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The OnePlus Watch 2 is one of the standout Wear OS smartwatches of this year, and the OnePlus Watch 2R basically brings the same specs to a lower price point, so understandably we're very curious to see how the company can follow-up these two devices next year. According to a new report, there will be a OnePlus Watch 3 Pro. The name was spotted inside Oppo's OHealth app, which you use to manage Oppo and OnePlus smartwatches. And speaking of Oppo,...

Apple was reportedly looking to launch the iPhone 17 Pro in 2025 with a 2nm chipset, but it might have to delay its plans by 12 months, according to reports from South Korea. The latest information from insiders claimed that TSMC is struggling with wafer yield, and the 2nm chips have yet to be certified for mass production. There is too much demand for test products, and the Taiwanese maker is pushed to adapt its existing facilities for the new...

Samsung is said to launch the Galaxy Z Flip FE next year, which, according to the latest rumor, will use the Galaxy Z Flip6's display. The word comes from DSCC's CEO Ross Young, and if he's correct, the Samsung Galaxy Z Flip FE will pack a 6.7" FullHD+ 120Hz LTPO AMOLED folding display having a 426 ppi pixel density and 2,600 nits peak brightness. Samsung Galaxy Z Flip6 However, it's unclear if the Galaxy Z Flip FE's cover screen will also be borrowed...

The Redmi brand is preparing to launch the Turbo 4 smartphone on the second day of the new year. The new device was confirmed to have a massive 6,550 mAh battery – the biggest cell Xiaomi has ever used in any smartphone ever. The device will also be IP68 and IP69 certified, and we saw in an early unboxing that the phone has dual LED ring lights around the camera lenses on the back. Redmi Turbo 4 battery • IP 66/68/69 certification posters The 6,550...

MediaTek ushered in a new era in its chipset architecture with the Dimensity 9300 and its all-big CPU cores. That was followed by the Dimensity 9400 which also utilized an all-big core CPU architecture with the same 1+3+4 formation and now noted tipster Digital Chat Station is here to fill us in on the upcoming Dimensity 9500’s CPU design. As per the new report, MediaTek will switch to a 2+6 CPU architecture with 2x Cortex-X930 “Travis” prime cores...

iQOO Z9 Turbo arrived back in April with a 6,000 mAh battery and OriginOS 4, based on Android 14. Now, the vivo brand is planning to launch a refreshed variant with an even bigger battery, and the phone will have updated software. It is called iQOO Z9 Turbo Endurance, but we expect the phone to replace the current Z9 Turbo on the market shelves. The launch will take place on January 3, 2025. The new phone will also be available in a deep Blue color....

Redmi just confirmed the launch date for its Turbo 4 in China. The device is confirmed to debut on Thursday, January 2, meaning it will be the first smartphone from the Xiaomi brand to launch in 2025. We also got confirmation that the Turbo 4 is already available for early reservation from Xiaomi’s channels, and it will go on open sale on the same day as the launch. As per the latest rumors, Redmi Turbo 4 will be rebranded as the Poco X7 Pro for...

The USB-C directive, which requires mobile devices to have a universal charging port, is now in place in the EU. The directive's end goal is to reduce e-waste and solve market fragmentation. However, the universal USB-C port is only one part of the directive—the European Union also wants to improve labeling, fast charging, and e-waste reduction. The European Commission, the European Union's governing body, decided in 2022 that starting from 2025,...

Google had a busier year than usual, mainly due to the excess of Pixel phones and the fast-growing AI segment. But as is usually the case, not all products were met with excitement from users and reviewers alike. But let's start with a winner. Winner: Pixel 9 Pro XL Despite the new XL designation, the Pixel 9 Pro XL is basically a successor to the Pixel 8 Pro from last year, so it's expected to get most of the attention from the trio. It's also...

Xiaomi's Smart Band lineup is among the most popular smart wearables on the market. And yet, even in its ninth generation, it manages to add important upgrades to stay relevant. This is the Pro model (we reviewed the regular a few months ago) and it adds a bigger display, nicer build, and a GPS tracker for runners. Version nine brings an 18% bigger battery than its predecessor, bumping the expected standby from two weeks to 21 days. The screen has...

