managed to take a look at our ever-evolving hands-on with the Galaxy S23 Ultra, we've added an impromptu camera shootout to its predecessor, the Galaxy S22 Ultra. Here it is, cropped from that article in full. Now that we've had a few extra minutes with the new Galaxies, we decided to do a quick camera shootout between the new Ultra and the old one. We took a few snaps outside in well-lit conditions and inside in not-so-well-lit ones. This will be a quick side-by-side. You should wait for our detailed review where we'll do a deeper dive in all the Galaxy S23 Ultra's...

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