Let’s kick off the busy week with the POCO F8 Pro and F8 Ultra announcement. Both have Bose-Tone speaker systems, with the Ultra adding a dedicated subwoofer on the back. The F8 Pro has a 6,210mAh battery, Snapdragon 8 Elite (last year’s top notch), and a triple camera with a 60mm f/2.2 telephoto. The F8 Ultra features the latest Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5, a 6,500 mAh battery, and a 115mm f/3.0 telephoto lens with close focus.
Both the phones are already on sale. The Poco F8 Pro ships in black, blue and titanium silver, and starts at €469/$529. The Poco F8 Ultra comes in black, white, denim blue, and starts at ₹649/$679/£549.
OnePlus officially revealed three new products – OnePlus 15R, OnePlus Pad Go 2, and OnePlus Watch Lite. All three will be unveiled in full on December 17. The OnePlus 15R is “the next 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”.
Take a look at the design of Poco F8 Pro and F8 Ultra.
Both the phones come with a triple rear camera setup.
All three will arrive next month, and the first details will be out.
Qualcomm unveiled its flagship but not the Snapdragon 8 Gen 5 chipset. It will sit below the flagship Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 proper and is the same as 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 more generic X80 modem than last year’s X80.
The Honor 500 series debuted in China with Snapdragon processors and huge 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 for their batteries, both use an 8,000mAh SI-C battery with 80W wired charging. The Pro has added 50W wireless charging.
Both the phones are official and sold in the company’s home country.
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 pushes the envelope 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 have 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.
A flagship-level chip that is set to debut on the OnePlus ACE 6T/15R.
Both phones also feature 80W charging and 200MP main cameras.
Both phones are powered by Kirin 9030 Pro chipset.
Sony announces Laetitia 901 – 200MP 1/1.12-inch sensor for flagship smartphone cameras in 2026 It was later joined by the Omnivision OVB0D with a very similar spec sheet.
Once again, the rumors were true.
It will be rebranded as the OnePlus 15R for other markets.
These are much cheaper than when they were new – even the 1TB options are cheaper.
The choice is not as clear cut as you might think.
