Let’s kick off a busy week’s recap with the Poco F8 Pro and F8 Ultra announcement. Both have Bose-tuned speaker systems, the Ultra adding a dedicated subwoofer on the back. The F8 Pro has a 6,210mAh battery, Snapdragon 8 Elite (last year’s top SoC), and a triple camera with a 60mm f/2.2 telephoto. The F8 Ultra has the latest Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5, a 6,500mAh battery, and a 115mm f/3.0 telephoto with close-focusing.
Both phones are already on sale. The Poco F8 Pro ships in Black, Blue, and Titanium Silver colors, and starts from €469/$529. The Poco F8 Ultra comes in Black, White, Denim Blue, and starts from €649/$679/£549.
OnePlus officially revealed three new products – the OnePlus 15R, the OnePlus Pad Go 2, and the 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”.
Take a look at the design of the Poco F8 Pro and F8 Ultra.
Both phones come with a triple rear camera setup.
The trio will arrive next month, and the first details are out.
Qualcomm unveiled its flagship-but-not-quite Snapdragon 8 Gen 5 chipset. It will sit under the proper flagship Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 and is about on par with 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 last year’s X80 modem instead of the slightly faster X85.
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 a Snapdragon 8s Gen 4 chip. As for their batteries, 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, the Mate 80 Pro, the Mate 80 Pro Max, and the exclusively designed Mate 80 RS. The series pushes the envelope with the brightest display yet at 8,000nits. All four devices are running custom Kirin chipsets – Kirin 9020 in the Mate 80, and 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’s set to debut on the OnePlus Ace 6T/15R.
Both phones also feature 80W charging and 200MP main cameras.
Both phones are powered by the Kirin 9030 Pro chipset.
Sony announced the LYTIA 901 – a 200MP 1/1.12-inch sensor for flagship smartphone cameras in 2026. It was later joined by the OmniVision OVB0D with a very similar specs sheet.
Once again, the rumors were true.
Will be rebranded as the OnePlus 15R for other markets.
These are a lot cheaper than they were when new – even the 1TB options are affordable.
The choice isn’t as obvious as you might think.
