Let’s start the busy week with the announcement of the Poco F8 Pro and F8 Ultra. Both have Bose-tuned speaker systems, with the Ultra adding a dedicated subwoofer at the rear. The F8 Pro has a 6,210mAh battery, Snapdragon 8 Elite (last year’s top SoC), and a triple camera setup with a 60mm f/2.2 telephoto. The F8 Ultra features the latest Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5, a 6,500mAh battery, and a 115mm f/3.0 telephoto with close-focusing.
Both the phones are already on sale. The Poco F8 Pro comes in Black, Blue, and Titanium Silver colors and is priced starting at €469/$529. The Poco F8 Ultra comes in Black, White, Denim Blue and is priced starting at €649/$679/£549.
OnePlus officially revealed three new products – OnePlus 15R, OnePlus Pad Go 2 and OnePlus Watch Lite. All three will be fully unveiled on December 17. The OnePlus 15R is the “upcoming ultimate value high-quality flagship device”, the Pad Go 2 is the “best value mid-range 5G tablet”, and the Watch Lite is an “accessible high-quality smartwatch”.
Poco F8 Pro and F8 Ultra review
Take a look at the design of the Poco F8 Pro and F8 Ultra.
Poco F8 Ultra and F8 Pro announced
Both phones come with triple rear camera setup.
OnePlus 15R, OnePlus Pad Go 2 and OnePlus Watch Lite officially revealed, here’s their launch date
The trio will arrive next month, and the first details have been revealed.
Qualcomm unveiled its flagship-but-not-quite Snapdragon 8 Gen 5 chipset. It will sit below the proper flagship Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 and be the equivalent of last year’s Snapdragon 8 Elite. It’s confusing, we know. Compared to the 8 Elite Gen 5, the Snapdragon 8 Gen 5 has lower-clocked cores (2x prime @ 3.8GHz vs 2x prime @ 4.56GHz, 6x performance @ 3.32GHz vs 6 performance @ 3.62GHz), as well as a less powerful Hexagon NPU and a slightly faster X80 modem instead of last year’s X85.
The Honor 500 series debuted in China with Snapdragon processors and larger batteries and an iPhone Air-like design. The Honor 500 Pro uses the Snapdragon 8 Elite, while the Honor 500 gets the Snapdragon 8s Gen 4 chip. As far as their batteries are concerned, both use an 8,000mAh Si-C battery with 80W wired charging. The Pro adds 50W wireless charging.
Both phones are official and on sale in the company’s homeland.
Huawei unveiled the Mate 80 series with the Mate 80, Mate 80 Pro, Mate 80 Pro Max and the specially designed Mate 80 RS. The series leads the way with the brightest display ever at 8,000 nits. All four devices are running custom Kirin chipsets – the Kirin 9020 in the Mate 80, and the Kirin 9030 Pro in the Pro and Pro Max models. The vanilla and Pro models feature a 5,750mAh battery with 66W wired and 50W wireless charging, while the Pro Max uses a 6,000mAh battery with 100W/80W charging, respectively.
Qualcomm unveils Snapdragon 8 Gen 5 as its flagship-killer chip
A flagship-level chip that is set to debut on the OnePlus Ace 6T/15R.
Honor 500 series with Snapdragon chips and bigger battery launched in China for the first time
Both phones also have 80W charging and 200MP main cameras.
Huawei Mate 80 Pro Max and Mate 80 RS launched with dual telephoto cameras
Both the phones are powered by Kirin 9030 Pro chipset.
Sony announces 200MP 1/1.12-inch sensor LYTIA 901 for flagship smartphone cameras in 2026. It was later paired with the OmniVision OVB0D with a very similar specs sheet.
Sony unveils the LiTia 901, a 200MP 1/1.12″ type smartphone camera sensor
Once again, the rumors were true.
OnePlus Ace 6T launched for China with Snapdragon 8 Gen 5
It will be rebranded as OnePlus 15R for other markets.
Black Friday deals spotlight: Refurbished iPhone 16 Pro Max, iPhone 15 Pro Max, and iPhone 15 Pro
These are much cheaper than new – even the 1TB options are affordable.
Samsung Galaxy S25 FE vs Galaxy S25 Plus
The choice is not as clear as you might think.
