Netherlands may get up to 8GB RAM in the Galaxy Note 9

The next step up from here is 8GB of RAM and up to 512GB of storage. But will it happen in places other than Asia and Benelux?

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Fresh ‘Unknown Heart’ benchmark appears to hint at Nokia 9 variant with 8GB RAM

Is this "Unknown Heart" the impending Snapdragon 835-powered Nokia 9 flagship phone? Probably, and it may feature up to a whopping 8GB RAM.

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It’s review season with the LG G6, Huawei P10, HTC U Ultra | #PNWeekly 243

We extend our commentary on those devices, the HTC U Ultra, the Huawei Watch 2 and the LG Watch Sport for well over an hour on our podcast this week.

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Samsung Galaxy S8 tipped as the world’s first 8GB RAM smartphone, UFS 2.1 also included

The end of Galaxy S8 leaks? There’s not even a hiatus in sight, including during the holidays, with the latest semi-credible Weibo rumor on Samsung’s “next big thing” started on Christmas Day. A tireless tipster with a decent Chinese microblogging track record when it comes to uncovering future high-end smartphone upgrades foretells of a massive memory bump and an important internal storage increment as well.

This is not the first time we’re hearing of the possibility that the Galaxy S8 could pack a record-breaking 8GB RAM in the spring, but following encouraging early gossip, the inside consensus was the Note 7 redemption effort would ultimately “settle” for “only” 6 gigs of the good stuff.

Now we’re back to dreaming big, and expecting Samsung to double down, plus move up from the UFS 2.0 standard to 2.1 speeds. That means the Universal Flash Storage of the Galaxy S8, likely capping off at 256GB capacity, will be a lot faster than anything you’ve been dealing with so far.

It remains to be seen however if perhaps the microSD card slot shall leave the equation… again, and we’re still left wondering whether 8 gigabytes of RAM isn’t overkill. Even alongside crazy new powerhouses of 10nm Snapdragon 835 and Exynos 8895 processors.

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Can this concept HTC 11 make sense as company rebounds?

That’s right, we’re talking about an unfounded, unsubstantiated concept smartphone. And the “HTC 11” is certainly a concept to behold of within itself.

This soon-to-be flagship is coming at a time where the Taiwanese manufacturer is just starting to recover from a badly-performing release in 2015 and a rumor that it would sell its smartphone business just recently. The market for mobile seems to be tapped out and has little or no room for HTC at the moment, but it could make a bold material argument for consumers as it tries to break even on the balance sheets.

So, what does this concept from Chinese social media site Weibo contain? A 5.5-inch quad HD screen, a Snapdragon 835 processor with 8GB of RAM and 256GB of storage, an 8-megapixel selfie camera and a dual-camera system (both sensor at 12 megapixels of resolution), a 3,700mAh battery with Quick Charge 4.0 support and a bezelless design.

Unlike this phone’s competitors, we have heard little from the industrial supply chain about the HTC 11 — no recent rumors about its name, its parts, its design. The 11 may actually be to the “Ocean” concept leaked months ago that showed off a device similar in design to the HTC 10, but featured no physical buttons and touch-receptive siderails that complemented a revised Sense UI software interface. Three devices may come with that design paradigm.

Tech circles have been left wondering how real anything from HTC can be nowadays. We can only provide a generic “time will tell” platitude, but we don’t even know how much time the company will stack before it releases the damn thing.

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Can this concept HTC 11 make sense as company rebounds?

That’s right, we’re talking about an unfounded, unsubstantiated concept smartphone. And the “HTC 11” is certainly a concept to behold of within itself.

This soon-to-be flagship is coming at a time where the Taiwanese manufacturer is just starting to recover from a badly-performing release in 2015 and a rumor that it would sell its smartphone business just recently. The market for mobile seems to be tapped out and has little or no room for HTC at the moment, but it could make a bold material argument for consumers as it tries to break even on the balance sheets.

So, what does this concept from Chinese social media site Weibo contain? A 5.5-inch quad HD screen, a Snapdragon 835 processor with 8GB of RAM and 256GB of storage, an 8-megapixel selfie camera and a dual-camera system (both sensor at 12 megapixels of resolution), a 3,700mAh battery with Quick Charge 4.0 support and a bezelless design.

Unlike this phone’s competitors, we have heard little from the industrial supply chain about the HTC 11 — no recent rumors about its name, its parts, its design. The 11 may actually be to the “Ocean” concept leaked months ago that showed off a device similar in design to the HTC 10, but featured no physical buttons and touch-receptive siderails that complemented a revised Sense UI software interface. Three devices may come with that design paradigm.

Tech circles have been left wondering how real anything from HTC can be nowadays. We can only provide a generic “time will tell” platitude, but we don’t even know how much time the company will stack before it releases the damn thing.

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Latest round of Galaxy S8 (Edge) gossip includes up to 8GB RAM, 80 percent screen-to-body ratio

Now that Xiaomi is done dazzling us with new dual-curved handheld powerhouses, futuristic edgeless “concepts” and crazy cheap VR headsets, it’s time to once again revisit intensifying rumors over Samsung’s “next big ...

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