Morning Brief: Apple launches its first touchscreen MacBook Pro, Huawei unveils the Pura 90 Plus and other new products

Thursday 29 Pi Morning Brief: Apple launches touchscreen MacBook Pro, Huawei releases multiple new products, and more Yesterday 08:26 9-minute read Morning Brief at a Glance

Apple releases its first touchscreen MacBook Pro52

Huawei releases Pura 90 Plus and Enjoy 100 series3

iQOO Neo12 and iQOO Pad Pro 8.8-inch released2

Samsung clip-on earbuds Galaxy Buds On released0

Microsoft launches MAI-Image-2.7-Preview0

Sony launches smartphone main camera image sensor LYTIA 7200

Apple releases its first touchscreen MacBook Pro

On October 29, Apple released 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pro models equipped with PROLED XDR displays, marking the first time a Mac supports screen touch, with chips continuing to use the M5 Pro and M5 Max. The new machines start at $2,899, with a starting price of 22,999 yuan in mainland China, and go on sale on November 6.

The new MacBook Pro uses a tandem OLED panel, with both SDR and HDR peak brightness at 2,000 nits, full-screen sustained brightness at 1,000 nits, a contrast ratio of 10,000,000:1, a ProMotion refresh rate range of 10 Hz to 120 Hz, and support for both P3 and Adobe RGB color gamuts. The nano-texture option is now directly etched into the cover glass. The touch sensor is integrated into the display panel, macOS converts touch operations into clicks, and the camera area at the top of the screen is changed to a Dynamic Island, used to display Spotlight, Live Activities, and Siri AI.

The 14-inch model has a 14.2-inch screen with a 3024×1986 resolution, is 1.50 cm thick, and weighs from 1.38 kg; the 16-inch model has a 16.3-inch screen with a 3472×2266 resolution, is 1.60 cm thick, and weighs from 1.82 kg. The two models are 0.5 pounds and 0.7 pounds lighter than the previous generation, respectively, with battery life of up to 24 hours.

Other configurations include up to 128 GB of unified memory, up to 16 TB of storage, three Thunderbolt 5 ports, HDMI, an SDXC card slot, MagSafe and a headphone jack, as well as Wi-Fi 7 and Bluetooth 6. Source

Product appearance image, image from the news source. This is prepared for a portion of high-net-worth customers who like to poke at the screen. It won't have a large market share, but perhaps the price can be very high. New officials take office, after all. With a change of CEO, it indeed reflects a completely different market strategy. Of course, Cook certainly also knows about touchscreen laptops, because they must have been in development long ago. Blind guess: after launch, there will be apps in the community that can lock the MBP's touch function 😂 Apart from touch, everything else is an epic upgrade. Without touch, the price, weight, and screen quality could certainly be even better. I don't understand why touch must be added. Moreover, nano glass will certainly be harder to wipe after being poked by fingers, and ordinary glass will also get scratches after being wiped too much 😅 🫠🤦🤯[Image]View all discussions 521211

Huawei releases Pura 90 Plus and Enjoy 100 series

On October 28, Huawei released the Pura 90 Plus phone, debuting the Kirin 9025 chip, equipped with a 6.8-inch quad-curved screen with equal depth, and preinstalled with HarmonyOS 7. The imaging system includes a 50-megapixel one-inch main camera supporting F1.6 to F4.0 physical variable aperture, plus a 40-megapixel ultra-wide angle, a 48-megapixel macro telephoto, and a red maple original-color camera; it has a built-in 5700mAh battery and supports 100W wired and 80W wireless fast charging. The 12GB＋256GB, 512GB, and 1TB versions are priced at 5,499 yuan, 5,999 yuan, and 6,999 yuan respectively, with a limited-time Double 11 promotional price starting at 5,199 yuan, going on sale at 10:08 on October 31.

Product appearance image, image from Huawei

The Enjoy 100 Pro Max released at the same time focuses on long battery life, equipped with an 8800mAh battery and a 6.84-inch screen, supporting two-way BeiDou satellite messages, Wi-Fi 7, as well as AI face-swap detection, AI call anti-fraud, and family anti-fraud. The phone is equipped with 8GB of running memory; the 128GB and 256GB versions carry the Kirin 8020A and are priced at 1,999 yuan and 2,399 yuan respectively; the 512GB version carries the Kirin 8020 and is priced at 2,899 yuan.

