The former head of Microsoft does not use the company’s smartphones. Answering a question about his mobile device on the Reddit forum, Bill Gates told what kind of smartphone he uses.

I have an Android Galaxy Z Fold3. I try different ones. With this screen, I can get by with a great laptop and phone and don’t need anything else.

Third-party sources, of course, emphasize that Gates could use the Microsoft Surface Duo 2, but, like the first generation, this device failed in sales and is inferior to Samsung’s foldable flagship on literally all fronts.

As for other smartphones or the laptop he chose, Gates, unfortunately, did not disclose the details.

Google announced the smart watch ten days ago, but kept silent about the technical characteristics of the novelty. Therefore, details about the device have to be collected bit by bit. A previous leak said the watch would get Samsung’s rather old Exynos 9110 SoC, but the new data is encouraging: the Pixel Watch may have a fresher SoC.

This scheme is not new, it has already been tested in a number of other wearable devices: a low-power SoC ensures that the device works for a long time with basic capabilities, and when all functions are supposed to be used to the maximum, a more powerful (and obviously more modern) hardware system is involved.

But even this is not interesting: Pixel Watch is credited with a lot of flash memory – as much as 32 GB. Such a volume for applications is clearly redundant, so it is suggested that Google will focus on the ability to download and store a large amount of music right on the watch. Which is good for sports. However, it will be possible to store podcasts right in the watch, for example. The amount of RAM will be “slightly more than the Galaxy Watch 4”. Samsung smartwatches have 1.5 GB of RAM, so it’s logical to assume 2 GB of RAM in Pixel Watch.

Finally, the Pixel Watch is said to be sensor-similar to the Fitbit Charge 5. This means that Google’s new product will provide the same vitals tracking capabilities. At a minimum, you can count on the monitoring of heart rate and SpO2, as a maximum – on the possibility of recording an ECG.

This concludes the new batch of details about the Google Pixel Watch. Recall that the novelty will go on sale in the fall.

Qualcomm today introduced not only the flagship SoC Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1, but also a solution for the middle segment. The new platform is called Snapdragon 7 Gen 1.

The new platform is designed to replace the popular Snapdragon 778G. The configuration of the novelty includes one Cortex-A710 core with a frequency of 2.4 GHz, three of the same cores with a frequency of 2.36 GHz, four Cortex-A510 cores with a frequency of 1.8 GHz and an Adreno GPU, whose name Qualcomm for some reason does not indicate . Third party sources say it’s Adreno 662.

But the company says that the GPU should be 20% faster than the core in the Snapdragon 778G. And in AI tasks, the new platform will be 30% faster already. Separately, it is worth noting the support for Adreno Frame Motion Engine technology. The essence of her work is unknown, but Qualcomm says that with her performance in games will double in the absence of an increase in power consumption. And here we are clearly talking about some kind of workaround, like drawing frames in Samsung smartphones, otherwise it is simply impossible.

The new SoC also includes a Snapdragon X62 5G modem capable of transferring data at speeds up to 4.4 Gbps. The platform supports the latest Wi-Fi 6E and Bluetooth 5.3 standard. There is also support for Snapdragon Sound and aptX.

Snapdragon 7 Gen 1 also supports LPDDR5 memory up to 16GB, Full HD screens up to 144Hz and QHD at 60Hz, while the Spectra image processor supports cameras up to 200MP and 4K video recording with HDR support.

The first smartphones with this SoC should be out in a few weeks. Earlier there were rumors that these will be Oppo devices.