Saturday, 26 July 2025

Samsung is reportedly shifting its One UI update strategy, to give priority to the foldables

After Samsung didn't handle the One UI 7 update very well, everyone thought the surprising One UI 8 release, based on the still-unreleased Android 16 with the Galaxy Z Fold7 and Z Flip7, was just some sort of redemption. However, it seems that it's actually the start of a new update strategy. According to the renowned tipster Ice Universe, Samsung will continue prioritizing its Galaxy Z Fold and Z Flip phones when it comes to software updates. So from now on, the Galaxy foldables will launch with the latest Android version out of the box, while the Galaxy S series will receive an...



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WhatsApp might soon let you import profile photos from Facebook and Instagram

Right now, if you want to upload a new profile photo on WhatsApp, you can click a new picture with your phone's camera, select one from your phone's gallery, or use the "AI images" feature. Last month, we heard that WhatsApp was working on letting users display a customized avatar alongside their profile photo, and now we learn that the Meta-owned company might soon let you import profile photos from your Facebook and Instagram accounts. This revelation comes from the folks at WABetaInfo, who shared a screenshot (included below) showing two new options in WhatsApp for Android's Profile...



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Infinix Smart 10 launched in India

The Infinix Smart 10, unveiled last month, has landed in India. It comes in a single 4GB/64GB configuration, priced at INR6,799, and has four color options - Iris Blue, Twilight Gold, Titanium Silver, and Sleek Black. The Smart 10 will go on sale in India starting August 2 through Flipkart and retail stores. The Infinix Smart 10 is powered by the Unisoc T7250 SoC and runs Android 15-based XOS 15.1 out of the box. It's built around a 6.67" 120Hz HD+ LCD and packs a 5,000 mAh battery that charges through a USB-C at up to 15W. The smartphone also supports reverse wired...



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Friday, 25 July 2025

Oppo A6 series to bring some surprises

Oppo's A5 family launched in China in December and March with the A5 and A5 Pro, and the company is already rumored to be working on the upcoming A6 series, which will allegedly bring about some interesting changes. While it's unclear how many devices it will comprise, there will be two new, or at least differently named models: the A6 GT and A6 Max. These are both said to target the CNY 1,000 or thereabouts market - that's approximately $139 or €119 at the current exchange rates. Oppo A5 Pro for China Despite the low price, we should apparently expect to see them sporting large...



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Samsung wants to expand its phones' AI chops beyond Google's Gemini

Samsung's big AI push came with the launch of the Galaxy S24 series last year, and its Galaxy AI suite has expanded in features ever since, powered by Google's Gemini - for now, at least. Today, Choi Won-Joon, president and chief operating officer of Samsung's mobile division, has told Reuters that the company is very open to alternatives. But, of course, only those that can provide its users with the best experiences. Samsung is already in talks with both OpenAI and Perplexity to integrate their respective AI services into upcoming smartphones, most likely starting with the Galaxy S26...



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Oppo Reno14 FS leaks ahead of launch with specs, images, and pricing

Oppo initially launched the Reno14 and Reno14 Pro in May, then in June they became available outside of China and a new member joined the family: the Reno14 F. Now Oppo is apparently getting ready to expand the lineup even more, with the Reno14 FS which got leaked today. This model is slated to be an upgraded version of the Reno14 F, with more storage and memory. It's said to come with the Snapdragon 6 Gen 4 SoC at the helm, paired with 12GB of RAM and 512GB of storage. On the back there's a triple camera system, with a 50 MP main camera using Sony's IMX882 sensor, an 8 MP...



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Thursday, 24 July 2025

Realme GT 8 and GT 8 Pro to launch together, here's when

Realme launched the GT 7 Pro in China back in November of last year, and the non-Pro GT7 only in April. This strategy is set to change for their successors, however, if a new rumor from China pans out. According to Digital Chat Station on Weibo, both the GT 8 and the GT 8 Pro will launch together in October. The Pro model is rumored to be powered by the upcoming Snapdragon 8 Elite 2 chipset, which itself is launching in September. The Realme GT 8 Pro is also said to have competitive specs for its screen and battery, and a periscope telephoto camera. A previous leak said the handset...



