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OnePlus 5T specs: 18:9 display and still no water resistance

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This year’s   OnePlus 5   was a great option for anyone looking to spend around $500 on a new smartphone, but there was some room for improvement. That’s why   OnePlus   is launching a brand new flagship, the   OnePlus 5T . We’ve got the official OnePlus 5T specs, and there are some notable improvements to discuss. The most notable difference between the OnePlus 5T and the 5 are the displays. The 5T comes with a 6.01-inch AMOLED display with an 18:9 aspect ratio, while the OnePlus 5 had a 5.5-inch AMOLED display with a more traditional 16:9 aspect ratio. Aside from that, both devices are basically the same under the hood. The 5T is powered by the Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 Mobile Platform, and comes with 6 or 8 GB of LPDDR4X RAM (an upgrade from the 5’s LPDDR4 RAM), 64 or 128 GB of storage, and a 3,300 mAh battery. It also comes with a 16 and 20 MP dual rear camera setup, a front-facing 16 MP shooter, and, yes, a 3.5 mm headphone jack. Also, with the shift to an 18:9 aspect rati

5G battle heats up as Intel lays out plans

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The development of 5G is presenting business opportunities not only for those building next-generation network technologies, such as   Huawei and ZTE , but also for those designing components for future consumer and business products. Processor and modem packages for 5G products are just as important, and the big names in silicon design, including Qualcomm and Intel, are already laying out their plans. Intel’s plan is to cater to its customers with 5G solutions from the cloud to the edge. Leveraging its experience in servers and its Xeon line-up of processors for cloud computing and big data, down to modem technologies for consumer products at the edge. Speaking of servers, Qualcomm appears to be taking a similar approach to providing a comprehensive range of solutions, having recently launched its  Centriq 2400 server processor . Although we in the mobile space may not come across Intel very often these days, the company has been hard at work testing and trialing 5G technolog