Welcome to another week’s recap!
Apple finally set the date for the iPhone 12 event. The new iPhones are coming on October 13 and there will be four of them – a 5.4-inch iPhone 12 mini, a 6.1-inch iPhone 12 and 12 Pro and a 6.7-inch iPhone 12 Pro Max. We’ll cover the event so be sure to check in on Tuesday. The notch on the iPhone 12 series is rumored to remain the same and only get smaller with next year’s iPhone 13 lineup.
Huawei detailed the availability of its in-house Harmony OS 2.0 – it will come to the Mate 40 series, running the Kirin 9000, first and then to the Kirin 990 devices, such as the Mate 30 and P40 series.
Samsung announced the Galaxy F41 in and for the Indian market. It combines a 6.4-inch Super AMOLED with a 64MP main camera and a 6,000mAh battery and will be available from October 16, starting at INR 17,000 (Flipkart has a special INR 15,500 price for the promotional period).
Qualcomm and Asus are rumored to be collaborating on a special gaming phone, that will be announced on December 1 or 2. It will pack a 5nm Snapdragon 875 with a Cortex-X1 performance core.
The Poco C3 is official with a 6.43-inch IPS LCD, Helio G35 chipset, 5,000mAh battery and a price of just INR 7,499. Sales start on October 16.
It appears that the Galaxy S21 or S30, depending on the name Samsung chooses, won’t have an under display camera, but instead the technology will premiere on the Galaxy Z Fold 3.
Finally AMD announced the Ryzen 5000 desktop CPUs. They start at $299 for a 6-core Ryzen 5 5600X and go all the way up to a $799 Ryzen 5 5950X with 16-core, 32-thread design. Sales start November 5.
Those are the highlights of the week. See you next one, which will undoubtedly be more interesting!
Expected to announce new iPhones, new audio products, and potentially at least one Apple silicon-based Mac.
The time of availability depends on the chipset – new, premium chips get first dibs, followed by older and mid-range chips.
The F41 also features a 6.4″ Super AMOLED display and an Exynos 9611 chipset. Sales in India start on October 16.
The company has a event scheduled for December 1, which will presumably bring the Snapdragon 875 and could include details of this gaming phone.
Models in South Korea only for now. One UI 3.0 has a long list of improvements, however there are issues that need fixing.
Feature significant improvement in instructions per clock and massive scaling in gaming performance.
The yearly conference is still on track to take place in Hawaii, Xiaomi among the first to pledge allegiance.
The 7i was originally unveiled in mid-September. This version is mostly identical, though with a different memory configuration.