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Winters are in full swing, Christmas celebrations have wrapped up around the globe, and the world has stepped into 2026 with new hopes, aspirations, and resolutions. And as the festive season gives way to a brand-new year, it also brings along one familiar tradition. Yes, it’s that time again when us Editors at GSMArena.com talk about our favorite smartphones of the year gone by. And mind you, these may not necessarily be the best smartphones we used during the year, but the ones we enjoyed using the most..
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While using a smart lock has a lot of positives, one of the negatives is having to deal with a battery that has unexpectedly gone dead. Lockin is introducing a smart lock that bypasses that problem: the V7 Max, which is powered by wireless optical charging. According to the company, the lock uses "eye-safe optical […] Read more ›
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If you're a Windows 11 hater, sit back and enjoy your biases being validated in the most satisfying way possible. A new speed test shows Microsoft's latest OS performing terribly against the five previous Windows versions, placing last in most tests across the board. Read more ›
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Patria, Finland's biggest defense contractor, is scaling up production as it deals with an order backlog of over 1,000 vehicles from NATO allies. Read more ›
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America's electric car subsidies expired at the end of September, notes Bloomberg. Yet in those last three months, "while fully electric cars and trucks made up 10% of all auto sales in the US... another 15% of transactions were for hybrid vehicles." The EV market is slowing in the U.S., but analysts expect hybrid sales to continue accelerating. CarGurus Inc., a digital listings platform that covers most of the US... Read more ›
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The administration has made it clear that Nicolás Maduro's capture was tied to Venezuela's vast oil reserves. Much less certain is how US companies will actually access them—or if they even want to. Read more ›
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Narwal brought new cleaning robots with it to CES this year, including the Narwal Flow 2, it’s latest flagship robo mop-vac, and the Narwal U50, an automatic mattress vac designed for “deep mite removal.” While I’d hoped the latter vac was an automatic crawler that could navigate your mattress top, the U50 is a handheld device. Still, no one likes to think about what filters down into their mattress as... Read more ›
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Donald Trump and Elon Musk have a complicated relationship. They've had some very public spats, but the two powerful men remain political allies. Read more ›
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20 years ago today, the CES in Las Vegas was buzzing with talk of Blu-ray technology, players, and media, and the format isn't dead yet. Read more ›
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The ROG Xbox Ally X is the newest handheld gaming device from Asus, and the third of its kind from the company in as many years. The Xbox Ally X, along with the cheaper Xbox Ally, is made in collaboration with Microsoft's Xbox division, and features a unique design that mirrors Xbox controllers, as well as ships with a lightly modified version of Windows 11. The Xbox Ally X that... Read more ›
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Yukai Engineering, maker of the weirdly cute Mirumi robot, has another interesting gadget at CES 2026. Baby FuFu is a portable fan for babies that attaches to strollers.Baby FuFu is modeled on the company's smaller (but otherwise identical-looking) drink-cooling gadget, Nekojita FuFu. "Baby FuFu grew out of Nekojita FuFu fans' feedback that their children love not only cooling their food with it but also playing with it, pretending to fan... Read more ›
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QLED TVs are great for budget and mid-range shoppers, but it's worth considering how long one will last before you shell out the money for it. Read more ›
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Trump says the US will look to tap Venezuela's oil. Venezuela has the most oil reserves, but only accounts for 1% of global production. Read more ›
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A former McKinsey consultant shares what he had to unlearn from consulting to succeed in startup life. Read more ›
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The US military has experience guarding oil infrastructure, but deploying troops to Venezuela comes with high risks in a dangerous environment. Read more ›
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The US's highly elite but secretive Delta Force captures and eliminates high-value targets. They reportedly helped capture Venezuela's Maduro. Read more ›
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Belkin has announced a plug-and-play casting system at CES 2026 that allows for screen sharing from a laptop, tablet or smartphone to another display without Wi-Fi or Bluetooth. The $150 ConnectAir Wireless HDMI Display Adapter comes with a USB-C transmitter dongle and a USB-A to HDMI receiver that can be connected to a TV, monitor or projector to wirelessly cast over a range of up to 131 feet (40 meters).... Read more ›
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Nicolás Maduro is reportedly in NYC's Metropolitan Detention Center, known for high-profile inmates like Luigi Mangioni and Sean "Diddy" Combs. Read more ›
