Oppo Find X7 Ultra and Asus ROG Phone 8 Pro are official, Week 2 in review

Welcome to the end of the second week of 2024. The Poco X6 and X6 Pro arrived with 6.67-inch AMOLED displays with 1,220 x 2,712px resolution, a 120Hz refresh rate, and up to 1,800 nits of peak brightness. They also share the same 16MP front-facing camera housed inside a punch-hole cutout and in-display fingerprint scanners - a first for Poco smartphones. Poco X6 Pro boots Xiaomi HyperOS based on Android 14 while X6 will launch with MIIUI 14, but is promised to get updated to HyperOS soon. Poco promises 3 Android updates a 4 years of security patches for both X6 models. Poco X6 Pro features...

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Oppo Find X7 Ultra in for review

The Oppo Find X7 Ultra unveiled a few days ago has landed at our office for review. But before we put this 2024 Oppo flagship through our review gauntlet, let's take a quick look at what it offers. The Oppo Find X7 Ultra comes in Tailored Black, Ocean Blue, and Sepia Brown colors, and it's the blue version we received for review. Its retail box includes a protective case, charging cable, 100W power adapter, a SIM ejector tool, and the usual paperwork. The Oppo Find X7 Ultra is built around a 120Hz 1,440p 6.82" LTPO AMOLED screen protected by Gorilla Glass Victus 2. The display has a...

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Weekly poll: can the Asus ROG Phone 8 find a place in your pocket?

The new Asus ROG Phone 8 is very much still a gaming phone, but this time around Asus designed it with everyday usability in mind. It’s smaller and lighter than before and has a proper IP68 dust and water resistance rating (vs. IP54 on last year’s model). Bigger changes include a 32MP 3x telephoto camera and improved stabilization for the main cam (Hybrid Gimbal Stabilizer 3.0). There is now wireless charging too (15W), though the battery capacity was reduced slightly (at 5,500mAh it’s not small by any means). As a gaming phone, it will make use of the new variable refresh rate...

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Amazon US has great deals on the Samsung Galaxy S23 FE and Google Pixel 8

The Google Pixel 8 has the best software support out of any Android, barring relatively rare devices like the Fairphone. It will receive updates for 7 years and Google will ensure that there are spare parts available for that long too. And Google actually adds cool new features with its regular Pixel Feature Drops. You can grab the small model for $550 or get double the storage for $50 more. If that’s too much, the Pixel 7a is also on sale, but we wanted to look at another phone first. Google Pixel 8 $150 off ...

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Ordering Apple Vision Pro may require an Apple device with Face ID

Apple recently announced that it will start taking pre-orders for the Apple Vision Pro in the US on January 19 at 5:00 a.m. Pacific Time, with the first units expected to ship on February 2. As with all hot new Cupertino products, we definitely expect some hurdles in acquiring one early. That is probably even more applicable to the Apple Vision Pro since analysts have predicted hardware shortages and very limited initial availability for the product. We now have a bit more idea as to what the initial pre-order process for the Apple Vision Pro will look like, and apparently, it will...

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More Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra live photos leak before launch

The Samsung Unpacked event for the Galaxy S24 series is right around the corner, scheduled for January 17 and with that more units are obviously already out there in the wild. We recently got to see one such S24 Ultra leak, and now we have a fresh new one with a couple of photos. Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra These seem to once again showcase the phone in some gold color with a matching middle frame. We don’t get to see the display of the device from the front this time around, but we arguably get an even more exciting side angle. It showcases the new titanium frame, which is said...

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