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Xiaomi has diversified its Smart Band lineup (formerly Mi Band) over the years, and it now comes in three distinct variations, with the Active being the most affordable one at €30/20 – cheaper than the vanilla Smart Band 9. Band 9 Active comes with a smaller 1.47-inch TFT display (60Hz) that boasts some thick bezels, and it's noticeably dimmer than the OLED panels on its siblings. This little nugget is entirely made from plastic, and it’s just 16.5...

Nothing has launched five smartphones until now, with one being a part of the CMF lineup. Now we hear the brand is having three new phones "under active development," and they are expected to arrive in the first half of 2025. The source doesn't get into the specifics, but one of these three smartphones could be the rumored Nothing Phone (3) that surfaced on Geekbench a few days ago, bearing model code Nothing A059 and having the Snapdragon 7s Gen...

Samsung hasn't rolled out One UI 7.0, but leaks revealed it will come with some changes. One of them will be the termination of Edge Panel downloads from the Galaxy Store. The Korean conglomerate has issued a notice informing users that they won't be able to download Edge Panels from the Galaxy Store after upgrading their devices to One UI 7.0. However, they will be able to use the Edge Panels downloaded on their devices before updating to One UI...

Google has a pretty expansive lineup of phones this year, with a total of four Pixel 9 phones so far. And this year you have a choice between two compact options - the 9 and the 9 Pro. There is an almost 300 bucks worth of a price difference between the 128GB/12GB Pixel 9 and the 128GB/16GB Pixel 9 Pro without considering any holiday deals or carrier rebates. So if you are wondering whether the Pixel 9 Pro is worth the price premium over the vanilla...

Samsung is expected to unveil the Galaxy S25 series in January, likely including the Galaxy S25, Galaxy S25+, and Galaxy S25 Ultra. We have also heard about the Galaxy S25 Slim, but rumors claim it will arrive later. The Samsung Galaxy S25 Slim's US model (SM-S937U) had popped up in certification, and now its international version has also surfaced. The Samsung Galaxy S25 Slim's international variant has model code SM-S937B/DS, where 'B' indicates...

Today is Black Friday, the day when we thank stores for discounting their products. Amazon is having a Black Friday week that ends on Monday, December 2, and here are the smartphone deals to consider. Most of the Google Pixel 9 phones are about 15% off, and almost all purchases will be €100 cheaper for Prime Student members. Google Pixel 9 up to 15% offextra €100 Prime Student discount Read our review 128 GB - €775 at Amazon DE 256 GB - €899 at...

Realme went ahead and announced its V60 Pro midranger in China. It looks similar to the recently announced Realme C75 but has a more capable MediaTek Dimensity 6300 chipset at the helm. The rest of the specs include a 6.67-inch IPS LCD with HD+ resolution and a 120Hz refresh rate, an 8MP front-facing camera and a 50MP rear shooter. V60 Pro is also IP69-rated against dust and pressurized water jets. It boots Realme UI 5.0 based on Android 14 and...

The Realme GT 7 Pro, launched in China earlier this month and introduced for international markets a few days ago, is now on sale in India - albeit with a smaller battery. The Realme GT 7 Pro comes in Galaxy Grey and Mars Orange colors in India with two memory options - 12GB/256GB and 16GB/512GB, priced at INR59,999 ($710/€670) and INR65,999 ($780/€740), respectively. It's sold through Realme India's website, Amazon.in, and offline retail stores....

Honor 300 Ultra is real and will arrive on December 2, alongside the Honor 300 and Honor 300 Pro. It will have a periscope lens and two color versions, called Flower White and Charcoal Black, and the company says the phone will have “AI travel photography” capabilities. Honor 300 Ultra promos The phone was first seen in leaked renders, shortly followed by lifestyle photos, and we were skeptical of them because the only source deleted their post....

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Samsung Electronics made some changes in its leadership in an attempt to become more competitive in the AI chip market. The company announced that it promoted Semiconductor chief Jun Young-hyun to co-CEO to better manage the memory chip business. Han Jin-man, the head of the US chip business, was promoted to head of the foundry business. The reshuffle saw Samsung's stock price slide 3.4% as the changes are unlikely to "calm concern" about how the...