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Here it is — Betty Boop's first appearance, which became public domain on Thursday. It's a 60-second song halfway through a longer cartoon about a restaurant titled Dizzy Dishes. (The first scene makes it clear this is a restaurant of anthropomorphized animals — which explains why the as-yet-unnamed character has floppy dog ears...) So Fleischer Studios has now warned that claiming Betty Boop is public domain"is actually not true." Very... Read more ›
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In recent months, freelance writer Chanté Joseph noticed a surprising trend on her social media feeds: Women had stopped posting pictures of their boyfriends. For a long time, boyfriend pics were good social media fodder. Whether on vacation or chilling at home, these images sent a message of heterosexual bliss, of contented couplehood. A world, […] Read more ›
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The iQOO Z11 Turbo's teaser campaign continues in China, where the brand has now showcased its rear design in all four colors in which it will be sold. As you can see, it will be offered in pink, black, white, and blue. iQOO Z11 Turbo colors The phone has a metal frame, a glass back, a 6.59-inch flat LTPS OLED screen with "1.5K" resolution and 144Hz refresh rate, a 200MP... Read more ›
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Back in September we heard that Honor was going to outfit the upcoming Magic V6 foldable smartphone with a 200MP main camera, as part of a more general push for all of its future high-end devices. Today a new rumor from Weibo confirms this, reiterating that the Magic V6 will indeed have a 200MP camera. In addition, today's source claims that all upcoming Chinese foldable devices will have at least... Read more ›
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2025 was a good year for vivo as it continued to innovate and upgrade on its solid lineup of devices. But the maker also faced challenges, like delivering its many great phones to markets outside of China and India. A great showing overall, but not without some losses. Winner and loser: vivo X200 Ultra Just like last year's X100 Ultra, the vivo X200 Ultra is one of the best phones... Read more ›
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The iQOO 15 was introduced in China in October and then started appearing in other countries a month later. vivo's sub-brand is now working on the iQOO 15 Ultra, according to a new rumor from Digital Chat Station on Weibo. This device was rumored in October as well, and today we get more purported details about it. The iQOO 15 Ultra will become official before February 17. It will be... Read more ›
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Poco is making the M8 official on January 8 (how fitting!), and ahead of that it's now officially revealed more of the phone's specs. It has a 6.77-inch 3D curved OLED screen with 1080x2392 resolution, 120Hz refresh rate, and 3,200-nit peak brightness, and the brand even claims this is the segment's "most durable 3D curved display phone". The M8 is MIL-STD-810H certified to withstand extreme heat, dust, shocks, and "the... Read more ›
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OnePlus will make the Turbo 6 and Turbo 6V official on January 8, as the first two members of its new Turbo range of devices (we don't know why it went straight to 6 either). Ahead of that, the company has revealed their designs and key specs earlier today, and now we also have two teaser videos for you to look at. The first one is about the Turbo 6... Read more ›
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The OnePlus 15 just launched in late October, but we're already hearing the second rumor about its successor in the past few days. First, the OnePlus 16 was said to be getting a 200MP camera sensor, and now there's some interesting news about its screen too. OnePlus has allegedly started testing a display with a refresh rate of at least 200Hz for its next flagship smartphone. It's unclear exactly what... Read more ›
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OnePlus is launching the Turbo 6 on January 8, and ahead of that it's already revealed the phone's design, its 9,000 mAh battery capacity, and its slim 1.7mm camera island. OnePlus Turbo 6 in "Chasing Light Silver" Now, the brand has given us some live images of the phone to look at. They showcase it in two colorways: one that machine translates from Chinese as Chasing Light Silver (above), the... Read more ›
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It was an interesting year for tablets as we saw hundreds of new slates hit the shelves. From compact offerings with flagship specs to established Ultra options from the likes of Samsung and a great selection of budget options, 2025 did not disappoint. And while Apple dominated the tablet sphere in terms of shipments for yet another year, we also got some great offerings on the Android side. It’s generally... Read more ›
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The Pebble 2 Duo and Time 2 went up for pre-order in March, and today they are joined by the Pebble Round 2. This comes from Core Devices, the new company of Pebble founder Eric Migicovsky. The new watches are made possible by Google open sourcing the Pebble OS, which Core Devices is using. The Pebble Round 2 comes with a 1.3" 260x260 64-color e-paper touchscreen, a stainless steel frame,... Read more ›
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