It was another strong year for Honor as it solidified itself as one of the leading Android manufacturers globally. Honor makes some of the best foldables out there, and its flagship Magic6 and midrange number series devices also stood out from the crowd. Adding to its strong smartphone lineup is the bevy of great tablets and laptops, with the MagicBook Art 14 being one of our 2024 favorites. There were some growing pains along the way, so let's...

Hey, Ivan here - I'm one of the editors here at GSMArena, but mostly, I'm the guy behind the camera. This means that in choosing my fave phones of the year, I usually put more weight on their camera performance. But I also care about the feel in the hand and the way they look - I do take all their photos for the reviews after all. I usually end the year with a Galaxy S Ultra in my pocket but 2024 saw the first time this isn't true. What a streak...

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2024 was a strong year for OnePlus – both the main series and the Nord line brought some real winners. However, there were a few embarrassing hiccups and worse, the company’s future strategy could lead it down the wrong path. Winner: OnePlus 12 With two exceptions, the OnePlus 12 is a great performer on all tasks. It has a beautiful screen, excellent battery life and fast charging, solid performance and a camera that impressed with selfies and video...

In September, Caviar - known for its custom luxury devices - announced the customized Huawei Mate XT Ultimate in Black Dragon and Gold Dragon versions, with the latter covered with 24k gold. Now, the brand has unveiled one more custom Mate XT Ultimate, but this one has an 18k gold body. Huawei Mate XT Ultimate with 18k gold body It looks the same as the Gold Dragon version but weighs about 1 kg. Cost is over $100,000 (€95,890/INR8,539,350), and...

Google's Circle to Search feature, which was introduced earlier this year, is now available for three Nothing smartphones - Nothing Phone (2), Nothing Phone (2a), and Nothing Phone (2a) Plus. If you own any of these Nothing smartphones, the Circle to Search can be used by long-pressing the Home button if you have 3-button navigation or by long-pressing the navigation bar if you have gesture-based navigation. The settings for the Circle to Search...

Lava Mobiles introduced its latest budget smartphone in India with the Yuva 2 5G. It brings a few novelties to the lineup, with the back featuring a marble-like finish and a notification light surrounding the camera island. The device is equipped with a Unisoc T760 chipset alongside 4GB RAM and 128GB storage, which is expandable via the microSD card slot. Yuva 2 5G is built around a 6.67-inch LCD with HD+ resolution and a 90Hz refresh rate. The...

The Oppo Pad 3 was introduced in November, and just 30 days later, it was relaunched as OnePlus Pad in China. The tablet is exactly the same, down to the pricing and availability, but OnePlus offers the device in Green. This tablet is simply called OnePlus Pad (2024) by the Oppo online store, which sells products of both brands. It is advertised with an 11.6” LCD, a Mediatek Dimensity 8350 chipset, and up to 12 GB RAM and 512 GB storage. The Pad...

Samsung's One UI 7 update, which is currently in beta, is bringing a new feature that allows users to disable HDR content system-wide on their Galaxy devices. If you’ve ever been flashed by a sudden burst of overly bright HDR content on Instagram or YouTube, this option will surely come in handy. Samsung has added the Super HDR toggle inside the Advanced features section in the Settings app. When disabled, it prevents the display from automatically...

Tecno is preparing the Camon 40 series, and a Pro version for 4G networks was just certified with the FCC. The listing revealed the device's size and battery, codenamed Tecno CM6. We also saw a schematic revealing that the Tecno phone will have three cameras on the back. Tecno Camon 30 Pro Tecno Camon 40 Pro will come with a 5,100 mAh battery supporting up to 45W wired charging. The device will be just 7 mm thick, which is incredibly thin in the...

The Redmi Turbo 4 is launching in very early January as the first device to use MediaTek's new Dimensity 8400 SoC, but now rumor has it there will be a Redmi Turbo 4 Pro also, coming later in 2025. This is currently being tested with a humongous 7,500 mAh battery with support for 90W wired charging. The device will use a "high-performance" chipset and will have a flat screen with "decent" thickness and weight. Redmi Turbo 4 leaked image The Redmi...

