Month: March 2022

The Samsung Galaxy S10, S10+, S10e and also the S10 5G are now receiving One UI 4. 1 (based on Android 12). The three phones originally arrived in early 2019 with Android 9 and the original One UI. They are not alone either as Samsung’s other 2019 flagships are getting updated too.

The Samsung Galaxy Note10 and Note10+ launched in mid-2019, also with Android 9 and an improved One UI 1.5. Last December the S10 series and the Note10 series got up to Android 12 with One UI 4.0.

One UI 4. 1 update for the Samsung Galaxy Note10+ 5G

The update for the Notes is a fairly hefty 1,049 MB and brings changes to multiple Samsung apps. It has a firmware version of N976BXXU7HVC6 and includes the March 1 security patch. The S10 updates also bring the March patch.

Note that we haven’t seen any mention of the Samsung Galaxy S10 Lite nor the Galaxy Note10 Lite when it comes to the 4. 1 update. As for newer models, the Galaxy Note20 models started receiving One UI 4. 1 last week.

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Samsung abandoned its own Tizen OS in favor of Google’s Wear OS 3 for the Galaxy Watch4 generation. However, the OS itself is in a curious position – we rarely get to see the OS in its natural form and then mostly in leaks. One UI is used on Samsung Galaxy watches.

Several screenshots have leaked of Wear OS 3 again, showing minor changes from older versions. Naturally, these changes push the looks of the software closer towards Android 12 and the Material You design, as can be seen in the Google Assistant screenshot.

The redesigned Google Assistant tile in Wear OS 3

The step counter’s new icon suggests integration with Fitbit. This was also seen in marketing images of the Google Pixel Watch, which is yet to made official after months of leaks and rumors.

The new step counter icon hints at Fitbit integration

Next up, Messages. The screen shows your user avatar, last contact time, and a few of the most recent messages. The main screen in the Messages app allows you to start a new conversation and view the latest chats.

The Messages tile

A few more screenshots show off the Next event tile, YouTube Music and Google Pay. Note that the previous screenshots (from December) came from an emulator and the design has changed since then. These new ones are sourced from the latest version of the Wear OS companion app.

Next event * YouTube Music * Google Pay

The Google Pixel Watch may be the first to run a clean Wear OS 3. It will probably launch alongside the Pixel 6a at the end of May.

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Xiaomi’s Poco unveiled the Poco M4 Pro and Poco X4 Pro 5G last month. The M4 Pro is already available in India, and today the company announced that the X4 Pro 5G will make its debut in the Asian country next week – on March 28.

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Get ready to watch India’s first advanced Mocap launch on 28.03. 2022 @ 12PM: https://t.co/8fY1Mi4xfO pic.twitter.com/4GLjLZ3GC9

— POCO India (@IndiaPOCO) March 22, 2022

The event will start at 12PM local time, and the Poco X4 Pro 5G will be sold through Flipkart. The teasers shared by Poco reveal the Poco X4 Pro 5G in India will come with a 64MP primary camera instead of a 108MP unit we have elsewhere. Other specs confirmed by Poco include a 120Hz Super AMOLED screen and 67W charging.

It’s unclear if the Indian Poco X4 Pro 5G will share the rest of the specs with its global counterpart or we are looking at more differences. We’ll likely find that out in the days leading to the March 28 event. In the meantime, you can check out our first impressions of the Poco X4 Pro 5G’s international variant here.

Realme launched the Narzo 50A and Narzo 50i last September and followed up with the Narzo 50 last month. Today, the company added one more member to the Narzo 50 lineup, dubbed Realme Narzo 50A Prime.

The Realme Narzo 50A Prime is built around a 6. 6″ FullHD+ LCD with a notch for the 8MP selfie camera. The back panel of the smartphone, having a kevlar-like texture, sports a rectangular island housing flash and a 50MP primary camera joined by the depth and macro units. Realme hasn’t revealed the resolutions of the last two but says the former has f/2. 8 aperture and the latter has f/2. 4 aperture.

The Narzo 50A Prime is powered by the Unisoc T612 SoC paired with 4GB RAM. The smartphone runs Android 11-based Realme UI R Edition out of the box and has two storage options – 64GB and 128GB. However, it also has a dedicated microSD card slot, allowing storage expansion up to 1TB.

The Narzo 50A Prime is 8. 1mm thick and features a side-mounted fingerprint scanner for biometric authentication. It packs a 5,000 mAh battery charged through a USB-C port at up to 18W.

All this might sound familiar to you since the Realme Narzo 50A Prime is a version of the Realme C35 with a different chipset and slightly different rear panel design.

Realme Narzo 50A Prime * Realme C35

The Narzo 50A Prime is offered in Flash Blue and Flash Black colors. Its 4GB/64GB base model is priced at IDR1,999,000 ($140/EUR125), while the 4GB/128GB variant costs IDR2,199,000 ($155/EUR140). It will go on sale in Indonesia starting March 25, but Realme is hosting a special early bird sale at 6PM local time in the country today where you’ll get a chance to buy the smartphone with a discount of IDR200,000 ($14/EUR13).

