Samsung Galaxy M55 and M15 5G arrive in Brazil, details of the POCO F6 and more | Plant TC

The time has come to stay well informed about everything that has happened most important in the last few days in another edition of Plantão TC, our weekly “newspaper” where we separate the best news of the week so that you can stay up to date with everything in one place place.

This week, we will highlight the national launch of the Samsung Galaxy M55 and M15 5G, in addition to the Redmi A3. In addition, there are also details about the POCO F6 and the Motorola Edge 50 Fusion.

On another front, we’ll address more rumors about the iPhone 16 and future Windows 11 notebooks running on Arm chips.

Images leaked this week confirmed the final design of the Motorola Edge 50 Fusion long before its official launch.

The smartphone can be offered in three colors: dark blue, pink and silver. At the front, we have a 6.7-inch pOLED screen with curved edges and just one hole in the top center to house the front camera, which should have 32 megapixels.

The phone is expected to have 8GB of RAM paired with Snapdragon 6 Gen 1 and 256GB of internal storage.

At the rear, we see a dual camera set with a 50 MP main sensor, with optical stabilization, and a 13 MP ultra-wide-angle sensor. The battery must be 5,000mAh with 68W fast charging.

The expectation is that the Motorola Edge 50 Fusion will be announced alongside the Motorola Edge 50 Pro, which will be revealed on April 3 in India.

Apple has confirmed that it will hold its developer conference on June 10th. The event will be held at the company’s headquarters, in the city of Cupertino, California.

The public’s expectation is that Apple will present the main Artificial Intelligence news of iOS 18, including even possible partnerships with Google, ChatGPT’s OpenAI and Baidu.

Furthermore, sources say that the iPhone’s new operating system will allow more customization on the home screen, and the company can also expand the iPhone 16’s RAM so that AI can work on the hardware.

Taking advantage of the opportunity, a leak of unofficial iPhone 16 covers presented possible design changes and new buttons. The iPhone 16 Pro is expected to have a 6.3-inch display, while the iPhone 16 Pro Max will have a 6.9-inch display.

According to the images, Apple should replace the mute button with an “Action” button, which will be larger than the button that currently exists on the Pro models. Another highlight is that they are redesigning the back of the phone to better accommodate the new cameras , which include a wide angle and a telephoto, in addition to the flash.

A big new feature is the introduction of a new “Capture” button, which will be on the same side of the phone as the on and off button. This button will be used to take photos and record videos, and although it appears almost flush with the phone in images, it will be mechanical and respond to both pressure and touch.

The POCO F6 is getting closer and closer to its official launch. This week, leaked information revealed that the device must have a Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 chipset, up to 16 GB of RAM and 512 GB of internal storage.

Additionally, the smartphone should support fast charging of up to 120W for the possible 5,000mAh battery.

The body must have a metallic design with a 6.67-inch AMOLED screen and 120 Hz refresh rate, all managed by the system based on Android 14.

The POCO F6 still comes out of the box with a 50 MP main sensor (Sony IMX882, OIS), while the ultrawide sensor is 8 MP and there is a further 5 MP sensor for macro photos.

In China, this model may be launched under the name Redmi Note 13 Turbo, but the POCO F6 should debut in India in the coming months, more precisely in May or June 2024.

The market is getting closer to receiving a series of launches of different notebooks with Windows 11 equipped with Arm chips.

Commenting on the matter, Qualcomm said that the Snapdragon Apple.

The company also stated that notebooks with Snapdragon X Elite will use high-performance emulation to run games programmed for x86 and x64.

Issam Khalil, an engineer at Qualcomm, says that developers will not need to make any changes to their games for them to work on notebooks with Windows and Snapdragon X Elite, which will use x64 emulation. According to him, although there will be a slight impact on CPU usage, there will be no reduction in GPU performance.

The engineer explains that the impact of emulation on the CPU will only happen the first time the code is “translated” from x64 to ARM64. After that, passes will have direct access to the cache, and games will run with performance close to the native experience.

Moving on to an example, a notebook with a Qualcomm chipset was seen running the game Baldur’s Gate 3 in 1080p resolution at 30 FPS, revealing the potential performance of the Adreno GPU integrated into the Snapdragon X Elite.

The Redmi A3 was launched on the Brazilian market this week. The device has a design with a circular camera module on the back and the screen is a 6.7-inch IPS LCD with a rate of 90 Hz and HD+ resolution.

The chipset is the Helio G36, there is an 8 MP main rear camera, a 5 MP front camera and a 5,000 mAh battery with support for fast charging of up to 10W.

The operating system is Android 14. The price here in Brazil starts at R$999 for the variant with 4 GB of RAM and 128 GB of internal storage.

At an event held in São Paulo, Samsung Brasil finally made the new Galaxy M55 and M15 5G official on the national market.

Starting with the M55 5G, it features a 6.7-inch Super AMOLED screen, which has FHD+ resolution and support for a 120 Hz rate. The chipset is the Qualcomm Snapdragon 7 Gen 1 and there is the unprecedented 50 MP front camera.

The rear ones are made up of a 50 MP main sensor, an 8 MP ultrawide sensor and a 2 MP macro sensor. The battery has 5,000 mAh and supports 45W fast charging, and the operating system is Android 14 running under the new One UI 6.1.

Its price starts at R$3,199 for the variant with 8 GB of RAM and 256 GB of internal storage.

On the other hand, the Galaxy M15 5G was announced with a 6.5-inch Super AMOLED screen at 90 Hz, MediaTek Dimensity 6100 Plus chipset, 50 MP main camera and 6,000 mAh battery with 25W charge.

It also has Android 14 with One UI 6.1 and, like the Galaxy M55, it should receive four Android updates and an extra year of security updates.

Its price starts at R$1,499 for the 4 GB + 128 GB variant. Remembering that both smartphones are available on the Samsung website and at various retailers.

(updated on March 28, 2024, at 18:22)