Welcome to our roundup of the top news articles of 2022. We’ll now look back at the most popular stories from the first quarter of the year with each subsequent quarter getting its own story.
We had some important announcements in the first quarter. Samsung’s Galaxy S22 series was launched in February. The Galaxy S22 Ultra was the biggest announcement (metaphorically and literally). It brought back the integrated S Pen and squarer design of the Galaxy Note, while simultaneously bringing refinement to the battery and cameras.
The Galaxy S22 and S22+ have been boosted with a new 50MP main camera and brought back glass on the back. The Galaxy S22 series adopted the Exynos 2200 but also got the new Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 in some markets.
More Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 powered phones started arriving in Q1: Honor Magic V was the first foldable with the new chip, while Realme GT2, iQOO 9 and 9 Pro, Oppo Find X5 Pro, Motorola Edge 30 Pro and Edge Plus 2022, Z40 Pro from nubia, Magic4 series from Honor, 10 Pro from OnePlus also joined the party.
For our part, we marked the official start of ArenaEV.com, our project focused on electric vehicles. Almost a year later We are happy to say that ArenaEV is going strong!
On the PC side, Intel presented its new 12th generation processors with a hybrid architecture and Apple announced the M1 Ultra SoC with a 20-core CPU and up to 64-core GPU.
These were just a few of Q1’s highlights, but you can find the full list of top stories below.
Samsung is so far behind the competition when it comes to charging speeds that it can barely see it in the distance.
The Galaxy S22 smartphones and Galaxy Tab S8 slates are expected to be unveiled at the Galaxy Unpacked event on February 9.
No more plastic, new 50MP cameras and more compact bodies.
S Pen and new chipsets underscore what is otherwise a very incremental update.
Both phones will go on sale in China from January 11th.
Featuring up to 6 performance and 8 efficiency cores.
The Pro has a curved screen and wireless charging.
Open sales in China begin on January 18.
Both smartphones are powered by 4G versions of the Snapdragon 888.
We want to do for electric cars what we’ve been doing for decades for mobile phones.
All three are powered by the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1.
Realme 9 Pro+ is also the company’s first phone with a color-changing back.
The iQOO 9 is a new model, different from the phone in China of the same name. The 9 SE appears to be a rebadged Neo5 S.
The AI and image processing is offloaded to the MariSilicon X chip. In addition, the ultrawide camera has both sensor and lens shift image stabilization.
It has two 50MP IMX766 sensors, except the ultrawide cam lacks 5-axis OIS. However, the custom MariSilicon X ISP is on board.
The Find X5 Lite is almost identical to the Reno7 5G.
The phone is slightly different from its Chinese brother Edge X30.
It’s nearly identical to the global model but with slower 33W charging.
The phone is also the first with a 64MP Sony IMX787 sensor for the main camera.
The X4 Pro 5G packs a 108MP camera, which is quite an improvement over the X3 Pro. The M4 Pro is a 4G version of last year’s M4 Pro 5G.
The flagship Honor phones of 2022 are here.
The two devices are quite similar to each other. The A13 is a 4G phone and it changes a lot from the Galaxy A13 5G.
Two nearly identical phones with different batteries. Coming to Europe and India.
The front camera has also been updated.
The Mac Studio ships with the M1 Max or the new flagship M1 Ultra on March 18th.
It’s a combination of two M1 Max chips with a new interconnect architecture called UltraFusion.
The phones will be available in Europe, Southeast Asia, Africa, the Middle East and Latin America.
The Magic4 series will launch in China starting with the vanilla model later this month, then the Pro and soon the Ultimate.
The vanilla version comes with 80W charging.
The Galaxy S21 FE 5G is available in white, graphite, olive and lavender.
All three models offer high refresh rate FHD+ AMOLED displays and 5,000mAh batteries with 25W fast charging.
Feb. 9 can’t come fast enough, but at least now we have all the details.
Professionals will have less differentiating characteristics.
The two unreleased flagships were tested on a popular benchmarking app.
Carl Pei and Nothing go against established smartphone gamers.
The wallpapers reveal that the launch was actually scheduled for February 8th.
A new chipset, faster charging and a better screen are just some of the changes.
The Galaxy S21 will be smaller than its predecessor, the S22 Ultra is also changing (to accommodate the S Pen.
The Sony WF-1000XM4 TWS earbuds have been on the market for quite some time and have built up quite a reputation.
The non-Pro variant is said to have a 4,400mAh battery and MIUI 13 out of the box.
That’s $99 less than the base price of its predecessor: the iPhone SE (2020).
Its goal is to provide the same level of security as the native WhatsApp apps for Windows, Android and iOS.
The 4G model uses a Helio G96 chipset, the 5G one goes for the Snapdragon 695. Chips aside, the two are quite similar.
A roundup of all the official and unofficial information on the new flagship series that we have seen so far.
However, Galaxy S21 and S21+ are still available.
Check out some of the best hardware and software announcements from previous Galaxy devices.
The images also come with a summary of the leaked specs so far.
A new EU regulation is interfering with Meta’s data processing.
A new MacBook Air with M2 chip and iPad Pro with wireless charging are also arriving this year.
It could really be a rebranded Redmi K40S.
A download button for Windows appeared on an app page.
There is a lot of confusion surrounding the Galaxy S22 series and the refresh rates of their displays.
The A15 chip is faster than what expensive Android flagships have, and it also supports 5G.
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