Snapdragon 8 Elite and slim Galaxy Z Fold Special Edition official, Week 43 in review | Infinium-tech

Samsung finally unveiled the Galaxy Z Fold Special Edition. It alleviates many of the pain points of the Z Fold6 with its larger display, slim profile, and 200MP main camera. It also has larger displays – a 6.5-inch LTPO AMOLED 2X cover screen and an 8-inch LTPO AMOLED 2X folding screen. Unfortunately, the device is currently exclusive to South Korea and rumors suggest it will only reach China (likely as the Galaxy W25) without stepping outside those two markets.

Qualcomm’s new super-chip for mobile is here, and it’s not called Snapdragon 8 Gen 4. This is the Snapdragon 8 Elite, following Qualcomm’s computer chip nomenclature. The new chip is based on TSMC’s 3nm process and promises a 45% increase in CPU performance and 44% better power efficiency compared to SD 8 Gen 3. In terms of graphics, Qualcomm is launching its revised Adreno GPU which brings a 40% increase. Improved ray-tracing performance as well as performance and power savings. Moving on to AI, the new Hexagon Neural Processing Unit (NPU) ensures AI tasks run up to 45% faster with better performance per watt.

The first phones with chips are coming soon. Xiaomi said its 15 series will be the first to feature the chip, and we saw a Geekbench test of the Xiaomi 15.

Samsung’s overhauled Z Fold6 will be exclusive to South Korea at launch.

Generational CPU, GPU and AI upgrades with the latest X80 modem.

The results are impressive.

The OnePlus 13 will also have the Snapdragon 8 Elite. The phone is arriving on October 31 (Halloween, gasp!) in three colors – blue, black and white. We also saw the unboxing of OnePlus 13 in the wild.

The unconventional teaser campaign continues.

OnePlus revealed key details about its upcoming flagship.

It’s so bad that you should probably stop updating.

Huawei announced HarmonyOS Next – its latest operating system built independently from Android, as it aims to transition its devices to a completely in-house OS. HarmonyOS Next is set to power current and future generations of Huawei devices in China right now, though a global release was confirmed earlier. It will work on a wide range of devices, from smartphones to wearables, smart home devices and car cockpits. Huawei is rolling out a public beta version of HarmonyOS Next for users in China. The supported devices list includes Pura 70 series, Huawei Pocket 2 and MatePad Pro 11 (2024).

A new dawn is before us for Huawei Software.

It has a 5,000 mAh battery.

This should yield better quality shots.