Images, renders and videos of upcoming smartphones are constantly getting leaked.
Top brands like Huawei, Samsung, Google and Apple tend to get leaked the most with Google’s smartphones sometimes being nearly completely revealed months in advance of their official release.
All of these leaks are often difficult to follow, so we’ve compiled a list of this past week’s hottest rumours. Specifically, any leak that has occurred from January 11th to the 17th.
Spoiler alert: most of these rumoured are about upcoming Samsung and Huawei smartphones.
Samsung
At the beginning of the week, live images of the Samsung Galaxy S20+ were spotted online. The phone features four cameras, a flash and what appears to be a microphone hole. This handset seems to feature a 2.5D glass as opposed to curved glass, and reportedly comes with a pre-installed screen protector.
According to this leak, the S20+ is the middle-tier handset in the series, with the S20 Ultra being the premium version this time around.
For more information about this leak, click here.
Another leak about the Samsung Galaxy S20+ shows off even more of the upcoming handset. The S20+ features a 3,200 x 1,440-pixel resolution screen with a 20:9 aspect ratio, making the phone taller than the S10+. This rumour also suggests that the Galaxy S20+ features a 120Hz display capped at FHD+ resolution.
This handset will also use Qualcomm’s ultrasonic under-display fingerprint scanner. Again, this phone won’t have a headphone jack, but will reportedly come with AKG-tuned USB-C earbuds in the box.
Additionally, the handset sports 12GB of RAM, a 4,500mAh battery, 128GB of storage and Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 865 processor.
For more information about this leak, click here.
The S20+’s primary shooter sports Sony’s unreleased IMX 555 12-megapixel sensor and a 48-megapixel sensor.
Additionally, the phone features a zoom-in microphone for better audio when recording video, along with 8K 30fps video recording with no option to drop down to 24fps. Additionally, the phone will have a ‘Smart selfie angle’ feature that switches to a wide-angle selfie when there are more than two people in the frame.
For more about the cameras featured in the S20+, click here.
The Samsung Galaxy S20 Ultra is rumoured to feature 108-megapixel primary camera with an extra shooter that sports a periscope lens. Additionally, the phone will feature 12GB and 16GB of RAM options, with 5,000mAh battery and 45W fast charging option.
For more information about this leak, click here.
Here are leaked specs of the European and Asian versions of the S20 series.
Exclusive: Full specifications of the Samsung Galaxy S20 Series are here! Some interesting details: Exynos 990 for all three phones in European and Asian Markets. 40MP (?!) Front Camera for S20 Ultra! Checkout the image!
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For more on this leak, click here.
Samsung’s clamshell foldable that will be called the Galaxy Z Flip.
The phone is tipped to sport an external fingerprint scanner, a hole-punch camera and a display on the outside for notifications.
For more on the Galaxy Z Flip, click here.
Apple
Apple will reportedly launch two refreshed versions of the iPhone 8. One of these entry-level handsets will sport Face ID with a notch, while the other will feature Touch ID. Additionally, the phone is set to feature a much bigger rear-facing camera which suggests the phone will use dual-lens camera technology.
These two iPhone 8 devices will reportedly drop in March, followed by four more higher-end iPhones in the Fall.
For more on the refreshed iPhone 8, click here.
OnePlus
The OnePlus 8 will reportedly sport a 120Hz screen, as well as a 240Hz touch sample rate similar to the Asus ROG Phone II.
Further, the phone will feature 1000 nits of brightness similar to the LG G7.
This handset also reportedly sports motion smoothing, which is a form of video processing typically used by TV manufacturers.
For more on the OnePlus 8’s display technology, click here.
Another OnePlus 8 leak showcases the handset’s benchmark results.
The OP8 will reportedly feature a 12GB of RAM, a Snapdragon 865 processor and Android 10.
Three leaked renders of the indicate that it will also include a hole-punch display.
Huawei
We typically don’t write about phones that don’t come to Canada, but we’ll talk about Huawei until we’re sure that the company’s phones won’t come here.
The Huawei P40 Pro will have a variant that features a ceramic/metal finish. The front of the device sports hole-punch dual selfie cameras with two lenses that are a bit spread out. Additionally, the phone’s rear-facing camera module features five cameras. One of these shooters sports a periscope lens that allows for 10x optical zoom.
For more information on the P40 Pro leak, click here.
A Huawei P40 render leaked this week as well. This phone will also sport hole-punch dual selfie cameras. The rear camera module features three cameras with an ultra-wide-angle shooter, a primary sensor and a time-of-flight sensor. This device also features a 6.1-inch or 6.2-inch screen.
The leak also discusses information about the Huawei P40 Pro. Reportedly, the P40 Pro is tipped to feature a 64-megapixel Sony IMX686 primary sensor, a 20-megapixel ultra-wide-angle lens, the already mentioned 12-megapixel periscope shooter with 10x optical zoom, a macro lens and a time-of-flight sensor.
The Pro version will also sport either a 6.5-inch or a 6.7-inch screen.
Further, both phones will come in ‘Black,’ ‘Brush Gold,’ ‘Silver Frost,’ ‘Deep Sea Blue,’ and ‘Ice White,’ which features a gradient finish.
For more information, Huawei P40 and its specs, click here.
We’ve started to already see rumours about the Pixel 4a, Google’s unreleased entry-level smartphone. This phone will likely launch at Google I/O 2020, which is usually in May.
Within Google’s code, the tech giant featured three potential codenames for the upcoming handset: ‘Sunfish,’ which sports a Snapdragon 730 processor, ‘Redfin’ another handset with a Snapdragon 765 chipset and lastly ‘Bramble,’ which also runs a Snapdragon 765 chipset.
For more on the Pixel 4a rumour, click here.
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