Happy birthday, USA! With the 4th of July celebrations and the World Cup in full swing, attention probably isn’t on shopping for new phones, but we still managed to fish out a few good deals. The Samsung Galaxy A57 is $100 off for both its 128GB and 256GB variants. The 128GB model costs the same as last week, but now the 256GB model is available with the same discount too... Read more ›
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The Google Pixel 9a should arrive in the next few months, and the phone's design has already been revealed by rendered images. Today, we know these CAD-based images are the real deal because real-life photos of the smartphone appeared on social media. The back panel design will follow the 2024 trend of Google Pixels, with only the cameras protruding from an oval island. Google Pixel 9a Google plans to equip... Read more ›
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OnePlus today announced a program to address the green-line issue affecting the AMOLED display models in the company's lineup. This issue has become widely reported among users, particularly those from India, and this three-step plan aims to tackle that. Called the 'OnePlus Green Line Worry-Free Solution', the program will address the green line issue — which the company claims is due to a combination of factors rather than a single... Read more ›
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The Tecno Phantom V Fold2 and Phantom V Flip2, unveiled in September, debuted today in India. The Phantom V Fold2 comes in Karst Green and Rippling Blue colors with 12GB RAM and 512GB storage, while the Phantom V Flip2 comes in Travertine Green and Moondust Grey with 8GB RAM and 256GB storage onboard. The Tecno Phantom V Fold2 and Phantom V Flip2 have a limited-time price of INR79,999 ($945/€890) and... Read more ›
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OpenAI has a new subscription tier called ChatGPT Pro, and at $200 per month before tax, it’s the most expensive subscription in its portfolio. Meriting the tenfold increase in monthly membership compared to GPT Plus ($20), GPT Pro features unlimited access to OpenAI’s flagship o1 (oh-one) model, including exclusive access to the o1 pro mode version, which is the most powerful model from OpenAI to date. As per OpenAI, the... Read more ›
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Pantone announced their Color of the Year 2025, and it is called Mocha Mousse. Motorola, as a partner of the color company, announced two of its phones will get a makeover in the new brown paint job. The devices are the midranger Edge 50 Neo and the foldable Razr 50 Ultra, known in the United States as razr+ 2024. Interestingly enough, the clamshell gets a second Color of the Year... Read more ›
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Google promised three years of OS support and five years of security updates for Pixel 6, Pixel 7 devices and the original Pixel Fold. Today, we learned that the company expanded the OS part to five years, and this includes all these devices: Pixel Fold Pixel 7a Pixel 7 Pro Pixel 7 Pixel 6a Pixel 6 Pro Pixel 6 The Pixel Tablet is not included in that list, and a... Read more ›
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There's been a lot of talk regarding whether or not Samsung will go all in with the Snapdragon 8 Elite for its Galaxy S25 flagships or prefer a Snapdragon/Exynos split. Last month, a reliable tipster said all the Galaxy S25 models will be powered by the Snapdragon 8 Elite, but we now wonder if that's going to be the case since the Samsung Galaxy S25+ has again popped up on... Read more ›
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The Xiaomi Pad 7 launched in China alongside the Pad 7 Pro back in October, and if you've been wondering whether either of them would become available internationally, the answer seems to be a resounding yes - at least for the vanilla model. That's because a Pad 7 has recently run Geekbench 6.3 with an Indian model number, a clear sign that the Pad 7 is headed to India. And... Read more ›
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The "Redmi Note 14 5G series" has had an official launch date for India since November, but so far the brand has only teased the Redmi Note 14 Pro and the Redmi Note 14 Pro+. Today it's also confirmed that the 'vanilla' Redmi Note 14 will in fact join those two at the December 9 launch. Redmi's arm in India has now put up to microsites teasing the launch of... Read more ›
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The OnePlus Watch 2 was announced back in February, followed by the cheaper but almost identical OnePlus Watch 2R during the summer. Now, the company is working on the OnePlus Watch 3, and it's already passed through the FCC. The certification has revealed the fact that the next OnePlus wearable has a huge 648 mAh battery, which is 29.6% larger than the OnePlus Watch 2's 500 mAh cell. That watch... Read more ›
