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Realme is reportedly planning to launch the Realme Book Prime globally soon. It is essentially a Realme Book Enhanced Edition featuring a 14-inch 2K screen, an Intel Core i5-11320H, and a 54 Wh battery. It is expected to hit shelves in late April 2022 for around US$00.

OPPO has been linked to the launch of its first ever tablet for some time. Now, the OEM has finally acknowledged the existence of this device, as well as its long-rumored name. The company has also revealed that it has developed a stylus to go with its inaugural slate, now set to debut as part of a major early 2022 product event.

Samsung has now launched its latest Galaxy Tab S8-series slates in India, its new and extra-large Ultra variant included. They have debuted in a limited range of RAM and storage options in their new market. On the other hand, pre-order customers might get freebies that include first-party keyboard covers thrown in with their purchases.

AV1 is an emerging video codec increasingly adopted by companies in the content-streaming and entertainment space. They range from Samsung to Broadcom - but not Qualcomm, an OEM that has failed to support this form of decoding even in its top-end Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 SoC. Now, the company is touted to fix this - in the processors successor.

Samsung has debuted Gorilla Glass Victus Plus in its flagship Galaxy S22 line, asserting that this latest form of Corning protection for smartphones offers extra durability over its predecessor. However, a new YouTube post might cast some doubt on those claims, and may establish that a case and screen protector are advisable purchases for those who have pre-ordered the series top-end Ultra variant.

OPPO has been said to use flagship-grade processors from both Qualcomm and MediaTek in its upcoming top-end smartphone series since rumors of the devices in question, the Find X5 and X5 Pro, started to emerge. Now, the OEM has confirmed that this is in fact the case, and that the Pro will be, or at least will have, a Dimensity 9000 Edition.

The Realme 9i has launched as the base model of its series in India (to date, at least). It has a new, 6nm 4G/LTE processor and faster charging compared to its predecessor. Then again, some consumers might find it a downgrade compared to the 8i, particularly in terms of its display.

Microsoft is now rolling out a non-essential feature update to Windows 11. This February update offers several improvements including public release of the Amazon Appstore, mute and screen sharing from the taskbar, clock on secondary monitor, and more. Additionally, Microsoft is also releasing redesigned Notepad and Media Player apps consistent with the Windows 11 design language.

An Asus Zephyrus G14 powered by the AMD Ryzen 9 6900HS and Radeon RX 6800S has surfaced on Geekbench and PugetBench. In Geekbench CPU tests, the Ryzen 9 6900HS is found to offer decent leads over an average Ryzen 9 5900HS. The Ryzen 9 6900Hs and Radeon RX 6800S combination seems to augur well for creative workloads when compared to a ROG Flow Z13 powered by the Intel Core i9-12900H and Nvidia RTX 3080 despite constrained power limits.

Customers in the market for a new Galaxy S22-series phone in the United States might be assured of a fully-featured and up-to-date messaging experience out of the box. The OEM has pre-installed Googles messaging app and set it to accept and show messages rather than its own stock app that does the same. This allows the phones to use RCS by default.