Top stories of 2022: Q4

Welcome to our recap of the top news articles of 2022. We will now be looking back on the most popular stories from the fourth quarter of the year, having already covered the first nine months.

We're now at Q4 of 2022 and the final major announcements of the year. By this time, the rumors of the Galaxy S23 series are pretty much a weekly occurrence and their credibility is getting higher and higher. We now know that Samsung will announce the Galaxy S23, S23+, and Galaxy S23 Ultra in early February, and most of their specs. The trio will be the first to not feature an Exynos chipset at all - only Snapdragon 8 Gen 2's.

Speaking of the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2, it was announced in Q4, and the first phones with it premiered shortly after - the iQOO 11 and 11 Pro (we even got to review the 11).

The Oppo Find N2 made it just in time for 2022 (we got to review it too). It made improvements to the displays - the cover got bumped up to 120Hz, while both got slightly wider. The foldable's body shed some of the weight, thanks to a new hinge. The only downside of the Find N2 is that it used the Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1 instead of the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2.

In this quarter Google announced the Pixel 7 and Pixel 7 Pro along with the new Pixel Watch. The new phones use the Tensor G2 chipset, and the cameras got updated - the Pixel 7 Pro got a new autofocusing ultrawide, and a new sensor behind the zoom camera, while the Pixel 7 got slightly smaller than the 6.

Finally, we closed the year with the Xiaomi 13 series announcement. The focal point of the China-only (for now) series is the Xiaomi 13 Pro, which has a 1-inch type main camera sensor, and a Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 chipset. But outside of the main camera, the Xiaomi 13 Pro also got a 50MP 3x camera with a wide f/2.0 aperture, which might shake things up in the world of smartphone zoom cameras.

Well, that's it for the major stories of 2022. Be sure to check in with us in 2023! Thanks for reading!