Following rumors from earlier this month, OnePlus officially confirmed its plans to launch the OnePlus Ace 5 and Ace 5 Pro in December. Both phones will make their debut in China, with the Ace 5 using the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 while the Ace 5 Pro will get the latest Snapdragon 8 Elite. OnePlus Ace 5 series launch poster OnePlus exec Louis Lee shared some gaming benchmark scores from the Ace 5 in the popular gaming title King of Glory. The test included...

Yesterday, we saw a 10-second clip on Reddit showing the Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra with its flat design and slightly rounded corners. Now, we are looking at more images of the Galaxy S25 Ultra coming from the same source via Reddit user GamingMK and Android Authority. The images show us the bottom of the Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra, having a USB-C port flanked by an S-Pen slot, speaker, microphone, and SIM card slot. Another image shows the corner bezel...

Back in February, ZTE announced its first flip-foldable – the ZTE Libero Flip. That device then made its way to the global market as the nubia Flip, and we now have our first look at its successor – the nubia Flip 2 (NX732J), which appeared in certification listing on China’s TENAA agency. nubia Flip 2 (NX732J) Flip 2 will offer a redesigned look with a substantially larger 3-inch AMOLED cover screen with 422×682px resolution. The outside screen...

Huawei Mate X6 is now official with a body under 5 mm thick when unfoled. It is a massive upgrade over its year-old predecessor with slightly bigger displays, a new set of cameras and the in-house HarmonyOS Next straight out of the box. As Huawei tradition goes lately chipset is not mentioned. We expect a Kirin 9100 – a 6nm platform that is still nowhere near modern flagships. Inside the Mate X6 is a foldable 7.93" LTPO panel with a nearly 1:1 ratio...

Huawei unveiled its four-strong Mate 70 series at a big event in Beijing, and we’ll be covering the vanilla Mate 70 and Mate 70 Pro in this article. Starting with the Mate 70 – it’s the smallest phone out of the bunch, with small being a relative term here and the only one in the series that gets a flat frame. It’s the thinnest of the bunch at 7.8mm. Mate 70 (left) and Mate 70 Pro (right) Like most recent Chinese flagships, Mate 70 and 70 Pro are...

Huawei's Mate 70 series' top tier is here - meet the Mate 70 Pro+ and Mate 70 RS. Both are more than just a flashier version of the Mate 70 Pro - they feature larger batteries, more premium materials, and more RAM. The Mate 70 Pro+ may be better than the Pro, but it's not as good as the RS in its own right, so let's break it down. The Mate 70 Pro+ has a rear panel that is a mix of gold threads and brocade fiber. The nylon material is very durable...

Xiaomi published the official schedule for the HyperOS 2 rollout two weeks ago, and it included over a dozen models that were up for an update as early as this month. The company kept its promise and started pushing HyperOS 2 to Xiaomi 14. The package is 6.3 GB in size and has version number OS2.0.4.0.VNCMIXM. It should be available to all international users of the vanilla flagship. HyperOS 2.0 is based on Android 15 and brings plenty of AI-powered...

Realme has decided to separate the Neo series from the GT lineupRealme VP and Global Marketing President Xu Qi Chase made the announcement on Weibo. The GT will be the high-end "performance flagship series", while Neo will be the "midrange e-sports flagship". The first phone in the newly standalone series will be the Realme Neo7 in December. Xu Qi Chase highlighted previous achievements of the GT Neo phones' - the first 240W charging and 6,000 nit...

An upcoming Nothing Phone model appeared in a Geekbench listing, and it all points to its being the long-awaited Phone (3). The device bearing the Nothing A059 was listed with an unspecified chipset that matches the Snapdragon 7s Gen 3 SoC with a prime core clocked at 2.5 GHz, 3 x performance cores working @ 2.4 GHz, and 4x efficiency cores humming @ 1.8 GHz. Nothing A059 Geekbench scorecard The device in the listing has 8GB RAM and scored 1,149...

