Information about the planned debut of a foldable smartphone released by Google is nothing new – the first prototypes of the hardware, codenamed Pixel Notepad, appeared back in 2019.

According to unofficial reports, the Pixel Notepad should be a noticeably cheaper device than the competition – two independent sources confirmed that Google HQ is thinking around $1400.

That means the manufacturer’s proposed price will be about $400 below the amount you’d have to pay for Samsung’s Galaxy Fold 3 model. This could be a very important trump card when deciding whether to buy Google’s foldable smartphone.

When will the Pixel Notepad hit the market? Many say it will be later this year – probably talking about the fall timeframe.

The post Google’s upcoming foldable smartphone is expected to be cheaper than the competition appeared first on NH-HTC.

Pete Lau, CEO of OnePlus and CPO of Oppo, posted a photo on Weibo showing two Oppo Find N smartphones. According to Lau, one of these smartphones is his own and the other is from the research and development department. The latter has been folded and unfolded 100,000 times already. Lau asks to guess who’s who.

As you can see in the photo, neither phone has the characteristic groove on the screen that forms after the smartphone is constantly folded and unfolded. It is worth adding that the Oppo Find N has no groove, because it also uses a hinge in the form of a drop. Let us add, however, that, for example, the Motorola Razr 5G also has a similar mechanism, but still forms a groove. So it seems that the Chinese smartphone is really good in terms of endurance.

The post Oppo Find N is extremely durable – 100,000 folds without a visible groove appeared first on NH-HTC.

The launch of Samsung’s flagship smartphones is always one of the most important events in the world of mobile devices this year. Samsung has officially confirmed in a blog post that the S22 series smartphones will premiere in February.

Everything also indicates that we won’t be waiting for a continuation of the Note series this year either. It is possible that the company has already completely abandoned the idea.

In particular, the manufacturer admitted that they are aware of the surprise caused by the absence of Note models last year. At the same time, the company assures that they have not forgotten the values represented by their device, and many of them will be reflected in the Samsung S22 Ultra. This shouldn’t come as a surprise, because the REM S21 Ultra has adopted the S-pen for a year now.

In addition to the aforementioned Ultra model, the S series will also include the S22 and S22 Plus. For these devices, the manufacturer will go a completely different way. These two new flagships will be smaller than their last year’s versions. The standard version of the S22 should be the smallest smartphone since the S10e. In recent years, the S21 and S20 were 6.2 inches. The S10 was 0.1 inch smaller. This year’s Samsung smartphone will be 6.06 inches. So Samsung’s last smaller flagship came in the first quarter of 2019. That means the S22 will be the smallest S-series device in three years.

Unfortunately, the smaller size also means a smaller battery. The S22 will use a 3,700 mAh battery. This is a drop from the S21 and S20, which used 300 mAh larger batteries. A similar situation is expected with the S22 Plus, which will be equipped with a 4,500 mAh battery. Only the Ultra version will keep last year’s level.

This year, Samsung will use its novelty to encourage customers to buy its flagship smartphones. The collaboration with AMD has already led to the Exynos 2200 with an integrated Exclipse GPU based on the AMD RDNA 2 architecture. This will bring the revolutionary ray tracing technology to smartphones.

The post Samsung confirms the launch of the S22. Is the era of the Note series coming to an end? appeared first on NH-HTC.