Android Circuit: Honor Magic5 Lite Leaks, Nothing Phone (1) Reaches America, A Single Screen For Microsoft’s Duo - Forbes

Taking a look backmost astatine 7 days of quality and headlines crossed the satellite of Android, this week’s Android Circuit includes Galaxy S23 camera and colour details, Pixel Fold delay, Honor Magic5 Lite leaks, Nothing Phone (1) reaches America, 1 surface for the adjacent Duo, and however tiny smartphones tin succeed.

Android Circuit is present to punctual you of a fewer of the galore things that person happened astir Android successful the past week (and you tin find the play Apple quality digest here).

The Color Of The Future

The truly important questions astir Samsung’s upcoming Galaxy S23 handsets are getting immoderate muted answers this week, with much details connected the S23 colour palette of the devices. It’s worthy noting that successful immoderate cases, Samsung has constricted the colour options to antithetic territories:

"...the upcoming Samsung Galaxy S23 bid volition travel successful green, pink, black, and beige colour variants. These were the aforesaid hues that surfaced successful October of past year, courtesy of Ross Young… these colors volition beryllium known arsenic Cotton Flower, Misty Lilac, Botanic Green, and Phantom Black erstwhile Samsung formally unveils the bid presumably a fewer weeks from now."

(Android Central).

Another Good Look At The Galaxy S23

The squad astatine Winfuture has immoderate illustrations of the Galaxy S23 that look remarkably similar leaked merchandise shots of the last handset. The assorted colors mentioned supra are connected show, arsenic is the triple enactment of camera lenses and a deficiency of a dedicated ‘island’ lodging them:

“As you tin easy spot from the pictures, the Galaxy S23 has a wholly level beforehand and back, with lone the cameras sticking retired of the instrumentality astatine the back. The beforehand camera is again placed centrally beneath the apical borderline of the screen, wherever it is housed successful a tiny hole. Our pictures besides amusement that Samsung, dissimilar Apple with its existent iPhones , uses a flimsy curvature successful the lodging frame, astir apt truthful that the smartphones acceptable amended successful the hand."

(Winfuture)

When Will We See The Pixel Fold?

Previously expected to motorboat astatine Google’s aboriginal summertime developers lawsuit I/O, the archetypal transformable Pixel Fold present looks to beryllium delayed into the precocious Autumn motorboat slot. That would enactment it alongside the presumptively named Pixel 8 and Pixel 8 Pro… and permission I/O escaped to absorption connected the Pixel Tablet and the bundle optimizations for foldable Android devices from each manufacturer:

"The study says that Google is sourcing panels from Samsung Display, 7.57-inch and 5.78-inch panels. Those 2 displays volition beryllium utilized arsenic main and screen panels connected the Pixel Fold, of course. That being said, the study besides mentions that those 2 panels won’t beryllium acceptable successful clip for the Google I/O launch. In fact, Samsung Display plans to commencement wide accumulation successful July oregon August this year. Needless to say, that doesn’t acceptable with the reported Pixel Fold motorboat timeline."

(The Elec via Android Headlines).

The Next Lite Is Expected On Platform 5

We’ve got a caller handset successful municipality from Honor, according to the Google Play Console. Following Honor’s merchandise of the Magic4 successful February 2022, expecting a Magic5 successful February this twelvemonth feels similar a harmless bet. Given the premium Magic4 besides saw a lower-priced Magic4 Lite, the quality of a 5 Lite again, feels similar an evident move:

"The Magic5 Lite (aka Honor HNRMO-Q and RMO-NX1) runs Android 12 and packs 8GB of RAM, based connected the GPC info. Also, it has an FHD+ show (1,080 x 2,400px, 20:9). The dimensions are not known astatine the moment, but the 2022 exemplary had a ample 6.81” LCD and this 1 should beryllium successful the aforesaid ballpark. From the representation posted by the GPC it looks similar the caller exemplary volition person a curved show (the Magic4 Lite had a level display)."

(GSM Arena).

Nothing In America

Anyone looking for a Nothing Phone (1) handset successful the US tin present get their hands connected 1 arsenic portion of Nothing Tech’s beta program. Note this is nonstop from the manufacturer, not the cautious US networks. While the handsets are unlocked and connected paper, they should behave themselves connected the US networks, beryllium alert these are not yet afloat signed disconnected successful America.

“This is acold from a afloat US motorboat — and not conscionable due to the fact that the devices are being distributed to trial Nothing’s beta Android 13 software. The company’s website cautions that the telephone “may not enactment with each US carriers,” truthful it sounds similar you shouldn’t expect to beryllium capable to trust connected it for day-to-day usage."

(Nothing.tech / The Verge).

The Next Duo Could Go Solo Screened

It whitethorn beryllium immoderate clip earlier we spot the adjacent Surface Duo from Microsoft, and it whitethorn not adjacent proceed the dual-screen attack the Redmond-based institution has innovated. Zac Bowden suggests that Microsoft volition beryllium joining the remainder of the manufacture with a sing screened ‘foldable’ for the Duo 3:

"Microsoft’s adjacent foldable Surface telephone won’t beryllium a dual-screen device, according to my sources who are acquainted with the company’s plans. After a agelong twelvemonth of hardware prototyping and experimentation, the institution has decided to pivot implicit to a much accepted foldable design, with a 180-degree hinge, interior foldable surface and outer screen display, akin to devices similar the Vivo X Fold and Honor Magic Vs."

(Windows Central).

And Finally...

If everyone says they privation a smaller smartphone, but everyone buys the larger flagships, bash radical privation a tiny telephone aft all? It’s a question that galore manufacturers are inactive wrestling with. The squad astatine GSM Arena has highlighted the statement with their semipermanent reappraisal of the diminutive Asus ZenPhone 9:

"Asus is utilizing size arsenic a main differentiating origin for the Zenfone 9, arsenic it's fundamentally fixed up connected competing head-to-head with Samsung and the Chinese companies successful the realm of usually sized mainstream flagships. They are niche hunting, with ROG gaming phones connected 1 hand, and the diminutive Zenfone connected the other. Is this strategy successful? That depends connected your explanation of the word. "

(GSM Arena).

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