The Oppo Find X9 Ultra dual 200MP zoom system gives you three optical focal lengths from four cameras. A 200MP main sits at 23mm, a 200MP periscope at 70mm, and a 50MP telephoto at 230mm. Everything between and beyond those three points is cropped out of a sensor.

Inside the Find X9 Ultra dual 200MP zoom stack

Four cameras sit on the back, and GSMArena’s camera review lists the exact equivalent focal length of each one.

The Xiaomi 17 Ultra Leica zoom ring is a real mechanical part, but it never touches the lens. It sets focal length, exposure, white balance and focus. Three of those four have no optical mechanism behind them at all. Xiaomi’s own account of the part settles the question: the ring turns rotation into a digital signal.

What the Leica edition adds over the standard 17 Ultra

The cameras are identical. Both carry the 50MP 1-inch main sensor, the 200MP periscope and the 50MP ultrawide. GSMArena listed the full set at the launch . The chip, the screen and the battery are also the same.

The Galaxy S26 Ultra f/1.4 lens gathers 47 percent more light than the f/1.7 lens on the S25 Ultra. That works out to 0.56 of a stop. Indoors it buys either a shutter 47 percent faster or an ISO about 32 percent lower, on the same 200MP sensor Samsung has shipped since 2023.

What the Galaxy S26 Ultra f/1.4 lens changes

The sensor is still the 200MP ISOCELL HP2, a 1/1.3-inch chip with 0.6 micron pixels, and the focal length is still 23mm equivalent. Only the aperture opened up, from f/1.7 to f/1.4, according to GSMArena’s camera testing of the S26 Ultra .

The Galaxy S26 Ultra 5,000mAh battery is the seventh Ultra in a row at that exact number. Chinese rivals now ship 7,300mAh. Samsung’s own labs are testing packs of 12,000mAh, 18,000mAh and 20,000mAh. Four reasons get offered for the gap, and they don’t hold up equally well.

What the Galaxy S26 Ultra 5,000mAh battery delivers

The phone measures 163.6 x 78.1 x 7.9mm and weighs 214g, with a 5,000mAh cell behind a 6.9-inch panel. In GSMArena’s Galaxy S26 Ultra review it earns an Active Use Score of 16 hours 23 minutes. That’s a small gain on last year. The reviewers credit software tuning, not new hardware. Launch prices ran from about EUR 929 for 256GB to EUR 1,350 for 1TB.

Samsung’s 18,000mAh battery is real, but it’s three separate silicon-carbon cells stacked 12.8mm deep, according to leaked test reports. A 20,000mAh sibling failed after 960 charge cycles. The pack with a shot at shipping is the two-cell 12,000mAh version at 9.3mm, rated for 1,500 cycles.

Everything below comes from leaked internal documents attributed to Samsung SDI, posted by the leaker @phonefuturist. None of it is a confirmed product plan, and Samsung has said nothing on the record about any of it.

China’s 1,000mAh battery lead over the rest of the world is now a measured number. Counterpoint Research puts the country more than 1,000mAh ahead on average phone battery size. The global average reached 5,291mAh, and phones with 6,000mAh or more jumped from 10% to 29% of world sales in a year.

How big China’s battery lead is now

The average smartphone battery worldwide reached 5,291mAh. That figure comes from Counterpoint Research and its Global Handset Model Sales Tracker. It is a rise of about 400mAh in one year, the biggest yearly jump since late 2021.

The Xiaomi 18 is reported to be the first phone with Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6, landing ahead of Honor’s Magic 9. The real surprise sits inside the Magic 9 itself, where only the Pro models get Gen 6 while the base phone keeps last year’s Gen 5 chip.

Which phone ships Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 first?

The Xiaomi 18 series is reported to introduce Qualcomm’s new chip ahead of everyone else, per Gizmochina .

The Dimensity 9600 Pro posts a leaked Geekbench 6 single-core score near 4,300, running two prime cores at 5.00GHz. That is 24.93% ahead of the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 for Galaxy. However, the clock drops under sustained load, so the lead lives inside a benchmark shorter than a minute.

What the leaked Geekbench 6 scores show

The numbers come from a Weibo tipster, reported by Wccftech . An engineering sample of the Dimensity 9600 Pro scored 4,200 to 4,300 single-core and 12,000 to 12,500 multi-core. These runs sit slightly above earlier tests of the same chip, which hints that MediaTek is still tuning it.

A leaked AnTuTu run gives the Adreno 850 GPU 1,854,826 points, the number carrying a 4,835,412 total for Qualcomm’s SM8975 chip. That total sits only about 6% above Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 phones. The GPU does the heavy lifting, the CPU trails at 1,368,930, and AnTuTu could not find the run in its own database.

What the leaked Adreno 850 AnTuTu run shows

A screenshot from tipster Digital Chat Station started this. It shows a phone running Qualcomm’s SM8975 chip and a total of 4,835,412 points in AnTuTu V11.1.4, as reported by Gizmochina . The chip belongs to the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 Pro.

Pixel 11 Pro Qi2.2 25W wireless charging is real, but the speed depends on the charger you snap on. A certified Qi2.2 charger hits the full 25W. An iPhone MagSafe puck attaches to the built-in Pixelsnap magnets and aligns fine, yet it negotiates only 15W.

Which Pixel 11 models get Qi2.2 25W charging?

Google’s own launch post gives the feature a careful, limited billing. It says all three phones “feature our fastest charging yet, including Pixelsnap built-in and, new to Pixel 11 and Pixel 11 Pro, Qi 2.2 25W compatibility,” in the Google Pixel 11 announcement . In that sentence, the Pixel 11 Pro XL is missing from the 25W line.