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Counterpoint: Global smartphone chipset shipments down 15% in first half of 2026‎

Smartphone shipments have been on the decline for the past few months as the ongoing memory chip shortage continues to plague OEMs. And as you can imagine, other components are getting hit too. Take smartphone chipsets, for example. According to the latest Counterpoint Research report, global smartphone chipset shipments have declined by 15% during the first half of 2026. The two biggest players – Qualcomm and MediaTek have been hit the worst, with an estimated 25% decline in SoC shipments compared to H1 2025. For Qualcomm, the flagship Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 model and the rest of...

AT&T is about to have more and faster 5G‎

AT&T has now announced that it has finalized its acquisition of $23 billion worth of spectrum licenses from EchoStar. The transaction was announced back in August of last year. AT&T paid all that money for an average of approximately 50MHz of low-band and mid-band spectrum that covers "virtually every market across the US", more than 400 in total. There's 30MHz of 3.45GHz mid-band spectrum in there as well as 20MHz of 600MHz low-band spectrum. The move will significantly boost AT&T's 5G capacity and download speeds while also helping the company "deliver an AI-ready connected...

Google Pixel Watch 5 pops up in an official Google app ahead of expected launch‎

Google will unveil the Pixel 11 series smartphones on August 12, and the company is expected to introduce the Pixel Watch 5 alongside them. We haven't heard anything about the Pixel Watch 5 from Google yet, but the smartwatch has popped up in an official Google app, which should serve as another indicator that Google will unveil it on August 12. The Pixel Watch 5 has appeared in the Google Health app as one of the wearables a user can connect the device to. It's right at the top of the list, and selecting it opens a dedicated setup page, followed by a screen that asks whether users want to...

But wait, there's more - rogue OpenAI agent accessed Modal before Hugging Face‎

Earlier this month, a rogue OpenAI agent escaped its locked-down testing environment and hacked into Hugging Face, prompting backlash across the tech industry. But there's more to the story. Apparently, the rogue AI stopped by cloud computing company Modal Labs before it got to Hugging Face. And there's more still; apparently, the rogue AI then accessed Modal through one of its customers' exploits, and then used Modal Labs as a stepping stone to carry out its attacks on Hugging Face. OpenAI's rogue agent didn't hack Modal Labs; think of it as a burglar seeing an office building with a...

Redmi K100 Pro emerges in Geekbench with SD 8 Elite Gen 5‎

The Redmi K100 Pro is expected to launch alongside the K100 Pro Max in September, and we now have some additional details for the Pro thanks to a Geekbench listing. As previously rumored, the K100 Pro is equipped with Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8 Gen 5 Elite chip (SM8850) and the specific device from the test also boasts 16GB RAM. Redmi K100 Pro (M511CD) Geekbench 6 test run It managed 3,429 single-core points and 10,461 in the multi-core score test. Keep in mind that this is a Geekbench 6 run and not the most recent Geekbench 7 version. Redmi also posted a pair of teaser images for its...

Samsung scores record pre-orders for the Galaxy Z Fold8, Fold8 Ultra, and Flip8‎

Samsung unveiled the Galaxy Z Fold8, Galaxy Z Fold8 Ultra, and Galaxy Z Flip8 last week, and then started taking pre-orders for them. The pre-order campaign has already been incredibly successful in India, as Samsung has today revealed that it has taken record numbers of pre-orders for the lineup - 271,000 within the first 72 hours, to be exact. Last year, it took 15 days to reach the same number of pre-orders for the Galaxy Z Flip7 and Galaxy Z Fold7. 45% of pre-orders for the Fold8, Fold8 Ultra, and Flip8 were from Tier 2 cities and below, which Samsung thinks signifies "massive...

Huawei nova 16 SE live images leak‎

Yesterday we heard that Huawei is working on a new device called nova 16 SE, which was said to have a design very closely resembling the Honor Power2. Today some live images of the nova 16 SE have been outed in China, here they are below. The overall design language is definitely similar to that of the Honor Power2, but the nova 16 SE has a differently placed LED flash as well as a gradient color design on two versions. The nova 16 SE is rumored to have a flat LTPS OLED screen with a "1.5K" resolution, the Kirin 8020 chipset at the helm, a 50MP main camera, and an 8,500 mAh...