Infinix GT 10 Pro review

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The OnePlus Ace 2 Pro will fully charge its 5,000mAh battery in just 17 minutes at 150W

OnePlus will unveil the Ace 2 Pro in China on August 16 and has already started building up hype for the phone by bragging about its super fast 150W SuperVOOC S charging. It’s 99% efficient and can fully charge the 5,000mAh battery in just 17 minutes, according to the company. SuperVOOC S was developed in-house and was designed to be gentle with the battery. The phone advertises 4 years of battery life (presumably, this means that the battery will have at least 80% of its original capacity after 4 years of usage). The phone will be paired with a 150W GaN charger and a USB C-to-C cable....

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Samsung Galaxy A05 does Geekbench 6 with a Helio G85 chipset

Evidence of the Samsung Galaxy A05 has started to appear with several model numbers surfacing – SM-A055F and SM-A055M, plus dual SIM versions of the same. Now the F variant has done several runs of Geekbench 6. Based on the scorecard, the phone is powered by the MediaTek Helio G85 chipset (MT6769V/CZ). This is a decent upgrade over the Galaxy A04, which used the Helio P35. Both are 12nm chips, but the G85 has two Cortex-A75 cores (2.0GHz) and six A55 cores (1.8GHz), compared to eight Cortex-A53 cores on the P35. That doubles the single-threaded performance and boosts multi-threaded...

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Saudi Arabia mandates all electronic devices to use USB-C charging ports from 2025

Saudi Arabia announced a law to standardize charging ports for all electronic devices – all devices must have USB-C, with the first stage set to begin on January 1, 2025. Government spokespeople said this aims to improve user experience, reduce costs and e-waste, and also allow high-quality data transfers. The decision comes from the Saudi Standards, Metrology, and Quality Organization and the Communications, Space, and Technology Commission. The first stage is for mobile phones and electronic devices such as headphones, keyboards, speakers, routers, etc. There is a second stage,...

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Realme 11X 5G's design revealed through leaked image

Realme launched the Realme 11 Pro and Realme 11 Pro+ in India exactly two months ago. The company didn't bring the vanilla model to the country, but it's expected to introduce the yet-to-be-announced Realme 11X 5G in India sometime this month, which has appeared in a leaked image confirming the presence of a centered punch hole display. The picture also reveals that Realme 11X 5G has flat frames but doesn't divulge anything else. However, previous rumors claim the smartphone will come in Midnight Black and Purple Dawn colors with two memory options - 6GB/128GB and 8GB/128GB. The...

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Samsung Galaxy Z Flip5, Fold5 score record-smashing pre-orders in Korea

Samsung introduced the Galaxy Z Flip5 and Galaxy Z Fold5 recently and opened pre-orders for the foldables on August 1 in South Korea. The campaign is going strong at home with orders surpassing 1 million for the two devices, breaking the previous record of 970,000 for the 2022 devices. Unsurprisingly, the Galaxy Z Flip5 proved more popular than the Fold5, accounting for about 70% of the total 1.02 million units. This is an improvement for the clamshell because last year’s Galaxy Z Flip4 accounted for approximately 60%. The Flip5 pre-orders reached 714,000, while the Fold5 scored some...

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HTC Wildfire E Star announced with 6.5" LCD and Unisoc chipset

HTC announced another entry-level device with the Wildfire E Star. The phone brings a 6.5-inch LCD with HD+ resolution and a watedrop notch for the 5MP fixed focus selfie cam. It is equipped with the Unisoc SC9832E chipset paired with 2GB RAM and 16GB storage which is expandable via the microSD card slot. The back houses an 8MP main cam and a secondary QVGA module (0.08MP) module HTC Wildfire E Star HTC Wildfire E Star brings a 3,000 mAh battery with 5W charging over USB-C and boots Android 12 (Go edition). The phone has a 3.5mm headphone jack and a side-mounted fingerprint...

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