Offers: OnePlus 13 launches, Poco X7 and X7 Professional arrive in Europe as smartly

The OnePlus 13 went international previous this week. The telephone is a little more pricey this time round, however the 16/512GB possibility is to be had with a €100 cut price, bringing its value all the way down to that of the OnePlus 12 final yr. There’s a inexpensive 12/256GB style too, however with no cut price. We also are ready at the OnePlus 13R to develop into to be had.

We took the OnePlus 13 for a photograph excursion of Sri Lanka and feature an in depth evaluation, which you’ll be able to take a look at – video evaluation too. The corporate has dedicated to 4 OS updates and 6 years of safety patches.

This week Xiaomi introduced the brand new Poco X7 sequence and the pair is already to be had in the United Kingdom. There are two fashions, vanilla and Professional, which basically range in efficiency and battery.

The Poco X7 Professional is powered by way of the Dimensity 8400 Extremely and has sooner UFS 4.0 garage. The shows on each fashions are necessarily the similar and each are superb – flat 6.67” 120Hz OLED panels with 12-bit colours (Dolby Imaginative and prescient, HDR10+) and Gorilla Glass 7i.

Those shows have a solution of one,220 x 2,712px. The telephone is supplied with a big 6,000mAh battery with 90W HyperCharge (100% in 42 mins).

The vanilla Poco X7 is €70 inexpensive, nevertheless it drops all the way down to a Dimensity 7300 Extremely (which is in line with the older ARMv8 tech, now not v9 just like the 8400 Extremely) and UFS 2.2 garage. Additionally, the battery is smaller at 5,110mAh with slower 45W charging (100% in 52 mins).

Each telephones are rated IP68, however this one has Gorilla Glass Victus to offer protection to the display screen. They’ve the similar cameras too – 50MP primary (1/1.95”, OIS), 8MP extremely vast (120°) and 20MP selfie cameras. Word that on account of the older chipset, the X7 can’t document 4K @ 60fps (it tops out at 4K @ 30fps), however the X7 Professional does have that possibility.

Going again to the X7 Professional, we will examine it to its cousin from the F-series, the Poco F6, which prices mainly the similar. The F6 has a extra robust chipset, the Snapdragon 8s Gen 3, and a just about similar 6.67” 120Hz OLED show with 12-bit colours and 1220p+ solution (it makes use of Gorilla Glass Victus).

Then again, the IP64 score provides most effective fundamental water resistance and the 5,000mAh battery with 90W charging is 1,000mAh quick. The 50+8MP rear and 20MP entrance cameras don’t seem to be similar however reasonably an identical.

A pricier choice is the Realme GT 6T at €60 extra for a similar 8/256GB configuration because the X7 Professional. This one makes use of the Snapdragon 7+ Gen 3 chipset, which additionally has a Cortex-X4 core just like the 8s Gen 3. The show is bigger at 6.78” and this can be a 120Hz LTPO panel (10-bit, 1,264 x 2,780px, GG Victus 2).

The water resistance is a little higher than the F6 at IP65, however this telephone nonetheless isn’t rated for submersion. The battery splits the adaptation with a capability of five,500mAh and helps speedy 120W charging. The digital camera setup is not anything particular (although the 32MP selfie merits a nod), in contrast to the pricier GT 6 (no T).

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