Lava recently unveiled the Blaze Duo with two screens, and now the Indian handset maker is gearing up to launch a new smartphone, which could feature an LED light strip. Lava dropped a short video clip on X, teasing this upcoming smartphone. It has a punch-hole display on the front and two cameras on the rear, with the primary camera using a 50MP sensor. Ab hoga kuch aisa, dekhte reh jaoge! 🤩Coming Soon.#LavaMobiles #ProudlyIndian pic.twitter.com/lQ31mD1yhc—...

OnePlus has unveiled the OnePlus Ace 5 and OnePlus Ace 5 Pro as successors to the Ace 3 and Ace 3 Pro, respectively. OnePlus skipped the number '4' in the name since tetraphobia continues to exist in China. That said, let's see what OnePlus' latest Ace series smartphones have to offer. OnePlus Ace 5 Pro Let's talk about the OnePlus Ace 5 Pro first. It's powered by Qualcomm's latest Snapdragon 8 Elite flagship chip, which is paired with up to 16GB...

Xiaomi’s Smart Band lineup (formerly Mi Band) is now in its ninth generation, and the Smart Band 9 Active is the most affordable out of the bunch. With its €25/£20 suggested retail price, this plastic nugget is one of the most affordable smartbands on the market. Xiaomi Smart Band 9 Active specifications Display: 1.47” TFT LCD touchscreen, 172 x 320 px resolution, 60Hz refresh rate, 450 nits peak brightness Straps: Detachable proprietary straps,...

The bezel-less phone is still a dream, even though screen bezels have gotten progressively smaller over the past few years. Apple has reportedly been working with Samsung Display and LG Display on a bezel-less iPhone screen for many years already, but it's still not close to production. Originally, Apple wanted to release a "zero-bezel" iPhone in 2025 or 2026. A new report from Korea today states that even a release in 2026 currently isn't likely....

Xiaomi launched the Pad 7 in China in October, and on January 10, it will introduce the tablet in the Indian market. This revelation comes from Amazon.in, which set up a promo page for the Xiaomi Pad 7 on its website. It doesn't reveal the specs and features of the Pad 7 launching in India, but the images suggest the Chinese brand will also launch the Bluetooth keyboard and stylus for the Pad 7 in India. The Indian Xiaomi Pad 7 was spotted on Geekbench...

The Samsung Galaxy S25 family is widely believed to be officially announced on January 22, with multiple rumors and a leaked teaser all mentioning that date. But that's just when they get unveiled - you may also have been wondering when exactly they will become available in stores. Luckily, a new rumor from Samsung's home of Korea now brings us just that: a purportedly leaked release date for the company's next flagship smartphone lineup. And it's...

Yesterday MediaTek unveiled the Dimensity 8400, the first upper-midrange Android smartphone chipset with an all big core CPU, and immediately after that Redmi revealed that the Redmi Turbo 4 would launch very early in January as the first device to use the new SoC. But it won't be alone for long, as it turns out. Realme is also teasing a phone using the Dimensity 8400, and according to the prolific Chinese leaker who goes by Digital Chat Station...

vivo is currently working on the X200 Ultra, its absolute flagship smartphone for 2025. Today a new leak from China brings us a few interesting details about its cameras. The phone will reportedly have a triple rear camera setup just like its predecessor, with a 50 MP main shooter, a 50 MP ultrawide, and a 200 MP periscope telephoto camera. The main camera will have a large aperture and OIS. The X200 Ultra will capture 4K120fps video on all cameras,...

Xiaomi's 15 Ultra top of the line smartphone is expected to launch in February, at least in China, as already revealed by a Xiaomi exec a while back. Today, prolific Chinese leaker Digital Chat Station has shared a more precise (but still kind of vague) timeframe. According to him, the launch will happen at the end of February. Xiaomi 14 Ultra This falls perfectly in line with the start of Mobile World Congress 2025 in Barcelona, so we assume Xiaomi...

