Asus exits phone making, more Galaxy S26 news, Week 4 in review | Infinium-tech

This week, Asus confirmed that it will not be making any more smartphones. The company will instead focus its energies on R&D on commercial PCs and physical AI (i.e., robotics and smart glasses). However, the company will continue to support existing smartphones.

According to Ice Universe, Samsung will unveil the S26 series on February 25. Pre-orders will begin on February 26th and end on March 4th. There will then be a pre-sale period from March 5 to March 10, and then a general sale from March 11.

The Galaxy S26 Ultra was initially reported to be offered in four colors, but Eveleaks says we’re expecting more than that.

The manufacturer is working on AI along with robotics and smart glasses.

The series will be available for pre-order in South Korea from February 26.

It looks like Samsung will be retaining the trendy orange color for its top-tier flagships.

Samsung is expected to unveil the Galaxy S26 lineup next month.

A big report came out stating that OnePlus was shutting down, but the brand released an official report dismissing the rumours. OnePlus is sticking to this for now.

Honor unveiled the Magic8 Pro Air with a 6.3-inch display, 5,500mAh battery and an impressive camera system – 50MP selfie, 50MP ultrawide, 64MP zoom and 50MP main camera.

We also got TENAA-backed specs for the Galaxy A57. It has a 6.6-inch screen, a processor running at up to 2.9GHz, and the Exynos 1680 SoC. The report details the cameras – 50MP main, and 12MP and 5MP secondary cameras, along with a 12MP selfie.

OnePlus is sticking to this for now.

Honor’s iPhone Air competitor gets a 64MP telephoto periscope cam with 3.2x optical zoom.

It is expected to be powered by the unannounced Exynos 1680 SoC.

The iQOO 15 Ultra comes with the largest physical fan on a phone and is obviously a powerful performer; It topped AnTuTu with a score of 4.5 million.

The iPhone 18 Pros are getting LTPO+ OLEDs, which apart from being more efficient, will also have an IR camera for the Face ID system hidden behind them, which means the phone will have a smaller pill notch.

Ultra-gaming phone coming soon with largest active cooling fan.

It will be equipped with MediaTek Dimensity 9500s chipset.

However, only Samsung and LG can make LTPO+ OLED panels.