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Honor is a Chinese smartphone maker spun off from Huawei, known for competitively priced phones, foldables, and high-capacity battery designs.
Honor will launch its WIN 2 gaming phones in China on Oct. 21 with two miniature fans for cooling and batteries up to 12,070mAh. Whether two fans beat conventional phone cooling over a long session depends on independent testing, according to TechRepublic.
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Honor will sell the X5d s, a 2,499-rand (about $150) phone with a 2.01-inch rear touchscreen, in South Africa from Oct. 7. The second screen is mostly useful as a viewfinder for rear-camera selfies, on a phone that is entry-level everywhere else.
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Honor launched the Magic 9 Pro Max in China with an 8,800 mAh battery that The Verge reports is up to 40 percent silicon. Buyers and app teams plan around hours of use, and that figure still waits on independent battery tests.
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Counterpoint puts Europe's Q2 shipments at a three-year low and China's sales down 8.6%, while Apple added nine points of European share. Component costs are redrawing share, not just margins.
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China's locomotion stack closed a human gap in about a year. It closed it in events that take out perception, grasping and anything unrehearsed, which is most of a deployment.
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The Wall Street Journal puts the price above $300 million for software that replaces a phone's tuned camera pipeline with one network trained per module, already shipping in Honor's 600 series. OpenAI's optics decisions now come first.
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The reported price for Glass Imaging is more than $300 million against a roughly $100 million valuation a year ago and $29.3 million of disclosed venture money in, and OpenAI has not said what the technology is for.
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Trusted Reviews tried the Android-ChromeOS hybrid and stopped short of saying whether it works. The case it builds for the category is assembled out of Apple's handoff features and the patchy state of Android phones on Windows.
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Glass Imaging trains a separate neural network for each lens and sensor pairing, so the reported purchase hands OpenAI a bench measurement job on every camera it eventually ships. Neither company has confirmed the deal.
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The Verge's hands-on found no hardware first on Apple's foldable and several places it trails Samsung, Oppo and Honor, which leaves the software case resting on a dock that moved to the right edge.
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Samsung's mechanical R&D chief tells WIRED that weight is the entire game in foldables, and his phone is now lighter than the company's own slab flagship. The grams came out of the camera and the dust seal.
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The stabilization works, by Engadget's account. But a single-market limited run tells you more about what a bespoke motor and a moving cover cost to build than about where Honor's cameras are going next.
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The Verge's tally from five days in the National Speed Skating Oval is worth more to anyone buying a humanoid than an edited demo reel, because it shows the spread of outcomes instead of the best take.
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Xiaomi and Oppo together ship 23 percent of the world's phones and neither reaches a US carrier shelf, so a device matrix drawn from American analytics omits the hardware most users hold, at the prices they actually pay.
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Sprint records come out of motors and simulation. The dexterity events at the World Humanoid Robot Games test the one thing neither of those solves, and a very large field now has to chase them.
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The World Humanoid Robot Games reads as a volume-manufacture demonstration. The FCC import ban and Unitree's Pentagon listing leave Western buyers cut off from the supplier doing the demonstrating.
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