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  Xiaomi expanded their flagship Mi 11 series with three new phones yesterday. The long-anticipated Mi 11 Ultra and Mi 11 Pro were also joined by Mi 11i, which is the global version of the Redmi K40 Pro+. Here’s a quick breakdown of what this trio has to offer. Xiaomi Mi 11 Pro Display: The Pro edition takes design cues from both the Ultra and the standard Mi 11. Its screen is also a huge 6.81” AMOLED panel, featuring a 120Hz refresh rate, QHD+ resolution, and Gorilla Glass Victus protection. The panel is quad-curved, has a tiny hole-punch in the corner, and 1500 nits of ample brightness.  You also get the typical features you’d expect from a flagship device: 67W wireless charging, dual speakers tuned by Harman Kardon, NFC, Dolby Vision visuals, IP68 dust, and water resistance, and the latest version of MIUI. The battery, chipset, memory/storage, and charge specifications are shared with the Mi 11 Ultra, so you can expect it to be just as much of a powerhouse. But the secondar...

  After the   Realme C17   & C15 launch, the C21 is the newest entry in Realme’s budget C-series. Following its debut, it’s now headed to Pakistan, sources told WhatMobile. We also have the suspected pricing and memory details. It’s built on the same formulaic design as the C-series phones, so there’s little to unpack here. We start with the  Realme C21 ’s shell that adopts the ‘geometric’ plastic finish, available in Cross Blue and Cross Black colors. It’s used to house a rear-facing fingerprint scanner, triple-camera, and back-firing speaker.  Display: Flip the C21 over to find a tall, notched screen and a noticeable bezel surrounding it. You’re looking at a 6.5” IPS LCD that fills a 20:9 aspect ratio and produces a 720P resolution (no high refresh or touch sampling bells and whistles to be found here.) Camera: Realme C21 has a low-end camera array to match too. You get a 13MP f/2.2 primary lens and two 2MP portrait and macro sensors. The selfie camera ...

  Oppo has been pushing new Reno releases closer and closer on the calendar ever since the Reno4. The   Oppo Reno5   series followed only four months after it. And the subsequent gap continues to shrink. It has scarcely been three months since the Reno5 rolled out, and Oppo already has a successor lined up. Let’s meet the Oppo Reno 6. The phone first surfaced as an unknown device named “PEPM00” in leaked screenshots. These Oppo Reno6 images contained some system specifications and screen details. It has been a few weeks since then. 3C, a Chinese regulatory body, most recently certified the same phone, revealing more of its specifications in the process. It’s still up for speculation, but industry sources report that the “PEPM00” model number belongs to the Oppo Reno 6. Firstly, the Reno6 — not unlike its preceding models — has a 5G chip. The leaked screengrabs specify it as the Dimensity 1200 (currently the highest-end 6nm flagship chip on MediaTek’s catalog.) T...