Month: May 2022

The latest Sony Xperia flagship was finally unveiled today and now it’s time for a plethora of product videos showing off the new device and all its capabilities.

Starting with the official product video, we get a close look at the telephoto camera setup with its 85-125mm focal range and continuous zoom between lenses. As with past Xperia phones, videography is a key aspect of Xperia 1 IV which can capture up to 4K video at 120 fps with real-time autofocus on all three lenses. Sony still offers Cinematography Pro Mode, which allows you to set color parameters and other settings similar to professional movie cameras.

Gaming on the Xperia 1 IV is top-notch and thanks to the flagship Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 chip and Sony’s eSports focus with live streaming, PC connection streaming and heat suppression power control for optimal charging during gaming sessions. Music Pro promises to record studio-level quality sound quality directly from the phone.

If the 7-minute official product video was a tad boring, here’s a shorter, action-packed official campaign video. The focus is on the cameras and their photo and video recording capabilities. We can see several extreme sports enthusiasts using the phone to record some memorable moments.

Next in line is the Xperia 1 IV product animation which takes us on a tour of the phone’s hardware. We get a good look at the triple camera system inside and out, the physical camera shutter button, metal frame and that 4K 120Hz OLED screen.

Bravia Core for Xperia 1 IV details the IMAX enhanced catalog of streamable movies that come bundled with the new phone. You can sit back and enjoy new and classic movies on the phone’s 4K OLED screen from anywhere you see fit.

Music fans will appreciate the Music Pro subscription. This allows you to capture high-quality voice recordings and instrument files in the cloud. The end result is comparable to condenser microphones.

vivo launched the S15e last month in China, and it will add two more members to the S15 series this Friday – vanilla S15 and S15 Pro.

vivo hasn’t divulged much about the S15 and S15 Pro yet, but its VP, Mr. Jia Jingdong (name machine translated from Chinese), confirmed that the series will come with 80W charging, flagship chip, and run OriginOS out of the box, which is hardly a surprise since vivo and iQOO smartphones run OriginOS in China while the units sold globally boot Funtouch OS.

Additionally, the vivo VP also shared a few pictures shot with the S15 and S15 Pro. You can check them below.

vivo S15 • vivo S15 Pro

We’ll know all about the S15 and S15 Pro in two days, but in the meantime, you can head this way to check the S15 Pro’s specs revealed by TENAA, and here for the S15’s specs.

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Samsung is expected to announce the Galaxy Z Fold4 this Fall and it will bring a bunch of design changes. According to the leakster Ice Universe, those will result in significant weight reduction and the new foldable will tip the scales at under 260g.

Detailed specs of the upcoming phone are yet to arrive, so at this point we can only speculate on how the weight loss will be achieved. The battery capacity will be unchanged, while bezels will be trimmed slightly, but probably not enough to account for the 5% difference. A new hinge design may be involved, but there’s no solid evidence for that yet.

Another way the Galaxy Z Fold4 could lose weight is if it replaces the aluminum frame and hinge with some sort of plastic, but this is an unlikely solution because it would lose its premium appearance. Either way, we are on the lookout for more leaks in the upcoming months that should help us form a clearer picture.

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The Sony Xperia 10 IV is official and it’s here with us at the office. It’s next in line for review, but in the meantime let’s do an unboxing.

The Xperia 10 IV comes without a charger this year – you get a USB cable in a simple, and more environment-conscious box.

Sony has been very traditional with its phone releases. The latest Xperia 1 and 10 series phones clearly let their DNA shine through. They have 21:9 aspect displays, a 3. 5mm headphone jacks and triple cameras. As such, the Xperia 10 IV is a chip off the old Xperia 10 III block. But that doesn’t make it bad, nor does it mean that Sony hasn’t made it better.

There are a couple of major updates from the Xperia 10 III to the IV. The Triluminos OLED display retains the 6.0-inch diagonal and 2520x1080px resolution, but is brighter than before.

The screen can also be covered with Gorilla Glass Victus. The body itself is fully plastic and flatter this year. Sony has managed to shave off 1mm from each side, which is quite impressive given the increase in battery capacity.

The camera setup, much like the display, is an improved version of what the Xperia 10 III had. You get the same 12MP wide camera, 8MP 2x telephoto, and 8MP ultrawide, but the main camera is now optically-stabilized. Sony’s Superior Auto mode has been improved and AutoHDR is available. There’s no 4K video recording, though, which was present on the Xperia 10 III.

The Xperia 10 IV next to its predecessors

The chipset is the Snapdragon 695, which is a 6nm SoC, compared to the 8nm Snapdragon 690 of the Xperia 10 III. Coupled with the 10% increase in battery size to 5,000mAh, the Xperia 10 IV should last a bit longer than its predecessor.

We’ve already started our review of the Sony Xperia 10 IV so stay tuned!

AMD has today released three models to its Radeon RX 6000 graphics card series. These new models are upgraded versions of the existing models and offer higher memory bandwidth.

At the top of the range is the Radeon RX 6950XT, which is now the fastest Radeon graphics card ever made. The new model has largely the same hardware and specifications as the older RX 6900XT graphics card.

The changes come in the form of increased clock speeds; the 6950XT has 2100MHz game clock and 2310MHz boost clock whereas the 6900XT has 2015MHz and 2250MHz, respectively. The 6950XT also has faster 18Gbps memory compared to the 6900XT’s 16Gbps, which gives it higher memory bandwidth of 576GB/s versus 512GB/s.

The 6750XT has also received the 18Gbps memory, which has caused its memory bandwidth to go from 384GB/s on the 6700XT to 432GB/s. The clocks have meanwhile gone from 2424MHz to 2495MHz for the game clocks and 2581MHz to 2600MHz for the boost clocks.

Lastly, the RX 6650XT gets its clocks boosted from 2359MHz to 2410MHz for the game clocks and 2589MHz to 2635MHz for the boost clocks. The memory speed has gone from 16Gbps to 17. 5Gbps, which has caused the memory bandwidth to go from 256GB/s to 280GB/s.

You can probably tell by now that these are not major upgrades by any stretch of the imagination. AMD’s own benchmark figures confirm this, with rather small, single digit improvements to frame rates compared to the 6X00XT counterparts.

Unfortunately, it seems AMD considers this reason enough to bump up the prices. The RX 6950XT is priced at $1099, $100 more than the notional MSRP of the 6900XT. The 6750XT is $70 more at $549, and the 6650XT is $20 more at $399. The first two will be available through AMD and board partners while the 6650XT will only be available through board partners. These products are now available.

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Sony is finally ready to unveil its “Next One” – the Xperia 1 IV (mark four) and the event will start at 7AM UTC time/ 9AM CET time today. You can tune in via the stream below where we should see more than one phone if the rumors pan out.

The star of the show is the flagship Xperia 1 IV which should bring a familiar design language inspired by the Xperia 1 III alongside a new chipset – Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 and a 6.5-inch 4K 120Hz OLED screen. You can actually catch a glimpse at the phone’s design at the 0:32 point in the event trailer.

Xperia 1 IV design outline

Sony usually brings along a new Xperia 10 phone alongside its flagship 1 series so we could also expect the Xperia 10 IV at the event. That phone is also expected to look a lot like its predecessor with a 6-inch OLED screen and triple camera setup around the back. We’ve also seen rumors about the Xperia 5 IV which will also get a Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 chipset.

We’ll have all the details on the new phones on our homepage after the event concludes.