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Very thick, but with a QWERTY keyboard and inexpensive. Presented smartphone Unihertz Titan Slim
The BlackBerry brand seems to have left the market forever, but smartphones with full physical keyboards still have some demand. And today, fans of such devices are probably having a holiday.
Unihertz introduced the Titan Slim on Kikcstarter. This is a smartphone that can be called the successor of BlackBerry devices. Moreover, it is also a very affordable smartphone.
Let’s start with the parameters. Titan Slim offers a QWERTY keyboard with an additional function key block on top. The screen of the novelty is small, but quite typical for such devices – 4.2 inches. The resolution is 1280 x 768 pixels. The heart is far from the new SoC MeidaTek Helio P70, but it’s better than more modern solutions, but a lower class. Also, the smartphone has 6 GB of RAM and as much as 256 GB of flash memory. True, the latter cannot be expanded.
You can also select a 48-megapixel single main camera, a front-facing camera with a resolution of 8 megapixels, a 4100 mAh battery, NFC, Bluetooth 4.1, Wi-Fi 5 and dimensions of 147 x 67.6 x 12.75 mm with a weight of 204 g. Yes, despite the name, the smartphone is incredibly thick by today’s standards. The novelty is running Android 11.
As part of the fundraising campaign, the smartphone is asking for only $250, which actually makes this offer unique in the market.
As for the Kickstsrter campaign, it’s already successful. The creators of the smartphone asked for only $50,000, but have already raised almost $600,000, and the end of the fundraiser is almost a month away.
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Direct competitor to the iPhone 14 Pro Max at the price of the iPhone 13 mini. Pixel smartphones are selling at record discounts
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.
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Huawei Mate X3 will become more like Samsung flagships. This will be the company’s first foldable smartphone with an ultra-thin protective glass.
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.
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How powerful will the new flagship smartphones be? The Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 platform is credited with a frequency of up to 3.72 GHz
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.
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