The Enjoy 100 Pro carries the Kirin 8020A, uses a 6.7-inch 1080P OLED screen covered with Kunlun Glass, and the body weighs 192g. The phone is equipped with a 50-megapixel RYYB main camera and a 32-megapixel front camera, has a built-in 6100mAh battery, and supports 40W fast charging and AI two-way call noise reduction. The 6GB＋128GB, 256GB, and 512GB versions are priced at 1,799 yuan, 2,199 yuan, and 2,699 yuan respectively, going on sale on October 31.

The Enjoy 100 standard version carries the Kirin 8000S, is equipped with a 6.56-inch 720P LCD waterdrop screen, supports a 90Hz refresh rate, and has a built-in 6100mAh battery and 40W fast charging. The phone has an 8-megapixel front camera and a 13-megapixel rear camera, comes preinstalled with HarmonyOS 7, supports Wi-Fi 7 and NearLink, and is available in three colors: Glacier White, Danxia Orange, and Phantom Night Black. The 6GB＋128GB and 6GB＋256GB versions are priced at 1,399 yuan and 1,699 yuan respectively, going on sale at 10:08 on October 31. Source

Enjoy 100 Pro Max core specifications image, image from Huawei

At the same time, at the Huawei launch event, a new "trendy color-block" colorway version was also launched for the HUAWEI FreeClip 2 clip-on earbuds, priced at 1,299 yuan, with a limited-time discount of 50 yuan bringing the final price to 1,249 yuan. This version opened pre-sales on October 22 and went on sale from 10:08 on October 28 at Huawei Mall, authorized e-commerce platforms, and offline stores. The new version of the earbuds offers three color-block combinations: red-yellow, blue-yellow, and red-blue, paired with a goose-yellow charging case, and comes with three-color accessory rings that users can freely swap and match, with the left and right earbuds also able to clash colors individually. Apart from appearance, the rest of the configuration is the same as the standard version: the earbuds are equipped with a self-developed chip with an NPU AI processor, support the HarmonyOS AI ear assistant, adaptive left and right channels, high-definition spatial audio, IP57 dust and water resistance, and NearLink precise finding; a single earbud weighs 5.1 grams, offers 9 hours of battery life on a single charge, and with the charging case the whole unit lasts 38 hours.

Product appearance image, image from the Huawei website

In addition, Huawei also released new products including the Huawei Router X2 series and Huawei power banks. Among the several new phones, apart from the 100PM, they are all quite laughable. The power bank and earbuds are not bad, though. Huawei's biggest problem is also its lack of taste2102

iQOO Neo12 and iQOO Pad Pro 8.8-inch released

On the evening of October 28, the iQOO brand held a new product launch event, unveiling the performance phone iQOO Neo12, the small-sized gaming tablet iQOO Pad Pro 8.8-inch, and the iQOO built-in-cable digital display power bank 20000. Both main new products are equipped with the fifth-generation Snapdragon 8 Elite Edition and iQOO's self-developed esports chip Q3, and have built-in active cooling fans, going on sale on the night of the launch.

iQOO Neo12 is equipped with a 6.83-inch 2K 185 Hz screen, using the "Sky Mirror" luminescent material jointly developed with Tsinghua University and Visionox; the company says luminous efficiency is 18% higher than the previous generation, with full-screen peak brightness at 2,200 nits. For cooling, the new phone has a built-in 17×17×4 mm cooling fan and an 8200-square-millimeter VC vapor chamber; according to iQOO's measured data, after running heavy-load programs for 1 hour, the maximum body temperature can be reduced by 7.2 degrees Celsius with the fan on. The Q3 chip provides 2K super-resolution, 185 FPS frame interpolation, and full-scenario ray tracing; the company says more than 50 games have been adapted to the native 185 FPS tier. Other configurations include a 50-megapixel Sony IMX921 main camera, a 9000 mAh battery, 100 W wired fast charging, and OriginOS 7, and it is available in three colors: "Zhengfeng," "Jiying Black," and "Shuangren Blue."

Neo12 comes in five versions: 12 GB+256 GB, 16 GB+256 GB, 12 GB+512 GB, 16 GB+512 GB, and 16 GB+1 TB, with retail prices of 4,399 yuan, 4,799 yuan, 5,099 yuan, 5,499 yuan, and 6,499 yuan respectively. The first-sale period lasts until November 3; after stacking first-sale discounts, platform limited-time subsidies, and national subsidies, the final prices are 3,149 yuan, 3,549 yuan, 3,849 yuan, 4,249 yuan, and 5,149 yuan respectively.

