Asus Zenfone 9 will officially launch on July 28 in New York, Berlin and Taipei. There is no information on whether the Zenfone 9 will launch as the Asus 9Z in India but given the history, it is unlikely to happen anytime soon. The Asus Zenfone 9 was leaked last week when an official product video went live on YouTube, revealing some of the key features and a new refreshing design.
Asus Zenfone 9 launch date
Asus has released a poster for the upcoming Zenfone 9 launch in New York, Berlin and Taipei on July 28. We see the front side of the phone in the teaser poster that is in line with the leaked pictures. The Zenfone 9 is a compact flagship phone that will likely be powered by the Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1 chipset and supports gimbal stabilization.
Asus Zenfone 9 leaked specifications
The Asus Zenfone 9 features a 5.9-inch Super AMOLED display which is likely the same as the Asus 8Z with support for 120Hz refresh rate and Gorilla Glass Victus protection. It is also IP68 rated making it dust and water-resistant.
Asus Zenfone 9 Price in India
It is powered by the Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1 chipset and will likely run on stock Android 12 out-of-the-box. It has dual cameras on the back with a 50MP main camera that uses Sony IMX766 sensor and Asus is implementing a six-axis gimbal stabilization system for the cameras too.
The power button doubles up as a fingerprint reader and supports a slide gesture which can be used to scroll down a page in websites or apps. The Zenfone 9 also has stereo speakers and a 3.5mm audio jack.
For a while now, Samsung has been using its own in-house Exynos chipsets – alongside Qualcomm Snapdragon SoCs – in its Galaxy series of smartphones. However, if the latest report is to be believed, Samsung could be ditching Exynos chips altogether for its upcoming Galaxy S23 lineup. This would mark the end of an era with Samsung foregoing the practice of producing the same handset with two variants using region-specific chipsets.
(1/3) 1. Qualcomm will likely be the sole processor supplier for Samsung Galaxy S23 (vs. 70% shipment proportion for S22) thanks to the next flagship 5G chip SM8550 made by TSMC 4nm.
— 郭明錤 (Ming-Chi Kuo) (@mingchikuo) July 8, 2022
As per renowned analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, Samsung is likely to power the upcoming Samsung Galaxy S23 series with Qualcomm chipsets alone. This would be the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 SoC – which will make its debut in November 2022. In the past, the company would use both Snapdragon and Exynos SoCs in its flagship phones and the model you got would depend on where you lived.
Samsung Galaxy S23 series processor
As mentioned earlier, industry insider Ming-Chi Kuo has said that Qualcomm will be the sole SoC supplier for the Galaxy S23 series of smartphones. In effect, the flagship Samsung Galaxy S-series devices will no longer be region-dependent from 2023. The Galaxy S23 phones will reportedly house the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 SoC in all markets. This Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 (SM8550) is expected to make its debut in November this year and we could start seeing devices adopt the SoC as early as December 2022.
The Samsung Galaxy S23 series is expected to launch in January or February 2023 though. The fact that the S23 series will likely only house Qualcomm SoCs could be met with a sigh of relief by those in the European and Asian markets. This is because the Exynos variants of the Galaxy S series of phones have had a reputation of always being inferior to their Snapdragon counterparts, in terms of performance and battery life.
Kuo also suggested that the S23 series may not adopt the Exynos 2300 chipsets made by Samsung since it can’t compete with the SM8550 “in all aspects”. He also added that this decision could further cement Qualcomm’s dominance in the Android smartphone market.
Despite this, some reports still claim that Samsung’s flagship in-house SoC – the Exynos 2300 – is still being developed with the codename Quadra. There is no confirmation so far, but we could possibly see this chipset in Samsung’s Flip and Fold series of foldable smartphones.
F1 22 Review: the latest entry in the F1 franchise by developers Codemasters offers an immersive simulation racing experience that is bogged down by forgettable new additions. F1 22 is available on PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series S/X.