The Oppo A5 Pro we've been hearing about since last month has been officially unveiled. It features a 6.7" 120Hz FullHD+ AMOLED screen with 1,200 nits peak brightness and Gorilla Glass Victus 2 protection. The display also has a centered punch-hole for the 16MP selfie camera and a fingerprint reader underneath for biometric authentication. On the rear, you get two cameras - 50MP primary and 2MP monochrome. Under the hood, the Oppo A5 Pro has the...

Samsung announced a new series of microSD cards with SEGA's Sonic the Hedgehog franchise. The new series of microSD cards is called Sonic the Hedgehog PRO Plus, and they are highly durable memory cards that come in four variants. The 128GB variant comes with a red icon of Knuckles, the 256GB one has yellow Tails, the 512GB flavor features a blue Sonic icon, and the 1TB variant has a black Shadow icon. The pricing is $23.99, $36.99, $68.99, and $125.99,...

MediaTek's Dimensity 9300 launched last year was the first Android SoC to go with an all big core configuration for its CPU, something this year's Dimensity 9400 also went with, but those are both top of the line chipsets. Today marks the introduction of the first upper-midrange SoC with an all big core CPU. Meet the MediaTek Dimensity 8400, which is sure to pose a big threat, performance-wise, to the Qualcomm Snapdragon 7+ Gen 3, which has been...

Samsung's Galaxy A06 launched in a 4G-only form back in August, and now it seems like the company is working on a 5G-capable model as well. The Galaxy A06 5G has been certified by the Wi-Fi Alliance with the model number SM-A066B/DS. It will support dual-band Wi-Fi (2.4 GHz and 5 GHz) and will obviously run Android. This will be the first handset in the A0x family to support 5G. Clearly it will use a low-end chipset, but which exact one is unknown...

We’ve seen reports from earlier this year suggesting Apple is due to enter the smart home camera market and now Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman is shedding more light on Cupertino’s next big bet. Apple is reportedly ready to launch its first smart doorbell with Face ID support in late 2025. Apple smart doorbell camera speculative image As per the new report, the smart doorbell will automatically unlock doors using Face ID scans. Apple has developed its...

Honor introduced today the luxurious Magic7 RSR Porsche Design, a premium smartphone that builds upon the Magic7 Pro and offers small improvements over the already impressive general flagship. There are many features that remained unchanged, like the battery capacity with powerful charging capabilities, a trio of mighty cameras and a Snapdragon 8 Elite chipset. The Magic7 RSR Porsche Design has a 6.8” LTPO OLED with 1 billion colors and a Full HD+...

Another week down as we close out 2024. It was a Samsung-dominated affair - not surprising, considering we're nearing the launch of the Galaxy S25 series. The biggest story by far was the leaked renders of the Galaxy S25+ and the Galaxy S25 Ultra. The credibility of the renders was bolstered by a reported copyright claim by Samsung. The renders show a new Ultra with slightly more rounded corners and a mostly unchanged S25+. We also saw live photos...

Last week we looked at the flagship rosters from Samsung and Google. Samsung’s phones are no longer on sale, but Google’s are – and their prices have even gone down. The Google Pixel 9 Pro XL was $950/$1,050 for the 128/256GB model. This week these same capacities are now $100 cheaper, meaning that the XL is the same price as the respective Google Pixel 9. Google Pixel 9 Pro XL $250/$250/$150 off Read our review 16/128GB - $850 at Amazon US 16/256GB...

The US federal court sided with Qualcomm in its trial against ARM, saying that the licensing agreement between the two companies has not been violated, although there are still uncertainties around the situation. But at least for now, Qualcomm is off the hook. The two companies entered a dispute after Qualcomm acquired the startup Nuvia, which also uses ARM's architecture. According to ARM, Qualcomm should pay higher royalty fees since Nuvia is...

The Huawei Mate X6 was introduced at the end of November for China, but the advanced foldable is now going global. Only one version will be available, 12/512GB, which will be priced at €2,000. Huawei will start shipping the Mate X6 to global customers on January 6. Huawei Mate X6 That’s a lot of money – especially for a phone that doesn’t have Google Play support. To be fair, Huawei has been expanding its AppGallery since it launched and it even...