Product appearance image, image from iQOO

iQOO Pad Pro 8.8-inch uses an 8.8-inch 165 Hz OLED screen, is equipped with a 30×30×3.5 mm active cooling fan and dual VC vapor chambers, has a battery capacity of 9020 mAh, supports 66 W fast charging, and the body is 5.74 mm thick and weighs 298 grams. The tablet comes in five versions, with retail prices from 4,299 yuan to 5,799 yuan, and national-subsidy final prices from 3,249 yuan to 4,749 yuan.

iQOO Pad Pro 8.8-inch version appearance image, image from iQOO

Also announced at the same event, the iQOO self-contained-cable digital-display power bank 20000 has a built-in all-in-one fast-charging cable and a digital display, and supports charging three devices simultaneously as well as fast charging for laptops. The 66 W version is priced at 259 yuan, with a 30 yuan discount for the first sale; the 33 W version is priced at 199 yuan, with a 10 yuan discount for the first sale. Source Details missing 8EE6🤣 Details missing 8EE6😂1

Samsung clip-on earbuds Galaxy Buds On released

On October 27, Samsung announced the launch of its first clip-on wireless earbuds, the Galaxy Buds On, which are now available in South Korea in black only, priced at 299,000 Korean won.

In terms of appearance, unlike the existing in-ear Galaxy Buds, this product is worn by wrapping a flexible ear hook around the auricle without blocking the ear canal, allowing users to still perceive their surroundings while listening to music or making calls, making it more suitable for commuting, cycling, and sports scenarios. In terms of wearing experience, the product uses a shape-memory alloy flexible ear hook, and Samsung says it has optimized the speaker and battery positions according to different ear shapes to improve stability and wearing comfort. The earbuds have no dedicated left or right earbud, and users can put either earbud into either ear; the earbuds automatically detect which side they are on and adjust the audio channel accordingly.

In terms of sound quality, the Galaxy Buds On are equipped with TwinBoost dual speakers to enhance low-frequency performance, and support automatic volume adjustment according to the environment; they also provide audio leakage reduction technology to reduce sound leakage in shared spaces such as offices and subways. They use the Qualcomm Snapdragon S7 Gen 1 audio platform, and the official claim is up to 9.5 hours of continuous music playback on a full charge. For calls, their intelligent clear call technology combines three microphones, a bone-conduction voice pickup sensor, and machine learning to separate voices and suppress ambient noise such as wind noise.

In addition, after the earbuds are connected to a phone or tablet that supports Galaxy AI, users can invoke the Google AI assistant via "Hey Google, let's talk Live" and use voice to control music playback and volume; the earbuds also support pressing and holding the touch area to record voice memos, answering or rejecting calls by nodding or shaking the head, dismissing alarms, and handling notifications. Source

Product appearance image, image from Samsung

Microsoft launches MAI-Image-2.7-Preview

On October 27, Microsoft issued an announcement announcing the launch of the MAI-Image-2.7-Preview model. At this stage, the model focuses on "input original image + text instruction → output edited image" and has not yet opened text-to-image functionality; it is a controllable editing model for existing photos, design drafts, screenshots, or film and television materials.

Compared with the previous generation MAI-Image-2.6, MAI-Image-2.7 improves in all ten use cases and seven types of editing actions in the Artificial Analysis evaluation, and reaches the category frontier in four categories: enhanced restoration, reasoning editing, scene style, and text symbols. Among them, scene and style editing lead by the largest margin, 24 Elo higher than the second-best model; on Artificial Analysis's AA-Image-Editing v2.1 leaderboard, it ranks second with 1,193 Elo, behind only OpenAI's GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst (max).

Users can currently experience its image editing features on Arena, Artificial Analysis, and MAI Playground; as for the text-to-image feature, it is "coming soon," but no date has been announced. Source

Sony launches smartphone main-camera image sensor LYTIA 720

Sony Semiconductor Solutions announced on October 28 that it will launch the LYTIA 720 image sensor for smartphone main cameras. The product has an image size of 1/1.56" and approximately 50MP effective pixels, adopts a stacked structure, and is expected to enter mass production and ship in early November.

LYTIA 720 is the first product in the LYTIA series with a 1/1.56" image size and 1μm pixel pitch to support all-pixel autofocus 4K 60fps HDR video recording. It achieves this effect through an AD conversion circuit while reducing sensor power consumption. At the same time, LYTIA 720 is equipped with UHCG circuit technology that efficiently converts charge into voltage, halving the random noise generated in low-light environments compared with the previous product of the same specification, LYTIA 700.

In addition, it supports Hybrid Frame-HDR technology, which can use the downstream application processor to combine DCG-HDR image data covering the low-to-mid brightness range obtained from a single exposure with image data of high-brightness areas obtained from a short exposure; combined with UHCG, it achieves a dynamic range of 100dB. Source

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