Week 3 in review: Snapdragon 870, Honor V40 and vivo X60 Pro+ official

Hello, hello, let's recap yet another week. Starting with a couple of chipset stories. Qualcomm and MediaTek both announced new products this week.

The 7nm Qualcomm Snapdragon 870 brought the fastest CPU core in the world with the 3.2GHz-capable Kryo 585. The Snapdragon 870 is built on the Snapdragon 865+ foundation and Motorola already confirmed its Edge S will premiere with the new chip on January 26.

MediaTek dropped the Dimensity 1100 and 1200 chipsets. Both are built on a 6nm process and both feature the new Cortex-A78 core. So far no phone has declared for the new chipsets and we expect the first ones to come out by the end of March.

We had a few phone announcements too this week. Honor unveiled its first phone since splitting up with Huawei. The Honor V40 for the Chinese market has a 50MP main camera, Dimensity 1000+ chipset, 8GB of RAM and a 6.72-inch AMOLED. The V40's global variant, the Honor V40 View, is expected to support Google Mobile Services when it launches.

vivo introduced its best phone yet, albeit it's limited to the Chinese market initially. The X60 Pro+ is decidedly great with a Snapdragon 888 chipset, new 50MP ISOCELL GN1 1/1.3" sensor, 8MP 5x periscope, 32MP 2x telephoto and a 48MP ultrawide with second-generation gimbal stabilization.

The next Asus ROG Phone (tentatively named ROG Phone 5) featured in a hands-on video. The phone is styled very much like the previous two but for the addition of a tiny display on the rear that will reportedly show messages and notifications.

Okay, those were the top stories of the week. See you next one!