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Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra's battery to be bigger and charge faster

Samsung's Galaxy S26 Ultra is coming next year (most likely in January) and rumors are already swirling about it. Given how most of its Chinese competitors have recently upped the game significantly when it comes to battery capacity, you may have been wondering what to expect from the S26 Ultra. If a tipster on X is correct, then Samsung's next flagship device is going to have a bigger battery than its predecessor's. But not by much. The S26 Ultra is said to employ a 5,500 mAh cell, vs. the S25 Ultra's 5,000 mAh. Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra That's still a 10% increase, but battery...



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Upcoming Pixel Watch 4 to feature an updated charging dock

The upcoming Pixel Watch 4 will feature a new charger design for the series, according to the sources at Android Headlines. According to the latest report, the Pixel Watch 4 will need to be placed sideways into its charging dock. As we have seen from previous leaks, the new watch has a speaker and a docking mechanism on the side opposite to the crown. We can now assume that the new charger attaches into the two slots next to the speaker to charge the watch. The previous Pixel Watch models featured the charging connectors on the back of the watch. However, the leaked image for...



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Huawei M-Pencil Pro gets official at the MatePad Pro 12.2 (2025)'s Chinese launch

Today, Huawei brought its MatePad Pro 12.2 (2025) to the Chinese market, and unveiled the new M-Pencil Pro stylus alongside it. This is the company's most advanced stylus to date. It comes with support for 16,384 pressure levels, a minimalistic design, and a smart key that you can use to access Huawei's Celia assistant, which can help you launch apps, manage your schedule, or give any other commands with just one click. If you double-tap the button near any input field, voice-to-text transcription will instantly be triggered for quick and easy text entry. The M-Pencil Pro's rotating...



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Wednesday, 23 July 2025

Galaxy S25 Edge teardown video compares it to the S25 Plus bit by bit

One could make an argument that the Samsung Galaxy S25 Edge is a slimmed-down version of the Galaxy S25+, sans the telephoto camera. After all, the two devices share the same displays and roughly the same dimensions, with the S25 Edge being considerably thinner, of course. So it's easy to assume that the Galaxy S25 Edge is almost identical to the S25+ with some minor improvements to the chassis that bring down the overall weight. However, a recent side-by-side teardown video reveals much more. It turns out that Samsung was able to shave off a few grams from every component, not just...



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Qi2 25W is official, promises hundreds of devices will support it

The Qi v2.2.1 standard now has a fancy marketing name: Qi2 25W. And as that name implies, this is a wireless charging spec that goes up to 25W. It was officially unveiled today by the Wireless Power Consortium (WPC). The WPC promises that "major Android smartphones" (whatever that means) are about to "join the Qi2 ecosystem for the first time with this launch", obviously in addition to Apple's iPhones. Fourteen devices, receivers and transmitters, completed Qi2 25W certification testing last week, and full-scale certification testing is now open to "several hundred devices waiting in...



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Samsung Galaxy Z Flip7 review



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Samsung Galaxy S26 Edge to fix its predecessor's main issue while being even thinner

Samsung launched the Galaxy S25 Edge in May, and there have been many rumors since claiming that next year, the Galaxy S26 Edge will replace the Plus model in Samsung's lineup, arriving alongside the S26 and S26 Ultra in January. Today, a new rumor from prolific Chinese leaker Ice Universe tells us to expect some interesting changes from the next Edge. Namely, it's said to be even thinner than its 5.8mm predecessor, while also packing a larger battery. The bigger cell will be made possible by the use of "new battery material technology", which may instantly make you think Si/C, and...



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Tuesday, 22 July 2025

Nothing is rumored to be working on a new type of smartphone

Nothing has recently launched the Phone (3), billed as its first proper flagship device, but the company is now rumored to be exploring new avenues. Namely, it's said to be adding 'Lite' or 'T' branded models to its lineup, as "Pro models are just not cutting it", according to an Indian leaker over on X. We're not sure which Pro models those are - the only recent Nothing handset with that branding is the Phone (3a) Pro, a mid-ranger that's better-specced than the non-Pro Phone (3a). Looks like Nothing could be adding 'Lite' or 'T' branded phones to their lineup..Pro models are just not...