Honor 300 and Honor 300 Pro are arriving on December 2, the brand revealed on Weibo. Both phones will have MagicOS 9 out of the box, and it seems the Pro will run on Snapdragon 8 Gen 3. The company opened pre-orders for both phones, letting eager customers put a CNY 999 deposit (about $140/€130) to book a spot in line. Honor 300 & Honor 300 Pro The arrival date is not a huge surprise. Both the Honor 300 and Honor 300 Pro were on the company...

Asus unveiled its gaming flagship series this week - the ROG Phone 9 and 9 Pro feature the Snapdragon 8 Elite chipset, an AeroActive Cooler X Pro with its own subwoofer for 2.1 sound, faster 185 Hz displays, and bigger 5,800mAh batteries. The ROG Phone 9 and 9 Pro are already on sale in Taiwan, Hong Kong, and China, and are coming to Europe in December, and the US in January. Prices start at €1,100 for the 12/256GB ROG Phone 9 and €1,300 for the...

It may sound like a misnomer, but welcome to Black Friday week – here are the best smartphone, tablet and laptop deals, plus some smart wearables. The Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra is under $1,000 if you get the 256GB variant. The 512GB model is a $120 upgrade. Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra $350 off Read our review 12/256GB - $950 at Amazon US 12/512GB - $1,070 at Amazon US Challenging the S24 Ultra for camera dominance is the Google Pixel 9 Pro XL, which...

The new Asus ROG Phone 9 series brings more processing power, better cooling, a faster display and a bigger battery. That makes them the ultimate gaming phones, right? Maybe, but they are not without their flaws Asus ROG Phone 9 Pro The Asus ROG Phone 9 and 9 Pro will receive only 2 OS updates (they start with Android 15) and will continue getting security patches for 5 years. The latter number is nice – these days our phones provide access to our...

There has been no shortage of sales events this year, but this is the granddaddy of them all – Black Friday. Which technically falls on the 29th, but it doesn’t hurt to start early. The Xiaomi 14T and 14T Pro are both €150 off at the moment. Both use the same display and have basically the same design, but the Pro has the more powerful chipset, better camera and faster battery charging. Check out our Xiaomi 14T vs. 14T Pro post for an in-depth comparison....

There’s a whole week of sales ahead of us ending on December 2. We picked out the best smartphone offers from Amazon UK and tried to pair up similar models. Like we saw last week, the Pixel 9 phones are £100 off. This week the deal is a bit better with an extra 10% off if you have an Amazon Prime Student subscription. Still, the Google Pixel 9 Pro at £900 (£810 if you can get the extra 10% off) is quite pricey. But there aren’t too many small (or...

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Canalys' market report for the smartphone market in Q3 2024 in Africa just dropped, showing a modest 3% year-on-year growth and projecting an even less impressive 1% growth for the full year 2025. That's largely due to the region's economic uncertainties. Despite the small market gains on average across the continent, the situation in individual markets varies. For instance, Egypt showed an impressive 34% growth for a third consecutive quarter due...

Tecno introduced an LTE-only smartphone called Pop 9 in August, later relaunched as Spark Go 1. It then launched in Africa with a Unisoc T615 chip, and today, it made its way to India with yet another new SoC - Helio G50 by Mediatek. This Tecno Pop 9 remains an entry-level device, as evident from its sub-$80 price tag. Tecno Pop 9 features Tecno did not share the full specs sheet of the phone, and we can only assume it has the same 6.67” LCD with...

Huawei is holding a big event on November 26 to introduce the Mate 70 lineup and the Mate X6 foldable smartphone. Today, we learned that the company is also launching FreeBuds Pro 4, the first TWS earbuds with HarmonyOS Next. The buds are quite similar visually to the FreeBuds Pro 3 but with a finer edge of the stem. It will also have Huawei Sound, which appears to be a rebrand of Huawei Histen audio features. These earbuds having a dedicated operating...

