One thing I really like about ColorOS 17 is the clock.
It stays as the focus throughout the animation. The clock visual looks very consistent. When you unlock the phone, the lock screen doesn’t just disappear and get replaced by the home screen. All the elements move together and the clock provides a eye focus. This is actually a clever improvement, Real eye Candy.
Honor MagicOS 11
Detailed Breakdown of the Architectural Design of MagicOS 11:
It brings a brand new Dual Architecture Design for Visual effects, Overall System Resource Usage & Smoothness.
📍Honor Glory Glaze Architecture: Global Liquid Glass Coverage with Android Underlying Reconstruction.
✨ Industry first Dynamic Liquid Glass
✨ Industry first advance planning for Unified Rendering Reconstruction of Android Graphics Architecture
✨ Exquisite Effect: Self-developed Material with 6 layer atomic effect with 40+ Adjustable degrees of freedom
✨ Extremely Low Power Consumption: Spatiotemporal rendering reuse, Power Consumption is almost "Zero"
✨ Light load Operation: GPU Algorithm compilation Optimization, Multi-layer Aggregation is completed at one time
📍Honor Hummingbird Architecture: Breaking through Native Constraints, the System achieves a Silky Smooth performance.
🚀 Android's First Liquid Glass Animation Effects
🚀 Working with Universities to build a Human Factor Seamless System
🚀 All new Physics Model
🚀 All new Physics Motion Engine
🚀 From System to Third Party Application, all runs in one Continuous flow
🚀 Overall System Smoothness has been increased by 20% for every Models running MagicOS 11.
As of now, The Oppo Find X9 Ultra & Find X9 were selected for ColorOS 17 Closed Beta Testing (CBT) Program in China but not in India....
The Find X9 Pro & Reno 15 Pro are only eligible for this Program in India.
Just yet another leak about ColorOS 17.
The Phone Interface has been Redesigned.
Rounded buttons, Gaussian Blur, Unified Harmonious Style. Indeed is very comfortable to look at.
As per the Schedule, Apple will be launching the 2nd Generation of Apple Air in Spring of 2027 & it's not coming this year.
It brings upgrades to Imaging, Battery & Performance.
If it launches at the same price as the first generation iPhone Air starting at $999 for 256GB Model, Would you pick it?
Phones launching this September.
iPhone 18 Pro Series
iPhone Ultra
Huawei Mate 90 Series
Xiaomi 18 Series
Vivo X500 Series
Oppo Find X10 Series
So Many, it starts with Apple.
Early ColorOS 17 Experience.
The Design of UI/UX Elements adapts to G2 Continuous Curves making the corners more Rounded & Harmonious. Very Natural & Fluid.
The UI is Very Comfortable to Use & Every Animations & Transitions are fluid. There are almost no abrupt transitions between Rounded Corners & Straight Lines. The UI Icons have become more Dynamic.
This is Great to hear 😊
ColorOS 17 not only brings smoother animations than the Previous Version system-wide but also Several Mainstream Apps that support Seamless Smooth Animations!
This will only make the User Experience a lot better & meaningful.
Oppo is working on a Wide Candybar Style phone & it's allegedly called the "Oppo Find W"
It's going to Appearantly be the first Wide Candybar Style phone that has 16:10 Form Factor.
Planned to launch in 2027 alongside the Find X10 Ultra.
Some of its rumoured Specifications are:
📱 6.4" 1.5K 16:10 LTPO OLED Display
❇️ Ultra Narrow Four sided Equal Bezels Design
🚀 Powered by Dimensity 9600 SoC
This is how MagicOS 11 looks.
A Deep Integration of Liquid Glass Aesthetics & being the first Android Brand to do so deserves a raise for sure.
Visually, Does it Competing Tough against OSes like iOS 27 & HarmonyOS 7? What do you think?
Images from: 机智猫 (Weibo)
So this is how the Upcoming iPhone 18 Pro Lineup Battery Sizes look like.
📱iPhone 18 Pro Max:
⚡ eSIM Version: 5425mAh (Up from 5088mAh)
+337mAh, 6.62%🔺
⚡ Non eSIM Version: 5235mAh (Up from 4823mAh)
+412mAh, 8.54%🔺
📱iPhone 18 Pro:
⚡ eSIM Version: 4288mAh (Up from 4252mAh)
+36mAh, 0.85%🔺
⚡ Non eSIM Version: 4056mAh (Up from 3988mAh)
+68mAh, 1.71%🔺
Paired with the brand new TSMC 2nm Fabricated A20 Pro Chip under hood the battery life & Efficiency will hit an Improvement Stike.
The Smartphone Market is so DOOMed.
The Storage Prices are seemingly reaching as high as 4x.
Recently we've seen some Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 Smartphones Up their prices by quite a much rise to 5000 yuan (70K INR) in China.
The next Generation Snapdragon 8 Elite 6 Smartphones are expected to start at 6000+ Yuan (84K INR) in China & 8 Elite Gen 6 Pro powered smartphones to go even Higher Potentially.
Perhaps, Many new Entry level Flagship phones will likely continue to use the Present Generation Snapdragon 8 Elite 5 SoC to lower down the prices.
We will see every brand suffer like this for the Upcoming, let's Say "ERA" of Pricey Smartphones & it's just getting started. Be Prepared.