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Xiaomi has now officially confirmed a date for its next major global launch event. The company will debut a host of devices on October 4, with the Xiaomi 12T series expected to be the stars of the show—other potential debutants including the Redmi Pad and Xiaomi Smart Band 7 Pro.

The iPhone 14 Pro Max has now been put through a charging test. Results are predictable, with the new Apple flagship showing similar charging performance to the iPhone 13 Pro Max. That, of course, means average charge times of right around two hours.

With the recently completed Ethereum PoS merge, the coin would effectively become unmineable via GPUs some time in 2023. However, an immediate GPU dump is unlikely, as new PoW alternatives including Ethereum Classic or the newly-created EthereumPOW hard fork still see considerable support from certain large GPU mining players.

The new Apple A16 Bionic on the iPhone 14 Pro and iPhone 14 Pro Max has now made the journey over to AnTuTu for performance testing, with the benchmark officially revealing CPU and GPU test scores for the new chipset.

According to a new leak, mid-range smartphones next year will make the switch from FHD+ to 1.5K displays, with a resultant display pixel density in the 450 ppi range. Samsung, on the other hand, looks geared to equip the Galaxy S23 and S23+ with FHD+ screens once more, with the S22+ currently offering a miserly 393 ppi.

Current OnePlus 11 Pro leaks tip the OnePlus 10 Pros successor to be a proper flagship phone with all the bells and whistles that entails. The vanilla OnePlus 11, however, looks set to be a less accomplished offering.

The A16 Bionic chipset on the Apple iPhone 14 Pro and iPhone 14 Pro Max has now made its first trip to Geekbench, where it demolishes its Android rivals, the Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1 and MediaTek Dimensity 9000+, with up to a 40% performance advantage.

Leaks have revealed plenty of details about the Redmi A1, Xiaomis upcoming entry-level smartphone. Surprisingly, the Redmi A1 does not rely on MIUI, mirroring Xiaomis brief embrace of Android One. Instead, the Redmi A1 will run Android 12 (Go edition), underlining its credentials as a budget smartphone.

Xiaomi has unveiled the Redmi 11 Prime and Redmi 11 Prime 5G, two affordable smartphones powered by different processors. Both come with 90 Hz and 1080p displays though, among other similarities.

Apple has started selling out of the Watch Series 3 ahead of its inevitable discontinuation after tomorrows Far Out launch event. The Watch SE has dropped significantly in price on Amazon US too, a hint that it could soon replace the Series 3 as Apples cheapest smartwatch.