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Xiaomi forgot about its promises: the company earns far from 5% on each Xiaomi 12S Ultra
According to a study by Counterpoint, the Xiaomi 12S Ultra with 8 GB of RAM and 256 GB of flash memory is about $517 in hardware, while the smartphone went on sale for $887.
In the spring of 2018, Xiaomi CEO Lei Jun said that the company refuses to receive more than 5% of profit from the sale of smartphones, IoT electronic components and all kinds of gadgets. This is a figure that takes into account the deduction of taxes, the cost of brand promotion and user service. In 2019, he reaffirmed that the company would not overcharge its smartphones, limiting itself to a profit margin of 5%.
Here it is worth paying attention to the fact that the calculated cost of components refers to the cost of equipment, but does not include the cost of R & D design, warehousing, logistics, marketing and other aspects. But in this case, as in the case of all modern Xiaomi smartphones, the profit clearly exceeds 5%. The rise in price of Xiaomi smartphones has occurred over the past two years, and everyone has gradually become accustomed to this.
Experts note that the cost of Xiaomi 12S Ultra equipment is quite high, since the smartphone uses Leica lenses, Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1 mobile platform, excellent screen, Xiaomi Surging G1 power management processor and other new components.
After the Xiaomi 12S Ultra went on sale, Lei Jun said that the phone’s user feedback rating reached 98%, which is the highest rating among high-end Xiaomi products in the past two years. This confirms that Xiaomi is doing better and better on high-end flagships.

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Even the inexpensive Samsung Galaxy A25 will have an AMOLED screen and a camera with optical stabilization

The parameters of the Samsung Galaxy A25 5G smartphone, which should be presented in the foreseeable future, have appeared on the Internet.
The design of the smartphone will not surprise you, although in this case Samsung will try to focus on color options.
The device will have a fairly wide frame, a drop-shaped notch and a triple main camera with a main sensor with a resolution of 50 megapixels. Interestingly, this sensor will have optical stabilization.
The new product will also receive a battery with the usual capacity of 5000 mAh, a 6.5-inch AMOLED screen with Full HD+ resolution, 8/256 GB of memory (probably in the older version), SoC Exynos 1280, and dimensions will be 161 x 76.5 x 8 .3 mm.
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The world’s smallest portable battery with a capacity of 20,000 mAh. Urbn Nano introduced

Portable batteries with a capacity of 20,000 mAh are usually quite large and heavy. But Urbn has created the smallest battery of this capacity on the market.
The Nano model has dimensions of 108 x 69 x 28 mm and weighs 293 g. It supports 22.5 W charging and has USB-A ports and a pair of USB-C. It takes five hours to charge the element itself, but in half an hour half the capacity is gained.
The manufacturer talks about 12 protection systems and support for many standards, including PD 3.0, VOOC, Dahs, QC 3.0 and so on.
The manufacturer also has a Nano model with a capacity of 10,000 mAh and dimensions of 53 x 87 x 30 mm and a weight of 173 g.
The younger model costs $18, and the older one costs $30.
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Google introduced Gemini – the ChatGPT “killer”

Google has officially announced the launch of its own artificial intelligence system, Gemini. According to Google CEO Sundar Pichai, who presented the latest development, Gemini 1.0 is currently the company’s most powerful and versatile AI model. He noted that the technology was originally created as multimodal: it can summarize, understand, combine and operate with various types of information, including text, code, audio, images and video.
According to the creators, Gemini AI is capable of extracting information from hundreds of thousands of documents through reading, filtering and understanding, this will help achieve real breakthroughs in the field of digital technologies in a variety of fields – from science to finance. Gemini is trained to recognize and understand text, images, audio and more simultaneously, so it better understands the nuances of information and can answer even complex questions. Also, the new AI model is capable of understanding and generating code in programming languages such as Python, Java, C++ and Go.
A special feature of Gemini is its ability to work effectively on various types of equipment: from data processing centers (DPCs) to mobile devices. The Gemini 1.0 model will be implemented in several versions: Gemini Ultra – the largest and most powerful version for solving complex problems, Gemini Pro – a mid-level version for a wide range of tasks and Gemini Nano – a version for mobile devices.
As for using Gemini in Google products, the Bard AI chatbot has already received an enhanced version of Gemini Pro for more complex reasoning, planning, understanding, etc.; This is Bard’s biggest update since launch. Its new version will be available in English in more than 170 countries, and in the future it is planned to expand the geography and support of various languages. Gemini Nano will also be implemented in the Google Pixel 8 Pro smartphone, it will become the first mobile device to support this technology. In the coming months, Gemini support will appear in Search, Advertising, the Chrome browser and other Google services, the developers promise.
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