Smartphones Pixel 7 and Pixel 6 stand out quite modest compared to many competitors prices. In addition, during the year, while a particular line is relevant, devices are sometimes sold at huge discounts. For example, now in the US, Google’s current flagships are being sold at record low prices.

For example, BestBuy is selling an unlocked Pixel 7 for just $350! Recall that the device started at a price of 600 dollars, that is, there is a discount of more than 40%! The Pixel 7 Pro is also on sale for $600 or 33% off. That is, the Pixel 7 Pro is sold at the price of the Pixel 7.

Google itself is also now offering good discounts, but still not as impressive as in the case of BestBuy. For the Pixel 7, the company is asking $450, while the Pixel 7 Pro is $750. It’s also worth mentioning that the Pixel 6a is currently only $300 and BestBuy is giving away $250!

A comparison with Apple prices will not be superfluous. It turns out that the Pixel 7 Pro can now be bought for the price of the iPhone 13 mini, and the Pixel 7 costs much less than the iPhone SE. The price of the Pixel 6a is out of the question.

Foldable flagship smartphone Huawei Mate X3 will go on sale this week. According to recent data, its internal display will be smaller than that of the X2 model.

The founder of research companies Display Supply Chain Consultants and DisplaySearch Ross Young (Ross Young) claims that the diagonal of the main screen will decrease from 8 to 7.85 inches. At the same time, interestingly, the external screen will allegedly remain at the same diagonal of 6.45 inches. True, the aspect ratio may change.

What is more important is the presence of an ultra-thin protective glass on the main screen. For Huawei, this will be the first foldable smartphone with such a glass, while Samsung has been using it for several years. But here it is worth recalling that, at least in Samsung smartphones, this glass is still covered with a protective plastic film on top, which is easy to scratch.

Early reports said that the Mate X3 will have a Snapdraogn 8 Plus Gen 1 SoC and a 4800mAh battery with 66W charging.

The maximum frequencies of single-chip systems for smartphones have not changed for many years. But the new Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 SoC could be very different from anything that came before. According to MyDrivers, Qualcomm’s new platform’s super-core frequency could reach an impressive 3.72 GHz!

For comparison, the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 is 3.2 GHz, while the version for Galaxy has a frequency increased to 3.36 GHz. That is, there will be an increase of 16% relative to the regular version. And in general, this is a very high value for mobile SoCs based on the Arm architecture.

According to leaks, Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 will have a configuration of 1 + 5 + 2, that is, there will be only two energy-efficient cores. This should greatly improve performance even without taking into account frequencies, but how voracious such a platform will be is an open question.

The network already has the result of the new SoC in Geekbench, where the platform scores 1930 and 6236 points in single-threaded and multi-threaded modes, respectively, but this is so much that for now it is worth treating this result with caution.