The Meta-owned messenger, WhatsApp, following the footsteps of its cousins Instagram and Facebook, now allows users to react to messages using any emoji of their choice. This move comes a couple of months after the initial announcement, where WhatsApp first enabled emoji reactions to messages. When the emoji reaction feature was first introduced, there were only six emojis for the users to choose from. After a couple of seconds of pressing the message, the six emojis were presented, from which the users could then choose which one to use for reacting to a message. This feature, over time, gained a fair bit of popularity among users, pushing WhatsApp to release this latest update, allowing users to use to access the full emoji keyboard while reacting to messages.
Since you asked… ... all emoji Reactions are here! We’re feeling about it. Starting to roll out now to Android and iOS pic.twitter.com/Opk7x0n0VP
At the time of the introduction of this feature, WhatsApp had promised to expand and improve emoji reactions by giving users access to a “broader range of expressions in the future”. Well, it seems that the developers working on the messenger know a thing or two about delivering on their promises.
WhatsApp announced this update through a blog post, saying, “Reactions on WhatsApp are getting even better with a full emoji keyboard including skin tone selector. We’re excited to introduce more ways for users to express themselves while chatting with their family and friends.” It is to be noted, though, that this update hasn’t been rolled out in the app's public release yet. This feature update is a part of the app's beta release for Android and iOS users. The beta releases are available for download. However, the users who are not a part of the app's beta program on the iOS and Android app stores will have to wait for the feature to reflect in their apps.
Imagine looking at a single grain of sand on your finger-tip at arm’s length, that’s what the James Webb Space Telescope has captured by focusing on one single dot in the universe - the sharpest infrared image ever taken in the history of human space endeavour
After seven long months of its launch, the largest most-sophisticated telescope ever built by humanity, the James Webb Space Telescope has revealed its very first picture – and it’s absolutely stunning.
Earlier on July 11 (July 12 according to IST), US President Joe Biden revealed the very first full-colour image taken from the James Webb Space Telescope. The picture reveals a patch of deep, dark space background full of thousands of glittering galaxies.
Click here to visit NASA’s official link to JWST’s first-ever pic
This first publicly revealed image taken from the James Webb Space Telescope is also reportedly the highest resolution image of the infrared universe anyone has ever seen, according to NASA. This isn’t hard to believe because, after the Large Hadron Collider, the James Webb Space Telescope is probably the most sophisticated scientific instrument ever built and operated by humanity.
The JWST is the culmination of over three decades and several billion dollars of effort to undertake never-before-attempted scientific research from deep space.
Comparison of Hubble and Webb images of galaxy cluster SMACS 0723. pic.twitter.com/oqWseqA8f9
— Tinfoil (@tinfoil_globe) July 11, 2022 Webb’s First Deep Field
As for the historic first image captured and made public by the James Webb Space Telescope, it has been christened its own name, the “Webb’s First Deep Field,” according to reports. The image specifically shows galaxy cluster SMACS 0723 in unprecedentedly clear detail, captured of course from JWST at an orbit that’s 1.5 million kilometres away from Earth.
According to the James Webb Space Telescope’s Twitter handle, capturing the Webb’s First Deep Field image literally took “less than a day.”
Is JWST’s first pic the oldest pic of the universe?
As sophisticated as the James Webb Space Telescope is, fundamentally it’s aimed at doing space imaging largely in the infrared spectrum of light – which is not the oldest light in the universe, in case you don’t know.
This fact is confirmed by JWST’s official Twitter handle, too. It says that Webb’s First Deep Field image “isn’t the farthest back we’ve observed” the universe. “Non-infrared missions like COBE & WMAP saw the universe closer to the Big Bang (~380,000 years after), when there was only microwave background radiation, but no stars or galaxies. Webb sees a few 100 million years after the Big Bang,” it highlighted in no uncertain terms.
What was JWST focusing on for the image?
This is the most amazing part of the James Webb Space Telescope’s first-ever image, what the telescope was looking at in the night sky, where its lens was focused on for less than a day to reveal the image we are now calling it the Webb’s First Deep Field.
This is how NASA’s Bill Nelson explained it to US President Joe Biden, during the official unveiling of the image. “If you held a grain of sand on the tip of your finger at arm’s length, that is the part of the universe that you’re seeing (in this picture)... just one little speck of the universe,” NASA Administrator Bill Nelson said. “You’re seeing galaxies that are shining around other galaxies whose light has been bent.”
