Phones have reached a point where rapid innovation is rare. Yearly upgrades are mostly incremental, and designs look strikingly similar generation after generation. In this climate, Samsung seems even more comfortable than Apple with the status quo. If anything, it’s taking fewer design risks than Apple these days. I’ve accepted that slab-style phones probably won’t […]

Apple reclaimed the leading position in China’s smartphone market in the fourth quarter of 2025 as strong demand for the iPhone 17 lineup offset a contracting market and growing supply-chain pressure from memory chip shortages. New data from Counterpoint Research shows that smartphone shipments in China declined 1.6% year over year in the fourth quarter […]

Woot this week kicked off a new Apple sale that includes some of the lowest prices we’ve tracked on the Studio Display in months. The items that we’re focusing on in this sale are all in new condition and come with a one year Apple limited warranty, but there are other items that are refurbished. […]

There have been rumors about Microsoft working on a free, ad-supported tier for its Xbox Cloud Gaming service, and now we have solid proof coming straight from Microsoft. Some users report that they’ve spotted a new message saying « 1 hour of ad-supported playtime per session, » although there’s no such tier just yet. It’s a clear […]

vivo’s X200 series currently includes five smartphones, and today, vivo announced it will add a new member to this lineup next week – the X200T. The vivo X200T will be unveiled in India on January 27 at 12 PM local time. vivo is advertising the X200T as a smartphone « engineered for travel and real-world photography, » […]

Samsung’s device ecosystem is slowly getting its act together, and its latest TVs and Galaxy phones are more interconnected than ever. With Tizen 9, Samsung TVs can now browse a Galaxy phone’s or tablet’s storage wirelessly. Here’s how it works. First, you’ll need a Samsung TV running Tizen 9. Samsung’s 2024 models received the update […]

Honor unveiled the Magic8 Pro Air and the Magic8 RSR Porsche Edition in China yesterday. Alongside the new smartphones, the company also introduced the Watch GS 5, which succeeds the Watch GS 3. The Honor Watch GS 5 gets a 1.32-inch circular AMOLED display with 1,500 nits of brightness. It gets a 44mm case made […]

Apple will launch a second-generation iPhone Air this year, despite reports that it has been delayed until 2027, according to the Weibo leaker known as Fixed Focus Digital. Doubling down on a similar claim they made late last year, the leaker says feedback coming from the production line still suggests that the iPhone Air 2 […]

Samsung is expected to release a new One UI 8.5 beta update for the Galaxy S25 series this week. The update could arrive as soon as today, and it could bring even more changes and improvements compared to what appeared in the leaked One UI 8.5 Beta 4 changelog yesterday. It was recently revealed that […]

OnePlus India is seeding a firmware update to the OnePlus 13s with some nice upgrades. The firmware, OxygenOS 16.0.3.501, is currently rolling out, and features bypass charging, and 50MP photo editing as highlights. The bypass charging kicks in when doing more intensive tasks like gaming, streaming, or navigating, and allows both using the phone and […]

Even though Samsung is heavily promoting Google Gemini on its latest Galaxy phones, that doesn’t mean the company has given up on its own virtual assistant. In fact, Samsung has bigger plans for Bixby and announced today a new version coming with One UI 8.5. Samsung will test the new Bixby through the One UI […]

Samsung has released a new software update to the Galaxy A55. It offers the January 2026 security patch, which fixes 55 security vulnerabilities present in the previous version of the OS. Samsung is rolling out the update to the variant of the Galaxy A55 that it sells in Europe, which has the model number SM-A556B. […]