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Apple unveiled the iPhone Duo last month alongside the iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max. While the iPhone 18 Pro models went on pre-order the same week and are already on sale, the iPhone Duo will go on pre-order today at 12 PM UTC. The iPhone Duo will be available for pre-orders through Apple's official website and Apple Store app in over 70 countries and regions, including Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, Colombia, France, Germany, India, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, Singapore, South Korea, Turkey, the UAE, the UK, the US, and Vietnam. Shipments and sales will begin in these...

Honor is set to unveil the Win2 series on October 21, and a tipster on X has now shared what look like its first Geekbench runs. The listings use the model number BRM-AN00 and put the Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6 at the helm, paired with 16GB of RAM in the specific prototype in question. The Win2 should run Android 17 from day one, naturally with Honor’s MagicOS 11 on top. As you can see from the screenshot above, in Geekbench 6.7.1, the handset managed a 4,141 single-core score and an 11,514 multi-core score. A separate Geekbench 6 GPU run shows a score of 34,695. The original...

Alongside the iQOO 16, the iQOO Pad Ultra was unveiled at the end of September as an 8.8-inch gaming tablet powered by the Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6 and the company's Q4 gaming chip. Now the brand is teasing a sibling that keeps much of that formula. Today on Weibo, iQOO confirmed more details for the Pad Pro 8.8. It shares the Ultra's 8.8-inch 165Hz OLED screen, 298g weight, and 5.74mm thickness, plus the same 9,020 mAh battery. Cooling stays serious too: an Ice Dome setup with a 30x30x3.5mm active fan, a total heat dissipation area of 23,253mm², and three intelligent fan...

Samsung launched the Galaxy F70e back in February and the Galaxy F70 Pro in August, and the vanilla Galaxy F70 showed up in Google's database last week. Today, Flipkart has put up a microsite for the Galaxy F70 5G, revealing that it will launch in India on October 18, with a starting price of INR 1X,XXX. That means it will cost somewhere below INR 20,000 ($225). The phone will come with an FHD+ Super AMOLED screen with a waterdrop notch and Corning Gorilla Glass Victus protection, the Exynos 1330 chipset, a 50MP main camera with OIS (which Samsung calls the "No Shake Cam"), a 5MP...

The Oppo Reno17 series is rumored to launch in China next month. However, a new leak claims that the lineup will not include a Pro model, at least in India. Meanwhile, a hands-on image of the standard Reno17 has surfaced online. According to the leak, the Reno17 will retain most of its predecessor’s specifications and design. Oppo Reno17 leaked hands-on image The leak suggests that the Reno17 will feature the same Snapdragon 7 Gen 4 chipset and triple rear camera setup as the Reno16. The main upgrade could be a larger battery, with the upcoming phone tipped to pack a 7,000mAh or...

Apple Intelligence was first announced in 2024 with iOS 18, but Apple struggled to make it available in two regions – the EU and China. Bloomberg reports that Cupertino will finally check the latter off the list with an upcoming update. iOS 27.3, which is expected in December, will enable Apple Intelligence for the Chinese market. While Apple uses Google’s Gemini in the West, it has struck a deal with Alibaba to use its Qwen and Tongyi Wanxiang models. Qwen is a general AI model and will likely power most features. However, Siri AI will reportedly not be part of the iOS 27.3...

According to a new rumor from a usually reliable source of information about HMD, the company is currently planning on withdrawing from "select markets". It will also allegedly "scale down production for its global device portfolio". HMD is said to be shifting its "core focus" to "regional markets" as well as the enterprise/industrial sector. The same source goes on to imply that there may be no further HMD global product launches this year. Presumably, that means the company will only be releasing devices on a market-by-market basis in the coming months. Of course, this is nothing...