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Google Pixel 10 Pro and Pixel 10 Pro XL now shown in all colors too

Yesterday some leaked renders showed us the upcoming Google Pixel 10 in all of its upcoming colorways, and today the Pixel 10 Pro and Pixel 10 Pro XL have received the exact same treatment. Let's start with the smaller one. The Pixel 10 Pro will allegedly be offered in Obsidian, Porcelain, Moonstone, and Jade. As usual with Google color names, Obsidian stands for black/dark gray, and Porcelain is white. Moonstone is a slate blue-gray as you can see, while Jade is a soft pistachio green with gold accents. Google Pixel 10 Pro leaked renders The Pixel 10 Pro XL comes in...



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OnePlus 15 and OnePlus Ace 6 now rumored to launch together, here's when

According to a new rumor from China, the OnePlus 15 will launch in the country in October, but not alone. It will allegedly be unveiled alongside the Ace 6 (and possibly the Ace 6 Pro as well), which is an interesting change in strategy for the brand, which last year unveiled the OnePlus 13 in October and the Ace 5 in December. But wait, there's more. For quite some time now, the OnePlus 15 has been rumored to downgrade to a "1.5K" screen resolution, and lose the Hasselblad camera collaboration. It should compensate for that with the best battery life ever on a OnePlus flagship. And it...



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Monday, 21 July 2025

Apple iPad 11-inch A16 (2025) review



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Moto 360 (2025) smartwatch leaks in official-looking renders

Motorola is apparently working on a new smartwatch - meet the Moto 360 (2025). This has today been leaked in the renders you can see below, which show a stainless steel bracelet instead of the rubber strap we're used to seeing smartwatches in. That makes for a nice change of pace, but what's still a mystery here is whether this will run Wear OS or some proprietary OS. The source of this leak "expects" it to be the former, but that doesn't sound like a very convincing argument at this point. Moto 360 (2025) leaked renders The first Moto 360 came in 2014 and ran Android...



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Redmi Note 15 Pro+ details leak

Redmi launched the Note 14 Pro+ back in September in China, and so obviously the brand is hard at work on its successor. Today, the first few details about the upcoming Redmi Note 15 Pro+ have been leaked, so let's take a look. The phone is said to sport a screen with "1.5K" resolution and thin symmetrical bezels on all sides, a 50 MP main camera, a 50 MP telephoto camera, and a battery capacity between 7,000 mAh and 7,999 mAh. The Redmi Note 15 Pro+ will allegedly be powered by the yet-unannounced Snapdragon 7s Gen 4 chipset, which makes perfect sense considering the fact that the...



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Huawei Watch GT 6 coming in two variants with plenty of color options

The renowned Chinese tipster, Digital Chat Station, revealed that Huawei is getting ready to announce its Watch GT 6 series this fall, probably alongside the Mate XT 2 in September or October. The GT 6 will arrive in two variants - 41mm and 46mm, each offering a wide selection of paint jobs. The 41mm is supposedly codenamed Kinsu, with gold, purple, brown, white, and black color options, while the 46mm Atum will come in gray, brown, silver, titanium, green, and black. Then again, the tipster may be referring to the strap colors, not the watches themselves, but it's still too early...



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Leak: the Google Pixel Watch 4 will have a brighter display, may have a new chipset after all

Details on the Google Pixel Watch 4 have been trickling out in the build-up to the August 20 unveiling. The latest scuttlebutt reveals that the new model will have a brighter display and new silicon for improved efficiency. The Pixel Watch 4 will be available in 41mm and 45mm sizes, which should correspond to 1.2” and 1.4” displays (as it did on the Watch 3). Said displays will go up to 3,000 nits – 50% more than the 2024 watch. This brightness matches the newly arrived Samsung Galaxy Watch8 series as well as the Apple Watch Ultra 2 (the Apple Watch Series 10 displays only go up to 2,000...



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The vanilla Huawei Pura 80 pre-sales are starting on Wednesday, chipset leaks too

The vanilla Huawei Pura 80 is late to the party – the rest of the Pura 80 family launched in China in early June and even managed an international launch since then. The vanilla model is only now ready to go and will be available in China this Wednesday (July 23). Or maybe not even then, Huawei’s posts on Weibo talk of a pre-sale, suggesting that actual availability will come later. The posts mention school, so Huawei seems to be positioning this as a phone for students (school in China starts in early September). The Huawei Pura 80 is coming on Wednesday (July 23) The official...



