Oppo Discover X7 Extremely and Asus ROG Telephone 8 Professional are official, Week 2 in assessment

Welcome to the top of the second week of 2024. The Poco X6 and X6 Professional arrived with 6.67-inch AMOLED shows with 1,220 x 2,712px decision, a 120Hz refresh price, and as much as 1,800 nits of peak brightness. Additionally they share the identical 16MP front-facing digicam housed inside a punch-hole cutout and in-display fingerprint scanners – a primary for Poco smartphones.

Poco X6 Professional boots Xiaomi HyperOS primarily based on Android 14 whereas X6 will launch with MIIUI 14, however is promised to get up to date to HyperOS quickly. Poco guarantees 3 Android updates a 4 years of safety patches for each X6 fashions. Poco X6 Professional includes a 5,000 mAh battery with 67W charging whereas X6 will get a barely bigger 5,100 mAh battery with the identical 67W charging speeds.

The telephone arrives with three cameras and a well-known design.

Open gross sales in India begin on January 16.

The Galaxy S24 collection may have 10% extra touch-responsive shows, which is able to make them really feel smoother and sooner. Subsequent week will see the official debut of the S24 household, and the thrill is tanglible.

This could enhance perceived smoothness.

The Oppo Discover X7 Extremely debuted as the primary Extremely in Oppo’s lineup and the primary dual-periscope telephone ever. The principle digicam is notable as the primary Sony LYT-900 1-inch sensor. But it surely’s the dual-periscope answer that is distinctive. Oppo X7 Extremely retains the 65mm 3x periscope digicam with 1/1.56” Sony IMX890 from the Oppo Discover X6 Professional. It provides a brilliant f/2.6 aperture, OIS, and a minimal focus distance of simply 25cm. Alongside that the X7 Extremely has a 135mm 6x telephoto digicam with a 1/2.51” Sony IMX858 sensor. It additionally has OIS and may focus from 35cm. Oppo claims the quad-cam setup provides clean zoom between 14 mm and 270 mm with no noticeable degradation in picture high quality. The Discover X7 Extremely is obtainable in China and it could keep there indefinitely, similar to the X6 Professional earlier than it. That will be a disgrace.

Realme introduced a partnership with Rolex for the upcoming Realme 12 Professional collection. There can be a customized variant of the 12 Professional+ smartphone with Blue leather-based and gold accents on the again.

The telephone brings as much as 16 GB LPDDR5X RAM and 512 GB UFS 4.0 storage.

The collection would possibly arrive on January 28.

The Word 13 collection is scheduled to make its world debut per week from now.

The ROG Telephone 8 is official with a Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 chip and a giant vapor chamber. That is the anticipated half. Unexpectedly, the ROG Telephone 8 is the primary within the collection to be IP68 waterproof, to have wi-fi charging, and to supply a 3x zoom digicam. The ROG Telephone 8 begins from $1,099 within the US, and €1,099 in Europe.

The show nonetheless helps 165Hz refresh price, however it’s now an LTPO panel that may additionally do 1-120Hz variable refresh price. Asus additionally added wi-fi charging.

Being arguably the largest foldables fan on the workplace I don’t share the sentiment expressed by a few of my colleagues that the 12 months was boring.

Asus has gone for a extra mainstream method and we prefer it!

Lastly, the Honor Magic6 collection arrived. The Professional has a novel 180MP periscope with a 2.5x zoom (round 60mm), an f/2.6 aperture, and a giant 1/1.49-inch sensor. The principle digicam of the Magic6 Professional is a 50MP 1/1.3-inch imager with a variable aperture lens – f/1.4-2.0. The Magic6 collection is on sale in China.

Magic6 Professional debuts a brand new 50MP essential cam with f/1.4-f/2.0 variable aperture.