Phones
iPhone 16 Pro and iPhone 16 Pro Max will get bigger screens, as well as periscope modules with 5-6x optical zoom
A well-known insider and analyst at the investment company TF International Securities, Ming-Chi Kuo, shared details about the iPhone 16 Pro and iPhone 16 Pro Max smartphones. According to the informant, these models will receive larger screens - with a diagonal of 6.3 and 6.9 inches, respectively. That is, when compared with the iPhone 14 Pro and iPhone 14 Pro Max, the screens will increase by 0.2 inches.

Why did Apple need to increase the displays? This will be one of the measures that will allow the installation of a new periscope module with improved zoom capabilities in smartphones. It is expected that such a module will provide an optical zoom of 5-6x. Another innovation of the iPhone 16 Pro could be the Face ID under-screen system, then there will be no need for a screen cutout.
If we talk about the iPhone 15, then rumors circulating on the Web attribute the periscope module to the iPhone 15 Pro Max, but the iPhone 15 Pro (according to, again, rumors) will not have it.
Previously, Ming-Chi Kuo made a lot of accurate predictions about promising Apple devices. For example, about transferring Apple laptops from a butterfly keyboard to a scissor keyboard.
Phones
US 5G Smartphone Users Most Satisfied with Samsung Devices
Samsung reported that it was ranked first in customer satisfaction with their 5G mobile devices.

The American Customer Satisfaction Index Survey (ACSI) ranking indicates that Samsung smartphones lead the US in terms of overall quality, product quality and service quality. In addition, Samsung was a leader in perceived value.
According to Samsung itself, 73% of users buying a new smartphone indicated that technical support was a key factor in their purchase decision. 89% also answered about durability.
Customers pay great attention to the purchase of technology. They want to be sure that they are buying reliable devices that will work for their needs, as well as that if something goes wrong, they have quality repair options. This recognition by ACSI is a testament to the investment Samsung has made to provide value to consumers - in the products we make and in the convenient, professional customer service we offer.
The ACSI rating, by the way, is the only cross-industry measure of customer satisfaction in the United States. In the case of a stipulated rating, more than 4,000 US residents who recently bought their smartphones were surveyed to compile it.
Phones
Nothing Phone (2) tested on Geekbench. Still not a flagship, but much faster than Nothing Phone (1)
The Nothing A065 smartphone has been spotted in the Geekbench database - Nothing Phone (2) is hidden under this designation. The result is 1253 points in a single-threaded test and 3833 points in a multi-threaded one. Obviously, Nothing Phone (2) will not be a flagship, but it is noticeably faster than the current model, which scores 999 and 2797 points in the same benchmark.

We tested Nothing Phone (2) with 12 GB of RAM, however, there will probably be a version with 8 GB of RAM. The operating system is Android 13.
Nothing Phone (2) is credited with a 6.55-inch AMOLED screen with a frame rate of 120 Hz, a 50-megapixel camera. The current model debuted in October, but when the Nothing Phone (2) will be released is still unclear.
Components
GeForce RTX in smartphones next year. MediaTek is working with Nvidia on a new smartphone platform
It looks like MediaTek is indeed integrating Nvidia graphics cores into its smartphone platforms. The DigiTimes resource has already spoken about this before, and now reports that the first such SoC will be a new flagship solution, which will be released next year. That is, it could be Dimensity 9300.

Interestingly, MediaTek platforms with Nvidia GPUs will appear not only for smartphones, but also for PCs. Nvidia technologies, including its AI tensor cores, will allow MediaTek to create a performance solution for laptops and also enter the Arm PC platform race. Recall that Qualcomm has the same plans, and even Microsoft is going to develop its Arm platform for Windows.
What kind of GPU the Dimensity 9300 can get is still anyone’s guess, but it is most likely that this will be a solution on the current Ada Lovelace architecture, and this is very good, since the architecture has proven to be very energy efficient.
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