What’s next for the James Webb Space Telescope?
According to NASA’s Bill Nelson, the James Webb Space Telescope is just getting warmed up, just getting started to do what the Hubble Space Telescope could never physically do – which is to look back at the very beginning of the universe immediately after the Big Bang.
According to a PBS report, the NASA Administrator hinted that future images from JWST will capture a time even farther back into the ancient universe to about 13.5 billion years ago, “almost to the beginning.”
This isn’t all, as James Webb Space Telescope’s nothing short of a full-fledged science lab in deep space, and its on-board cutting edge capabilities will help NASA researchers on the ground here on Earth analyze not just static images of the early universe, but also the chemical composition of the atmosphere of planets beyond our solar system, and whether they can sustain life on them.
Nothing Phone 1, styled as Nothing Phone (1) is all set to launch today in India. The much-anticipated smartphone from Nothing has been teased and leaked numerous times in the lead-up to the launch and details about most of the key features are already out in the open, except of course the pricing. From the looks of it, the Nothing Phone 1 is slated to be a mid-range smartphone powered by the Qualcomm Snapdragon 778G+ chip and has a striking design with an LED array on the rear panel. Here’s everything you need to know about the launch event, how to watch it live, the expected pricing of the Nothing Phone 1 and more.
Enough talk. Meet Phone (1) in 24 hours.#nothingevent. 12 July, 16:00 BST. Watch online at https://t.co/pLWW07l8G7 pic.twitter.com/OznuriCP5K
— Nothing (@nothing) July 11, 2022 Nothing Phone (1) launch: How to watch the event Livestream?
The launch of the Nothing Phone 1 starts at 8:30 PM IST (16:00 BST) and it will be live-streamed on Nothing’s YouTube channel. We have embedded the livetsream link below where you can go and tap the “notify me” button to get reminded of when the event begins.
Nothing Phone (1) launch: Expected pricing and specifications
Nothing has confirmed many key features of the upcoming Phone (1) including a customizable LED array on the transparent back panel. The phone has a flat-edged aluminium frame and features symmetrical bezels on the front. It features a 6.55-inch OLED display with a 120Hz refresh rate and a Full HD+ resolution.
It is powered by the Snapdragon 778G+ chip and runs on Android 12-based Nothing OS. RAM and storage options will likely include 8GB/12GB RAM and upto 256GB storage models to choose from.
There is a 50MP primary camera on the back alongside a 16MP ultra-wide camera and a 16MP selfie camera up front. Phone 1 also has stereo speakers and an in-display fingerprint reader.
The Nothing Phone 1 comes equipped with a 4,500mAh battery that supports 33W fast charging and likely wireless charging as well.
The upcoming OnePlus flagship device, the OnePlus 10T, is set to become the company’s first phone to come with 16GB RAM. There have been several reports of the company working on a new 10 series device, and now further specs have been tipped for this upcoming device. The phone with the highest RAM capacity in the OnePlus’ line-up is the OnePlus 10 Pro 5G, which comes with 12GB of RAM. This is the company’s top-of-the-line phone in the market right now. The souped-up version of the device, which has 12GB of RAM and 256GB of storage, currently is listed on the OnePlus’ website for ₹71,999. It holds the title of being the phone with the highest RAM capacity offered by OnePlus. However, it seems like it wouldn’t be long before this title is taken away and attached with the OnePlus 10T.
OnePlus 10T: When to expect the launch?
Tipster Digital Chat Station took to the internet to leak the RAM specs of the device. Since the release, the news has been doing rounds in community forums and social platforms across the globe, hinting at the hype that is there in the market surrounding the release of this device. The upcoming OnePlus 10T is expected to come with 16GB of LPDDR5 RAM, trumping any other device the brand has on offer.
It is also expected that the device will launch in India by the first week of August. This means that teaser content could be expected soon to hit the social media handles of OnePlus. Leaks about the specs of the device have been doing rounds on the internet for quite some time now. However, an official announcement is yet to be made by OnePlus about the release of its latest device. It will be interesting to see what OnePlus brings to the table to compete with the offerings from competing brands in the same segment of phones.
