Google developed a second foldable alongside the Pixel Fold but canceled it

If you heard rumors that Google was working on not one but two foldable smartphones in the past few months (and years), it turns out those mumblings were actually true, despite the fact that the company only eventually announced one of them, namely the Pixel Fold. Apparently there was a second foldable smartphone created by the same team that was in charge of the Pixel Fold. This other device apparently "wasn't good enough" which is why it was eventually canceled and never made it to market. The team felt like it should only launch devices that are good enough or better than what is out...

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vivo Y78 goes global with a curved 6.78" 120Hz display and Snapdragon 695

vivo Singapore has quietly revealed the global version of the Y78 – we say “global” because it differs quite a bit from the Y78 that launched in China earlier this month. This one is bigger and with a different chipset, making it more similar to the Y78+ from April, though not quite identical either. vivo Y78 (global) The global vivo Y78 is equipped with a roomy 6.78” display – a 120Hz AMOLED panel with FHD+ resolution (20:9) and an under display fingerprint reader. It’s a curved display, so the phone is relatively narrow for its size, measuring 164.3 x 74.8 x 7.9mm and...

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Yet another analyst confirms larger screens for iPhone 16 Pro models

Apple's iPhone 16 Pro lineup for 2024 will have bigger displays. Ross Young first claimed this earlier this month and Ming-Chi Kuo chimed in a few days after, both saying the same thing - bigger screens for the Pro models in the iPhone 16 lineup. Mark Gurman's Sunday newsletter further confirmed these claims. However, there's no clear consensus on how much bigger the iPhone 16 Pro and Pro Max will be compared to their predecessors. Gurman thinks the increase will be quite modest - "a couple tenths of an inch diagonally". Ross Young, on the other hand, cites 6.2 and 6.8", while Kuo...

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ARM unveils the Cortex-X4, its fastest CPU yet, Cortex-A720 and A520 and 5th gen GPUs join it

ARM’s big.LITTLE CPU configurations have been around for years and the standard practice so far has been to have as many – or more – little cores as there are big cores. This is now changing with the introduction of ARM’s new designs. The high-power Cortex-X4, middle Cortex-A720 and small Cortex-A520 were unveiled today and will work in tandem to balance between performance and efficiency. ARM also introduced the DSU-120, which is what drives the DynamIQ Shared Unit system that allows different CPU cores to work together. With the DSU-120, chipset makers can build designs with up...

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iQOO Neo 7 Pro makes an appearance on Geekbench

Last week brought the first official teaser for the iQOO Neo 7 Pro and a new Geekbench listing has now emerged, revealing the key specs for the device. The upcoming iQOO phone is spotted bearing the vivo I2217 identifier and it is powered by the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 chipset and 8GB RAM. vivo I2217 Geekbench scorecard The device managed 1,112 single-core points and a 3,578 multi-core score and boots Android 13 presumably with Funtouch OS 13 on top. Previous rumors suggested that the Neo 7 Pro would be a rebrand of the China-exclusive iQOO Neo 7 Racing which features the Snapdragon 8+...

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vivo S17 appears with Snapdragon 778G+ SoC, S17 Pro will have 50 MP selfie camera

The vivo S17 series will be officially unveiled on May 31, and we expect the vanilla vivo S17 and vivo S17 Pro to make an appearance. The mightier option is expected to have a Dimensity 8200 chipset, but the basic version is likely to have a Snapdragon 778G+ SoC, according to a listing on Geekbench. The vivo V2283A device, said to be the vivo S17, was listed with “lahaina” chipset, and while this is the codename of the Snapdragon 888 series, we can confirm it is actually the 778G+ due to the different CPU combo, as well as the GPU being Adreno 642L. The listing also revealed the...

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