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Sunday, 20 July 2025

First Xiaomi Redmi Turbo 5 insider rumors start coming in

Xiaomi’s Redmi Turbo series has a reputation for delivering great performance on a budget, and according to early insider rumors, the Redmi Turbo 5 is poised to carry on the tradition. According to the info, the phone will be based on an unannounced MediaTek Dimensity 8500 Ultra chipset. Currently, we don’t know anything about the chip, but we can assume that, like the Dimensity 8400, it will be a powerful upper-midrange offering, potentially also carrying forward the all-big core CPU approach. 🩵 REDMI Turbo 5 — first details!✔️ According to DCS, the new model will feature:• 6.6” 1.5K...



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Pixel 10 release date, Galaxy S25 FE charging and renders arrive, Week 29 in review

Welcome to your week's recap. The Galaxy S26 FE will get 45W charging. We also saw the phone's first renders, albeit low-res ones. Its design is likely to remain nearly identical for yet another year. The camera hardware of the upcoming Galaxy S26 series was tipped. The Galaxy S26 Ultra is expected to feature a 200MP main camera, potentially paired with a larger 1/1.1-inch Sony sensor. Next is a 50MP 5x zoom. The Galaxy S26 Edge will feature a 50MP ultrawide camera (possibly also on the Ultra model). The Galaxy S26 may keep the same old camera...



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Saturday, 19 July 2025

Deals: Apple iPhone 16 series vs. Google Pixel 9 series

Samsung’s new Galaxy Z foldables will be on pre-order for another week, so let’s look at Apple and Google offerings instead – both the iPhone 16 and Pixel 9 series have some solid price cuts at the moment. Starting with the big guns, the Apple iPhone 16 Pro Max and Google Pixel 9 Pro XL have 6.9” and 6.8” displays, respectively, 120Hz LTPO panels. Both have capable cameras, though the Pixel seemingly has the upper hand with a 48MP 113mm periscope compared to 12MP 120mm on the iPhone. Check out our iPhone 16 Pro Max vs. Pixel 9 Pro XL article for camera samples and a detailed comparison of...



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Lava Blaze Dragon leaks with specs, images and live photos

We already know that Lava is planning to launch two new devices this month – the Blaze AMOLED 2 and the Blaze Dragon. Lava has provided some additional details on the Blaze Dragon, primarily that it will launch on July 25. Industry sources are filling the gaps and claiming that the phone will be powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon 4 Gen 2 chipset, alongside 128GB of UFS 3.1 storage. The main camera is reportedly a 50MP unit. Sources also say that the phone will run a stock version of Android 15. Lava Blaze Dragon launching in India on 25 July Under 10K :- Snapdragon 4 Gen 2- UFS 3.1 - 50MP...



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WhatsApp working on a Quick Recap feature that will let you generate message summaries for multiple chats

Last month, WhatsApp announced the stable release of the "Message Summaries" feature that enables users to summarize unread messages in chats. However, that feature only works with one chat at a time, so WhatsApp is developing another feature called "Quick Recap" that will allow users to summarize messages from multiple conversations simultaneously. According to the folks at WABetaInfo, the Quick Recap feature will allow users to summarize messages in up to five conversations. All they have to do is select the chats in the Chats tab, tap on the three-dot menu icon in the top-right corner,...



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Deals: Galaxy Z foldables with storage upgrade and gift cards, OnePlus challenges Nothing

Week one of the Galaxy Z pre-orders is over and we’re now heading into week two with additional incentives to pick up a next-gen foldable. Last week, you could get a free storage upgrade – and you still can. On top of that, the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold7 comes with a $300 Amazon Gift Card. The phone may be the thinnest-ever horizontal foldable – it certainly is in the US market – and brings large displays (6.5” cover, 8.0” main), a 200MP main camera (plus 10MP 3x/67mm tele and 12MP ultra-wide) and DeX capabilities. It’s powered by the Snapdragon 8 Elite in a 12/512GB configuration for the...