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Xiaomi's 15 Ultra has now been certified in China by 3C, and this is an interesting time for that to happen since the 14 Ultra only passed through 3C in early February ahead of its late February unveiling this year. So with that in mind, it seems entirely plausible that the 15 Ultra would get official, at least for the Chinese market, in the next few weeks. The certification has... Read more ›
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Growing frustrations with Twitter – since then renamed to X – have led users to seek alternative short-form social networks. Meta’s Threads grew at a breakneck speed, but the new network that everyone is talking about is Bluesky. Bluesky just reached 24 million users. You can see the number tick up on Jaz’s Bluesky tracker. There have been over 700 million posts and 3.1 billion likes on the fledgling social... Read more ›
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AI is Google’s new favorite hammer and the next nail on its path is weather forecasting. The company is introducing GenCast, a “high resolution AI ensemble model”, which was detailed in a paper published in Nature. Accurate weather forecasting is important for anything from your day-to-day life to disaster preparedness and even renewable energy. And GenCast beats the current top system, ECMWF’s ENS, in forecasts up to 25 days in... Read more ›
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Samsung phones will soon let you access Google's Gemini in a new way, according to a teardown of the latest Google app for Android. This has revealed some code strings that clearly hint at the possibility to invoke Gemini with a long-press of the power button. So far, you could only use this gesture to invoke Bixby or the power off menu, but it looks like Gemini will get in... Read more ›
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Apple CEO Tim Cook shared the company’s ambitious vision for the future, highlighting Apple’s growing focus on artificial intelligence (AI) alongside its life-saving health innovations in a recent interview. The executive revealed work on AI started back in 2017, when the team working on neural engines, the one that was allegedly developing a smart car, moved the people towards implementation of machine-learning in Apple products. Tim Cook, Apple CEO Cook... Read more ›
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About a year and a half ago, back in June 2023, the UK's Vodafone and Three announced their intention to merge, thus creating the UK's biggest mobile network operator. This merger has today finally been cleared by the UK's Competition and Markets Authority, with some legally binding commitments. For three years, the new operator will have certain mobile tariffs capped and will have to give virtual mobile providers (MVNOs) access... Read more ›
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Realme introduced the 12x in March, and while it didn't launch the 13x, we heard the 14x will arrive this month. There's no word yet from Realme about the 14x, but a leaked image reveals what the smartphone will look like. The picture below shows the Realme 14x in three colors with a rectangular camera island on its back. The smartphone has the power button and volume rocker on its... Read more ›
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Tecno held its Future Lens 2024 event in Chongqing, China where the brand detailed the upcoming camera features for its 2025 flagship phones. The main announcements were Tecno’s imaging matrix (TIM) and two advanced imaging technologies - EVS Dynamic Snapshot and Tap Any Zoom Dual Prism Telephoto. Tecno imaging matrix is the brand’s latest generation image processing tech with four stages. The hardware foundation layer has four image processing units... Read more ›
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Samsung's One UI 7 will arrive much later than anticipated, as the company promises to bring its latest UI in early 2025. But before the final release, the company is launching its beta program today and highlighting some new features. Of course, Samsung begins by highlighting the new AI capabilities, including writing assist tools that help you write and format text more easily. The AI assistant can also summarize text,... Read more ›
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Samsung is building its mobile strategy around AI – it will be the cornerstone of One UI 7 and it is expanding AI features beyond phones with recent One UI Watch updates. There is more to come and we will hear about it soon as AI will be the focus of Samsung’s press conference at CES. CES 2025 will be held in Las Vegas between January 7 and 10. Samsung... Read more ›
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