Deal: pre-order a vivo X100 or X100 Pro from Flipkart or grab a tablet from Amazon's sale

The vivo X100 and X100 Pro are two of the most promising camera phones for 2024. The Pro model in particular shines with its 1/0.98” 50MP main sensor, 50MP 100mm periscope and 50MP ultra wide. The vanilla X100 is no slouch either with a 50MP 1/1.49” main, 64MP 70mm periscope and 50MP ultra wide. Both phones are powered by the new Dimensity 9300 and have 6.78” 120Hz LTPO displays. The Pro has a 5,400mAh battery with 100W wired and 50W wireless charging, the X100 offers a 5,000mAh battery with 120W wired only charging instead. The vivo X100 and X100 Pro are not available in India yet, but...

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Oukitel WP33 Pro has a 22,000 mAh battery and a huge speaker on the back

The new Oukitel WP33 Pro proudly stands against slimness. And lightweight smartphones. It boasts an absolutely insane 22,000 mAh battery, billed as the largest ever put in a phone. The handset weighs 577.5g, and is 27.2mm thick. Now that's a device that you will never, ever forget you have in your pocket! That is, if you have reinforced pockets, as we're unsure whether normal ones can take something like this without bursting at the seams. The Oukitel WP33 Pro is also very wide at 84 mm, making it, most likely, impossible to hold and operate with one hand by anyone, including NBA players....

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Xiaomi 13T Pro HyperOS update with Android 14 is now widely rolling out in Europe

Xiaomi is done with MIUI. Back in October, the company's CEO, Lei Jun, officially unveiled the next iteration of the company's skin on top of Android. It's called HyperOS and it will soon be rolling out to a bunch of Xiaomi, Redmi, and Poco devices. Today, HyperOS has started widely going out to Xiaomi 13T Pro units in Europe. It arrives over-the-air as a 5.8GB download, so make sure you have enough space for it before you proceed. Xiaomi 13T Pro Hyper OS update with Android 14 Once the installation is complete (and fair warning, it does take some time), you will be on...

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Sony Xperia 5 V is now receiving the update to Android 14

Sony sent out the update to Android 14 to the Xperia 1 V, its mainstream sized flagship, back in early November, and for some reason it's taken two additional months for it to reach the company's smaller flagship device, the Xperia 5 V. The mid-range Xperia 10 V got it one week after the 1 V, for comparison. All's well that ends well? Today Sony's official Instagram account announced that Android 14 is finally rolling out to the Xperia 5 V. It was definitely about time. The update brings with it everything Google packed in the Android 14 release, of course. Additionally, you get...

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Samsung Galaxy S24+ might get the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 chipset in most countries

For 2023's Galaxy S23, S23+, and S23 Ultra, Samsung used only Qualcomm's Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 chips across all markets, which was an interesting departure from its usual strategy of splitting the world between its own Exynos chip and Qualcomm's latest and greatest. Exynos detractors (and there are many) celebrated, but then it seemed like the victory was going to be short lived. The S24 Ultra is still expected to only go with Snapdragon, but the S24 and S24+ were to once again have a split, with the Exynos 2400 in the mix in a lot of markets. Well, that may not be so, if a new rumor is to be...

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Honor signs a 5G patent license agreement with Nokia

Today Nokia announced that it's signed a 5G patent license agreement with Honor. This covers both companies' "fundamental inventions in 5G and other cellular technologies", according to the official press release. Nokia boasts that it's the fourth major smartphone agreement that it has concluded in the past 12 months, sounding more and more like a patent licensing firm than anything else. It further says its "industry-leading patent portfolio" is composed of "around 20,000 patent families, including over 6,000 patent families declared essential to 5G". Honor Magic5 Pro Anyway, as...

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