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Friday, 18 July 2025

Samsung Galaxy A56 is finally available in the US

The Samsung Galaxy A56 got official in March, and it's taken this long for it to finally make it to the US for whatever reason. Back in June we heard a report saying the phone was still headed to the country, and today it's landed. [#InlinePriceWidget,13603,1#] You can grab one from Samsung for $499 unlocked if you want 128GB of storage. The 256GB model is $549.99. Two colorways are on offer: Awesome Graphite and Awesome Lightgray. You can save up to $150 with an eligible trade-in. If you want, you can pay $125 every two weeks in four total installments, or pay $20.83 per month for two...



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More details about the vivo T4R 5G leak

A couple of days ago, vivo started teasing the T4R 5G, a new smartphone in the T4 family, which is coming to India soon. Today, a leak purportedly gives us some more details about it. The phone is allegedly powered by the MediaTek Dimensity 7400 SoC, and it's going to be both IP68 and IP69 certified for dust and water resistance. It will reportedly be offered in two colorways: Twilight Blue and Arctic White. It will support 4K video recording on both its selfie camera as well as at least one of the cameras on the back (presumably the main one). vivo T4R official teaser image It's...



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Leak: the Motorola Edge 60 Fusion will soon be available in Pantone Mocha Mousse

Pantone declared Mocha Mousse the Color of the Year 2025. It is described as a “warming, brown hue imbued with richness”. This color was already featured on the Razr 50 Ultra/Razr+ 2024 and the Edge 50 Neo, but Motorola liked it so much that it will use it on another phone. Motorola Edge 60 Fusion in Mocha Mousse (leaked image) The Motorola Edge 60 Fusion will soon add Mocha Mousse to its color palette, according to YTECHB. The 60 Fusion is currently available in four Pantone colors: Slipstream, Amazonite, Mykonos Blue and Zephyr. Note that availability varies by...



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Thursday, 17 July 2025

Realme Note 70T's EU Energy Label confirms some of its specs

Realme is readying the release of the Note 70 and Note 70T, which weirdly could share the same model number even though they have different specs. Today, the Note 70T's EU Energy Label has been spotted, and this reveals an A class for energy consumption, and a 65h 25min longevity on one charge. The phone is rated A for drop protection and B for repairability, and its battery can go 1,000 charge cycles before it goes below 80% of its initial capacity, which the label lists as 5,830 mAh rated capacity, which will translate into an advertised typical capacity of 6,000 mAh. The phone is also...



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iPhone 17 Pro gets new colors

According to a new rumor, the upcoming iPhone 17 Pro will be offered in four colors: black, dark blue, silver, and orange. These are showcased in the image below, although this isn't a leak, just representative of what we should expect. The source says the dark blue is incredibly dark, so much so that it can look black in some ambient light conditions. It's apparently inspired by the Blue Titanium colorway of the iPhone 16 Pro. The black option is reminiscent of Black Titanium but with a matte finish. Silver is apparently closest to White Titanium, being "bright with warmer...



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Honor Magic V5 to hit its first European market on August 12

The Honor Magic V5, unveiled earlier this month, was initially only available in China. However, the Magic V5 was recently launched in Malaysia, and on August 12, it will make its debut in the first European country - Romania. It's unclear how many memory configurations and color options of the Honor Magic V5 will be available to Romanian customers, so we'll have to wait until August 12 for that and the foldable's Romanian pricing. What we do know is that the Magic V5 will also be launched in the UK and Germany, as Honor has set up pre-registration pages on its local websites for...



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Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra's screen grows, bezels shrink

Samsung's Galaxy S25 Ultra has a 6.86-inch screen, but the Galaxy S26 Ultra is now rumored to boast an ever so slightly larger 6.89-inch panel. Assuming the dimensions of the phone remain the same as its predecessor's, it means the screen's bezels will shrink to just 1.15-1.2mm all-round - very, very thin indeed. Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra Right now this is just speculation based on a recent rumor claiming that 6.89-inch screen size, and the overall size of the phone remaining the same is merely an assumption on the part of the source of this bezel size calculation, the Chinese...



