Introducing Material 3 Expressive Design

Google announced Material 3 Expressive, built upon Material You for Android 16, that is coming later this year, starting on Pixel.

Unlike BBK and Xiaomi which just blatantly copies iOS, Google notes that Material 3 Expressive was born out of research.

Over the past 3 years, through 46 separate research studies with hundreds of designs, and more than 18,000 participants from around the world, we’ve fine tuned a system that’s both beautiful and highly usable.

Background blur in the QS, Notifications panel & Recents adds a sense of depth & preserves context when navigating your device. When dismissing a notification, you’ll feel a “satisfying haptic rumble,” while other alerts next to it will “subtly respond to your drag.”

The updated design language includes new responsive components, “emphasized” typography, and “updated dynamic color themes.” The all-new Live Updates feature helps you easily track progress notifications from select apps.

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WearOS 6 To Feature Material 3 Expressive Design

There’s a heavy emphasis on animations, like “smooth transitions with shape-morphing elements that adapt to the smaller screen size.” When scrolling, animations “trace the curvature of the display,” while “lists animate to give you a sense of depth that makes information more accessible.” There'll be “motion and responsive feedback” in the PIN pad alongside while controlling the media and Wear OS Tiles will get a big update that adds density to fit much more information and multiple actions.

We’re bringing dynamic color-theming to the watch so that the theme you choose for your watch face applies to the entire system

WearOS 6 will deliver up to 10% more battery life!

Google is also bringing Gemini on your wrist in "coming months" & it will have access to apps/Extensions.

Let’s say you’re at the locker room in the gym, and you’ve already put your phone away. You can use Gemini to set reminders, like “Remember I’m using locker 43 today."

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Samsung Galaxy S25 FE spotted on Geekbench with Exynos 2400 chip

Samsung Galaxy S25 FE will debut later this year and will be powered by Exynos 2400 SoC which used in Galaxy S24 series. Apart from Exynos 2400, Samsung also considered Exynos 2400e SoC (used in S24 FE) and latest Exynos 2500 & MediaTek Dimensity 9400 SoC for the S25 FE.

Geekbench 6 Results:
Single-core = 2064
Multi-core = 6900
RAM: 8GB
GPU = Xclipse 940
(vulkan: 1.3.279)

Galaxy Z Flip 7 instead would be powered by Exynos 2500 chip underclocked variant (due to yield issues) which has been manufactured by Samsung Foundry on its 3nm GAA architecture.

Galaxy Z Flip FE will also debut this year and it will also be powered by Exynos 2400 SoC.
Seems like Samsung had lots of stock of Exynos 2400 leftover.

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Nothing Phone 3 certified in India
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Carl Pei says that upcoming Nothing Phone 3 will be "Nothing's true flagship smartphone" and it will be priced around 800 EUR. The Phone 3 has passed the BIS Certification in India, however there is NO mention of the rumoured Plus or Pro model unless Nothing decides to call it Phone 3 Pro. Also, it could launch under 60,000 INR in India.

Codename: metroid
Model Number: A024
Associated Pokemon: Arbok
Expected Processor: Snapdragon 8s Gen 4
Triple rear camera setup including Periscope Telephoto
Battery capacity will be slightly larger than 5000mAh

Phone 3 will launch in July 2025 unless it gets pushed to August due to some reasons. It will launch with NothingOS 3.2 based on Android 15 while Google will release Android 16 in June only.

Apart from Nothing Phone 3, CMF Phone 2 non-pro variant or a new CMF series may also debut later this year which will be powered by some Snapdragon processor.

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BREAKING: Xiaomi's self-developed SoC's Teased

Xiaomi has teased their upcoming self-developed SoC built for smartphones, tablets and watches etc., thus eventually trying to possibly ditch Snapdragon and MediaTek in the future.

Unlike Google which completely ditched Qualcomm Snapdragon SoC, Xiaomi don't really have the balls to that globally due to contracts and thus these chipsets will remain exclusive to China only and so would be the product.

The processor is named as Xiaomi Xuanjie O1, made by TSMC on its 2nd Gen N3E 3nm process and contains 19 billion transistors. It will power flagship Xiaomi 15S Pro smartphone and Xiaomi Pad 7 Ultra tablet that will debut on 22nd May in China.

CPU:
2x Cortex-X925 @ 3.9GHz
4x Cortex-A725 or X4 @ 3.4GHz
2x Cortex-A720/A725 @ 1.89GHz
2x Cortex-A520 @ 1.8GHz
Thus, a 10-core SoC with 2+4+2+2 config

Geekbench 6 scores:
Single-core: 3119
Multi-core: 9673

GPU: Mali G-925 Immortalis with 16CU
Clocked at 1795MHz or 1.795GHz
OpenCL Score: 22141

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