Honor has announced a new budget smartphone, the Honor 8C in China. The smartphone has a 6.26 inch HD+ LCD display with a resolution of 1520 x 720 px and 269 ppi pixel density. It is the first device to run on the new Qualcomm Snapdragon 632 SoC with an Octa-Core processor and the Adreno 506 GPU. The smartphone has 4 GB of RAM and 32 GB of internal storage which is expandable up to 256 GB via a microSD card.

On the back, the Honor 8C has dual rear cameras, the first one is a 13 MP, f/1.8 aperture equipped color sensor and a secondary 2 MP, f /2.4 aperture equipped black and white sensor. The device can capture 1080p videos at 30 fps. Along with the dual rear cameras, [...]

Xiaomi is getting ready to launch its premium Xiaomi Mi MIX 2s in China. Similarly, the company is silently testing out a new smartphone with the codename Berlin. The Xiaomi Berlin is powered by Snapdragon 632 Hex-core chipset. However, this is an unannounced chipset from Qualcomm.

Xiaomi is known for launching the smartphones with the newest chipsets in the past. In fact, the Xiaomi Redmi Note 5 Pro is the first smartphone to feature Qualcomm Snapdragon 636 chipset. This could be a wrong report, as the Geekbench clearly mentions that, the chipset has 6 cores with a base frequency of 1.02 GHz. In fact, the chipset is expected to have octa-core CPU.