Firstly, Samsung France has published support pages for two new tablets with model numbers SM-P613 and SM-P619 on its official website. The newly-added support pages don’t reveal anything about the devices themselves but hint at an imminent launch. The latter product has also appeared on the GCF (Global Certification Forum), Bluetooth SIG (Special interest Group), and benchmark platforms Geekbench and HTML5test. The listings reveal that the SM-P619 will run Android 12 out of the box and come with LTE cellular connectivity, which could be optional....

According to the company, it used New Radio Dual Connectivity (NR-DC) technology to combine mmWave and mid-band 5G spectrums to achieve that speed. It aggregated 800MHz of mmWave spectrum and 100MHz of mid-band spectrum. Samsung conducted this speed test in its lab in Plano, Texas. The test was conducted using its fully-virtualized RAN and Core, mmWave 5G Compact Macro, and Massive MIMO (multiple-input multiple-output) radio. The latter featured 256 Quadrature Amplitude Modulation (QAM) technology....

The unannounced Sony smartphone has appeared on Geekbench bearing the model number XQ-CT54. The device’s chipset has the codename “taro,” which should be the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1. This suggests the Japanese brand is settling on the current flagship offering from Qualcomm rather than going for the upcoming “Plus” iteration. It’s unclear whether this is a cost-cutting measure or whether the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1+ is arriving too late for Sony to use in the Sony Xperia 1 IV....

Google recently announced to its developers that there are some major changes coming to the console. We were uncertain how these would manifest, as this is still in early development. However, it looks like the company has already pulled the lever on app advertising. The Play Store will advertise apps in your search history The Play Store will advertise apps in your search history This was spotted by 9To5Google’s Abner Li....

There’s no microSD card expansion for the Galaxy S22 phones There’s no microSD card expansion for the Galaxy S22 phones Samsung has long been the antithesis of Apple until it wasn’t. While Apple failed to offer microSD card support for its devices, we could always count on Samsung to offer it. That changed last year with the introduction of the Galaxy S21 series. These phones came sans microSD card expansion and people didn’t particularly like that (even though it sold pretty well)....