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Asus and OnePlus are back with new phones in their lineup. Both OEMs teased the arrival of their new phones on social media. OnePlus CEO Pete Lau in a recent tweet said to stay tuned for March 8 and shared a picture saying "Something New is on the horizon".  Stay tuned for March 8. https://t.co/mprr4v8UbS pic.twitter.com/CQSop6Fg85 — Pete Lau (@PeteLau) March 1, 2021 The picture may be teasing of a periscope lens on the 9 series which is capable of taking moonshots like the Galaxy S21 ultra. OnePlus 9 series leaks and expected specs here . As for Asus, they skipped the number 4 and is launching the ROG phone 5 on March 10th.  They have partnered with Indian Youtuber CarryMinati as well as other gamers to promote the launch of the new gamming phone.  The #ROGPhone5 is arriving to #RuleThemAll . Asia's #No1 YouTuber @CarryMinati is so stoked for this. Join us for the virtual launch in India on the 10th of March 2021 at 4:15 PM. https://t.co/YK6Kmgv07t Head over to Fl

                                                                                                                                      Credit: Huawei Huawei has announced a successor to their foldable lineup yesterday in China. The Mate X2 was released and has big changes in design and functionality from its predecessor, the Mate Xs. Huawei has not  released the phone globally yet, but a launch event will soon take place for European and other markets. Specifications The Mate X2 has an inner folding design this year like the galaxy fold2. The external display is a 6.45 inch 90hz OLED panel. What makes the external display appealing is the 21:9 aspect ratio, unlike the 25:9 aspect ratio on the Galaxy Fold2 which makes the display look taller and harder to use.                                                                                                                                          Credit: Huawei  The main display is an 8inch OLED panel with 90hz refresh rate and 2480x2200 r

                                                                                                                                   Credit: 91mobiles The Realme GT is all set for its launch in the global market on March 4th. The phone aka Realme Race is a true flagship from Realme with specs that will impress anyone.  The phone has a 120hz screen, triple camera setup and a massive battery with the fastest charging on a smartphone. Realme GT 5G will be announced in China on 4th of March and will be unveiled globally on the same day. The phone has the latest Snapdragon 888 from Qualcomm coupled with 12 Gb of LPDDR5 ram and UFS 3.1 storage for hyperfast performance.                                                                                                                                    Credit: 91mobiles The camera includes a triple lens setup backed by a 64MP primary lens, an ultrawide camera and a macro or depth camera. The main highlight is the beautiful sAMOLED 120hz display wi

                                                                                                                         Credit: gadgets.ndtv.com Samsung galaxy F62 launched in India with flagship Exynos 9825 SoC and massive 7000mah battery. The Exynos 9825 was the processor used in Samsung Galaxy Note 10 series in 2019. The device will be available on Flipkart from 22 Feb. Galaxy F62 has a 6.7 inch FHD+ sAMOLED display with 420nits of max brightness and a punch hole cutout for the selfie camera. This screen paired with 7000mah of battery makes this phone a media consumption beast. The Exynos 9825 paired with 6 or 8GB of ram is sufficient for a smooth lag free experience and gaming on a budget.                                                                                                                      Credit: 91mobiles.com The Quad rear cameras on the back consists of a main 64 MP lens with Sony IMX 682 sensor, a 12 MP ultrawide lens , a 5MP macro and depth sensor. The selfie

                                                                                      Credit: Getty images When the iPhone 7 was launched in 2016, Apple skipped one of the most useful thing in a phone: The headphone jack. Apple did this so that they could sell their wireless earbuds,  Airpods. In 2020, Apple stopped providing chargers and earphones in the box which is a basic accessory most people use. Instead they came up with a charging solution called 'Magsafe Charging'.  Magsafe charger is nothing but a 15 Watt wireless charger with magnets so that it can align directly with the wireless charging coil on the back of the iPhone (12 series), so that less power is wasted due to the misalignment of the charging coils. This was the first hint that Apple may even go 'port-less' with the next iPhone 13 series.                                                                                                      Credit: VCG via Getty Images  Apple never put any effort in impr

                                                                                                       Credit: Bloomberg via Getty Images The rivalry between the Exynos 2100 and Snapdragon 888 chipset in the S21 series is full of confusion, some reviewers found that the Snapdragon model is the faster one and can sustain its performance overtime and others are getting the exact opposite results. After hours of research and fact checking, the results found are interesting.   Samsung's inhouse Exynos 2100 and Snapdragon 888 are neck and neck in terms of peak performance. But some phones with the Exynos 2100 perform weaker than the 888 in sustained performance benchmarks. To add to the confusion, other 2100 models perform better than the Snapdragon in the exact test. Battery endurance is very close on both models and is hard to declare a winner. Both can last you a day based on your usage. One area where the 888 shines is in terms of temperature. The 888 chip runs cooler than the 2100

                                                                                                     Credit: https://www.bdprice.com.bd/ The most anticipated OnePlus 9 series will arrive by the 1st week of March. The series will consist of  3 phones: the regular 9, 9 pro, and the new 9 lite which could be the 1st OnePlus phone with 'lite' in it's name. The 9 series have major improvements in the camera quality over the 8 series, which had above average cameras, but not flagship level. OnePlus 9 pro This year, the 9 pro will have QHD+ 120hz curved screen with adaptive refresh rate and a punch hole cutout for the selfie camera. The phone will come with Qualcomm's latest Snapdragon 888 SoC for snappy performance. The cameras come with big upgrades as OnePlus have partnered with Hasselblad for optics and Google for camera software. There will be no unwanted cameras this year like the photochrom lens that the 8 pro had. The selfie camera will also have major improvements.  

Samsung and AMD have been working together to bring major competition to the smartphone chips market. The Exynos 2100 pulls ahead of the Snapdragon 888 in CPU speeds but falls apart in GPU scores. During the Exynos 2100 unveiling, Samsung mentioned that they are partnering with AMD to produce GPUs for their Exynos chipsets.                                                                                                                                  Credit : Phonearena The unnamed Exynos chipset smokes Apple A14 bionic in 3D graphics benchmark GFXBench. The new chip beats the A14 bionic which runs Apple's latest iPhone 12 models, in all the tests. It is likely that the next Samsung Flagship will come with the new chipset with AMD Radeon graphics. Manhattan 3.1 : 181.8 fps Aztec normal : 138.25 fps Aztec high : 58 fps Here's the graphic performance of the A14 bionic chip.   Manhattan 3.1 : 120.8 fps Aztec normal : 80 fps Aztec high : 30 fps What Apple should be worried about is

Smartphone manufacturers have to spending a lot of money and effort to achieve a seamless display wiht no notches or punch hole cutouts for many years now. Finally a working phone with the under display selfie camera has been launched and is available for consumers to buy. The ZTE Axon 20 5G is the first  smartphone in the world to use an under display selfie camera.                 Credit: https://www.bdprice.com.bd/ How this works? The technology behind this is a little complicated. The phone has a notch on top with a camera beneath it and the display is kept over the camera. The portion of the display where the camera resides has a very low pixel density and resolution for the camera to see through the display. When the front camera is used, the pixels on top of the camera switches off so that light can hit the camera lens to take a selfie. Tradeoffs  The camera hole is not really visible if a dark image is displayed on top, but once you notice the cutout, you cannot un-notice it. T