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For smartphones, we can tell how much battery capacity is left with battery indicators. But what if you want to know the battery's health, whether it has deteriorated severely? Well, Xiaomi seems to be working on a new MIUI feature related to that.

Samsung has released a new memory chip today and it's said to be a perfect fit for 5G low-cost devices. The new LPDDR5 uMCP (UFS-based MCP) is a multichip package that combines the company’s fastest LPDDR5 DRAM with the latest UFS 3.1 NAND flash in a single package. Currently, the product is the first such smartphone memory solution appearing in the industry.

When it comes to OPPO, the Reno series is probably the brand's fastest refresh. It's only been about 6 months since the Reno5 series launched, but already we've seen the Reno6 series launched in China. In fact, what seems to be a variant could have popped up!

This article will look at why brands that make Android smartphones launch more devices than Apple.

This is no longer surprising to many of you, but companies have decided that there should be a sales day every month. For this month, that would be the 6.6 Sales that falls on this Sunday (6 June 2021). In preparation for that, vivo has some cool deals exclusive to Shopee.

Based on a report by Reuters, it seems that Huawei’s CEO Ren Zhengfei has recently made a statement hinting that Huawei could potentially focus more on software development in the future in order to alleviate the effects caused by the trade ban. With that being said, Huawei could potentially ramp down their smartphone manufacturing if they do start focusing more on software.

It seems that Samsung has recently filed a trademark with the European Intellectual Property Office for the name “Z Slide”, which could hint that there could be a smartphone with slide-out display capabilities. While not much is known in regards to which smartphone will come with the aforementioned feature, it does give us a better idea of what to expect when the devices are available in the global market.

Based on a statement by huaweicentral.com, it seems that Huawei has started the development of a new 3nm Kirin processor which is expected to be available around the end of 2021. While not much is known in regards to which exact smartphone will come with the aforementioned chip, it does give us a better idea of what to expect from Huawei in the future.

Since its establishment in 2018, POCO's devices have been using customized MIUI as it's a sub-brand of Xiaomi. Until now, POCO is said to be moving on to developing its own UI according to an exclusive interview with Android Central. If nothing goes wrong, the POCO UI could be arriving in late 2021.

It seems that Digital Chat Station recently posted on the user’s Twitter account, stating that MediaTek’s upcoming Dimensity 900 chipset could perform better than Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 768G chipset. With that being said, we can expect smartphones equipped with this chipset to feature a better price to performance ratio compared to phones that are still using older Dimensity 800 series chipsets.