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Wednesday, 16 July 2025

OnePlus Ace 6 Ultra might steal the Oppo K13 Turbo's most interesting feature

Oppo is unveiling the K13 Turbo and K13 Turbo Pro on July 21, and both devices will feature a built-in active cooling fan, but also IPX6, IPX8, and IPX9 water resistance despite the presence of the fan. Now a new rumor out of China says OnePlus is looking very closely at what its sister brand has done and might in fact decide to steal the K13 Turbo range's unique pairing. Oppo K13 Turbo's fan Apparently, the OnePlus Ace 6 Ultra could feature both a cooling fan and impressive water resistance, just like Oppo's K13 Turbo devices. At the moment, OnePlus hasn't decided on the...



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Here's the Oppo K13 Turbo and Turbo Pro's active cooling fan in action

The Oppo K13 Turbo and K13 Turbo Pro are being fully unveiled on July 21, and ahead of that the company's teaser campaign for the duo is in full swing. With this comes the video you can see below, which shows the devices' built-in active cooling fan doing its thing, and it seems to be doing pretty well, even putting out some candles with no issue. Take a look: Oppo says the fan's design boosts cooling efficiency by 300% over traditional fans, while reducing space usage by 70% and increasing the fan's power by 120%. Obviously the whole point of adding the fan is providing smooth high...



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vivo X300 Pro camera specs leak

Yesterday the camera specs for vivo's upcoming X300 or X300 Pro mini got leaked, and today the same prolific source who goes by Digital Chat Station on Weibo is back with details regarding the X300 Pro. This device will allegedly get a 50 MP main camera using Sony's Lytia LYT-828 1/1.3" type sensor. It will be paired with a 50 MP ultrawide and a 200 MP periscope telephoto using a 1/1.4" type sensor. The telephoto camera will reportedly get a new coating technology that will alleviate lens flare. vivo X200 Pro The X300 Pro will be powered by MediaTek's Dimensity 9500, which is...



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Apple's tax woes in Ireland are officially over

Apple's €14.3 billion Irish tax break fine is officially one for the history books now, as the Irish government has announced that it's withdrawn all the money from the escrow account Apple set up back in 2018. That's when it deposited the aforementioned sum after being fined by the European Commission (EC) for receiving unfair tax breaks from Ireland. The amount is judged to be what Apple would have paid in taxes in Ireland had it not received a "sweetheart deal" in the form of "illegal state aid" from the Irish government in exchange for setting up its European HQ in the...



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Tuesday, 15 July 2025

Samsung Galaxy Z Fold7 is actually thinner than the Honor Magic V5

Here's a clear case of 'looking too much at spec sheets may not be very productive', especially when we're talking about 0.1mm differences. See, on paper, the Honor Magic V5 in one specific colorway (called Ivory White) is advertised by the brand to be 8.8mm thick when folded. Samsung's Galaxy Z Fold7, on the other hand, is 8.9mm thick when folded. So there's a clear winner here, right? A clear "world's thinnest book-style foldable', as it were. Well, not so fast. Place the two side by side and try to balance something off of them, as famed Chinese leaker Ice Universe has done in the video...



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The Google Pixel Watch 4 will reportedly use the same old chipset, but will have a bigger battery

Google has abandoned Samsung and is switching to TSMC for future Tensor chipsets – the first, the Tensor G5, will power the Pixel 10 series and is already doing the rounds on Geekbench. The upcoming Pixel Watch 4, however, is not changing chipsets. The latest report is that Google will reuse the same chipset as on the Watch 3 and the Watch 2, the Snapdragon W5 Gen 1. This 2022 chip is fabbed on a 4nm node and has four Cortex-A53 cores. We recently heard that Qualcomm is working on a Snapdragon W6, with one big Cortex- A78 core and four A55 cores, but it seems that Google has no...



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iPhone 17 now rumored to feature Apple A19 chip

A while back, we saw a rumor that claimed the upcoming iPhone 17 would be equipped with the same Apple A18 chip as its predecessor. Well, it turns out that GF Securities analyst Jeff Pu is now backtracking from his previous claim and expects the iPhone 17 to feature the all-new Apple A19 chip, which will also power the iPhone 17 Air. iPhone 17 renders in Green and Purple If you were also hoping for more RAM on the baseline iPhone 17, that's apparently not going to happen. The latest report from Pu suggests the device will once again feature 8GB LPDDR5 RAM. The other two models in...