Realme Narzo 50A Prime color options

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The nubia Z40 Pro was announced back in February, and now ZTE is preparing to relaunch the phone, this time under its own Axon brand. The phone with model number A2023H appeared on TENAA with a full specs sheet and photos, confirming it is the same device with the same camera design and even the same dimensions.

The phone, likely to be named Axon 40 Pro, has a 3GHz CPU, which is most likely the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 which has a 2. 995GHz prime core. RAM is 8GB, 12GB or 16GB, while storage comes in 128GB, 256GB, 512GB and 1TB flavors.

Even the cameras resolutions listed – 64MP, 50MP and 8MP – match what the Z40 Pro has.

The screen is a 6. 67″ OLED, while the battery is listed with its 4,900mAh charge, which is the minimal one. This means the Axon 40 Pro will have a magnetic charging edition like the nubia Z40 Pro as that one has a smaller 4,600 mAh cell.

ZTE nubia Z40 Pro camera promo images

This doesn’t mean that ZTE has stopped reading Xiaomi’s books and is now launching two phones in different portfolios. The Axon 30 Ultra was nearly identical with the nubia Z30 Pro, with minor differences size-wise.

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Realme unveiled its GT Neo3 in China earlier today with two editions – a standard GT Neo3 and a version with 150W UltraDart charging. Both versions of the phone come with MediaTek’s Dimensity 8100 chipset at the helm as well 50MP main cams.

Realme GT Neo3 in Black, Silverstone and Le Mans colors

There’s a 6. 7-inch AMOLED with FHD+ resolution and a 120Hz refresh rate upfront. The display is HDR10+ certified and features an independent display chip that should smooth out frame rates in demanding games and lower power consumption in some cases.

MediaTek’s new 5nm Dimensity 8100 comes alongside 8/12GB LPDDR5 RAM and 128/256GB UFS 3. 1 storage. The camera department is headline by the 50MP Sony IMX766 main sensor which comes with OIS. There’s also an 8MP ultrawide snapper and a 2MP macro lens. The software side is covered by Realme UI 3.0 on top of Android 12.

We’ve saved the best for last – Realme GT Neo3 comes with 80W flash charging which can fill up its 5,000 mAh battery from empty to full in just 32 minutes. The bundled 80W charger supports the SVOOC standard and is

Even more impressive though is the new 150W UltraDart charging which fills up the phone’s 4,5000 mAh battery from 0 to 50% in just 5 minutes. In order to achieve these results, Realme is using multiple boost charge pumps to increase the current going into the phone.

Realme is also taking 38 battery security protective measures including a special temperature managing algorithm that ensures the battery temperature remains under 43degC (110degF) while charging. Realme also claims that the phone’s lithium batteries will retain 80% of their capacity after 1,000 complete charging cycles.

Realme GT Neo3 comes in black, Silverstone silver and Le Mans blue colors. Realme GT Neo3 starts at CNY 1,999 ($314) for the 6GB RAM and 128GB storage trim. You can get a 8/128GB version for CNY 2,299($360) while the 12/256GB model will cost CNY 2,599 ($408).

Realme GT Neo3 150W starts at CNY 2,599 ($408) for the 8/256GB trim and goes up to CNY 2,799 ($440) for the 12/256GB version.

The Redmi K50 lineup arrived last week, and today it was the first sale of the duo. The Xiaomi brand sold 330,000 units of the Redmi K50 and Redmi K50 Pro phones in just five minutes, according to the official Weibo page of Redmi.

The amount includes four variants – the two phones with two memory options a piece. It is 10% better than the sales of the predecessor series – the Redmi K40, which was sold in three versions with even more RAM+storage options.

Both phones come in the same body, even have the same weight, despite some major differences. The K50 Pro has a Dimensity 9000 chipset, a 108MP main camera and 5,000mAh battery with 120W fast charging. The K50 brings a more affordable price tag, and for that Xiaomi downgraded the chip to Dimensity 8100, the camera to 48MP, and the charging to “just” 67W. However the battery capacity increased to 5,500mAh.

Next sale in China is scheduled for next Tuesday, and we still have no word when the series will escape the domestic market.

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Motorola unveiled the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1-powered Edge 30 Pro last month, and it will soon follow up with a vanilla model that has been NBTC certified.

The Motorola Edge 30 is listed on NBTC’s website with model designation XT2203-1, but the Thai certifying authority doesn’t reveal its specs.

Motorola Edge 30 NBTC certified

However, thanks to Geekbench, we know the Motorola Edge 30 will come with the Snapdragon 778G+ SoC and run Android 12 out of the box. The unit that passed through Geekbench had 8GB RAM onboard, but there could be other RAM options that are yet to be confirmed.

Motorola Edge 20

The rest of the Motorola Edge 30’s specs are unknown, but more details about it are likely to surface in the coming days.

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