News Weekly
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News Weekly is our column where we highlight and summarize some of the week’s top stories so you can catch up on the latest tech news.
This is Android Central’s News Weekly, your go-to source for a concise roundup of the week’s most significant tech stories. This is where we delve into the top headlines that provide the latest developments and innovations contributing to the digital landscape.
This week, Qualcomm unveiled its powerful new Snapdragon 8 Elite chip for 2025 flagship phones, Samsung launched the Galaxy Z Fold 6 Special Edition, Arm is terminating its licenses with Qualcomm, Boox launches new e-readers, and Google Messages is tackling message spam.
Qualcomm is taking your next Android phone to new heights
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The Snapdragon Summit kicked off on October 24, and the company announced its latest flagship chip. Dubbed the Snapdragon 8 Elite, the chip adopts Oryon cores similar to its PC counterpart, which brings boosted power and efficiency, and, most importantly, AI performance.
The 3nm chip offers 45% better CPU performance and 40% better GPU performance compared to the already impressive Snapdragon 8 Gen 3. NPU performance is also up by 45%, meaning the chip is much more capable of handling AI tasks.
Interestingly, the chip brings 44% better efficiency even though it does not include any efficiency cores, and Qualcomm explained to Android Central that the Oryon cores make it so that they are not necessary.
The first phones with the chip are launching this month, including the OPPO Find X8 series, OnePlus 13, and Xiaomi 15.
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The Galaxy Z Fold SE is what the Z Fold 6 should’ve been
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We just got the Galaxy Z Fold 6 in July, but Samsung is back with a brand new foldable phone, which has us scratching our heads a bit. The new Galaxy Z Fold Special Edition features an updated design with larger displays, a thinner profile, and a powerful 200MP primary camera.
Other spec upgrades include 16GB of RAM and 512GB of storage, all things we wish we had on the standard Galaxy Z Fold 6. That said, according to the official specs on the product page, there isn’t S Pen support. That could be a deal breaker for some, as…