Huawei confirms MatePad Pro 13.2 for December 12 event

A few days ago, Huawei announced it's hosting an event in Dubai on December 12 for an "Innovate Product Launch" without mentioning what products it's launching. The teaser it shared suggested one of the products would be a tablet, and today, we learned that tablet is the MatePad Pro 13.2, currently exclusive to China. Huawei posted a video on X confirming the December 12 global launch of the MatePad Pro 13.2. The post doesn't explicitly mention the tablet but includes #HUAWEIMatePadPro, while the video shows a tablet with a notch and the same wallpaper we've seen in the MatePad Pro 13.2's...

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Honor Magic6 Lite arrives as rebranded Honor X9b

Without much fanfare, Honor unveiled the first phone in its Magic6 lineup with the Magic6 Lite. The midrange device brings a rebranded Honor X9b featuring the same design and specifications headlined by Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 6 Gen 1 chip. Magic6 Lite features a curved 6.78-inch AMOLED display with 1220 x 2652px resolution and a 120Hz refresh rate. The back brings a 108MP main cam alongside a 5MP ultrawide module and a 2MP macro cam. The listing on Honor Italy confirms a single 8GB RAM and 256GB storage trim. Honor Magic6 Lite boots Magic UI 7.2 based on Android 13 and features a...

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Foldable smartphone sales break record in Q3, Samsung to lose significant share in Q4

According to DSCC, foldable smartphones have had a record breaking quarter, in terms of sales, in the third quarter of this year (July to September), fueled by Samsung's launch of the Galaxy Z Fold5 and Z Flip5. The increased competition from China also played a significant part. Sales of foldables jumped 215% compared to Q2 2023 and 16% compared to Q3 2022 to 7 million units, eclipsing the previous peak of 6.1 million which was reached in the year-ago quarter. Samsung's market share was 72%, dominating but down from 86% last year. Next up, perhaps surprisingly, was Huawei with 9%,...

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Google announces Gemini, its new multimodal AI model now available in Bard

Today Google unveiled Gemini, which is its new, "largest and most capable" AI model. It's built from the beginning to be multimodal, and so it can generalize and understand different types of information - text, images, audio, video, and code - at the same time. This lets it better parse nuances and makes it better at answering questions relating to complicated topics. Thus, it's especially good at explaining reasoning in complex subjects like math and physics. It comes in three 'sizes' - Ultra, Pro, and Nano. Ultra is "the largest and most capable model for highly complex tasks", Pro...

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