Samsung starts early deliveries of pre-booked Galaxy Z Fold5 and Galaxy Z Flip5 in India

Samsung received a record amount of pre-bookings in India for the Galaxy Z Fold5 and Galaxy Z Flip5 foldable smartphones that it announced back on July 26. Over 100,000 pre-bookings in the first 28 hours, to be exact. Now, to show some love to these people, the company has decided to start early deliveries of the pre-booked units. From today, the people who pre-booked are going to start receiving theirs. Full official in-store availability will only arrive on August 18, so this means that those who were the earliest adopters, so to speak, will actually get to play with their new phones...

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Xiaomi Mix Fold 3 passes through Geekbench with overclocked Snapdragon 8 Gen 2

Xiaomi is officially unveiling the Mix Fold 3 on Monday, August 14, at a special event in China. Ahead of that, a prototype of the device has been spotted in the Geekbench online database, where it arrived with an overclocked version of the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2's CPU. The Prime core goes up to 3.36 GHz, which is exactly as high as it's taken in the "Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 for Galaxy" that was so far exclusive to Samsung. Well, not anymore, it seems. The prototype Mix Fold 3 managed a 2,071 single-core score and a 5,419 multi-core score as you can see. The device in question unsurprisingly ran...

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Samsung US starts selling the Galaxy Z Flip5 and Z Fold5, here are the SIM-free and carrier deals

Pre-orders are done, Samsung’s latest foldables, smartwatches and tablets are now on sale. Here are some of the deals that you can get from Samsung US, plus the offers from carriers. Starting with the Samsung Galaxy Z Flip5, you can get up to $600 off (the base price is $1,000) with a trade-in. There is a $200 guaranteed minimum for trades, so even an old smartphone with a cracked screen is worth that much. Note that students get a 10% discount. There are some bundles that you can get too, you can pick up a Galaxy Tab S9 with a 30% discount of a Galaxy Watch6 with a 25% discount....

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SK hynix is now shipping its 24GB LPDDR5X DRAM, will debut on OnePlus Ace 2 Pro

SK hynix - one of the leading memory chipmakers announced it is now shipping its first supplies of Low Power Double Data Rate 5X (LPDDR5X) mobile DRAM to its customers. The new 24GB LPDDR5X memory will debut on the OnePlus Ace 2 Pro which is confirmed to launch in China on August 16. Sk hynix 24GB LPDDR5X chip SK hynix began mass producing its 24GB LPDDR5X DRAM back in November 2022 using the HKMG process which enables the memory chip to deliver best-in-class power efficiency and performance. The new 24GB LPDDR5X DRAM operates at ultra-low voltages of 1.01 to 1.12V and is capable of...

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