Honor is preparing to launch its next-gen number-series smartphones in China with the Honor 300 series. We already saw an early registration listing for the vanilla Honor 300, and the brand has now followed up by posting one for the 300 Pro model. Honor 300 Pro will look similar to the non-Pro model and will be available in three colors: Black, Green and Sand. The 300 Pro features a curved screen with a pill-shaped cutout for its front-facing cameras....

Redmi will launch the K80 Pro on November 27, and today, we learned more details about the phone. The brand shared the key specs on its Weibo profile, including the new flagship chipset by Qualcomm, a massive battery and an IP68 + IP69 rating. Xiaomi Redmi K80 Pro features Redmi K80 Pro coming with Snapdragon 8 Elite is not a surprise, as company officials have already teased the phone to be extremely fast and powerful. It will also have a D1 chip...

The nubia Z70 Ultra is the latest addition in the nubia family and it brings top-notch specs in a familiar design. This is the logical successor to last year’s Z60 Ultra, and it brings a few key upgrades, including the latest Snapdragon 8 Elite chipset, a brighter screen and updated cameras. The display on the Z70 Ultra grew to 6.85 inches, boasting a faster 144Hz refresh rate and 2,000 nits peak brightness. There’s a slight bump up in resolution...

Apple is expected to launch the iPhone SE 4 in early 2025, and the most recent report suggested this will happen in March, which is one month earlier than the previously reported timeline. A supply chain report obtained by MacRumors claims that the phone is practically confirmed for Q1 2025, when it will be announced with an Apple-designed 5G modem. It is worth pointing out that none of these reports are new; we should take them as a second confirmation...

The Ultrahuman Ring Air impressed us in our review – it tracks heart rate (and variability), blood oxygen and sleep, it does exercise tracking too. The solid hardware is paired with a capable app that doesn’t require a subscription, unlike some other smart rings. And the ring has FDA approval for Atrial Fibrillation detection (aka arrhythmia). Together with Ultrahuman, we can offer you an exclusive 20% discount on the Ring Air using the code GSM20...

The Galaxy S23 series received its first internal One UI 7 beta, as evident by new listings on Samsung internal firmware servers. The new beta builds S918BXXU7DXKM, S918BOXM7DXKM, and S918BXXU7DXKM will be tested by Samsung and ironed out for bugs before they proceed to open beta status. As per the latest plans, One UI 7 should arrive in the first weeks of 2025 alongside the Galaxy S25 series. From there, Samsung will likely push the update to the...

Stop us if you've seen this one. Today we have the Samsung Galaxy A16 for review, the nearly identical 4G version of the Galaxy A16 5G we reviewed last month. Like the 5G model, the 4G one ships with nothing more than a SIM eject tool and a USB-C cable. The LTE-only Galaxy A16 is nearly identical to its 5G counterpart but there are some obvious visual differences. Where the 5G model had a rear panel with a prism-like effect to reflections, the 4G...

Sony today launched the second generation model of its flagship Alpha 1 camera. Sticking with the company's famously bad naming conventions, the new camera is called Alpha 1 II. The original Alpha 1 was the Swiss Army knife of mirrorless cameras and was critically acclaimed for its incredible high speed photo and 8K video capabilities. The Alpha 1 II borrows the same 50.1MP full-frame stacked CMOS sensor but combines it with a new AI processing...

Apple is reportedly going launch an iPhone 17 Air in September 2025, and expectations are the device to replace the Plus version, which has the least impressive sales in the current portfolio. The phone was initially rumored to be called iPhone 17 Slim, and today we get to learn its thickness. According to a note by the Hong Kong-based investment bank Haitong, the iPhone 17 Air could measure around 6 mm. If that is really the case, this will be...

The Z70 Ultra cameraphone is expected to be announced in a mere two days, and nubia can barely keep their excitement about the phone's new features. We already know it will have a screen with a more detailed resolution and an even higher refresh rate, and today, we learned more about the cameras on the back. The 50 MP main camera will be the same custom-made 35 mm shooter from the Z60 Ultra but with a variable aperture, as recently revealed in a...