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Analysts: the Galaxy Z Fold7 and Z Flip7 are headed for record-breaking pre-orders in Korea

Analysts are keeping a close eye on pre-orders for the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold7 and Galaxy Z Flip7 in South Korea and they are forecasting record-breaking numbers. Looking back at the last couple of generations, the Z Fold5 and Z Flip5 set the record with over 1 million pre-orders (1.02 million, specifically) back in 2023. The Z Fold6 and Z Flip6 from last year failed to reach that benchmark. Pre-order reservations on Samsung.com reached 160,000 in the 14 days since reservations opened on June 24. This was before the official reveal on July 9, but is used by analysts as a starting point to...



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Monday, 14 July 2025

vivo X300 (or X300 Pro mini) camera specs leak

vivo's X300 family is coming in the fourth quarter of this year (October to December), according to rumors from China, and today the prolific leaker who goes by Digital Chat Station on Weibo has published the camera details for one of these upcoming devices. It's a bit hard to figure out if it's the X300 he's talking about or the X300 Pro mini, so keep in mind this could apply to either model. It's said to boast a 200 MP main camera with a 1/1.4" type sensor, a 50 MP ultrawide, as well as a 50 MP telephoto camera with 3x optical zoom, this one using Sony's IMX882 sensor. vivo X200 Pro...



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Samsung Galaxy S26, S26 Edge, and S26 Ultra camera details leak

Samsung's Galaxy S26 family launching in January will have three members but not the ones you'd expect - according to a leak from earlier today, these will be the S26, S26 Edge, and S26 Ultra, with the Plus model being retired. Now another rumor indirectly confirms this by revealing the codenames for the upcoming devices, and there are only three of them: NPA1, NPA2, and NPA3. These stand for "next paradigm" or "new paradigm", as the S25 family's codenames were all "paradigm". Samsung Galaxy S25 Edge The S26 Ultra will allegedly have a 200 MP main camera (which could be using a...



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Honor X70 vs. excavator and fire hose

Honor is unveiling the X70 on July 15, and the brand has ramped up its teaser campaign for the phone now that it's mere hours away from becoming official. Have you ever wondered who'd win a confrontation between a yet-unannounced smartphone and a Sany SY205C-S excavator? Well, the video below will give you the answer. Spoiler alert: the phone is affixed to one of the excavator's bucket's teeth, and then the excavator does some good 'ol excavating, with the phone over there. At the end, after being exposed to a whole lot of dirt, it survives unscathed, as you'd expect. In the...



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There won't be a Samsung Galaxy S26+, new report claims

This year Samsung launched the Galaxy S25, S25+, and S25 Ultra in January and then the S25 Edge in May. Next year, the family (if we disregard the FE model) will only be made up of three members, according to a new report from Samsung's home of South Korea. So, expect to see the 6.27-inch Galaxy S26, the 6.66-inch Galaxy S26 Edge, and the 6.89-inch Galaxy S26 Ultra. That's right, there won't be a Galaxy S26+, that is, of course, if this report proves to be accurate. We can't say we're very surprised. After all, the Galaxy S25 Edge has the same screen size as the S25+, but it's...



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Google confirms plans to merge ChromeOS into Android

A Google executive officially confirmed the rumors that Android and ChromeOS are merging into a single operating system. Sameer Samat who is the President of Android Ecosystem at Google acknowledged that Android and ChromeOS will be combined into a single platform. … we’re going to be combining ChromeOS and Android into a single platform, and I am very interested in how people are using their laptops these days and what they’re getting done.” - Sameer Samat, President of Android Ecosystem This is not the first time we’ve heard about Google’s plan to merge Chrome OS into Android, but...



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Latest iPhone 17 series leak also hints at updated color palette

We’ve already seen several leaks for the iPhone 17 and 17 Air’s color options and Sonny Dickson has now shared a collective look at them alongside the iPhone 17 Pro series. The new images showcase the different colored lens protection covers for the upcoming phones, which will match the phone’s color. It seems Apple will finally bring more color to its iPhones with bold new colors across the vanilla, Air and Pro models. iPhone 17 will feature the largest pool of color options, including black, gray, silver, light blue, green and purple. iPhone 17 camera lens protectors This is...



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