Amazon has great discounts on flagship devices from Samsung and Google as we prepare for the holidays and to wave goodbye to 2024. The Samsung Galaxy S24 is currently $200 off – and so is the Google Pixel 9. This means that the 128GB models cost the same. If you haven’t decided which one is better for you, consult our Galaxy S24 vs. Pixel 9 article for an in-depth comparison. Long story short, the Pixel lacks a telephoto camera and has lower performance,...

The Realme 14 Pro+ was only partially announced, but we managed to play around with it for the last few days, so you can go and check out our hands-on. We also got to shoot some photos with it and we prepared a rich gallery of daylight and nighttime camera samples taken with all three cameras. The location is Copenhagen, Denmark. The detailed specs of the camera system aren't out yet, but obviously the telephoto unit is of the periscope kind. Let's...

2024 is almost over and some of the best phones that launched this year are on sale right now. We haven’t seen the vanilla Google Pixel 9 in a while – since its £100 discount a month ago – but it comes back with a bang. More specifically, the vanilla model is £200 off right now. Actually, if you have a Prime Student subscription, you can knock another 10% off the price. Google Pixel 9 £200 offPrime Students get 10% off Read our review 12/128GB -...

OnePlus is rumored to launch the OnePlus Watch 3 on January 7, which is when it will introduce the OnePlus 13 to the global markets and unveil the OnePlus 13R. There's no word from OnePlus about the Watch 3 yet, but a new rumor claims the smartwatch will feature a rotating crown. The source also shared the OnePlus Watch 3's render based on a prototype, showing the rotating crown. Additionally, the source claimed that the OnePlus Watch 3 will have...

OnePlus Ace 5 (PKG110) and the Ace 5 Pro (PKR110) appeared on China’s TENAA certification agency database ahead of their launch later this month. The listings confirm some core specs for both phones and also give us another look at the vanilla Ace 5’s design. The Ace 5 listing confirms a 6.78-inch AMOLED display with 1,264 x 2,780px resolution. The phone will also feature a 16MP selfie cam and an integrated fingerprint scanner under the display....

Honor will launch the Magic7 Pro soon, as evident from multiple regulatory listings. The smartphone was certified with the GCF in the United Kingdom, NBTC in Thailand, EEC for Russia and some European markets, and it was also spotted on the TUV certification website with a class III protection. Honor Magic7 Pro on stage at the Snapdragon Summit The phone, which will have model number PTP-N49, will measure 162.2 x 77.1 x 8.8 mm and weigh 223 grams....

Sony Semiconductor Manufacturing, the company that makes image sensors for smartphone cameras, announced it reached 20 billion shipped image sensors since it started making transistors in the 1980s. President Yoshihiro Yamaguchi told Nikkei Asia that mobile devices were the main reason for the huge number, which doubled from 10 to 20 billion in just five years between 2019 and 2024. The accelerated rate of shipments was also due to the increased...

The Honor Magic7 Pro got unveiled at the end of October in China and now it seems almost ready to make it to Europe alongside the still-unofficial Magic7 Lite. Today a new leak brings us pricing information for both in the EU, as well as specs. So let's dive right in. The Magic7 Pro will go for €1,225.90 according to the retailer listing you can see below. For this amount of cash you're getting 12GB of RAM and 512GB of storage, and the phone will...

The Oppo Reno13 and Reno13 Pro launched in China last month are expected to debut in international markets next month. Both smartphones come in three colors, but we are now looking at the Reno13 in a new color, which could be exclusive to non-Chinese markets. The source claims this is the Indian version of the Oppo Reno13, which looks similar to its Chinese counterpart. It has three cameras housed inside a camera island with a ring flash. However,...

Google is rescheduling its Android launch with finalized version 16 confirmed to launch between April and June, 2025. Keeping up with schedule, Google has now released its second Android 16 developer preview, which brings several optimizations and enhancements over last month’s first release. Android 16 DP 2 is available for Pixel 6 and newer devices and the Pixel Tablet. Google also announced its Android 16 beta program will start in January 2025....