I am angry. Hulk-level angry. Oppo decided to sell its best smartphone of the year within the confines of China only for 2023. While reviewing the Oppo Find N2 for you, I ended up with a mixture of anger and butterflies in the stomach. Argh!
Among smartphone makers, Apple remains a prominent brand that still heavily relies on facial recognition technology. The iPhones will apparently continue using Face ID for years to come. However, Apple could introduce an upgraded version that is hidden beneath the display and which might be ready on next year’s iPhone 16.
Microsoft might abandon its dual-screen form factor in favor of a full folding Surface smartphone or tablet. The design change could put the foldable Surface in line with the Galaxy Z Fold 4 and Google’s rumored Pixel Fold both having a flexible main display and secondary cover display.
Samsung is now all-set to launch the Galaxy S23, S23 Plus, and S23 Ultra on February 1st. The company has now started teasing the trio’s improved camera capabilities and promised astrophotography. Accordingly, the latter feature could be exclusive to the Ultra model which is expected to boast a 200MP camera.
It is more than a year since we learned of the existence and possible specs of the alleged OnePlus Pad. Following that, details about the humongous tablet have been thin to nothing. But now a recent leak indicates that progress has been made as well as an imminent release.
The technology year 2023 begins as it always does: with the CES in Las Vegas, which has just ended! What were the highlights, and which trends were we able to observe? Find out here in our NextPit roundup of the Consumer Electronics Show 2023!
The iPhone SE 4 (2023) was supposed to arrive this year featuring beefier upgrades. However, it was reported last year that Apple could indefinitely delay or postpone the mid-range iPhone. Now, the same source believes that the device is entirely scrapped with no definite answers if the series will be continued in the future.
We finally got the Meta Quest 2 in our office and this is reason enough for us to put the standalone VR glasses through test right before the presentation of Meta Quest 3 that is slated to happen this fall 2023.
If at the beginning of 2022 our expectations revolved around sustainability and advances in computational photography, in 2023 the NextPit team is betting on the improvement of intermediate smartphones and the democratization of Smart home products. The year has begun and we list here some of our expectations for 2023.
The Apple Pencil (2) is far from a perfect stylus due to a few caveats like a missing eraser end and limited compatibility to older iPads. Although those issues might be solved with the Pencil 3, a new patent uncovered suggests future Apple pens could bring more advanced solutions such as capturing color and texture samples from the real world.