Apple is reportedly going launch an iPhone 17 Air in September 2025, and expectations are the device to replace the Plus version, which has the least impressive sales in the current portfolio. The phone was initially rumored to be called iPhone 17 Slim, and today we get to learn its thickness. According to a note by the Hong Kong-based investment bank Haitong, the iPhone 17 Air could measure around 6 mm. If that is really the case, this will be...

The iQOO Neo10 series will arrive on November 29, vivo revealed today. The brand director confirmed the Neo10 Pro will come with a Dimensity 9400 chipset and Q2 gaming chip that boosts display refresh rate and resolution. Official posts on Weibo revealed the phone will weigh 199 grams and be just 7.99 mm thick at its base, while the front will have ultra-thin 1.4 mm bezels. vivo iQOO 10 features The phone is already up for reservation at the company...

Xiaomi is expected to launch the Redmi K80 series in China soon. Some leaks suggested the Pro phone will be super powerful, featuring the new Snapdragon 8 Elite chipset, and today, we have a confirmation of its raw performance. The smartphone appeared on Geekbench, where it scored 2,753 for a single core and 8,460 for multiple cores - results that are in line with other phones' CPU benchmarks. The smartphone with model number 24122RKC7C will boot...

Following a listing showcase from earlier this month comes a new leak for the Honor 300 series. Chinese actress Yu Shuxin was seen flaunting one of the upcoming Honor 300 variants, giving us our first live look. Honor 300 leaked shots The device in the image looks similar to the previously leaked renders, with an irregular-shaped camera island that appears to house two camera sensors. We don’t know much more about the Honor 300 series other than...

Huawei Mate 70 is up for pre-order one week ahead of the November 26 launch. The series will consist of Mate 70, Mate 70 Pro, and Mate 70 Pro+ devices, according to Vmall. The Huawei-owned online store also revealed there will be five different memory variants and eight colors split between the three devices. There have been over 130,000 pre-orders for the phones in the first 10 hours after the listing went up, and we expect the number to cross...

Whether on purpose or by accident, Amazon Canada has pitted Google Pixel and Samsung Galaxy phones against each other with discounts ranging from $200 to $300. The Samsung Galaxy S24 is more compact than the Google Pixel 9 (6.2” vs. 6.3” displays, 70.6mm vs. 72mm wide) and is lighter too (167g vs. 198g). It does have a smaller battery, though (4,000mAh vs. 4,700mAh). The Galaxy also has an LTPO display. Note that both the Pixels and the Galaxys...

Nubia unveiled the Red Magic 10 Pro and 10 Pro+ this week, both with a Snapdragon 8 Elite nubia calls an "Extreme Edition". The pair mostly shares the same specs. The main difference is the battery and charging - the 10 Pro has a 6,500mAh battery with 80W charging, while the 10 Pro+ ups it to a 7,050mAh silicon-nitride pack with 120W charging. The nubia Red Magic 10 Pro+ also has either 16GB or 24GB of RAM and 512GB or 1TB of storage. The non-Pro...

The Pro skips a generation, it seems, so Realme went from the GT 5 Pro to the Realme GT 7 Pro with the GT 6 and GT 6T in the middle. The 6-series offered great value at mid-range prices, but the extra budget of the Pro model allows for some properly impressive stats. Let’s start with the display. It’s a 6.78” LTPO panel with 1,264 x 2,780px resolution – same as many other GT models. This one, however, was developed by Samsung to be both super efficient...

Amazon is calling this an early Black Friday sale and of the various offers that it includes, we focused in on the Google phones. The Pixel 9 series is up €130 off with an additional discount available for Prime Student members. The older Pixel 8 series has deeper price cuts (and also has extra discounts for Prime Student subscribers). Starting with the base Google Pixel 9, you get the new Tensor G4 chipset, which is faster and more efficient than...

Amazon is calling this an early Black Friday sale and of the various offers that it includes, we focused in on the Google phones. The Pixel 9 series is £100 off across the board (except the foldable, which is £300 off), while the 8-series is up to 50% off. Starting with the base Google Pixel 9, you get the new Tensor G4 chipset, which is faster and more efficient than the G3. The dual camera combines a large 1/1.31” 50MP sensor in the main with...