2022 Winners and losers: Oppo

Another twelve months are behind our back, and Oppo once again remains among the leaders in the smartphone world. It announced a custom NPU called MariSilicon X in the final days of 2021, but it was only this year that it made it to smartphones. Oppo unveiled foldables, regular flagships and a lot of mid-rangers. Here are the winners and losers in the Oppo portfolio for 2022. Winner and loser: Oppo Find N2 The new foldable looks a lot like the predecessor, but seeing how the Find N had arguably the best hardware among horizontal foldables that's not bad news. Oppo retained what was...

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Telegram adds spoiler formatting for media, new drawing tools, and profile pictures for contacts

The folks at Telegram are sending off 2022 with yet another one of their sizable feature dumps. The latest update adds a bunch of new features, including spoiler formatting for media, new drawing tools, zero storage usage, and more. Along with being able to add spoiler formatting for text, Telegram now lets add spoiler formatting for images and videos as well. This appears as a shimmering layer with a blur on top of the media, which hides the content unless the user taps on it. New storage management features let you configure separate auto-remove settings for cached...

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Redmi 12C announced with Helio G85 SoC and 50MP camera

Xiaomi's Redmi unveiled the Redmi K60 series smartphones, Redmi Note 12 Pro Speed Edition, and a bunch of accessories a few days ago. And before 2022 comes to an end, Redmi announced a new entry-level smartphone today, dubbed Redmi 12C. The Redmi 12C is built around a 6.71" HD+ screen with a notch for the 5MP selfie camera. Its back panel - having a non-slip texture and diagonal stripes - sports a fingerprint scanner and a dual camera setup headlined by a 50MP unit. Redmi doesn't tell us anything about the second camera, but we believe it could be a depth sensor. The 12C has the...

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Realme GT Neo 3T and Narzo 50 Pro 5G receive Realme UI 4.0 update, 8s 5G and 9 5G get early access

Realme has released the Android 13-based Realme UI 4.0 stable update for the GT Neo 3T and Narzo 50 Pro 5G in India. The update for the GT Neo 3T comes with firmware version RMX3371_11.C.04, while the update for Narzo 50 Pro 5G has firmware version RMX3395_11.C.04. But note that your GT Neo 3T should be running software with version RMX3371_11.A.09 to receive Realme UI 4.0, whereas the Narzo 50 Pro 5G should be running RMX3395_11.A.05, RMX3395_11.A.06, or RMX3395_11.A.07. The Realme UI 4.0 update is currently seeding to 15% of the GT Neo 3T and Narzo 50 Pro 5G's users, and a broader...

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Apple celebrates Chinese Year of the Rabbit with limited edition AirPods Pro

Keeping up with its yearly tradition, Apple has launched a limited edition variant of the AirPods for the Chinese New Year. This year it's for the new second generation AirPods Pro, which have been engraved with a special pattern for the Year of the Rabbit. The limited edition model features a custom engraving on the charging case. The same pattern also appears on the box but in color. Aside from that, the model is identical to the standard variant, including in price. Apple has been making these variants for a few years now. For 2022, Apple had released a limited-edition...

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Lenovo Tab M9 unveiled: $140 tablet with 9" screen, optional 4G

Lenovo unveiled a kid-friendly tablet that slots between the Tab M8 and Tab M10. It is the Lenovo Tab M9 and – you guessed it! – it has a 9” display. This tablet will be on the floor at CES 2023, but it is in no rush to go to market as it will launch in Q2 (April-July). The base model will start at $140. The tablet has a 9” LCD display, a pretty basic panel with 1,340 x 800px resolution (15:9). It offers up to 400 nits of brightness and 60% coverage of the NTSC color space. There is a 2MP camera on the front for video (and face unlock, there is no fingerprint reader), plus an 8MP camera on...

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