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The cheapest flagship based on Snapdragon 888. On iQOO 7 began to accept pre-orders
The Chinese company iQOO has officially started accepting pre-orders for its new flagship smartphone iQOO 7.
It is being promoted as the cheapest flagship based on the latest Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 platform. And, in principle, it’s true. It is, indeed, slightly cheaper than Xiaomi Mi 11, which became the first and for a while the only smartphone with Snapdragon 888.
The iQOO 7 smartphone can be ordered in China in two variations: with 8GB of RAM and 128GB of internal flash storage for $ 588, and 12GB of RAM and 256GB of flash storage for $ 650.
Among the main characteristics – a 6.62-inch AMOLED screen with a resolution of 2400 × 1080 pixels with an image refresh rate of 120 Hz, a 16-megapixel front camera, a main camera with 48 megapixel, 13 and 13 megapixel sensors, a 4000 mAh battery. Supported charging capacity of 120 W, moreover, such a charger is immediately included in the kit.
The dimensions are 162.2 x 75.8 x 8.7 mm and the weight is 210 grams. The smartphone has the OriginOS shell based on Android 11.

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The latest Galaxy S23 flagships smash the Galaxy S22 in the first 3DMark test

Very quickly after the announcement of the Samsung Galaxy S23 phones, the first comparative test appeared, in which the flagships of the Korean company of two generations converged. It is noteworthy that they were tested not in Geekbench or AnTuTu, but in 3DMark, a graphics performance test.
And in it, the new flagships Galaxy S23 did not leave a stone unturned from the Galaxy S22. Thus, the Galaxy S23 and Galaxy S23 Plus scored 3811 and 3799 points respectively, showing an average frame rate of 22.8 FPS, while the Galaxy S22 Plus scored 1689 points, and the average frame rate was half that of 10.10 FPS.
The situation in the tests of Ultra models is approximately the same: Galaxy S23 Ultra scored 3874 points at a frame rate of 23.2 FPS, Galaxy S22 Ultra scores 1912 points at 11.4 FPS.
Recall that the Galaxy S23 is built on the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 SoC with the Adreno 740 GPU, and they were compared with their predecessors on the Exynos 2200 SoC with the Xclipse 920 GPU.
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Poco X5 5G live images days before official announcement

The Poco brand will officially unveil the Poco X5 5G and Poco X5 Pro 5G phones on February 6, but live images have already been published on the Web – screenshots from the unboxing video of the device.
The pictures show the phone in green, this is the version with 256 GB of flash memory. It received the MIUI 13 interface based on Android 12. The phone has one speaker, the SIM card slot is combined, there is a standard headphone jack and an IR emitter on the top edge.
The film wrapped around the phone confirms the use of a Snapdragon 695 SoC in the device, the presence of a Full-HD + AMOLED screen and a 48-megapixel camera.
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“Why are they called Galaxy? Because of the astronomical prices.” OnePlus trolls Samsung over Galaxy S23 flagships

Almost immediately after Samsung unveiled its latest flagships, the Galaxy S23, in the US, OnePlus’ US office posted a thread on Twitter mocking the Galaxy S23. There are many jokes, some of them really witty.
“Why are they called Galaxy? Due to astronomical prices”, – this is how OnePlus noted the increased cost of the Galaxy S23 in a number of countries. True, in the US and Canada, prices remained at the level of the Galaxy S22.
“I use a 200 megapixel camera to find the charger in the box”, is another actual joke from OnePlus. The fact is that the Galaxy S23 package looks not just ascetic, but poor: in addition to the phone, it only has a cable and a paper clip.
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