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Oppo Reno4 SE Arriving On September 21 With 65W Charging
Oppo is launching its next phone, dubbed Reno4 SE. It looks a lot like the F17 Pro, sold on the global scene, but after further inspection, instead of having four shooters in a square setup, they are actually three with an LED flash in the fourth circle.The Oppo Reno4 SE is now listed on the company website, as well as appearing at some retailers, and will be launched on September 21.
The phone will support 65W charging and have an OLED panel with a single punch hole in the upper left corner.There is a power key on the right side of the phone, the left is for the volume rocker, and on the bottom, there’s room for a 3.5mm audio jack, USB-C port, and a speaker grille.The battery will be 4,300 mAh, split into two 2,150 mAh cells to enable the fast charging speeds.While all these features are official, the phone also appeared at China Telecom with its memory configurations - 8/128 GB and 8/256 GB. The chipset will be MT6853V, which is the model number of the Mediatek Dimensity 720 5G.
The last unknown is how much will the Reno4 SE cost - China Telecom has two price offerings, but they are likely placeholders because CNY2,999 (nearly $450) seems steep given the specs. profile/1756IMG_20200907_154017_971.jpg
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Sony Xperia 5 II Launches With 6.1" 120Hz OLED Display
If you hate large phones, but love photography, music, videos and gaming, the Sony Xperia 5 II may be just what you’ve been waiting for. In case you missed it allow us to repeat – this phone has gaming ambitions as (unlike the Xperia 1 II) its screen refreshes at 120Hz.It’s a 6.1†OLED display and while it drops the resolution to 1080p+ (while keeping the 21:9 aspect ratio), it’s still pretty sharp and supports HDR and Creator Mode so the film looks just as the director intended. Better yet, this is the first phone that supports black frame insertion – a trick TVs use to reduce motion blur.The display also has a touch sampling rate of 240Hz and various software and hardware optimizations to reduce latency by 35%.This will be powered by the Snapdragon 865 chipset (no plus), which is paired with 8GB of RAM. This means that you get the same performance as the 6.5†Sony flagship. Even a bit better as the CPU now uses an optimized governor that tries to run more cores simultaneously while using less power (see: race-to-sleep).Storage comes in two sizes, 128GB and 256GB, and there’s always the microSD slot if you need more room. Interestingly, the Xperia 5 II will also be available in a dual SIM configuration in Europe (previous models came only as single SIM). If the S865 chipset wasn’t enough of a clue, this is a 5G smartphone (sub-6).The camera remains basically unchanged, save for the removal of the 3D Time of Flight module. There are some improvements on the software side that will be ported over to the Xperia 1 II. Sony has enabled JPG+RAW shooting and the 4K/120 fps slow motion videos are now shot in HDR. 
